Jaco Pastorius - "Live in New York City" series [7 CD]

 Tragic genius who reinvented the electric bass guitar, playing complex, long lines and amazing solos at remarkable speeds.

Graham Bond - Live At BBC And Other Stories (1962-72) [4 CD, 2015/FLAC]

Assembled by the same successful team that worked on the critically acclaimed Wade in the Water box set. The ultimate Graham Bond collectors item,with all the unreleased BBC recordings,plus numerous bonus tracks that include ultra rare and private recordings made available for the first time ever, and a hard to find EP.

The set contains Graham Bond's entire BBC output - under his own name and featured with other acts.More of Graham's award-winning saxophone playing than previously available on any set in the market.Features an amazing 1962 hour-long jam session from Manchester's Club 43.

Compiled and produced by Pete Brown (Cream's lyricist and long-time Graham Bond associate and co-performer).Remastered by Pete Brown and Jon Astley (George Harrison, Led Zeppelin, The Who & many others).

 

 

Alice Cooper - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2015/ FLAC)

This triple disc set contains rare radio broadcasts of three complete live performances, from the mid-late '70s. The material was recorded at The Great Western Forum, in Inglewood, California (on 18th June, 1975), The Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan (10th May, 1978), and The Sports Arena, San Diego, on 9th April 1979.

 

 

The J.B.'s - Funky Good Time: The Anthology (2 CD, 1995/FLAC)

The J.B.'s recorded under various billings in the early '70s, including the J.B.'s, Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s, Maceo & the Macks, the First Family, the Last Word, and others. This double CD gathers 30 of the prime tracks by all of the above configurations from the first half of the '70s, including all nine of their chart hits and quite a few rare singles and long versions. Often, James Brown himself chips in with incidental vocals (though this is mostly instrumental) and keyboards. The two-and-a-half-hour program can start to sound monotonous if taken all at once, but it's prime, often riveting funk, jammed with lockstep grooves that vary between basic R&B vamps and imaginative, almost jazzy improvisation.

James Brown (vocals, organ, synthesizer, drums); Lyn Collins, Vicki Anderson (vocals); Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Hearlon "Cheese" Martin, Jimmy Nolen (guitar); Jimmy Parker (alto saxophone); Maceo Parker (alto saxophone, flute); St. Clair Pinckney (tenor saxophone); Darryl "Hasaan" Jamison, Jerone "Jasaan" Sanford, Russell Crimes, Isaiah "Ike" Oakley (trumpet); Fred Wesley (trombone, vocals); Bobby Byrd (piano); Dave Matthews (electric piano, organ); William "Bootsy" Collins, Fred Thomas (bass); John "Jabo" Starks (drums); Johnny Griggs (congas).

 

 

Joni Mitchell - Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) [5 CD, 2021/FLAC]

The first volume of the Joni Mitchell Archives series shed significant light on the beginning of Mitchell’s musical journey, compiling a wealth of unreleased demos, radio broadcasts, and live tapes from the years just before she began making records. The extensive collection painted a detailed picture of Mitchell’s nascent years growing as a songwriter and performer in the independent folkie scene, and Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years 1968-1971 does just as thorough and impressive a job of drawing back the curtain on the lively period surrounding her first four albums. 

The collection moves in chronological order, beginning with some rough home demos for songs from 1968 debut Song to a Seagull and its 1969 follow-up, Clouds. Hissy home recordings of tracks like Clouds’ “Roses Blue” offer interesting counterpoint to the more polished studio versions, and documentation of this phase also includes outtakes from the Song to a Seagull sessions.