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Strauss: Four Last Songs, Etc / Karajan, Janowitz, Berlin Po Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $3.93) | | Label | DG The Originals | | Orig Year | 1/23/1996 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2541  | | CD Universe Part number | 1057535 | | Catalog number | 447422 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 23, 1996 | | Recording Time | 1 17 |
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This two-CD compilation, assembled from the Walker Brothers' three albums and various singles released by Philips between 1965 and 1967, gives a good overview of their U.K. history without limiting itself to their hits. The sound quality is good if not exceptional -- one gets the sense that another round of remastering would be in order (and while we're talking about sound, wouldn't one like to see a Mobile Fidelity reissue on the Walker Brothers or, for that matter, Scott Walker's best solo stuff?). And the track order isn't chronological -- their two best-known songs, which were not their first two U.K. singles -- occupy the opening two slots on disc one. So this set is lacking in some attributes that one would, ideally, like to se. On the other hand, all of the songs that one would like to see are here somewhere, and the annotation is thorough if not extensive. For anyone starting a collection of the classic Walker Brothers' material, this set -- which also carries the subtitle "My Ship Is Coming In" -- is a great place to start and finish, assuming that one doesn't wish to own everything ...
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Christmas and the blues might seem at first like a strange combination, given that the music of the holiday season is usually joyful, hopeful, and bright, but no other time of the year is so good at showing you what you don't have, and what you can't get, and if you have the blues at Christmas, well, it's going to be a pretty heavy dose. This generous two-disc set from Document Records features 52 tracks of vintage African-American Christmas-themed blues and gospel pieces (with a couple of street sermons thrown in) recorded between 1925 and 1955, ranging from down-and-out laments and jailhouse moans to surprising (and occasionally risqué) requests for what Santa can bring down the chimney. Highlights on the first disc include the opening track, the joyous "Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn," recorded in 1925 by comedian and female impersonator Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon; Harry Crafton's "Bring That Cadillac Back" (a Cadillac might not be the best gift if your girlfriend likes to ramble) from 1947; Tampa Red's amazing, ringing slide guitar tone on "Christmas and New Year's Blues" from 1936; and the bizarre, disturbing field recording of "Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus," sung by Willie Blackwell for Alan Lomax in Arkansas in 1942. Other high points include ...
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Milford Graves is a fantastic drummer for whom the simple act of hitting a drum calls for his whole body and mind to take over. He lives, thinks, and expresses himself through his contact with resounding objects. All he needed was an album that would do justice to his art. He had come close to it in 1998 with Grand Unification, his first solo CD for John Zorn's Tzadik label. With Stories, he might have recorded the best solo percussion album ever. On this playground, there are no limits to what Graves can do, but no artifices to alter the sound. The recording quality is incredible, better than on the previous album. Nothing is lost in the mix; everything comes through pure and lively. This is the first time Graves has been recorded so faithfully. The performances themselves also belong to the man's best work. The first half of the CD is comprised of five short pieces, while ...
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Sarah Vaughan's sultry, resonant, and technically agile vocals couldn't be more perfectly suited to romantic ballads. Consequently, this addition to Columbia's LOVE SONGS series is one of the best. During her tenure for the label in the late 1940s and early '50s, Vaughan's recordings featured lush orchestral accompaniment and a pop-oriented approach. This set is drawn primarily from that pool, with a program heavy on standards ("The Nearness of You" and "It Might as Well Be Spring"). Vaughan was only in her early 20s when she cut these sides, but her musicianship and command of phrasing are so masterful that they belie her age.
Sprinkled among the string-rich crossover material are a few straight-ahead jazz numbers. The languid, winding "Goodnight My Love" and the yearning narrative "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)," for example, were cut with a small combo that features a young Miles Davis on trumpet. These tracks truly shine, as the understated accompaniment allows the subtleties in Vaughan's melodic explorations to come soaring through. Her technical expertise is matched by the sensuality, longing, and romance that drips from her voice, so that her simmering lyrical intensity can, literally, make one weak in the knees.
Arrangers: Joe Lipman; Paul Weston; Percy Faith; Tadd Dameron; Norman Leyden.
Personnel: Sarah Vaughan (vocals); George Van Eps, Art Ryerson, Al Caiola, Mundell Lowe (guitar); Verlye Mills (harp); Frederick Buldrini, George Ockner, Julius Schachter, Samuel Carmell, Adam Pratz, David Asch, Eugene Orloff, Sylvan Shulman, Zelly Smirnoff, Howard Kay, E. Anthony Green, Raoul Poliakin (violin); Richard Dickler, Sidney Brecher, Frank Brieff, Isadore Zir (viola); F. Miller & J. Barry, Bernard Greenhouse, Maurice Brown (cello); Leo Kruczek, Solomon Deutsch, Felix Orlewitz, Ralph Hersh, Samuel Rand, Jack Zayde, George Ricci (strings); Tony Scott (clarinet); Russell Banzer, Al Freistadt, Bernard ...
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