| | Ginger Baker / Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa '70 Live! CD Ginger Baker / Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa '70 Discography of CDs
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It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat innovator backed by his powerhouse band Africa '70 and ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker, is no exception. Like all of Fela's recordings from the era, LIVE! consists of just a few tracks, each of which approximates or exceeds the ten minute mark.
Yet the arrangements are so dynamic on these tracks, the criss-crossing polyrhythms so absorbing, and Fela's incantatory vocals so entrancing that the long running times never seem a factor. Every cut crackles from beginning to end with its mixture of funk, jazz, and traditional Nigerian music, underscoring once again Fela's revolutionary, indelible contribution to world music. Fans of Ginger Baker will want to take note that the drummer is not showcased except on a bonus track, which pairs the drummer with Fela percussionist Tony Allen for a smokin' sixteen-plus minute drum solo.
Live! was recorded in 1971 with Fela's group at the time, the Africa 70. Due to its demanding performance schedule, the band is remarkably tight. Interlocking rhythms drive keyboard and guitar vamps, propelling instrumental soloists on trumpet and saxophone. There's a nice jazzy feel here, manifested both in an elastic sense of time and in an ensemble approach to performance. Improvised passages lie interspersed between statements of the theme, with Fela improvising on voice or delivering some rather frank lyrics in English and Yoruba. For example, the message of the opener: Let's get it on! (This piece features Ginger Baker sitting in for Tony Allen on drums, and he does quite well. Baker trades his usual heavy-handed approach for a lighter touch, dancing in and around the beat.) Universal.
Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam & Rikki Stein.
Digitally remastered by Pompon (Translab, Paris, France).
Full performer name: Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa '70/Ginger Baker.
Personnel: Fela Kuti (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); Igo Chiko (tenor saxophone); Lekan Animashaun (baritone saxophone); Tunde Williams (trumpet); Maurice Ekpo (bass guitar); Tony Allen (drums); Friday Jumbo, Akwesi Korranting (congas); Isaac Olaleye (shekere).
Personnel includes: Fela Kuti (vocals); Ginger Baker (vocals, drums); Peter Animashaun (guitar); Igo Chiko (tenor saxophone); Lekan Animashaun (baritone saxophone); Tunde Williams, Eddie Faychum (trumpet); Maurice Epko (bass); Tony Allen (drums); Henry Koffi, Friday Jumbo, Akwesi Korranting (congas); Tony Abayomi, Isaac Olaleye (percussion).
Ginger Baker / Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa '70 Live! Songs Purchase Live! CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lara Fabian CD (2000)
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Industry bigwig Tommy Mottola's discovery, French-language chanteuse Lara Fabian hits it big with her self-titled English solo debut. Packed with passionate love songs in the Barbara Streisand and Celine Dion vein, Fabian takes the power ballad one step further. Her voice and music are best described ...
| | Fela Kuti Open & Close/Afrodisiac CD (2001)
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$13.95
Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam, Rikki Stein and Mabinuori Kayode Idowu.
Digitally remastered by Pompon (Translab Paris, Paris, France).
This CD reissue combines two early-'70s albums -- Open & Close and Afrodisiac -- on a single disc. Open & Close has just three songs, all in the ten- to 15-minute range, mixing some of the improvisational verve of jazz into Kuti's Afro-funk stew. There's a bittersweet, faintly melancholy tone to some of ...
| | Chills Kaleidoscope World CD (1986) (Import) Import; Australia
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$23.75
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD contains 10 bonus tracks and represents everything the band recorded through early 1986, including all of the LOST EP, and the I LOVE MY LEATHER JACKET/THE GREAT ESCAPE 12"
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD, The Chills' 18-track compilation culled from The Chills early and mid-'80s EPs and singles, is highlighted by the song "Pink Frost."
The Chills' Martin Phillipps mixes up melodic pop with elements of garage rock and punk, creating songs with a sweet melancholy all their own. Phillipps has always been the focus of the Chills, writing and singing the band's ...
| | Killing Floor CD (1995) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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$16.65
The sheer toughness -- and overall derivative -- nature of Killing Floor's debut album, issued six months after Led Zeppelin's debut in 1969 on the Spark label, is a wondrous contrast to the overly slick treatment American blues were given by British artists. All of these tunes, with the exception of one, are revamped versions of songs from the blues canon with different words. The lone "cover" in the set was written by Willie Dixon titled "Woman You Need Love," the tune Zep ripped for "Whole Lotta Love." Despite the fact that this set ...
| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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$19.79
The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately ...
| | Legend CD (2007) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
Live! CD music
$16.59
In some circles, Mickey Jupp is something of a minor legend, a roots rocker with excellent taste and a cutting wit, best heard on the songs "Switchboard Susan" and "You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those," both covered by Nick Lowe. Basher's endorsement is a clear indication that Jupp is a pub rocker, a guy who specializes in laid-back good times, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that his first band, Legend, was proto-pub, an unabashed celebration of old-time rock & roll, filled with three-chord Chuck Berry rockers and doo wop backing vocals. Nevertheless, listening to their 1970 LP is a bit of a shock, as it's completely disassociated with anything that was happening ...
| | John Stewart California Bloodlines/Willard CD (1989) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Jazz It's A Wonderful Sound CD (2002)
Live! songs
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| | Ken Sawaki Story Of The Star CD (2006) (Import) Japan
Live! album
$43.35
Includes a bonus DVD.
| | Cal Massey Blues To Coltrane CD (1961)
Live! CD music
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| | Red Mitchell Hear Ye! Hear Ye! CD (1961)
Live! music CDs
$9.95
Red Mitchell/Harold Land Quintet: Red Mitchell (bass); Harold Land (tenor saxophone); Carmell Jones (trumpet); Frank Strazzeri (piano); Leon Petties (drums).
Originally released on Atlantic (1376). Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather.
Digitally remastered by Gene Paul (DB Plus, New York, New York).
In the early '60s, bassist Red Mitchell and tenor saxophonist Harold Land co-led a quintet in Los Angeles. The group did not catch on but they did record one Atlantic ...
| | Chris Jazz Band Barber Chris Barber's Jazz Band 1957 With Special Guest S CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Shannon Stephens The Breadwinner CD (2009)
Live! album
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