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Following the release of the Talking Heads' fourth album, REMAIN IN LIGHT, the band's husband-and-wife rhythm section, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth, opted to record tracks in the Caribbean on the invitation of Islands Records founder Chris Blackwell, thus the Tom Tom Club was born. Joined by Talking Heads touring guitarist Adrian Belew, guitarist Monte Brown, percussionist Steven Stanley, and Weymouth's sisters, Laura and Lani, on background vocals, Frantz and Weymouth crafted a highly rhythmic, groove-laden album that incorporated world music (most obviously on the buoyant, African-tinged "L'Elephant") and hip-hop (the playful "Wordy Rappinghood," a kindred spirit to Blondie's "Rapture"). Of course, the 1981 album's most shining moment proved to be the hit single, "Genius of Love," a vibrant dance-floor classic that has been sampled ad infinitum. Issued the same year as David Byrne and Brian Eno's MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS, TOM TOM CLUB was the fun and free-spirited counterpart to that experimental and cerebral outing, revealing that the Taking Heads could making fascinating music even when fragmented.
Live Recording
Tom Tom Club: Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Steven Stanley, Benjamin Arbrister, Adrian Belew, Loric Weymouth, Laura Weymouth, Monte Brown, Tyrone Dowrie, James Rizzi, Kendall Stubbs, Lani Weymouth.
Producers: Steven Stanley, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz.
Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Tom Tom Club cooked up funky grooves and quirky vocals to make their eponymous debut album....The sense of fun and the innate funk is contagious as ever." Tom Tom Club Music Review Purchase Tom Tom Club CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tom Tom Club Good, The Bad & The Funky CD (2000)
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Recorded at Clubhouse Music Studios, Cock Island, Connecticut.
Tom Tom Club includes: Tina Weymouth (vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic & electric basses); Chris Frantz (keyboards, drums, percussion, programming, background vocals); Bernie Worrell (Clavinet, organ); Abdou M'Boup (percussion).
| | Time CD (1981)
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Live Recording
The Time: Terry Lewis, Jimmy Jam, Morris Day, Monte Moir, Jellybean Johnson, Jesse Johnson.
| | Rapper's Delight: The Best Of Sugarhill Gang CD (1996)
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Contrary to popular belief, the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was not the first rap song. For much of the world, however, it represented the first exposure to the burgeoning style, consisting of stripped-down backbeats, sampled music clips, and half-spoken/half-sung rhymed vocals from performers known as MCs. And a fine introduction it was--over the eminently danceable bass line from Chic's "Good Times," rappers Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Big Bank Hank laid down a rotating round of infectious, witty, quick-tongued raps. The hip-hop nation was born.
Rhino's best-of compilation brings together 10 additional tracks by the Sugarhill Gang, including the hits "8th Wonder" and "Apache." Like the breakthrough single, these tunes borrowed instrumental lines from popular songs and featured ebullient, call-and-response, party-minded raps, introducing a host of catch phrases and motifs that would become common currency for the next several decades. Though the Sugarhill Gang was never as innovative as contemporaries Grandmaster Flash or Afrika Bambaataa, they nevertheless opened the floodgates to one of the most powerful and popular musical styles of the 20th century. The definitive RAPPER'S DELIGHT reads like a blueprint for the genre.
Includes liner notes by Shannita Williams-Alleyne.
Producers include: Sylvia Inc., Joey Robinson Jr., Larry Johnson, Michael Johnson, Jigsaw Prod. Inc.
Compilation producers: David McLees, Shannita Williams-Alleyne.
The Sugarhill Gang: Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien, Joey Robinson Jr., Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright, Henry "Big Hank" Jackson (vocals).
Additional personnel: The Furious Five, Kory-O (vocals).
| | Shirley Horn I Remember Miles CD (1998)
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I REMEMBER MILES won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
This stunning album is Shirley Horn's loving tribute to her friend and colleague, the legendary late Miles Davis. Davis was so taken by Horn's first album EMBERS AND ASHES that he forced The Village Vanguard to let her virtually-unknown trio open for him during his 1961 run there. Their friendship and admiration for each other's music lasted through the years, and Shirley Horn's 1991 recording YOU WON'T FORGET ME, was one of the last recordings Miles Davis made.
Horn selected mostly ballads from Davis' Columbia Records catalogue for her tribute because, as she explains in the liner notes, Davis liked her to sing ballads, and ballads are Horn's specialty. She can slow down time in a unique and spellbinding way. Her sultry and smoky vocals are intimate and conversational, relying on odd metered timing and silence, rather than volume, to make an emotional point.
This album's knock out punch is the epic (over 10 minutes long) "My Man's Gone Now" performed in an uncharacteristically (for Horn) abstract style with a double rhythm section and Roy Hargrove wailing and soaring on the trumpet. This may well be one of the greatest tracks Horn ever recorded.
Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York from December 2-5, 1997.
Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Charles Ables, Ron Carter (bass); Steve Williams, Al Foster (drums).
| | Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads CDs (1982) Bonus Tracks
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This live album was originally released as a double LP in 1982, when the Talking Heads were still extremely active. Twenty-two years later, the bonus-laden, two-CD reissue serves as a fascinating in-concert document of the phases the band went through during its first five years. The late-'70s tracks on the first disc show the early version of the band in all its geeky glory, mixing spastic New Wave quirkiness, funk rhythms, and art-school lyrics. It's intriguing to hear the difference between some of the songs' inception and their eventual recorded versions, such as a relatively straightforward "Electricity (Drugs)," which would turn ominous and atmospheric on FEAR OF MUSIC.
The second disc captures the expanded, early-'80s version of the band, with extra musicians and backing vocalists in tow, tackling the fugue-like art-funk masterpieces of the aforementioned album and REMAIN IN LIGHT. It's all the more impressive to hear the interlocking of the guitars, keyboards, and percussion achieved without the benefit of studio overdubbing, and David Byrne's near-manic intensity is even more focused and affecting in the live setting. Even vinyl freaks/Heads maniacs who hung on to the original LP for two decades will need to get this, if only for the wealth of indispensable bonus tracks.
Additional Tracks
Recording information: 1977 - 1988.
Talking Heads: Jerry Harrison (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); David Byrne (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass instrument, percussion); Tina Weymouth (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass instrument, percussion, background vocals); Chris Franz (keyboards, drums, percussion).
Additional personnel include: Brian Eno (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals); Adrian Belew (guitar); Bernie Worrell (synthesizer); Robert Palmer (percussion); Nona Hendryx (background vocals).
| | Lifestyles Of The Slow & Low Vol. 2 CD (1997)
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Gene Chander,Barbara Mason++++
| | John Swana And Friends CD (1999) (Import) Netherlands
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trumpet/fluegelhorn player is joined by Tom Harrell, Billy Pierce, Mulgrew Miller, Ira Coleman, Billy Drummond, recorded December 15, 1991
| | Anita Baker Rapture CD (1986)
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From the opening piano chords of `Sweet Love', you know there is a good song coming. Ex-Chapter 8 vocalist Baker has an effortless delivery that swoops and dips like a swallow. `Sweet Love' is just one of those soul songs that people who say they don't like soul music like. The choice of material is superb, and heart-tugging songs such as David Lasley's `You Bring Me Joy' or Ken Hirsch and Marti Sharron's `No One In The World' are only beaten by Baker's voice. The slower material is stronger and only `Watch Your Step' and `Same Ole Love' fail to hit the spot, simply because of the mood the other tracks set.
Live Recording
Personnel includes: Anita Baker (vocals); Greg Phillingaines (keyboards); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
| | Soul Train 1972 CD (2000)
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Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot.
This is part of Rhino Records "Soul Train" series.
Main Ingredient,Spinners, Staple Singers,Joe Tex,
| | Agnaldo Timoteo Serie Retratos CD (2004) (Import) Import; Brazil
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A 14-track collection of Brazilian vocalist Agnaldo Timoteo's finest songs, this disc includes hit such as "Meu Grito, "Livre," and "Mamae."
Greatest hits compilation.
| | Alias & Tarsier Brookland / Oaklyn CD (2006)
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Track Listing of songs: Cub; Rising Sun; Last Nail; Dr. C; Anon; 5 Year Eve; Plane That Draws a White Line; Luck and Fear; Picking the Same Lock; Ligaya;
| | John Lees Barclay James Harvest Legacy - Live At The Shepherds Bush Empire 2006 CD (2008)
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2007 release which documents the highly successful UK tour by John Lees' Barclay James Harvest in 2006. Featuring founder BJH members John Lees and Woolly Wolstenholme, the tour featured some of the finest music from the BJH canon. Perennial classics such as 'Mockingbird', 'Poor Man's Moody Blues', 'Child Of The Universe' and 'Hymn' were joined by definitive versions of 'The Great 1974 Mining Disaster', 'The Poet/After the Day' and 'Poor Wages', none of which had been performed live for over 30 years. Cited by John Lees as "The best live album I've ever made", Legacy is a superb audio document of a legendary band.
| | Seu Jorge America Brasil O Disco CD (2008) (Import)
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Track Listing of songs: América Do Norte; Trabalhador; Burguesinha; Cuidar De Mim; Mina Do Condomínio; Mariana; Só No Chat; Samba Rock; Seu Olhar; Eterna Busca; Voz Da Massa;
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