This 1958 release, recorded the same year as Art Blakey's canonical album Moanin', bears little resemblance to that more famous release. While the personnel on Holiday for Skins features some of the finest players of the hard bop era (including drummer Philly Joe Jones and trumpeter Donald Byrd), the music on the album draws its inspiration directly from African and Latin folk forms. This is especially evident on tracks like "The Feast" and "Aghano," which feature circular drum patterns and chanting from the bandmembers. Tunes like "Mirage," however, blend these exotic sounds with a more straightforward bop vocabulary, resulting in the set's most engaging moments. As one of the more adventurous dates from Blue Note's '50s period, Holiday for Skins is an intriguing listen.

On June 22nd, 1987, Madonna performed at the Korakuen Kyujo in Tokyo, Japan. This performance was recorded from a live FM broadcast. Collects 15 tracks including Open Your Heart; Lucky Star; Papa Don't Preach; Like a Virgin; Where's the Party?; and more

A truly third-millennium artist, blues trailblazer Joe Bonamassa released his debut studio album in October 2000 to rapturous acclaim from fans and critics alike. Across the subsequent quarter-century Joe has barely put a foot wrong, releasing 16 studio albums, 18 live albums, three collaborative albums, 30 singles, 15 video albums, 13 music videos and 54 other guest appearances! In addition to all of the above, Bonamassa has found time to record a slew of radio sessions for a variety of stations worldwide, including several for Paul Jones’s esteemed Radio 2 Blues Show. In 2010 Joe recorded a lengthy session at BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, which was broadcast live on Jones’s programme.

THE RARE ALTERNATIVE CUTS Steely Dan s fourth studio album Katy Lied, released in 1975 by ABC Records, was certified gold and peaked at No. 13 on the US charts with the single Black Friday reaching No. 37. The record was the first after the disbandment of the original quintet; most of the original members had departed during a rift over touring and recording schedules. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who had been increasingly using session musicians in the studio on prior albums, continued on with numerous prominent Los Angeles area studio musicians. Katy Lied marks the first appearance of singer Michael McDonald on a Steely Dan album. Jeff Porcaro, then only 20 years old, played drums on all the songs bar-one, and it also marked the first appearance of Larry Carlton, who played guitar on Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More . A year later, Dan s fifth hit the stores. The Royal Scam was equally as poetic, jazz fuelled and joyously immediate as it predecessor, and critically acclaimed in similar tones of commendation, At the end of 76, Messrs Becker and Fagin appeared on college radio in New York where they played more than 80 minutes of rare outtakes and demos made during the recording of Katy Lied and Royal Scam, revealing a raft of alternative takes, obscure cuts and other studio paraphernalia This CD now makes the content of this rarely known-about broadcast available for all to hear.

Broadcast across 67 countries to a worldwide audience of 600 million people, the 1988 Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert, which took place on the great man’s 70th birthday at Wembley Stadium in London, featured performances from a host of top artists of the day. Simple Minds, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder and numerous others all played on the day, but probably the finest performance came from Dire Straits who had recently split up, but were persuaded to reform for the event, bringing in Eric Clapton on guitar and backing vocals to accompany them. Signed on to close the show, performing a superb set made up of Dire Straits classics alongside a glorious version of Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’, the whole event was sealed by quite staggering musicianship.

Pink Floyd : The Wall Rebuilt The Complete Version, VERY RARE! 2019 Euro Extremely Ltd 300 numbered copies 4CD box set on The Brickwall Records & Tapes lbl, all CDs are housed in deluxe 12" long box set with a booklet witht the complete tracklisting !!!

Lauded for his “expressive and intense” playing (American Record Guide) which “packs an emotional punch,” (The Strad), Jacob Adams is Associate Professor of Viola at the University of Alabama. Since making his solo debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age 17, he has performed at major venues throughout the United States and across four continents. His recordings have been released on the Centaur and Blue Griffin labels. He has premiered new works by celebrated composers, including William Bolcom and Caroline Shaw. Jacob is a regular performer with numerous orchestras, chamber ensembles, and festival series, appearing with A Far Cry (Boston), Camerata Pacifica (Southern CA), Manchester Summer Chamber Music (MA), Rocket City New Music (Huntsville, AL), Brevard Music Center (NC), and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (Birmingham, AL). He serves as principal violist for the Mobile and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras.

The music of Bach has always been a specialty of the Choir of King’s College, who dedicated their first ever recording to him in 1929 for HMV. This collection includes their best renditions of cantatas, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and St Matthew Passion. Featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Philip Leger, David Willcocks, Stephen Cleobury and more.

Here we are in the middle of July, time to refresh ourselves with music and do our holiday homework, by immersing ourselves with delight in this collection of the most beautiful works inspired by the summer season. From Vivaldi to Gershwin and Schubert to Debussy, it will evoke the pleasures of balmy summer evenings, the joys of idleness, the stifling heat, the song of the cicadas and that of the harvesters. The major artists from our rich catalogue are featured in On a Summer Evening: Vilde Frang, Mady Mesplé, Simon Rattle, Jean-Pierre Rampal…

A consistently powerful opener at concerts, it’s such an effective introduction to what King Crimson is all about; unexpected dynamics, complex and contrasting juxtapositions of time, tone and timbre as well as some plain old-fashioned rocking out of course. Following the flute solo, the climb-out to the coda is an object lesson in tension and release.

With Breakfast in America, Supertramp had a genuine blockbuster hit, topping the charts for four weeks in the U.S. and selling millions of copies worldwide; by the 1990s, the album had sold over 18 million units across the world. Although their previous records had some popular success, they never even hinted at the massive sales of Breakfast in America. Then again, Supertramp's earlier records weren't as pop-oriented as Breakfast. The majority of the album consisted of tightly written, catchy, well-constructed pop songs, like the hits "The Logical Song," "Take the Long Way Home," and "Goodbye Stranger." Supertramp still had a tendency to indulge themselves occasionally, but Breakfast in America had very few weak moments. It was clearly their high-water mark.

It all happened on July 18, 2011 when Deep Purple entered the Arena di Verona, one of Europe's most spectacular concert locations, through the same entrance that was once used by the gladiators. Talk about being thrown to the lions!, jokes Don Airey, who has nothing but fond recollections of this memorable night. Live In Verona is an exceptional recording of the complete show, featuring the Hard-Rock veterans together with a full orchestra. The Neue Philharmonie, a 38-piece orchestra from Frankfurt, accompanied them for the whole European leg of the tour. Deep Purple connected with the orchestra instantaneously, which led to some unique, outstanding moments during the tour, when orchestra members surprised the band with original arrangements. It created the sort of environment that we could all equally enjoy., says Airey. Both eventually came together as one, creating an electrifying night.

Part of our retrospective dedicated to the pianist and benedictine monk Thierry de Brunhoff. All the recordings made for Pathé during his very brief career have been put online for the very first time. His discretion, his infinite ease with the piano, his deep understanding of the scores and his sudden decision to leave secular life have shrouded him in an aura of mystery, making him a veritable legend in piano circles. The unprecedented refinement he displays in this Schumann collection is one of the supreme testimonies to this incomparable talent, which we only wish he had graced us with for longer.

The main venue that created “MADE IN JAPAN” “Osaka Festival Hall”. DEEP PURPLE ‘s finest live set that came back to the scene appears.It is contained in such a work “October 17, 2018 + 18: Osaka Festival Hall” performance. 2 performances It is a 4-tuple that arranges each full audience recording of each performance for two discs each. First of all, let ‘s also organize the collection with the schedule together with “MAKUHARI 2018 (Shades 977)” released at the same time this week.

With a body of work spanning nearly seven decades, England's Deep Purple are bona fide classic rock royalty. Along with Cream, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin, they defined hard rock and early heavy metal. Though their lineup has constantly evolved, Deep Purple effectively made music a career for guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Roger Glover, vocalists Ian Gillan and David Coverdale, and organist/composer Jon Lord.