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Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Jimmy Smith was a self-taught pianist who abandoned the instrument in 1954 in favour of the Hammond B3 organ, renting a Philadelphia warehouse and woodshedding for a year until he emerged with a revolutionary style that immediately caught the ear of... |
Jimmy Smith
Home Cookin' (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a self-taught keyboard virtuoso who gave up the piano in 1954 in favor of the Hammond B3 organ, setting up shop in a warehouse in Philadelphia and woodshedding for a year before emerging with a revolutionary approach... |
Jimmy Smith
Midnight Special (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] It's a testament to Jimmy Smith's volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics-Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack-in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960... |
Jorja Smith
Be Right Back [ Famm / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Jorja Smith returns to announce a new 8-track project. 'Be Right Back' is the first body of work from Jorja since her 2019 critically-acclaimed, Mercury Prize nominated debut album 'Lost & Found', for which she won her second BRIT Award for 'Best... |
Kate Smith
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Smith - The Songbird of the South - Original recordings 1927 - 1947 [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "A 19-year-old girl, weighing in the immediate neighborhood of 200 pounds, is one of the discoveries of the season for those whose interests run to syncopators and singers of what in the varieties and nightclubs are known as 'hot' songs. Kate Smith... |
Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata (with Bach: Cantatas BWV131 & BWV198) Gloria Prosper, Adrienne Albert, Richard Levitt, Melvin Brown, Marni Nixon / Gregg Smith Singers, Texas Boys Choir, Columbia Baroque Ensemble, Robert [ Sony Essential Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/1996 ] Monteverdi recorded at the American Legion Hall, Hollywood, January 1967. Digitally remastered in 1996 |
Lonnie Liston Smith
Cosmic Funk (Gatefold LP) [ BGP Records / LP ] Lonnie Liston Smith regards "Cosmic Funk", his second album as a leader, as a transitional release: "Before recording this album, I was still playing with Miles Davis. You can hear some Miles influence. On the following album, "Expansions", I really... |
Lonnie Liston Smith
Live! (LP) [ Flying Dutchman / Ace Records LP / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Lonnie Liston Smith cut his teeth as a sideman with legendary bandleaders like Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis. He first appeared on a Flying Dutchman LP when he played piano on the Leon Thomas album "Spirits Known And Unknown" - released... |
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Astral Traveling (Gatefold LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / LP ] Lonnie Liston Smith was 32 when, in 1973, he finally got around to recording his first album as a leader, Astral Traveling. By that time, the pianist/keyboardist had a great deal of sideman experience under his belt, and this superb debut made it... |
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Expansions (Gatefold LP) [ Ace / LP - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Lonnie's 1975 jazz-funk masterpiece is released on 180g black vinyl in a nice thick card gatefold sleeve. Former Miles Davis and Pharoah Sanders keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith saw all his musical ideas coming together for this, his third album.... |
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Reflections Of A Golden Dream (LP) [ BGP / Flying Dutchman / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] Lonnie Liston Smith was one of the most important musicians to emerge in jazz in the 1970s. His 1975 album 'Expansions' is one of the foundation stones of modern dance music and his recordings have been sampled by many of the biggest artists in the... |
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Renaissance (LP) [ LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Digitally Remastered Edition of the Jazz Pianist's 1977 Album Where He Plays Both a Rhodes and Acoustic Pianos and is Joined as Well by his Brother Donald on Flute and Vocals. |
Lonnie Smith
Afro-Desia (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 17/May/2024 ] The second in our Mr Bongo series opening the vault on classic recordings from the fabled Groove Merchant Records catalogue. This time the spotlight turns to the Hammond B3 organ maestro Lonnie Smith, as we proudly present a reissue of his cosmic... |
Lonnie Smith
Funk Reaction (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 24/May/2024 ] Continuing Mr Bongo's series exploring the wealth of material released through the record labels of Sonny Lester, 1977's Funk Reaction finds Hammond B3 organ virtuoso Lonnie Smith at his most dancefloor-friendly. Dripping with groove and swagger,... |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore (complete operetta - original version) Marilyn Hill Smith, Gordon Sandison, Joan Davies, Alexandra Hann / Chorus and Orchestra of the New Sadler's Wells Opera / Simon Phipps [ Jay Productions / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The New Sadler's Wells Opera was formed in the mid-eighties, filling the void (or so it was thought) that was left by the closure of the original D'Oyly Carte. It has even been suggested that the Powers that Be pushed the old Company gently into the... |
CLARKE / BACH / MOZART / HAYDN / ALBINONI / MARCELLO
A Portrait Maurice Andre (trumpet) with Jan Parker-Smith, Alfred Mitterhofer (organ), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Erato / Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "(These recordings serve, not only,) as an index of the trumpeter's fabulous chops, but also his sense of fantasy and imagination, his concern for colour, and his spurning of velocity and virtuosity for their own sakes." (MusicWeb) |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto Aranjuez / Arnold: Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra Michael Conn (guitar) / The Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, John Lubbock [ IMP Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] Originally released 1987 |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (the complete opera, recorded in 2005) Netherlands Opera / Hasmik Papian / Hugh Smith / Irini Tsirakidis / Julian Reynolds (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Nov/2006 ] G :- "Conductor Julian Reynolds extensively studied Bellini's score in manuscript and introduces lots of surprising details." -De Telegraaf |
MORTON GOULD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gould: Fall River Legend / Steven Foster Gallery / Of Time and the River New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. James Sedares, JoAnn Falletta / Greg Smith Singers, New York Choral Society [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1996 ] "Next to perhaps Aaron Copland, Morton Gould was THE voice of American music during his long and fruitful life...a fine reading from the New Zealand Symphony under James Sedares." Daily Press (Virginia) |
