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Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years (1969-1977) {2CD EMI 50999 2 28404 2 4 rel 2008}
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© 1969-1977, 2008 Harvest / EMI Records | 50999 2 28404 2 4
Folk / Celtic / Acoustic / Early Music / Medieval / Renaissance

This is a fabulous release with two albums from Shirley and Dolly Collins recorded on Harvest records and collected together. CD one brings us the album Anthems in Eden. Anthems in Eden is perhaps the most famous album and the most creative one from Shirley and Dolly Collins. This sixth album from Shirley is from 1969 and it is an incredible project. The album has been released and re released a few times. Here on this fabulous album Shirley provides her unique vocals along with Sister Dolly on portative organ. But this time there are a whole host of other musicians involved.

Separating from producer Kevin Shirley for the first time in three records, Beth Hart chose to work with Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens for 2015's Better Than Home. A change in producers helped Hart change direction, letting her depart from the down-and-dirty blues belting she specialized in throughout her time with Shirley, reconnecting slightly to her singer/songwriter beginning while emphasizing deep soul roots. Despite opening with the tight Memphis groove of "Might as Well Smile," most of the album is grandly introspective – majestic brooding ballads with a clear debt to early Elton John.

Shirley Horn's sensitive vocals and sublime yet powerful piano playing attracted the attention of fellow musicians, including early supporter Miles Davis, and numerous in-the-know fans during her decades-long career. This collection of recordings, made for Verve Records during her late-career resurgence, includes performances with small groups and a string orchestra.

Shirley’s fourth Malaco album, Diva of Soul (# 67-r&b), was released in 1995, and this time there are only two producers on the set – Shirley Brown and Bobby Manuel.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis With Shirley Scott - The Complete Cookbook Sessions (1958) [3CD] {2010 Solar Records Edition}
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© 2010 Solar Records / Prestige | 4569870
Jazz / Hard Bop / Soul Jazz / Saxophone / Organ Hammond B-3

This release presents the complete Cookbook sessions by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis in a quartet/quintet format with Shirley Scott on organ and, on some tracks, Jerome Richardson on flute, as well as tenor and baritone sax. This is the first time that all of this material is contained on a single set and in the order in which it was recorded. This set includes the complete contents of the original LPs The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook (Vols. 1 to 3; Prestige 7141, 7161 & 7219), Jaws (Prestige 7154) & Smokin' (Prestige 7301), plus all of the other songs from the sessions; and a quartet set by the exact same personnel (but with Scott on piano instead of organ) added as a bonus.

Two of pianist/vocalist Shirley Horn's rarest (and earliest) recordings are reissued in full on this single CD. Actually, Horn does not play piano at all, sticking exclusively to vocals, and she had less control over the interpretations (being persuaded to sing some songs at faster-than-usual tempos) than she would later on. The arrangements for the big bands that back Horn were written by Jimmy Jones and Quincy Jones and, although the overall music is enjoyable, Horn would have much preferred to be the pianist behind her own vocals. Since she would only record two other albums during the next 15 years (sticking to playing locally in the Washington, D.C., area while raising her daughter), this CD gives one a valuable look at the early Shirley Horn; her distinctive vocal style was already nearly fully formed.