Loren Loving

“Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll volumes one to five from Atomicat Records looks at Caucasian cover-rockers from America and Australia. The musicians are from differing music backgrounds and covered R&B songs in their own style. The music within My Baby Left Me is sourced from the golden years of 1955 through to 1963, from labels large and small. Every album contains twenty-eight songs, and each album ends like Rock ‘n’ Roll evenings of the past, with a love song. The album is stuffed full of cover-rockers, with numerous artists being mostly unknown, but not lacking in star quality. The albums are perfect for collectors who wish to own a more diverse range of songs, and those who enjoy dancing.”

Through the 1930s, Coleman Hawkins growth is exponential, especially in his ballad playing. Buttery warm and cozy, he finds notes that always work within the chord and are clearly there for anyone to find. But he's the one who finds them. And what is there to say about his solo on 1939's "Body and Soul" that hasn't already been said? This is the music that has proven so inspirational to generations of tenor saxophonists since; the endless possibility when taste and intelligence take on exceptional material. Our jam-packed set on eight CDs includes 190 tracks, 12 never before released. Included is material from Coleman's earliest days with Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, his time with Henderson including various pseudonym bands and offshoots that shared personnel, the Mound City Blue Blowers, Benny Goodman's orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter, Count Basie, co-leader sides with trumpeter Henry Red Allen, Cozy Cole, and a variety of all-star dates for Metronome, Leonard Feather, and Esquire, as well as recordings as a leader of his own dates. Our research has corrected many discrepancies in previous discographies.

This is one of the most beloved comtemporary jazz recordings that I own. I fell in love with JUST AN ILLUSION when it was first released, and because of that one song, I brought the cassette. LOVED IT! Years later, I found it in cd format and purchsed it again, only to have it taken from me. Came across it again and brought it. Now, it stays with me. The additional vocal performances by Jeffrey Osbourne, Will Downing, Freddie Jackson & Caron Wheeler, the instrumentals….everything just came together and fit perfectly. This is one of those cd's that can be played anywhere…at home while relaxing, in the car…just anywhere. This is a classic that smooth jazz fans will not forget.

Before Milwaukee-born singer/songwriter Eric Benét began his solo career and began his ascent to international recognition as a best-selling contemporary recording artist and performer, he was a member of a short-lived duo with his sister Lisa that was known simply as Benét. The duo released a CD on EMI Records in 1992 that has become a curio collectible for fans of quality music and all curious about Eric’s formative roots as a recording artist.