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VA - Cajun Classics - Kings of Cajun at Their Very Best (2002) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 28, 2022

This new mid-price set is in effect a Very Best of Cajun Classics, and is drawn mainly from the two now-deleted volumes that were among our best sellers (in any genre) during the 1990s. Those releases hit the button just as Cajun music was enjoying a popularity in the UK that was akin to the calypso, trad jazz and R&B booms of years gone by.
Suddenly, young musicians were taking up the accordion and fiddle-.-new bands with cute Louisiana names were springing up-.-dance schools were adding the Cajun two-step and waltz to their curricula-.-the Cajun bookshelf started groaning-.-and Cajun CDs were selling like pop records. Best of all, authentic Cajun musicians started visiting the British shores, notably D L Menard, Eddie LeJeune, Balfa Toujours and Beausoleil.

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Duke Ellington - Duke At His Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton Billy Strayhorn Ben Webster Sessions Legendary Works 1940-42 (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 24, 2024

Duke Ellington - Duke At His Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton Billy Strayhorn Ben Webster Sessions Legendary Works 1940-42 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 776 MB
4:55:34 | Jazz | Label: Fremeaux Heritage

This 4-CD set was produced by Alain Pailler and Tony Baldwin from meticulously restored originals that let you relive the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s golden age as though you were right there. These legendary 1940-1942 sessions include Ellington classics such as Ko-Ko, Take The ‘A’ Train, Perdido and Harlem Air-Shaft, masterfully arranged by the Duke himself and his right-hand man Billy Strayhorn. The set prominently features several Swing Era giants at their very peak: Cootie Williams and Ray Nance on trumpets; cornettist Rex Stewart; trombone players Joe Nanton and Lawrence Brown; Barney Bigard on clarinet; Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster and Harry Carney on saxophones, plus the brilliant young doublebass prodigy Jimmy Blanton. It’s a milestone in jazz history and makes essential listening.

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The Very Best of The Doors (2007) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 30, 2021

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Dusty Springfield - See All Her Faces (1972) [2002, Digitally Remastered with Bonus Tracks] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Oct. 25, 2022

"See All Her Faces" is the 7th studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, originally released on the Philips Records label in 1972. It contains a mixture of tracks from different recording sessions; some tracks were recorded with Jeff Barry for an aborted third album for Atlantic Records, other tracks were recorded for Philips in the UK between April and July 1970 – these came to be Springfield's final recordings with longtime producer and arranger Johnny Franz. Some, such as "Willie and Laura Mae Jones", recorded with Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, had been previously released as singles in the US. "See All Her Faces" collects many of those tracks, recorded from 1969 to 1971, placing seven of the British recordings on Side A, while Side B comprises tracks recorded both in the UK and the US. As a result, the album has no cohesive sound, but offers many different styles of music. The album boasts eight producers, including Springfield herself. It has been suggested that "See All Her Faces" is best appreciated track by track, rather than as a whole stylistic statement, as her album "Dusty in Memphis" is often praised to be.

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Scorpions - Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions (2002) Music

Posted by v3122 at July 19, 2020

Scorpions - Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions (2002)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Universal Music, 314 548 118-2 | ~ 585 or 189 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 44 Mb
Hard Rock / Classic Rock

Clocking in at 79 minutes and 55 seconds, the Scorpions have yet another greatest-hits compilation, this 2002 release on Hip-O entitled Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions…

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Ringo Starr - Photograph. The Very Best of Ringo (2007) [CD & DVD] Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 16, 2022

Ringo Starr - Photograph. The Very Best of Ringo (2007)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Capitol Records, 509995 04933 26 PAL | ~ 473 or 160 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 55 Mb
DVD5: PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | LinearPCM, 2 ch, 1536 Kbps -> 1.47 Gb
Classic Rock / Pop Rock

Hard as it is to believe but there has not been a proper Ringo Starr hits collection since the first, 1975's Blast from Your Past – that's not counting 1989's Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2, which was designed as a companion to that earlier set – until 2007's Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr…

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Roseanna Vitro - Live at The Kennedy Center (2006) {Repost} Music

Posted by Domestos at March 6, 2021

Roseanna Vitro - Live at The Kennedy Center (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 384.50 Mb + 40.99 Mb (Scans) | 01:05:17
Vocal Jazz | Country: Austria | Label: Challenge Records - CR73252

Even if she isn't atop the latest poll of jazz vocalists, Roseanna Vitro is simply one of the best in the business. This adventurous concert at the Kennedy Center, with frequent collaborator Kenny Werner on piano, features bassist Dean Johnson and drummer Tim Horner providing a potent rhythm section. Her expressive take of "Like Someone in Love" swings like mad and features Werner's daredevil soloing. Vitro's humorous side comes across in Betty Carter's sassy and seductive "Please Do Something."

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Peter Green - The Very Best Of Peter Green (1998) Music

Posted by v3122 at March 25, 2022

Peter Green - The Very Best Of Peter Green (1998)
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Wise Buy, WB 886002 | ~ 382 or 167 Mb | Scans
Blues Rock

Peter Green is regarded by some fans as the greatest white blues guitarist ever, Eric Clapton notwithstanding. Born Peter Greenbaum but calling himself Peter Green by age 15, he grew up in London's working-class East End. Green's early musical influences were Hank Marvin of the Shadows, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Freddie King, and traditional Jewish music. He originally played bass before being invited in 1966 by keyboardist Peter Bardens to play lead in the Peter B's, whose drummer was a lanky chap named Mick Fleetwood…

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Eartha Kitt - The Ultimate Collection. The Very Best of... Eartha Kitt (1996) Music

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 8, 2022

Eartha Kitt - The Ultimate Collection. The Very Best of… Eartha Kitt (1996)
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Marginal Records, MAR 038 | ~ 393 or 181 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 6.05 Mb
Vocal Jazz

Eartha Kitt was an actress, singer, and cabaret star whose mother was African American and Cherokee, and whose father was a White-American. Very busy throughout the 1950's and 1960's as a performer, Kitt was also active in social and political movements. She spoke four languages and sang in seven, which she effortlessly demonstrated in many of her cabaret performances. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world"…

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Daryl Hall & John Oates - The Very Best Of (2001) Music

Posted by v3122 at June 28, 2021

Daryl Hall & John Oates - The Very Best Of (2001)
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Camden Deluxe / RCA, 74321 828682 | ~ 501 or 181 Mb | Scans
Soft Rock / Pop Rock / Soul

There's one thing wrong with The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates, and it's minor – the promotional 12" mix of "Adult Education" is included in favor of the 7" version. This isn't a big deal and it doesn't mar what is the best overview of Hall & Oates' RCA years, the era when they became the biggest-selling duo in the history of rock…

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