Rory Block Blues Walkin' Like A Man A Tribute To Son House (2008)

"Working Man: A Tribute to Rush" is a tribute album to progressive rock band Rush recorded by various artists and released on Magna Carta Records in 1996. The album was mixed by original Rush producer Terry Brown at Town Music Studios in Toronto, Canada. Mike Portnoy was the main creative consultant.

As far as tribute albums go, this homage to seminal Canadian rockers Rush is hard to beat. For one thing, Magna Carta has made an inspired decision to have each song recorded by an all-star lineup rather than letting one band handle all the chores (with one exception - Fates Warning get sole credit for "Closer to the Heart"). Often projects of this magnitude are doomed to failure from the start as a result of inadequate rehearsing, a shoestring budget, and sometimes a lack of talent capable of handling the songs with the respect they deserve. Working Man is a rare instance of everything going right. Terry Brown has done an incredible mixing job considering nearly all of the songs were recorded in different studios. The musicianship rivals the original versions - occasionally besting them, particularly where the vocals are concerned…

'Still On The Road To Freedom' contains 13 new Alvin Lee songs in a journey all it's own, traveling from On The Road To Freedom, back to the '50s, up to present day, then arriving fill circle to Love Like A Man, A Ten Years After classic. In 1972, after Woodstock catapulted Ten Years After into the rock arenas, Alvin Lee decided to take the road to freedom rather than the road to fame and fortune. In 1973, he recorded his first solo work, 'On The Road To Freedom', with Mylon Lefevre. It was a major change in Alvin's work with TYA as that it wasn't just a hard driven rock/blues album, but a collection of introspective songs with acoustic guitars and strong melodies.

Mellow Records' Gentle Giant tribute album, Giant for a Life, is something of a mixed bag. Containing everything from attempts at note-perfect copies (most of them) to imaginative rearrangements (Raymond Benson's solo piano take on Think Of Me With Kindness, for example). Some of the bands are not too well known, but all are talented. Nice tribute but the originals are still better!

Gil Evans - There Comes a Time (1975) {2014 Japan Jazz Collection 1000 Columbia-RCA Series SICP 4045}
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© 1975, 2014 RCA / Sony Music Japan | SICP 4045
Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Modern Post-Bebop / Experimental Big Band

Reissue with latest remastering. Comes with liner notes. There Comes a Time is an album by the jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper. So, in a rather silent way, we've got a FULL version of this album. There Comes A Time comes not only with a 3 bonus tracks (that are marked jsut modestly somewhere on the obi), but with a full, over 19-minutes version of "The Meaning Of The Blues", that originaly take not even 6 minutes. Absolute must for a fusion fan, great guitar solos by Kawasaki ("There Comes A Time" sounds like a hell of tribute to Mahavishnu Orchestra) and horns.