Sam Cooke Portrait of a Legend

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend (2003) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 79:26 minutes | 1,36 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

From his teenage debut as a full fledged member of the legendary Soul Stirrers in 1951 through his career as a rhythm and blues phenomenon, Sam Cooke is acknowledged as the progenitor of soul music. His hit songs, most of which he wrote, went on to become pop standards, enduring to this day. Sam Cooke's amazing body of work is now encapsulated in Sam Cooke: Portrait of A Legend: 1951-1964. It includes 30 tracks and is part of ABKCO's Sam Cooke Remastered Collection, an initiative to offer state of the art editions of restored and remastered. The songs included into Portrait Of A Legend collectively logged 273 weeks or five years and three months on Billboard's Pop Chart and a mind boggling 508 weeks (nine years and nine months) on the Pop and R&B charts, combined.

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003)  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Feb. 27, 2023
Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003)

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003)
R&B, Soul, Black Gospel, Cha-Cha | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (TIF) | 01:19:22 | 524,91 Mb
Label: ABKCO (USA) | Cat.# 92642 | Released: 2003-06-17 (1951-1964)

Some 46 years after his first pop hit, and 39 years after his death, comes only the second attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA's early-'80s The Man and His Music, going it better in running time but losing some important recordings "That's Heaven to Me" and "Soothe Me," arguably one of Cooke's most important songs in the process of summing up his career. From 1951's Soul Stirrers' gospel classic "Touch the Hem of His Garment" through to 1964's "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Shake," we get highlights of Cooke's career presented in state-of-the-art digital audio; superior in every way possible to the audio quality of The Man and His Music.
Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (Remastered) (2003/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (Remastered) (2003/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Front Cover | Time -83:16 minutes | 1,65 GB
Soul | Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., Official Digital Download

From Sam Cooke's teenage debut as a full fledged member of the legendary Soul Stirrers in 1951 through his career as a rhythm and blues phenomenon thanks to the recordings for which he is acknowledged as the progenitor of soul music.

Sam Cooke - Keep Movin' On (2001) PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at May 2, 2024
Sam Cooke - Keep Movin' On (2001) PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Sam Cooke - Keep Movin' On (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:50 minutes | Scans included | 1,89 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,68 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 765 MB

This 23-song rarities compilation stands in Sam Cooke's output roughly where the four posthumous LPs released by Otis Redding stand in his catalog, with the major difference that Cooke's work included far fewer leftovers and sides that were justified simply by being available – he seemed to throw a special effort into almost everything that ever recorded, and that goes double for this disc's content, which encompasses the final year of his recording career.
Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (Remastered) (1964/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (Remastered) (1964/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 33:31 minutes | 627 MB
Soul | Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., Official Digital Download

This album, which was sadly to be Sam Cooke's last, found him exercising a hard-won creative freedom to fine effect. You can hear it most clearly in the moving, socially relevant ballad 'A Change Is Gonna Come.
Frank Lacy & Mingus Big Band - Mingus Sings (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Frank Lacy & Mingus Big Band - Mingus Sings (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 73:12 minutes | 1,53 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Charles Mingus was a composer whose music spoke volumes without words. It was a rare thing to hear lyrics along with his highly wrought and incredibly emotive compositions, though Mingus had the heart of a poet, as can be seen in his song titles alone. However, there were projects where Mingus added lyrics to his compositional voice, using either his poetry or that of others. On Ku-umba Frank Lacy and Mingus Big Band’s Mingus Sings, the tremendous repertory ensemble directed by Mingus’s widow, Sue Mingus, has recorded an album of pieces that put vocals front and center, led in part by the triumphant voice of Ku-umba Frank Lacy.