The Celia Collection

Hava Nagila, man erkennt es sofort, als musikalische Blaupause für alles Jüdisches, als eine fröhliche Party-Melodie, zu der man auf Hochzeiten, Bar Mitzvahs und sogar bei Major League Baseball Spielen tanzt. Es produziert ein wehmütiges Lächeln, Erinnerungen an vergangene Generationen… Aber der Song ist viel mehr als ein kitschiges jüdisches Märchen und schlechte Bar Mitzvah Mode. Es enthält eine komplette historische Konstellation, Werte und Hoffnungen für die Zukunft. Auf seine ganz eigene »Glaub-Es-Oder-Nicht« Art und Weise, schließt »Hava Nagila« die gesamte jüdische Reise der letzten 150 Jahre ein. Es entfesselt zudem die gesamte Kraft eines Liedes, Identität ausdrücken und bewahren zu können und Lehren zwischen Generationen auszutauschen sowie kulturelle Unterschiede zu überbrücken und uns alle auf einer universellen Ebene zu vereinigen…

This four-disc, 64-track collection includes the great artists, the greatest songs, all uniquely themed to a genre…

Sam Most - Sam Most Plays Bird, Bud, Monk and Miles (1957) {2014 Japan Bethlehem Album Collection 1000 CDSOL-6138}
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© 1957, 2014 Solid Records / Bethlehem | CDSOL-6138 | LP BCP-75
Jazz / Bop / Cool / Clarinet

Reissue. Features the latest remastering. Includes a Japanese description, lyrics. Features original cover artwork. Sam Most in two wonderful settings – a large group on half the record, then a smaller combo with David Schildkraut on tenor, Bob Dorough on piano, and Tommy Potter on bass! Sam plays clarinet throughout, but uses some of the phrasing he'd be more likely to employ with a saxophone – a practice that makes the album a great showcase for Most's really unique talents on his instrument. And although the title might make you think the whole thing's a bop rehash record, the arrangements are pretty darn inventive – and really help bring new life into tunes that include "Serpent's Tooth", "Celia", "Bluebird", "Strictly Confidential", and "In Walked Bud" – especially from Sam's solos, and the trumpet work of Doug Mettome.

If 1976 was year zero for punk rock in the U.K. with the Sex Pistols and Clash blowing up and taking over the music press, 1977 was the year record shops were flooded with singles by all sorts of bands capitalizing on the sound, fury, and attitude of punk. Cherry Red's 1977: The Year Punk Broke is a chronologically chosen three-disc selection of singles that touches on some of the biggest releases of the year plus loads of tracks that still sound rough and ready by bands who didn't stand the test of time.

Donovan - Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan (2005) {3 CD + DVD5 NTSC Boxset Epic E4K 93919 rec 1964-2004}
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© 1964-2004, 2005 Epic / Legacy / Sony BMG | E4K 93919
Rock / Folk Rock / British Invasion / Psychedelic Rock / Singer/Songwriter / Psychedelic Pop

Donovan Leitch's instantly recognizable vibrato may not appear until track six, but the casual "Hurdy Gurdy Man" fan has no business picking up this four-disc/sixty-song collection of the Scottish troubadour's four decades of whimsical pop confections and beatnik balladry. Sony's Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan includes a previously unreleased documentary from 1970, a lovely book that chronicles the singer/songwriter's storied career, complete with quotes of praise from current hipster bards like Devendra Banhart and the Polyphonic Spree's Tim DeLaughter, and 15 B-sides, rare demos, and live recordings, all housed in the finest faux-purple velvet box one could imagine.