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B.B.King - Live in Africa (2009) Music

Posted by robi62 at April 24, 2014

In 1974, B.B. King brought the blues back to Africa. Invited to take part in the three-day music festival which featured the legendary boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, King played before a crowd of over 80,000 Africans and delivered a performance considered by many to be one of the greatest of his phenomenal career. B.B. King filled the night with his raw power, searing energy and heart stopping emotion.

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Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing (1928-1949) [2008, 20CD Box Set] Music

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 15, 2010

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The Anita Kerr Orchestra & Singers - The Five Classic Warner Brothers Albums 1966-68 (2016) 5CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 4, 2025

Having made an enormous contribution to the establishment of the Nashville Sound and the modernisation of country music, Anita Kerr felt the need to expand her artistic horizons and in 1965, made the move from Nashville to Hollywood. She wanted to work with different people, to get her own songs recorded, to play jazz, to conduct an orchestra, to take on more ambitious and more varied projects musically, and to form a vocal group which, rather than be confined to studio sessions, might also appear in club and concert settings. Her arrival on the West Coast was well timed. She had just fought off The Beatles to win a Grammy for the album We Dig Mancini and she was quickly able to assemble a stellar Anita Kerr Singers (B.J Baker: alto, Gene Merlino: tenor; Bob Tebow: bass, with Anita herself as soprano and soloist) and secure a contract more tailored to her needs with Warner Brothers. The result over the next two years, were these five superbly fashioned albums.

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Dinah Washington - Queen of the Juke Box "Live" 1949-1955 (2000) Music

Posted by gribovar at March 5, 2019

Dinah Washington - Queen of the Juke Box "Live" 1949-1955 (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 202 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Baldwin Street Music (BJH-310)

Anointed "Queen of the Blues" by Leonard Feather, Dinah Washington made a number of live performances during the height of her career at New York's Birdland, Royal Roost, and Basin Street clubs. These performances, along with a couple of cuts from the soundtrack to the Harlem Variety Review, have been captured by Ted Ono's Baldwin Street Music label. During this period, many of Washington's recordings consistently appeared at the top of the R&B charts, although it wasn't until her breakthrough "What a Difference a Day Makes" that she made it to the pop charts. The first performance on this CD is from 1948 with Dizzy Gillespie & the Orchestra and the last is from 1955 with Wynton Kelly…

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Charlie Parker - The Complete Live Performances on Savoy 1947-1950 (1998) Music

Posted by Bezz at Oct. 27, 2011

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Charlie Parker - The Complete Live Performances on Savoy 1947-1950 (1998) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 20, 2021

Charlie Parker - The Complete Live Performances on Savoy 1947-1950 (1998)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
4CD | Savoy Jazz, SVY-17021-24 | ~ 891 or 651 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 6.41 Mb
Jazz / Bop

This four-CD set contains a somewhat streamlined presentation of Parker's complete known live broadcasts from New York's Royal Roost, dating during 1948 and 1949, augmented with five of the live September 29, 1947, Carnegie Hall recordings and one lower-quality tape made in Chicago during 1950…

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Mahalia Jackson - Christmas Songs by Mahalia Jackson (2018) Music

Posted by varrock at Nov. 23, 2018

Mahalia Jackson - Christmas Songs by Mahalia Jackson (2018)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | Tracks: 15 | 46:47 min | 109 Mb
Style: Jazz, Blues, Soul, Christmas | Label: White Christmas Records

General critical consensus holds Mahalia Jackson as the greatest gospel singer ever to live; a major crossover success whose popularity extended across racial divides, she was gospel's first superstar, and even decades after her death remains, for many listeners, a defining symbol of the music's transcendent power. With her singularly expressive contralto, Jackson continues to inspire the generations of vocalists who follow in her wake; among the first spiritual performers to introduce elements of blues into her music, she infused gospel with a sensuality and freedom it had never before experienced, and her artistry rewrote the rules forever. Born in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans on October 16, 1911, Jackson made her debut in the children's choir of the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church at the age of four, and within a few years was a prominent member of the Mt. Moriah Baptist's junior choir. Raised next door to a sanctified church, she was heavily influenced by their brand of gospel, with its reliance on drums and percussion over piano; another major inspiration was the blues of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.

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V.A. - Stephen Sondheim – The Story So Far... (4CDs, 2008) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at July 11, 2017

V.A. - Stephen Sondheim – The Story So Far… (4CDs, 2008)
Musical theatre | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 696 Mb
Label: Masterworks Broadway / Legacy

From West Side Story and Gypsy to Into the Woods and The Frogs , here's the first set to cross the whole career of Broadway's foremost living composer/lyricist! Along the way you'll dig into a treasure chest of unreleased tracks (33 including 12 performed by Sondheim, pieces from eight un-produced shows and films, songs cut from Company, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music and more) plus Everything's Coming Up Roses Ethel Merman; Comedy Tonight Zero Mostel; A Parade in Town Angela Lansbury; (If You Can Find Me) I'm Here Anthony Perkins; I'm Still Here Carol Burnett; Children Will Listen Bernadette Peters; Finishing the Hat Mandy Patinkin, and more.

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Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall Allen - Live at Babylon (Deluxe Edition) (2021) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 22, 2021

Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall Allen - Live at Babylon (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) - 683 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 244 MB
01:44:58 | Jazz | Label: IN+OUT Records

Bandleader, composer, arranger, keyboard player, poet, philosopher, and cosmonaut Sun Ra advanced jazz into the space age. Through his elaborate concerts, films, and countless recordings, he fused imagery and mythology related to ancient Egypt as well as science fiction, planting the seeds for what would eventually be referred to as Afrofuturism. Ra's music encompassed nearly every style of jazz, with roots in ragtime and swing to bebop and avant-garde jazz.

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The Small Back Room (1949) [The Criterion Collection #441 - Out Of Print] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 8, 2015

After the lavish Technicolor spectacle of The Red Shoes, British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger retreated into the inward, shadowy recesses of this moody, crackling character study. Based on the acclaimed novel by Nigel Balchin, The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar), who, while struggling with a complex relationship with secretary girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Byron), is hired by the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon. Deftly mixing suspense and romance, The Small Back Room is an atmospheric, post–World War II gem.

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