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Jefferson Airplane - The Worst of Jefferson Airplane (1970) [Reissue 2006]

Jefferson Airplane - The Worst of Jefferson Airplane (1970) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 328 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 125 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA/Legacy (82876 75893 2)

Its smirky title notwithstanding, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane provides a fine recap of the band's first six albums. Released in 1970 shortly before Marty Balin's initial departure from the band, the album marked not only the end of the decade but, unwittingly, the end of the group's most stable phase in terms of membership. The track selections are evenly divided among the first-generation albums; only the live Bless Its Pointed Little Head is represented by a single entry. Pains were also taken to include songs featuring lead vocalists Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. A few omissions are striking, most notably the chart single "Greasy Heart" and the signature Kantner track, "Wooden Ships"…
Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head (1969) [Reissue 2013] (Repost)

Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head (1969) [Reissue 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 373 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 176 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music/Culture Factory (88883731192)

Jefferson Airplane's first live album demonstrated the group's development as concert performers, taking a number of songs that had been performed in concise, pop-oriented versions on their early albums - "3/5's of a Mile in 10 Seconds," "Somebody to Love," "It's No Secret," "Plastic Fantastic Lover" - and rendering them in arrangements that were longer, harder rocking, and more densely textured, especially in terms of the guitar and basslines constructed by Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The group's three-part vocal harmonizing and dueling was on display during such songs as a nearly seven-minute version of Fred Neil's folk-blues standard "The Other Side of This Life," here transformed into a swirling rocker…

Jefferson Airplane - Bark (1971) [Reissue 2015]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 30, 2023
Jefferson Airplane - Bark (1971) [Reissue 2015]

Jefferson Airplane - Bark (1971) [Reissue 2015]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 320 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 56 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Iconoclassic Records (ICON 1039)

Bark, Jefferson Airplane's seventh album, was an album of firsts: it was the first Airplane album in almost two years, the first made after the arrival of violinist Papa John Creach and the departure of band founder Marty Balin, and the first to be released on the group's own Grunt Records label. It was also the first Airplane album made after the onset of that familiar rock group disease, solo career-itis. Rhythm guitarist Paul Kantner had released his Blows Against the Empire, and Hot Tuna, the band formed by lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, had released two albums since the last Airplane group release, Volunteers. Bark, perhaps as a result, was not so much a group record as a bunch of songs made by alternating solo artists with backup by the other group members…

Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off (1966) [Reissue 2013] (Repost)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 31, 2023
Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off (1966) [Reissue 2013] (Repost)

Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off (1966) [Reissue 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 220 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 71 MB | Covers - 99 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music/Culture Factory (88883734292)

The debut Jefferson Airplane album was dominated by singer Marty Balin, who wrote or co-wrote all the original material and sang most of the lead vocals in his heartbreaking tenor with Paul Kantner and Signe Anderson providing harmonies and backup. (Anderson's lead vocal on "Chauffeur Blues" indicated she was at least the equal of her successor, Grace Slick, as a belter.) The music consisted mostly of folk-rock love songs, the most memorable of which were "It's No Secret" and "Come up the Years." (There was also a striking version of Dino Valente's "Get Together" recorded years before the Youngbloods' hit version.) Jorma Kaukonen already displayed a talent for mixing country, folk, and blues riffs in a rock context, and Jack Casady already had a distinctive bass sound…

Eddie Jefferson - Letters From Home (1962) [Reissue 1987]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Nov. 14, 2023
Eddie Jefferson - Letters From Home (1962) [Reissue 1987]

Eddie Jefferson - Letters From Home (1962) [Reissue 1987]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 200 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 87 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Riverside Records (OJCCD-307-2 (RLP-9411))

This CD (which augments the original LP program with two alternate takes) is a fine showcase for vocalese master Eddie Jefferson. Backed by either a tentet or a quintet that gives solo space to altoist James Moody and the tenor of Johnny Griffin, Jefferson sings his lyrics to such numbers as "Take the 'A' Train," "Billie's Bounce," "I Cover the Waterfront," "Parker's Mood" (the latter differs from the famous lines immortalized by King Pleasure), "A Night in Tunisia," and "Body and Soul," among others. Jefferson is in prime form and these boppish renditions as a whole form a near classic.

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967) [Non-remastered]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 26, 2022
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967) [Non-remastered]

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967) [Non-remastered]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 185 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 82 MB | Covers - 29 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA Records (ND83738)

The second album by Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit like a shot heard round the world; where the later efforts from bands like the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and especially, the Charlatans, were initially not too much more than cult successes, Surrealistic Pillow rode the pop charts for most of 1967, soaring into that rarefied Top Five region occupied by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and so on, to which few American rock acts apart from the Byrds had been able to lay claim since 1964. And decades later the album still comes off as strong as any of those artists' best work. From the Top Ten singles "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to the sublime "Embryonic Journey," the sensibilities are fierce, the material manages to be both melodic and complex (and it rocks, too)…

Joss Jeffersøn - Ylem (2017)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 3, 2018
Joss Jeffersøn - Ylem (2017)

Joss Jefferson - Ylem (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 323 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 140 MB | Digital booklet
Genre: Psychedelic/Space Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Self-released

Space Rock band from Spain. Since 2017. Members of Pyramidal, Horizon, Rosy Finch and Mons.
Paul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg - Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun (1973) [Reissue 1997]

Paul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg - Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun (1973) [Reissue 1997]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 226 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 33 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA Records (07863 67418-2)

Credited to Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Freiberg, Baron von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun was the first album made by these erstwhile members of Jefferson Airplane since the breakup of that group. Like such other spin-off projects as Blows Against the Empire and Sunfighter, this one featured a supporting cast of San Francisco Bay Area musicians including present and former members of a variety of groups, such as the Grateful Dead (lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, percussionist Mickey Hart, and lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote the words to "Harp Tree Lament"), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (singer David Crosby), and the Flying Burrito Brothers (bassist Chris Ethridge), as well as other former members of the Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship…

Grace Slick - Manhole (1974) [Reissue 2011]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 6, 2019
Grace Slick - Manhole (1974) [Reissue 2011]

Grace Slick - Manhole (1974) [Reissue 2011]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 236 MB | Covers (12 MB) included
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Floating World Records (FLOATM6095)

Manhole was the last of the experimental Jefferson Airplane, and Grace Slick's first official solo album. While Bark and Long John Silver, the final stages of the original Airplane, displayed the excessive psychedelic nature of the musicians within the confines of their group format, Blows Against the Empire, Sunfighter, and Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun allowed for total artistic expression. Manhole concluded this phase with 1974's other release, the Jefferson Starship's Dragonfly. By taking the name from Paul Kantner's Blows Against the Empire solo project, Dragonfly began the renewed focus on commercial FM which would turn into Top 40 airplay. Manhole is the antithesis of that aim, but is itself a striking picture of Grace Slick as the debutante turned hippy being as musically radical as possible…

Grace Slick - Dreams (1980) [Reissue 1998]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 22, 2022
Grace Slick - Dreams (1980) [Reissue 1998]

Grace Slick - Dreams (1980) [Reissue 1998]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 284 MB | Covers - 29 MB
Genre: Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Si-Wan Records (SRMWP 1010)

Dreams was the second solo album from the Jefferson Airplane/Starship vocalist. With epic productions and arrangements by Ron Frangipane this album is something special and was nominated for a Grammy award. The album reached #32 on the Billboard charts. It also attained the number 28 position on the UK album chart.