This album is smooth and mellow with a jazzy feel. The album has a diverse array of music. Track #1 ("You Can Leave Your Hat On") is perfect when you want to get frisky with your lover. When you want to relax with your significant other, put this CD in your player and play track #2 "You Are So Beautiful." This is a wonderful album. It has all my favorite Joe Cocker songs. "Have A Little Faith In Me" is my most favorite Joe Cocker song. Hollywood has even used this song in Look Who's Talking, Now. This album is full of love and support songs. Every song can bring you closer to you loved one. His voice is soothing. His voice is unique, but I think you could call this album a "make-out" CD. This album would fall under the same category as Barry White without the deep bass voice. This album has the same feel. (Review from Amazon)
Calling something "The Ultimate Collection" is fraught with problems – usually of omission. Certainly over these two discs – containing a total of 30 tracks – there are plenty of fine moments from some of Joe Cocker's earliest material, such as "The Letter," "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Delta Lady," "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window," etc. Also present are virtually all of his later hits and some that should have been: "Up Where We Belong," "You Are So Beautiful," "Many Rivers to Cross," "Leave Your Hat On," etc. But there's just too much that isn't here. Where are "Bird on a Wire" and "Hitchcock Railway," for starters? Nonetheless, given the length of Cocker's career, this is not an unusual complaint. One thing that is unique about this set – other than the fine sound – is the sequencing that crisscrosses over the breadth and chronology of Cocker's discography.
Rock ballad - type of song in rock music, which is a slow, melodic lyrical song. Ballads are not considered a separate genre in rock, as they recorded a group of almost any genre. The term "ballad" dates back to the eponymous poetic genre, but retains little connection with him. Ballade in the classical meaning close to the epic: it is a short story told in verse. Among the fans there is a tradition to light candles or lighters in the performance of ballads, and shake them to the beat of the song. Forbidding rockers in an instant become thin-skinned romantics. Songs that cause a lot of memories and emotions. This distribution represents eight disk other than rock ballads from distant nineties. Made-disc collections - Sweden.
A smooth playing New Orleans clarinetist, Jimmie Noone first made his mark as a bandleader at Chicago's Apex Club in the early 1920s with his impressive Apex Club Orchestra, and he prefigured in many ways later clarinet-playing bandleaders like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. This comprehensive four-disc, 100-track set spans Noone's entire recording career, beginning with his 1923 session with the Harmony Syncopators and ending with his final session in 1943 with the Capitol Jazzmen, and includes two versions of Noone's signature tune, "Sweet Lorraine," as well as two versions of the swirling "Apex Blues" and a zippy take on "Sweet Georgia Brown"…