Jim L'entreinte

Gentleman Jim Reeves, an international ambassador of country music with the velvet touch, has always been enormously popular in the UK and Ireland.75 original recordings digitally re-mastered.Includes his No.1 hits He ll Have To Go , Mexican Joe , Bimbo , Billy Bayou and Four Walls .Includes all of Reeves material recorded in 1961, and more.

In the ultimately rather small club of jazz guitarists, he was an artist of his own, refusing to engage in any pyrotechnics of virtuosity. Jim Hall was even the opposite. A kind of Cantor of purity. One of the greatest Impressionists of his instrument. Never a note too much, all in finesse and silence to better serve the melody, he was the living embodiment of this formula dear to the Anglo-saxons, less is more (the least is the most). A language he will practice alongside giants such as pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, trumpeter Art Farmer, double bassist Ron Carter or singer Ella Fitzgerald … always open to new ideas, Jim Hall will work with his prestigious cadets who will claim his influence such as Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny and John Scofield.

This latest compilation of Jim's music is both interesting and valid in that it combines songs that appeared on his three hit albums with earlier compositions that were works in progress of a singer/songwriter finding his voice and an artist searching for a direction. Songs like Mississippi Lady, Stone Walls and Country Girl cast Jim as the observer/storyteller in a country music setting. King's Song and Which Way Are You Going are based on 60's social protest. Hey Tomorrow is a transitional piece that shows the beginning of the vulnerability that became the hallmark of his now classic songs. The inclusion of this early work with some much loved album cuts make this compilation both enjoyable and educational.

As a singer, writer, guitarist, producer, and engineer, Jim Messina made major contributions to music in the 1960s and 1970s as a key contributor to the Buffalo Springfield at the tail end of their history, as a co-founder of the country-rock band Poco, and as one half of Loggins & Messina. Messina was born in California in 1947, and raised in Harlingen, TX until he was eight years old. As a child, his life was divided between his mother's home in Texas and his father's home in California. His father was a semi-professional guitarist and greatly influenced his son's musical career. Messina began playing the guitar at the age of five. As time progressed, he became interested in the guitar parts on Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson records, and later acquired an interest in surf music, a natural outgrowth of living in California. He was heavily influenced by the hits of such outfits as Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, the Ventures, and the Champs. During his high-school years, he organized a group of his own called Jim Messina & the Jesters, their sound heavily indebted to that of the Ventures, Freddie King, and Duane Eddy, and they were good enough to win a string of local band competitions.

A harmonically advanced cool-toned and subtle guitarist, Jim Hall was an inspiration to many guitarists, including some (such as Bill Frisell) who sound nothing like him. He was an original member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet (1955-1956), and during 1956-1959 was with the Jimmy Giuffre Three. After touring with Ella Fitzgerald (1960-1961) and sometimes forming duos with Lee Konitz, Hall was with Sonny Rollins' dynamic quartet in 1961-1962, recording The Bridge. He co-led a quartet with Art Farmer (1962-1964), recorded on an occasional basis with Paul Desmond during 1959-1965 (all of their quartet performances are collected on a Mosaic box set), and then became a New York studio musician. In this compilation Jim Hall plays with Carl Perkins, Bill Evans and Red Mitchell.

In the summer of 1979 Jim Lauderdale made a pilgrimage to Nashville from North Carolina with two goals: to work with and befriend Roland White and George Jones, and to make a mark on the respective worlds of bluegrass and country music. While Lauderdale puts it down to luck, it was more likely fate that brought he and White together.

“…big heavy metal riffs, skronk jazz, funk, electro-fizzle and Ornette Coleman-style disembodied melodies…”

Im Alter von neunundsechzig Jahren hat Jim Byrnes einen Karrieremeilenstein verzeichnet, der angesichts seiner Geschichte mit zahlreichen Juno Awards und Maple Blues Awards unter vielen anderen Auszeichnungen viel sagt.