Exhaustive 30 CD collection from the Jazz legend's short-lived label. Contains 44 original albums (421 tracks) plus booklet. Every record-collector has run across an album with the little sax-playing bird in it's label-logo, right next to the brand name Charlie Parker Records or CP Parker Records. Turning the sleeve over, especially if it was one of the non-Parker releases, and seeing a '60s release date under the header Stereo-pact! Was as exciting an experience as it was confusing. Was the claim Bird Lives meant more literally than previously thought?
Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music–influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements…
Early Pink Floyd recordings make space travel superfluous so long as we have keyboards here on Earth. Compilation, Unofficial Release. 1966 - 1994, Rare, B-Sides, Demos and never released material…
A rather confusing budget release, Legacy of the Blues, Vol. 10 collects ten tracks from the singer, seemingly from the latter part of Boyd's career (the lack of decent liner notes is a problem), although the rather arbitrary song selection means that the overall release lacks any kind of cohesiveness. This release does contain classics such as "I'm a Fool" and "Dedication to My Baby," but it's certainly not a good introduction to the artist, nor a release that would attract Boyd's hardcore fans. Boyd's available back catalog is in dire need of an overhaul, but unfortunately releases such as this simply add to the confusion.
Chanteuse Patricia Kaas was born in France's Lorraine region, where she began performing as a youth; by age 11, she even held a residency at the Rumpelkammer Club in Sarrebrucken, Germany, over time honing a distinct style updating the French chanson tradition with elements of pop, blues and jazz. Scoring her first national hit in 1987 with "Mademoiselle Chante le Blues," Kaas was named Female Newcomer of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique, and her debut album Mademoiselle Chante earned platinum status in France, Belgium and Switzerland; the follow-up, Scene de Vie, topped the French charts for three months…