Phil Kaye

Carol Kaye - Picking Up On The E-String (1995) {Self Released}

Carol Kaye - Picking Up On The E-String (1995) {Self Released}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+M3U | Scans 300dpi | 173MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 89MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Fusion

Carol Kaye is an American musician, who is one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye began playing guitar in her early teens and subsequently performed regularly on the Los Angeles jazz and big band circuit. She started playing sessions in 1957, and through a connection at Gold Star Studios began working for producers Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. After a bassist failed to turn up to a session in 1963, she switched to that instrument, quickly making a name for herself as one of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, playing on numerous hits. She moved into playing on film soundtracks in the late 1960s, particularly for Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin, and began to release a series of tuition books such as How To Play The Electric Bass.

Date & Time (Button Poetry)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at Feb. 25, 2024
Date & Time (Button Poetry)

Phil Kaye, "Date & Time (Button Poetry)"
English | 2018 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1943735360 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
Ronnie Foster - On the Avenue (1974) [Japanese Remastered Reissue 2013]

Ronnie Foster - On the Avenue (1974) [Japanese Remastered 2013]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 238 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Scans included
Jazz-Funk, Fusion | Label: Blue Note/Toshiba-EMI | # TOCJ-50541 | Time: 00:34:40

Though not as relentlessly funky as his classic Blue Note debut Two Headed Freap, On the Avenue remains the most accomplished record of Ronnie Foster's career, proving commercial aspirations and accoutrements can indeed co-exist alongside traditional jazz sensibilities. Produced by George Benson and featuring the great Phil Upchurch on guitar and Marvin Chapell on drums, On the Avenue favors more mellow, nuanced grooves over the blistering funk of previous Foster outings. The velvety opener "Serenade to a Rock" and the title cut both draw heavily on Stevie Wonder's classic mid-'70s recordings, with a lithe cover of the Innervisions track "Golden Lady" further underlining the influence. Foster also expands his palette to include Afro-Cuban sounds ("Big Farm Boy Goes to a Latin City") and even assumes vocal duties for the first time on LP with "To See a Smile." Best of all is his rendition of Freddie Hubbard's "First Light"; arguably Foster's purest and most potent performance to date.
Dusty Springfield - Beautiful Soul: The ABC/Dunhill Collection (2001)

Dusty Springfield - Beautiful Soul: The ABC/Dunhill Collection (2001)
Pop/Rock, R&B, Blue-Eyed Soul | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:04:22 h. | 415,55 Mb
Label: Hip-O Records (USA) | Cat.# 088 112 477-2 | Released: 2001-02-06 (1973/1974)

"Beautiful Soul" collects tracks from Springfield's 1973 "Cameo" album, along with the entirety of its previously unreleased follow-up "Longing". The "Cameo" tracks are produced by then-hot songwriting team Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and they're done in the same pop/soul style the pair employed with the Four Tops at the time. Highlights include "Who Gets Your Love," a mid-tempo teaser that became a modest hit, and a spectacularly soulful version of Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey." The "Longing" tracks, some of which were to some degree unfinished, are a bit more wide-ranging stylistically. Among the best are the haunting, minor-key "Exclusively for Me," on which Springfield does a lovely impression of its co-author, ex-Zombies singer Colin Blunstone," and "A Love Like Yours," a lesser-known Motown song that she re-recorded for her 1977 album "It Begins Again".

Dionne Warwick - Love At First Sight (1977) [2000, Japan]  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Nov. 15, 2022
Dionne Warwick - Love At First Sight (1977) [2000, Japan]

Dionne Warwick - Love At First Sight (1977) [2000, Japan]
R&B, Soul/Funk, Pop, Ballad | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 35:39 | 506,41 Mb
Label: Warner Music Japan Inc. (Japan) | Cat.# WPCR-10659 | Released: 2000-03-23 (1977)

Produced by the hit production team of Steve Barri and Michael Omartian (Rhythm Heritage's #1 pop hit "Theme from S.W.A.T,"), Dionne Warwick's 1977 Warner Bros. LP "Love at First Sight" came closest in pop ethics to her earlier sides on Scepter. Serving as a reminder of those days is the wispy ballad "Do I Have to Cry" and the perky "Early Morning Strangers," which were co-written by Hal David, who co-wrote Warwick's '60s and early-'70s hit classics with Burt Bacharach. The upbeat first single, "Do You Believe in Love at First Sight," was one of the catchier tracks off the singer's '70s records. However, the cornerstone of the LP was the atmospheric "Don't Ever Take Your Love Away," co-written by Issac Hayes. The Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil charmer "Long Way to Go" is closest in theme to Warwick's favorite song, "Windows of the World."
VA - America's Greatest Hits 1950 (Expanded Edition) (4CD, 2020)

VA - America's Greatest Hits 1950 (Expanded Edition) (4CD, 2020)
FLAC tracks | 4:57:39 | 772 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock, Oldies, R&B, Jazz / Label: Acrobat

We continue our highly popular and successful America’s Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, now reaching the point at the turn of the decade, this time with an expanded 4-CD edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1950 edition (ACRCD176) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 104-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Honor Roll Of Hits and the Top 10 in the Cash Box chart during 1951. It omits certain records which peaked in 1951and which have already appeared in our America’s Greatest Hits 1951 collection and some which were big hits in 1949, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection. As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year and all the biggest names in American pop of that era, at a time when the USA was emerging from post-war austerity into a more optimistic decade but was about to become embroiled in the Korean War, and it very much captures the spirit of the times. It also includes a number of lesser known records which are not heard very often and which have not been readily available on CD. As always, it includes a substantial 15,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and it’s a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies.
VA - The Golden Age Of American Sweet Bands - Happy Days Are Here Again - 101 Original Memories (2002)

VA - The Golden Age Of American Sweet Bands - Happy Days Are Here Again - 101 Original Memories (2002)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 730 MB
5:00:57 | Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening |Label: Jasmine

The so-called Great Swing Band Era is generally considered to have started in 1935 when Benny Goodman, playing at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21 and tiring of what he described as 'mundane' dance music, moved his band into high gear and gave out with some Fletcher Henderson arrangements. Quoting saxophonist Hymie Schertzer, "The place exploded." and Goodman was proclaimed 'King of Swing'. But back in the Twenties there were great bands that played good swingy numbers, bands like those of Whiteman, Goldkette, Waring, Weems, Olsen and Lopez (to name but a few), although the 'swing' wasn't quite the same. The rhythm could often seem a little jerky and sometimes rather on the frantic side. Repertoires were laced with novelty tunes which were much in demand. But who cared? It was the 'Jazz Age', the 'Flapper Era' (take your pick) and everyone was hell-bent on having a good time, making whoopee.

VA - America's Greatest Hits 1947 (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 5, 2021
VA - America's Greatest Hits 1947 (2021)

VA - America's Greatest Hits 1947 (2021)
MP3 320 kbps | 04:49:59 | 604 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock, Jazz, Soul / Label: Acrobat Records

We continue our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1947, the seventh full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart – the chart was launched in July 1940 – and the third year to feature both a Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Disc Jockeys charts as well. This great value 98-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart or in the Top 7 of the Juke Box or Disc Jockey charts during the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1946, and so are included in our existing 194 collection.
The Chi-Lites - Happy Being Lonely (1976) & The Fantastic Chi-Lites (1977) [2010, Remastered Reissue]

The Chi-Lites - Happy Being Lonely (1976) & The Fantastic Chi-Lites (1977) [2010, Remastered Reissue]
R&B, Soul/Funk, Disco | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:16:24 | 544,05 Mb
Label: SoulMusic Records (UK) | Cat.# SMCR2 5004 | Released: 2010-11-16 (1976/1977)

This set collects two of the Chi-Lites' later-era LPs, 1976’s "Happy Being Lonely" and 1977’s "The Fantastic Chi-Lites", on a single disc. The group was pretty much past its sell-by date at this point and beset with frequent personnel changes, although both of these albums are surprisingly pleasant and poignant at points even if they didn’t yield any big hits.

VA - Vintage Children's Favourites (1926 - 1950) (2001)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 13, 2022
VA - Vintage Children's Favourites (1926 - 1950) (2001)

VA - Vintage Children's Favourites (1926 - 1950) (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 264 MB
1:16:33 | Children's Music, NoveltyVocal Group, Traditional Country, Music Hall, Traditional Pop | Label: Asv Living Era

This cd is chock full of tunes you may remember from when you were a child. Chances are that many of them were already vintage tunes even then. But try to find a good recording of Teddy Bear's Picnic and Ragtime Cowboy Joe. The recordings range from the '20s to the '50s, and it's interesting to see how much we have lost in children's music. Nostalgic and fun.