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The Doobie Brothers - The Doobie Brothers 1971
The Beatles - Let It Be 1969
Exponent - Upside Down 1974
Hopney - Cosmic Rockout 1977
Carolyn Franklin - Chain Reaction 1970
Pat Martino - El Hombre 1967
Anonymous - Inside the Shadow 1976
Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis 1969
The sister duo of Wendy Flower and Bonnie Flower (their real names, not aliases), Wendy & Bonnie recorded one album in the late '60s. Genesis is pleasant if naïve, harmonized light rock with psychedelic, jazz, and folk influences. It is impressive given their tender ages -- Wendy Flower was just 17, and Bonnie Flower only 13, when it was recorded in late 1968, and the pair wrote all of the material on the LP.
The Flowers grew up in a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area, and prior to recording on their own, did a couple of garage-psychedelic singles as part of Crystal Fountain; Wendy sang lead, and Bonnie played drums. Jazz star Cal Tjader put them to the attention of a jazz label he recorded for, Skye, which made the Wendy & Bonnie LP its lone venture into rock. Genesis was pretty sparsely produced, the arrangements highlighting their harmonies and pensive paisley tunes, but did benefit from backing by some top Los Angeles session musicians, including drummer Jim Keltner and guitarist Larry Carlton.
The album was released in 1969, but stalled when Skye Records folded the following year. The death of producer Gary McFarland in 1971 further discouraged the duo. Although they did sing backup vocals on a couple of Tjader albums and some jingles and background vocals at Fantasy Records, they never recorded their own material again, and broke up in the early '70s. They did perform music separately in the subsequent decades, Wendy Flower issuing a children's music cassette, and Bonnie Flower once rejecting an invitation to join the Bangles. The rare Genesis album was reissued with bonus tracks by Sundazed in 2001. AMG.
listen hereThe Blues Right Off - Our Bluesbag 1970
Quincy Jones - Body Heat 1974
Steeplechase - Lady Bright 1970
Produced by Eddie Kramer, a hard-edged rock outfit from New York, strongly influenced by Uriah Heep, with lots of guitar/keyboard interplay and good vocals. All their material was penned by the group members (Radicello, Spinella, and Parrish) and some tracks are quite good, notably Wrought Iron Man and Lady Bright, this one with the guitar of Kim King (from Lothar and The Hand People) who also engineered the album. Single albums from Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York City). The album's sound engineer and producer was Eddie Kramer, who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Blue Cheer, Family, The Nice, Led Zeppelin (5 albums), Kiss, Peter Frampton, David Bowie, and others... In addition, he and his team recorded the entire 1969 Woodstock Festival. He was also the creator and first director of Electric Lady Studios.
listen hereHarold Johnson Sextet - House On Elm Street 1967
Sunday - Sunday 1971
quinta-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2023
Paul Brett - Clocks 1974
b. England. A former guitarist with 60s psych-pop bands Tintern Abbey and Velvet Opera, Brett left the latter unit to record with Fire, a cultishly popular combo that featured Dave Lambert, a future member of the Strawbs. Fire’s original bass player, Dick DuFall, and drummer, Bob Voice, then broke off to join Brett in his own group, Paul Brett’s Sage, which also featured guitarist Stuart Cowell. This unit recorded three strong albums for the Pye Records subsidiary Dawn at the start of the 70s. Brett then embarked on a singer-songwriter career, recording prolifically throughout the 70s and honing a tasteful yet accomplished style centered around his 12-string guitar work. He was regularly joined by members of the Strawbs. A 1974 collection, Clocks, is arguably his best-remembered album, but as the decade progressed so his work became increasingly less exciting. His 1980 recording Romantic Guitar proved popular enough to rack up gold sales status.
During the following decade, Brett opted out of recording to concentrate on production and managerial work but returned to an active music career in the late 90s recording for his Fretdancer label, sometimes in combination with fellow guitarist (and former Velvet Opera bandmate) John Joyce. AMG.
listen heresexta-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2023
The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons 1967
Calvin Keane - Calvin Keane 1976
Linda Jones - Your Precious Love 1972
R&B singer Linda Jones earned a cult following for her fervent, gospel-influenced style and powerful vocal acrobatics, and she's still celebrated by soul music fans despite her career being cut down prematurely at the age of 27. Linda Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey on December 14, 1944; her family was steeped in gospel music, and at the age of six she began performing with her siblings in a sacred group, the Jones Singers. As a teenager, Jones began performing rhythm & blues music, and cut her first solo record under the name Linda Lane in 1963, a cover of "Lonely Teardrops," but the record sank without a trace.
Linda's fortunes improved when she met George Kerr, a producer and songwriter who had been a member of Little Anthony & the Imperials. The first two singles Kerr produced for Linda Jones (one on Atco, the other on Blue Cat) fared no better, but in 1967 they landed a deal with Loma Records, an R&B imprint of Warner Bros., and her first 45 for the label, "Hypnotized," was a hit, rising to number 21 on the Pop Singles charts and number four on the Rhythm & Blues survey. The single prompted the release of Jones' first album, also called Hypnotized, and Jones' follow-up, "What've I Done (To Make You Mad)," was a Top Ten hit on the R&B charts, but struggled to 61 on the Pop listings, and 1968's "Give My Love a Try" was a greater disappointment, struggling to number 34 R&B and a dismal number 93 on Pop. While "Hypnotized" found Jones taking a relatively subtle approach to her music, her subsequent sides captured her forceful, melismatic style at full strength, and though soul purists (especially Northern soul collectors in the U.K.) treasured her records, she was a bit too much for Top 40 to take, and Jones would never have another major pop hit.In 1968, Warner Bros. shut down Loma and briefly bumped Jones up to their flagship label, but after one single, Jones was a free agent again, and she briefly recorded for Neptune Records, an early label run by Philly soul legends Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. In 1971, Jones landed a new deal with Turbo Records, an offshoot of Sylvia Robinson's All Platinum label, and in 1972, Jones enjoyed her greatest success in four years when her forceful, gospel-leaning cover of Jerry Butler's "For Your Precious Love" made its way on the R&B charts, peaking at number 15, and even enjoying some Pop airplay, where it rose to number 72. Sadly, Jones' comeback would be short-lived. Jones, who struggled with diabetes, toured hard in support of "For Your Precious Love," and she was booked to play two shows at New York's famed Apollo Theater on March 14, 1972. After a matinee performance, Jones went to her mother's house in Newark to eat dinner and take a nap before playing her evening show, but when her mother tried to wake her, she discovered Linda had slipped into a diabetic coma; she died shortly afterwards. Turbo released a pair of posthumous albums following Jones' unexpected death, and in 2014, Real Gone Music released The Complete Atco-Loma-Warner Brothers Recordings, bringing together the bulk of her recordings of the '60s. AMG.
listen herequarta-feira, 13 de dezembro de 2023
Barry Miles - Scatbird 1972
Barry Miles is an American musician and composer from New Jersey. Miles's talent showed itself at an early age and he was presented as a child prodigy on some of the same shows that the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane appeared on. He made his first solo jazz record in 1961 as a drummer and composer at only 14 years old. After Princeton University he focused more on piano and ways of mixing different styles of music with jazz in an improvisational manner, which resulted in a live recording presenting his 'syncretic' approach to music.
As the 60's passed Miles started to incorporate more influence from rock and roll and electric piano, which soon developed into a familiar sound of fusion and Miles's records were one of the pioneers of the genre. On the records he worked with his brother Terry Silverlight and on some like 'White Heat' from 1971 featured John Abercrombie. Overall his solo career perhaps got less attention because besides being a music director he was also maybe known more as a prolific studio musician on many albums, and the studio work Miles is probably best known for is playing keyboards and co-producing records of Al Di Meola.
listen hereEmergency - Entrance 1972
The band recorded two jazz-rock records with brass arrangements for CBS. 'Emergency' (1971) and in 1972 'Entrance' with a changed line-up.
In the summer of '72, the band split up, only to be reformed in December of the same year with a completely new line-up: Berka, Peter Bischof (ex-Orange Peel, lead vocals), Richard Palmer-James (ex-King Crimson lyricist, guitar& vocals) Jerzy Ziembrowski (bass), Veit Marvos (ex-2066 &Then, keyboards), Martin Harrison (percussion) and Bernd Knaak (drums). The new line-up secured a record deal with Brain and recorded two commercially oriented records 'Get Out To the Country' (1973) and 'No Compromise' (1974) the last again with a changed line-up. Both records present jazz-rock with blues and soul elements. Afterward, the band folded for good. progarchives.com/ listen here
James Brown - Live At The Apollo, 1962 (1963)
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