Papa Lightfoot & Sammy Myers-The complete 50's recordings of two of the toughest harp players of all times. Papa Lightfoot recorded for the Imperial, Alladin and Savoy labels (among others) and these are some of the most amazing examples of post war, electric harmonica ever recorded. His version of ''When The Saints Go Marching In'' is utterly astounding! Sam Myers has made a name in contemporary blues through his work with Anson Funderburgh. These recordings from the Rex, Ace, and Fire/Fury labels are low down examples of his mastery. Many of these cuts feature Elmore James and his band. There are no dull moments here.

It took Columbia Records two years after signing Paul Revere & the Raiders to release this label-debut LP. In the interim, the group had released a string of singles that were only regional successes in the Northwest. Producer Bob Johnston had taken them into the studio to try to recreate their dynamic live show before an invited audience, but Columbia sat on the results until the group's coming residency on ABC-TV's Where the Action Is prompted this release. The first side of the album displays the Raiders as the raucous club band they were, grinding through R&B dance tunes like "You Can't Sit Down" and "Oo Poo Pah Doo." The second side previews their evolution into more of a pop group in the mid-'60s, although with songs like "Fever," it still retains something of their early R&B flavor.

If any one performer personified the outlaw country movement of the '70s, it was Waylon Jennings. Though he had been a professional musician since the late '50s, it wasn't until the '70s that Waylon, with his imposing baritone and stripped-down, updated honky tonk, became a superstar.

PHYLLIS NELSON was an American R&B/Dance singer and songwriter from Gary, Indiana who found fame in the UK in the 1980's after recording and performing predominantly disco and dance music with modest success since the mid 1970's. Nelson first hit the charts in 1980 when her single ‘Stop The Rain’ reached #20 on Billboard's disco chart.

Goblin Market, a melodrama – a spoken narration with musical accompaniment – is a superb example of Aaron Jay Kernis' gift for almost recklessly profligate inventiveness. Christina Rossetti's mysterious, very long 1859 poem "Goblin Market" (it's over 550 lines) is notable for its vividly pictorial, sensual (and sometimes unambiguously sexual) imagery. The story of two little Victorian girls, sisters, and their nearly fatal misadventures with a band of goblins, comes across as …….

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As one of America's most honored young composers, Aaron Jay Kernis received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition (2002) for this cello and orchestra version of Colored Field as well as the Grammy Award nominations for both Air and Second Symphony. The main work on this album, Colored Field …..

Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa, born in 1955, received most of his training in the West, studying with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber in Germany and at the Darmstadt Institute, and he brings a Japanese aesthetic sensibility to the techniques of modernism. Most of the music on this album is notable for its somber, atmospheric tone, a prevailing sense of virtual stasis, and its delicate, finely calibrated scoring. Three of the four pieces feature ……

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A companion to Jan Lehtola’s previous recording of Kalevi Aho’s monumental organ symphony ‘Alles Vergängliche’, the present disc includes five smaller pieces by Aho for organ solo, as well as three compositions for organ and one or two other instruments. First performed at the wedding of his sister, the two brief wedding marches were the first pieces that Aho wrote for the organ, and like the later Wedding Music they are kept in a tonal idiom – as the ……

Recorded on July 2, 1977 in Hallenstadion, Zurich Switzerland, this is a COMPLETE show from the Wind & Wuthering tour. It is the next to last performance of Steve Hackett with Genesis…