Jimmy Reed
The Best of [ CD - released 4/Apr/2013 ] |
Lou Reed
The Essential Lou Reed [ Sony / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] One of the most important figures to emerge from the New York art & music movement of the 1960s & 70s, Lou Reed has influenced generations of musicians. The principal songwriter and guitar player in experimental group The Velvet Underground, a band... |
Lou Reed
Perfect Day - The Best of Lou Reed [ Sony & BMG Music / 2 CD - released 23/Mar/2009 ] Packaged in a slimline jewel case, this specially priced 2CD set features 36 best known tracks from Lou Reed. |
Lou Reed
Transformer (Gold Series) [ Sony / CD - released 6/Jul/2018 ] |
VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Blossom Dearie, Gloria DeHaven, Tammy Grimes, Anthony Perkins, Rex Reed, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1992 ] Vladimir Dukelsky entered this world in 1903 and is certainly one of the most underrated composers in all of The Great American Songbook. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Opera) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Jean Hindmarsh / John Reed / Donald Adams / New Symphony Orchestra / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "The 1960 Godfrey set of this opera is very special indeed, and HMS Pinafore is in our view the finest of all the D'Oyly Carte analogue stereo recordings" Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guiide |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe (Complete Operetta recorded in 1972) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, John Ayldon, Lyndsie Holland / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] "Judy Merri displays an admirably firm mezzo in the title role […] there is an extra spaciousness that enables orchestral detail to come through in all its brilliance […] D'Oyly Carte enthusiasts should be well satisfied with the new... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Complete opera with full dialogue) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed; Kenneth Sandford; Mary Sansom, Philip Potter / New Symphony Orchestra of London / Isidore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1989 ] "Great diction. You get to hang onto every word....Donald Adams as Colonel Calverley is dynamic and John Reed excels as Reginald." Mel@marbecks |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1993 ] "This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Opera recorded in 1971) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with John Reed, Pauline Wales, Thomas Lawlor, Christine Palmer, Ralph Mason / James Walker (cond) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "There is a real sense of staging and movement which is all to the good. The dialogue is well handled and is very much a plus factor.' Fanfare, November/December 1983 |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Sorcerer (Complete) coupled with Sullivan's The Zoo D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Valerie Masterson, Donald Adams, John Reed / Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Godfrey / Nash [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed: Four Classic Albums (Found Love / Rockin' With Jimmy Reed / Now Appearing / Just Jimmy Reed) (2CD) [ Avid Roots / 2 CD ] AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Blues album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Jimmy Reed, complete with original artwork and liner notes. "Found Love"; "Rockin' With Jimmy Reed"; "Now Appearing" and "Just Jimmy Reed" Jimmy Reed is... |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 1977) John Reed, Geoffrey Shovelton, Kenneth Sanford, Barbara Lilley / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "the appealing gondoliers of Meston Reid and Michael Rayner, John Reed's typically reliable Duke and Kenneth Sandford's pillar of strength Don Alhambra" (Gramophone) |
Lou Reed
The Best Of (Platinum Edition) [ Sony Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] As a member of the hugely influential Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, as the band's main songwriter, explored subjects that had rarely been examined so openly in Rock and Roll. In 1971, Reed embarked upon a solo career that to this day is still going... |
Lou Reed
Greatest Hits [ BMG / CD - released 30/Oct/2009 ] A budget-priced compilation featuring many of Lou Reed's most recognisable songs, both from his time as the principle songwriter in The Velvet Underground and his highly-successful solo career. Featuring "I'm Waiting For the Man", "Sweet Jane" and... |
Lou Reed
Magic and Loss [ Sire Records / CD - released 10/Jan/1992 ] American imported disc. A painful look at death - the ones it takes and those who are left behind. |
Lou Reed
Milestones [ Sony / CD - released 22/Nov/2013 ] After being guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's solo career spanned several decades. After departing the group, Reed began his solo career in 1972. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild... |
Lou Reed
Rock n Roll Animal [ RCA Records / CD - released 8/Apr/2000 ] Now digitally re-mastered, this edition of 'Rock n Roll Animal' includes two bonus tracks! Recorded in December 1973, this live album captures Uncle Lou in peak form... |
Lou Reed
Rock & Roll Animal (LP) [ Legacy / LP - released 21/May/2012 ] Recorded in concert with Reed's crack road band at the peak of their form, Rock N Roll Animal offered a set of his most anthemic songs (most dating from his days with the Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented his lean... |
Lou Reed
Street Hassle (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Street Hassle' is the eighth solo studio album by Lou Reed, released in February 1978. Richard Robinson and Reed produced the album. All of the songs on 'Street Hassle' were written by Reed, including "Real Good Time Together," a track that dates... |
Lou Reed
Transformer (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground's music had a major impact on Bowie's work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust mania was reaching... |
Lou Reed
Transformer (Special Expanded Edition) [ RCA Records / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Now available as this fantastic, digitally re-mastered re-issue - complete with extensive liner notes, rare photos and two bonus tracks - Reed's brilliant second solo album was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson. |
Lou Reed
Transmission Impossible [ Eat To The Beat / 3 CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] THREE BROADCAST RECORDINGS ON THREE CDS NEW YORK 1972, LOS ANGELES 1976 & AUSTRALIA 1978 In December 72, Lou Reed released Transformer. David Bowie and Mick Ronson co-produced the album and it introduced Reed to a wider audience, especially in the... |
NOEL COWARD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Coward: Bitter Sweet (complete operetta) Valerie Masterson, Martin Smith & Donald Maxwell / Sadler's Wells opera, Michael Reed [ Jay Productions / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Aug/1999 ] Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The story, set in 19th-century and early 20th-century England and Austria-Hungary, centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher. |
Eli "Paperboy" Reed
99 Cent Dreams [ Yep Roc / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Eli Paperboy Reed is back. Recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN, and produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price), '99 Cent Dreams' is an exuberant and uplifting collection. Reed's arrangements on the album are... |
Eli Paperboy Reed
My Way Home [ Yep Roc / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] |
Eli Paperboy Reed
My Way Home (LP) [ Yep Roc LP / LP - released 10/Jun/2016 ] |
Lou Reed
Words & Music [ Light in the Attic / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Light in the Attic Records, in cooperation with Laurie Anderson, proudly announces the inaugural title in their ongoing Lou Reed Archive Series: Words & Music, May 1965. Released in tandem with the late artist's 80th birthday celebrations... |
Lou Reed
Berlin (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] |
Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Legacy / LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] White Vinyl. Coney Island Baby is a 1976 solo studio album by Lou Reed, first released in January 1976. The album has been described by Anthony DeCurtis as "perhaps the most romantic album of Reed's career." Many of the album's songs were inspired... |
Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby (LP) [ RCA / LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] White Vinyl. Coney Island Baby is a 1976 solo studio album by Lou Reed, first released in January 1976. The album has been described by Anthony DeCurtis as "perhaps the most romantic album of Reed's career." Many of the album's songs were inspired... |
A.C. Reed
I'm in the Wrong Business [ Alligator Records / CD ] The Windy City's #1 blues sax man; Buddy Guy and Albert Collins sideman. Tough, original songs with guests Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bonnie Raitt. "Could get an audience of librarians stompin' and screamin'"--DAILY TENNESSEAN A.C. REED, Tenor Sax and... |
RAMEAU
Nouvelles Suites Calefax Reed Quintet [ MDG / CD - released 19/Mar/2006 ] Just as one would expect of a man of good taste, Rameau penned suites full of style... |
NANCARROW
Studies for Player Piano CALEFAX Reed Quintet / Ivo Janssen (piano) [ MDG / CD - released 16/Apr/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 -- "… this latest selection from the composer's back catalogue of player piano studies, arranged by Raaf Hekkema and brilliantly dispatched by the Calefax Reed Quintet and pianist Ivo Janssen, does more... |
Dizzy Reed
Rock N Roll Ain't Easy [ Golden Robot Records / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] In the world of music, Guns n' Roses need no introduction. Few bands in history have achieved the level of success and recognition that GNR has. The addition of keyboardist Dizzy Reed in 1990 marked a stylistic turning point in the band's maturity,... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & sullivan: The Gondoliers (Complete with dialogue) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Gillian Knight; Thomas Round; John Reed / New Symphony Orchestra / Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] Isidore Godfrey's conducting is vividly alive and Decca provided a large and excellent orchestra. The solo singing throughout is consistently good. Thomas Round sings Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes very well indeed. *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore (Complete opera) coupled with Sullivan's Cox and Box D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed; Kenneth Sandford; Jean Hindmarsh / Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Isidore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe (Complete Operetta) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Mary Sansom, John Reed, Gillian Knight / New Symphony Orchestra / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "The chorus is excellent and the orchestral detail has the usual light Godfrey touch. The production was given added panache by introducing the Grenadier Guards band into the March of the Peers, with spectacular effect." *** Three Stars. Penguin... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance (Complete Operetta) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Valerie Masterson; Owen Brannigan; John Reed / Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "The recording is superbly spacious and clear throughout, with a fine sense of atmosphere. The CD transfer is remarkable in its added presence." (Penguin Guide) |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Pirates of Penzance (highlights) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Valerie Masterson; Owen Brannigan; John Reed / Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] |