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Hollie Smith
Long Player (Deluxe Edition) [ Sister Records New Zealand / CD - released 21/Jan/2008 ] This deluxe re-issue of Hollie's sensational, platinum selling debut album includes three bonus previously unreleased tracks from her 2007 recording session in Philadelphia. |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Canatas / Magnificat BWV243 Jennifer Smith, Anthony Rolf-Johnson, Jose van Dam / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz / Scottish Philharmonic Singers, Raymond Leppard [ Erato Collection / CD - released 14/Nov/1995 ] Original recordings from 1979 & 1984 |
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Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Jimmy Smith was a self-taught pianist who abandoned the instrument in 1954 in favour of the Hammond B3 organ, renting a Philadelphia warehouse and woodshedding for a year until he emerged with a revolutionary style that immediately caught the ear of... |
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Jimmy Smith
Bashin' (LP) [ Spiral Records / LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] |
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Jimmy Smith
The Cat (180g LP) [ Verve / LP - released 15/Nov/2013 ] The Incredible Jimmy Smith, that's what it says so confidently on the cover of his 1964 Verve release The Cat, alongside a picture of a black cat, as superstitious a figure as you can get. The law demands that what is promised must be delivered and a... |
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Jimmy Smith
Home Cookin' (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a self-taught keyboard virtuoso who gave up the piano in 1954 in favor of the Hammond B3 organ, setting up shop in a warehouse in Philadelphia and woodshedding for a year before emerging with a revolutionary approach... |
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Jimmy Smith
Midnight Special (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] It's a testament to Jimmy Smith's volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics-Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack-in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata (with Bach: Cantatas BWV131 & BWV198) Gloria Prosper, Adrienne Albert, Richard Levitt, Melvin Brown, Marni Nixon / Gregg Smith Singers, Texas Boys Choir, Columbia Baroque Ensemble, Robert [ Sony Essential Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/1996 ] Monteverdi recorded at the American Legion Hall, Hollywood, January 1967. Digitally remastered in 1996 |
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Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Miss Smith To You [ Fat Note Records / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] |
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Lonnie Liston Smith
Cosmic Funk & Spiritual Sounds [ Beat Goes Public / CD - released 16/Nov/2012 ] |
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Lonnie Liston Smith
Cosmic Funk (Gatefold LP) [ BGP Records / LP ] Lonnie Liston Smith regards "Cosmic Funk", his second album as a leader, as a transitional release: "Before recording this album, I was still playing with Miles Davis. You can hear some Miles influence. On the following album, "Expansions", I really... |
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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Expansions (Gatefold LP) [ Ace / LP - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Lonnie's 1975 jazz-funk masterpiece is released on 180g black vinyl in a nice thick card gatefold sleeve. Former Miles Davis and Pharoah Sanders keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith saw all his musical ideas coming together for this, his third album.... |
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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Reflections Of A Golden Dream [ CD - released 15/Jan/2016 ] Lonnie Liston Smith's final album on Flying Dutchman. A cosmic jazz masterpiece featuring contributions from Dave Hubbard, Patti Austin, Jon Faddis and Donald Smith. US Top 5 jazz album, includes club classics ''Get Down Everybody (A Chance For... |
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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Renaissance [ BGP / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] After the success of "Expansions", Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes were riding high, with Lonnie at the height of his creative powers and his brother Donald's vocals adding to the cosmic jazz sound. |
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Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Arthur Pryor, The Original Dixie Band, James P. Johnson, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Fats Waller & more
The Spirit of Ragtime [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Original mono recordings from 1910 to 1947 |
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ZIEHRER / JOHANN STRAUSS II / OSCAR STRAUSS / KALMAN / MESSAGER / etc
Treasures of Operetta (Music from Casanova, Veronique, Merry Widow, Maid of the Mountains, Floradora, Arcadians, White Horse Inn, etc) Marilyn Hill Smith (soprano) / Peter Morrison (baritone) / Ambrosian Singers / The Chandos Singers / The Chandos Concert Orchestra / Barry Knight [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2004 ] 'This is a terrific compilation, because the singers cover a huge range of operetta, from 1890s Paris and Vienna confections... up to such London Sweetmeats as Old Chelsea....' - American Record guide |
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IVOR NOVELLO
Songs (Including 'A Violin Began to Play', 'Some Day My Heart Will Awake' & 'We'll Gather Lilacs' Marilyn Hill Smith (soprano) / The Chandos Concert Orchestra; Gordon Langford, piano; Stuart Barry, conductor [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] 'Chandos, Marilyn Hill Smith and Stuart Barry deserve full marks for taking the task so seriously - orchestrations sound to be authentic…' Gramophone |
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Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith [ Lyttelton Records / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Ashburton resident Matthew Smith's self-titled album is ten tracks long, and the songs vary from soft and folky to upbeat with alt country influences. Despite its breadth in genre, the album still works together cohesively, using similar... |
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JOAQUIN RODRIGO / MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo: Concierto Aranjuez / Arnold: Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra Michael Conn (guitar) / The Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, John Lubbock [ IMP Classics / CD - released 28/Sep/1992 ] Originally released 1987 |
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Michael Smith
Mi Cyaan Believe It (LP) [ UMC / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Michael Smith was an incredibly talented, politically ferocious dub poet who, tragically, lived long enough to release only one record. Born in a rough section of Kingston, Jamaica, smith grew up in a reggae culture immersed in the toasting style of... |