The album was released a few years ago, and I know that a new double album has been released with all the tracks from this album and more, but I would suggest that unless you are looking for a definitive collection of Dino songs, this might be the album for you....
This collection features Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company as well as live with the Kozmic Blues Band. There’s also a tear-down-the walls version of Etta James’s “Tell Mama” with Full Tilt Boogie, recorded live in Toronto. Other highlights include a studio recording of “One Night Stand” (produced by Todd Rundgren) and a marvelous rendition of Sam Andrews’s poignant “Farewell Song,” taken from a 1968 Winterland show. Ending the CD is Joplin’s killer “Catch Me Daddy,” taken from a Cheap Thrills session. The members of Big Brother dislike this album intensely, since the producer replaced the band’s instrumentals with those of studio musicians. This is one of Joplin’s most inspired studio vocals, and it would be interesting to hear the instrumental track that brought out such an incredible performance...
Unlike the soundtrack for his Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, director Taylor Hackford didn’t have Ray Charles rerecord his classic songs for the soundtrack for his Charles biopic Ray. Instead, he selected 17 songs of Ray at his ’50s and ’60s peak, skillfully balancing selections from both Atlantic and ABC to create a surprisingly successful and thoroughly entertaining overview....
Although Helen Merrill is often thought of as a singer from the 1950s (when she made her initial reputation), she has stayed aware of more recent developments in jazz. On this superior CD, Merrill is accompanied by pianist Roger Kellaway, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Terry Clarke; three songs add trumpeter Tom Harrell, while two others have Wayne Shorter on tenor or soprano. Whether performing veteran standards (such as “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” and “Some of These Days”) or more modern pieces, Merrill’s haunting voice and her all-star sidemen uplift and revitalize the material. A consistently memorable set full of subtle surprises....
California singer, then plagued with personal demons, went to record her best 1960s Southern soul outpost Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, was where the work. Accompanied by the same house bluesmen who’d roweled Aretha Franklin just months earlier, James unleashes “Tell Mama” (a Top Forty hit in 1967), “I’d Rather Go Blind” (her magnum opus), and ten pearls of slightly lower luster. Her vocals throughout are paragons of female virility...
Alesha Anjanette Dixon [born October 7th 1978 in Welwyn Garden City, England] is an English singer, MC, songwriter, model and television personality. Like Matt Willis, Kenzie, and Kerry Katona before her, Alesha Dixon became a household name not through her music, but thanks to an appearance on a reality show. Her career began in 1999 when she met Sabrina Washington when they both joined Dance Attic [a popular hip-hop/jazz dance academy in West London], and together they formed a duo and recorded a demo titled ‘Inspiration’. ...
Through “Jalouse”, Kaas’ first single produced by Depardieu, the French singer and songwriter Didier Barbelivien became aware of Kaas. His song “Mademoiselle chante le blues” (Eng: “Lady sings the blues”) was the singer’s first big hit. Published in 1987 by Polydor, the single reached in the French SNEP Singles Chart. The next year, Kaas’ second single “D’Allemagne” (Eng: “Of Germany”) was recorded, written by Barbelivien and Bernheim. It was successful too, peaking at on the chart....
Musicians:
Carmen Cuesta: vocals
Chuck Loeb: programming, keyboards, synth flute, harmonica
Bill Evans: soprano sax
Toots Thielemans: harmonica
Till Brönner: trumpet
Bob James: piano
Lou Marini: alto flute...
Mayra Andrade
Janet Seidel
Frank Sinatra
Marc Anthony
Peter Nalitch
