Those Gamble-Huff productions, Teddy Pendergrass on drums and vocals these guys were Philly soul superstars! And this 14-cut collection has every hit they notched for Philly International during the '70s If You Don't Know Me by Now; the Love I Lost; Bad Luck; Wake Up Everybody; Hope That We Can Be Together Soon, and more, with notes!
10 Top 40 hits, eight Top 40 LPs Cuba Gooding was all over the '70s like his thespian son was all over the '90s. His R&B group The Main Ingredient was one of the most soulful of the era, and here are 16 of their best: The title smash; Happiness Is Just Around the Bend; Rolling down a Mountainside; Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love); Just Don't Want to Be Lonely, and more!
Sam's gospel and pop sides have been well-documented elsewhere, but his bluesy side's been a little overlooked. So, RCA's put together a 20-track album drawn from three of Sam's albums, Mr. Soul, My Kind of Blues and Night Beat, to show off his roots. Includes Little Red Rooster; Driftin' Blues; But Not for Me; Smoke Rings; Fool's Paradise, and more.
A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album and soundtrack by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was originally released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. It's two 25-minute-plus tracks were produced from recordings made on February 18 and April 7, 1970, at 30th Street Studio in New York City. Davis was inspired by the political and racial subtext of Johnson's saga as well as the hard rock and funk sounds of his own era, leading a rock-inspired line-up of musicians in the studio: guitarists John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock, keyboardists Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, clarinetist Bennie Maupin, and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Billy Cobham.
The fourth studio album by the second great Miles Davis quintet (and the second recorded in 1967), Nefertiti marked yet another metamorphosis in Miles' career. Includes Fall; Hand Jive; Madness; Riot; Pinocchio, and the title track, plus alternate takes on Hand Jive; Madness, and Pinocchio.
This inventive post-bop treasure finds Miles totally reenergized by the young talent of his second quintet. His first album of new material in six years is a brilliantly excecuted exercise in tension and release! Includes Eighty-One; Little One; R.J.; Agitation; Iris; Mood, and the title track.
In this master adaptation, Duke puts his famous jazzy touch on classics by Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker Suite), Grieg (Peer Gynt Suites) and John Steinbeck's engaging novel, Sweet Thursday, with his original composition of Zweet Zurzday. Also includes Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Red-Pipes); Sugar-Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy); in the Hall of the Mountain King; Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance); Morning Mood; Anitra's Dance, and much more!
