Harlem Blues

Harlem Blues

ASIN: B000000YVK

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From his emergence in the mid-1950s, Phineas Newborn was one of the most technically brilliant two-handed pianists who ever played jazz. Belonging to a virtuoso lineage that included Art Tatum and Bud Powell, he regularly inspired comparison with Oscar Peterson. Newborn would readily tear off runs in octaves with an ease that would be impressive with single notes, improvise complex solos with his left hand against right-hand trills, and crush complex explosions of notes between the phrases of a ballad. His playing seemed tautly suspended between sheer technical excess and manic creative fire, but he also had an ingrained feeling for the blues, honed in the Memphis bands of his youth. Harlem Blues was recorded in 1969, when Newborn had been out of the studios for some years, and he's joined by the dynamic team of Ray Brown on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, stellar accompanists who stoke Newborn's singular fire on the title tune, a brash up-date of stride and boogie-woogie, and on a hard-swinging version of Horace Silver's "Cookin' at the Continental." Probably the most potent rhythm section that Newborn was ever matched with, Brown and Jones are also wise enough to let the pianist follow his own shifting paths on such standards as "Sweet and Lovely" and "Stella by Starlight." More than two decades after his death, Newborn's explosive piano approach continues to be felt in succeeding generations of fellow-Memphis pianists like Harold Mabern and Geoff Keezer. --Stuart Broomer

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One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
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An Unforgettable Live Album

One of the greatest live performances

ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVER!

should get more than 5 stars!

BEST LIVE RECORD EVER

One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Sam Cooke
Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

Soul Twist/Introduction
Feel It (Don't Fight It)
Chain Gang
Cupid
Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons
Twistin' The Night Away
Somebody Have Mercy
Bring It On Home To Me
Nothing Can Change This Love
Having A Party

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An Unforgettable Live Album.......2007-04-17

This album is a priceless gem that you will treasure forever! Sam Cooke metaphorically rolls up his sleeves and really works up a sweat in this amazing live concert at the Harlem Square Club, giving an earthy, gritty performance that is spellbinding. Sam's delivery crackles with raw energy! He belts out the songs with an emotional intensity and sense of urgency that whips his audience into euphoric frenzy.

Some favourite, well-loved songs (such as "Cupid," "Chain Gang," "Bring it on Home to Me," etc.) have been thumpingly and effectively re-worked to give them an edginess which causes the temperature to soar in that highly charged, festive atmosphere.

You can feel the electricity in the air! Sam teases and cajoles an attentive and adoring audience who eagerly comply with the call to party. The tempo intensifies and reaches a crescendo at the end of a totally exhilarating and riveting musical experience!

One of the greatest live performances.......2007-01-12

Sam Cooke delivers an unbelievable performance in this one. When I first got it, it was difficult for me to appreciate this live album. But as time passed by, the more it grew on me. And now, it's truly one of my favorite albums. Any soul music fan has to have this one.

The way Sam Cooke works the crowd is a thing of beauty. Those people that attended this performance are some lucky folks. He gives it his all and the crowd appreciates it. My personal favorite was "Chain Gang" because of the way he works the crowd at the end and because his voice is just electrifying with his "oh yeah" screams. Sam Cooke may not be my favorite artist but I believe he's the greatest artist of all-time. This record is one of the many testaments of that.

ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVER!.......2006-11-21

This is soul at its very best! No matter how many times I listen to this album, I NEVER get tired of it. Sam Cooke went on to inspire thousands of musicians and, after hearing this album, you'll know why. Since the new movie "Ali," starring Will Smith, has been released on DVD and VHS, a lot of people wonder about the beginning where the actor portraying Sam Cooke is performing. Well, this recording is exactly where they got the idea for the beginning of the film.
Of course, my favorite is "Bring It On Home To Me." Sam delivers his music with all the fervor of a gospel sermon and beat of a pop/doo wop song. Then, there are also the usual hits, from "Cupid" to "Twistin' The Night Away."
If you're looking for a soul album to start a collection, this IS the ONE!!! It'll keep you moving!!! The sound is no longer mono, making it all the more enjoyable. The fact that Sam could get the place jumpin' is exactly why he was such a great entertainer. You can feel the high energy and the fun of that evening back in 1963 oozing out of the stereo every time you listen to this album. James Brown may be the Godfather of soul, but Sam Cooke is the father!!!

should get more than 5 stars!.......2006-08-19

This is the live album to outdo all other live albums. I am a head banging, rock and roller, guitar nut and this is still the best live album ever!

The main reason that it is great is b/c Sam Cooke works the audience. The cd builds up steam as the songs go by. This is a snowball rolling down a hill that gets bigger and bigger.

He talks to the audience, works the ladies, entices the men, pumps up his band, etc. The songs are almost a "best of" situation. Chain gang, having a party, twisting are all awesome!

You know how great the cd is? The recording has serious limitations. There are no highs and no lows. Horns, guitar, bass, drums are all mixed way towards the back but Cooke's singing and talking are way towards the front. It does not matter and should not influence anyone's listening pleasure.

A great comparison is to Otis Redding live at the Whiskey a Go Go. That is a good concert, fantastic sound recording and the band seriously rocks. This blows that away.

This is not only the best concert cd but also, it is obvious how other entertainers and djs modeled themselves afer Sam Cooke's style.

What a shame that this tremendous performer died in his prime.

Whoever reads this take note...I am no soul music fanatic. I am a Lez Zep. Who, Nirvana, guitarnut type of guy. THAT is how powerful that this work is b/c it most definetly rocks more than "live at leeds", "get your ya yas out", "Song remains the same", etc.

BEST LIVE RECORD EVER.......2006-08-18

I agree with Mr. Sullivan about who cares about some specific sounds at a live performance,... its raw, sweety, aggressive, compasionate, ITS ROCK AND ROLL!! ....today's new soul artist should buy this CD, take notes, and learn from it,.. (r&b singers are too cheezy now...) Listening to this CD, you are going back when the male soul singers were real men,.. no fakes like today's singers who just want to show off high vocal ranges like a bad imitator of Eddy Valen on the guitar. This Live show does not have any pyrotechnics,...and thats why I love it,.. Sam Cooke is by far my favorite soul singer... (I dont have nothing else to say,... so BUY IT NOW!)

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"If heaven exists, he'll be playing at the gates..."
"Blues" finds its hope in "Faith" via blind guitarist...
The Best Davis Introduction Available
As good as it gets.

Harlem Street Singer
Rev. Gary Davis
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I Belong To The Band
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Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On

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"If heaven exists, he'll be playing at the gates...".......2006-03-09

If heaven really exixts, Reverend Gary Davis will be playing at the gates to welcome us all in. Man!! Only a blind man could finger a guitar the way this man did. At some point the material becomes secondary to the performance of this incredible gifted musician and singer. This is music from the very core of one's being. Though there isn't a bad cut on the album, my favorite's are "Let Us Get Together" and "I Belong To The Band," to mention a few.

This is the music that influenced some of the greats, I recommend it highly.

"Blues" finds its hope in "Faith" via blind guitarist..........2003-01-05

Gary Davis was born blind, black, and broke in South Carolina in 1896. Big obstacles, but he also was blessed with talent and got paid for his guitar-pickin' by the time he was a teen. Ordained as a minister at age 36, he changed his song inventory to Gospel and hymns exclusively. He ended up in NYC, performing at mostly Black churches and on the streets. In the late '50's, the "Folk Revival" of blessed memory provided him a brief celebrity beyond those venues. This album was recorded in 1960 at the Jersey jazz studio of the legendary engineer Rudy Van Gelder. You get 44 minutes of soul survival stuff here, and any blues buff ought to own it. The more casual fan may have to listen a few times to really like Gary's vocals, but his guitar work is fun from the first chord. The recording quality is excellent. To me, the only flaw is that each song would have benefitted from one fewer sung verse, and one more instrumental passage. It's not that Gary's voice is any more rough than other bluesmen. The problem is that the lyrics of these church songs belabor the point and get a bit repetitious. Still, he was one of the best of his kind. Imagine him at 64, alone in the recording booth for three hours, doing 20 songs, of which these are supposedly the best takes of the best 12. He had not recorded anything in four years: in fact, he had only recorded in 1935, '54 and '56 prior to this August 24, 1960 session. On that day, Kennedy and Nixon were running for president, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Yankees were heading toward a classic World Series, and I was living about 40 miles south of the studio, getting ready to begin 11th grade. Rev. Davis was doing something more important: preserving the Black church songs of early 20th century for posterity.

The Best Davis Introduction Available.......2001-07-21

My collection includes all of The Reverend's recorded works. If you are going to buy just one Davis disc -- or if you are looking for a good introduction to this Blues/Ragtime master, "Harlem Street Singer" is unquestionably the best choice. The recording captures Davis at his most passionate vocally and at this top of his game as a gutarist. A lot of his early work suffers from poor recording technology, however this disc sounds like it was cut in a 21st Century studio.

I'm not a religious person, but Davis' music is almost enough to send me running to church. The piercing conviction of the lyrics and sycopated guitar in Twelve Gates, Great Change and Samson and Deliah still send chills of guilt up my spine.

As good as it gets........1999-09-06

If you enjoy both blues and gospel music, you will discover on this CD that for Reverend Davis there is no distinction between the two forms. Samson and Delilah and Death don't Have No Mercy were tunes that influenced The Grateful Dead and other Rock bands, but here you get the full, original impact of these songs.

Reverend Davis was without question one of the greatest blues guitar stylists ever, and this album captures some of his strongest recorded work. The importance and beauty of this recording cannot be overemphasized!

Across 110th Street
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Big Band swing is still meaningful

GOOD SALSA

Great Rumba CD

Finally, a band that has kept the "big band" in Salsa

Eso es todo?

Across 110th Street
Ruben Blades , and Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
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ASIN: B00029RSY0
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

Un Gran Dia En El Barrio
Cuando Te Vea
Tun Tun Suena El Tambo
Dime Se Llegue A Tiempo
Escucha El Ritmo
Bailadores
Te Cantare
Como Lo Canto Yo
maestro De Rumberos
La Hija De Lola
Perla Morena
Esperame En El Cielo
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Spanish Harlem Orchestra has only been performing together since the year 2000, but this baker's dozen of musicians and vocalists swings as if it's been around for decades. That cohesiveness is at full-throttle on Across 110th St, SHO's second release and the follow-up to 2002's Grammy nominated Un Gran Dia en el Barrio. The group mixes classic salsa covers ("Cuando Te Vea, Esperame en el Cielo") with original compositions, and it makes for an unbroken flow of precise musicianship and sweltering instrumental interludes. The legendary Ruben Blades tackles singing duties on four tracks, which gives Across 110th St much of its commercial heft. Equally commendable, though, are the vocal stylings of regular SHO members Ray De La Paz, Marco Bermudez and Willie Torres. Everyone gets a chance to shine on Across 110th St--a very good thing for fans of great salsa music. --Joey Guerra

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Big Band swing is still meaningful.......2007-01-13

Rey, this is the one you'll need to start Diego and Pablo on the path to fine NY salsa. Maestro Rubén Blades starts your Saturday morning with a sound reminder of how much El Barrio means to its denizens: Un Gran Día en El Barrio. North of 110th West or East, you choose, the effect will be the same: alegría, comida y mucho meneo. Nothing surprising or new to you lovers of Cuban music other than a street polished urban side to the Son. You can close your eyes and see the turned palms of La Palma Real, el arcoiris of push cart of piraguas, raspado or rasco rasco, or hear el guaguancó in neighborhood parks or Sundays at Orchard Beach. The CD is a notable example of what we in New York came to understand Cuban music to be. Since Buena Vista, we have arrived at a deeper understanding of styles and complex rhythmic patterns. Like the previous outing, leader Oscar Hernández takes us across town to sample New York Salsa; faithful to Cuban rumba and New York's polished bands. There are plenty of rhythms and lead vocals to enjoy a mini tour of great salsa. A great CD to be placed alongside the best sounds arriving from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.

GOOD SALSA.......2005-12-22

I THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT SINGER. I'M FAN OF RUBEN AND I HAVE A PROFESSIONAL ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIM ON EBAY TO SELL. SERCH ON EBAY BY RUBEN BLADES. ALSO I CAN DRAW HECTOR LAVOE, ISAMEL RIVERA, YOU NAME IT. CONTACT ME AT KHARACOL00@HOTMAIL.COM

Great Rumba CD.......2005-12-13

This is heavy rumba CD.. if you like salsa rhythm, you may or may not like this cd.. to me, this is the best rumba cd i have so far.. my favourite is track no. 10..

Finally, a band that has kept the "big band" in Salsa.......2005-09-19

Many new bands today have taken the "big band" out of salsa today. However the "big band sound" in addition to the percussion, is what makes Salsa so exciting. This exciting release from the exellent SHO features tight arrangements, reminiscent of the 50's mambo bands, with a touch of modern, featuring some great jazz solos too. Exciting and fun to salsa dance to, or listen to!!! Great CD!!!

Eso es todo?.......2005-05-19

Al ver que Ruben Blades estaría en este disco, aunque "se retiro", fue algo bueno, o asi pensaba yo. En solo algunas canciones interpreta él, pero no en todas. Está bien que quiera lanzar otras carreras artisticas, pero si los "reviews" profesionales dicen que el canta en todo el disco, eso solo es mala mercadotecnía, y saben que el disco no vendería si el no aparecia en las canciones. Ya que ésta orquestra es conocida, debería tener sus propias melodias y ocacionalmente tocar una pieza que otro artista ya haya presentado.

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A piece of history
A BIG disappointment!

New York New York
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A piece of history.......2006-06-03

Many of the songs on this recording are not available in sheet music, and although the sound quality isn't "leading edge" it makes me feel as though I am listening to actual performers back in the 30's & 40's, with young and gifted singers like Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, and Mel Torme, as well as others who are nameless or unknown to me on this album, and a delight to listen to. Manhattan Tower is why I bought this CD, and I got so much more from it than I bargained for. The illusion I have when I play it is that I am a young jazz artist in New York, feeling the pulse of the city and filling up with everything about being a part of New York.

A BIG disappointment!.......2004-08-19

I bought this CD for the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue soundtrack ballet by Richard Rodgers and Lennie Hayton. But none of the tracks on this CD can be appreciated. It is a mono recording, and that immediately leaves you with a very incomplete sound. No amount of treble and bass adjustment can eliminate the awful tinny sound throughout the disc.

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Buried Treasure Found
Phineas, Jazz piano brightest star * !

Harlem Blues
Phineas Newborn
Manufacturer: Ojc
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

Harlem Blues
Sweet And Lovely
Little Girl Blue
Ray's Idea
Stella By Starlight
Tenderly
Cookin' At The Continental

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From his emergence in the mid-1950s, Phineas Newborn was one of the most technically brilliant two-handed pianists who ever played jazz. Belonging to a virtuoso lineage that included Art Tatum and Bud Powell, he regularly inspired comparison with Oscar Peterson. Newborn would readily tear off runs in octaves with an ease that would be impressive with single notes, improvise complex solos with his left hand against right-hand trills, and crush complex explosions of notes between the phrases of a ballad. His playing seemed tautly suspended between sheer technical excess and manic creative fire, but he also had an ingrained feeling for the blues, honed in the Memphis bands of his youth. Harlem Blues was recorded in 1969, when Newborn had been out of the studios for some years, and he's joined by the dynamic team of Ray Brown on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, stellar accompanists who stoke Newborn's singular fire on the title tune, a brash up-date of stride and boogie-woogie, and on a hard-swinging version of Horace Silver's "Cookin' at the Continental." Probably the most potent rhythm section that Newborn was ever matched with, Brown and Jones are also wise enough to let the pianist follow his own shifting paths on such standards as "Sweet and Lovely" and "Stella by Starlight." More than two decades after his death, Newborn's explosive piano approach continues to be felt in succeeding generations of fellow-Memphis pianists like Harold Mabern and Geoff Keezer. --Stuart Broomer

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Buried Treasure Found.......2004-04-01

"Buried Treasure Found" a review of the Phineas Newborn, Jr. trio recording _Harlem Blues_ with Ray Brown, double bass and Elvin Jones, drums ([?Yokohama] Japan: Victor Entertainment, Inc., [c1999]) (VICJ-60374 Compact Disc) originally produced by Lester Koenig and recorded at Los Angeles, CA: Contemporary Records, 12-13 February 1969 (S-7634). 7 tracks; TT 38:30; "an Extended Resolution Compact Disc 2 [XRCD2] re-mastering by Alan Yoshida, A&M Mastering Studios, Hollywood, CA". Original liner notes by John Koenig. Program booklet (12 pp.) integrated with CD card-stock case with notes in Japanese.

My one disappointment with this recording is its total time of less than 39 minutes. Would that the experts and engineers had dug deeper in the "vaults" for whatever else these musicians recorded those two February days in 1969. (The liner notes report that some 15 tunes were recorded by this trio during the two days they were in studio.) But, I'll go with what is on this JVC XRCD2 re-issue. This is a wonderful, happy, technically challenging trio performance, recorded when (we have been told by Ken Burns and others) jazz was all but dead and in need of resuscitation. Not so.

Phineas Newborn, Memphis born and raised (in his youth a contemporary of Memphis-born trumpeter Booker Little), is all over the piano, making musical allusions to his teachers and peers, pianists Art Tatum, Bud Powell, and Oscar Peterson. Ray Brown, true to form, propels the trio the same way he did when with O.P. Elvin Jones, the new comer to this setting, provides the asymmetric, polyrhythmic drive familiar to all who love the work of the John Coltrane Quartet.

`Harlem's Blues' a gospel blues doodle by Newborn which his fellow musicians asked be worked into this recording session and which ended up serving as its title, could be Memphis' Blues for all I know, but one thing for sure - it swings. Bluesy `Sweet and Lovely' and bouncy `Little Girl Blue' are great show tunes that jazz musicians love to work through, and Newborn lavishes their renderings here with technical wonderment. `Ray's Idea' (Brown's composition) is a bouncy, bop line that reminds me of Bud Powell and gives Jones an opportunity to exchange astounding, off-center `fours' with Newborn. `Stella by Starlight' lets Newborn settle into an almost complete solo approach to this wonderful tune. The bass introduction to `Tenderly' gives the listener a wonderful and all-too-rare example of the brilliant solo work of Ray Brown. `Cookin' at the Continental' (Horace Silver) is an up-tempo ride and Elvin is doing the cookin' behind his colleagues.

For those interested in the origins of tunes, John Koenig, in his liner notes, tells us the story behind `Tenderly'. This beautiful standard was written by Walter Gross, pianist at the now defunct LA Sunset Strip club, The Embers. Ray Brown would go to listen to Gross and asked him to play this song and that's how Brown learned it. The song [Koenig says] was introduced by Sarah Vaughn in the late 1940s when Gross, as musical director for Musicraft Records, had Vaughn record it for that label. The things one can learn from liner notes. This recording by Phineas Newborn, Jr. is truly an example of buried treasure found.

Phineas, Jazz piano brightest star * !.......2004-01-23

Man, Phineas Newborn with Ray Brown and Elvin Jones in 1969, this album (and the other two this trio recorded too) is absolutly SPECTACULAR !!!!!!!!! Incredible, incredible fantastic jazz trio music!! Phineas Newborn was REALLY one of the most technically brilliant two-handed pianists who ever played jazz. Few can match his ability at the keyboard. Tatum, Powell, Victor Feldman, Oscar Peterson, very few. Maybe Petrucciani in that kind of language. His lines are magnificient bebop lines with a really fantastic blues touch. The opener Harlem Blues tells the whole story. But when you'll reach Ray's idea, a typical bebop theme by Brown, you'll enter in jazz heaven ! A-MA-ZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutly to have if you love jazz. Phineas was STELLAR !!! I can't say more than this!! FIRE music !!!

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Braggin' in Brass
Joe Primrose , Jack Pettis , Irving Berlin , Thomas (Fats) Waller , George Bassman , William "Count" Basie , Cole Porter , Dorothy Fields , Lil Hardin , Jelly Roll Morton , Rolf Smedvig , Eric Ruske , Jeffrey Curnow , J. Samuel Pilafian , John Gill , and Empire Brass
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Amazing, simply amazing
Fantastic and essential
History in a box

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A Handfull Of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn
Bright Boy Blues - Cecil Scott
The Debt (Poem By Paul Laurence Dunbar) - Joshua Redman
Harlem Fuss - Fats Waller
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Bessie Smith
Fare Thee Honey Blues - Jimmy Johnson
Soon (Poem By Leon Damas) - Gregory Hines
Smashing Thirds - Fats Waller
Do Shuffle - Fess Williams
Wherever There's A Will, Baby - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Dee Blues - Chocolate Dandies
Odyssey Of Big Boy (Poem By Sterling Brown) - Chuck D
Minnie The Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song) - Cab Calloway
Panama - Luis Russell
Royal Garden Blues - Ted Lewis
America (Poem By Claude McKay) - August Wilson
Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed - Josh White

Tracks:

I Want To Die While You Love Me (Poem By Georgia Douglas Johnson) - Alfre Woodard
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) - Ethel Waters
Corrine Corrina - Cab Calloway
Sweetie Dear - Sidney Bechet
The Damnation Of Woman (Excerpt From An Essay By W.E.B. Dubois) - LeVar Burton
Baby - Adelaide Hall
Happy As The Day Is Long - Leo Reisman/Harold Arlen
I Got Rhythm - The Spirits Of Rhythm
Let's Get Together - Chick Webb
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Excerpt From A Book By Zora Neale Hurston) - Veronica Chambers
Lady Be Good - Buck & Bubbles
Symphony In Riffs - Benny Carter
Sendin' The Vipers - Mezz Mezzrow
Down South Camp Meetin' - Fletcher Henderson
The Day Breakers (Poem By Arna Bontemps) - Coolio
She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain - Tiny Bradshaw
Minor Mania - Claude Hopkins
Sensemaya - Chant For Killing A Snake (Poem By Nicolas Guillen) - Eartha Kitt
Symphony In Black - Duke Ellington
Echoes Of Spring - Willie 'The Lion' Smith
Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie - Teddy Hill
The Negro Artist And The Racial Mountain (Essay By Langston Hughes) - George Duke
It Never Dawned On Me - Teddy Wilson
Honey Dripper Blues - Georgia White
I'm In The Mood For Love - Louis Armstrong

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Not since historian David Levering Lewis's Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader has there been anything remotely as expansive as Rhapsodies in Black. This four-CD set comes with an elaborately designed 100-page booklet, with the CDs tucked into graphically cool sleeves that bring the Harlem Renaissance's visual advances to life. What comes to life in the recordings are the era's poetic, literary, and musical traditions. The renaissance, of course, wasn't contained in Harlem, with smaller African American arts and culture movements throughout the U.S., but Harlem was, to use the title of Alain Locke's 1925 collection, the "Mecca of the New Negro."

Rhapsodies reaches back to 1918 for Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band and their recording of "Indianola," and it gathers in poems and excerpts from stories and essays, read by such luminaries as Quincy Jones, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Branford Marsalis, and Angela Bassett. Musically, the collection focuses in some depth on early jazz and the first iteration of "urban blues." Bessie Smith's 1925 "St. Louis Blues," Duke Ellington's 1929 "Cotton Club Stomp" and 1926 "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," Fats Waller's 1929 "Harlem Fuss" and "Smashing Thirds," Cab Calloway's 1931 "Minnie the Moocher," and Louis Armstrong's 1929 performance of Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'" all stand out indelibly.

Along with the famous tunes are lots of underappreciated gems. Guitarist Lonnie Johnson's 1927 "Woke Up with Blues in My Fingers" is an awesome solo guitar showing. Also tremendous are early looks at future jazz giants Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, the former on Don Redman's "Wherever There's a Will, Baby" (from a 1929 McKinney's Cotton Pickers session) and the pair together on the Chocolate Dandies' 1930 "Dee Blues." The political core of the movement is alive here, too, with Claude McKay's "America" read by playwright August Wilson. Georgia Douglas Johnson's "I Want You to Die While You Love Me" and Helene Johnson's "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" (read by Bassett and Alfre Woodard, respectively) capture the poetic spirit from a woman's perspective, and Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" are read by Veronica Chambers and Debbie Allen. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Amazing, simply amazing.......2002-07-19

The quality of music and poetry in this boxed set is superlative. It's so good, in fact, that it turned me on to early jazz after a lifetime of listening to other, largely unrelated, musics. This music is the roots of much of today's contemporary jazz, pop, soul, and r'n'b, and it still sounds sensational. My only gripe would be with Rhino's overfussy packaging, in which the discs are housed in elaborate and flimsy individual holders; Rhino should take a hint from Hippo's (Universal) beautifully compact packaging for Louis Armstrong's "An American Icon" box set.

Fantastic and essential.......2001-03-05

"Before I was an African-American, I was a black kid living in Los Angeles who wanted to be a rock 'n roll star. Then I discovered Harlem, and ever since, I've wanted to be a Negro." Shawn Amos, remarkable young producer of this great project, writes in "Notes from a Wanna-Be Harlemite, " by way of introducing this CD set.

This is a project that is so generous, so full, and so nicely focused that all one can do is read the booklet, and listen to the readings and the music in a sort of awed appreciation - for the greatness of it. Amos was painstakingly thoughtful and careful, and it shows at every turn. The essays are informative, thoughtful, and utterly absorbing. All the poetry and short story excerpts are included, too. So it's a field day for lovers of liner-notes and lyrics.

The music is thrilling. Much of it will be familiar, some less so. (Mastering Engineer Patrick Kraus weighs in, too, in a note regarding changes in sound quality over the years.) The pieces are arranged chronologically, and sensitively. Spoken word compliments music and song. This is something that requires a curatorial sensitivity that Amos clearly possesses. My only mild gripe is that I longed for several additional seconds of silence after each of the spoken-word pieces, before the music started. The power of the poems, for example, requires a little awed silence (the listener's) afterwards. Alfre Woodard's interpretation of Georgia Douglas Johnson's gorgeous, erotically triumphant poem "I Want to Die While You Love Me," deserves those seconds of silence. After Quincy Jones' interpretation of Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," you want some extra time, too.

Eartha Kitt interprets Cuban-born Marxist poet Nicolas Guillen's "Sensemaya - Chant for Killing a Snake" and it is spellbinding.

The terrific poems and short stories that are read in this compilation were for the most part recorded by Amos himself. He crisscrossed the country, LA and NY, at least a few times to do it - taping in an attic (Branford Marsalis) and in a variety of venues. The performances are fantastic.

These four CDs knocked me out. I've listened to them repeatedly, with no loss of enthusiasm. Buy this box set - a very good value considering the high quality of the book that comes with it - if you have an interest in the fabulous sound of the Harlem renaissance, and in an artful and wonderful project.

History in a box.......2001-01-31

Wow, what a resource for history and language classrooms! That and a great look and listen besides. I'm a resource librarian for a public school system and this set doesn't stay on the shelf long enough to gather dust.

Stride Piano Summit: A Celebration of Harlem Stride & Classic Piano Jazz

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Stride Piano Summit: A Celebration of Harlem Stride & Classic Piano Jazz
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Milestone
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Luckey & the Lion: Harlem Piano
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ASIN: B000000XTI
Release Date: 1991-10-15

Tracks:

Ain't Misbehavin - Dick Hyman/Mike Lipskin/Harry 'Sweets' Edison
Bach Up To Me - Dick Hyman
Old Fashioned Love - Jay McShann/Ralph Sutton/Red Callender/Harold Jones
Eye Opener - Ralph Sutton
Dinah - Ralph Sutton/Red Callender/Harold Jones
Confessin The Blues - Jay McShann
Persian Rug - Dick Hyman/Mike Lipskin
Thou Swell - Dick Hyman/Mike Lipskin
Clothes Line Ballet - Ralph Sutton
Deed I Do - Dick Hyman/Mike Lipskin
Sunday - Jay McShann/Dick Hyman/Harry 'Sweets' Edison...
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - Mike Lipskin
Am I Blue - Mike Lipskin
Sweet Lorraine - Dick Hyman
All Of Me - Jay McShann

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The best set of Oldies/Doo Wop tracks on one CD

Rage in Harlem
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008JPP
Release Date: 1991-05-14

Tracks:

Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry
Walking Along - The Solitaires
Elevator Operator - Little Richard
We Belong Together - Robert & Johnny
Juke - Little Walter
Bo Weevil - Fats Domino
Adios - Little Jimmy Scott
Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Please, Please, Please - James Brown
Church Bells May Ring - The Willows
Heaven Is in Your Heart - Darryl Pandy
Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed
Pledging My Love
Sugar Daddy Blues - LaVern Baker
Just Because - Lloyd Price
Luckest Girl in the World - Betty Boo
Dust My Broom - Elmore James
I Asked for Water - Howlin' Wolf
I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Why, Oh Why? - Betty Boo, Paul Myers
Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee
Rage in Harlem - Little Jimmy Scott
Heaven Is in Your Heart [90's Version] - Darryl Pandy

Customer Reviews:

The best set of Oldies/Doo Wop tracks on one CD.......2003-08-22

I have been looking for this soundtrack for years and I was over joyed when I finally found it. I was 16 when the movie first came out and I loved it but especially all the various mix of oldies that are on it. If you are a oldie/doo wop music lover like myself I highly recommend this soundtrack.

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I like it
Dont let the Featured Artist fool you
A Change Never Did Come - Same Bad Boy Sound
Mase Gumble
ok

Movement
Harlem World
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Loon

ASIN: B00000I922
Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

Intro
You Made Me
Minute Man
Crew Of The Year
I Really Like It
Mamasita Interlude
Across The Border
100 Shiesty's
Cali Chronic
One Big Fiesta
Meaning Of Family
My Baby's Mother's Boyfriend's Mother
Not The Kids
Familiy Crisis
We Both Frontin'
Pointing Fingers
A Change Is Gon' Come

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While Mase is perhaps better known for his monotone lisp than his rhyme skills, he shepherds through a surprisingly likable pop project with his Harlem World protégés. Don't expect the Harlem World crew to deviate much from the standard litany of ass, cash, and gun blasts, but even if the album doesn't break new ground, the Trackmasterz production crew keeps the ear-candy jar full of tasty treats. In particular, the steel-drum melodies on "Across the Border" and "100 Shiesty's" add a festive Caribbean touch, while "Cali Chronic" resurrects the familiar slinkiness of the Ohio Players' "Funky Worm" for a superior thugged-out track. Humor plays a strong role, too, including the self-parody "We Both Frontin'" and the unintentionally corny "Mamasita Interlude." --Oliver Wang

Customer Reviews:

I like it.......2007-01-23

This one of my fav back in the day cd. I know about every song on the album. Too bad this cd did get slept on.

Dont let the Featured Artist fool you.......2005-11-28

You got Nas and Kelly Price but this album isnt really all that I like that song I really like it and Were both Frontin but the other stuff isnt all that but ok to listen to out of curiosity but if you like Mase and Loon you'll probably enjoy this.

A Change Never Did Come - Same Bad Boy Sound.......2004-07-08

A frequently asked question, "What is Hip-Hop?" Hip-Hop usually refers to the culture - graffiti-spraying, breakdancing, and turntablism in addition to rapping itself - surrounding the music. As a style however, hip-hop refers to music created with those values in mind. Mase is not reminiscent to the Golden Age (the six best years in hip-hop history) era of Hip-Hop, but his style harks back to the "Old School Rap" era - identified by it's relatively simple raps. The main emphasis is not lyrical technique, but simply on good times and Mase is all about good times.

The production on "Movement" is simply fun and playful on numbers such as "I Really Like It" and "We Both Frontin'" - the first is based around the biting sample of Debarge's "I Like It." Kelly Price provides vocals to the catchy instrumentation, while Jermaine Dupri controls most the action from behind the mixx board. The Neptunes supply The Movement with two-cuts in "One Big Fiesta" and "Not the Kids" - which the duo's notable sound is in the process of developing, but clearly evident to the pairs distinguishable sound. "You Made Me" features Carl Thomas, who shows-off his Stevie Wonder inflections and Luther Vandross ability to turn any slow song into a love song and this number is not a love song. The track is bitterly emceed by Huddy Comb, Meeno and Nas - it's a distressing number.

The album ends on an interesting note, the great rendition of Sam Cooke's legendary "A Change Is Gonna Come" - which is performed by the Harlem Boys Choir. The track is beautifully arranged, harmonized and sung. The emcee's play their part and from a production standpoint it hurdles retro beat making and the NYC party rap sound. The release shockingly tanked, but Movement shouldn't be overlooked because of it's lack of success. Though not the "crew of the year," the majority of the album is well-crafted, but far from extraordinary.

Mase Gumble.......2004-06-17

This cd was hyped to be really something. Ma$e at the time was on top of the rap game and had everyone on his side. His debut cd, "Harlem World" went 4x's platinum and he became a crossover success making way for future acts like Nelly, Ludacris and Chingy. Harlem World's very own debut cd was predicted to be really successful by analyst and fans alike, especially with its pop driven first single, "I Really Like It" featuring Mase's brother Blinky Blink and the rest of the gang. It however was a commercial failure and didnt reach platinum status. As of today Harlem World has not returned and given us a new album. Mase left the rap game in the summer of 1999 for God & opened his own church, named "S.A.N.E ministries" in Atlanta, Georgia. There was never word on whether or not Harlem World (the group) departed, but they are certainly quiet today. This album is a party anthemed cd and is in no fashion gangster or street. My advice is to buy this used for your own safety. Definetely dont pay seventeen bucks for it at virgin records/tower records, you'll be wasting your money.

P.S. Ma$e has returned to the rap game & has made airwaves on New York's Hot97, LA's POWER106 and other radio stations alike with his new song, "Welcome Back". He says hes back to make music, but hes going to disclude cussing or any foul language. Hes here to "Preach" to us clean music, not vulgar raps! :)

ok.......2003-05-02

this CD is not all that, but I give it 3 stars because it's worth it for about 3 to 4 tracks alone, especially I Really Like It, that song takes me back to the 80's because of the New Edition sample and it gives me a blissful feeling.

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