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Soilent Green: Louis Benjamin Falgoust II (vocals); BrianPatton, Ben Stout (guitar); Scott Williams (bass); Tommy Buckley (drums).
Recorded at Balance Studios, Mandeville, Louisiana.
SKU: 1069992

Compilation producers: John Howson, Ian Anderson, Tony Engle.
Includes linernotes by Bob Copper.
SKU: 4130201

King's X: Ty Tabor(vocals, guitar); Doug Pinnick (vocals, bass); Jerry Gaskill (drums, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Brendan O'Brien (keyboards, percussion).
Recorded at Southern Tracks, Atlanta, Georgia.
After the disappointment of their unfocused 1992 self-titled release, King's X unleashed their heaviest release yet two years later. DOGMAN sounded as if the trio had been reborn--they hadn't rocked this convincingly since the dawn of the '90s. Produced by Brendan "Pearl Jam" O'Brien, DOGMAN benefits from straight ahead sound and more focused songwriting (especially when compared to its predessor). The biting title track remains one of the band's best and hardest-hitting rockers, while other standouts include "Shoes," "Fool You," "Complain," and the more low-key "Cigarettes." Unquestionably, DOGMAN is a quintessential King's X release.
SKU: 1006662

Title:Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A,K581
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Venue:Unitarian Church, Budapest

Title:Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 28 in E flat, K380/K374f
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Venue:Unitarian Church, Budapest

Title:Quintet Movement for Clarinet, Basset-Horn and String Trio in F, KAnh90/580b
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Venue:Unitarian Church, Budapest


SKU: 1021914

Title:Symphony No. 5 inC sharp minor
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Bruno Walter
Ensemble:New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra


SKU: 2090763

Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet, organ); Sonny Fortune (soprano & alto saxophones, flute); Pete Cosey (synthesizer, guitar, percussion); Reggie Lucas (guitar); Michael Henderson (electric bass); Al Foster (drums); Mtume (congas, water drum, rhythm box, percussion).
Producer: Teo Macero.
Reissue producer: Mike Berniker.
Recorded live at Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan on February 1, 1975. Includes liner notes by Lee Jeske.
Digitally remastered by Larry Keyes (CBS Records Studios, New York, New York).
Often derided or misunderstood during the time of their original release, Miles Davis' numerous releases following BITCHES BREW are now recognized for their startlingly unconventional beauty. Drawing on rock and funk, Miles unflinchingly followed his muse into the subtle dynamics to be found in hypnotically relentless repetition overlaid with fiery soloing.
This hundred-minute, two-disc set was recorded live in Japan in 1975 and finds Miles trading solos with saxophonist Sonny Fortune over an undulating rhythm thicketof two guitars, electric bass, drums and conga/percussion. Miles punctuates the proceedings and takes the ensemble on abrupt turns in the road with organ stabs and swells. Not for the faint of heart, this is as bracing and dazzling as waves breaking over a spit of shoreline, or fireworks exploding on all sides of you at once.
SKU: 1001382

Title:Maskarade, FS39
Composer:Carl (August)Nielsen (1865 - 1931)


SKU: 2090796

Title:Stabat Mater
Composer:Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)

Title:StabatMater, G532
Composer:Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)


SKU: 1070277

Personnel: Herbie Hancock (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, synthesizer); Bennie Maupin (soprano & tenor saxophones, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute); Paul Jackson (marimbula, bass); Harvey Mason (drums); Bill Summers (congas, shekere, balafon, agogo, cabasa, hindewho, tambourine, log drum, surdo, gankoqui, beer bottle).
Recorded at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co., San Francisco, California. Includes liner notes by Scott H. Thompson and Herbie Hancock.
Head Hunters has spawned a thousand copies and copyists, but is only strengthened through comparison. One of the most enduring works of the 70s' jazz/funk legacy, andsurely one of Herbie Hancock's most enjoyable and infectious recordings, the album was released in the deeply groovy days of 1973, and soon became the best-selling record in jazz history. Loping along on a glorious bed of springy wah-wah and synth bass, the group used all the new technology of the time, and Hancock himself seemed to revel (as he still does) in the latest keyboard sounds available to him. Jazz/funk has never again sounded so exciting and dangerous.
SKU: 3101161

The Legendary Shackshakers: Col. J.D. Wilkes (vocals, banjo, harmonica, keyboards); Joe Buck (guitar, banjo, mandolin, key accordion, upright bass, drums).
Additional personnel: Mark Robertson, PaulSimmons, Donnie Herron, Jason Brown, "Handsome" Andy Gibson.
Recorded at The Wagon, East Nashville, Tennessee.
SKU: 1085441

Fiddler's Bid: Andrew Gifford (guitar, fiddle); Steve Yarrington (guitar); Christopher Stout (fiddle,viola); Kevin Henderson, Maurice Henderson (fiddle); Catriona McKay (Scottish harp, piano); David Coles (bass).
Recorded at Castle Sound, Pentcaitland, Scottish.
SKU: 6481540

Title:Veni creator spiritus
Composer:Anonymous
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:Veni spiritus eternorum alme
Composer:Anonymous
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:O quammirabilis
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:O ignis Spiritus Paracliti
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:O felix anima
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:O ignee Spiritus
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:Caritas abundat in omnia
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:O eternae Deus
Composer:Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Ensemble:Anonymous 4

Title:Beata nobis gaudia
Composer:Anonymous
Ensemble:Anonymous 4


SKU: 2090010

TLC: T-Boz, Chilli, Left-Eye (vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Vic-E (rap vocals); Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis (various instruments); Babyface (acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, drum programming); Michael Thompson (acoustic guitar); Mike Scott, Tomi Martin (guitar); Greg Phillinganes (piano, Wurlitzer piano); Jerry Lumpkins (keyboards); Debra Killings (bass, background vocals); C.C. Thomas, Lamarquis Jefferson, Nathan East, Colin Wolfe (bass); Tim Knight (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Alex Richbourg (drum programming); Dallas Austin, Leslie Brathwaite, Ty-Hudson (background vocals).
Producers include: Cyptron, Dallas Austin, Babyface, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis.
Engineers include: Carlton Lynn, Leslie Brathwaite, Ricciano Lumpkins.
FANMAIL won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best R & B Album. "No Scrubs" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best R & B Song and for Best R & B PerformanceBy A Duo Or Group With Vocal. FANMAIL was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year. "Unpretty" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and Song Of The Year. "No Scrubs" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year.
The bad girls of R&B are back at it again and after a long layoff. Chili, Left Eye, and T-Boz, collectively known as TLC prove that nothing's gonna change their world. With classic TLC demeanor on tracks like "No Scrubs" (sure to get even the most motion-challenged dancer to bust a move), "I'm Good At Being Bad," (TLC at its best) "Silly Ho" and "If They Knew," TLC reminds us why being "bad" is sometimes so attractive. But with all the bad-girl image that TLC works so hard to project, they show their versatility on tracks like "I Miss You So Much" and "Dear Lie." These two cuts show some sentimentality, spotlighting a different side of the TLC their fans have come to know and love.
SKU: 1000358

Title:Sonata forViolin and Piano No. 2 in D, Op. 94a
Composer:Sergey (Sergeyevich) Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)

Title:Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat, Op. 18
Composer:Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949)


SKU: 2080276

2 LPs on 1CD: EVERLASTING LOVE/LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP.
Includes liner notes by Dave Godin.
SKU: 1045783

'Divorce At High Noon' is a re-release of the 1997 album by The Karelia, fronted by a young Alex Huntley (Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand fame). The album is a surprising mix of indie aesthetics and dinner jazz that bears none of the hallmarks of the frontman's future musical direction. Features the video to 'Love's A Cliche'.
SKU: 6582209

'Revolution In Me' is the debut album from ex-Sugababe Siobhan Donaghy. Produced by Cameron McVey (Massive Attack/Neneh Cherry) and Donaghy herself, the album aims for a more contemporary adult pop/rock sound than that of the Sugababes. The singles 'Overrated' and 'Twist Of Fate' arealso featured.
SKU: 1087304

'Rock 'n' Roll' is the fourth album from the former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams. The album, a more electric affair than previous work, features Adams's successful blend of alt. country, garage andpop and sees him joined by guests including ex-Hole bassist Melissa Auf De Maur, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, and actress Parker Posey.
SKU: 1088250

Artists include Louis Armstrong, ColemanHawkins, Benny Carter, Freddy Johnson, Mabel Mercer.
SKU: 6582625

Recording information: TeatroSao Luis, Lisbon, Portugal (11/21/1989).
SKU: 6582737

Title:Symphony No. 50 in C
Composer:(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

Title:Symphony No. 51 in B flat
Composer:(Franz)Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

Title:Symphony No. 52 in C minor
Composer:(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)


SKU: 1086031

Toenut: Katie Walters (vocals, samples); Skipper Hartley, Richie Edelson (guitar); Chris Collins (bass); ColinEnglish (drums).
SKU: 4123571

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 1
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:BBC Symphony Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 2
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:BBC Symphony Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 3, 'Récréation concertante'
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:Philharmonia HungaricaOrchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 4
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 5
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:Milan RAI Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 6, 'Invenzione concertata'
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:Milan RAI Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 7
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:BBC Symphony Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Orchestra No 8
Composer:Goffredo Petrassi (b 1904)
Conductor:Zoltan Peskó
Ensemble:BBC Symphony Orchestra


SKU: 2090602

'Unwrapped' is the first English language album from Gloria Estefan since her self-titled 1998 release. Returning to her trademark sound of up-tempo Latinpop, the album includes duets with Chrissie Hynde and Stevie Wonder alongside Spanish versions of 'Your Picture', 'Wrapped', 'Te Amares' and 'In The Meantime'.
SKU: 1086983

Personnel includes: Elvis Presley, The Jordanaires.
Compilation producers: Joan Deary, Gregg Gellar.
Digitally remastered by Dennis Ferrante and Vince Caro.
In the years since Elvis' death, RCA has chosen various landmark occasions on which to release sets of previously unissued Presley material. ELVIS ARON PRESLEY, sometimes referred to as the "Silver Box," arrived on the fifth anniversary of Presley's passing. PLATINUM: A LIFE IN MUSIC marked the twentieth anniversary. The release of the best of these four-CD boxes, ELVIS: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION, coincided with Presley's fiftieth birthday.
GOLDEN CELEBRATION focuses three of its four discs on the first years of Presley's career. Several excellent Sun session outtakes precede the core of the record, which consists of a complete collection of Presley's incendiary 1956 television performances and a September 1956 homecoming concert in Tupelo, Mississippi. The final disc contains a potpourri of goodies: home demos, an interview with a rude TV Guide reporter, and a generous helping of songsfrom the "sit-down" concert portion of the 1968 Comeback Special. The sound quality on the recordings, a number of which were apparently made on crude home recorders, is usually pretty good, except for the Tupelo concerts which are bootleg quality. Alongside THE COMPLETE '50S MASTERS, GOLDEN CELEBRATION provides an essential panoramic view of Presley's best years.
SKU: 5063846

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Includes 5 untitled hidden tracks following "Super 16."
Quentin Tarantino has always armed himself with an arsenal of eclectic songs for his pop-culture-filled films, and the soundtrack to KILL BILL VOL. 1 is no exception. To kick off the first part of his ultra-violent kung fu revenge extravaganza, Tarantino offers up Nancy Sinatra's brooding "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)." The tone swiftly changes to upbeat rockabilly with the Charlie Feathers ditty "That Certain Female," and the stylistic shifts keeping coming with Luis Bacalov's spry spaghetti Western tune "The Grand Duel - (Parte Prima)" and Bernard Hermann's creepy "Twisted Nerve."
Hip-hop innovator/martial arts fan the RZA contributes two songs (one intriguingly paired with a Charles Bernstein number), Santa Esmeralda stretches out "Don't Let Me BeMisunderstood" into a 10-minute salsa-flavored epic, Meiko Kaji breezes through "The Flower of Carnage," and Neu! appears in an ominous excerpt. Like Uma Thurman as KILL BILL's lead character, any soundtrack that features this bizarre blend of artists--along with Zamfir, Master of the Pan-flute--commands respect and demands that the audience take note of the killer cuts.
SKU: 1087270

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 11 in F, K413/K387a
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 22 in E flat, K482
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)


SKU: 2084249

Personnel: James Cotton (vocals, harmonica); Darrell Nulisch (vocals); Rico McFarland (guitar); DavidMaxwell (piano).
Recorded at The Studio, Portland, Maine. Includes liner notes by Cub Koda.
SKU: 1034555

Personnel includes: Benny Goodman (leader,clarinet); Helen Forrest (vocals); Al Davis (trumpet); Mell Powell (piano); Charlie Christian (guitar); Nick Fatool, Sid Catlett (drums).
Recorded at Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco, California on May 28 and June 4, 1940; The Panther Room of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago Illinois, August 10, 1941.
SKU: 5028852

The digitally remastered VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO is also included in its entirety on the 5 disc set PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE.
Velvet Underground & Nico: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar); Nico (vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar, bass, background vocals); John Cale (electric viola, piano, bass, background vocals); Maureen Tucker (percussion, background vocals).
Recorded at T.T.G. Studios, Hollywood California; Sceptor Studios and Mayfair Sound Studios, New York, New York in April & November 1966 & April-May 1967.
Originally released on Verve (5008).
Brian Eno once said that only a hundred people bought Velvet Underground records when they first came out, but those hundred people all went out and formed their own bands. The rest, of course, is history: the Velvet Underground was the catalyst that helped spark punk rock, and began the growth of an alternative branch within rock & roll's grand family tree. VU's was an unparalleled glimpse into the Summer Of Love's alter ego, complete with graphic, unapologetic descriptions of drug use and risque sexual situations. Their classic 1967 debut, VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO, was a tour de force that may never be equaled for its sheer radicalism in the face of rock convention.
The Velvet Underground also mapped out unconquered sonic territories. Bassist John Cale was weaned on deconstructing classical theory--the perfect avant-garde foil to help bring Lou Reed's terse songs to life. Even more noticeable when he switched to electric viola, Cale's sound evoked the terror of Reed's compositions, with the bowed strings screeching like a runaway subway car. Drummer Maureen Tucker played like no one before her. Her frantic swipes could mimic a galloping rush in "Heroin," or work with the delicate, hesitant charm of "All Tomorrow's Parties." Guitarist Sterling Morrison wasa master of his craft, ably switching from oddly Middle-Eastern plucking (the eerie "All Tomorrow's Parties") to head-on rock (the ultra-edgy "Waiting For The Man"), always adding just the right element to fatten the cacophony. VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO is one of rock's most significant debuts.
SKU: 3102066

All music written by Marc Shaiman.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCDtechnology.
SKU: 1071303

Title:RequiemMass, B165 (Op. 89)
Composer:Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904)

Title:(10) Biblical Songs, B185 (Op. 99)
Composer:Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904)


SKU: 5030970

Full title: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964-The Philharmonic Hall Concert.
Includes a 52-page booklet.
Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, acoustic guitar); Joan Baez.
Recorded at Philharmonic Hall, New York, New York on October 31, 1964. Includes liner notes by Sean Wilentz.
In 1964, when the Beatles where still singing "I Want to Hold Your Hand," Bob Dylan was quietly making history at New York's Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall). ANOTHER SIDE OF BOBDYLAN had recently been released, but even the flights of fancy on "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" (both performed here), while unprecedented, couldn't have prepared the audience for the Big Bang of songwriting represented by the still-unrecorded "Gates of Eden" and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)." In a voice full of youthful vitality and insouciance, Dylan delivered groundbreaking poetic epics to a crowd that must have been equally confounded and exhilarated.
Disc Two contains more of Dylan's older, more conventional material as well as four duets with Joan Baez, including the folk ballad "Silver Dagger," which Dylan would never record. As full of life as this second half of the Philharmonic concert is, it still serves as a breath-catching period in the wake of the world-changing new songs heard in the first set. Probably only a few of those in attendance realized it at the time, but music would never be the same again.
SKU: 1087433

Personnel includes: CalebKlauder (vocals, mandolin).
SKU: 1053167

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov(1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:Sonata for Piano No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)


SKU: 1063158

Personnel: Taj Mahal (vocals, dobro, harmonica, kazoo); Bonnie Raitt (vocals); Eric Clapton, Johnny Lee Schell, John Porter (guitar); Mike Campbell (12-string guitar); Joe Sublett (soprano & tenor saxophones); Marty Grebb (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, background vocals); Darrell Leonard (trumpet, French horn, trombone, trombonium); Ian McLagan, Jon Cleary, Bill Payne (piano); Mick Weaver (Hammond B-3 organ); Jon Brion (chamberlin); Bob Glaub, Larry Fulcher, James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass); Tony Braunagel (drums, tambourine, percussion); Richie Hayward (drums); Michito Sanchez (percussion); "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, Terrence Forsythe (background vocals).
Recorded at Studio 55, House Of Blues Studios West, Ocean Way & Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California; Devonshire Audio/Video Studio, North Hollywood, California; Red Zone Studios, Burbank, California.
Despite Taj Mahal having spent mostof his musical life gaining a reputation as a guitar-playing ethnomusicologist versed in rural black American and Caribbean genres, his lighter side is equally as entrancing, as can be heard on this compilation of mostly covers. The only Mahal originals included are the poignant "Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes" and the raunchy, Howlin' Wolf-flavored "Blues Ain't Nothin'." The rest of BEST OF finds this musical jack-of-all trades showing his ease at moving between interpretations of Hank Williams (a rollicking "Mind Your Own Business"), Horace Silver (the dark be-bop of "Senor Blues"), and Otis Redding (a brassy "Mr. Pitiful").
Elsewhere, Mahal's raspy delivery perfectly fires up rollicking versions of Jessie Hill's "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" and Hank Ballard's "The Hoochi Coochi Coo." Other highlights include a kazoo solo on the Washboard Sam shuffle "Sophisticated Mama," and duets with Bonnie Raitt and Etta James. On the former, Mahal hoots and howls alongside Raitt's dulcet tunes on Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford's "Need Your Lovin'." The latter collaboration also features a ballsy reading of Charles & Inez Foxx's "Mockingbird."
SKU: 1038842

Originally released as two separate albums, SNAFU and SITUATION NORMAL, in 1972 and 1973 respectively. This1998 reissue contains two bonus tracks.
Snafu: Bobby Harrison (vocals, percussion); Micky Moody (guitar, mandolin); Pete Solley (keyboards); Colin Gibson (bass); Terry Popple (drums).
SKU: 4124716

Title:Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Title:Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
Composer:Sir Edward (William) Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Title:Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Composer:Joaquín Rodrigo (1901 - 1999)

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F, Op. 102
Composer:Dmitry (Dmitriyevich) Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Title:Peer Gynt, Opp. 46 & 55
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Title:Madama Butterfly
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)

Title:Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
Composer:Max (Karl August) Bruch (1838 - 1920)

Title:Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A, K622
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:(L')Arlésienne
Composer:Georges (Alexandre César Léopold) Bizet (1838 - 1875)

Title:Concertofor Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:Mors et Vita
Composer:Charles (François) Gounod (1818 - 1893)

Title:(12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Op. 8
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma', Op. 36
Composer:Sir Edward (William) Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Title:(A) Midsummer Night's Dream, Opp. 21 and 61
Composer:(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1809 - 1847)

Title:Pavane pour une infante défunte
Composer:(Joseph) Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

Title:(The) Deer Hunter
Composer:Stanley Myers (1934 - 1993)

Title:Spem in alium
Composer:Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585)

Title:Koanga, RTI/4
Composer:Frederick (Theodore Albert) Delius (1862 - 1934)

Title:Schindler's List
Composer:John (Towner) Williams (b 1932)

Title:Agnus Dei, Op. 11
Composer:Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)

Title:Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' in F, Op. 68
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:(Le) Carnaval des animaux, 'Carnival of the Animals'
Composer:(Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Title:Vocalise, Op. 34/14
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Title:(26) Preludes
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:Spiegel im Spiegel
Composer:Arvo Pärt (b 1935)

Title:(5) Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)


SKU: 1045997

Personnel: Joel Harrison (vocals, electric guitar, steel guitar); Jen Chapin, Norah Jones (vocals); David Binney (saxophone); Tony Cedras (accordion);
RobThomas (violin); Uri Caine (piano); Rob Burger (keyboards); Stephan Crump, Sean Conly (bass); Alison Miller, Dan Weiss (drums); Todd Isler (percussion).
Includes liner notes by Joel Harrison.
SKU: 1082708

This 2CD 'best of' features the most popular recordings by the Italian rap act whoformed in 1991. The MC's Luca Persico and Maria Di Donna perform tracks in both English and Italian. The early single 'Salario garantito' is included.
SKU: 6482980

This is the fifth studio album from US punk rockers Blink 182 following up the hugely successful 2001 release 'Take Off Your Pants And Jacket'. The album sees the band start a fresh with a new mature punk sound doing away with the frat-punk they had becomeknown for. The album also includes the single 'Feeling This'.
SKU: 6545352

Title:Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Conductor:Carlo MariaGiulini

Title:Tragic Overture, Op. 81
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Conductor:Carlo Maria Giulini

Title:Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale', Op. 56a
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Conductor:Carlo Maria Giulini


SKU: 2087962

Title:Album of Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, S166m/n
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Album of Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, S166m/n
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Album of Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, S166m/n
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Album of Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, S166m/n
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Album of Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, S166m/n
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Zigeuner-Epos, S695b
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Célèbre mélodie Hongroise, S243a
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(3) Early Drafts of Pieces
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(3) Early Drafts of Pieces
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 -1886)

Title:(3) Early Drafts of Pieces
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Lugubre Gondola, S199a
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(3) Album Leaves
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(3) Album Leaves
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(3) Album Leaves
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)


SKU: 1079654

Teen Idols: Kevin (vocals); Phillip (guitar, background vocals); Heather (bass, background vocals); Matt (drums).
Recorded at SonicIguana Studios, Lafayette, Indiana.
SKU: 1085070

Fulltitle: Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump.
A bonus track from the ART OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE sessions is available at www.tommyboy.com/aoi.
De La Soul: Kalvin "Posdunos" Mercer, David "Trugoy The Dove" Jolicoeur (rap vocals); Vincent "Maseo" Mason (turntables).
Additional personnel includes: Hope Wilson, Chaka Khan, Aiya Merier, Jean Francois, Supa Dav West (vocals); Mike D, Ad Rock, Tash, J-Ro, Redman, Pharoahe Monch, Indeed, D.V. Alias Khrist, Busta Rhymes, Indeed, Freddie Foxxx (rap vocals); Pino Palladino (bass); Scratch (turntables).
Producers include: Supa Dav West, De La Soul, Ad Lib, Jaydee, Rockwilder.
Recorded at Mirror Image Studios, New York, New York.
"Oooh." was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
De La Soul is one of the few groups that consistently release albums that leave a lasting impression on hip-hop. Its fifth album, ART OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, is the first installment in a three CD set that's intended to be the trio's farewell to rap.
With this in mind, De La Soul gives its fans the same flavor it has become famous for over the years. It blurs its own sonic boundaries with songs like "Thru Ya City," featuring DV Alias Khrist, which sounds harder than is usual for the former Daisy Agers. On "Squat," Pos, Dove, and Mase collaborate with The Beastie Boys for a different effect, but the majority of the album remains calm; check out "Oooh!" featuring Redman for De La Soul at its best.
SKU: 1086829

Personnel includes: Mya, Jadakiss,Left Eye, Jordan Knight.
Producers include: Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean, Jerry Wonder, Knobody, C. Tricky Stewart.
Recorded at Studio 56 and American Studios, Hollywood, California.
SKU: 1055091

This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJHyper.
SKU: 1069491

Title:(The) Nutcracker, Op. 71
Composer:Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Venue:Kingsway Hall, London

Title:(Le) Papillon
Composer:Jacques Offenbach (1819- 1880)
Venue:Kingsway Hall, London


SKU: 5002211

House Of Pain: Everlast, Danny Boy O'Connor (vocals); D.J. Lethal.
Additional personnel: Guru, Sadat X, Divine Styler, Cockni O'Dire (vocals).
Recorded at Ameraycan Studios, North Hollywood, California.
House Of Pain's third album is a murky, nightmarish soundscape that curls around the listener like a cloud of pot smoke. The minor-key synth chords and simple, bass-heavy beats provided by D.J. Lethal, and the rough, husky voices of Everlast and Danny Boy O'Connor paint a picture of grim urbandesolation, as eerie as it is urgent. House Of Pain employs none of the tongue-twisting vocal gymnastics and erratic phrasing that are staples of modern hip-hop. Rather, Everlast and O'Connor come off like groovy stormtroopers, declaiming with a brutish immediacy and rhythmic simplicity that connect like a kidney punch.
Guests Guru ("Fed Up" remix) and Sadat X ("Heart Full Of Sorrow") expand the sonic horizons of TRUTH CRUSHED with their sinuous contributions, but the bottom line here is the unvarnished brutality of the streets. This is the world represented on the ominous "The Have Nots" and the uncompromising "Choose Your Poison." Miles away from the bounce and levity of House Of Pain's early work, TRUTH CRUSHED is a lethal dose of hard-core hip-hop that makes no concessions to commerciality.
SKU: 1087321

This live album was compiled from various dates on Paul McCartney's tour of the US in Spring 2002. His band included Brian Ray, Rusty Anderson, Abe Laboriel Jr. and Paul Wickens. This doubledisc set includes twenty-one live reinterpretations of Beatles tracks, alongside versions of tracks from McCartney's solo career.
SKU: 1081081

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E flat
Composer:Sir George Dyson (1883 - 1964)
Venue:St Jude's Church,London

Title:Children's Suite, 'Won't you look out of your window?'
Composer:SirGeorge Dyson (1883 - 1964)
Venue:St Jude's Church,London


SKU: 8002126

Helloween includes: Andi Deris, Michael Kiske (vocals); Kai Hansen (guitar, background vocals); Michael Weikath, Roland (guitar); Markus Grosskopf (bass); Uli Kusch, Ingo Schwichtenberg (drums).
Producers include: Roy Z, Charlie Bauerfeind, Tommy Hansen, Tommy Newton,Harris Johns.
Engineers include: Michael Tibes, Tommy Hansen, Chris Tsangarides.
Recorded between 1985 and 1999. Includes liner notes by Matthias Mineur.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
SKU: 1071050

Personnel: Brad Mehldau (piano).
Recording information: Triphony, Hall, Tokyo, Japan (02/15/2003).
In the early 2000s, more and more jazz musicians began breaking away from the Great American Songbook. Rather than limiting themselves to the standard tunes fromTin Pan Alley and Broadway, jazz artists started to embrace pop music to a greater extent. Pianist Brad Mehldau was one of the most noted proponents of this shift.
On the 2004 solo outing, LIVE IN TOKYO, Mehldau further distances himself from the older pianistic traditions of Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, et al. This is evidenced by his choice of repertoire, which includes two songs by melancholy British folk icon Nick Drake ("Things Behind the Sun" and "River Man") and one by rock renegades Radiohead ("Paranoid Android"). Mehldau's interpretations also avoid bebop stylings and instead draw from a more eclectic blend of atonality, minimalism, and abstraction. Mehldau's version of "Paranoid Android" is a good example of this musical stew; the song is marked by haunting chordal textures and complex melodic gestures. Of course, the track list does reveal some familiar pieces by George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Thelonious Monk. However, these, too, are treated with the same kind of conceptual approach that Mehldau fearlessly applies to Drake and Radiohead.
SKU: 6571279

This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Neurosis: Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly (vocals, guitar, percussion); Noah Landis(keyboards, samples, background vocals); Dave Edwardson (Moog synthesizer, bass, background vocals); Jason Roeder (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Kristin Von Till, Jerry Landis (spoken vocals); Kris Force (violin); Jackie Gratz (cello); Jon Birdsong (cornet, tuba); Johannes Mager (trombone).
Engineers: Steve Albini, Greg Norman, Bob Bochnick.
Recorded at Electric Audio, Chicago, Illinois and Mr. Toads, San Francisco, California.
SKU: 1046957

Recorded between 1995 and 1998,Includes liner notes by Victor Randrianary.
SKU: 1053207

Personnel: Carlos Santana (guitar); Mahavishnu John McLaughlin (guitar, piano); Larry Young (organ); Doug Rauch (bass); Billy Cobham, Don Alias,
Jan Hammer, Mike Shrieve (drums); Armando Peraza (congas).
Recorded in 1972. Originally released on Columbia (32034). Includes liner notes by Hal Miller.
Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin are two of jazz-rock's finest guitarists, virtuosos who temper their fire with deep spirituality. This album is a summit meeting between the two string wizards and their respective bands; Santana's percussionists mix it up with Jan Hammer and Billy Cobham of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The guitarists created this album as a tribute to their then-guru, spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy. The passion and purity of their belief in Chinmoy's teachings ismatched by the technical facility that could only have come from the discipline their faith provided them.
Two Coltrane pieces open up the album. Santana and McLaughlin enter with all guns blazing, breathing electric fire on a raucous version of "A Love Supreme," given a '73-vintage fusion overhaul. Things get acoustic and contemplative on Coltrane's "Naima." Two blazing, all-out shredfests follow, with death-defying fretwork from both of the principals. Things close out on a reflective note with the short, gentle, acoustic-based "meditation." LOVE DEVOTION SURRENDER is a classic of the first and greatest jazz-rock era, recommended to fans of the leaders' aforementioned bands, as well as aficionados of the Tony Williams Lifetime and Miles Davis's BITCHES BREW, both of which featured McLaughlin.
SKU: 1087411

A collection of songs put together by Earth Crisis, which span their careerfrom 1991-2001. A potent blend of extreme hardcore punk and metal.
SKU: 1069066

Title:Concerto for Piccolo and Strings in C, RV444
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 -1741)

Title:(6) Concerti for Flute and Strings, Op. 10
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:Concerto for Cello and Strings in C minor, RV401
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:(6) Concerti for Flute and Strings, Op. 10
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:Concerto for Cello and Strings in B minor, RV424
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:(6) Concerti for Flute and Strings, Op. 10
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Title:Concerto for Sopranino Recorder and Strings in C, RV443
Composer:Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)


SKU: 2085277

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D, Op. 77
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Composer:Max (Karl August) Bruch (1838 - 1920)


SKU: 5003150

Title:Variations on an original theme in D, Op. 21/1
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Venue:Clara Wieck Auditorium,Heidelberg

Title:Variations on aHungarian song in D, Op. 21/2
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Venue:Clara Wieck Auditorium,Heidelberg

Title:(5) Piano Studies
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Venue:Clara Wieck Auditorium,Heidelberg


SKU: 5002401

Title:Concertofor 2 Oboes, Trumpet and Strings No. 1 in D
Composer:Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden

Title:Concerto in D
Composer:Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden

Title:Concerto for Corno da Caccia and Strings in E flat
Composer:Johann Georg Röllig (1710 - 1790)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden

Title:Suonata con stromenti e tromba, G1
Composer:Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden

Title:Concerto for Trumpet and Strings in E flat
Composer:Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c1707-c1780)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden

Title:Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat
Composer:Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
Ensemble:Virtuosi Saxoniae Orchestra
Venue:Lukaskirche, Dresden


SKU: 1063546

Contains 48 tracks.
Recorded inthe late-1960's.
SKU: 6531565

Compilation producers: Vincent Degiorgio, Scot McFadyen, Michael Perlmutter, Bill Rosenfeld.
Includes liner notes by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman.
This disc offers the music featured in the TV series QUEER AS FOLK. The show began in England, and was initially deemed too controversial to be shown in the US. However, Showtime took up the gauntlet and created its own series based on the original, focusing on the ups and downs of life as a homosexual in today's world. The songs included here are the kind you'd be likely to hear on a long evening of cosmopolitan club-hopping (specifically an evening of gay club-hopping). Synth blasts and house beats are the order of the day, as frenetic dance rhythms pound out a hectic cadence. There are some variations, though, such as the old-school disco beat of Alcazar's "Crying at the Discoteque," the muted, jazz-sampling "Straight To...Number One," and a clubbed up take on the Deniece Williams '80s hit"Let's Hear it for the Boy" that gives the old FOOTLOOSE anthem a whole new context.
SKU: 1059325

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England on November 22, 2002.
George Harrison was always known as the Beatle with the most pronounced interest in spirituality and distaste for earthly contrivances. The intensity of feeling, palpable here inthe performances of Harrison's musical friends at his memorial concert, mirrors the depth of emotion on the part of the millions touched by "the quiet Beatle"'s work over the years. The first disc of this live recording features musical tributes from Harrison's Indian mentor Ravi Shankar and Shankar's sitar-virtuoso daughter Anoushka--fitting for a Brit who pioneered the incorporation of Eastern flavors into 1960s rock.
The second disc is a full-on rock-star tribute, but instead of the overkill one might expect with so much rock royalty involved (including musical director Eric Clapton), the result is a straightforward, perfectly rendered, and touchingly sincere program of Harrison's finest compositions. From fellow travelers Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr's respective versions of "All Things Must Pass" and "Photograph" to early British rocker/Beatles influence Joe Brown's humble take on "Here Comes the Sun," CONCERT FOR GEORGE overflows with honest outpourings of love and fine performances in equal measure.
SKU: 1088720

Title:String Quartet No. 1 in B flat,Op. 11
Composer:Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)

Title:String Quartet No. 2, Op. 31
Composer:Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)


SKU: 2088738

Title:Tragoedia
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:(5) Distances
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:(3) Settingsof Celan
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:Secret Theatre
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:Endless Parade
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:Panic
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)

Title:Earth Dances
Composer:Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)


SKU: 1061112

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Venue:Tivoli Concert Hall,Copenhagen

Title:(24) Preludes
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Venue:Tivoli Concert Hall,Copenhagen

Title:Sonata for Piano No. 2 in Bflat minor, Op. 36
Composer:Sergey (Vasil'yevich) Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Venue:Tivoli Concert Hall,Copenhagen


SKU: 2060810

Title:Grand duo concertant, J204 (Op. 48)
Composer:Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst) von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Venue:St John's Smith Square

Title:(7) Variations on a theme from 'Silvana', J128 (Op. 33)
Composer:Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst) von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Venue:St John's Smith Square

Title:(3) Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Venue:St John's Smith Square

Title:Fantasia on Verdi's 'La traviata', Op. 45
Composer:Donato Lovreglio (1841 - 1907)
Venue:St John's Smith Square

Title:Duo in E flat, Op. 15
Composer:(August Joseph) Norbert Burgmüller (1810 -1836)
Venue:St John's Smith Square

Title:(Il) Carnevale di Venezia
Composer:Alamiro Giampieri (1893 - 1963)
Venue:St John's Smith Square


SKU: 5057176

Full title: Live: Entertainment Or Death.
This is an EnhancedCD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Enhancements include the "Wild Side" video.
Motley Crue: Vince Neil (vocals); Mick Mars (guitar); Nikki Six (bass); Tommy Lee (drums).
Recorded between 1982 & 1999. Includes liner notes by Paul Miles.
Long overdue and eagerly awaited by Crueheads and metal fans alike, ENTERTAINMENT OR DEATH is the first live Motley Crue release. And instead of just pulling a couple shows from the group's reunion tour, this package covers Motley Crue's entire career; it is an audio souvenir of one of the most exciting live bands ever.
"Looks That Kill" (Fresno '85) is classic Crue and opens this trip down metal memory lane. "Home Sweet Home" (Dallas '98) will have you raising your lighter in the air. Vince Neil's arena war cries never disappoint, and ex-drummer Tommy Lee exclaims "been thereawrecked that s**t" before breaking into "Wildside." Lesser-known Crue gems like "Knock 'Em Dead Kid" and "Public Enemy #1" are supplemented by chart-toppers like "Smokin' in the Boy's Room" and "Girls, Girls, Girls." A raucous cover of "Helter Skelter" from the band's early live gigs highlights the set. ENTERTAINMENT is the true Motley live experience, with attitude-driven renditions of the band's best material. The Crue kicks it into high gear on every track.
SKU: 1084757

Title:(The) Queen of Spades, 'Pique Dame'
Composer:Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Title:Manon Lescaut
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)

Title:Lohengrin
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

Title:Simon Boccanegra
Composer:Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Title:Jenufa
Composer:Leos Janácek (1854 - 1928)

Title:(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 2, '(Die) Walküre'
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

Title:Elektra,Op. 58
Composer:Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949)

Title:(Die) Lustige Witwe, '(The) Merry Widow'
Composer:Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948)


SKU: 1060777

Blackstreet: Teddy "Street" Riley, Eric "E" Williams (vocals, various instruments); Chauncey "Black" Hannibal, Mark L. Middleton (vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Dr. Dre, Queen Pen, Beverly Crowder, Karen Anderson, Shaquanna Elam, Darryl Adams, ELAN, Lamenga Ford, Shannon Cooper, Deja, Taja (vocals); William Stewart, Sprague Williams, Serban Ghenea, Eric Williams, Wesley Hoggs, Tommy Sims (various instruments); Frank "Nitty" Pimental, Roosevelt Harrell (programming).
"No Diggity" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and was nominated for Best R&B Song.
Teddy Riley's fans were begging for a reunion of Guy, the trio with which he brought deep-soul music back to the R&B genre, but Riley chose to forge ahead with his new band, Blackstreet, instead. Wise move. Blackstreet's second album really does take the Riley R&B sound to ANOTHER LEVEL. It's one of the best R&B albums we've heard in a long time.
The tracks here are unbelievably funky, and though two of Blackstreet's four singers have turned over since the debut--the new ones are Eric Williams and Mark L. Middleton--the vocal harmonies are breathtaking. Classic Stevie Wonder would be an apt comparison. Riley evokes old-schoolsoul a number of times here--"Don't Leave Me" and "The Lord Is Real" sample the DeBarge tunes "A Dream" and "Time Will Reveal," respectively. But that's not to say Blackstreet doesn't move forward to ANOTHER LEVEL, because with super-producer Riley, of course it does.
SKU: 1019861

WesMontgomery Trio: Wes Montgomery (guitar); Mel Rhyne (organ); George Brown (drums).
Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York, New York on October 10 and November 27, 1963. Originally released on Riverside (9419). Includes liner notes by Dam Morgenstern and Orrin Keepnews.
Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
SKU: 1002201