Sarah Vaughan Bop's greatest diva, Sarah Vaughan was among jazz and popular music's supreme vocalists. She treated her voice as an instrument, improvising melodic and rhythmic embellishments, using her contralto range to make leaps and jumps, changing a song's mood or direction by enunication and delivery, and altering her timbre. She turned sappy novelty tunes and light pop into definitive, jazz-based treatments. She had a distinctive swinging quality and intensity in her style, and was also a great scat singer. Vaughan was a dominant performer from the late '40s until the '80s, when illness forced her to cut back her appearances. Vaughan's recorded legacy stands with anyone in modern jazz history. She sang in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church choir as a child and became its organist at 12.

What a guy! What a picker! What a set! A seminal, and hugely-praised set from one of the most influential musicians in country music. It not only includes all of his Capitol recordings from 1946-1955, but it also includes incredibly rare recordings for King, Bel-Tone, and other small labels, some done under pseudonyms like Tem Martin and the Shepherd Brothers. The famous Merle Travis guitar is featured on the rare guitar-only albums, and the hits here include Divorce Me COD, Steel Guitar Rag, No Vacancy, and Cincinnati Lou. As always, though, the real story is in the rare singles, album cuts, and unissued recordings where Merle's guitar and his winning humor shine. A feast for any fan of finger-style guitar!

Known to Americans most for her belting rendition of the theme to Goldfinger, the 1964 edition in the James Bond series (as well as 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and 1979's Moonraker), Shirley Bassey was one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century. Known as "Bassey the Belter" and also the "Tigress of Tiger Bay," her early career in touring shows and cabaret brought her a recording contract with Philips by the late '50s. After reaching the top of the British charts in 1959 with "As I Love You" and later "Reach for the Stars/Climb Every Mountain," Bassey was tapped to sing the theme song to the third James Bond vehicle. Her voice, brassy and sexy, conveyed the James Bond myth perfectly, and the song became a big hit in America. Though later chart placings in the U.S. were few, she continued to do well in Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands into the mid-'70s.

Music Brokers Presents Vintage Reggae Cafe, Vol.16 album original hits and the original artists genre Jazz, Reggae.

Founded in London in 1968 by singer Phil Mogg, bassist Pete Way, guitarist Mick Bolton and Andy Parker on drums, UFO are considered one of the best classic rock acts to date, and a key influence on many of the 1980s and 1990s hard rock and heavy metal bands. The group have undergone many line-up changes with singer Phil Mogg as the sole constant until April 2024, and sold over 20 million albums worldwide, achieving their biggest success between 1973 and 1978 with young guitar wizard Michael Schenker, and world hits such as ‘Doctor Doctor,’ ‘Rock Bottom’ and ‘Only You Can Rock Me.’ UFO LIVE offers a glimpse into some of UFO’s mesmerising live performances in the group’s early career; with excerpts from their TV appearances at Germany’s legendary Beat Club on Dec 31st, 1970; France’s Rock En Stock Festival of October 1972, to the band’s show at the world famous Funkausstellung in Berlin in September 1973 (broadcasted at Music Today on October 13th, 1973), and an energetic performance at the Roundhouse in London on Dec 18th, 1975, broadcasted by French TV’s Juke Box on Aug 12th, 1976. Includes the iconic live version of the German Top 30 hit song ‘Boogie For George’ from UFO’s first album UFO 1; the band’s fan-favourite heavy version of the Eddie Cochran classic ‘C’mon Everybody,’ and ‘Prince Kajuku’ from their UFO 2: Flying album, which reached #26 in the German charts in 1971, featuring guitarist Michael Schenker’s very first TV-appearance with UFO at the Funkausstellung Berlin 1973.

Marking twenty years since the passing of Carlo Maria Giulini. A true giant of the baton, Giulini was one of the greatest figures of the classical world in the twentieth century, leading the major orchestras worldwide, and building an exceptional discography. Our beautiful comprehensive CD box set is an unmissable testimony of his unique talent. Here we re-release in high resolution a remastering of one of his most splendid achievements, Dvořák’s symphonies.

John Lee Hooker is one of the true giants of blues, ranking alongside the likes of other post-war greats such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf as one of the artists who contributed massively to the development of the genre. His driving boogie style has become an essential element of the way blues is played in the modern era. He took the simple structures of Delta blues, sometimes using one and two-chord compositions, but added a fierce, relentless and hypnotically rhythmic approach, underlining the rawness of the messages in his songs. He was one of the blues artists who exerted a substantial influence on emerging stars in the rock ‘n’ roll era, from Bob Dylan through to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and his legacy resonates through the rock music of the last half-century. He recorded prolifically under a number of names, but this great value 101-track 4-CD collection focuses on the singles he released under his own name (or in the case of some Chess singles, as John Lee Booker) on the Modern, Chess and VeeJay labels from 1949 through to 1962. It naturally includes his big R&B hits during that period - “Boogie Chillen”, “Crawlin’ King Snake”, “Hobo Blues”, “Hoogie Boogie”, “I’m In The Mood”, “Boom Boom” and “Dimples”, some of which have become blues and R&B standards. Includes comprehensive booklet with full discographical and session information. It’s a thorough overview of his output during what was perhaps the key era of his career, and a fine showcase for his unique talent.

For the internationally acclaimed soloist Jennifer Lim, it has been a long, cherished wish to record the complete Mozart pianos sonatas. She has finished just that with GENUIN, where her last, critically acclaimed recordings were also released. She invites her audience to Mozart's piano universe, from the first, youthful and stormy works of the teenager to the glowing and infinitely complex sonatas of his final years. She groups the works according to musical aspects rather than chronological order. This offers a special listening pleasure and reveals unexpected and connective relationships between the works.

The famous alto solo cantatas by J.S. Bach not only display an extraordinary musical variety, but also place the highest demands on the virtuosity of the singing voice. Nowadays, these cantatas are mostly performed by countertenors. The exceptional alto Seda Amir-Karayan is bucking this trend. She is accompanied by the young baroque orchestra Camerata Vivaldiana under the direction of Fritz Krämer. And as a further speciality, she combines this magnificent figural music with the ancient, simple a cappella church chants from her Armenian homeland, which on the one hand form a captivating contrast, but at the same time show an astonishing closeness to the cantatas of the Thomaskantor in their spiritual content.

Marking twenty years since the passing of Carlo Maria Giulini. A true giant of the baton, Giulini was one of the greatest figures of the classical world in the twentieth century, leading the major orchestras worldwide, and building an exceptional discography. Our beautiful comprehensive CD box set is an unmissable testimony of his unique talent. Here we present a high resolution remastering of one of his most splendid achievements, a legendary version of The Marriage of Figaro, with a five-stars cast including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo or Giuseppe Taddei.

Following the Pandolfi-Mealli's Sonatas disc (CC72948), Eva Saladin's second contribution to Challenge Classics catalogue is a collection of Sonatas by Veracini. Following Veracini's own suggestion, this is a personal selection of favourite movements from the twelve sonatas in the anthology.

The Doobie Brothers had two distinct phases during their 1970s peak, evolving from boogie rockers with a penchant for mellow good vibes into a smooth blue-eyed soul outfit. Subsequent reunions and decades as a successful live attraction blurred the divide between the rambling "Black Water" and funky "What a Fool Believes," the band's two number one hits on Billboard.

Specializing in raunchy, sleazy boogie and melodramatic ballads, Aerosmith were one of the biggest hard rock bands to emerge in the 1970s, shaping the sound and style of hard rock and metal in the decades to come.

As a songwriter and performer, Willie Nelson has played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid-'70s, he spent the 1960s writing songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ("Night Life"), Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls"), and Billy Walker ("Funny How Time Slips Away"), as well as releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small but devoted cult following. During the early '70s, Nelson abandoned Nashville for his native Texas, setting up shop with the redneck hippies in Austin and taking control of his music on the landmark Shotgun Willie (1973) and Phases & Stages (1974). He found a kindred spirit in Waylon Jennings and, together, they spearheaded the outlaw country movement that finally made him a star by 1975.

Music Brokers Presents Vintage Reggae Cafe, Vol.16 album original hits and the original artists genre Jazz, Reggae.