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The Who ''Who's Next'' (Deluxe Edition)

The Who

''Who's Next''
(Deluxe Edition) (2003)
( Original LP released on Track Records, Catalog # 2408 102, UK, 1971 )

Tracklsting:
Disc: 1
1. Baba O'Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain't For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
6. Getting In Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won't Get Fooled Again
10. Baby Don't You Do It (Bonus Track)
11. Getting In Tune (Bonus Track)
12. Pure And Easy (Bonus Track)
13. Love Ain't For Keeping (Bonus Track)
14. Behind Blue Eyes (Bonus Track)
15. Won't Get Fooled Again (Bonus Track)
Disc: 2
1. Love Ain't For Keeping (Live At The Young Vic)
2. Pure And Easy (Live At The Young Vic)
3. Young Man Blues (Live At The Young Vic)
4. Time Is Passing (Live At The Young Vic)
5. Behind Blue Eyes (Live At The Young Vic)
6. I Don't Even Know Myself (Live At The Young Vic)
7. Too Much (Live At The Young Vic)
8. Of Anything (Live At The Young Vic)
9. Getting In Tune (Live At The Young Vic)
10. Bargain (Live At The Young Vic)
11. My Generation (Live At The Young Vic)
12. (I'm A) Road Runner (Live At The Young Vic)
13. Naked Eye (Live At The Young Vic)
14. Won't Get Fooled Again (Live At The Young Vic)

Album Information:
Original Release Date: March 25, 2003
Produced by: The Who
Associate Produce: Glyn Johns
Executive Producers: Kit Lambert, Chris Stamp, Pete Kameron
Violin on ''Baba O'Riley'' produced by Keith Moon
Roger Daltrey: Vocals
Keith Moon: Drums, Percussion
John Entwistle: Bass, Brass, Vocals, and Piano on ''My Wife''
Pete Townshend: Guitars, VCS3 Organ, A.R.P. Synthesizer, Vocals, and Piano on ''Baba O'Riley''
Nicky Hopkins: Piano on ''The Song Is Over'' and ''Gettin' In Tune''
Dave Arbus: Violin on ''Baba O'Riley''

Notes:
It seems amazing that a band that frequently smashed their instruments and set off smoke bombs on stage would be able to sit down and write a thoughtful and calm album. Even though for some time they were listed as the World's Loudest Rock Band, you wouldn't know it from this album. At a time when The Who were delving deep into the art of musical composition, this record almost seems strangely out of place. Following the successful rock opera Tommy, and immediately preceding another rock opera, Quadrophenia, this conventional rock album doesn't really fit into the direction The Who seemed to be headed in. However, Who's Next is actually partially comprised by a double rock opera named The Lifehouse Project that wasn't finished until year 2000. The Who's Next portion of this project contains the story of total contamination of the world via pollution, and everyone wears ''Lifesuits'' that simulate a life from within the house. A man starts up a rock concert where people do not have to wear 'Lifesuits' due to the fact that they are outside the pollution's range, and when the police storm it, the 'perfect'note is hit, and everyone watching and in the concert disappears. With The Lifehouse Project supposedly a disaster, it turned out to be a great step for The Who, for when Who's Next was released in 1971, it would become The Who's finest hour, as it became the most successful album ever recorded by the band.
Recorded and Mixed by Glyn Johns at Olympic Studios
All songs published by Towser Tunes, BMI
All songs composed by Pete Townshend except ''My Wife'', composed by John Entwistle

Sources:
''Who's Next'' album cover booklet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who
http://cuip.net/~stuart/t-shirt/Who..._Next-front.jpg
http://www.lapsus-gil.de/pix/q-who-live.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=487464

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Blue Mitchell ''Step Lightly''

Blue Mitchell

''Step Lightly''

Note:

This is a vinyl copy of album re-issued in NZ 1982 on World Record Club.
Recorded on August 13th 1963. The Blue Note original was never released in NZ.
Catalog # WC 4467

Tracklisting:
1.Mamacita
2.Sweet and lovely
3.Andrea
4.Step lightly
5.Cry me a river
6.Bluesville

Personnel:
Blue Mitchell - Trumpet
Joe Henderson - Tenor Saxophone
Leo Wright - Alto Saxophone
Herbie Hancock - Piano
Gene Taylor - Bass
Roy Brooks - Drums

Review:
This August, 1963 session was Blue Mitchell's first as a leader for Blue Note, but remained unreleased until 1980, by which time the soulful trumpeter had already passed away. Ironically, it's also never been issued on CD in the US, and this 1994 Japanese edition is currently the only way to own it in that format. While Mitchell's later BN dates with his own working quintet are rightly considered his best, the lineup on STEP LIGHTLY (Joe Henderson on tenor, Leo Wright on alto, Herbie Hancock on piano and longtime Mitchell associates Gene Taylor and Roy Brooks on bass and drums respectively) offers a unique opportunity to hear him fronting what was, in retrospect, almost an all-star band.
Blue seldom composed more than one tune on any of his '60s dates; here he composed none. Instead, just as he would highlight the music of Jimmy Heath on THE THING TO DO a year later, Mitchell here focuses on compositions by the multigifted Henderson. "Mamacita" opens things in a lively Latin fashion which would serve as the template for Blue's own self-penned openers on subsequent sessions; and the title track, recorded here for the first time, has become a classic for its elegantly moody atmosphere. The standards "Sweet and Lovely" and "Cry Me a River" are handled nicely, with Hancock providing the splendid runs and solos (to say nothing of the perfectly tossed chords) so typical of his work at this time. The saxophonists too have many fine moments, but Mitchell is right out in front - and in fine form - most of the time. The brief, bouncing "Bluesville" takes things out on an up note, concluding a session which, the liner notes suggest, may have been rendered obsolete by Blue's discovery of his own musical vision - and his own unit - a few months hence. In any case, fans of Blue Mitchell and/or Blue Note as it was way back then are advised to seek out this album, difficult as that no doubt is to do.

By Andy

Johnny Lytle ''Done It Again''

Johnny Lytle

''Done It Again''
( LP World Pacific Jazz Records, 1967)
Catalog # PJ-10125 or ST-20125

Tracklisting:
Done It Again (Johnny Lytle) - 2:27
People (Jule Styne/Bob Merrill) - 3:27
Sunny (Bobby Hebb) - 4:33
Sleepy Dozer (Johnny Lytle) - 4:10
Zote (Johnny Lytle) - 3:19
Jungle Child (Johnny Lytle) - 4:52
If Ever I Should Leave You (Frederick Lowe/Alan Lerner) - 3:25
That's The Way I Feel (Johnny Lytle) - 4:18
The Nearness Of You (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington) - 2:54
Happy Preacher (Bobby Hebb) - 2:27

Personnel:
Jimmy Foster (org)
Major Holley (b)
William "Peppy" Hinnant (d)
Johnny Lytle (vib, xyl)
Don Alias (perc)
Recorded in NYC, 1967 by Rudy Van Gelder

Notes:
Issues: a-j on Pacific Jazz PJ-10125 (mono), Pacific Jazz ST-20125 (stereo).
Singles: f & a on Pacific Jazz 88142 [45].
Samplers: a also on Blue Note (E) 4940320 [CD] titled BLUE PACIFIC FUNK: WALKIN' ON THE WEST COAST. g also on EMI (Jap) TOCP-65774 [CD] titled INSPIRATIONAL PRESENTS - QUIET NIGHTS OF QUIET STARS. h also on Pacific Jazz ST-20149 titled THIS IS THE BLUES VOL. 1.
Producer: A Cinema Music Production
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Notes: Don DeMichael
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:US
Released:1967
From: http://www.dougpayne.com/jld.htm

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Various Artists ''Blue Funk''

Various Artists

''Blue Funk''
( Compilation, Blue Note Records, 2001 )
Catalog # 7243 5 30855 2 0

Tracklisting:
1 Blue Mitchell - Who Dun It? 3:00
Written By - Higgins
2 Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud) 7:41
Written By - Brown
3 Big John Patton - Cissy Strut 6:58
Written By - Nocentelli/Neville/Porter/Modeliste
4 Grant Green - Ease Back 5:47
Written By - Nocentelli/Neville/Porter/Modeliste
5 Jack McDuff - Hunk O' Funk 6:02
Written By - McDuff/Jackson/Steele/Leaford/Parron
6 Candido - Tic Tac Toe 4:04
Written By - Jones/Cropper/Dunn/Jackson
7 Richard 'Groove' Holmes - Down Home Funk 4:13
Written By - Invine Jnr
8 Grant Green - Cantaloupe Woman 5:34
Written By - Dixon
9 Grant Green - I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself) 5:55
Written By - Brown
10 Ronnie Foster - Don't Knock My Love 4:32
Written By - Pickett/Shapiro
11 Lou Donaldson - If There's A Hell Below 9:05
Written By - Mayfield
12 Reuben Wilson - Bambu 8:05
Written By - Sparks
13 Bobby Hutcherson - Family Affair 4:27
Written By - Stewart

Credits:
Compiled By, Other [Sleevenotes] - Dean Rudland

Notes:
Format:CD, Compilation
Country:Europe
Released:2001
All recordings 1968-1972 except #13 in 2000.
#13 is a previously unissued track.
No durations are given anywhere on the release. The ones listed here are taken from a CD player.

Review:
This is a very attractively priced sampler by Blue Note, issued in the early '90s on CD highlighting their deep and funky soul-jazz titles for the beat heads and emergent hip-hop nation that was sampling in earnest at the time. (Little did the label know that collectors and DJs wanted wax, not shiny little plastic.) In any case, this attractively priced sampler of BN acts from the '60s and '70s is all killer, no filler; it's heavy on funk and soul. Sure it's got the big B sharp players from the era, like Groove Holmes ("Down Home Funk"), Jack McDuff (the amazing "Hunk O Funk"), Big John Patton (with a killer cover of the Meters' "Cissy Strut"), Reuben Wilson ("Bambu") and Ronnie Foster ("Don't Know My Love"), but there's way more. Lou Donaldson and Grant Green make up the royalty for this period (the producers still hadn't realized just how happening Donald Byrd was to the emerging hip-hop generation so he's not here) and they are well represented by a few cuts each -- Donaldson's read on James Brown's "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)," is a monster; and Green's take on "Cantaloupe Woman" is simply bad ass. But there is some added class to this mix with Candido's smoking drum funk in "Tic Tac Toe," and Blue Mitchell's set-opening "Who Dun It." But the big surprise comes at the very end when Bobby Hutcherson clocks it all out with his uber funky soulful read of Sly Stone's "Family Affair," setting the vibe just right as a cap. A couple of these Blue Note soul-jazz comps would fuel any bash, and would provide an awesome Friday night jump to Sunday afternoon cruise control and leave the listener without a care in the world.
By Thom Jurek
(AMG. Copyright © 2010 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.)

By Pier

Akendengué ''Epuguzu'' 12'' Promo

Akendengué

''Epuguzu'' 12''
( 12'' Promo Disco Mix, CBS Disques, 1983 )
Catalog # SDC 97

Tracklisting:
A Epuguzu (Version Courte) 3:30
B Epuguzu (Version Longue) 4:47

Credits:
Producer - Hughes De Courson
Written-By - Pierre Akendengué

Notes:
WAV Format - Original vinyl rip
Tirage limité réservé à la promotion
Vente interdite au public
Ed. Clouseau Musique
(P) 1983 - CBS Disques
Format:Vinyl, 12"
Country:France
Released:1983

By Celo

Wynton Kelly "Full View"

Wynton Kelly

"Full View"

(Milestone Records, 1966)

Catalog #: MLP 1004

Personnel :
Wynton Kelly Piano
Ron McClure Bass
Jimmy Cobb Drums

Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, NYC; September 2, 27 and 30, 1966

Tracklist :
01 I Want a Little Girl
02 I Thought
03 What a Diff'rence a Day Made
04 Autumn Leaves
05 Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya
06 On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
07 Scufflin'
08 Born to Be Blue
09 Walk on By

* Wynton Kelly - Full View (Milestone MLP 1004, MSP 9004; Fantasy OJCCD 912-2)


Review :

Pianist Wynton Kelly's next-to-last set as a leader (he would record a slightly later date for Delmark) featured him at a time when his influence was waning and he was overshadowed by more advanced players. However, Kelly's impact would begin to grow again after his death, when the Young Lions movement began in the early '80s; certainly pianist Benny Green was greatly touched by Kelly's conception. This Milestone trio set, reissued on CD, matches Kelly with bassist Ron McClure and drummer Jimmy Cobb on a fine program mostly filled with standards but also including the then-recent Burt Bacharach hit "Walk on By" and Kelly's original "Scufflin'."

by Scott Yanow [AMG]

By Rob

Johnny "Hammond" Smith ''Nasty!''

Johnny "Hammond" Smith

''Nasty!''
( LP Prestige Records, 1968 )
Catalog # PR 7588

Tracklisting:
If I Were A Bell
Song For My Father
Speak Low
Unchained Melody
Nasty!
Four Bowls Of Soup

Personnel & Notes:
Houston Person (ts)
Johnny "Hammond" Smith (org)
John Abercrombie (g)
Grady Tate (d)
Recorded in NYC, June 18, 1968
** Also part of Prestige PRCD 24244-2

Review:
On this quartet session, Johnny "Hammond" Smith was accompanied by a young John Abercrombie on guitar, Grady Tate on drums, and Prestige mainstay Houston Person on tenor sax. With the exception of "Unchained Melody," the musicians gave the tunes space, with all of the other five tracks clocking in at about seven to nine minutes. Yeah, in a sense it's run-of-the-mill as far as Prestige late-'60s soul-jazz goes: quite fine grooves, a dependable yet somewhat predictable house sound, and a reliance upon cover versions for much of the material (two-thirds of the songs, in this case). It's solidly executed, though, in a lean fashion that, to its credit, runs counter to the more excessive arrangements that were creeping into soul-jazz around this time. Smith hits a comely slow-burn groove on his version of Horace Silver's classic "Song for My Father," does a surprisingly swaggering and infectious job with the overdone "Unchained Melody," and gets down into his funkiest and bluesiest mode on the title cut, a nine-minute original composition. In 2000, this and a March 1967 session, Ebb Tide, were combined onto one compact disc titled The Soulful Blues.
By Richie Unterberger
(AMG. Copyright © 2010 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.)

By Pier

Johnny "Hammond" Smith ''That Good Feelin'''

Johnny "Hammond" Smith

''That Good Feelin'''
( LP Prestige/New Jazz Records, 1969 )
Catalog # NJLP 8229

Tracklisting:
Autumn Leaves
My Funny Valentine
Bye Bye Blackbird
I'll Remember April
Puddin'
Billie's Bounce
That Good Feelin'

Personnel & Notes:
Johnny "Hammond" Smith (org)
Thornel Schwartz (g)
George Tucker (b)
Leo Stevens (d)
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 4, 1959
** Also part of Prestige PRCD 24164-2

Review:
A standards-heavy set from 1959, Johnny "Hammond" Smith's That Good Feelin' is indicative of his early style. Recorded in a simple quartet setting with guitarist Thornel Schwartz (best known for his earlier work with Jimmy Smith), bassist George Tucker, and drummer Leo Stevens, all of whom provide understated but effective support -- Schwartz in particular throws in a few concise and swinging solos in the style of early Wes Montgomery -- these seven tracks are surprisingly close to the cool, cerebral style of pianists like Bill Evans or Lennie Tristano, far afield from the funky, blues-based styles of most jazz organists of the time. Part of that feel comes from the song selection, weighted toward ballads like "Autumn Leaves" (a Bill Evans favorite as well), "I'll Remember April," and the evergreen "My Funny Valentine." Smith's playing is typically excellent, though he throws some unexpected curves like a herky-jerky solo in "I'll Remember April" that sounds more like the futuristic whirrs and bleeps of a '50s science-fiction movie soundtrack than a "Brother" Jack McDuff workout. This is good to great stuff, and a welcome change from the soul-jazz clichés that would overtake organ jazz in the '60s. [The 1996 reissue of That Good Feelin' starts off with seven tracks originally released as Smith's All Soul LP, also from 1959.]
By Stewart Mason
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By Pier