Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Best of Baroque Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the spring of 1977, Millie Jackson was in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, laying down tracks for what became InchFeelin' BitchyInch with co-producer Brad Shapiro. Released in August 1977, the album reached #4 and #34 in America's Billboard's R&B and Hot 100, going gold with over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's cover of 'If You're Not Back In Love By Monday' - already a hit for Merle Haggard in March 1977 - also reached #5 R&B and #43 in the Hot 100 in August. Although the album did not chart in the UK, InchFeelin' BitchyInch sold strongly to a dedicated fanbase who had voted her the #1 female singer in the Blues & Soul magazine annual poll. Jackson also performed much of the material on her sold-out UK dates in early 1978. InchFeelin' BitchyInch was not only a commercial success, cementing Jackson's no-nonsense reputation, but is now considered an all-time classic. Her rap on Benny Latimore's 'All The Way Lover' stretched the original out like chewing gum to 10 minutes. Inch'Back In Love By Monday' is a great song an' that,Inch she told Black Echoes, Inchbut it didn't sell the album. 'All The Way Lover' sold the album.Inch Indeed it did, but other tracks like 'A Little Taste Of Outside Love Lovin' Your Good Thing Away', 'Cheatin' Is' and 'Feelin' Like A Woman' show that while Jackson's tongue - front and centre on the LP cover - was always ready to hand out a lashing, it also helped her sing beautifully. Ace are delighted to reissue InchFeelin' Bitchy' on vinyl and Millie Jackson spoke to Ian Shirley about the recording of the album. This interview runs on an inner sleeve along with classic photographs of Jackson from this period.

Carsten Wiebusch - Organ Works [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/23/1999

In his exploration of the vocal music of Mozart and his contemporaries, soprano Bruno de Sá evokes Mille affetti - a thousand emotions - and adds six world premiere recordings to the catalogue arias by Luigi Cherubini, Luigi Caruso, Felice Alessandrini, Franz Seydelmann, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Niccolo` Antonio Zingarelli. Joining him for this adventurous programme of sacred and secular repertoire are the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, organist Marcin Szelest, the NFM Choir and conductor Jaroslaw Thiel. For his debut Erato album, Roma Travestita, Bruno de Sá focused on Baroque repertoire, causing BBC Music Magazine to marvel at his Inchimmaculate legato, gift for scintillating decoration, dramatic octave drops and stratospheric ascents above the stave.Inch Now he applies those talents to the Classical era. InchThis seemed like the moment to explore different musical possibilities,Inch he says, Inchand also a period that really speaks to me - emotionally, musically and technically. There are some very virtuosic things here, but I've never struggled with them because they are such a joy to sing. I hope that people feel and hear that.Inch Repertoire features W.A. Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Franz Seydelmann excerpts from Il Turco in Italia, Johann Friedrich Reichardt excerpts from Andromeda, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli Salve, Regina, and more (repertoire selection by Yannis François).