Cyndi Lauper - Original Album Classics - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A decade into his recording careerInch, pianist Horace Silver made the album that would endure as the crown jewel of a catalog that boasts numerous hard bop classics. Song for My Father captured the transition of his quintet with two tracks taken from an October 1963 session with Blue MitchellInch, Junior CookInch, Gene TaylorInch, and Roy Brooks. A year later Silver entered Van Gelder Studio again with a new band featuring Carmell JonesInch, Joe HendersonInch, Teddy SmithInch, and Roger Humphries for a session that yielded four more cuts including what would become his signature tuneInch, InchSong for My FatherInch,Inch a dedication to his father that was inspired by both his Cape Verdean heritage and the music Silver had heard on a recent trip to Brazil. Blue Note Essential Series is mastered from hi-resolution digital masters on 140g vinyl. Album Tracks 1. Song for My Father 2. Natives Are Restless Tonight 3. Calcutta Cutie 4. Que Pasa 5. Kicker 6. Lonely Woman

This was Billy's first #1 album, and it earned him his second consecutive Grammy. Now available on CD, this 1978 classic also includes vintage promotional video footage. Album Tracks 1. Big Shot 2. Honesty 3. My Life 4. Zanzibar 5. Stiletto 6. Rosalinda's Eyes 7. Half a Mile Away 8. Until the Night 9. 52nd Street 10. Big Shot (Promotional Video) 11. Honesty (Promotional Video) 12. My Life (Promotional Video)

Gil Scott-Heron's InchPieces Of A ManInch is one of the most important albums in the history of black American music. Although it didn't set the charts alight, it stands as a masterpiece alongside contemporary works such as Marvin Gaye's InchWhat's Going OnInch, Curtis Mayfield's debut LP, Funkadelic's InchMaggot BrainInch and Isaac Hayes' InchShaftInch. All were brilliant in their way, but lyrically Scott-Heron was on a different level from almost every other writer. It was a landmark album with it's bold, poetic lyrical content allied to progressive and melodic music, and it saw producer Bob Thiele help Gil and his musical partner Brian Jackson paint the picture they needed to get their message across. Thiele put Gil and Brian together with Ron Carter, Hubert Laws and Bernard Purdie, giving them the musical heft they wanted. For many years the focus was on 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', which was included in the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2014, but this focus sometimes overshadowed the heights which Gil reached throughout the album. Today 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is' and 'Lady Day And John Coltrane' are also considered standards, whilst the album's title track is a prescient and heart-breaking warning about the way in which big business dehumanises it's workers. The album reached it's landmark 50th year in 2021 and we decided that we would create this special edition to celebrate it's incredible sound. The original master tape was taken to Frank Merritt at The Carvery in London, who cut it as a double disc 2 x 45 RPM record, in an all-analogue chain. The original record - especially side two - was long, and serving it up this way allowed the music a greater level of fidelity. The is packaged in the original album's gatefold sleeve. Album Tracks 1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2. Save the Children 3. Lady Day and John Coltrane 4. Home Is W