John Coltrane - Ballads (SHM-SACD) - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Japanese pressing features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD (single layer). Cardboard sleeve packaging. Universal. 2025. Details 1. I'm An Errand Girl for Rhythm 2 55 2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 4 07 3. You Call It Madness 4 37 4. Frim Fram Sauce 5 01 5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams 6 27 6. Baby Baby All the Time 3 36 7. Hit That Jive Jack 4 16 8. You're Looking at Me 5 33 9. I'm Thru with Love 4 26 10. Deed I Do 3 32 11. A Blossom Fell 5 13 12. If I Had You 4 55

Platinum-selling smash hit album on Hybrid Stereo SACD!Mastered direct to DSD by Ryan K. Smith from the original analog master tapesFunk, rock and soul band hits include 'Why Can't We Be Friends, Slippin into Darkness, Low Rider, Cisco Kid' and more!Originally released in 1976, the War compilation album Greatest Hits contains a monster set of Chicano funky grooves from L.A., most of which forever transformed the sound of funk. The album includes most of the band's best cuts - such as 'Slippin Into Darkness, Cisco Kid, World Is A Ghetto, All Day Music, Me & Baby Brother, Why Can't We Be Friends,' and 'Low Rider.' One of the hippest funk, rock and soul groups on the Cali scene of the '70s, who just kept on making great music as the years went on!Now with our Hybrid Stereo SACD , mastered direct to DSD by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original master tapes, the best-sounding version of this historic album gives listeners an even richer sonic experience. Clean, balanced, richly detailed. Just the way an Analogue Productions reissue should sound. Details 1. All Day Music 2. Slippin' Into Darkness 3. The World Is a Ghetto 4. The Cisco Kid 5. Gypsy Man 6. Me and Baby Brother 7. Southern Part of Texas 8. Why Can't We Be Friends? 9. Low Rider 10. Summer

Steely Dan's gold-selling fifth studio album The Royal Scam, was produced by Gary Katz and was originally released by ABC Records in 1976. The Royal Scam features more prominent guitar work than the prior Steely Dan album, Katy Lied, which had been the first without founding guitarist Jeff Baxter. Guitarists on the recording include Walter Becker, Denny Dias, Larry Carlton, Elliott Randall and Dean Parks.The album was certified gold-selling and peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200.In common with other Steely Dan albums, The Royal Scam is littered with cryptic allusions to people and events both real and fictional. In a BBC interview in 2000, Becker and Fagen revealed that 'Kid Charlemagne' is loosely based on Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug 'chef' who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that 'Caves of Altamira, ' based on a book by Hans Baumann, is about the loss of innocence, the narrative about a visitor to the Cave of Altamira who registers his astonishment at the prehistoric drawings.Rolling Stone, in it's review of the album, described The Royal Scam, as Steely Dan's 'mostatypical record, possessing neither obvious AM material nor seductive lyrical mysteriousness. It also contains some of their most accomplished and enjoyable music.'... The overall feeling of Scam is one of just that tension. There is little of the self-confident gentleness that dotted Pretzel Logic, less still of the omniscience that suffused Katy Lied. The Royal Scam is a transitional album for Steely Dan; melody dominates lyric in the sense that the former pushes into new rhythmic areas for the group (more 'pure' jazz, semireggae and substantially more orchestration than before) while the verbal content is clearer, even mundane, by previous Dan standards, ' said the Rolling Stone review.Nearly every song on Scam concerns a narrator's escape from a crime or sing rece