Kai Winding - Modern Country (Verve By Request Series) - VINYL LP

Originally issued in 1974 - RIAA Gold-certified compilation album, the album reached #6 on the Billboard Country albums chart and #32 on the Billboard Pop albums chart. The album includes material from Murray's previous albums This Way Is My Way, Snowbird, Honey, Wheat and Laughter, Talk It Over in the Morning, Straight, Clean and Simple and Danny's Song. Anne Murray's importance to country music lies in her status as a successful crossover artist, a trailblazing Canadian female singer who achieved international success, and her numerous awards and accolades, including being the first Canadian female solo artist to reach #1 on US charts, and the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, InchSnowbirdInch (1970), and the first woman to win InchAlbum of the YearInch at the Country Music Awards in Nashville for her certified Gold album, InchA Little Good NewsInch. Album Tracks 1. He Thinks I Still Care 2. Cotton Jenny 3. Break My Mind 4. A Stranger in My Place 5. Snowbird 6. Son of a Rotten Gambler 7. Danny's Song 8. What About Me 9. Just Bidin' My Time 10. Put Your Hand in the Hand

Basie Jam is two sides of some of the best swing ever recorded. This record was produced by Norman Granz and Pablo Records. Granz, responsible for one of the greatest jazz labels ever - Verve - knew what he was doing in a studio.The Big Band sound of Count Basie and the other orchestra leaders dominated dance halls and the airwaves for almost two decades. This late 1973 session features the Count with an eight-piece band. As the title indicates, this recording is like a jam session, so all the tracks are based around the blues. After a classic Basie Piano intro the first track 'Doubling Blues' swings like mad, but then you notice there's something different going on when the solos start. What's different is that Basie is playing Organ for most of the rest of the track and the difference is amazing. The little Piano phrases that we're all so used to hearing Basie play aren't there. Then after six minutes the piano comes back in and we finish track with Basie as we started.For more of Basie's organ playing have a listen to 'One-Nighter' - a lovely medium tempo number on which he plays a restrained introductory solo, before Zoot Sims plays the opening tenor sax solo.The running time is just under 50 minutes, and with only five tracks on the album that tells you that the musicians were given plenty of opportunity to stretch out. They do, and it's well worth getting a copy of this album.Cut from metal parts mastered by Doug Sax from the original analog master tape. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings for superior sound quality, and housed in a handsome Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket.180-gram vinylCut from parts mastered by Doug Sax from the original analog master tapePressed at Quality Record PressingsHoused in Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacketTracklist Side 11. Doubling Blues (6 57)2. Hanging Out (9 23)3. Red Bank Blues (8 50)Side 21. One-Nighter (11 30

With Count Basie, Cleanhead Vinson, and Willie Cook all gone, there is cause for gratitude that Norman Granz thought in 1981 to bring them together with a great rhythm section. The result was one of the happiest of Basie's celebrated 'Kansas City' sessions for Pablo.Cook and Vinson, marvelous soloists who deserved wider fame, were both great bebop players able to tailor their work to Basie's more elemental requirements without condescending or losing anything essential. Additionally, as he demonstrates to a fare-thee-well on 'Wee Baby,' Vinson was a terrific blues shouter. In his small groups, Basie the pianist was on more prominent display than in the big band, and there are plenty of reminders here that his keyboard talent encompassed much more than wryness and subtlety.Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings for superior sound quality, and housed in a handsome Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.Musicians Count Basie, pianoNiels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, double bassLouis Bellson, drumsJoe Pass, guitarEddie Vinson, saxophoneWillie Cook, trumpet180-gram vinylMastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tapePressed at Quality Record PressingsHoused in Stoughton Printing tip-on jacketTracklist Side 11. Walking The Blues2. Blues For Little Jazz3. Vegas DragSide 21. Wee Baby2. Scooter3. St. Louis Blues4. Opus Six