Marcy Lee - The Special Collection - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

As hip hop moves on in it's ever increasing desire to raid the history of black music, so new areas have found themselves increasingly coming into focus, like the sweet sound of big stringed lovers' soul from the 1970s found on this 16 track compilation, featuring plenty of bass, drums & beautiful voices. Includes songs from Isaac Hayes & Millie Jackson, Johnny InchGuitarInch Watson, Caesar Frazier, Fatback, Dennis Coffey, Phillip Mitchell, Betty Everett, Three Pieces, Fantastic 4, Detroit Emeralds, Shirley Brown & others. (Previously deleted 7/1/10 Original date 12/7/01)

American jazz singer and songwriter Herb Jeffries began his recording career with legendary pianist Earl Hines' orchestra in 1934 and went on to record with Duke Ellington from 1940 to 1942. Jeffries' most famous song, InchFlamingo,Inch recorded in 1940 with Ellington, sold over 50 million copies. Brazilian master guitarist Laurindo Almeida first came to prominence in the US as a member of Stan Kenton's band during the height of it's success in the 1940s and then became one of the world's most sought after studio musicians. In 1953 he recorded two of the first Brazilian styled jazz albums with Bud Shank called Brazilliance, which led to sessions with Baden Powell, Stan Getz and Herbie Mann, among others. In 1961, Almeida won multiple Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album, Classical and Best Chamber Music Performance. The following year he won Grammy Awards for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. In the late 1970's, under the direction of the legendary record producer Ray Lawrence, Almeida and Jeffries collaborated on an album of Duke Ellington classics which included a wonderful reprise of InchFlamingo,Inch Jeffries' huge hit with the Ellington band in 1940. The session is presented here, newly remastered and finally available in the digital domain.

This compilation features ten tracks from the Meta Records catalog. Experience the legendary bass and world fusion of Bill Laswell, the phenomenal tabla beats of Zakir Hussain, the spiritual wisdom of seven Tibetan monks, the otherworldly guitar sounds of Buckethead, the haunting voice of Sussan Deyhim, the ambient orchestrations of tabla player Zakir Hussain, the blissful sound journeys of Pharoah Sanders, the mesmerizing horns of Nils Petter Molvaer and much more.