Tito Puente – Mucho Puente Vinyl transfer in 24-bit/192 kHz || Latin, Salsa 1957 RCA Victor || This pressing 1986 Venezuela RCA 102-02019 || Mono An interesting late 50’s record from Tito Puente, this may not be the best record to inaugurate what (I hope) will be a small series of posts I will do…
Quarteto Novo – Quarteto Novo 1967 Odeon (S)MFOB 3505 EU Reissue 2008 EMI – 5099921674624 Holy hell somebody grab a fire extinguisher because this record cooks so much it started a grease fire and may burn your whole house down. Don’t believe me? Yes, the record starts out gently with acoustic treatments playing Northeastern musical…
Nat Turner Rebellion – Laugh To Keep From Crying Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | | Soul, funk Philly Groove Records, Chrysalis – PGRV101 The Nat Turner Rebellion – the musical act, not the historical event – was a promising group from Philly that imploded before they ever really got off the ground, featuring vocalists…
Nina Simone – Nina Simone’s Finest Hour 2000 Verve Records (314 543 604-2) I thought I would make a quick blog post to commemorate International Women’s Day and pay tribute to one of my heroes, the great Nina Simone. Superlatively gifted and inspired as both a pianist and vocalist, courageous and visionary, groundbreaking, tenacious, mercurial…
Wayne Shorter The Best of Wayne Shorter BLUE NOTE CDP 7 91141 2 Released 1988 I had a different blog post planned for today, but the world lost one of the great forces in jazz yesterday with the passing of Wayne Shorter. If you don’t know why you should care about that, you can read…
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul Original release 1969 on Enterprise Records I’ve posted about this album before, in the early days of this blog, and will probably post about it again. It’s just a class act through and through. I had originally wanted to prepare something romantic for Valentine’s Day, even though I don’t…
