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Unmistakable
Tammy Grimes Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002KVV1K Release Date: 2004-08-31 |
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"Her voice... has been aptly described as half velvet, half gravel and all magically rusty - set in a stage personality of rock-candy hardness." (Joseph Wershba, New York Post) Perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning performance in the starring role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Tammy Grimes is a veteran actress and singer with a long list of credits in theater, film, and television. This reissue contains two albums that she recorded for the Columbia label in the early 1960's.Customer Reviews:
"Somewhere between a purr and a foghorn".......2005-01-12
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Humanity
Miles Jaye Manufacturer: Black Tree Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008AY75 Release Date: 2003-04-08 |
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Good soul singing here!!.......2003-05-20
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Unmistakable Evidence
Coyote Poets Manufacturer: Square Shaped ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000M2E3E0 Release Date: 2007-01-09 |
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Beatz and Poems.......2007-03-24
! Like it !.......2007-01-23
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Charles Ives / Aaron Copland: Piano Works
Ives , Copland , and Nalley Manufacturer: Eroica Classical ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00006L4Z6 Release Date: 2002-09-07 |
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Charles Ives, Sonata No. 1 Aaron Copland, Sonata JDT 3097Charles Ives Sonata No. 1 (1902-1910) I. Adagio con moto IIa. First Verse: Allegro moderato IIb. Second Verse: 'In the Inn' Allegro III. Largo-allegro-largo IV. Allegro-presto V. Andante maestoso
Aaron Copland Sonata (1939-1941) I. Molto moderato II. Vivace III. Andante sostenuto
James Nalley Piano
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William Gregory: "On The Turntable".......2003-02-22
James Nally has conceived this great Modern American Sonata album, and it resounds with aplomb, idyllic youth and passion. The Copland and Ives Sonatas compliment one another like bookends, laying out a sonic wilderness that serves to remind us of our rich contribution to the cannon of contemporary music. The diversity found in the collage-like composition of Ive's Sonata is fragmented and trance inducing. Due in large part to Lou Harrison's considerable editing, Ives found his voice; a voice that pre-dated today's ideas of sampling. Ives extrapolated folk music, classical forms and gospel music to create a distinct voice that crossed boundaries. In this piano Sonata in particular we find Ives, borrowing from ragtime, hymns such as "What a friend we have in Jesus" and "Bringing in the Sheaves" and Liszt. While Copland's Sonata seems to be in juxtaposition to the Ives piece, it's simple to find the shared vision of the folk idiom and tribute to Americana. Mr. Nalley intelligently and vividly portrays these masterful pieces by setting the tone for each movement with precision and rapture. His playing is a concise explosion of mind, body and sound that is at times reminiscent of Pierre Laurent Aimard. This is a truly magnificent set of performances. William Gregory: "On the Turntable."
American Record Guide.......2003-01-08
The first impression of this release is the strong lyrical sense pianist Nalley brings to these thorny American works: the first sonata of Charles Ives with its atypical format of seven movements (two of which are grouped together), and Aaron Copland's only piano sonata with its three movements.
Ives worked on this sonata on and off from about 1902 to 1929. Because of Nalley's sympathetic ear for Ives the experimenter, his sound is full of beauty, even in what may first strike the ear as startling dissonances. His lyrical and harmonic senses guide the ear through a thicket of otherwise confusing harmonies and textures. And the result is a revelation.
While there are many passages full of clusters and unpredictable and irregular rhythms, expression and sound are enough to know what is going on, whether expansive and rhapsodic or foot-stomping dances. There are pockets of tonality, phrasing, and rhythmic gestures that keep the listener oriented. So for listeners who had just a few experiences with the more disorienting modern music of the last 50 years, or for those who skipped it but still went to movies in the meantime, this music will not seem so unmoored and forbidding as it was when first composed.
Ives makes considerable musical and technical demands on the pianist. One can tell he had a good sense of the piano and what tends to work on the instrument, what is idiomatic and natural to the hands in this setting. Like Brahms, Ives was probably a big man whose physique seemed to influence the technical demands he made to convey his musical ideas.
At first, there is a listener's satisfaction in recognizing and being able to name familiar melodies. But Ives's intention was to use familiar quotations, (such as 'Bringing in the Sheaves') that resonate with the American experience. Often this took the form of hymns from the Protestant tradition. The closer the listener's experience with this tradition, the deeper the resonance of the musical quotation.
Copland's voice is unmistakable. Dating from 1939, his Piano Sonata, where I is so reminiscent of his Variations of 1930, is impressive with its many clangorous and granitic sounds--so many gestures made up of wide intervals and leaps. The playful and charming II resembles the helter-skelter scherzo of Samuel Barber's sonata. It uses the interval of a major 6th both melodically and harmonically as the main building block. III's tone is majestic and reverential. Nalley tunes in to the introverted expression, creating a timeless, other-worldly quality. The clangorous clusters resemble pealing bells, with their loud overtones. And as the movement fades out, the "bells" resonate as if at a distance. Remarkably played. This recording is a real treasure! BARELA
¡Wow!.......2002-11-02
Buy it, you'll love it..........2002-10-10
excellent performance and superb sound!.......2002-09-19
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"Can't Complain"
Mother Jane Manufacturer: Raya Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0005F0MEO Release Date: 2003-01-01 |
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11 Songs: 1. Better Part of Me 2. Can You See It? 3. Greener In My Yard 4. Feed 5. To Climb 6. Right Here 7. Kiss This 8. (Yet) Another Day 9. Dig Deeper 10. Already Learned 11. Looking Back. FOLK MUSIC!Customer Reviews:
Makes you feel good!.......2004-11-11
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Explanation
Manufacturer: Primary Voltage ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CAF0H6 Release Date: 2003-08-19 |
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Losing My Fear of Heights
Manufacturer: Sittser ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA3HMG Release Date: 2004-08-24 |
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Life Outside Our Walls
The Good North Manufacturer: Primary Voltage ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007R5KYC Release Date: 2004-05-18 |
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Mixing music, style, and attitude with what The Boston Globe calls densely ringing electric guitars, grand melodic gestures, and a panoramic sweep of space and sound. The Good North have taken their cues from old-school Britpop, new-school indie-rock, and a dose of hardcore bravado. The combination has put TGN onto bills with such luminaries as Ted Leo, The Dismemberment Plan, Idlewild, Aerial Love Feed, Grandaddy, Stellastar*, Elefant, Ash, The Walkmen, and The French Kicks. They rock but aren't heavy, they emote but aren't emo. When they're onstage, they are riveting, when they are offstage, they don't seem to realize it because they are still a show: a continuous, self-referential, ludicrous sideshow of alcohol, cigarettes, cocksure posing, silly banter, and genuine affection for one another No doubt this is TGN and their new EP, Life Outside our Walls. The Good North formed in 2001, and have previously released 2002s Define Worth Wating EP and 2003s An Explanation LP. TGN have been featured on over 100 college radio stations and commercial stations such as Bostons WFNX & NYCs K-Rock.Customer Reviews:
TRACK LISTING.......2005-02-11
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Underestimated
Element Manufacturer: E ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000634H5 Release Date: 2002-03-19 |
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the hottest album from the street........2003-05-15
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Never Say Never
Steve Smith & The Nakeds Manufacturer: Still Huge Publishing SHP 42900 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000056V3R Release Date: 2000-08-01 |
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Steve Smith and the Nakeds have released their long awaited compact disc entitled Never Say Never. Steve Smith, lead vocalist for the band, spearheaded the year-long recording project as the executive producer, along with co-producer and recording engineer, Phil Greene.Clarence Clemons' unmistakably evocative tenor sax is featured on several tracks including Don't Walk Away, his original contribution to this collection. Other featured selections include three new original songs written and used by permission of E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren.
Twelve more superbly written and performed original compositions are included on this disc, the majority of them written by various members of the Nakeds band, along with two songs previously recorded by other notable performing artists. The styles of music represented on this recording range from R&B to Rock-and-Roll, and soulful R&B ballads.
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