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Robben Ford & The Blue Line - The Authorized Bootleg (1998)

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Robben Ford & The Blue Line - The Authorized Bootleg (1998)

Robben Ford & The Blue Line - The Authorized Bootleg (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 297 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 135 Mb | Scans included | 00:51:55
Blues, Jazz Blues, Crossover Jazz | Label: Blue Thumb | # BTR 70132, 057 013-2

This is a keeper from the word "go." Recorded live in 1995 (but not released until 1998) at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA, Robben Ford is joined by long-time Blue Line trio members Roscoe Beck on bass and Tom Brechtlein on drums, as well as Bill Boublitz on a baby grand piano. Although nearly all of the songs can be found on other Ford albums (most are from Handful of Blues), one of the things that makes this jazzy recording so special is that Ford is playing only an acoustic guitar. The Ray Charles gem "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (which you WON'T find elsewhere) is simply beautiful, and on Paul Butterfield's "Lovin' Cup," it's just Ford and his guitar. The brilliance of his playing and the reason behind why so many guitar players put him at the top of their list can be found in Ford's performance on this release, alternating between lead and rhythm. The Authorized Bootleg also has great (albeit laid-back) versions of "When I Leave Here" and "Tired of Talkin'." Highly, highly recommended.

Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business (2005)

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business (2005)

Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business (2005)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 245 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 158 Mb | Scans ~ 69 Mb
Blues, Jazz-Blues, Jump Blues, Big Band | Label: Snapper | # SBLUECD034 | 01:08:50

25 classic post-war West Coast Blues tracks from one of the great voices of the era. With informative notes this set is part of the Complete Blues series, described by Uncut magazine as ' a dazzling, comprehensive story of the blues…the most user-friendly compendium on the market'.

Robben Ford & The Blue Line - Mystic Mile (1993)

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Robben Ford & The Blue Line - Mystic Mile (1993)

Robben Ford & The Blue Line - Mystic Mile (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 381 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Label: Stretch/GRP | # GRS 00082 | Time: 00:55:57
Modern Electric Blues, Jazz-Blues, Blues Rock

Mystic Mile is an electric blues album by Robben Ford and the Blue Line, released in 1993. In this second record for Stretch Records, Ford shows a notorious growth as songwriter besides his outstanding virtuosity as a guitarist.

Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)

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Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)

Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 419 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans ~ 92 Mb
Label: Blue Note Records | # 7243 5 93651 2 1 | Time: 01:03:43
Jazz-Blues, Vocal Jazz, Blues, Blues-Rock, Celtic, Blue-Eyed Soul

While 2002's Down the Road was the best Van Morrison release in ages – with its autobiographical allusions, cultural critiques, and new band – it could not have prepared listeners for the jolt of this, his Blue Note Records debut What's Wrong With This Picture? While the album is hardly a straight jazz record, it does take the territory he explored on Down the Road another step further into the classic pop music of the 20th century filtered through his own Celtic swing, R&B, vocal jazz, and blue-eyed soul. The title track that opens the album is as close to an anthem as Morrison's ever written; he states with an easy, swinging, jazzy soul groove that he is not the same person he once was and wonders why that was so difficult for others to accept. There is no bitterness or bite in his assertions. If anything, the question is asked with warm humor and amusement as if it is indeed the listener's hangup if he/she can't accept Morrison "living in the present time." He asks, "Why don't we take it down and forget about it/'Cause that ain't me at all," as the song whispers to a close.

Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)

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Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)

Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 382 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans ~ 69 Mb
Soul-Funk-Jazz-Blues | Label: Private | # 01005 82162 2 | Time: 00:59:38

Etta James followed her two deeply jazzy mid-'90s albums of torch songs with Love's Been Rough on Me, a flirtation with Nashville writers. On Life, Love & the Blues, she returns to her blues and soul repertoire, enlivening even the hoariest of tunes ("Spoonful," a gender-flopped "Hoochie Coochie Gal") with her growl. The tinges of funk underpinning "Born Under a Bad Sign" are given full room to stretch on a cover of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," and James nearly swipes "The Love You Save May Be Your Own," one of Joe Tex's great preaching ballads, from the master.

The Chris Cain Band - Cuttin' Loose (1990)

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The Chris Cain Band - Cuttin' Loose (1990)

The Chris Cain Band - Cuttin' Loose (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 278 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans included
Modern Electric Blues, Jazz-Blues | Label: Blind Pig | # BP-74090 | Time: 00:45:40

This is a wonderful, big-voiced, contemporary West Coast bluesman and superb guitar player. There are several horns in the band, giving it a great, huge sound. Even better things will be coming.

Yotam Silberstein, John Patitucci, Billy Hart & George Coleman - Standards (2024)

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Yotam Silberstein, John Patitucci, Billy Hart & George Coleman - Standards (2024)

Yotam Silberstein, John Patitucci, Billy Hart & George Coleman - Standards (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 227 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 Mb | 00:43:21
Jazz, Bebop, Jazz-Blues | Label: Jojo Records

Yotam Silberstein, one of the leading jazz guitarists of his generation, has gained acclaim for a sound rich in bebop and blues as well as musical folklore from South America, North Africa and the Middle East, giving his music an increasingly global thrust.

Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues For Easy Livers (1966) Remastered 1996

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues For Easy Livers (1966) Remastered 1996

Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues For Easy Livers (1966) Remastered 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 227 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 105 Mb | Scans included
Jazz-Blues, Jump Blues | Label: Prestige/Bluesville | # 00025218058520 | Time: 00:38:37

Despite the title, this actually leans considerably further to the jazz side of Witherspoon's muse than the blues one, with backing by Pepper Adams on baritone sax, Roger Kellaway on piano, Bill Watrous on trombone, Richard Davis on bass, and Mel Lewis on drums. The songs, too, are much more in the jazz/pop vein than the blues/jazz one, heavy on standards by the likes of Johnny Mercer, the Gershwins, and Ellington. Witherspoon's one of the masters of closing-time bluesy jazz, and he doesn't let anyone down on that account on this relaxed (but not sleepy) session.

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Long Way Home (1996)

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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Long Way Home (1996)

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Long Way Home (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans ~ 52 Mb
Label: Gitanes Jazz Productions/Verve | # 529 465-2 | Time: 00:55:58
Modern Electric Texas Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Jazz-Blues, Cajun

Any cd which starts out with Blues Power featuring Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown on vocals, Eric Clapton on guitar, and Leon Russell playing piano and doing vocals is worth a listen to. Long Way Home continues to impress with every track. Brown demonstrates his musical skills, and careful choice of music. His all star cast includes Clapton, Russell, Ry Cooder, John Loudermilk (who wrote Tobacco Road and does the vocals on the cd) Sonny Landreth and Maria Muldaur. Great tracks besides Blues Power are Don't Think Twice with Maria Muldaur doing vocals with Gatemouth, Mean and Evil with Leon Russell sharing the stage with Gatemouth and of course Tobacco Road. This is a great cd for a blues or rock fan.

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Standing My Ground (1989)

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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Standing My Ground (1989)

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Standing My Ground (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 239 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 110 Mb | Scans included | 00:36:58
Modern Electric Texas Blues, Jazz-Blues, Rhythm & Blues | Label: Alligator | # ALCD 4779

A delightfully eclectic program spotlighting nearly all of Gate's musical leanings – blues, jazz, country, even a hearty taste of "Louisiana Zydeco" – and a revealing glimpse of his multi-instrumental abilities: he plays guitar, violin, drums, and piano! There's a tender remake of the Chuck Willis R&B ballad and a funk-tinged update of "Got My Mojo Working," but everything else is from Brown's own pen.

Robben Ford - Tiger Walk (1997)

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Robben Ford - Tiger Walk (1997)

Robben Ford - Tiger Walk (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 471 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 189 Mb | Scans included | 01:04:08
Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Jazz Rock, Jazz-Blues | Label: Blue Thumb/GRP | # BTR 70122

The first thing that comes to mind when listening to Tiger Walk is the pair of instrumental albums recorded by Jeff Beck in the mid-'70s, Blow by Blow and Wired. Like those two recordings, this outing showcases a fiery, inventive electric guitarist in a rock and jazz-rock setting. Robben Ford, known in recent years for his blues work with his band, the Blue Line, eschews vocals here, teaming up with keyboard funk master Bernie Worrell for some chunky, funky, wah-wah-laden grooves. This music, led by Ford's blazing guitar lines, is more appropriately categorized as instrumental rock than jazz, but the rhythms recall James Brown and Worrell's alma mater, the P-Funk gang, as often as they do those of a hard rock band. Tenor saxophonist Bob Malach turns in a couple of solid solos, and the rhythm section of drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Charlie Drayton cooks throughout.

Chris Rea - Blue Street (Five Guitars) (2003)

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Chris Rea - Blue Street (Five Guitars) (2003)

Chris Rea - Blue Street (Five Guitars) (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Scans ~ 111 Mb
Blues, Jazz-Blues, Guitar Jazz | Label: JazzeeBlue | # JBLUE CD03 | Time: 00:47:29

Liberated from the shackles of major-label demands and the strictures of other people's expectations, Chris Rea has nailed his newly unadulterated colours–the blues, of course–firmly to the mast on the eloquently tranquil jazz of Blue Street, the follow-up to his corner-turning personal exorcism Dancing Down the Stony Road and one of four simultaneous releases on his newly created and independently minded Jazzee Blue label. Unashamedly self-satisfying, as chilled-out as a cool pool on a baking summer's day and almost entirely instrumental (the vocals do finally appear on "Still Going to a Go Go", one of those time-honoured hoarse-throated cogitations on the way life deals the cards) this is another refined offering from a man who just loves the sweet, slow sounds of collectable vintage guitars and whose former role as the archdeacon of the drivetime adult-rock chorus seems strangely distant.

Madeleine Peyroux - The Blue Room (2013) CD + DVD Limited Edition

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Madeleine Peyroux - The Blue Room (2013) CD + DVD Limited Edition

Madeleine Peyroux - The Blue Room (2013) CD + DVD Limited Edition
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 295 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Time: 00:47:37
DVD5 | NTSC | 16:9 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2ch, 1536 kbps | 00:37:58 | ~ 2.6 Gb
Vocal Jazz, Jazz-Blues | Label: Decca / Emarcy | # 0602537242702 | Scans ~ 183 Mb

On The Blue Room, her second Decca recording, Madeleine Peyroux and producer Larry Klein re-examine the influence of Ray Charles' revolutionary 1962 date, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. They don't try to re-create the album, but remake some of its songs and include others by composers whose work would benefit from the genre-blurring treatment Charles pioneered. Bassist David Pilch, drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarist Dean Parks, and pianist/organist Larry Goldings are the perfect collaborators. Most these ten tracks feature string arrangements by Vince Mendoza. Five tunes here are reinterpretations of Charles' from MSICAWM. "Take These Chains" commences as a sultry jazz tune, and in Peyroux's vocal, there is no supplication – only a demand. Parks' pedal steel moves between sounding like itself and a clarinet. Goldings' alternating B-3 and Rhodes piano offer wonderful color contrast and make it swing. Her take on "Bye Bye Love" feels as if it's being narrated to a confidante, and juxtaposes early Western swing with a bluesy stroll. A rock guitar introduces "I Can't Stop Loving You," but Peyroux's phrasing has more country-blues in it than we've heard from her before. The use of a trumpet in "Born to Lose" and "You Don't Know Me," with Mendoza's dreamy strings, allow for Peyroux to deliver her most stylized jazz performances on the set.

Billie Holiday - Perfect Complete Collection (1993) 12 CDs, Japanese Limited Edition Box Set

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Billie Holiday - Perfect Complete Collection (1993) 12 CDs, Japanese Limited Edition Box Set

Billie Holiday - Perfect Complete Collection (1993)
12 CDs, Japanese Limited Edition Box Set
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 2.87 Gb | MP3 (CBR320) ~ 1.67 Gb | Scans ~ 425 Mb
Vocal Jazz, Swing, Standards | Label: Sound Hills | # SSCD8005/16 | Time: 12:24:19

This luxury bounded box (13x13x2″) contain 12 CD for a total of 236 tracks, almost all the live tracks recorded by Billie Holiday along her career. It’s an essential item for those who want to explore this side of her discography. It contains almost all the tracks mentioned below in this live discography.

Robben Ford - Night in the City (Live) (2023)

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Robben Ford - Night in the City (Live) (2023)

Robben Ford - Night in the City (Live) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 320 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | 00:54:31
Modern Electric Blues, Jazz-Blues | Label: earMUSIC

Robben Ford is one of the most respected and influential guitarists in the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Blues Music Award and has been nominated for a Grammy numerous times. He has released over 20 albums, and his music has been featured in films and television shows. Ford is known for his virtuosic guitar playing and his soulful vocals. He is a master of blues, jazz, and rock, and his music is always filled with energy and passion. His new live album, 'Night In The City', was recorded at City Winery in Nashville, TN in 2021, and features Ford with Nate Smith on drums, Anton Nesbit on bass, Jeff Coffin and Jovan Quallo on saxophones.