Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt et le Quintet du Hot Club de France

Django playing "Nuages"

Sorry Sean, Chet Atkins got nothing on Django. This CD is from my late grandpa's collection. I think it may have been ripped, so no guarantees on the quality. It does not matter. I promise that if you sit back and listen, Django will take you far away from the problems of here and now.

http://www.mediafire.com/?odippwrugy7swfi

Authenticité - The Syliphone Years: Guinea's Orchestres Nationaux and Federaux 1965-1980

Been absent of mind and space for a while... time to share some discoveries. After viewing some Orchestre Baobab performances on YouTube I was linked to a song called Ballakè by Bembeya Jazz National.


The soothing voice, horns, and gentle bass guitar was enchanting. Searching for their music, I discovered a compilation album online representing some of Guinea's jazz between 1965-1980.


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Part 2


Authenticite - The Syliphone Years: Guinea's Orchestres Nationaux and Federaux 1965-1980

V/A - Istanbul Twilight (2008)

This sounds like a mellow night in the big city.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jnmdfynydkz
http://www.mediafire.com/?yymcltmdn5n

Istanbul Twilight

Nina Simone - Verve Jazz Essentials Vol. 2

Black Mother of Beauty

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q21ZWBCG

Charles Mingus - Ah Um (1959)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SZIPK1UE

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)

http://www.mediafire.com/?gytmzywjhj2

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)

http://www.mediafire.com/?nwz2mlv0zdn

The "5" Royales - Apollo Sessions (1951-1955)

(from AMG)
Their sound here is vocally very smooth yet passionate, but the instrumental backings are exuberant and raunchy, the kind of combination that made acts like this such a threat to the established popular music of the era... From 1951 until 1955, they helped provide the soundtrack against which mainstream rock & roll was born and took root with the public. On that basis alone, this material is worth hearing and owning; it was the soil in which rock & roll sprouted, the stream in which other acts' commercial hits were spawned and nurtured. They later had their share of successes, but this is their real sound, raw, sweet and elegant all at the same time.

Part 1
Part 2

Does anyone know why Blogger is anti-ampersand? It would not accept the & in my label for R&B.

Fela Kuti and Africa 70 - Expensive Shit (1975)

From AMG: "This disc is an overt response to the consistent harassment afflicting Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic in the early '70s under the oppressive Lagos authorities. The title track is a direct reference to an actual incident that occurred in which the cops planted a marijuana cigarette on Kuti -- who promptly swallowed it and therefore destroyed any evidence. He was then held until he could pass the drugs from his system -- which miraculously did not occur when his fecal sample was then sent for analysis, thanks to some help from his fellow inmates. Because of the costs incurred during this debacle, Kuti proclaimed his excrement as Expensive Shit."

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzlgvinnnqm

The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column (1979)

http://www.mediafire.com/?1tyvjmtmogu

Feed your Brainchild. The original vinyl sleeve was made of sandpaper so it would damage everything next to it in one's record collection. It's hard to pin down this music. Awesome synth and shimmering guitar, it smells warm like a summer evening. This one's for Cyrus.

Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!!

Back to the future.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mm1tnyyliz2