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Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton 豆瓣

8.9 (16 个评分) Eric Clapton 类型: 摇滚

发布日期 1999年10月12日出版发行: Warner Bros / Wea

If this were your first exposure to Eric Clapton, a bit of bewilderment would be in order. This is the legendary guitar icon? This is (as his early apostles once proclaimed) God? Ranging from the mid-´80s through the late ´90s, The Clapton Chronicles owes less to the groundbreaking blues-rock of Clapton´s ´60s and ´70s classics than to the polished-to-a-glare pop of Phil Collins, who produced one of the tracks included in this 14-song anthology. His reinterpretation of his greatest recording--the once-gripping, now-placid "Layla"--perhaps best illustrates Clapton at middle-age: Who wants to bask in his darkest period? Not Clapton, who converts his surging, purging charge into a soothing stroll. And perhaps not fans of such docile MOR fare as "My Father´s Eyes," "Tears in Heaven," and the two new tracks, "Blue Eyes Blue" and "Get Lost."

The Rolling Stones, Now! 豆瓣

8.3 (7 个评分) The Rolling Stones 类型: 摇滚

发布日期 1965年2月13日出版发行: Abkco

滚石乐队在美国发行的第三张专辑，有7首歌来自于英国版的The Rolling Stones No. 2，还有后来在Out of Our Heads中发表的几首歌，专辑中的Little Red Rooster曾经是英国的冠军单曲，被认为是滚石在美国发行的早期专辑中最棒的一张。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第181位。

The Great Twenty-Eight 豆瓣

9.2 (31 个评分) Chuck Berry 类型: 摇滚

发布日期 1982年1月1日出版发行: Chess Records

摇滚乐真正的先行者Chuck Berry在1955－1965年间最脍炙人口的28首金曲的精选，他的歌曲带有明显的由乡村民谣向摇滚乐过渡的特征，曲风清新质朴，欢快洒脱，作为一个杰出的吉他手、创作人和歌手，Chuck Berry影响了后世无数的摇滚大师，有人说，如果没有Chuck Berry，Beatles和Bob Dylan等人的出现全都是不可想像的。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第21位。
This is the place to start listening to Chuck Berry. The Great Twenty-Eight was a two-LP, single CD compilation that emerged during the early '80s, amid a brief period in which the Chess catalog was in the hands of the Sugar Hill label, a disco-oriented outfit that later lost the catalog to MCA. It has proved to be one of the most enduring of all compilations of Berry's work. Up until the release of this disc, every attempt at a compilation had either been too sketchy (the 1964 Greatest Hits album on Chess) or too demanding for the casual listener (the three Golden Decade double-LP sets), and this was the first set to find a happy medium between convenience and thoroughness. Veteran listeners will love this CD even if they learn little from it, while neophytes will want to play it to death. All of the cuts come from Berry's first nine years in music, including all of the major singles as well as relatively minor hits such as "Come On" (which was more significant in the history of rock & roll in its cover version performed by the Rolling Stones as their debut release). The sound is decent throughout (surprisingly, except for "Come On," which has some considerable noise), although it is considerably outclassed by the most recent round of remasterings. In the decades since its release, there have been more comprehensive collections of Berry's work, but this is the best single disc, if one can overlook the relatively lo-fi digital sound.

Texas Flood 豆瓣

9.2 (24 个评分) Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 类型: 布鲁斯

发布日期 1993年1月1日出版发行: Epic

Texas Flood是SRV在1983年发行的第一张专辑，也是一张有着重大历史意义的唱片。八○年代初期，蓝调的市场不断萎缩，年轻人沈浸在Punk、New Wave和Disco的节奏里，蓝调被视为气数将尽的雕零乐种。然而这位28岁德州青年的处女作改变了一切，Texas Flood大卖数十万张，把蓝调重新送进了无数年轻人的床头音响，也开启了八○年代的蓝调复兴风潮。Stevie的故乡奥斯汀（Austin），也一跃成为新起的蓝调重镇。Stevie并不是石头里蹦出来的天才。在这张专辑出版之前，他已经玩了十几年的团，在老家奥斯汀附近转战无数酒吧与俱乐部，却一直没有被唱片公司发掘。1982年，他参加在瑞士Montreux举办的蓝调音乐节，受到台下的Jackson Browne和David Bowie大力赏识，Bowie邀请他替自己的Let's Dance专辑伴奏，并担任巡回演唱的暖场；Browne则愿意免费提供自己在洛杉矶的录音间给Stevie使用。有了Browne的慷慨相助，Stevie带着团员在巡回演唱的空档赶赴洛杉矶，他们只能在Jackson Browne的录音间停留三天，原本想录几首歌听听看效果如何，完全没有做一张专辑的打算。头两天他们只录了两首歌，到第三天，一切都出奇顺利，他们一口气录了八首歌，整张Texas Flood专辑就这样完成了。这卷母带后来被流行音乐史著名的星探John Hammond Sr.听见（他曾经发掘的艺人包括Billie Holiday，Bob Dylan，和BruceSpringsteen），Stevie才有了和大公司签约的机会。这张专辑在1983年由Columbia的子厂牌Epic发行，一位超级新星就此诞生。这张专辑是一场丰富的听觉飨宴，和Jimi Hendrix一样，Stevie的三件式乐队只有鼓、贝斯和他自己的吉他，并没有节奏吉他的编制。他在每一首歌里都同时弹节奏和主奏吉他，听起来简直像四只手同时在弹。从热火朝天的摇滚曲Love Struck Baby、Pride and Joy，到每个音符都浸满了怨忿情绪的慢板蓝调Texas Flood，乃至于充满爵士风情的抒情演奏曲Lenny，Stevie不仅在传统蓝调的领域里游刃有余，也勇于脱离十二小节蓝调的束缚，尝试各种音乐上的可能性。摇滚史上很少听到这么成熟、这么挥洒自得的处女作。Sony/Legacy重新发行经典艺人的作品，品质早有公论。这批重发SRV的历年作品，不仅音质比旧版精良，更多附了好几首新出土的珍贵录音，内页除了深入的专文介绍，还有许多首度曝光的照片，替这张经典专辑锦上添花。

钢琴蓝调 (2003) 豆瓣

Piano Blues

导演: 克林特·伊斯特伍德演员: Albert Ammons / Marcia Ball …

其它标题: Piano Blues

Clint Eastwood directed and hosted this final segment of the seven-part Blues documentary which was aired on PBS in the United States and then released on DVD. Eastwood has been a longtime fan of the piano and of blues and jazz artists. He once did a movie called "Bird" about jazzman Charlie Parker.
Here, Clint sits at the piano next to people like Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Marcia Ball, Dr. John and others and interviews them. Most aren't good interviewees and say very little, especially Charles who revealed nothing about himself or his music; absolutely no insight. Brubeck does a beautiful number but its jazz, not blues. Apparently, Eastwood forgot this was a documentary on blues. About half of the material here is more on jazz greats, like Brubeck or Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Nat "King" Cole, etc.
The best parts were clips of older and deceased piano greats like Art Tatum, who may be the best of all time, as shown here. He was awesome and I admit I knew little about the man until this episode.
Other footage highlights Otis Spann and the Chicago electric blues sound, which is more like it, to blues fans like me. Charles Brown offers some good boogie while Big Joe Turner and Jay McShann, Pinetop Perkins, Pete Jolly, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair and others contribute either live or in footage.
Meanwhile, film of a slinky woman in a sequined dress playing some boogie-woogie stuff was a highlight to me, too. Man, she could play and was fun to watch. I'd like to see more of her, or at least find out who she was. (I should have taken notes.).
Charles, via old TV tape, concludes this episode with his bluesy version of "America" which still in unique and wonderful.

Unplugged 豆瓣

9.3 (33 个评分) Eric Clapton 类型: 布鲁斯

发布日期 1991年1月1日出版发行: MTV

《艾力普顿：不插电专辑》Eric Clapton在音乐生涯的早期曾经有两个绰号：God上帝和Slowhand（慢手）。God的美誉得自艾力普頓神乎其技的吉他弹奏功夫，Slow-hand指的当是艾力普頓那从容、游刃有余却绝不矫情炫耀的作秀风格，而相反他的速度在他那一代的吉他手中应该是很快的了。作为歌手的艾力普頓，其表现并不逊色于他的吉他作秀。

事实上，从70年代到90年代这三十年中，艾力普頓的歌曲从未在流行音乐排行榜上缺席过，他本人也因其杰出表现贏得过无数的奖项，94年更是凭此歌获得多项大奖。吉他手艾力普頓和歌手艾力普頓这双重的身分交相輝映，缔造了一段四十年的精彩音乐人生。

01 signe
02 before you accuse me
03 hey hey
04 tears in heaven
05 lonely stranger
06 nobody knows you when you re down & out
07 layla
08 running on faith
09 walkin blues
10 alberta
11 san francisco bay blues
12 malted milk
13 old love
14 rollin & tumblin Produccd by russ titelman

Kind of Blue 豆瓣

9.6 (155 个评分) Miles Davis 类型: 爵士

发布日期 1959年8月17日出版发行: Columbia

《迈尔斯戴维斯·泛蓝调调》是20世纪顶尖爵士乐手最完美的一次经典录音，透过重新数位制作呈献细腻感动的质素；也是认识史上最伟大爵士巨人Miles Davis的入门推荐，与爵士乐迷收藏的必备经典！

素有“黑暗王子”之称的小号巨擘 Miles Davis （1929-91）是一位奠定50年代酷派（Cool School）冷调风格，开创60年代末期Jazz-Rock 融合（Fusion）新乐风的先锋；受到波普（Bop）时期最具代表性萨克斯风大师Charlie Parker提携，Miles Davis由纽约52街的酒吧表演跨入大乐团，而后自组五重奏的历程，不仅绽放个人深刻色彩，更跨越肤色藩篱成就后起之秀。这张专辑除了获得企鹅爵士五星最高评价，也是各家乐评一致推荐的世纪不朽作品；自1959年发行至今届满四十周年，美国当地销售超越七十万张，全球销售高达两百万张。

“Kind Of Blue”谱写酷派爵士时期，调式爵士（modal）经典代表；由Miles Davis与作曲及钢琴家Bill Evans共同蕴织出主要行进线，以贯穿整张专辑的概念为主轴，藉着其他乐手的加入而渲染蔓延转化层次分明的无际空间。参与本专辑的乐手们在日后皆成为爵士乐界要角，而“Kind Of Blue”也是 Miles Davis五重奏巅峰时期的专辑，每一位乐手表现超高水准。中音萨克风手John Coltrane与Miles共有的灵巧思绪以纯熟的默契化作柔畅的旋律，在最具代表性曲目“So What”中，可以发现两人即兴演奏的精彩绝伦。而高音萨克斯风手“Connonball” Adderley、贝斯名将Paul Chambers和鼓手James Cobb在Miles穿针引线的前导带领，凝聚演绎技巧绝妙境界的最高张力。只出现在“Flamenco Sketches”一曲的钢琴大师Wynton Kelly，同样跟乐手们演出完美契合的对话，专辑还有未曾在黑胶唱片时收录的版本！

01 那又如何 So What
02 不速之客弗莱迪Freddie Freeloader
03 绿中蓝Blue in Green
04 绝对布鲁斯All Blues
05 弗拉门高素描Flamenco Sketches
06 弗拉门高素描（黑胶唱片未收录版本）