Tag: Atlantic
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INXS, Listen Like Thieves, 1985 on Atlantic
This was INXS’ fifth studio album, but had their first US breakthrough hit with “What You Need.” Recorded at Rhinoceros in Sydney and produced by Chris Thomas. Includes “This Time” and “Listen Like Thieves” which are also great. My copy via Beverly Coin & Jewelry in Beverly MA.
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Otis Redding, The Immortal Otis Redding, 1968 on ATCO
The second of a number of posthumous releases that came after Redding died in December 1967 – recordings made during the spring, summer and fall of 1967. Atlantic owned the rights to Redding’s catalog and all unreleased masters, so issued these albums under the ATCO label in the US. Personnel not credited on the release,…
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Eddie Harris & Les McCann, Second Movement, 1971 on Atlantic
Follow-up to the massively successful Swiss Movement (“Compared to What”), recorded at Atlantic Studios. Harris and McCann are joined by Cornell Dupree, James Rowser, Donald Dean, and Bernard Purdie. Doesn’t quite live up to Swiss Movement but it’s a great early seventies jazz LP My copy via Beverly Coin & Jewelry in Beverly MA
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Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, 1978 on Atlantic.
The second in the series of self-titled albums Gabriel put out between 1977 and 1982, this one is sometimes called Peter Gabriel 2 or known as “Scratch” to differentiate it from the others, based on the cover art (by Hipgnosis). Produced by Robert Fripp, with Frippertronics on “Exposure.” In the UK this was on Charisma,…
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Aretha Franklin, Aretha Arrives, 1967 on Columbia
Aretha’s 11th album and second for Atlantic – the follow up to I Never Loved a Man. Includings covers of the Rolling Stone’s “Satisfaction” and the ? and the Mysterian’s “96 Tears” as well as “You Are My Sunshine” and “That’s Life.” Sometimes gets dismissed as the weak follow up to her Atlantic debut, but…
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Wilson Pickett, Hey Jude, 1969 on Atlantic
Recorded at Fame studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama with a band that included Duane Allman as well as Jerry Jemmott and Roger Hawkins. It’s a classic late 60s Atlantic record with tinge of what would become southern rock. In addition to the title Beatles cover, there’s also “Born to Be Wild” and songs by Hayes/Porter…
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Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, 1967 on Atlantic
My copy is a 2022 reissue by Vinyl Me, Please as a part of their Essentials track. It was actually Franklin’s tenth studio album but her first release on Atlantic. Imagine having Respect as the lead off track on your debut album at a new label? Not that the nine albums at Columbia aren’t good…
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Les McCann, Talk to the People, 1972 on Atlantic
This comes a few years after Swiss Movement (with Eddie Harris) and the success of “Compared to What” and opens with a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” Lots of early seventies jazz/funk/soul Fender Rhodes and clavinet here. My copy via Vinyl Destination in Lowell MA
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Roberta Flack, Quiet Fire, 1971 on Atlantic
Flack’s third album, with “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” as the hit single, but also including covers of Bridge Over Troubled Water and To Love Somebody (among others). Produced by Joel Dorn. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2021, with listening notes by H. Zahra Caldwell, newly cut laquers by Ryan…
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Nat Adderley, Autobiography, 1965 on Atlantic
Original 60s pressing in mono via Island Music in Vineyard Haven. This is Adderley doing all his own compositions, with support from Sam Jones, Bruno Carr, Grady Tate, Willie Bobo, Joe Zawinul (who also arranged and conducted), Ernie Royal, Don Butterfield, Benny Power, Victor Pantoja. Julian “Cannonball” Adderley wrote the sleeve notes, including: My reference…
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Freddie King, My Feeling for the Blues, 1970 on Cotillion
One of the “three kings” of the blues, this is King’s second album after signing with Atlantic (Cotillion is a subsidiary) before moving to Shelter records (Leon Russell’s label). My copy is a 2021 pressing from Vinyl Me, Please, with listening notes by Andrew Winistorfer and new lacquers cut from the original types by Ryan…
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Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy, 1973 on Atlantic
As many record collectors know, it’s increasingly rare to find a reasonably priced Led Zeppelin LP in original pressing – I found this one at Thread & Groove record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell – in pretty decent shape. Monster album – the fifth full length, with Over the Hills and Far Away,…
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Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Swiss Movement, 1969 on Atlantic
McCann & Harris recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, with Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Donald Dean (drums), and Benny Bailey (trumpet). The single “Compared To What” became a big hit. My copy (from a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA) is a mid-70s repress as it has the 75 Rockefeller Plaza address…
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Ornette Coleman, The Shape Of Jazz To Come, 1959 on Atlantic.
Ornette Coleman, The Shape Of Jazz To Come, 1959 on Atlantic. Coleman’s debut on Atlantic and his third LP. With Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. My copy is a 2022 mono reissue from Vinyl Me, Please
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Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, 1958 on Atlantic.
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, 1958 on Atlantic. My copy is a 1977 reissue with the Rockefeller Plaza address. Classic collaboration
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Chic, Risqué, 1979 on Atlantic.
Chic, Risqué, 1979 on Atlantic. Side one track one: Good Times. That bass line! Classic Nile Rodgers Bernard Edwards Via Island Music in Vineyard Haven.
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Herbie Mann, Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate, 1963 on Atlantic (1407).
Herbie Mann, Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate, 1963 on Atlantic (1407). Jazz flute- one in a series of Village Gate LPs dlr Herbie Mann. Cover painting by Abidin Dino (aka Abidine).
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Phineas Newborn Jr., Here Is Phineas (The Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn Jr.), 1956 on Atlantic.
Phineas Newborn Jr., Here Is Phineas (The Piano Artistry of Phuneas Newborn Jr.), 1956 on Atlantic. 2022 repress via Vinyl Me, Please Great version of “All the Things You Are” With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke, and brother Calvin Newborn. Liner notes George Wein (original) and listening notes (reissue) Andrew Winistorfer.