“斯莱和斯通一家”（Sly & the Family stone）乐队 斯莱·斯通（Sly Stone），1944年出生于达拉斯，从小在教堂唱福音歌。不久随家迁往旧金山海湾地区，大学时学了三年小号、音乐理论和作曲。1967年，他效仿海湾地区的嬉皮士社团，组织了一个包括黑、白两个人种，有男有女的乐队“斯莱和斯通一家”（sly & the Family stone），共7个人，其中有斯莱的妹妹和弟弟。斯莱自己唱歌、演奏吉他和键盘乐器。 “斯莱和斯通一家”在摇滚舞曲的节拍和低音线条的基础上结合了管乐、迷幻摇滚中常用的那种比较松弛的吉他演奏，以及与吸毒有关的歌词，成了第一个表演所谓“迷幻索尔”的乐队。他们演唱时，经常由两人或三人主唱，两个明显不同的男声部与一个女声部并置在一起，产生一种独特的和声效果。

Booker Ervin - Sax (Tenor), Soloist Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Flute, Sax (Tenor), Reeds (Multiple), Stritch, Sirene, Manzello, Soloist, Siren Jimmy Knepper - Trombone Charles Mingus - Piano, Vocals Dannie Richmond - Drums Doug Watkins - Bass

The best black female singer of the 20th century. This is a stunning album. the definitive late 60’s Aretha Franklin, bold, beautiful, vulnerable, earthy, sexy, defiant, spiritual and strong.. Full of great songs. A seminal session that furthered her deep soul agenda with key backings from Arif Mardin and Tom Dowd! The Sweet Inspirations provide sublime backing vocals behind Franklin’s maturing delivery of the lyrics — and the music is by an all-star group of players that includes Spooner Oldham, Bobby Womack, Jimmy Johnson, King Curtis, Tommy Cogbill, Roger Hawkins, and even Eric Clapton! After all, she is the Queen, the Lady Soul!! 1 Ranked #84 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” Aretha’s position as soul music’s premier female vocalist was consolidated by Lady Soul. Her strident reading of “Chain of Fools” set the tone on which the singer unveiled several stellar original compositions and reinterpreted a batch of classic songs. Franklin’s gospel roots were clearly displayed on “People Get Ready” while her interpretation of “(You Make Me Fell Like A) Natural Woman” showed both her vulnerable and assertive qualities. The album also features the fine soul ballad “Good to Me as I Am to You” with Eric Clapton on guitar. Lady Soul captures a performer at the peak of her power, restating her ability to take material and make it uniquely her own. This 1968 tour de force is one of the absolute pinnacles of the Queen’s incredible artistic legacy. 2 At a 1968 concert in Chicago, Aretha Franklin was publicly and officially crowned the Queen of Soul in front of her fans by a DJ named Purvis Spann. This body of work shows why Aretha continues to reign supreme. The Queen takes on the Kings of Soul/Rhythm & Blues and pulls no punches as she covers Ray Charles’s “Come Back Baby” and “Be as Good to Me as I Am to You,” James Brown’s “Money Won’t Change You,” and Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready”. She’s classical, bluesy, funky, and right-down soulful on every cut. The poet Nikki Giovanni once wrote–”Aretha can sing Money Won’t Change You, but can James Brown sing Respect?” In other words, when the Queen covers a song, it becomes hers and one can easily forget about the original artist. For example, Carol King wrote and recorded “Natural Woman” but that song is and probably will always be associated with Aretha Franklin. Aretha wails and gets right-down funky on cuts like “Chain of Fools” and “Nikki Hokey.” She’s operatically soulful on “Ain’t No Way”–which to this day no female artist, including Whitney Houston, has been able to successfully cover.You have an absolutely classic and indispensable piece of American music history here. The one and only Aretha Franklin: “Lady Soul.”

Duet albums were rare in 1962 and encounters of this quality are still rare. Bill Evans and Jim Hall, two modern jazz giants, were in peak creative form at the time, Evans leading his own trio and Hall working with Sonny Rollins's quartet at the time. These two masters challenge and complement each other brilliantly on a series of standards and jazz originals. Newly remixed and remastered in 24 bit, this new edition of Undercurrent, which contains two more tunes (tracks 7 & 8) and two alternate takes (tracks 9 & 10) added to the original United Artists album, sound exceptional.

繼1961年在紐約前衛村連續五天，充滿驚奇與自由前衛演奏色彩的現場演奏會之後，柯川率領由他和鋼琴手麥考伊．泰瑞、貝斯手吉米．泰瑞森以及鼓手艾文．瓊斯所組成的經典四重奏，重回錄音室灌錄了這張滿足喜愛抒情樂曲的經典演奏『抒情演奏輯』。 原發行於1962的『抒情演奏輯』，總共收錄8首唯美深情的好歌，柯川驕傲地以次中音和高音薩克斯風精巧流暢地詮釋樂曲優美的旋律與浪漫的意境，"You Don’t Know What Love Is"、"All Or Nothing At All"、"What’s New"，特別具有濃烈的情緒投射，每每引人無盡遐想。 1-6&8: John Coltrane(ts) McCoy Tyner(p) Jimmy Garrison(b) Elvin Jones(ds) 7: John Coltrane(ts) McCoy Tyner(p) Reggie Workman(b) Elvin Jones(ds) Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder

The Velvet Underground's classic self-titled third album, released in March 1969, by MGM, was a departure from the band's first two albums in more ways than one. Gone was co-founding member John Cale, and in his place was a 21-year-old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule, who stepped right in. The record was also a stylistic leap, as Lou Reed describes it in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke's liner notes, 'I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Fricke calls it 'a stunning turnaround… 10 tracks of mostly warm, explicit sympathy and optimism, expressed with melodic clarity, set in gleaming double-guitar jangle and near-whispered balladry. Or as the late rock critic Lester Bangs put it, 'How do you define a group like this, who moved from 'Heroin' to 'Jesus' in two short years?' Celebrating its enduring longevity, Polydor/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will releases The Velvet Underground - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. This 64-track, six-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor 'Val' Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band's fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed's first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.

William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today.

Original Release Date: May 31, 1957

Da Capo is the second album by American rock group Love, released in January 1967 by Elektra Records. The bulk of Da Capo was recorded between September 27 and October 2, 1966. "7 and 7 Is" was recorded on June 20, and had been released as a single in July of 1966 backed with "No. Fourteen", an outtake from their debut album.

William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today.

Forever Changes is the third album by American rock band Love, released by Elektra Records in November 1967. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Forever Changes 40th in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. It was entered into the National Recording Registry in May 2012.

美国二人组 Simon & Garfunkel 于 1968 年发行的第四张专辑，是他们最优秀的专辑之一，此为 2001 年重发行重制版（罗伊）

Monica Zetterlund 和 Bill Evans 於1964 年於 Stockholm 的錄音