AL KOOPER IN 4 VARIOUS TITLES OF THESE 60'S EARLY 70'S CLASSIC LP'S 

REMASTERED - BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS CHILD IS A FATHER TO THE MAN 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION SPEAKER CORNER AUDIOPHILE MASTERPIECE

- SUPER SESSION AL KOOPER - STEVEN STILLS & MIKE BLOOMFIELD QUALITY AUDIOPHILE VINYL LIMITED EDITION PRESSING 

+ MIKE BLOOMFIELD & AL KOOPER - THE LIVE ADVENTURES OF...150 GRAM AUDIOPHILE 2LP LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE SET 

& BLUES PROJECT PROJECTIONS THIS IS FROM THE ORIGINAL VERVE/FORECAST LABEL AND FOR COLLECTOR THE JACKET IS PRISTINE BECAUSE IT COMES WITHOUT A BARCODE. THAT'S HOW LONG THIS PRESSING HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT

- ALL STEREO PRESSINGS 

- 4 TITLES WITH 5 SIDES OF VINYL.

 

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To understand this SUPER SESSION QUALITY RECORDS REMASTERED EDITION, you must understand that Mike Bloomfield was the premiere guitarist in the United States in the late sixties.

When Eric Clapton and Cream came to the United States, the only person who really impressed them was Mike Bloomfield (who was playing lead guitar for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Al Kooper, who created The Blues Project and established Blood, Sweat & Tears with their debut album,CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN, and also was the main contributer to Bob Dylan’s classic album, BLONDE ON BLONDE and was one of the best producers in the business.

Steven Stills was in between playing with The Buffalo Springfield and was just in the evolution of starting Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. SUPER SESSION has Mike Bloomfield ripping on his Gibson guitar laying down some of the most instrumentals you have ever heard with Al Kooper. On the second side with Al Kooper, Steven Stills does an eleven-minute rendition of “Season Of The Witch” which will blow you away.

As the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) had done a year earlier, Super Session (1968) initially ushered in several new phases in rock & roll's concurrent transformation. In the space of mere months, the soundscape of rock shifted radically from two- and three-minute danceable pop songs to comparatively longer works with more attention to technical and musical subtleties. Enter the unlikely all-star triumvirate of Al Kooper (piano/organ/ondioline/vocals/guitars), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), and Stephen Stills (guitar) — all of whom were concurrently "on hiatus" from their most recent engagements. Kooper had just split after masterminding the definitive and groundbreaking Child Is Father of the Man (1968) version of Blood, Sweat & Tears.

Bloomfield was fresh from a brief stint with the likewise brass-driven Electric Flag, while Stills was late of Buffalo Springfield and still a few weeks away from a more or less full-time commitment to David Crosby and Graham Nash. Although the trio never actually performed together, the long-player was notable for idiosyncratically featuring one side led by the team of Kooper/Bloomfield and the other by Kooper/Stills. The band is ably fleshed out with the powerful rhythm section of Harvey Brooks (bass) and Eddie Hoh (drums) as well as Barry Goldberg (electric piano) on "Albert's Shuffle" and "Stop." The heavy Chicago blues contingency of Bloomfield, Brooks, and Goldberg provide a perfect outlet for the three Kooper/Bloomfield originals — the first of which commences the project with the languid and groovy "Albert's Shuffle." The guitarist's thin tone cascades with empathetic fluidity over the propelling rhythms. Kooper's frisky organ solo alternately bops and scats along as he nudges the melody forward. The same can be said of the funky interpretation of "Stop," which had originally been a minor R&B hit for Howard Tate. Curtis Mayfield's "Man's Temptation" is given a brass-fuelled soulful reading that might have worked equally well as a Blood, Sweat & Tears cover. At over nine minutes in spin time, "His Holy Modal Majesty" is a fun trippy waltz and includes one of the most extended jams on the Kooper/Bloomfield side. The track also features the distinct hurdy-gurdy and Eastern-influenced sound of Kooper's small electric keyboard-manipulated ondioline, which has a slightly atonal and reedy timbre much like that of John Coltrane's tenor sax.

Because of some physical health issues, Bloomfield was unable to complete the recording sessions and Kooper contacted Stills. Immediately his decidedly West Coast sound — which alternated from a chiming Rickenbacker intonation to a faux pedal steel — can be heard on the upbeat version of Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." One of the album's highlights is the churning and scintillating cover of "Season of the Witch." There is an undeniable synergy between Kooper and Stills, whose energies seems to aurally drive the other into providing some inspired interaction. Updating the blues standard "You Don't Love Me" allows Stills to sport some heavily amplified and distorted licks, which come off sounding like Jimi Hendrix. This is one of those albums that seems to get better with age and that gets the full reissue treatment every time a new audio format comes out. This is a super session indeed.

1. Albert's Shuffle      
2. Stop      
3. Man's Temptation      
4. His Holy Modal Majesty      
5. Really      
6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry      
7. Season Of The Witch      
8. You Don't Love Me      
9. Harvey's Tune

MIKE BLOOMFIELD & AL KOOPER - THE LIVE ADVENTURES OF...150 GRAM 2LP LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE SET

Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the October 2009 Issue of Stereophile!

In the wake of the success of their seminal 1968 Super Session album, blues-steeped guitar hero Mike Bloomfield (formerly of the Butterfield Blues Band and the Electric Flag) and multi-talented keyboardist/singer Al Kooper (ex-Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears) teamed up again for a historic series of joint performances at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore West, which are documented on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.

The resulting live album, culled from three nights' worth of shows and released in 1969, is a powerful testament to the formidable musical chemistry of these two rock legends, whose collaboration began when they played on Bob Dylan's classic Highway 61 Revisited. The Fillmore performances bring out the best in both musicians, who stretch out on an assortment of tunes, including the Kooper/Bloomfield original "Her Holy Modal Highness", Paul Simon's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (with Simon adding vocal harmonies), the Elvis Presley standard "That's All Right", The Band's "The Weight", Booker T and the MGs' "Green Onions" and Albert King's "Don't' Throw Your Love On Me So Strong", which features a rare Bloomfield vocal. The album also features guest appearances by Elvin Bishop and Carlos Santana.

Unavailable in its original format for decades, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper has been meticulously restored to its original double-LP form for this vinyl reissue using exacting technical and aesthetic standards. The album is pressed on high-quality, high-definition 150 GRAM vinyl, and duplicates the album's original gatefold cover art, including legendary artist Norman Rockwell's iconic cover painting of Bloomfield and Kooper.

Features:
• High-Definition Vinyl
• Double LP

Selections:
1. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
2. I Wonder Who
3. Her Holy Modal Highness
4. The Weight
5. Mary Ann
6. Together 'Til the End of Time
7. That's All Right
8. Green Onions
9. Sonny Boy Williamson
10. No More Lonely Nights
11. Dear Mr. Fantasy
12. Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong
13. Finale - Refugee

Recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, September 26-18, 1968.

BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS - FATHER IS CHILD TO THE MAN -  180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE PRESSING -

There'll be disappointment in store for those who expect to hear the voice of David Clayton-Thomas when listening to the present Blood, Sweat & Tears LP, Child Is Father To The Man. Experts will know however that on the group's very first album they will get to hear the excellent Al Kooper. The man is far more than a singer, for he not only plays the piano and various other keyboards but has also composed almost all the numbers and made the arrangements for the string ensemble. Bluesy pieces such as "I Love You More…" and "I Can't Quit Her" and the vocals from Kooper are the real gems here. The amalgamation of pop, classic and jazz, which was made so popular in the Sixties by such groups as Chicago Transit Authority, Colosseum and Soft Machine, is here combined by Blood, Sweat & Tears with the acid-folk-rock mix emanating from San Francisco. 
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 266/500! 
Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the January 2008 Issue of Stereophile! Pressed at Pallas in Germany! 

BS&T began as an Al Kooper project in 1968, as a part of a move toward "bigger" rock sounds. Child, the only album made under Kooper's direction, is important not only because its jazz and art-song aspects expanded the scope of the rock for both audience and musicians, but also because it was one of the most perfectly listenable pop albums of its era. 

"Blood, Sweat and Tears are usually remembered as middle-of-the-road oldies-radio faves. But this album shows the original outfit, headed by organist Al Kooper, to be an eclectic blues-rock collective that recorded hard-bitten gems such as "I Can't Quit Her." - rollingstone 

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany

Selections:
1. Overture
2. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
3. Morning Glory
4. My Days Are Numbered
5. Without Her
6. Just One Smile
7. I Can't Quit Her
8. Megan's Gypsy Eyes
9. Somethin' Goin On
10. House In the Country
11. The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes and Freud
12. So Much Love/Underture    

 

THE BLUES PROJECT PROJECTIONS - IN STEREO  - VERVE FORECAST PRESSING FTS-3008

The Blues Project was one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 1960s. Rising from the vibrant Greenwich Village music scene, the New York quintet created a visionary fusion of electric blues, folk-rock, jazz and psychedelia and delivered it with gritty, effortless expertise. Projections (1966) is generally regarded as the Blues Project's peak as a recording unit. The only studio album to feature the band's classic lineup of keyboardist Al Kooper, guitarists Danny Kalb and Steve Katz, bassist Andy Kulberg and drummer Roy Blumenfeld, Projections is a potent manifestation of the Blues Project's eclectic approach and a persuasive showcase for the band member's varied talents.

1.            I Can’t Keep from Crying

               2.            Steve’s Song

               3.            You Can’t Catch Me

               4.            Two Trains Running

               5.            Wake Me, Shake Me

               6.            Cheryl’s Going Home

               7.            Flute Thing

               8.            Caress Me Baby

               9.            Fly Away

 

 

This would make a tremendous “GIFT” for any true Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper or Steven Stills fan.

LIMITED EDITION. This Limited Edition FACTORY SEALED LP is an audiophile collector’s item that simply gives the feeling of being directly in the studio with the artist.

A SONIC WORK OF ART. This Limited Edition gem.

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