Professionals [Import]

Product Description
1980 debut album for post Sex Pistols act featuring Steve Jones & Paul Cook. 11 tracks. Virgin Records.

Professionals,Professionals,Rock/Pop

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Professionals [Import]

Average customer rating: THE NEW SEX PISTOLS... More of a new wave album than the first disc. Rock Solid Raunch Street Smart Catchy Punk Rock EX-PISTOLS GET IN THE RING LAND KNOCK-OUT IN ONE GREAT CD

I Didn't See It Coming The Professionals Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Professionals Best of the Rich Kids Neurotic Outsiders We Have Come for Your Children Hollywood Brats (Recorded 1973) ASIN: B00005J9M5 Release Date: 2001-06-18

Tracks:

1. Magnificent
2. Payola
3. Northern Slide
4. Friday Night Square
5. Kick Down the Door
6. Little Boys in Blue
7. All the Way
8. Crescendo
9. Madhouse
10. Too Far to Fall
11. Just Another Dream [First Single][*]
12. Kamikaze [Song From Proposed First Album][*]
13. 1-2-3 [Second Single][*]
14. Mods. Skins, Punks [Song From Proposed First Album][*]
15. Join the Professionals [Third Single][*]
16. Has Anybody Got an Alibi [B Side of Third Single][*]
17. White Light/White Heat [Second Single B Side][*]
18. Baby I Don't Care [Second Single B Side][*]

Album Description

UK reissue of 1981 album for guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook's post Sex Pistols act. The only prior CD release was a very limited Japanese pressing. 18 tracks including seven bonus tracks, 'Just Another Dream', 'Kamikaze', 'Mods, Skins, Punks', 'Join The Professionals', 'Has Anybody Got An Alibi', 'White Light/White Heat' & 'Baby I Don't Care'.

Album Details

The post Sex Pistols band featuring drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones. Includes eight bonus tracks!

Customer Reviews:

THE NEW SEX PISTOLS..........2006-09-28

I am a HUGE Sex Pistols fan from way, way back. I first heard them in 1985, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I quickly bought everything I could get my hands on, and it seemed that the Pistols never did a bad song. I even loved all of the "non-Rotten" stuff; Silly thing, Lonely Boy, and the Sid Vicious stuff.. Then as the 80's wore on more obscure stuff started surfacing, like the Jones/Cook classic "Here We Go Again" that appeared out of nowhere on "Pirates of Destiny". I was always particularly fond of that song.. pure PISTOLS even though Rotten was long gone.
A few years later, a friend of mine told me about "The Professionals", which was basically Steve Jones and Paul Cook continuing on without Sid or Johnny. I asked him what it sounded like. He said "Do you like the song HERE WE GO AGAIN"? - And I said "Oh wow, Yeah!", and I'll never forget he looked me right in the eyes and said "Well, the entire album sounds EXACTLY LIKE THAT...". He made me a copy of his LP, and I couldn't believe it. This was REALLY the Sex Pistols!!! I'm going to make a bold comment, but it's one I stand by: This album is the EQUAL TO "NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS". It's that good. Any Sex Pistols fan who heard all the stuff and wished there was more will be flipping thier wig - This album is a classic that sounds exactly like late-Pistols material. There are so many classics on this album, such as NORTHERN SLIDE and KICK DOWN THE DOORS. And then there are the songs THE MAGNIFICENT, ALL THE WAY WITH YOU, and TOO FAR TOO FALL, all of which are mind-bending tributes to thier fallen bandmate SID VICIOUS. This entire album seems like a bizzare tribute to Sid Vicious. I remember a good friend of mine once commented to me that this album sounded like "The Sex Pistols singing from hell". This is a very good description. The music is pure 1000% Sex Pistols, and Steve Jones's vocals are deep, echo-ey, and downright OTHERWORLDLY. This album is mind-bending. It is much better than the other available "self titled" CD, though you should buy that one too. The eight bonus tracks are nice to have, too, but the TRUE majesty of this album lies in the first 10 tracks, which is what this review is all about. Get this CD. It's the stuff Pistol's fan's DREAMS are made of.

More of a new wave album than the first disc........2005-05-29

I Didn't See it Coming (1981) was a re-recording of the first album that was shelved due to legal issues. Steve Jones and Paul Cook found some new bandmates and relaunched the Professionals. Instead of sounding like The Sex Pistols they looked and acted more like Duran Duran.
Some of the tracks were from the first (and better) album. But this disc has some great songs (The Magnificent and Payola) the re-recorded tracks are okay. What makes this disc a keeper is the extra tracks, You get the singles and some outakes from the first album!

Too bad the band fell apart due to ego and drug problems (mainly drug abuse). They could have been a force to reckon with in the eighties. Steve Jones would later kick his horse habit and embrace 'heavy metal" bands such as Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses. For shame!

Highly recommended.

Rock Solid Raunch.......2005-05-19

The three stars I've given this album belie it's greatness. Fact is, I gave Jones' later effort "Neurotic Outsiders" three stars as well, for the simple fact that neither of these albums are masterpieces.

What they ARE, however, is blistering, straight-forward power chords at their finest. Overall, "I Didn't See It Coming" is patchy, but the good stuff is excellent indeed, particularly "Payola", "Northern Slide", "Join The Professionals", and my personal favourite, "Mods, Skins, Punks". "Kamikaze" is fine as well, sounding right up there with ex-Pistol material "Silly Thing" and "No One Is Innocent".

The only downside? Like Johnny Thunders' debut LP, the production is spotty at times. "Just Another Dream" is an example of how to bury a perfectly good song in the mix.

Buy it anyway.

Street Smart Catchy Punk Rock .......2004-12-09

Some people don't consider this to be an actual punk album. I beg to differ. This album contains all the grit, power and tunefulness that characterized the stronger crop of the classic British waves of yester-year. In fact, I would even go so far as to suggest that this might be what the Pistols may have sounded if they'd been an Oi! band. Steve Jones' guitar sound evokes the crunch of the 'Bollocks' album, and of course, Paul Cooks' steady backbeat provides enough gusto for those listeners dying for an excuse to pogo. The songs are catchy, have pop-quality, and certainly worth the outstanding list-price (not too bad, considering it's an import). Particular highlights are "the Magnificent" and "payola." If you dig real punk rock--and I mean the REAL stuff, not the shamefull crap they push down your throat on MTV--definitely get this. No complaints here whatsoever. It's just too bad they didn't include "conned again" as a bonus track.

EX-PISTOLS GET IN THE RING LAND KNOCK-OUT IN ONE GREAT CD.......2003-07-12

You're Steve Jones or Paul Cook and The Sex Pistols fizzle..what do you do for act 2?? This is a great lost album of 1981. I lost the vinyl in a fire years ago, GREAT TO FINALLY FIND IT ON CD!
This album quite simply [REALLY GOOD]. The songs are catchy as hell and get lodged in your mind for days at a time (in fact what prompted me to find this on cd was the song "Crescendo" which had been haunting me for about a week and as we know the only way to exorcise a song like that is to actually hear it).
If Rotten and Vicious were respectively the mind and soul of the Sex Pistols, then Paul cook and steve jones were easily the blood, guts, and fists. When you hear these tracks you'll know where that sonic gristle came from., and how indespensible it was at getting the Pistols across. This Album isn't Punk,nor is it metal....it's something I'll call Power-Rock. Two big guitars, pulsing bass, and pounding drums mixed with the tales of a savvy, yet weary Londoner. TOPS!

Average customer rating: if you want to buy a dub album make it this one

No Bones for the Dogs: Dubs From 1974-79 Joe Gibbs & the Professionals Manufacturer: Pressure Sounds ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dub | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Earthquake Dub Heavyweight Dub/Killer Dub Leggo Dub Well Charged Dreader Dread 1976-1978 ASIN: B00006L76I Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

1. No Bones for the Dogs - Joe Gibbs,
2. I Stand Accused
3. Six Foot Six - Joe Gibbs,
4. I Am Not Ashamed Version
5. Su Su Version
6. C W Burning Version
7. Roots Kunte Kintye - Joe Gibbs,
8. Give It to Jah
9. Road Is Rough - Joe Gibbs, Professionals
10. No Man's Version
11. War
12. War Is Over
13. Informer Version
14. Fulfilment
15. Finacial Business
16. Alan Hit by A. Larry
17. Earthquake
18. Baldhead Bridge

Album Description

Full Title - No Bones For The Dogs - Dubs From 1974-79. Joe Gibbs and the Professionals laid down some of the most devastating tracks coming out of Kingston in the late 1970's. Collected here are their most outstanding and rare productions from the period. Producer Gibbs and engineer Errol Thompson, known as 'The Mighty Two', assembled the cream of Kingston's session musicians to lay down the rhythms for massive tracks by Dennis Brown, Culture, Gregory Isaacs, and others. So settle back, put the headphones on, turn the bass up and sink into the deepest Jamaican dubs you've never heard before. Pressure Sounds. Slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

if you want to buy a dub album make it this one.......2004-03-09

There is not one weak track on this CD. It's all dubs from the seventies. The title track is an early DJ style track over Alton Ellis' Why Birds Follow Spring', 'I Stand Accused' is very rootsy, a Gregory Isaacs dub, 'Six Foot Six' is also cool, 'I Am Not Ashamed Version', 'Informer Version' (Jah See Them A Come), 'Fulfilment' (Two Sevens Clash) and 'Baldhead Bridge' are four psychedelic killer dubs from Culture songs. 'Su Su Version' is the same rhythm as Prince Far I's 'Heavy Manners', 'Burning Version' a chilling dub of Sylford Walker's 'Burn Babylon', Roots Kunta Kinte: The Wailer's "Hypocrites", Give It To Jah = Jr Byles' Heart And Soul; Road Is Rough : Be The One - The Heptones; No Man's Version: Up Park Camp riddim very cool; 'War' is a kind of medley of studio one riddims; 'War Is Over' is ok, it's the dub to George Nooks' version of 'Tribal War' but I like the original by Little Roy much better; 'Financial Business' is a seriously crazy take on 'Love Is Not A Gamble' riddim; Alan: Hit By Larry : Real Rock, I've heard better versions of real rock, but this riddim is always nice; Earthquake: a very calm riddim, but with sound effects that make it really sound like an earthquake. So if you're interested in 70s reggae, and you have some money, don't hesitate: I personally guarantee you it will not dissapoint.

Average customer rating: Mesmerising A great artist comes of age Poetry set to music Progression is a Beautiful thing.... Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder...

Slingshot Professionals Kelly Joe Phelps Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind Sky Like a Broken Clock Shine Eyed Mister Zen Roll Away the Stone Beggar's Oil ASIN: B00008J2FB Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Jericho
2. Window Grin
3. Slingshot Professionals
4. Not So Far To Go
5. It's James Now
6. Waiting For Marty
7. Knock Louder
8. Cardboard Box Of Batteries
9. Circle Wars
10. Rusting Gate

Amazon.com

Though Kelly Joe Phelps initially attracted attention for his virtuosity on slide guitar, he continues to extend his musical dimensions with each release. Once a solo troubadour, here the singer-songwriter features his richest arrangements to date, as producer Lee Townsend enlists stellar support from guitarists Bill Frisell and Steve Dawson, violinist Jesse Zubot, percussionist Scott Amendola (who's worked with Charlie Hunter), accordionist/keyboardist Chris Gestrin, vocalist Petra Haden (daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden), and bassists Andrew Downing and Keith Lowe. The musical atmospherics occasionally invite comparisons with kindred spirits such as Bruce Cockburn (the opening "Jericho"), Mark Knopfler ("Window Grin"), Richard Thompson ("Not So Far to Go"), and even a hint of Tom Waits ("Waiting for Marty"), but in the end Phelps defies categorization. A singer of bluesy grit, he remains a great guitarist, yet he plays with an understatement that enhances the material, rather than overwhelming the listener with hot licks. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews:

Mesmerising.......2005-07-15

Some people worry that they don't know what Kelly Joe's songs are about, but it doesn't worry me. I kind of know what they're about anyway, once I've listened to them a few hundred times. In any case, it doesn't so much matter what they're meant to be about as what you think they're about. Like an abstract painting full of colour and texture, there's plenty to work with to build up your own picture. Listening to `Cardboard Box of Batteries', I see an old man and his memories, childhood trophies hidden away and that feeling you get looking at them again or just remembering. This is the image I get now, but I may well change my mind about it later on!
Very few songwriters have the courage, or the poetry, to do this. As a listener, you need a bit of both to appreciate these songs, but they are well worth the effort.
In this second outing with a band, KJP is clearly developing a style that's all his own and I'm certain makes up for the absence of his signature slide guitar. It's a seductive sound now, mostly gentle, even for the blues of `Knock Louder', with curious guitar and fiddle highlights creating the atmosphere to back up Kelly Joe's perfect vocals. If there's somebody around who does this sort of thing better, I can't think who they are.

A great artist comes of age.......2005-03-02

This album is where Kelly Jo really stakes out his ground as one of the premier acoustic artists of the last ten years. And not just for his guitar playing (phenomenal as it is) but equally as much for the emotional quality of his singing, and the floating artistry of his song constuction.

It is not always easy to tune into what Kelly Jo is on about. His music is somewhat elliptical, and is occasionally abstract or even obtuse. But like all great musicians he transcends the limitations of his genre through sheer artistic ambition. What would be (in the hands of even a good acoustic guitarist) a challenging, pretty and melodic blues improvisation, becomes in Kelly Jo's case, a towering jazz achievement. At his best Kelly Jo is right up there with Coltrane, or Parker, or Van Morrison. For example, when I saw him last year doing this stuff, it was like hearing "Astral Weeks" crossed with "Blue Trane". I bought this album that day, and I have played it over and over ever since.

And, on this album, you also get the added bonus of Kelly Jo working with a set of sympathetic and understated musicians who masterfully shade and embellish his profound artistic vision - and they are a joy to hear as well.

Are these great songs? Does the album fit a standard descriptive profile? Can you hum the words at the laundromat? No, not really. But this is the real deal. Just let yourself be swept up in the epic sweep, of a great musician creating wonderful music. One of the best albums of the last year. Spread the word.

Poetry set to music.......2003-04-10

Kelly Joe Phelps latest cd, Slingshot Professionals, is poetry set to music. If you have any of his previous cd's your sure to love this one, they just get better and better. I've played this cd over and over and I'm not the least bit tired of it. His lyrics are like poetry and the music is even better. I have seen him in person twice at small venues and he's even better live.

Progression is a Beautiful thing...........2003-03-27

A Case in point, KJP 5th Release, "Slingshot Professionals" Each of Kelly Joe's Disc have shown growth that most Artist don't show in a life time. The Latest, this time with a full band, has shown the most growth so far. 2001's "Sky like a broken clock" KJP showed his progression as a Song writter, tunes like "Taylor John" and "Gold Tooth" with abstract lyrics, and Quirky beats Phelps took us to places that very few artist have. In "Slingshot Professinals" he continues to introduces his listeners to a cast of characters, and lets us draw our own conclusions about them. This is a mark of a great song writter.If you're looking for songs that have beginings, middles and ends to the story, you're in the wrong place, Because life can be abstract, and at times there are no answers. Phelps understands this, and it fuels his creativity, we just come along for the ride, and once again draw our own conclusions. The 5th Song on the Disc, "It's James Now" the Main Character, "Double r.j." I had to wonder...is it River Rat Jimmy? from shine eyed mister zen? In any case it is song full of rich characters and has as beautiful a melody has we've heard from Phelps yet. Phelps progression is quickly putting him among the eilte singer/songwritters/players of this generation.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder..........2003-03-17

The new Kelly Joe Phelps album is good instrumentally. (In case you're not familiar with his first three albums, you should know that "good" (rather than jaw-dropping amazing) is below par. Check out "Shine Eyed Mister Zen," first.) His band for these sessions was impressive. Zubot and Dawson are great and add much with their Weissenborn slide guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. Kelly Joe's singing and picking are as good as ever and blend in really well with the backing musicians. However, his choice to play harmonica himself and to let Steve Dawson play all of the slide guitar is a bit of a mystery. Notwithstanding the choice of instruments, the really disappointing thing about this CD, as well as his last album "Sky like a broken clock," is the wierd songwriting. It's just not a CD you want to play for other people. For example, the last album featured one song in which the character "peed down his leg" and another with a "rat boy takin' a leak against the wall." Thankfully, you won't find any urination here, but most of this CD "makes about as much sense as a frog on a chain" to quote the first line from "Knock Louder." The songwriting is like some kind of a bad impressionistic painting with the English language. "Silver in my cavity that plays music in the winter. I have a cardboard box of batteries hidden in a tire swing, a miner's hat with a light on top and a handful of wedding rings." ("Cardboard box of batteries") I hope Kelly Joe either gets back into covering traditional songs or rediscovers the knack for writing cool songs that make sense he showcased on his first three albums. Otherwise one of the greatest slide guitar players and interpreters of American folk music in the world will continue putting out very average albums.

Average customer rating: I use this music to fall asleep!

Meditations for Solo Harp Cynthia Lynn Douglass Manufacturer: Celestial Sounds ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAG6NI Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Karim
2. Innishere
3. Flowers of the Forest
4. Livy
5. Innishere 2
6. Meditation With Nature

Product Description

Quiet electric harp and nature sounds. Soft and gentle melodies form two 30-minute meditations. A favorite among massage therapists, yoga practitioners, and health professionals.

Customer Reviews:

I use this music to fall asleep!.......2007-07-14

Once menopause set in, insomnia became the norm instead of the exception. As the years passed, I learned that playing music would help me not only to fall asleep more easily but also to stay asleep (or to easily return to sleep if I awoke during the night). Therefore, I am always looking for 'sleeping' music...music that relaxes not only the body but also the mind! This CD has been wonderful!

Mary

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Unorthodox Practices for Modern Professionals Fax Arcana Manufacturer: Magic Bullet Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00062IDE2 Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

1. Human Resources
2. Name Brand Fatalism
3. Consenting Consorting

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Professionals Maurice Jarre Manufacturer: Silva America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000004BR7 Release Date: 1994-02-01

Tracks:

1. Proposition For The Professionals- Main Title
2. Start Of The Quest
3. Dolworth`s Word
4. Hacienda Intrigue
5. Rigging The Pass
6. Train And Raza
7. Hacienda Happenings
8. Chiquita`s Dance
9. Hacienda Ole
10. The Escape And Storm
11. Maria And Intrepid Dolworth
12. Desert Sun And Ehrengard`s Collapse
13. Chiquitas Demise
14. The Road Back- End Title

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Rap Professionals Large Professor & J Love Manufacturer: Replay ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Father's Day ASIN: B00004LMBW Release Date: 2000-02-15

Average customer rating: Perfect for teachers.

Swingin' Tappin' and Jammin' David Leonhardt Manufacturer: Big Bang Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000254M8Y Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. Cute
2. Tenor Madness
3. Strike Up the Band
4. Girl from Ipanema
5. Swingin' Fast Blues
6. On the Sunny Side of the Street
7. Jammin' Slow Blues
8. Cute (Up Tempo)
9. Perdido
10. Jumpin at the Woodside
11. Tappin' Blues
12. Dave's Shim Sham

Customer Reviews:

Perfect for teachers........2007-01-10

I love this album. I always bring it with me when I have to sub for a tap class. I just let it play when we do across the floor exercises, and the music seems to hold just the right tempo for our steps and combinations. I definitely would recommend it. But don't buy it on Amazon! You can get the entire album for $9.99 on iTunes!

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Lou Harrison: For Strings Manufacturer: Mode ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lou Harrison: Works 1939-2000 Lou Harrison: Rapunzel and Other Works Music of Lou Harrison American Ultramodernists 1920-1950 Stephen Scott: The Deep Spaces ASIN: B0002MPQLY Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Adagio, molto cantabile 3:54
2. Allegro moderato 2:01
3. Allegro moderato, tranquillo 5:12First recording by string orchestra
4. Estampie 4:02
5. Chorale 4:07
6. Double Fugue 5:12
7. Ductia 2:38
8. Lament 5:56
9. Canonic Variations 5:22
10. Little Fugue 3:12
11. Round in Honor of Hermes 3:04
12. Nocturne 3:45
13. Allegro 4:12
14. Troika 2:53
15. Three Sharing 2:50
16. Wind and Plum 2:58
17. Neapolitan 1:10
18. Threnody for Richard Locke 5:20
19. Estampie 7:18

Album Description

¥ The present recording traces the development of HarrisonÕs creativity over a half century Ñ from 1948 to his last large-scale composition (1997). ¥ The Suite No. 2 for Strings was written while Harrison lived in New York. Having spent his formative years in San Francisco, Harrison had a great deal of trouble adjusting to East Coast big-city life. A nervous breakdown required him to be hospitalized for about nine months. The Suite No. 2 dates from the year after this traumatic event, and signs of HarrisonÕs mental stress are apparent, particularly in the torturous and difficult second movement. But also in evidence is the tranquility he sought from religion during this period and the more transparent textures he would favor later. ¥ This CD presents the first recording of the work by a string orchestra Ñ HarrisonÕs original intent. ¥ The lengthy Suite for Symphonic Strings was a commission from BMI. By this time Harrison had returned to the San Francisco region. The bass and cello sections provide percussion accompaniment, the players hitting the bodies of their instruments with their fingers and using guitar picks on the strings to achieve a percussive pizzicato. This is the first recording of the complete nine-movement work. ¥ Harrison had been interested in Asian music since his early years. The late Concerto for Pipa is a model of HarrisonÕs trans-ethnicism, evoking the many influences that had attracted him over a half century. The work ends with an extended, medieval-inspired estampie, a virtuoso tour-de-force for soloist and orchestra. ¥ The concerto was written for conductor Dennis Russell Davies and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. ¥ Wu Man was cited by the Los Angeles Times as Òthe artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World.Ó She has championed new pipa literature from composers including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, and Tan Dun.

Average customer rating: "The Professionals...The Wild Bunch...Wild Rovers...Silva"

How The West Was Won: Classic Western Film Scores I (Soundtrack Anthology) Manufacturer: Silva America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Newman | Newman, Alfred | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000004BQC Release Date: 1996-05-21

Tracks:

1. The Magnificent Seven
2. High Plains Drifter Theme
3. Gettysburg Suite: Main Title/Fife And Gun...
4. The Professionals Overture
5. Buffalo Girls Suite
6. The Wild Bunch Suite: Train Montage/All Fall Down
7. Wild Rovers-Bronco Bustin'
8. How The West Was Won Prelude
9. How The West Was Won-The Land
10. How The West Was Won-Cleve And His Mule
11. How The West Was Won-Intermezzo
12. How The West Was Won-Cheyenne Attack and Aftermath
13. How The West Was Won Finale

Customer Reviews:

"The Professionals...The Wild Bunch...Wild Rovers...Silva".......2001-12-28

The "Classic Western" is never-ending...always at the forefront of the Film Industry---whenever our film-makers run out of projects, they bring back "The Western", fresh and never wandering far from the camera's eye or the composers pen---Silva Screen has been a leader in the "Compilation Department", so is it any wonder they release some hard-to-find scores...never fear my trail pardners...here they are!

Let me begin this review by stating the opening track "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN"(1960-Elmer Bernstein), is without a doubt, one of the most recognizable Western Themes ever composed---the same for "HOW THE WEST WAS WON"(1962-Alfred Newman), two outstanding composers with unforgettable film scores---but the score for "GETTYSBURG"(1993-Randy Edelman), just about steals the show...over fifteen minutes in length, covers the Main Title right up to the Reunion and Finale, with a special arrangement for a Suite, highlighting our freedom and liberty for ALL!

But let's get to the hard-to-find scores---"THE PROFESSIONALS"(1966-Maurice Jarre), starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin, great score with Jack Palance as the villian...Jarre's first attempt of scoring an American Western, captures the mood perfectly---"WILD BUNCH"(1969-Jerry Fielding), the classic Sam Packinpah film has been re-issued on DVD in it's entire uncut length, and composer Fielding completes the picture with this outstanding score---"WILD ROVERS"(1971-Jerry Goldsmith), this Blake Edwards film sets the wheels in motion for our composer to write a gripping score of the West, and how it was coming to the end of the trail, as civilization was closing in.

There you have it Buckaroo's...as we drive our herd to Abilene with Nic Raine(conductor) and The City Of Prague Philharmonic riding point, making sure no stragglers are left behind, we must meet our deadline at the rail head...James Fitzpatrick(producer) and Reynold da Silva(executive producer) giving us a fair price for our beef, this is how the West was, and through the recordings of Silva Screen Records is again...so "film-score-buffs", lean back in the saddle and watch the sun come up over the prairie skies...we're back when our country was just coming of age, gotta love it!

Total Time: 77:59 on 13 Tracks ~ Silva Screen Records SSD-1058 ~ (1996)

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7. See the Sun [Limited Edition] [Import]
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