The octet Archie Shepp surrounded himself with in 1966 was filled with new and old faces. The twin trombones of Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur III embodied this, but so did bassist Charlie Haden and trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, while familiar figures like drummer Beaver Harris and tubaist Howard Johnson had been part of Shepp's regular band. There are four tracks on Mama Too Tight, all of them in some way acting as extensions of the opening three-part suite, "A Portrait of Robert Thomson (As a Young Man). Here again, lots of free blowing, angry bursts of energy, and shouts of pure revelry are balanced with Ellingtonian elegance and restraint that was considerable enough to let the lyric line float through and encourage more improvisation. This is Shepp at his level best.

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Linda Ronstadt - Lush Life
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | Full Scan Covers | MU, FF, RS | 861 MB 3% recovery
1984 | Genre: Jazz Vocal | Label: Elektra/Asylum | 60387 | US pressing
Disc 2 of 3 from Linda Ronstadt's "trilogy"
Peaked #13 on Billboard album chart 1984

Lush Life is a Platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1984. It was the second in a trilogy of jazz albums with the late bandleader/arranger Nelson Riddle.
It peaked at #13 on the Billboard album chart was certified Platinum in just several weeks, becoming Ronstadt's record tenth million-selling Platinum album overall. It also earned Ronstadt a Grammy award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female alongside Madonna, Tina Turner, Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston.

( wikipedia)