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Chess Blues
Customer Review: Blues 101!!!
All right, students, now pay attention! Put down that racing form and pay attention right now! This here Chess Blues box set contains exactly 101 tracks. How appropriate! That makes this collection a sort of unofficial college course entitled Blues 101, and Professors Wolf, Waters, James, and Jacobs (Little Walter), etc., etc., will be your blues instructors. You will learn the Fundamentals of Blues Harp, with Little Walter (”Juke”) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (”Don’t Start Me to Talkin’”) as your master teachers. Over here, we have a course entitled Mellow Blues, with Willie Dixon (”Walkin’ the Blues”) and Jimmy Witherspoon (”Ain’t Nobody’s Business”) showing you how it’s done. Then, we have instruction in Blues and the Female Voice, with Koko Taylor (”What Kind of Man Is That,” “Wang Dang Doodle”) and Etta James (”Somethings Got A Hold Of Me,” “I’d Rather Go Blind”) as your teachers. Finally, what great university would be complete without Master Classes and the best professors in the business Muddy Waters (”Got My Mojo Workin’,” “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” “My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble”), Howlin Wolf (”Killin’ Floor,” “Evil,” “Going Down Slow”), and John Lee Hooker (”Walkin’ the Boogie,” “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”) holding court for your edification. No, there is no blues university, but if there was one, the above masters would surely be the instructors and Chess Blues would certainly be the required text. As I said, it’s packed with an amazing 101 songs, many of the best blues tracks ever recorded. There are a few clunkers, but very few. You will spend many enjoyable hours listening to this collection. (Trust me, it takes a few hours to listen to 101 songs once!) Get it today, and enroll in the best blues education money can buy!
Customer Review: A terriffic addition to your blues collection
This handsome boxset, complete with a large booklet, is a superb addition to your blues collection, even if you already have the best of the major Chess artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson II. There are bound to be some tracks, especially by Waters and the Wolf, that overlap with what most blues lovers already own, but the “Chess Blues” compilers have done a very fine job assembling dozens of rarer tracks by artists like Robert Nighthawk, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Memphis Minnie McCoy, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon, Elmore James, Jimmy Oden and many others. And these high quality tracks, which make up the vast majority of the 101 cuts, make “Chess Blues” a very welcome supplement to the many available compilations featuring Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Little Walter Jacobs.
The ABC of Chess Openings
In the all new ABC of Chess Openings International Master Andrew Martin explores the diverse possibilities available to everyone in the opening phase of the game. The material is broken down logically into Open Games, Semi-Open Games, Closed and Semi-Closed Games, Flank and Irregular Openings. Invaluable advice is given about what to look for and how to play each specific c category, and the instruction is enhanced by the use of recent, thematic master games to compliment this advice. General instruction about how to play the opening is also included. Running time: 5 h 09 min. There is something here for everyone. Strong and even very strong players will enjoy the investigations into some excellent modern novelties, whereas the average player or even beginner will pick up a wide range of interesting ideas for use in their games. The authors love for the game comes through in this work, which he tries to communicate to the listener. Andrew Martin is 47 years old and lives in Sandhurst, England, with his wife and four children. He is a professional chess teacher and writer. This is his fourth DVD for ChessBase.
Aristocrat Of The Blues (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) [2-CD SET]
Customer Review: Fine collection of pre-Chess Chess material
Well, before they started using the name “Chess”, that is. These 51 tracks were recorded between 1947 and 1950 for the Chess bothers’ fledgling blues label, and feature artists like Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk, Sunnyland Slim, Leroy Foster, Tom Arcia, and Jimmy Oden. Everything is superbly remastered, the sound is crisp and clean, the best you’re ever likely to hear, and most of the music is top-notch as well. The only “problem” is that there is just too much Muddy Waters here. Not that a lot of Muddy Waters is a bad thing, far from it, but all of these early Muddy-singles have been readily available for many years, and most serious bluesfans are bound to own them already, which means that they have to buy a CD’s worth of songs that they already have in order to get 26 more or less rare songs. That’s not to say that you should avoid this album, however…there is some wonderful music here, apart from the Muddy Waters-songs, particularly Jimmy Oden’s “So Nice And Kind”, Little Johnny Jones’ rendition of “Big Town Playboy”, two cuts by saxist/band leader Tom Archia, and four songs by Sunnyland Slim. And eight of slide guitar master Robert Nighthawk’s very best electric sides are here as well, including “Anna Lee”, “Prison Blues”, “Jackson Town Gal”, and the classic “Sweet Black Angel”, and those are perhaps the best songs of the entire collection. A couple of those sides have never before been available on CD, by the way. The Muddy-songs are great as well, obviously, especially the ones with Sunnyland Slim on piano, and the slide guitar-driven “Little Geneva”, and it is a real pity that “Aristocrat Of The Blues” has been discontinued. It is a fine overview of the early days of urban electric blues. (And I have a copy! He!he! ;o)
Customer Review: Start of the Urban Blues
This is probably a “must have” if you are a collector of Post War Urban Blues. The Aristocrat label evolved into the famous Chess label, and this album foretells Chess’s success. Famous singers, but not their most widely known recordings.
Magnetic Folding Walnut Chess Set
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Customer Review: goals from 80’s and 90’s
