music essentials – Vivascene

Essentials: Sam Cooke ‘The Complete Remastered Keen Collection’

Imitated but never equaled, influential beyond comparison, Cooke was the model for Otis Redding, Brook Benton, Marvin Gaye and countless others.

If you’re wanting to experience the glory of 20th century jazz masters, here are 10 recordings we think will live on into the 22nd century.

This is the album that made Aretha Franklin the undisputed Queen of Soul back in 1967, a title she never relinquished throughout her stellar career.

Talking Heads’ 1980 masterwork “Once In A Lifetime” was selected by NPR as one of the top 100 musical works of the 20th century.

This classic jazz piano album belongs in every collection; here are three reasons to listen to this record for the next ten or twenty years.

‘Getz/Gilberto’ was a great album when it was released in 1963, and it is a great album today.