Blow That Horn !

Monsieur Maurice is still in Command and will be for the next few months !
Today he presents to you a compilation of Brass oriented tracks from my personal Command records collection.
Doc Seveninsen, Urbie Green... even Benny Goodman... (I know that a clarinet isn't exactly a brass instrument but bear with me...) all with the excellent typical Command Stereo approach.

Tracklist


01 At Last - Urbie Green And His Orchestra
02 Feelin' Good - Walter Kime & Orchestra
03 The Sidewinder - Doc Severinsen And His Orchestra
04 I Love Paris - Benny Goodman
05 Let's Fall In Love - Urbie Green And His Orchestra
06 Tenderly - Doc Severinsen And His Orchestra
07 The Gentle Rain - Walter Kime & Orchestra
08 Under Paris Skies - Benny Goodman
09 Prisoner Of Love - Urbie Green And His Orchestra
10 A Man And A Woman - Walter Kime & Orchestra
11 It Ain't Necessarily So - Doc Severinsen & His Orchestra
12 So What's New - Walter Kime & Orchestra
13 I've Heard That Song Before - Urbie Green And His Orchestra
14 So In Love - Walter Kime & Orchestra
15 Stairway To The Stars - Urbie Green And His Orchestra
16 Fever - Doc Severinsen And His Orchestra
17 I Wish You Love - Benny Goodman
18 Malaguena - Doc Severinsen & His Orchestra
19 April In Paris - Benny Goodman
20 Bluesette - Doc Severinsen & His Orchestra

I'm going to keep on diving into my Command collection and hopefully will resurface again in a month or so for the next installment. Hope to see you all again.
Happy Holidays and Enjoy !
MM

Box O' Organs

Monsieur Maurice proudly presents his Box O' Organs. A compilation of fine tunes featuring the organ in the leading role.
These nuggets range from Jazz to Easy...

Tracklist :

01 In The Beginning - Lonnie Smith
02 Il Est Mort Le Soleil - Rhoda Scott
03 Move In - Harry Stoneham
04 Love For Sale - Keith Mansfield
05 In Between The Heartaches - Richard "Groove" Holmes
06 Light My Fire - Billy Larkin
07 Moanin' - Keith Mansfield
08 Summertime - Klaus Wunderlich
09 Bluesette - Georges Arvanitas
10 If - Brian Dee
11 The Letter - Booker T & The MG's
12 Exodus - Yvan Guilini
13 Nunca Te Cases Con Un Ferroviario - Miguel Ramos
14 New Fangled Preacher Man - Muzak
15 Spinning Wheel - Harry Stoneham
16 Rainy Days And Mondays Always Get Me Down - Shirley Scott
17 It's A Man's Man's Man's World - Billy Larkin
18 Blues For Keyboard - Big Jim H
19 My Sweet Lord - Miguel Ramos
20 Splanky - Rhoda Scott
21 The Huckle Buck - Billy Larkin
22 Wade In The Water - Rhoda Scott
23 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Wally Green and his Hammond Combo

Enjoy !
Monsieur Maurice

Heartbreak and Soul

The next compilation of songs about lost love. This time with a more soulfully approach. 43 tracks for you all to suffer and enjoy...

Tracklist

CD1
01 The Way We Were - Gladys Knight & The Pips
02 Don't Go To Strangers - Nancy Wilson
03 As Tears Go By - PP Arnold
04 The Other Woman - Nina Simone
05 MacArthur Park - Carmen McRae
06 I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life - Shirley Horn
07 Little Bird - Myriam Makeba
08 Try a Little Tenderness - Aretha Franklin
09 Who Can I Turn To - Barbara Lewis
10 Glad To Be Unhappy - Billy Holliday
11 Don't Explain - Nina Simone
12 I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
13 Piece Of My Heart - Erma Franklin
14 Drinking Again - Aretha Franklin
15 I Wish It Would Rain - Maxine Brown
16 Who's Loving You - Brenda Holoway
17 Little Girl Blue - Nancy Wilson
18 I Only Miss Him When I Think Of Him - Barbara Lewis
19 Never Let Me Go - Damita Jo
20 You'll Never Get To Heaven - Dionne Warwick
21 My Coloring Book - Ethel Ennis

CD2
01 I [ Who Have Nothing ] - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
02 Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Top Of The Poppers
03 Woman To Woman - Shirley Brown
04 [ If Loving you is Wrong ] I Don't Want to Be Right - Millie Jackson
05 Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
06 Son Of A Preacher Man - Mavis Staples
07 To Love Somebody - PP Arnold
08 Save Me - Nina Simone
09 House Of The Rising Sun - Miriam Makeba
10 Yesterday - The Supremes
11 Unchain My Heart - Nancy Wilson
12 What Now My Love - Jean DuShon
13 The Thrill Is Gone - Clea Bradford
14 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Dinah Washington
15 After You've Gone - LaVern Baker
16 Gloomy Sunday - Carmen McRae
17 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Sarah Vaughan
18 How About Me - Ethel Ennis
19 A House Is Not A Home - Mavis Staples
20 Answer Me My Love - Etta Jones
21 Part Time Love - Gladys Knight & The Pips
22 Killing Me Softly With His Song - Cleo Laine

Heartache in duplicate

Monsieur Maurice brings you the second installment of his 'UNDUN' series. 42 songs about heartache, love lost or never found, too much love, or too little...
Thanks to Roy for the cover (please don't sue me!)

Enjoy, or start sobbing relentlessly...

CD1
01  Without Her - Herb Alpert & TTB
02 Love is Blue - Nancy Wilson
03 If You Go Away - Glen Campbell
04 Reaching For The Moon - Ella Fitzgerald
05 Stormy Weather - Etta James
06 As Tears Go By - Nancy Sinatra
07 Heard it Through The Grapevine - Little Missy Walters
08 Breakin' Up A Happy Home - Dusty Springfield
09 Goin' Out Of My Head - Nancy Wilson
10 I Who Have Nothing - Tom Jones
11 Once I Loved - Wanda Sá
12 I Won't Cry Anymore - Dinah Washington
13 I`ve Never Been To Me - Nancy Wilson.
14 Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester
15 You Were Always On My Mind - Gwen McCrae
16 Why Can`t I Cry - Tom Jones 
17 Where Can I Go Without You - Connie Francis
18 A Woman's Intuition - Beverly Kenney
19 Cry You Out Of My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald
20 Sweet Lover No More - Blossom Dearie
21 I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City - Peggy Lee

CD2
01 Without Him - Astrud Gilberto
02 You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - Claudine Longet
03 What Becomes of The Broken- Hearted - The Supremes
04 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
05 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Roberta Flack
06 Começar de Novo - Simone
07 Walk On By - Isaac Hayes
08 Face it Girl, It"s Over  - Nancy Wilson
09 Sweet Lover No More - Dusty Springfield
10 To Make A Big Man Cry - Tom Jones
11 It's Too Late - Wanda Sá
12 Tired Of Waiting For You - Nancy Sinatra
13 Since I Fell For You - Teal Joy
14 Love Me Or Leave Me - Misora Hibari
15 Cry Me a River - Dinah Washington
16 Everything Happens To Me - Helen Merrill
17 Trouble Is a Man - Chris Connor
18 Softly as I Leave You - Shirley Horn
19 Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra
20 It's Over - Roy Orbison
21 I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City - Julie London

Monsieur Maurice Mixes again !

Monsieur Maurice made another mixtape for you. This one with a definitive jazzy feel to it.
Check it out. It's fingersnapping good!

1    Midnight Cowboy - Young Holt Unlimited
2    A Whiter Shade of Pale - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
3    Both Sides Now - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
4    Spinning Wheel - Lonnie Smith
5    Sunny (Alternate Take) - Wes Montgomery
6    Suicide is painless - Jimmy Smith
7    One Note Samba - Dizzy Gillepspie
8    The Girl From Ipanema - Walter Wanderley
9    My Funny Valentine - Doc Severinsen
10    Superstar - George Shearing Quintet
11    Theme from Valley of the Dolls - Ahmad Jamal   
12    Theme from A Summer Place - Julie London
13    More - Dizzy Gillespie
14    Wichita Lineman - Pete Moore Orchestra
15    Macarthur Park - Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
16    If - Henri Mancini & Doc Severinsen   
17    Somewhere - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
18    Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Pitch   
19    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
20    You're My World - Dionne Warwick



Because I wanted the tracks to fit a single CD I cropped track 4. Bur for the purists among you I added the complete version of the track in the file.