R & B Recommendations ?

Posted by: ChrisM on 11 January 2004

Can anyone recommend well recored R & B CD's. Not the current chart type stuff but old / older great artists that sound great on a good spec Naim System.

I have bought a few CD's recently and have been very disappointed with the quality of the recording.

Any offering greatfully received.

Regards

Chris

Posted on: 13 January 2004 by ChrisM

Come on chaps!

Someone give me a couple of CD's that I can check out.

Regards

Chris

Posted on: 13 January 2004 by fred simon

Start here:

Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Posted on: 13 January 2004 by Ross1

Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
The Temptations
The Four Tops
Kool and the Gang
James Brown (R&B + Funk)
Al Green
Otis Redding
Aretha Franklin
Sly and the Family Stone

Suggestion will be to go on WWW.CDNOW.COM to hear some extracts.

Ciao

Posted on: 14 January 2004 by greeny

Is this the sort or recommendation you were after, it's just I took your question to be after the 60's rock Rhythmn and Blues movement (Faces etc), which I can't really help with (as far as CD is concerned)

Posted on: 16 January 2004 by John C

I just want to say that Ray Charles is the king. Recent box sets on Atlantic or Rhino are the business. Engineered by the wonderful Tom Dowd. Birth of Soul in particular is bounteous.

John

Posted on: 16 January 2004 by Gunnar Jansson

some more to add to from the shoppinglist above :

Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the dark
Aretha Franklin: Lady soul
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In memphis
Sly and the Familystone: Stand!
Al Green: I´m still in love with you
Laura Nyro and Labelle: Gonna take a miracle
Ann Peebles: I can´t stand the rain
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Going to a Go-Go
James Brown: It´s a mother
Funkadelic: Funkadelic
Stevie Wonder: Talking book
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Harold Melvin and the blue notes: Wake up everybody

Gunnar