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- Drums of Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording of hand drumming from Port of Spain demonstrates African-derived rhythms performed in Trinidad and the broader Caribbean region, including the nation, koromanti, manding, halicord,... more
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- Sound Effects 2 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Cook Laboratories promises authentic, real sound effects recorded on-location for superior sound quality. Need a rail station train departure announcement, the squeal of a power saw or burble of... more
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- Piano: The Romantic Fabric
- Artist:
  Samuel Sorin
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 10/25/2019
- Features: CD
- 2019 release. A highly regarded audio engineer, Emory Cook (1913 - 2002) was the developer of two track or binaural sound, an early attempt at stereo recording. Piano: The Romantic Fabric is an early... more
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- Speed the Parting Guest Hot-Tempered Clavichord
- Artist:
  Jimmy Carroll
- Genre: Comedy
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jimmy Carroll arranged and conducted this assortment of high-impact percussion ensembles. Nine percussionists congregated to play orchestra bells, pitched drums, cowbells, vibraphone, brake drum,... more
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- Brute Force of Antigua / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- For this Cook recording, the Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua performs mambos, rumbas, sambas, calypsos and meringues plus a march and a bolero. A Trinidadian / Tobagan innovation that came out of... more
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- Music of St. Lucia / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording reflects several musical traditions of the British commonwealth of St. Lucia. Traditions represented include English-influenced military brass bands and marches for fife and... more
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- Paganini Variations
- Artist:
  Frank Glazer
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1838 and revised in 1851, these études are piano transcriptions of six of Niccolo Paganini's caprices for violin. Paganini was an Italian violinist known... more
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- Voice of Mexico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Zepoll, an outstanding classical guitarist, was recorded at his home in Monterrey. The Trio Leones was currently playing at a restaurant on Reforma in Mexico City.
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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... more
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- Music to Awaken the Ballroom Beast
- Artist:
  Brute Force Steel Band
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the streets of Antigua shortly following WWII, the Brute Force Steel Band began as one of the ensembles that would pioneer Caribbean steel pan music. These calypsos, meringues, sambas, tangos and... more
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- Mosque Theater: Reginald Foort at the Console
- Artist:
  Reginald Foort
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- One of the most recorded organists in history, Reginald Foort performs sentimental favorites from the 1950s on the legendary Wurlitzer at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. "Mood Indigo,"... more
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- Burlesque Uncensored / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Spoken
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy comedy sketches and bawdy music meant to accompany chorus line routines and stripteases to put you in the mood are what's to be found here. This hilarious recording bills itself as "a... more
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- Jump Up Carnival / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- And now ladies and gentlemen... Lord Melody's coming to knock you out now. The audience roars as the calypsonian king boasts about his ugly looks and the "booboo" his children see in the yard.... more
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- Cook's Tour of High / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Emory Cook gives listeners a tour of high fidelity recording, demonstrating techniques that enhance the sound quality and using musical performances, orations and sound effects to make his points.
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- Grenada Stories & Songs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording begins to document the tradition of spoken and sung storytelling in Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. Full of humor, stories are told in English or English patois by a... more
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- Music Boxes Carousels / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This special collection of 19th-century music boxes, carousels and hand organs yields not only the delicate bell-like tingle we associate with the music box or the huskier sound of hand organ... more
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- Lord Melody Sings Calypso
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The legendary calypsonian Lord Melody (nee Fitzroy Alexander) put together the songs on this recording in a matter of days, but it is a superb demonstration of the genre. A dynamic performer known... more
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- Hellish Calypso / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Why "Hellish"? the liner notes explain that it's in part because of the very apparent "pear-shaped atrocities" a listener hears in out-of-tune melodies and unintelligible lyrics. But this is a "basic... more
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- Calypso Atrocities / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy, ballsy, outspoken, yes, but not exactly an "atrocity." Pay close attention to these calypso lyrics by Small Island Pride and Mighty Cypher.
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- Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad
- Artist:
  John "Buddy" Williams
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Hardly "primitive," this is sophisticated jazz improv "with the Trinidad touch." the musical settings range from smooth lounge jazz with vibes, piano, bass, and drums to funky importations of... more
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- A Russian Christmas
- Artist:
  St. John's Russian Orthodox Choir
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the Russian Orthodox Church, "only human voices are allowed to take part in the worship of the Lord." Directed by Lawrence Havriliak, the St. John's Russian Orthodox Choir of Spring Valley, New... more
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- Moans and Blues
- Artist:
  Lizzie Miles
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Blues doesn't get more New Orleans sweet-an'-sour than when it's done by Creole Songbird Lizzie Miles. Sweet she appreciates: "I ain't gonna give you none of my jelly-roll... not to save your soul."... more
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- Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Artist:
  Lizzie Miles
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- To me I sing love songs-sad songs-torchy songs better. Guess it's because I had such a hard, sad life from as far back as I can remember is why. Cryin' songs and dyin' songs are the substance of... more
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- Calypso Kings & Pink Gin / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In a tent somewhere in Port of Spain, calypso kings of past years gather to exchange extemporaneous lyrical insults, just like a game of ping pong. The result is highly amusing, highly enlightening... more
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- Meringue!
- Artist:
  Ensemble Aux Calebasses
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Who first invented the meringue has long been a battle of pride for Haitians and Dominicans. While this recording alone cannot provide the decisive answer, it does prove that the lively dance form is... more
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