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FLEETWOOD MAC: Tusk (Deluxe Edition 5CD/1DVD-A/2 Vinyl)

Fleetwood Mac builds on its formidable legacy as one of rock’s most legendary acts as they re-visit their most ambitious album with deluxe and expanded editions of TUSK. Originally released in 1979, the Grammy® Award-nominated, double-album sold more than four million copies worldwide, and reached number 1 in the UK album charts, and included hits […]

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HEYBROOK: TT2 info thread

IT STARTS … Since there seems to be a growing amount of interest in the TT2, a suggestion was made (thank you Svend!) to bring as much info as possible into a single place for reference. I’ll trawl through AoS and post links here to all the threads that have run over the last few […]

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COUNT BASIE: Through his own eyes

Documentary, told in Count Basie’s own words, which reveals for the first time the private passions and ambitions that inspired the world-famous bandleader and pianist.  Until now, little was known about Basie’s private and family life, but director Jeremy Marre has found a treasure trove of home movies and photo albums that show Basie’s remarkable […]

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MILES DAVIS: The Lost Broadcast (CD)

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED APRIL 9TH 1970, FILLMORE WEST RECORDING The recording on this CD was made the night before Black Beauty was recorded, albeit at the same venue, with the same line-up (Davis,Corea, Grossman, Holland, De Johnette and Airto Moreira on percussion) and also as support to the Dead (and Stone the Crows). This April 9th […]

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STEPHEN STILLS: Stateline Blues (2CD)

The two concerts contained in this release come from the mid-seventies and the late seventies; one concert and radio performance  from 1976 in New York and the second at the tenth anniversary of Woodstock, a legendary concert that Stephen Stills had taken part in as part of CSNY when the original was held in August […]

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BIZET: Carmen: Prelude & Entr’actes, L’Arlesienne Orchestral Suite

  Patrick Latimer writes: Vivid account of Bizet’s beautiful music Get Bizet I picked this disc as a (relatively) recent performance of some of Bizet’s greatest show tunes. You get the orchestral music from Carmen without the singing and the plot which is a bit like going straight to dessert. And just like going straight […]

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STEVE MILLER BAND: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, April 28th 1968 (2CD)

‘One of the top San Francisco bluesrockers during the late 60s’ – www.allmusic.com Awesome San Francisco psych / blues Finally available on CD Two-disc set Includes background notes / rare photos The Steve Miller Band are one of themost legendary of all the acts thatflourished in late 1960s San Francisco.Recorded at the city’s legendaryCarousel Ballroom at the […]

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ELVIN BISHOP: Can’t Even Do Wrong Right (CD)

  Elvin Bishop is an icon of blues and Southern Rock with a 50-year performing career and thousands of devoted fans. He was a founding member of the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and later a member of Capricorn Records’ stable of Southern Rock masters, writing and performing the Top 10 hit “Fooled Around And […]

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STUD: Out-sider (CD)

    We are told ….. Private hard-rock ultra-rarity from Texas exhumed for the first time. With only 200 copies released in 1975, the “Stud” album has become a holy grail for collectors. A mystery for many years (all the band members used pseudonyms on the album credits), many people failed to track the band […]

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OPERA: Teodora Gheorghiu: There’s no magic to opera singing

Previously published here and elsewhere As Teodora Gheorghiu prepares to sing in Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne, she tells Rupert Christiansen how she overcame an illness that threatened her career. It may only be something they put in the water, but over the last century or so Romania has produced an extraordinary succession of velvety lyric […]

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The Supremes: How we made Baby Love

Dave Simpson writes: In the early days of Motown, it felt as if all the girl groups were having hits apart from us. The Marvelettes had Please Mr Postman; Martha and the Vandellas had Dancing in the Street. We were playing shows and people were going crazy, but in the office we were beginning to […]

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Why did Stanley Crouch call Miles Davis “the most brilliant sellout in the history of jazz”?

ALEX JOHNSTON … Stanley Crouch loathed most post-WW2 popular music, but he regarded jazz as a sort of classical music which was expressive of the dignity of African-Americans. But he thought that it did so only as long as it sounded a certain way, i.e. like bop or post-bop jazz played on acoustic instruments. So […]

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