Year: 2022
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Legendary Valentines Day 1980 recording Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners and images Recorded on Valentine’s Day 1980, shortly after the release of their hugely successful Permanent Waves album, this tight and forceful live set captures the long-lived Canadian trio at their progressive best. Presented in superb […]
Bette Midler is tiny but what she lacks in height she makes up for in attitude. She’s running late, then suddenly she’s not, except, in the end, it turns out she is. There is a PR to meet me in the foyer of Claridge’s, and a PR in the hall of the huge suite that […]
Live at the Navy Pier Ballroom, Chicago IL on 3rd 1988. By 1988 K.D. Lang’s unique brand of offbeat country music (which she famously dubbed “torch and twang”) was fast making her a star beyond her native Canada. She and her band the Reclines performed this superb set at the Navy Pier Ballroom […]
Wedaeli writes: “Billie Holiday is our hero” Val Wiseman announced from the Playhouse stage. She’s not overstating. Wiseman and her six-piece band have been touring for nearly two decades, all the while performing their take on Billie Holiday’s repertoire. You’d be mistaken for thinking that this Saturday night’s gig was among their first shows. In […]
A rare unit and that’s probably why we could only find these two in our image vault. Oh well.
A new batch of 5in1 box sets celebrating legendary jazz artists from the Verve catalogue.This run includes Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday.These sets are CDs in wallets housed in a slipcase. 1. Little White Lies 2. You Hit The Spot 3. What’s Your […]
Might as well go for broke. This post will focus on 4Ω vs. 8Ω speakers and varying impedances with frequency of those speakers. First a bit of a refresher. It is a misnomer to think that 4Ω speakers take more power than 8Ω speakers. They do not. Loudspeakers are rated according to their sensitivity: how […]
Since 1956, when she first appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, Toshiko Akiyoshi has been a significant force in the jazz world, both as pianist and composer. She was the first woman to win DownBeat magazine’s Best Arranger/Composer poll category. The New York Times called her “perhaps the most physically articulate conductor since Duke Ellington.” […]
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from the golden age of jazz. Featuring some of the greatest names in American music, including the godfather of New Orleans jazz Louis Armstrong, the King of Swing Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. Continue HERE
Tony Andrews writes ….. Many people are convinced that The 60s were the most important era in British and American Music. I was around at the time and yes, I can honestly say that it was. Many exciting groups helped to structure quality jazz music. Many of the musicians continued to drive evolutionary music styles […]
Here’s a good one for the measurement nerds in us all. How to quantify emotional engagement. How is it that a technically inferior technology like vinyl can often better engage us emotionally than a technologically superior format like DSD? And to make matters worse, a vinyl reproduction of a DSD master like those we have […]
A more relaxed attitude may be emerging towards the colossal musical legacy of Britain’s modern titan of the opera MORE
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers / Greatest Hits Joan Baez / Songbird Howlin’ Wolf / Blues From Hell The Count Bishops / Speedball Bach / Cantata #29 BWV 29 “Wir Danken Dir, Gott”
Andy Mckee is a guitar maestro whose YouTube videos have had more than 80 million views. MORE
Originally published in 2013 Former Cream drummer Ginger Baker talks about his battle with heroin, how he was the original Rolling Stones drummer and being the subject of the documentary Beware of Mr Baker MORE
Soul singer Aretha Franklin is angry over unauthorised biography by former collaborator David Ritz, claiming it is “full of lies” Please click HERE to continue
Billed as Almost Summer, the first concert ever at Giants Stadium featured The Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Pablo Cruise, and local band Stanky Brown. Steve Miller was flying high on the back of his tenth studio album Book Of Dreams, an album that like it’s predecessor Fly Like An Eagle, produced three hit […]
It is always difficult to have to reject the hard work of anyone but, in the long run, it’s critical to maintain standards. While auditioning a candidate recording we made of a wonderful musician for Octave, I had the unfortunate task of saying no. No, it’s not good enough. No, it serves neither the music […]
The Complete Art Pepper at Ronnie Scott’s 1980′ (7xLP box set including 16 page booklet) (Including seventeen performances previously unavailable along with all the tracks on the two Mole Jazz albums Blues For The Fisherman and True Blues) “Art Pepper was booked to appear at Ronnie Scott’s during the last two weeks of June 1980 […]