KOMEDA: The giant of Polish jazz

MARTYNA KIELEK / Senior Music Editor It is not possible to talk about Polish jazz (which I intend to make one of my regular topics here, among other types of jazz and occasionally blues music) without bringing up the composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda. His enormous talent (displayed during a time in communist-governed Poland when […]

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PETE TOWNSHEND: Interview Part #1 of 2

Oldawg: Nearly 30 years after its release I find It’s Hard to be very representative (unfortunately) of what is happening in the world today. In particular John’s Dangerous, Eminence Front and Cooks County. How do you feel about It’s Hard today? P.T.: It’s Hard is the only record the Who made where the individual members […]

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Best Of American Blues Scene – Keith Richards, Joe Bonamassa, Doctor Dan

  They tell us ….. We’re calling this series the “Best of American Blues Scene,” and although the main focus is on content you might have missed from the last year or so, we’ll be diving back in time even further to pull interesting articles from American Blues Scene’s earlier years! We can’t even begin […]

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GUILTY: Here’s a subject I am perhaps more guilty of than most

The practice of making a sweeping statement about how everything is one way or the other. This is wrong and this is right. This matters and that does not. This guy’s a liar, and this one always tells the truth. The problem with this line of communication is two-fold: nothing is always one way or the other and we cannot know everything. I find myself making sweeping […]

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HAFLER: The idea was originally developed for commercial purposes by the late David Hafler

My friend, Sandy, is having good success adding a layer of ambience with a rear-positioned second set of speakers fed from an old Audio Research SDP1. You can read the late J. Gordon Holt’s evaluation of it here. Essentially, the device extracts the difference between the left and right channels, adds a bit of delay to […]

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Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s ‘mind-blowing’ station show

On 7 May 1964, a gaggle of excited passengers alighted on to a rainy disused railway station platform in south Manchester and took their seats for what one of the city’s leading music academics says was a “massively culturally significant” gig. The show at Whalley Range’s Wilbraham Road station, recorded for Granada TV as the […]

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STEVE STILLS: Live In Concert – King Biscuit Flower Hour, Portland,Oregon 10/4/76 & The Palladium, NYC 1/9/77(CD)

Two shows, one CD. Classic performances at Portland, Oregon and The Palladium, NYC Includes the entire syndicated King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners and images In late 1976 and early 1977, Stephen Stills was operating on his own after the collapse of the short-lived Stills-Young Band, and […]

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BEAT REVIEWS MAGAZINE: What happened?

Gentlemen, I write from Singapore. We had a magazine called ‘Beat Reviews’. Can you tell me what happened to them please? Thank you. Roy Tan Hello Roy and thank you. This what we found via audiotools.com. “Monthly English language print magazine published in Singapore by local high end retailer/importer/distributor Secondbeat PTE. Ltd., started in 2001 […]

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