JONI MITCHELL: News

This superb set was recorded at the legendary Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island on the evening of July 19th 1969, within a week of the first moon landing and a month prior to Woodstock. Broadcast by PBS as ‘The Sounds Of Summer’ that November, it captures Mitchell on the cusp of becoming one of […]

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JUDY COLLINS: News

“Coming through storms: that’s how the singer Judy Collins describes the basic narrative of her original songs.  “Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch, gratitude, gratitude, gratitude: isn’t it a wonderful world? she laughingly explained over tea at her spacious, homey apartment with a river view on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. “That’s really how they go. I […]

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FAMILY: Dim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrUlKrYmKr8 “This has to one of the cleverest musical arrangements ever. And what a voice. A classic song that deserves a wider audience. Jim King was so great in those early Family gigs. His sax rocked and swung, especially on The Weaver’s Answer, and A Song for Me. Unforgettable. Wonderful Classic slinky early FamilyYou can […]

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GLENN GOULD: News

It’s 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today’s top players assess his legacy? It still sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard, however many times you listen to it: Glenn Gould’s first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, made in 1955, has an energy, an intensity […]

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ART PEPPER: News

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  […]

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JONATHAN GEE TRIO: News

Tony Andrews, our contributing editor (jazz) writes: I firmly believe that UK jazz fans are getting more and more paranoid about musicians from anywhere other than the UK; that in some way, they are better musically or more inventive. This is especially so with musicians from The US where Jazz is thought to have been […]

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JEFF BUCKLEY: News

Recorded for Radio Broadcast in New York & Boston. Many music critics of the day were not only intrigued but enamoured by Jeff Buckley when his musical career began to take off in the early nineties. Jeff Buckley born in California in 1966 and as the name suggests, he was the son of legendary singer, […]

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