LIVE PERFORMANCES: Are audience expectations realistic, unrealistic, reasonable or unreasonable? (Part #2 of #2)

And then – ladies and gentlemen – The Who: So what about The Who’s ability or indeed inability, to reproduce note-perfect their more well know tracks? How about speculating on their prerogative to interpret the tracks as they see fit –notwithstanding how they and bands like them must surely strive hard not to be bored […]

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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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THE EAR WORM: How tunes get stuck in your head

Scientists may have found what makes a tune catchy, after locating the brain area where a song’s “hook” gets caught. A US team from Dartmouth College, reported in the journal Nature, played volunteers tunes with snippets cut out. They scanned for brain activity and found it centred in the auditory cortex – which handles information […]

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THE ZOMBIES: Still Got That Hunger (CD)

The Zombies made their name in the 1960s with hits such as ‘She’s Not There’ and ‘Tell Her No’ and the legendarily majestic “Odessey And Oracle” LP.The band’s serene, sublime sound combines the subtle keyboard skills of Rod Argent with the beautiful vocals of Colin Blunstone. After Rod and Colin pursued their own successful careers […]

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EELS: Wonderful, Glorious (2CD)

  They tell us…. EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, EELS have released nine studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. Mojo Magazine calls Everett “a member of rock’s very own League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” while legendary […]

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FAMILY: Fearless – Original Recording Remastered (2CD)

Classic 1971 Family album remastered from original tapes and now featuring bonus disc. Growing out of the R&B boom of the early 60s, Family’s sound evolved into a unique mix of progressive rock, blues, folk, jazz, psychedelia and high energy rock n roll built around the distinctive vocals of frontman Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney’s innovative […]

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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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