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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CHARLES MINGUS: Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (6CD + Book) Box Set. Track list shown here

The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. The albums this giant of music recorded for Atlantic between 1956 and 1961 are rightly considered his best. This lavish collection of the jazz legend’s entire mid-’50s to early ’60s […]

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The fascinating story of the man who invented stereo (and pioneered TV and radar too)

Rich Trenholm writes: When you’re rocking out to your favourite music, or surround sound has slapped you in the heart of your favourite movie, you know how important stereo sound is. And it’s all thanks to Alan Blumlein, the 20th-century pioneer of various technologies who was inspired to invent stereo after a trip to the […]

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THE DUDLEY MOORE TRIO: Today (CD)

We are told: • Regardless of the brilliance of Dudley Moore’s celebrated comic partnership with Peter Cook, his marriages and abundant romantic assignations, the relationship which was surely most dear to him was with music. He could pull hilarious classical pastiches – like Beethoven ‘variations on Colonel Bogey’, and Britten’s ‘Little Miss Muffett’ – out of […]

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Now that’s what I call a life in music!

As the Now compilation albums reach their 30th anniversary, a keen collector charts the tunes he will always associate with moments in his life Like so many things in the music/hifi world we invite you to take what you like HERE and …. leave the rest

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Stephen Layton / Trinity College Choir, Cambridge Bach: Mass in B minor Stephen Layton / Trinity College Choir, Cambridge Bach: Mass in B minor – AllMusic Review by James Manheim

The Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232, assembled from bits and pieces over some years, coheres in its final form in ways that perhaps only the composer understood. This recording by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Stephen Layton has been road-tested in performances around Britain […]

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JESSE WINCHESTER: Defying Gravity (CD)

  American audiences wouldn’t be able to see their acclaimed expatriate in person until a full decade after he’d left the country to resist the war draft. Thanks to President Carter’s declaration of amnesty for resisters, Jesse Winchester would eventually mark his anticipated return to the USA in April 1977. However, Winchester marked his gratitude […]

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