Wa-Do-Dem
 From Amazon.com: With his signature screechy tones and sing-chat style, Eek-a-Mouse influenced many of the younger dancehall vocalists who've emerged in his wake. This album catches Eek in his early '80s prime when the digital reggae sound was first [... more]
CDN$18.99
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1953 Medea Comp Live
From Amazon.com: Leonard Bernstein learned the score to Medea in five days after another conductor fell ill. It was also the first time he worked with Maria Callas. The result is electrifying. Bernstein hardly sees the score as the "classical" [... more]
CDN$28.99
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Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s
Excellent appraisal of the Southern paradox: The 1950's South was both a time and a place of contradictions. On the one hand, there was a cultural revolution going on that fused both white and black musical tastes into one revolutionary music genre (rock [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Pictures At An Exhibition/Nigh
Virtuoso to the Extreme!: Mussorgsky's revolutionary music comes brilliantly alive in what has to be the most intense recording of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION available. The orchestrated version is performed with feeling and energy rarely heard. The final [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Settin' the Pace
From Amazon.com: This CD gathers all of Dexter Gordon's recordings as a leader for Savoy, with one session each from 1945 and 1946 and two from December 1947. Gordon had already worked in the bands of Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, and Billy Eckstine, [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Brew Moore Quintet
More Brew !: Milton Aubrey Moore, jr., a native of Indianola, Mississippi, had been playing in New York since 1943 when he got fed up with the Big Apple and left for San Francisco in 1954. This album was recorded in 1956, with Dickie Mills (trumpet), [... more]
CDN$12.99
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La Bodeguita del Medio
Carlos Puebla gets my vote!: 'A music fan from Washington, DC USA' should realise that not everyone shares the American paranoid view of Cuba. If you think this is good, then listen to the CDs of Carlos Puebla's revolutionary music. Americans, listen and [... more]
CDN$18.99
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V2 Late Qrts Including Op131
The way Beethoven would have wanted it: One of the truly amazing recordings of one of Beethoven's greatest works. The quartet plays with simplicity, eloquence and with a lyrical tone that few can hope to match. Each of the movements is carefully crafted, [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings (1926-1930; 1936)
From Amazon.com: Jelly Roll Morton recorded voluminously for RCA, and this five-CD set includes many of the masterpieces of New Orleans jazz, the bulk of them recorded between 1926 and 1930, when Morton's art was at its peak. First recording in Chicago [... more]
CDN$57.99
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Leaving Not Arriving
wow...I should buy this: I downloaded the free MP3, listened to the samples, read the review, and I have to say, I'm glad I did. The melodies are smooth, and it really is some great songwriting. I'm sure I won't be disappointed, this band is great. [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in ...
Sinified Jazz: In Yellow Music, Andrew Jones blends post-colonial discourse with theory drawn from culture studies and other fields to tackle the complex subject of the rise of modern Chinese popular music. In the process, he lands a well-placed jab in [... more]
CDN$22.02
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Lemon Of Pink
please please get this album somehow: If you listen to this album a few times you will start to feel like it retells all of human history. The messages of the songs are beautifully articulated through soundbites and lyrics that give some of the most [... more]
CDN$15.99
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