Big Al Carson
The nice people at Putamayo Presents have created another gem which I discovered the other day when I was starting to think about Christmas music again and I knew right away that I needed to review it here. (Yes, I know it's only November but I ... [... more]
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Vinyl versus CD - Which is best? - Blues and Jazz
I once knew someone who when invited to a party would make it his fiendish duty sometime during the evening to locate the host's music collection, find their singularly most embarrassing album and put it on the player. Suddenly the room would be ... [... more]
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Ella and Louis - The Verve Recording - Blues and Jazz
Some things just go together perfectly whether through chemistry, timing or sheer chance and Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were the ideal musical combo even though their voices were completely different. They made three albums together ... [... more]
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Lester Young - The Ultimate Cool - Blues and Jazz
Lester Young (1909-1959) was a quirky and likable character who held an influential position in the evolution of jazz. With his tenor sax - usually held at an extremely odd angle, up in the air and horizontally splayed out to the side - he ... [... more]
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John Fahey - An Overview - Blues and Jazz
A friend recently turned me on to John Fahey (cheers, Bruce!) an artist who is not nearly as well known as he should be by regular folks, even though he was named in the top slice of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 Guitarists a few years back. ... [... more]
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits - Blues and Jazz
Anything with Greatest Hits of ... in its title usually makes me feel slightly queasy right away. For one thing, the function of these albums is traditionally to serve as a brief intro to what is considered (by the compilers)to be the best of the ... [... more]
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