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A first ever UK CD release for the material on which this critically admired '60s singer/songwriter's reputation was founded - including the original versions of such classics as 'Mr Zero' (Keith Relf), 'Cheryl's Goin' Home' (Adam Faith/The Cascades) and the eternally popular 'Elusive Butterfly' (Bob himself and Val Do

"Lightnin did everything the way youd think a real blues player would do…" The story of Lightnin Hopkins: Sage, scoundrel and natural-born storyteller

I n Lexington, Kentucky, in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s and ’50s, Les McCann’s …

In Paris in 1955, the trumpeter blithely carried on in usual style, untroubled by contractual and personnel problems

Blue Note's Tone Poet audiophile vinyl reissue series, which has been written about frequently in these pages, was inaugurated in 2019 and has now reached 70+ releases, mostly reissues from the storied label's catalog with outliers from Pacific Jazz/World Pacific and United Artists and a couple of new issues thrown in. The Blue Note reissues have ranged from classics released in myriad editions since their initial LP run to music held back for years and sometimes put out only in Japan ...

Record Store Day 2023 Jazz Releases article by Kyle Simpler, published on April 13, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Journey into Jazz articles

(photo credit: Jim Dickson Archive/Henry Diltz Photography) *** “It felt like we were experiencing an artistic renaissance,” Roger McGuinn says of the

Chet Baker (December 23, 1929 — May 13, 1988) was a famous American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is best known for his silky, fragile vocal...

Tonight for the month of March, The Jazz Shows Jazz Features will be albums that are one of a kind. Mostly albums by fine musicians that only had one recording issued in their lifetime. This was in no way that these players were second rate but simply circumstance and the vagaries of the Jazz recording business. Ron Jefferson is a case in point. He was a fine and in demand drummer who really increased his profile when he moved to Los Angeles from his home town of New York in the late 1950s. Jef...

Cristian Salinas fue elegido como el nuevo edil de la comuna, luego de desempeñarse por años como concejal. A su