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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 you'd 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 or only recently discovered and released on compact disc.