more eaze and claire rousay’s collaborations are effortlessly joyful; their music evoking the warmth and respect they have for each other. Their bond goes back to their youthful hometown of San Antonio, Texas where they played in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively. more eaze (the moniker of violinist/multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice) and rousay have […]
South London singer, songwriter and cultural powerhouse Joy Crookes has today unveiled the news that her worth-the-wait second album Juniper will be released on September 26th ahead of a full UK & EU headline tour. A stunningly candid and fearless body of work, the album reaffirms Joy as one of the UK’s most vital and […]
The brilliant pianist and composer Geri Allen came out of Detroit’s fertile jazz scene, eventually moving to New York where she became part of the emerging M-Base collective that was forging new creative ideas and approaches to jazz in the 1980s. Allen began recording for Blue Note in 1990 with The Nurturer followed by Maroons […]
Howlin’ Wolf was the primal force of blues music spun out to its ultimate conclusion. He was an imposing presence, blessed with a thunderous voice and enormous physical strength. Like his friend and rival Muddy Waters, Wolf transformed Mississippi’s archaic country blues into the electric urban blues of Chicago, his adopted home. Presented here is […]
João Gilberto (1931-2019) was a true legend of bossa nova. It is often stated that António Carlos Jobim (who composed most of the songs here) set the standard for the creation of bossa nova in the mid-50s with songs like “The Girl From Ipanema” and “Desafinado”. However, it was Gilberto who brilliantly reimagined (and, arguably, […]
Takin’ Off was pianist Herbie Hancock’s (born in Chicago on April 12, 1940; he is 79 at this writing) first album under his own name. All of the compositions are by the leader, who is backed by such stars as Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Butch Warren, and Billy Higgins. The album includes one of Hancock’s […]
A little-known baritone saxophonist who possessed remarkable agility and lyricism, Serge Chaloff made his defining album with 1956’s Blue Serge, his second recording for Capitol.Joined by pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Philly Joe Jones, the quartet simmers on a laid-back set of standards.This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe […]
– 1 – 1. John Lennon – Mind Games 2. The Rolling Stones – Fool To Cry 3. Boz Scaggs – Lowdown 4. Rachel Sweet – B-A-B-Y 5. Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way 6. Liverpool Express – You Are My Love 7. The Police – Cant Stand Losing You 8. Rupert Holmes – Him […]
Santo & Johnny Farina were an American rock and roll instrumental duo of Italian descent from Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by the country music he heard on the radio, Santo adopted the steel guitar as a teen and he began teaching his younger sibling Johnny to play standard electric guitar, and they started performing as […]
One of the most iconic albums by the superb 1956 Miles Davis Quintet, Workin features the leader on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. This was the third in a series of four classic albums by the same formation (the others […]
