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Jean-Luc Ponty’s Turning Point

The end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Seventies mark the real start of Jean-Luc Ponty's international stardom.Hooking up with 23 years old George Duke.Recording his own "King...

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Montreux in Brazil

In 1978 Claude Nobs, head and founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, is invited to promote a jazz festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. From September 11 through 18, twenty different...

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Satchmo Loves Company

Louis Armstrong's exuberant and gravelly voice happened to be the perfect match with the mellifluous or crooning voices of his contemporaries. His blasting trumpet, the perfect contrast with the pianist.Who...

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Nine Inch Nails’s ‘Bad Witch’ is ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger, Look Forward’ for the present time

Nine Inch Nails' 'Bad Witch' is their ninth studio album produced by members Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and released on June 22, 2018 by The Null Corporation.

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Angélique Kidjo gives a funky African reading of a Talking Heads’ milestone. ‘And you may find yourself in another part of the world’

Angélique Kidjo' s 'Remain In Light' is her thirteenth studio album (a take-on the 1980 Talking Heads' album) produced by Jeff Bhasker, featuring Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, Ezra Koenig of...

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Introspection comes with beautiful harmonies on Wye Oak’s album : ‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.’ ‘…The Deeper It Goes’

Wye Oak's 'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs' is duo Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack's sixth album released on April 6, 2018 by Merge

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There is a Randy Newman feel in the new Eels’ Mark ‘E’ Everett’s ‘The Deconstruction’ album that comes after four years of reconstruction. Second thought?

Eels' 'The Deconstruction' is their twelfth studio album (after a four-year hiatus), co-produced by leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E and Mickey Petralia and released on April 6, 2018 by...

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Parlophone publish ‘Gorillaz’ by virtual band Gorillaz, fully written by Damon Albarn (2001)

'Gorillaz' is the virtual band's eponymous debut studio album produced by Tom Girling, Jason Cox & Dan the Automator and released on March 26 , 2001 by Parlophone / Virgin.Track...

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Toni Braxton’s ‘Sex & Cigarettes’ is your smell after cheating. So! stop smoking & unclog her heart. One more album about quitting

Toni Braxton' s 'Sex & Cigarettes' is her eighth studio album (and her first with some explicit words) produced mostly with Paul Boutin and released on March 23, 2018 by...

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Kim Deal & The Breeders got ‘All Nerve’ back together while you were ‘waiting in the car’

The Breeders' 'All Nerve' is their fifth studio album (their first in 11 years) featuring Courtney Barnett on one song and released on March 2, 2018 by 4AD

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On ‘Crush’, Ravyn Lenae blends Kate Bush’s overtones with Aaliyah’s ingenuity

Ravyn Lenae' s 'Crush' is her third EP produced by Steve Lacy and released on February 9, 2018 by Atlantic.

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In ‘Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)’ Will Toledo & Car Seat Headrest deliver an ‘encore’

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Tommy Emmanuel’ s ‘Accomplice One’

Tommy Emmanuel' s 'Accomplice One' is his twenty sixth studio album featuring guests such as Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfler, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Amanda Shires, Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Simo, David...

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Harry Connick, Jr. – That Would Be Me

Released on October 23, 2015, "That Would Be Me" is the twenty first vocal album by Harry Connick, Jr. Track Listing : 1.(I Like It When You) Smile (Harry Connick,...

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Zara McFarlane’ s ‘Arise’

Zara McFarlane' s 'Arise' is her second studio album recorded with Binker Golding (s) & Peter Edwards (p), produced by drummer Moses Boyd and released in September 2017 by Brownswood...

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Robert Plant’ s ‘Carry Fire’

Robert Plant' s 'Carry Fire' is his eleventh solo album, self produced, recorded with the Sensational Space Shifters and released on October 13, 2017 by Nonesuch / Warner Bros.

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John Mayall – Find A Way To Care

Released on September 4, 2015, "Find a way to care" is the new album by John Mayall.Track Listing : 1.Mother-In-Law Blues (Don Robey) - 03:12 . 2.The River'S Invitation (Percy...

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Lee Ritenour – A Twist Of Rit

Released on August 21, 2015, "A Twist Of Rit" is an album by Lee Ritenour revisiting and reworking songs from some of his earliest albums.

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Amy Winehouse Cover Girl

From Amy Winehouse (incidentally her birthday is today), you know mostly "Rehab" "Valerie" or "Back To Black"But there is more. More like the other people's songs she has covered; other...

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Joe Bonamassa – Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks (DVD & Blueray)

On August 31, 2014, Joe Bonamassa performed a one time only concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater celebrating the music of blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. It has been...

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