Johnny Tillotson is an American singer and songwriter, emerged in the late 1950s as a baby-faced, ballad-singing teen idol in a Country/R&B mode. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country and adult contemporary Billboard charts including "Poetry In Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'". Tillotson was inducted in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2011.

Gary Moore's 1989 release, After the War features a return to the metal guitar riffing of his 80's records ("Speak for Yourself" and "Running From The Storm"), while continuing to explore more conventional pop dynamics with mixed results - it works great on "Ready to Love."…

This is one of guitarist Bireli Lagrene's better jazz albums of the 1990s. By this time he had pretty much discarded his original Django Reinhardt influence (even on "Nuages" he sounds nothing like Reinhardt) and he took time off from playing rock to perform a dozen familiar standards with bassist Niels Pedersen and drummer Andre Ceccarelli. Lagrene's technique had been admirable from the start and on this studio session his own musical personality was allowed to come to the surface. Highlights include "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," "Autumn Leaves," "Donna Lee" and "Ornithology".

Desirée received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in music from Virginia Union University. She studied voice with acclaimed soprano Karen Floyd-Savage for six years and performed with a variety of secular and sacred ensembles. Upon graduation she was given a scholarship to attend the 1st Annual Count Basie Orchestra Jazz Institute Workshop, conducted by renowned saxophonist/arranger/ composer Dr. Frank Foster, at Hampton University. She was also offered a Fellowship to attend the University of Michigan for graduate studies in musicology and performance. During the summer of 1994, she performed…

Louis Spohr - Violinkonzerte Nr. 10, 7 & 9
Ulf Hoelscher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Christian Fröhlich
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 311 MB | Full Artwork: 176 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 232-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School, Romantic

Hoelscher demonstrates a formidable mastery of Spohr’s technically challenging passagework, although his efforts are somewhat undermined by the recessed sound of the orchestra. (…) Nonetheless, it is fascinating to experience a bird’s-eye view of Spohr’s development, from the elegant if somewhat four-square First Concerto to the more sophisticated harmonic and formal structures of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth.

Jody Reynolds was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose song "Endless Sleep" was a major U.S. top-ten hit in the summer of 1958. His follow-up single, "Fire of Love", peaked at only #66 on the Billboard chart, but the song went on to become a blues-punk classic after being covered by the MC5. Reynolds was a regular on the "oldies" circuit and a successful businessman in the U.S. Southwest. Beginning in the 1980s several compilations of his music were issued in the U.S. and Europe, and he enjoyed modest acclaim as a pioneer of rockabilly music. In 1999 Reynolds was honored with both a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Walk of Stars and induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Elektrical Aktivity (1996). Norway's reputation as deliverer of high-quality techno and Electronic music with names like Bleep, Biosphere, Volcano, Mental Overdrive, and Istmik, is well assured with interesting new names coming up all of the time. This debut CD from Mind Over Midi of Kristiansund, gives new proofs that one should not forget Norwegian Electronic Music for the Finnish innovators. Mind Over Midi compiles the best stuff from the "Elektrical Aktivity"-EPs and adds some new stuff for his debut full-length. What you get is dry, monotone, intelligent Trance and Electronic music, rooted in the European Electronic music of the 80s…

Gabriele Coen "Jewish Experience" - Yiddish Melodies In Jazz (2013) {Tzadik}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 418 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 154 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 30 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2013 Tzadik | TZ 8172 | Radical Jewish Culture Series
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Klezmer / Saxophone

Gabriele Coen’s second project for Tzadik explores the nexus of Jewish music and jazz through the work of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Shelly Manne, Terry Gibbs, Herbie Mann, Mickey Katz and more. Tapping into modern Yiddish swing, Coen’s exciting arrangements and fabulous band has created a true melting pot music, bringing together a variety of jazz styles in this beautiful and lyrical collection.