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April 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ebo Taylor: Palaver
Ebo Taylor Palaver BBE Music Ebo Taylor – living legend of African highlife music is still in rude health at 83 – at least as far as 2018’s Yen Ara let us know; a career highlight. And now we have Palaver, not strictly a new recording – but it’s the first time this 40-year-old album […]Archive
April 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Roger Kellaway: The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway
Roger Kellaway The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway IPO Recordings The archive of rare/lost/archival jazz recordings is staggering. Here’s a gig Roger Kellaway recorded just under a decade ago – and left it. It’s a stunner. He’s at the keys working his magic – with shit-hot bassist Dan Lutz and killer guitarist Bruce Forman […]Archive
March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP
Murry Wilson & Snow The Break Away EP Omnivore Recordings Murry Wilson shares the prize with Joe Jackson (father of the Jackson 5, not the super singer/songwriter) as one of the world’s worst Professional Fathers – these manager/Svengali types that invented the cliché of channeling their own rage through their sons (and daughters) and being […]Archive
March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Michel Petrucciani Trio: One Night In Karlsruhe [Live]
The Michel Petrucciani Trio One Night In Karlsruhe [Live] SWR Jazzhaus The French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani lived his life in pain. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone disorder. He was one of the greats of jazz piano across the 1980s and early 1990s – despite being in enormous pain whenever he played. […]Archive
February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Suzanne Vega: Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast
Suzanne Vega Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast Arcturus One of the great joys of streaming platforms is the proliferation of authorised bootleg material and old radio shows and curios being uploaded. Here’s a radio show appearance that is 35 years old (almost to the day on […]Archive
February 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Bryan Ferry: Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1974
Bryan Ferry Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1974 BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd Bryan Ferry was one of the coolest people on the planet in 1974. He was also this in 1973. He is also this – to many people – now. And certainly there’s plenty of evidence here and across 73/74 when he […]Archive
May 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 166 – Rob Mayes (Failsafe Records)
Welcome to episode 166 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify -follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. I had a chat with Rob Mayes. He runs a […]Archive
April 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Hardest I’ve Ever Not Worked
People tell you not to read the comments – but you can really learn a lot about yourself. For example: Did you know that I used to earn enough to pay my mortgage by trolling music fans on Stuff? Neither did I. That was definitely news to me. I must have been stuck in that dreary day-job […]Archive
March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young + Promise of The Real: The Visitor
Neil Young + Promise of The Real The Visitor Reprise Neil Young’s 2010s output is going to rival his 1980s for being wilful, stubborn, stylistically diverse – and “non-representative”. The gap is widening between the truly great Neil Young albums too. But you think he gives a fuck? Or ever has for that matter? Right […]Archive
February 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: With a Reflection by Zadie Smith Jerry Dantzic Thames & Hudson; 1 edition Less a review, more a recommendation – though sometimes one exist for exactly the other – this book of Billie Holiday photographs is a must-see/read for fans of the singer, the era; for fans of beautiful black […]Archive
December 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman