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March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Don Gavin: Live With A Manhattan
Don Gavin Live With A Manhattan Virtual Comedy Network LLC. Don Gavin is a lifer comic – cruise ships, clubs, open mics, bottom, top or middle of the bill – you’ll find him. He’s been at it for years and has miles on the clock still to run. He’s good. Very good. Very funny. And […]Archive
March 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Piano Duets
Ella Fitzgerald The Complete Piano Duets Verve Where do you start with Ella Fitzgerald? There are hundreds of albums – including dozens of very good compilations. You could start with her duets with Louis Armstrong – sure. Many people do. And fair enough. There are her songbook albums – where she showcases the work of […]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
March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The J.Bs: More Mess On My Mind (ep)
The J.Bs More Mess On My Mind (ep) Now Again These ‘from the vaults’-styled reissues really are turning out some classic finds. Last year there was two ‘found’ John Coltrane albums (to lose just one would be careless…right?) And there were other jazz gems – near-mythic stories of albums recorded and then shelved. Finally we […]Archive
February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Beach Boys: 1969 – I’m Going Your Way (ep)
The Beach Boys 1969: I’m Going Your Way (ep) CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) / A Capitol Records Release; UMG Recordings, Inc. After the amazing vault-clearing, copyright-extending treats of the last couple of years in Beach Boys world – including not one, but two studio doubles and a live set all from 1968 and this brilliant […]Archive
February 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
David Gray: White Ladder (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Gray White Ladder (20th Anniversary Edition) Iht Records White Ladder was actually released in 1998. But no one gave a fuck. No one gave a shit about David Gray. He’d been stagnating, releasing middling-af albums across the middling-af 1990s; his pained bleat, his lack of interest in a melody, or in anything especially necessary […]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
December 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Link Wray: Link Sings Elvis
Link Wray Link Sings Elvis Ace Records UK Link Wray was best known as a guitar-slinger – his Rumble issuing that very sound, making it profound. He was the bridge between surf-rock and heavy metal. And he was also a mighty fine R’n’B singer. In fact he touched on country music too with some of […]Archive
December 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Back To The Excellent: Wings’ Much Maligned But Brilliant Back To The Egg Album at 40
At some stage in the coming weeks or months or next year there will be a new reissue by Sir Paul of Macca – his often shat-on final Wings album, Back To The Egg is rumoured to be part of the next round in the ongoing reissue/reappraisal reviewing of the McCartney/Wings canon. It’s possibly my […]Archive
November 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Jeff Beck Group: Twilight of the Idols
The Jeff Beck Group Twilight of the Idols: Classic Broadcasts From San Francisco and London – 1967-1968 Code 7 – Shockwaves Here in one place – and with mostly very reasonable sound quality – is a set of BBC Sessions and some live radio broadcasts from the Fillmore West in San Francisco; charting the early […]Archive
September 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman