The Escorts - Little Green ApplesOf all the sweet and satin voiced groups to grace the R&B charts in the early to mid '70s, The Escorts have one distinction (which some consider somewhat dubious) of being the one and only team to have started their recording career behind bars! Any discussion of the seven man group has inevitably focused on that fact but beyond the circumstances of their recording situation (at Rahway prison in New Jersey), The Escorts' work actually merits

Billy Griffin is the great American soul singer who replaced Smokey Robinson in the Motown recording group

in keeping with the particular situation

this album marked the high point of the band's critical acclaim with some of their sharpest and catchiest songs to date

The trio was premiered in 1891 and

the number four in it's title indicating that two books have been lost

The term sinfonietta is generally used to describe a work that is smaller in scale or lighter in approach than a standard symphony

while also releasing a second album

At the end of the book are sets of theme and variations - my favourite

With veteran roots musician Steve Dawson returning to produce and contribute some tasteful string work

but doesn't have the strength of certain arias in Porpora's Ariadne in Naxos

Dmitry Kouzov is one of his generation's leading cello virtuosos

Says Hayes - "I wanted to capture a bizarre phenomenon that I sometimes experience while sleeping