Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (180gm Vinyl)Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. This album deservedly acquired 'cult status' thanks perhaps to the blend of material and happy assurance of all the soloists. Art Farmer for example is melodic and tuneful on Cool Struttin', helped by Sonny's sympathetic yet urgent chordal backing. The same applies to Jackie McLean, a loyal devotee of Charlie Parker but blessed with his own style. The pianist's solos have finger bustin' moments when the keys seem

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Elden Henson

Bob the Tomato

As with all the Caspar Babypants albums the energy on the album goes from upbeat and fun at the beginning to sleepy and mellow at the end

To mark the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth

the originators of The Twist

The band is playing at a few festivals this year and is hoping to resume touring with Fish in Autumn 2024

Both volume one (Intoxicated Man) and two (Pink Elephants) are cherished classics and introduced English speakers to one of the most legendary songwriters of the 20th century

contrasting two buoyant and lighthearted movements with a somber Adagio

Both the narrative march of the Gospel and the tonality in which the musical framework was composed