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LES PAUL & MARY FORD's impact and influence was immeasurable, not merely as singers and musicians but for their recording, mixing and studio practices, notably overdubbing, tape delay, phasing and multi-tracking. Les was a full-on genius/visionary,...

Lenny conjured a seemingly endless array of tones out of the organ, making it sound like just about any instrument he wanted. Here's his 1955 smash Plantation Boogie plus his inimitable renditions of Sweet Georgia Brown; Caravan; Laura; Stompin' at the...

Legendary, Grammy-winning arranger/conductor Johnny Mann and his prolific Singers apply their bright, smooth, spirited Sixties sound to this excellent Christmas collection. This recording was a big hit when first released in 1967 but ever the...

Legendary producer and bassist Bill Laswell is joined by Alice Coltrane, Santana, Pharaoh Sanders, Zakir Hussain and others make music for those they are inspired and moved by, and who they aspire to be, including his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Sonny...

Legendary pianist Enrique Chia performs the songs of one of the most beloved composers of all times Agustin Lara on his latest record, SU ALMA y MI PIANO GUSTIN LARA SU ALMA y MI PIANO VOL.1. Tracks: "Noche de Ronda," "Farolito," "Granada," "Solamente...

Lauded as one of the most successful pianists of all time, Richard Clayderman releases an album of twelve new recordings, produced in the last year during global pandemic. The album features beautiful renditions of modern classics including Coldplay's...

Known widely as "Mama Africa", Johannesburg-born MIRIAM MAKEBA, of Xhosa and Swazi descent, was a controversial singer, songwriter, feminist and political activist, perhaps one of the most important black women of the 20th Century. A singer with a...

Known for much of her career as "The Knockers Up Girl!", and described by one enterprising journalist as "The Mother Of The Sexual Revolution", Rusty Warren was a genuine trailblazer in the late 50s and throughout the 60s, taking recorded comedy into...

Known as the Man with the Golden Trumpet to his fans, Irish trumpeter Johnny Carroll devoted decades to his craft, becoming widely recognized as one of his country's best-known musicians. During the '90s he emerged as a substantial solo performer after...

Judy Garland (1922-1969) sang about love throughout her life, but up to now no career-spanning CD collection has ever brought her greatest love songs together. Here then for the first time on JUDY GARLAND: I CAN't GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE is Garland's...

John D Loudermilk was perhaps the songwriter for whom the word "idiosyncratic" was created. His catalogue of songs defies classification, ranging from the unlikely to the downright bizarre, touching all points in between. Although he often came across as...

JOE DOWELL famously topped the US?charts in 1961 with his very first record, a cover of Elvis's 'Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)', a novelty adaptation of an old German Folk song, from Presley's' "G. I. Blues" movie. Unfortunately for Dowell, he enjoyed few...