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The King of Rock'n'Roll certainly didn't need to ask whether his entourage had collected together all their favourite hits. They had gathered them all together - a collection of "Golden Records",...

Along with the album "A Date With Elvis" (RCA LPM-2011), "For LP Fans Only" is one of the most important special productions of the young King of Rock'n'Roll. Because Elvis had been conscripted into...

Rimsky-Korsakov was not only a masterly composer of great operas and eloquently powerful symphonies but a genius when it came to the smaller forms, and ample proof is provided by this delightful...

The frenetic applause with which both the public and the experts greeted the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra, composed in 1940, is certainly astounding - one would have thought that...

Anyone who takes an interest in Schubert's late works will sooner or later come across clich'-like interpretations of his music that have been associated with a foreboding of his early death. Robert...

General opinion has it that Sonny Stitt always stood in Charlie Parker's shadow. That, however, is unjustifiable. The legendary jazz critic Nat Hentoff wrote, for example: 'Sonny has been one of the...

This homage to Charlie Parker was originally released in 1964. Alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt was joined by pianist John Lewis, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie Kay.

Turner, who appeared on stage with Goodman, Ellington, Tatum and - in later years - with Gillespie and Eldridge, offers his listeners many facets of the blues. The opening number, "Switchin' In The...

Vangelis Heaven & Hell Lp Vinyl

(2-LP set) The concert programme consisted of long medleys composed by Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, which were dissected and put together again with interplay between the rhythm group and the...