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More extracts from reviews in Record Collector, Blues & Rhythm, In Tune, Now Dig This, Vintage Rock and The Jazz Rag
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Reviewers at In-Tune magazine, Vintage Rock, The Jazz Rag, Now Dig This, Blues & Rhythm, UK Vibe, Country Music Magazine impressed by recent releases
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Sammy Kaye was a hugely successful and popular bandleader whose prolific hitmaking lasted from the 1930s through to the 1950s as he transcended the changing character of the popular music market with ...
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Leroy Van Dyke is a country singer and guitarist who is best-known for his memorable landmark crossover pop-country hit in 1961 “Walk On By”, which made him a household name on both sides of the Atlan...
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Ramsey Lewis is a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader who has been highly successful and influential in popularising jazz through his crossover chart successes during the 1960s. This excellent-value...
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Johnny Cash occupies an unusual niche in popular music as an artist who was able to straddle the genres to encompass not only the country idiom with which he is most identified but also rockabilly, bl...
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Despite the fact that his career was curtailed in 1963 by a fatal heart attack when he was only 45, Elmore James was an extremely influential figure in the development of blues guitar, both but virtue...
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The Five Satins were one of the many doo-wop vocal groups to achieve popularity during the genre’s boom years of the mid-50s, and their huge debut hit “In The Still Of The Night” has...
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Despite his tragically brief career, cut short as it was by tuberculosis, exacerbated by heroin addiction, at the age of 26, bebop trumpeter Fats Navarro built an extraordinarily high profile and repu...
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Joni James was a hugely successful American recording artist of the 1950s and ‘60s, and was one of the few singers who were able to maintain the momentum of her career through from the middle-of-the-r...
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Cal Tjader, Grammy Award winner in 1980, was one of the leading figures of the burgeoning post-war Latin jazz scene, and was in the earliest line-ups of Dave Brubeck's groups.
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