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Despite the fact that his career was so tragically curtailed when he died in the fateful plane crash on 3rd February 1959, in which The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens also perished, Buddy Holly remains...
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Miles Davis’ tour of continental Europe during the spring of 1960 marked the close of his five year association with John Coltrane. Although the controversial saxophonist had already embarked on his o...
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Django Reinhardt provides one of those unique strands of jazz which was hugely significant and distinctive, and which effectively stand on their own as an expression of one man’s thoroughly indi...
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In the late Sixties after their tenures with Phil Spector and Kent Records and before their breakthrough signing to United Artists and International fame, Ike Turner took Tina and his revue and record...
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First in our series devoted to the early pioneers of black vocal group harmony - "The Road to Doowop" - devoted to the pop and gospel orientated groups who paved the way for the doowop explo...
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The hugely successful US soul star Wilson Picket began his career in the Falcons vocal group before taking the solo route with his intense Gospel styled soul. These recordings were made for the Double...
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The great Merle Haggard, captured live on the famous US TV series “Church Street Station”. Merle reprises 7 of his Billboard country chart No 1’s amongst the CDs generous 20 tracks. ...
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A full decade after her death in 1994, Carmen McRae remains one of the truly great and enduring female jazz names of the 20th century, a singer, composer, performer and accomplished pianist who is sti...
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Segovia is probably the best-known name in thw world of classical Spanish guitar, and he not only popularised the medium, but established a benchmark of style and virtuosity within the genre
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