6/22/2015
Not to be confused with the Aussie jazz trumpeter with whom he shares a name, this younger James Morrison is the Englishman whose natural excess of honeyed soul has elevated him head and shoulders abov …
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6/22/2015
Jazz, jungle, and exotic electronica — or should that be electronic exotica? — percolate in the work of Swedish duo Koop (Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson), and the result is every bit as cool and i …
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6/22/2015
French film-score composer Maurice Jarre has proved to be, over a career that has spanned five decades, one of the most versatile and prolific artists in his field, a maestro in both the orchestral and …
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6/22/2015
Mark Lizotte may have been born in the States, but the man who led Johnny Diesel and the Injectors before forging a solid identity as, simply, Diesel is rightly hailed as Australian rock royalty: He mo …
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6/22/2015
The word "prolific" can certainly be applied to Ed Kuepper's solo career, but it doesn't do the ex-Saints singer/guitarist justice. Since '85, Kuepper has put out at least an album a year, and marked h …
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6/22/2015
The Poms had the Sex Pistols, the Yanks had the Ramones, but we had the Saints, perhaps the holiest of that triumvirate because their buzzsaw assault on the world’s ears began the earliest, in the unsu …
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6/22/2015
Durante los años '80, Blades abandonó la estética clásica de la disquera Fania para favorecer conjuntos pequeños y un sonido más íntimo. Es el acompañamiento ideal para cautivantes narrativas latinoame …
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6/22/2015
Before they got swamped by the rising tide of punk and new wave, '70s prog uber-group Emerson, Lake & Palmer represented a brilliant alliance of adventurous instincts, symphonic classical smarts, conce …
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6/22/2015
Mit Beharrlichkeit und Ausdauer kämpft sich der Strahlemann des deutschen Pop von seinen frühen Anfängen in einer Schülerband Anfang der 90er Jahre an die Spitze der deutschen Charts. 1998 gelingt ihm …
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