Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995), known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.

А 1975 cull film long out of print, That's The Way Of The World starred a young Harvey Keitel as an impassioned record company executive caught up in the politics of race, power and ambition. Earth, Wind & Fire, cast as a hungry band of hopefuls, were the pawns in a ruthless game. The film may have faded but the group's score was larger than life. Newly mastered with previously unreleased demos of "Shining Star," "All About Love" and the original bossa nova version of "That's The Way Of The World," this meditation on the rules of living ranks as one of pop's great masterworks. Simple Truths For The Ways Of The World.

After the Hi years ended, Johnson produced two worthy LPs for his own Shama label, the latter of which, Ms. Fine Brown Frame from 1982, was picked up for distribution by Boardwalk Records and produced Johnson's last hit record, the title cut.

"I am Lilith Czar," begins the artist formerly known as Juliet Simms on her new album's "Poem Intro.

Boris Giltburg’s Beethoven 32 project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas.

Offering a word of encouragement, Dreamer Boy continues to charm listeners with his 80s-inspired dream-pop blend. Nashville-based singer and songwriter Zach Taylor, AKA Dreamer Boy, releases his second full-length album with All The Ways We Are Together.

The Dutch jazz trumpeter Ack van Rooyen has a sound is so unmistakable that it only takes a few seconds, a few notes, to identify him. A sound full of warmth and a touch of melancholy - something, by the way, that also characterises the man Ack van Rooyen, who turned 90 last year and celebrated his birthday with this production! '90' presents a bi-national sextet - with three musicians each from the Netherlands and Germany. In addition to Ack on flugelhorn throughout, is tenor saxophonist Paul Heller, who was in charge of the production, guitarist Peter Tiehuis, pianist Hubert Nuss, Ingmar Heller on bass and drummer Hans Dekker play on this wonderful album with Rooyen in top form!

In this context of versatility, it is interesting to know if this quality is related to the sax, Flores' main instrument. “I think that the guitar and the piano are much more versatile than the sax. Definitely, an instrument like the sax has, like any wind or rubbed string element, something more similar to singing, an added value in the expressive and with that question as the drawing of the notes, the modulation of each thing. And that gives you beautiful expressive possibilities. But what happens is also that the place where it has more development is in jazz, and that does not give you the possibility of playing in other genres. If I, as a musician, were to play a folk song, they would say: "How great, it has a touch of jazz!" On the other hand, with the guitar, even the voice, you have a little more versatility ”, postulates the musician.

The Rise & Fall of Loverboy is one of those odd albums whose musical styles and themes seem to vary wildly from track to track … Paradoxically, it is this feature that ties everything together. One never knows where Sir Sly are headed. [Frontman] Jacobs has turned over a new lead. He looks to other people's music for his salvation and then filters it through his own experiences to see what matters.

The Fluyten Lust-Hof ("Garden of Flute Delight"), published in Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th century, is a collection of variations for flute solo on the "hits" of European music of the time, borrowed from composers such as Caccini, Dowland, Bull and Moulinié.

Dumpstaphunk's recording catalog is dominated by live albums. Where Do We Go From Here, only their third studio collection in nearly 20 years together, has solved the problem of finding intensity without an audience by updating their famous 2017 political statement song, "Justice" (now called "Justice 2020") and by putting their particular spin on three tunes that are part of the band's collective musical foundation.

This surprising italian duo takes on their own version of the blues, remiding us of Seasick Steve or the Black Keys. This «"Best Of" album gathering their firsts songs marks their entry among the talents to keep an eye on !

"Delivering these songs using everything from glockenspiels to Motown drums, chants and stomping feet, they turn campfire singalongs into skyscraping anthems, the contrast between male and female vocalists Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson making them sound something like a fusion of Cyndi Lauper, the Cardigans and Arcade Fire. Songs about beasts and forests abound with joy, but with a less tangible, mournful undercurrent that gives them an otherwordly, magical quality

Icelandic pianist and post-classical composer EYDÍS EVENSEN has confirmed details of her debut album, BYLUR, which will be released on April 23rd via XXIM Records, Sony’s new imprint for innovative, post-genre instrumental music.

In this recording, Giordano Antonelli takes color and light as guidelines for his approach to Vivaldi’s works and, at the same time, thanks to his own personal artistic experience, listens to the echoes of an Orient well established in Venice during Vivaldi’s time. In the following lines, I will try to expand such a beautiful (and justified) intuition.