Martin Taylor – Kiss and Tell
Not to everyone’s taste, if this were a coffee, it’d be a large mocha – technically coffee but with an added ‘choccie’ sweetness for those who aren’t coffee purists…
Top 5 CD’s – W/C 8th August 2011
1. Ben Webster – Soulville @ 12.992. Count Basie – Four Classic Albums @ 9.993. Stan Getz – Getz for Lovers @ 9.994. Art Blakey – Night in Tunisia @ 9.995. Ike Quebec – Blue and Sentimental @ 9.99
Matt Chandler Group – it goes like this – available NOW!
The latest project by jazz guitarist Matt Chandler ‘ it goes like this’ is now available to buy from Stray’s Bookshop on Middlegate/Boar Lane in Newark. Listen to my 3 favourite tracks from the album, straight from your web browser…
HOT OFF THE PRESS! Matt Chandler Group – it goes like this…
Ian Beestin, drummer with the Matt Chandler Trio/Group will be dropping off their new album ‘ it goes like this’ on Monday July 11.It’s literally hot off the press so if you want to reserve a copy, please let the bookshop know (01636 613 764) I’ve only heard the track entitled ‘Stray’s inexplicably’ which was so titled after a soundcheck at Stray’s when the band played here last year! So I’m really keen to get my hands on the complete album – based on what I’ve heard so far, it’ll be an album to savour slowly and repeatedly!And if you…
Neil C. Young – SOLO…
Neil’s solo set is a break from the norm as he plays all by his lonesome and the result is a very intimate affair indeed.
Jazz Journey
My first memory of a Jazz album is ‘Take the Five Train’ by Dave Brubeck. At 20 years old, this was a little raw for me and I wasn’t keen – it’s actually a belter but I wasn’t ready for it at that point. But it did spark something in me and I bought a copy of an album by a musician whose name I recognised when perusing the jazz room at Virgin Megastore in Nottingham – Duke Ellington. I bought ‘Live from the Bluenote, Paris 1959‘ which, incidentally was only given 40% by the Penguin Guide to Recorded Jazz. It still…
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