Lindisfarne – Magic In The Air
It was my Dad who bought this album, on cassette, and I have no idea what prompted him to do so as he wasn’t a big consumer of music, but buy this he did and […]
100 best Tracks of the 1970’s (Repost, just because)
I have no idea why I started this bloody list as it’s proven to be really difficult. I’m looking at mostly 45’s but have had to throw a few album tracks in there as well. […]
Verian Thomas – Untitled One
I have recently been working on some new music which is quiet and reflective. It has been some time since I’ve done anything much musically and in this lockdown year of 2020 it is important […]
The Best Albums of 1984
If I have missed anything obvious please make it known. In 1984 I was 17/18 and had been working for a year, so I had a little money, not a load, but enough to buy […]
33 1/3 Radio: Show 14 – Alternative 80’s
Like most of the 33 1/3 radio shows I play mostly what I’ve been listening to since the last show, this time I play what I was listening to in the 80’s as an annoying […]
1001 Other Albums – 17 – Howlin’ Wolf – Moanin’ in the Moonlight
Moanin’ in the Moonlight was the debut album by Howlin’ Wolf. The album was a compilation of previously issued singles by Chess Records and it is a stone cold classic. Smokestack Lightin’ is just about […]
33 1/3 Radio: Show 13 – Reggae
Nearly 3 hours of Reggae tunes, interupted only by some idiot.
Rankin Roger
I’m very late in posting this but I was just looking at some of my youtube uploads and re-found a video from 2016 of The Beat from the summer of 2016 where the band, fronted […]
1001 Other Albums – 16 – Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue
Little Girl Blue (also known as Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club) is the debut album by Nina Simone, released by Bethlehem Records in February 1959. Simone was in her mid-20s and […]
1001 Other Albums – 15 – Sonny Rawlings – Saxophone Colossus
Saxophone Colossus is the sixth studio album by Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins’ best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record. It was recorded on June 22, 1956, with producers Bob Weinstock and Rudy Van […]
1001 Other Albums – 14 – Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight
The Birth Of Cool and Kind of Blue were already both taken, but it matters not as this 1957 release is right up there. It wasn’t universally well recieved when initially released with one reviewer […]
1001 Other Albums – 13 – Ray Charles – By Ray Charles
This is the first release on LP by Ray Charles. It was originally released in 1957 on Atlantic Records but it was also know as “Hallelujah I Love Her So” as it was re-released under […]
1001 Other Albums – 12 -John Coltrane – Blue Train
Blue Train was John Coltrane’s only recording for Blue Note. It was the first album where he chosef the musicians he wanted to record with and it is the album in which he gets closest […]
1001 Other Albums – 11 – Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues
Here we are with an album I actually own, although my copy is a nice re-issue, with a different cover, that I bought in Portugal while I was on holiday a few years ago. By […]
1001 Other Albums – 10 – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis
Ella and Louis were accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet for this 1956 release and it is primarily a vocal album, and a charming one. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca […]
1001 Other Albums – 9 – The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop – Pithecanthropus Erectus
This early Atlantic session in 1955 was one of the first of the bassist-composer’s workshop styled programmes. He felt that written music could not convey the true music of the composer as musicians would put […]
1001 Other Albums – 8 – Otto Luening / Vladimir Ussachevsky – Tape Recorder Music
I only discovered this album recently and I am simply astounded that it was recorded as far back as 1955. I love strange cut ups such as those one might hear from Prefuse 73 and […]
