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cd 2006/1929-40 new Perhaps the Carmen you know is just a patch of teeth with a bunch of fruit on her head, but when she started out, she was a virtuoso vocalist who could alligator wrestle a hot... |
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cd 2006/1954-5 new Italian fifties singer who married a juggler, got herself on the Colgate Comedy Hour and then scored a job with Jobim's arranger, Claus Ogerman. Spritely singer of a thousand... |
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cd 2006/1970 new Bright & happy soundtrack to the cash-in movie spawned by everyone's favorite acid-damaged children's show. Music was written by folks who later worked on 'Laverne & Shirley', 'Happy... |
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cd 2008/1950-53/1902-14 new Ives' fascinating musical model of simultaneous marching bands (which he turned into string orchestrations that, under the right baton, can shimmer against & transparently... |
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cd 2005/1968 new Jazz session drummer who went to college for English lit, accidentally landed the drum chair under Quincy Jones, helped carve out the funky edge of Jimmy Smith, kept & played in the... |
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cd 2008/1945-53/1919-47 new Les Six were a clique of composers who spent 1920s Paris under the spritely sway of both Jean Cocteau & Erik Satie. They found the previous generation's heroes, namely... |
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cd 2005/1946-48 new The Mt. Everest of prepared piano, and here's its first recording by Armenian Maro Ajemian. Maro and her sister Anahid (a violinist) premiered new works by Cage, Cowell, Krenek &... |
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cd 2009/1945-59 new The heady, skidding, corkscrews of be-bop come to voices. Dave Lambert had been a scatter for years, & was trying to build an all-scatting ensemble that could sound like a horn... |
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cd 2007/1962-66 new Laurie (who's a gent, thank you) is best known for his urbane & politely surreal music behind the Avengers tv series, but he also scored several other UK spy/detective shows... |
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cd 2008/1940-47 new Cast as an elephant driver in the UK documentary 'Elephant Boy', Sabu was suddenly transformed from a barefoot South Indian kid into a pre-WWII child character actor. Most of his... |
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cd 2006/1949-55 new Tito moved drummers to the front of the stage so the spanish harlem dancers could see the propulsion of timbales, congas & vibes that were making their ankles twist so madly.... |
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cd 2008/1957 new The sound that made Mancini famous is jaunty, with roaring bassline riffs that could menace when needed. Here on this first album, he's still just a Hollywood soundtrack arranger who... |
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cd 2009/1958 new You couldn't ask for a much better primer for discovering the first generation of avant garde composers after WWII. Stockhausen with his prim insistence upon electronic sources,... |
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