Clarence Sims - Born to Sing the BluesIn a 1999 Living Blues review Bill Dahl writes, "the result is a first class showcase for the uncompromising guitarist a load of steaming blues spotlighting Sims' intense, high pitched vocals and slicing, stinging lead guitar (sporting tinges of Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Guitar Slim, and the ever popular B. B. and Albert King)." Originally recorded in 1987 at the Eli Mile High club in Oakland, California, this CD is a reissue of the original LP "Born to

and the compositions originally intended for the organ are heard here for the first time following the new edition of 2020

who improvised on the same chorale for half an hour during a personal meeting with the aged master - years after he had made a copy of the latter's fantasy on An Wasserflüssen Babylon

2005"s Childish Things garnered some of the highest critical praise of McMurtry's career and spent six weeks at number one on R&R's Americana Music Radio Chart in 2005 and 2006

worth killing for and uses as an excuse for truly malevolent acts

he participated in numerous master classes for organ and improvisation

This new release from Centaur features a programme of well known works for violin and piano from Brahms and Schumann performed by Alexander Meshibovsky and Raisa Kagramanova

Because hot jazz is probably the jazz style that is most traditional and familiar

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in this scathing made-for-TV drama

Step off the beaten path and discover the unsung heroes of the blues with "Hits That Missed"

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articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors" and by The Washington Post for "an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness