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Bettye LaVette

On May 26, 2023, it was the reissue of the 1968 album titled With A Little Help From My Friends by Volker Kriegel. Originally released with Liberty Records, the reissue is made with the Italian Cinedelic Records for the Cinedelic Jazz series. Kriegel taught himself the guitar at the age of 15 and started his own trio at 18, winning awards at the 1963 German Amateur Jazz Festival. While studying at the University of Frankfurt, he met Emil and Albert Mangelsdorff and continued to develop his interests in jazz. When American expatriate vibraphone player Dave Pike offered him a place in his new band, he decided to drop out of school to become a full-time musician. He remained with the Dave Pike Set from 1968 to 1973, until Dave Pike returned to the United States, when Kriegel and Eberhard Weber founded the Spectrum line-up. In 1976 he founded the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, a changing collective that at various times included Charlie Mariano, Albert Mangelsdorff, Ack van Rooyen and Barbar...

Otis Jackson

Here is a top 10, not just one genre of music, it's in no particular order, there is no theme, only good music for your ears.  Voici un top 10, pas seulement un genre de musique, pas d'ordre en particulier, pas de thématique que de la bonne musique.  1 - Otis Jackson - Message To The Ghetto (1974)  Papa Madlib nous offre ce côté B pour ce 45 tours soul avec Mega qui est réalisé par H.B. Barnum. Une copie originale vaut plus de 600$. En 2001. la chanson s'est retrouvée sur la compilation Pop-A-Groove de Goldmine Soul Supply. Madlib's dad offers us this B side for a 45 rpm soul with Mega which is produced by H.B. Barnum. An original copy is worth over $600. In 2001 the song ended up on the Goldmine Soul Supply's Pop-A-Groove compilation. 2 - Pat Britt - Wild Lili (1975)  Saxophoniste et flûtiste de jazz, également réalisateur basé à Los Angeles, il a travaillé avec Sonny Stitt, Gary Bartz et Henry Franklin. Son premier album Jazzman est paru avec VJ Inte...

Drop The Needle

On May 5, 2023, it was the reissue of Nana's album Africadeus by the German label Altercat Records. The record was originally released with Pierre Barouh's French label Saravah in 1973. Naná Vasconcelos was a Brazilian percussionist, singer and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on more than two dozen albums , and as backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Björk, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri and Milton Nascimento. Vasconcelos played a wide variety of musical instruments including congas, berimbau, gourd, triangle, drums, cymbals, repique, tambourine, gong, caxixi, talking drum, cuica, shaker, palmas, pandeiro, zabumba, udu, cabasa, prato, tambor, hi-hats, bells, water drum, vibraphone, güiro, ganza, cowbell, tabla, xequere, Turkish drum, repique, cymbals, surdo, shells, African bells, agogo bells, clay pot, timpani, snare drum, flexatone, Tibetan gong and other percussion assorted. Le 5 mai 2023, c'était la réédition de l'albu...