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| Blues for Aficionados Big Bad SmittyMEAN DISPOSITIONGenes 1991Notes: Big Bad Smitty is 300 pounds of the most authentic Blues to emerge in many a year. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1940, Smitty first picked up a guitar at age ten, picking out Muddy waters' 'St... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados When The Frogman ends a recommendation with an [ ! ] it's a done deal.Cheers | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I'm just getting acquainted with Mahler. I have Mahler 4 with the NYPO and Bernstein. I am thinking of getting the complete cycle by Bernstein and the NYPO, just to get started. $32 on amazon.Always good to see female conductors. Nice clip.C... | |
| Jazz for aficionados John Coltrane and Johnny HartmanJOHN COLTRANE AND JOHNNY HARTMANImpulse 1963 / 1995 They Say It's Wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnm-lxHn2ADedicated to Youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP_NqRR2NzoLush Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Carrie SmithCONFESSIN' THE BLUESEvidence / Disques Black and Blue 1993Notes: "I've been around this kind of music all my life," Carrie Smith told me one afternoon at her East Orange, New Jersey, home. It's not new to me. I was born in Georg... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Lets just say my enthusiasm for Canada and Canadians is not as strong as yours appears to be.The Germans were masters at the Tactical, unfortunately for them, it was a strategic war, which was lost by them in the winter of 1941.Cheers | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Normandy:Yes, I've seen the famous pic of the Brit / Canadian when the ramp went down. What I have never understood is, why that beach was not a gigantic wall of napalm from end to end. We not only had Air Superiority, we had Air Dominance!With... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ray Brown TrioTHE SAX PLAYERSRay Brown(bass), Benny Green(piano), Gregory Hutchinson(drums)Telarc 1996Stanley Turrentine - Port Of Rico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxZ0ZKwh_A Joshua Redman - Polka Dots and Moonbeams https://www.youtube.c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Oscar Brown Jr.SIN & SOULColumbia / Sony 1960 / 1996Notes: Rarely does an artist's debut album deliver as fully formed, well-defined an original as the Oscar Brown Jr. of Sin and Soul. Somebody Buy Me a Drink https://www.youtube.com/... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Japanese:They buy American, but they make sure it's assembled in Japan. :)They sure are buying a LOT of F-35s.One of the problems with the Military / Industrial complex is, they must continually make "better" stuff. They can never afford to shut... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Byther Smith ALL NIGHT LONGDelmark 1997 Walked All Night Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvgwzDYLUOw Look Over Your Shoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGC9gmxiiE Thinking Real Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKXF1Lya8... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOVERTURES AND FANTASIESOrchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa CeciliaAntonio PappanoEMI Classics (now Warner) 2006Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6hxsqanmVc Eugene Onegin: Walt... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Byther SmithADDRESSING THE NATION WITH THE BLUESJSP 1994Notes: "I'm just a working man" is how the genuinely humble Byther Smith neatly describes himself. A modest statement perhaps, but one which also reveals just what makes him such a great B... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados True. The Japanese were always excellent at sea warfare.Wiki: China is bordered by 14 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.... | |
| Blues for Aficionados Johnny Shines JOHNNY SHINES WITH BIG WALTER HORTONTestament 1966 / 1969 / 1995G. B. Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT0vmQBFiLoYou don't have to Gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbcv8AzQwMHello Centralhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4... |