With his fifth album Cale is back on the Tulsa Rootrock track again. It's a relaxed and sensitive Cale we meet here. Christine Lakeland and some of the best musicians in USA helped him to create some of his best songs so far. Songs like Boiling Pot, Don't Cry Sister, Sensitive Kind, Friday, Let's Go To Tahiti, Thirten Days and the beautiful song Mona, where Carl Radle does one of his best studio work ever. This is a record that just grows the more you hear it and the music makes you feel, and thats what music is all about, isn't it?

Very intense album. He does manage to express extreme emotions and make you go through them. Emotions that could not be expressed by other means than flamenco music

This highly anticipated new release features all-new material by the highly regarded and 2-time Grammy Award winning cult heroine Rickie Lee Jones. Includes guest artists Allison Krauss, Ben Harper, Victoria Williams, Bill Frisell, Jon Brion and Vic Chestnut!

J.J. Cale's fourth album "Troubadour" would have been appealing even if it were an instrumental album, on account of the delicious instrumental textures. Hey Baby charms the listener with its intricate guitar whilst Travelin' Light is a rhythmic up-tempo excursion with hypnotic percussion. One of the longest tracks is You Got Something, a yearning love song with brilliant instrumental interplay. The romantic Ride Me High is a masterpiece of expressive guitar and percussion, the brief track Hold On is a slow bluesy interlude and then follows the familiar hit Cocaine (later a hit for Eric Clapton) with its powerful rock guitar riffs. I'm A Gypsy Man has a nervous, jerky rhythmic pattern whilst The Woman That Got Away is an up-tempo blues track with impressive piano. The whining guitar on Super Blue is something to relish. Let Me Do It To You is a catchy pop song with perky sax and a long instrumental outro, whilst the love song Cherry is equally charming. The album concludes with the slow blues number You Got Me On So Bad where the piano expertly creates the mood. I was surprised by Troubadour's versatility and the virtuosity of the playing. Cale's music is not all laid-back mellowness.

Schmelzer's many-sided musical talent gives us a detailed glimpse of court life in Vienna and Prague under his imperial employers Ferdinand III (1637-1657) and Leopold I (1657-1705).

This fine two-disc set brings together all the recordings Thelonious Monk made for the small, influential Riverside label in 1957. The piano eccentric cut excellent versions of some of his best compositions during that year, including "Off Minor," "Epistrophy," "Well, You Needn't," and the lovely "Ruby My Dear." The exhilarating saxophone work of John Coltrane makes these dates instant classics. Like most "complete sessions," the set features plenty of false starts and alternate takes that might seem extraneous to the casual fan, but Monk fanatics will be overjoyed at being provided with a glimpse into the brilliant artist's studio process.

J.J. Cale is a treasure. While superficial entertainment celebrities come and go, enjoying their five minutes of fame, copying the latest quickly forgotten thing, J.J. Cale keeps rocking on. His sound is like no one else. A little country, a little blues, a little rock and roll, Cale's sound is all his own. In a culture, which constantly proclaims the virtues of non-conformity, by dozens of utterly predictable, conformist entertainers, Cale is the real deal. In a culture which constantly proclaims the joys of excess, Cale's sound is always precise, under-stated and the definition of cool. This 3rd album of his is one of his best. A series of quiet, under-stated pieces, the album, of course, got absolutely zero air time. Who cares. Here we are, decades after it was recorded, and every tune is still fresh and new.

If……. there was a God for real music, JJ Cale would be a superstar bigger than Michael Jackson. Instead he is a relatively well kept secret. He sings in a way that makes each song seem as if he is singing it personally, to you, on his front porch, as the sun goes down. He is soulful, his songs moody, meaningful, and full of emotion. If you like blues that'll make the hairs on your neck stand up as well as touch your heart try Naturally first, his debut album for Mercury. JJ Cale is a genius in "Less is More" !!!! There is nothing more to add……

The Smokie sound is so distinctive that it has set the band apart from the rest, allowing them to remain at the top for over two decades and to still continue making new music. It's original, it's timeless and it's made Smokie one of the worldwide best selling bands, with a career few could better.

Переиздание альбома "The Nashville Album" (1998) с добавкой "новых" старых песен. В записи альбома приглашен Maggie Reilly - vocals.

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This is one class act. Helene Grimaud generally prefers the heavy-duty German repertoire and has fought hard not to be typecast as a dainty "French" female pianist. Nevertheless she has expressed a certain affection for selected French and non-Germanic works, which is a good thing for us because this is the best performance of the Gershwin concerto we are ever likely to hear. It has style, warmth, and bravura to spare. In fact, everyone concerned treats it like it's the greatest piece of music in the world, and the same positives apply to the Ravel.

- David Hurwitz

"Orlando Gibbons is my favorite composer -always has been, I can't think of anybody who represents the end of an era better than Orlando Gibbons does." This profession of faith in the great English virginalist is more than an act of defiance: it harks back to Gould's early childhood experiences with Puritanism.

– Michael Stegemann

Hungary's After Crying delivered their second album in 1992, a couple of years after their debut. From a prog perspective, the positioning of a 22 minute suite A Gadarai Megszállott right up front offers the hope of a damn good listen. A quick check of the line up on the other hand suggests a degree of caution. Completely absent are guitars of any kind; instead we have a quasi-classical assembly, with oboe, cello, flute and brass featuring strongly.
The aforementioned suite, as it turns out, is a sort of modern classical piece apparently based around various improvisations on themes. When the vocals are eventually added, they sound to my untrained ear to be of the type common on Italian Symphonic Prog albums. The language may be Hungarian, but the atmosphere is universal. It is perhaps these vocals which differentiate the piece from simply being classified as a modern classical suite, but surprisingly they do not sound out of context. Around the mid- point of the track, the brass section suddenly makes its presence felt with a brief but rousing burst of jazz rock.
Of the remaining four tracks three are brief, almost interlude, pieces. They are pretty, but of little real consequence. The other track of note is the 11 minute Megalázottak És Megszomorítottak. There is more of a rock orientation to this piece, with occasional hints of ELP when the pace is lifted. Overall though, the atmosphere is less structured than the works of ELP, hinting more towards 1980's King Crimson.
Overall, the album is paradoxically difficult to get into but easy to listen to. Superficially, the sounds are easy on the ear and pleasant, but the improvisational style of composition means that there is little to grasp onto and retain. Certainly worth a listen or three.