It was with some sadness that I read on Instagram that Margo Guryan had passed away. Margo Guryan Rosner, age 84, of Los Angeles, California passed away on Monday, November 8, 2021. Margo was born September 20, 1937. Margo Rosner […]
Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House- Live at Montreux
I’ve only been to the Montreux Jazz Festival the once in 2004. That was 30-years after Larry Coryell performed there for this recording, which is a 2021 Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive. “At Monteux” wasn’t produced by Creed Taylor, […]
Hubert Laws – Quiet, Confident, Accomplished
Happy Birthday Hubert Laws! – “You can always do better”. Like other key members of the 1970’s CTI ensemble, Hubert Laws has been interviewed both during his peak performing years and since. In this post I’ll celebrate Hubert’s birthday by […]
Am-Par, Electro-Voice and the Story Of Stereo
Just what was the first Am-Par stereo album? Does one of the compilations hold that record? Having established which Am-Par release compilation/sampler was the first record given away with a consumer magazine closed one door on Am-Par compilations, but opened […]
Vineland Dreams, NAC, Gavin and Back to the Start
If you listened to FM-radio the USA in late ’95, or the first half of ’96 there is a good chance you heard the last CD of original music released by CTI[1]i.e. not a compilation or a reissue. Otherwise there […]
Julien Lourau – Power of Soul – The Music of CTI
I do enjoy rediscovering the music and people from the Creed Taylor era. I’ve often mused that I’d like to be able to redit and remix a set of classic CTI tracks from the stems of original masters. Not the […]
Updates on 3R’s and New Old Stock
I’ve made quite a few updates to the The 2021 Reissue List – for the first time including a few of the CTI/KUDU releases that were acquired by Gregg Kostelich owner of Get Hip Recordings and are new old stock, […]
Shock – Drama, and the Toni Darnay story
In the best horror tradition, the people who put this record together are as pleasant and gentle a group a you’d like to have in for tea. Shock – Liner Notes – David Drew Zingg 1958 It’s probable that almost […]
Dr Smith Has Left The House
Success takes the right people, with the right skills, at the right time and the right place. You can’t copy or replicate success. And so it was that in 1965, having left Jack McDuff’s Quartet, George Benson set out on […]
Farewell, But Not Goodbye, Doc Gibbs
The last few weeks have bought sad news of the passing of more people from the jazz world. Of course all the major websites and even traditional news outlets covered the death of legendary jazz elder, George Wein. Many also […]