Bret L. Thompson Dodging Bullets (feat. Carl Verheyen) (2016)

The first disc here includes the group’s performance at the intimate Ebbets Field venue in Denver Colorado, recorded on 19th July 1973, just a few months after the release of Dixie Chicken, arguably Little Feat’s most cherished album. Next up comes the 1974 in-studio recording they made for transmission at New York’s Ultrasound Studios on 19th September that year, shortly after Feats Don’t Fail Me Now came out, another favourite LP among those in the know. Finally, the set concludes with one of the most famous gigs they ever performed, the 1975 Halloween show from Boston’s majestic Orpheum Theatre, a recording made a month before The Last Record Album was issued.

Throttle Elevator Music IV reunites with tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington for a fourth album, atop eleven original new compositions by the Throttle writing team (Matt Montgomery and Gregory Howe).

Album No.2 by this great Ska band is a cracker, lead of course by Madness's Lee Thompson and his pals. Their first album was one of those that you keep playing because it has that fell good factor. Twelve groove ridden tracks including a very neat reworking of a Bond Theme, a few covers including one from The Beatles, 'I'll Be Back', then we have Leiber & Stoller's 'Hongry' a stand out version oh and that Bond theme is John Barry's 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'. An album full of good things, played by a superb group of musicians, and all the right ingredients to get the party going, you like Ska you'll love this. So as one track says 'Step It Up Sister', and track 2's encouragement to 'Feel A Little Better'. This is the music of summer, this is the music that reminds you of sandy beaches, the blue sea and a cool drink and dancing till late…Lee Thompson's Ska Orchestra is a must.

The artists on this album, Joanne Lunn, Charles Daniels and Peter Harvey emulate "the portrayal of emotion is at the heart of all music". This "shepherd's ode" by George Frederic Handel illustrates the head-to-head of two contrasting personalities as they are joined by a third, "Il Moderato" who aims to reconcile the dueling characters with soberminded rationality.