Dave Parade

With the popularization of bossa nova in the early '60s, practically every recording artist had to have at least one bossa nova album. This effort by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is better than most due to the high quality of the compositions, of which the title cut is best-known. The date's two standards ("This Can't Be Love" and "Trolley Song") also fare well on this upbeat session.

Golden Greats, Disky's three-disc box summation of Peggy Lee, focuses on her earliest recordings – early- to late-'40s work in front of orchestras led by Benny Goodman and as a solo voice with accompaniment from her husband Dave Barbour…

Celebrating New Orleans’ Tricentennial and Putumayo’s 25th anniversary with uptempo jazz, R&B and more that’s guaranteed to let the good times roll! New Orleans Party is a compilation featuring many of New Orleans’ most widely recognized and celebrated artists like Dave Bartholomew, Dr. John and many more. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this album will benefit the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic. This album also includes a Classic New Orleans Daiquiri recipe.

Pat Kelly - Lonely Man (1978) {Secret Records BSRCD973 rel 2017}
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Reggae / Rocksteady / Lovers Rock / Roots Reggae

1978 Roots Reggae album reissued on CD for the first time. Born 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica Pat Kelly is rightly revered as one of the island’s best ever singers although he is less well known for his considerable contribution to reggae music as a highly accomplished recording engineer. Always a keen hard working student, while studying Electrical Engineering at Kingston Technical High School, Pat worked part time at Chin’s Radio Services on Church Street in downtown Kingston where the proprietor, Ivan Chin, operated one of Jamaica’s first recording studios. Pat was awarded a scholarship to continue his education in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA where, after three years, he graduated with a degree in Advanced Electronics.

This is a somewhat unusual Oscar Peterson record (a CD reissue) in a number of ways. Peterson (along with flugelhornist Clark Terry, bassist Dave Young, drummer Jerry Fuller and either Peter Leitch or Ed Bickert on guitar) performs 13 songs either written or popularized by Canadians. In addition he sings the majority of the tunes in his Nat King Cole-influenced voice and contributes two new songs of his own. The repertoire includes some familiar standards ("Some of These Days," "I'll Never Smile Again," "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and "Sweethearts on Parade"), jazz versions of a few pop tunes (including "Spinning Wheel") and a few obscurities.