David Van Arrick Forever Man (complete)

One of the most beloved of all of Bluegrass and country music's many 'brother acts', Sonny and Bobby Osborne reigned supreme in their chosen field of music for over 50 years. Apprenticing with Bluegrass founding father Bill Monroe and fellow foundation artist Jimmy Martin respectively, the brothers forged their own act and own sound with third vocalist Red Allen in 1953. For the next couple of decades they were seldom far from the charts.Jasmine's new compilation 'Are You Mad At Your Man' focuses on the brothers' first six years of success and brings together the A and B sides of every single they released (the first seven of them with Allen) between 1956 and 1962.

This chapter in the Complete Columbia Albums series showcases the end of Return to Forever's initial run that had begun on Polydor with a very different band. The best-known line-up – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and guitarist Al di Meola – appears only on the first album in this set, the iconic 1975 session Romantic Warrior, which was issued in 1976 (the rest of their recordings together are all on Polydor). According to many, it is the apotheosis and end of jazz-rock fusion proper. The lackluster Musicmagic was issued in 1977 with only Corea and Clarke remaining in the lineup – though saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell had returned from the band's earliest incarnation in the early '70s. The last three discs in this collection are made up of Return to Forever's Live: The Complete Concert, with the same basic lineup as Musicmagic. This live album had a checkered release history in the United States. It initially appeared as a single LP simply called Live – single because it had been edited down from the two-and-a-half-hour concert.

Ce livre est l'histoire, fidèle, rigoureuse, éminemment documentée et absolument romanesque d'un pays. L'histoire d'un peuple, d'une nation, d'un fleuve sur lequel s'aventurèrent Stanley et les premiers marchands d'esclaves, les envoyés du roi des Belges, et ceux venus tracer les lignes frontalières de cette immensité géographique appelée Congo. Ainsi David Van Reybrouck retrace-t-il le destin tumultueux de ce pays, de la préhistoire à nos jours…

Che la democrazia sia in crisi è ormai un luogo comune del dibattito politico in Occidente. In tutta Europa, i cittadini votano sempre meno, sono sempre più inclini a prestare fede a retoriche populiste, non credono più nella classe politica. Che fare? In molti si sono posti questo interrogativo, ma in pochi hanno risposto con una proposta altrettanto radicale e sorprendente di quella di David van Reybrouck: abolire le elezioni, non scegliere più con il meccanismo elettorale i componenti del Parlamento. E affidarsi al sorteggio per determinare chi ha la responsabilità di scrivere le leggi dello stato.
Se ci sembra inconcepibile un simile scenario, sostiene van Reybrouck, è perché abbiamo un’idea sbagliata della funzione e dei vantaggi delle elezioni come metodo di selezione della classe dirigente: per molti di noi le libere elezioni a suffragio universale sono sinonimo di democrazia, e solo i regimi totalitari le hanno abolite.

This chapter in the Complete Columbia Albums series showcases the end of Return to Forever's initial run that had begun on Polydor with a very different band. The best-known line-up – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and guitarist Al di Meola – appears only on the first album in this set, the iconic 1975 session Romantic Warrior, which was issued in 1976 (the rest of their recordings together are all on Polydor). According to many, it is the apotheosis and end of jazz-rock fusion proper. The lackluster Musicmagic was issued in 1977 with only Corea and Clarke remaining in the lineup – though saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell had returned from the band's earliest incarnation in the early '70s. The last three discs in this collection are made up of Return to Forever's Live: The Complete Concert, with the same basic lineup as Musicmagic. This live album had a checkered release history in the United States. It initially appeared as a single LP simply called Live – single because it had been edited down from the two-and-a-half-hour concert.