Despite his failing health, Blackwell's skills on his drum kit were razor-sharp when he got on the bandstand for this headliner's gig at the third annual Eddie Moore Memorial Jazz Festival, recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. just two months before he passed away. Everything clicks – the band is tight, powered by the supple bass of Mark Helias, while saxophonist/flutist Carlos Ward and trumpeter Graham Haynes play inspired, almost possessed improvs and written lines, bent on giving the audience their best, and Blackwell the proper setting to weave his percussive wizardry. First up are pieces written by Ward. "'Nette," sporting a bright unison horn line, suggests Monk's angularity and Ornette Coleman's interval-leaping vision of expansion.
Limited edition digipack reissue of the rollicking, rastafarian retrospective from the most brilliant Dread Zeppelin! Fronted by the 300-pound Elvis impersonator Turtelvis, Dread Zeppelin warp the compositions of Page, Plant and Co. into heady reggae jams so ingeniously they ll have you begging for more and have even earned the praise of Plant himself! Features recently recorded versions of Zep s all-time favorites Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, Kashmir as well as some Dread originals!
Based in Finland, but hailing originally from France, Eilera delivers her fourth album as she suggests you 'Face Your Demons'. Ironically that's something this album never seems quite able to achieve itself. A Pop-Metal-Folk-Rock sound with ever so slight Symphonic undertones reminding of the interludes a band such as Nightwish might use to link their more effusive moments…
Pull is the third studio album by American rock band Winger. The album was released in 1993 by Atlantic Records…