Elkie Brooks Perfect Pearls

Perfect Houseplants is renowned for its cross-over projects with the award winning Orlando Consort, violin genius Andrew Manze and, on their recording of radical re-workings of English folk music, virtuoso recorder player Pamela Thorby. Formed by four of the most distinctive jazz musicians and composers in Britain, Perfect Houseplants are an adventurous and accessible jazz group.

Live album featuring A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Failure all on stage at the same time and playing songs from each band's catalog together. - Show was done for Maynard's 50th birthday in Los Angeles.

Live album featuring A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Failure all on stage at the same time and playing songs from each band's catalog together. - Show was done for Maynard's 50th birthday in Los Angeles.

Live album featuring A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Failure all on stage at the same time and playing songs from each band's catalog together. - Show was done for Maynard's 50th birthday in Los Angeles.

Perfect Houseplants is renowned for its cross-over projects with the award winning Orlando Consort, violin genius Andrew Manze and, on their recording of radical re-workings of English folk music, virtuoso recorder player Pamela Thorby. Formed by four of the most distinctive jazz musicians and composers in Britain, Perfect Houseplants are an adventurous and accessible jazz group.

This project - a tribute to an obscure Glaswegian indie band by an equally obscure Edinburgh jazz musician - is an oddly satisfying exercise in wilful Caledonian obscurity. The Pearlfishers, led by David Scott of the BMX Bandits, have been recording dreamy, elegant, adult-oriented pop since the early 90s, pitched somewhere between Brian Wilson, Steely Dan and Prefab Sprout.

Legendary jazz pianist Red Garland teams up with the perfect complementary rhythm section of Sam Jones on bass and drummer Roy Brooks on this 1971 recording, Garland's first recording after a nine year absence. Auf Wiedersehen features covers of tunes by Joe Henderson, Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespie along with originals such as the title track, a romantic ballad that has Garland saying a pianistic “goodbye” with a nod to Nat King Cole.

This is Mickey’s first album release of new recordings in nearly forty years. That’s quite some time. Just think what you were up to forty years ago and what’s happened to you since! He is quite often referred to as the godfather of pub rock and was once referred to as a “white Chuck Berry” by a DJ.

Leon Russell was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1941. He studied classical piano as a boy and took up trumpet in his teens. Not too many years later, he was on the road as a sideman to Jerry Lee Lewis and Ronnie Hawkins and ended-up on the west coast.

Hadda Brooks (October 29, 1916 – November 21, 2002) was an American pianist, vocalist and composer, who was billed as "Queen of the Boogie". She was Inducted in the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.