Hello, Dolly! 1969

On December 3, 1963, at age 62, when most folks are thinking about retirement, Louis Armstrong recorded the sprightly "Hello, Dolly!," the title song for a Broadway show. Thus began a six year-long series of recordings that brought arguably most important 20th Century musician back into the limelight and, in fact, gave him his greatest recording successes ever.

BEATLES - The Twickenham Sessions Yellow Dog 8CD BRICK BOX Reissue w/ slipcase. BEATLES - The Twickenham Sessions Yellow Dog 8CD BRICK BOX Reissue w/ slipcase Yellow Dog is one of the most famous and collectable labels available. Releasing their first CD in 1989, this label has seen many incarnations including Black Dog, Yellow Cat and the more recent His Master’s Choice - with releases in Europe and Japan.Overview This set offers over 8 hours of sessions from the infamous ‘Get Back’ Sessions in January 1969, a period during which the band were on the brink of ‘divorce.’ These discs offer only ‘Twickenham’ sessions and not the later ‘Apple Studio’ sessions with Billy Preston present. The sound quality is excellent however, and this offers an excellent entry into the ‘Get Back’ Sessions.

From the 1970s until his death in 1999, Lester Bowie was the preeminent trumpeter of the jazz avant-garde – one of the few trumpet players of his generation to adopt the techniques of free jazz successfully and completely. Indeed, Bowie was the most successful in translating the expressive demands of the music – so well suited to the tonally pliant saxophone – to the more difficult-to-manipulate brass instrument. Like a saxophonist such as David Murray or Eric Dolphy, Bowie invested his sound with a variety of timbral effects; his work had a more vocal quality when compared with that of most contemporary trumpeters…