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The idea behind this masterpiece was recording American and Brazilian standards in Bossa with excerpts of Jazz in each song…so, to CAP IT - Legendary, Grammy Award winner, Ron Carter and his Quartet bring their brand of legendary jazz back to Brasil…with incredible orchestration from Grammy winning producer, Ruria Duprat and his orchestra, and the non-threatening, soft, heartwarming, spine-tingling voice of Vitoria Meldonado…throw in some Brasilian special guests and a cameo by Randy Brecker on Night and Day and you have a SPECIAL BRASIL LIKE Recording!!!…Gorgeous.

Collecting Black Widow (2016) #1-6 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee and Matthew Wilson

In the 1920s Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Key to the tale are the story of the theft of water from the Owens River Valley that let L.A. grow; the Teapot Dome scandal that brought shame to President Harding; and the emergence of crime writers like Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, who helped mythologize L.A. In Rayner’s hands, the ballad of Dave Clark is the story of the coming of age of a great American city.

Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.