Muse From October 2016

Michael released "Dragonfly Summer after a three year hiatus. What a wonderful return. The opener "Coming To Life" is an upbeat tune where Michael seems like he's singing about the start of this album itself. All of the songs are winners, I sometimes wonder what the outtakes are like, given the overall quality of the songs here. "Soul Mate" not only turned me on to Jeff Lorber, but also introduced me to Eric Benet, he's singing the harmony vocal. Not only is Michael talented, but the people he surrounds himself with, wow! The title track is fun, "Monk's New Tune" is about as late night jazz as Michael gets. "I Love Lucy" is that "I Love Lucy," the only cover Michael has recorded, save for a couple Christmas songs. The song is transformed from a Cuban lounge style to a romantic Brazilian influenced love song, the orchestration is glorious. "Practice Makes Perfect" is fun, "String Of Pearls" is a beautiful song, moving at a nice tempo featuring accoustic guitar and a woodwind solo.

Fly, bold rebellion was one of Purcell’s early Welcome Songs, composed for Charles II in 1683. The manuscript gives no indication of the date of the first performance, but it seems evident from the anonymous author of the words that it was written shortly after the discovery of the Rye House Plot, which took place in June 1683. The Ode thus would seem likely to have been performed to celebrate Charles’s return from Windsor to Whitehall at the end of June, or perhaps later in the year on his return to London from Winchester (25 September) or Newmarket (20 October). After the splendid two-part Symphony, the Ode contains the already established selection of choruses, trios and solos, interspersed with Purcell’s deliciously scored string ritornelli.

Francesco Carella aka Frenkcarella poly instrumentalist (keyboards, guitars, drums and percussion), composer, researcher in the experimentation of the Arts, actor and Anthroposophus, Giuseppe Cascarano guitarist, Giuseppe Quarta drummer. The three, after years and various musical experiences behind them, met in Lecce at the beginning of 2015 and after a month I Viaggi di Madeleine was born. Who is Madaleine? "Madeleine represents the adolescent soul who, despite all the rottenness, resists trying to remain intact". In May 2015, the first studio work, a demo of 4 songs recorded live at SUM_Km 97 (Lecce), immediately after the first concerts arrive, a mini tour of 5 dates and in August they open the Med Festival of San Marzano ( TA).

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now (2018) {2CD Concord Deluxe Edition CRE00791}
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Rock / Adult Alternative Pop-Rock / Indie Rock

Elvis Costello had already taken a few steps from the "angry young man" persona that dominated his first two albums by the time he began work on 1982's Imperial Bedroom, but that was the disc where his evolution from brash upsetter to gifted pop craftsman began in earnest. In 2017, Costello staged a concert tour in which he re-imagined the songs from that LP, and while that may or may not have put those tunes and their style back into his mind, 2018's Look Now certainly is an extension of the mature and literate pop songwriting that he first fully embraced in that material.

Bob Dylan - Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13, 1979-1981 (2017) {2CD, Complete Artwork - box with 72 page booklet)
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Rock / Folk Rock / Blues Rock / Rock & Roll / Gospel / Singer-Songwriter

Bob Dylan converted to Christianity in 1979. Like many who have been born again, Dylan spoke and sang solely of his faith for a brief period – roughly half a year, beginning in November of 1979 and ending in May of 1980. Facing a fan base who were generally furious at his newfound religion, Dylan started to thread some oldies into his set lists but he didn't leave gospel behind until he released Infidels in 1983.

Guy Lafitte, André Persiany - Les Classiques Du Jazz - Complete Recordings (2018) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 953 rec 1955-1957}
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Jazz / Cool / Bop / Saxophone / Piano

In the 1950’s, tenor saxophonist Guy Lafitte (1927-1998) was considered one of the luminaries of European jazz. In his playing he integrated the harmonic and rhythmic contributions of modern jazz to a more classical style in the lines of Buddy Tate, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Frank Wess and many others who were influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Hershel Evans.