R.I.P. David Bowie, music’s greatest innovator has died at age of 69.
The first in a series of career-spanning comprehensive box sets, Five Years 1969-1973 chronicles the beginning of David Bowie's legend by boxing all of his officially released music during those early years. This amounts to six studio albums – 1969's David Bowie (aka Space Oddity); 1970's The Man Who Sold the World; 1971's Hunky Dory; 1972's The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars; Aladdin Sane, and Pin Ups (both from 1973); a pair of live albums (Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack and Live in Santa Monica '72, both released long after these five years) and a two-CD collection of non-LP tracks called Re:Call, plus Ken Scott's 2003 mix of Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust. That list suggests how "officially released" is a guideline that's easily bent.
Dreams in Stereo: "Our first experimental album, Yesterday's Dreams, is a collection of jams and ideas from our time in Ithaca. With just a few instruments, some free recording software, and an expansive imagination, we set out on a journey to create an album from end to end. What you're about to hear and see - the composition, recording, production, stories, and art - are all a product of Dreams in Stereo. Yesterday's Dreams captures and reproduces the diversity of human experience - some constantly seek more attention and care; some continuously flap around the pool to achieve far-fetched goals; some live only for the few minutes of glory in their lives; some try to resist change but fall terribly short; some reciprocate things they had never expected; and some get lost, not knowing what's right or wrong anymore."
Manifold Records present Sport Afterhour - Mooth Grooves After Workout. 30 excellent Chillout tracks: Vladi Strecker, Chillwalker, DJ Maretimo, Frank Borell, Pascal Dubois, Cafe Americaine and many more.
Maurice André rightly earned the reputation of being one of the finest trumpet virtuosos from the 20th and 21st centuries. He made numerous concert appearances and recordings and inspired composers like Blacher, Jolivet, and Tomasi to write major works for his instrument. André was born in the Cévennes district of southern France. Young Maurice began taking vocal instruction (solfeggio) at age ten, but two years later, influenced by his father – a miner, but also an excellent amateur trumpeter – began playing the cornet and eventually the trumpet. But he also followed his father's occupation, becoming a miner at age 14. It was not long until his father realized the depth of his son's talent and arranged lessons for him with local teacher Leon Barthélémy. Because his father's wages were meager, André could not consider study at the Paris Conservatory, but through Barthélémy's clever plan, he gained admittance, tuition-free, by first joining a military band.
Sam Phillips didn't record anybody else the way he recorded Jerry Lee Lewis. With other artists, he pushed and prodded, taking his time to discover the qualities that made them uniquely human, but with Jerry Lee, he just turned the tape on and let the Killer rip. There was no need to sculpt because Lewis arrived at Sun Studios fully formed, ready to lean back and play anything that crossed his mind. Over the course of seven years, that's more or less how things were run at Sun: Lewis would sit at the piano and play, singing songs that were brought to him and songs that crossed his mind, and Sam never stopped rolling the tape.
Ushering in a new golden era for the flute as solo instrument, Jean-Pierre Rampal secured his place in the classical music firmament as the greatest flautist of the modern era. Over 25 years (1954-1982), the French virtuoso’s fruitful collaboration with Erato grew into a truly exceptional achievement in recording history: an encyclopedia of flute music in vital performances that have remained the benchmark for generations. The first complete reissue of these recordings represents the most important collection ever dedicated to a single flautist. After all, it was Jean-Pierre Rampal that taught us to love the flute.
The latest HD video offering from Umphrey's McGee and TourGigs arrives via an 8GB customized USB 3.0. The sleek credit card style drive is fully loaded with both sets from our July 3rd, 2015 Red Rocks performance. The USB also features bonus backstage footage including band rehearsals, set list discussions and the usual UM shenanigans you've come to know. The TourGigs multi-cam shoot gets you up close and personal with onstage action as well as sweeping shots of the legendary amphitheater…