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Noble "Thin Man" Watts - King Of The Boogie Sax (1993) Music

Posted by gribovar at May 21, 2023

The 1950s R&B scene was rife with fire-breathing tenor sax honkers, and Noble "Thin Man" Watts was one of the most incendiary.
Watts' own discography commenced in 1954 with a tasty coupling for DeLuxe ("Mashing Potatoes"/"Pig Ears and Rice"). A 1956 single for Vee-Jay with Williams' band ("South Shore Drive") came just prior to Watts' salad days on the New York-based Baton label. With his band the Rhythm Sparks in support, Watts wailed "Easy Going," "Blast Off," "Shakin'," "Flap Jack," and quite a few more searing instrumentals for Baton from 1957 to 1959, the biggest of all being "Hard Times (The Slop)," which propelled the saxist onto the pop charts in December of 1957…

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The Mozartists & Ian Page - Arne: Artaxerxes (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 23, 2022

The Mozartists & Ian Page - Arne: Artaxerxes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 137:45 minutes | 4,64 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Signum Classics, Official Digital Download

A composer inextricably linked with London’s Covent Garden, Thomas Arne’s greatest opera, Artaxerxes, was premièred at the Theatre Royal, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House, on 2 February 1762 and remained in the Covent Garden repertory until the late 1830s, where it received a documented 111 performances before 1790. The young Mozart almost certainly attended a performance when he came to London in the mid1760s and Haydn was also acquainted with the work, enthusiastically exclaiming that he “had no idea we had such an opera in the English language.”

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