While Kazumoto Endo

Baptiste Trotignon, dont on connaît depuis plus de onze ans les qualités artistiques, publie sous le titre For A While une sorte d’anthologie de son travail enregistré sur le label Naïve, travail qui a reçu, depuis Fluid en 2000 jusqu’à Share en 2008, des récompenses nombreuses et justifiées.

Howard Tate - Get It While You Can: The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions (1966) {Hip-O Select-Verve B0002210-02 rel 2004}
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© 1966-68, 2004 Hip-O Select / Verve | B0002210-02
R&B / Soul / Pop-Soul / Northern Soul / Uptown Soul

Hip-O Select's 2004 compilation Get It While You Can: The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions is not the first time Howard Tate's revered sessions for Verve have reached CD. About ten years earlier, in the summer of 1995, Mercury released the almost identically titled Get It While You Can: The Legendary Verve Sessions, which contained all of Tate's 1966 debut – also titled Get It While You Can – along with five bonus tracks, for a total of 17 cuts.

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