Arthur Lee

Led by the charismatic Arthur Lee, Love was a groundbreaking American band that emerged in the 1960s to blend the spirit of psychedelia with many other divergent musical influences in a way that hadn't been done before, not least in a racial mix. Based in Los Angeles, Lee had been involved in music from an early age, playing with local bands like The LAG's and Lee's American Four, while in 1964 he also produced a single for Rosa Lee Brooks which featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar.

Although his songs were covered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley, country-soul pioneer Arthur Alexander remains largely unknown to the general listening audience nevertheless, his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries. Born May 10, 1940, in Florence, AL, Alexander was the son of a bottleneck blues guitarist who performed each Saturday night in the blues joints scattered throughout the region. Rooted as much in white country music as black R&B, Alexander was still in the sixth grade when he joined a gospel group dubbed the Heartstrings. After high school, he worked as a hotel bellhop, befriending Tom Stafford, an R&B-obsessed white kid who fancied himself a lyricist Alexander began adding melodies to his words, and through Stafford was introduced to a likeminded crowd of fledgling musicians including future legends Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, Billy Sherrill, and Rick Hall.

Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup was a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist, singer and noted songwriter who was often known as “The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, because even in the early ‘40s he was playing in a style which unmistakeably provided many of the essential roots of the musical revolution that was still more than a decade distant. He wrote classic songs like “That’s All Right Mama”, which became Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording, and other songs covered by Elvis like “My Baby Left Me”. He was a vital bridge between acoustic country blues and the electrified urban sound he developed after he hoboed his way to Chicago, and was among the first blues artists to play with bass and drums accompaniment. This great value 94-track 4-CD collection comprises all the records he made which were commercially released during the period covered by the anthology, encompassing his recordings which came out on the Bluebird, RCA, Checker, Trumpet, Champion, Groove and Fire labels. It gives a thorough and entertaining overview of the two key decades of his primary recording career.

Ace's You Heard Them Here First: First Recordings by Famous or Influential Artists is more of an archaeology project than its companion disc, You Heard It Here First! That 2008 compilation featured the first recorded versions of pop, rock, and soul classics that became hits in the hands of other artists, whereas this set unearths the first recordings of superstars, so almost without exception neither the songs nor the names on the back cover of You Heard Them Here First are familiar, but the sounds often are. Some artists are heard in what would later become their familiar settings – Dan Penn does some wicked Southern soul as Danny Lee on "Stop Calling Me Baby," Gram Parsons' country-rock was fully intact in the International Submarine Band, and the only thing that separates the Byrds from the Beefeaters is their name – but You Heard Them Here First is at its most fun when it forces listeners to draw their own connections, to hear the incipient glam growl within David Bowie as he's singing "Liza Jane" as Davie Jones or to listen to Lewis Reed's "Your Love" and find Lou Reed testing out vocal phrasing he'd later do during the Velvet Underground's upbeat moments.

London Folk artist Sam Lee returns with The Fade In Time, a follow up to 2012's Ground Of Its Own - which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Sam takes a 21st Century view on Folk traditions from the UK and around the world - re-imagining the British folk tradition through the eyes of the wider world. The music takes a path from Gypsy Traveller songs, through Japanese court music to wedding marches from Tajikistan - a truly global journey, with English folk song at its heart. Sam's 5 piece band recorded the album with Arthur Jeffes (of Penguin Cafe Orchestra) and Jamie Orchard-Lisle.

Stag-O-Lee “When the Fuzztones appeared in the early 80s their mission was to continue the garage revival started the previous decade with Lenny Kays's Nuggets compilation., taking their cover versions to deeper levels of subterranean obscurity. By 1993 and Songs We Taught The Fuzztones, presenting original versions of songs they'd covered, the group had long been writing their own material, drawing from wider influences including The Stooges and Bo Diddley. … Now here's the full-circle collection, where the original-inspiration artists cover the Fuzztones: the ultimate seal of approval. The impressive roll-call includes Shadows Of Knight, Vagrants, Monks, Vanilla Fudge, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Gonn, ? & The Mysterians and The Pretty Things, joined by by Plasticland and John Zacherley to resurrect the SF Sorrow spirit on Ward 81. … The Fuzztones can retire happy now their mission seems accomplished but, somehow, that seems doubtful.” - Record Collector

Pianist In-Kyung Lee graduated from Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School, completed her bachelor's degree at Seoul National University's College of Music, and then moved to the United States to study under Arthur Green at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where she earned a master's degree and a doctorate in music (DMA). After returning to Korea, he worked as a full-time professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, and taught piano, chamber music, and music history lectures to teach non-music students how music and other disciplines harmonize, and the importance of music, such as the emotional richness and comfort of the mind that can be gained from music. is teaching.
Although he spends a lot of time as an educator in Korea, he is a pianist who has never neglected his own development and has consistently performed both domestically and internationally. He is known as a pianist who plays a pioneering role in continuing the status of Korean classical music by performing as a collaborator with orchestras in the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee's achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first side of this album when it was first issued are a truly classic body of work, highlighted by the atomic blast of pre-punk rock "Seven & Seven Is" (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of "Stephanie Knows Who," and the enchanting "She Comes in Colors," perhaps Lee's best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow").

A masterful improviser who could have ranked at the top with Adam Makowicz and Michal Urbaniak, Zbigniew Seifert's early death…