Clemency

Early live recording captures the tight, raw sound of the band when they typically played over 350 gigs a year! Tommy Castro (vocal & guitar with his band, including Keith Crossan (sax & vocals), Randy McDonald (bass & vocals), and Shad Harris (drums & vocals), recorded live at The Saloon, San Francisco. According to all the press and hype and hoopla for a time during the 1990s, Tommy Castro was pegged as the next big star of the blues. Long a favorite among Bay Area music fans, Castro – in the space of two album releases – took his music around the world and back again with a sheaf of praise from critics and old-time blues musicians alike. His music was a combination of soul-inflected rockers with the occasional slow blues or shuffle thrown into the mix to keep it honest.

BBC - Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi (2016)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2987 Kbps | 58mn 55s | 1.28 GiB
Audio: English AAC 127 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Yehudi Menuhin was the twentieth century's greatest violinist. As famous as any Hollywood star, he even had songs written about him. A child prodigy, unmatched by his contemporaries, he achieved more by his teens than most artists do in a lifetime. But the man behind the violin was harder to know - his cocooned and curious childhood marked him emotionally for life. Endlessly touring and crossing continents and cultures, the man whose contract with EMI was the longest in the history of the music industry took classical music out of the concert hall because he believed music was for everyone and had the power to change lives.

When a handful of musical immigrants from the Caribbean islands came to Britain in the 1920s and 30s, it was the beginning of both musical and political change. Leslie Thompson, an innovative musician and trumpeter, and Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson, a brilliant dancer and charismatic band leader, pooled their talents to start the first black British swing band. Clemency Burton-Hill reveals the untold story of the black British swing musicians of the 1930s, whose meteoric rise to fame on London's high society dance floors was cut short by unexpected tragedy at the height of the Blitz.