Douglas Martin

could easily be defined as Doug Sahm's early musical journey. These recordings are not a SDQ greatest hits package. Although "Mendocino", a national hit, and some regional best sellers, are included. The bulk of these 22 tracks (18 written are co-written by Doug Sahm) represent a band at a musical crossroads.

The Sir Douglas Quintet was for the TexMex music what Chuck Berry was for Rock 'n' Roll. Doug Sahm and his friends knew how to party with their great mix of rock, boogie, blues, country and norteno conjunto music and they were of great influence to bands like Los Lobos or Los Lonely Boys. I've posted two early albums with bonus tracks: 1968's Sir Douglas Quintet + 2 = Honkey Blues and 1970's Together After Five.

This is Martin Scorsese's contribution to the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series. In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the history of several national cinemas, and the BFI's choice for interpreting the history of American film fell to director Martin Scorsese, a longtime champion of film history and preservation.

British composer Douglas Weiland has long been acclaimed as one of contemporary music’s most outstanding composers for the string quartet medium, and his evolving cycle has won much admiration. Composed between 2011 and 2012 the Fourth and Fifth Quartets show him at the height of his artistic powers, where he seeks connections across time, and shows a Classical commitment to form, invention and melodic beauty. His conceptions can be Schubertian in scale and scope, while also displaying the influence of Haydn and Bartók.