The Man

Though it met with little commercial success, Happy the Man's 1977 debut quickly became a cult sensation with fans of prog rock. It's easy to see why: their sound combines a number of diverse influences in a distinctive manner, and their music is as complex and meticulously arranged as any prog album one cares to mention. Unlike some popular prog acts, Happy the Man does not allow one instrument to take center stage or allow relentless soloing to dominate the songs. Instead, the focus is on complex interplay between the group's players: compositions like "Knee Bitten Nymphs In Limbo" and "Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest" are built on the kind of mathematically complex yet playful instrumental interplay that is normally associated with Frank Zappa's most complex work…

Miles Davis - The Man With The Horn (1981) {1996 Japan Master Sound, SRCS 9132}
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© 1996 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SRCS 9132
Jazz / Post Bop / Fusion / Trumpet

If I rate Get Up With It a five, or maybe Live/Evil, or Big Fun, or On the Corner, fives, or maybe even Sketches of Spain, a five, or Kind of Blue, then I guess this is a three and a half, or a four, so I give it a four, as if this were American Bandstand. But it's a Miles Davis record. If it's Miles or Coltrane, or, oh I don't know, Poulenc, perhaps people could "check themselves" just a bit. Man With the Horn is a fine record, a bridge in some ways, if you will, between some of the pre-electric Miles, as "jazz," and the psychedelic fusion, and then the later fusion funk. Man With the Horn is precious to me, and not enough people appreciate it, in my opinion.

Terry Hoax - Dreamer / The Man Who Always Wants To Sleep
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Label/Cat#: Metronome # 579 959-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1995
Genre: Rock | Style: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock

Terry Hoax sind eine Rockband aus Hannover. Sie gründeten sich 1988 und lösten sich 1996 nach einer Abschiedstournee auf. 2008 feierten Terry Hoax dann die Reunion. (…) Die erfolgreichste Single der Band war im Jahr 1992 ein Cover des Depeche Mode-Liedes Policy of Truth, dessen Musikvideo nach wie vor als das meistgespielte einer deutschen Band bei MTV gilt…