Tommy Emmanue

Tommy Flanagan - Jazz Poet (1989)

Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930, 16 November 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald. He played on a number of critically acclaimed recordings, such as John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus , The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper's Straight Life. The Tommy Flanagan Trio (with bassist Wilbur Little and drummer Elvin Jones) released their first album, Tommy Flanagan Trio Overseas, in 1957. Flanagan's style was both modest and exceptionally musical. He embodied many of the most important qualities associated with jazz: swing, harmonic sophistication, melodic invention, bluesy feel and humour. Interestingly, he appeared on a number of highly innovative albums. (His awkward solo on the extremely fast and harmonically complex title-track of Giant Steps is a rare [if famous] instance on record of the usually unflappable pianist being caught off-guard.)

Ministry have launched a brand new mix flavour and, just like their other big album brands such as the Masterpiece series, it's a precision executed lesson in both roots and future. Giving Aussie merrymaker Tommy Trash the chance to join the dots between his influences and inspirations, each track on the inaugural Inspired is a stone-cold classic. From early Prydz and Angello to Les Rythmes Digitales via Freeform Five, Dada Life, Armand Van Helden and Dave Spoon… Not only does this shed insight into Trash's musical make up, but it's also a golden opportunity to stock up on some of the most influential genre-setters to be released in the last decade. Inspired? You will be!

You'd never know it to look at film of him today, but during the summer of 1956, Tommy Steele became England's first home-grown rock & roller. Or he wasn't a rock & roller at all. Some 43 years after he first charted a record, many pop music scholars still question whether Tommy Steele belongs on a list of rock & roll performers. But whatever he was, in 1956, England had never seen anything quite like him. He was born Tommy Hicks on December 17, 1936, in Bermondsey, South London, to a working-class family.

Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16, 1930 – November 16, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

Solo Piano is an album by jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan. It was recorded in 1974 and released in 2005 by Storyville Records.

Tommy Emmanuel has joined forces with Rob Ickes (Dobro) & Trey Hensley (guitar) to record a digital EP called Accomplice Series Volume 1 with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley out on May 7. Creative sparks fly on this four song EP, which radiates good vibrations with white-hot picking. It was recorded at TuneSmith Studios in Nashville, TN.

Cherry Red Records presents a pristine and lovingly remastered digital edition of the Tommy Morrison Band's 1985 classic, Cry To The Sky!

A staple of the Des Moines music scene across genres, Tommy Doggett has added his saxophone to folk, funk, jazz, + rock. With his new project, Lines + Lineage, Tommy steps up front as a bandleader + composer.

Generally regarded as Tommy James' comeback album after so much of the 1980s was spent in the wilderness, Hi-Fi is not the strongest record he had made since his heyday, nor one that would bring the old fans pouring back into earshot. But repeated listenings and the passage of time have pulled a handful of gems from the general uncertainty of the set as a whole, with "Burnin‘ for You," "Go," and best of all "Ordinary Girl" all standing especially proud.