Zerog London Session

Two frustrations determine the beginning of the journey that would settle on this record. First, Héctor Sepúlveda was not satisfied with the result of Fictions, the recent LP published by Vidrios Quebrados. It was barely twelve hours of recording with most of the tracks completed in one shot. The errors were evident and this went against the obsessive perfectionism of the guitarist. Second, the tenor of the songs. Hector would have preferred to include more rude subjects that more accurately represented his recent hallucination: Eric Clapton. One afternoon in late '67 with Eduardo Gatti in Viña del Mar, they listen to John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, with Clapton on first guitar. The strength and drama of that guitar, its unpublished volume, changed the perspective of the leader of ‘Los Vidrios Quebrados’.

Originally recorded for the Canadian television program In Session in 1983, this was a historic meeting of two artists that has been proven to be a very special moment This famed live jam session by Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan has proven to be an evening that will never be forgotten. "It was evident from the first choruses," writes liner notes author/musicologist Samuel Charters, "that they were playing for each other. And that was the best audience either of them could ever have. The music never lost its intensity, its quality of something very important being handed back and forth and there was time for Stevie and Albert to see where their ideas took them."

The Very Best of Julie London offers an extensive overview of London's recording career with 50 selections she cut for Liberty Records between 1955 and 1969. The tracks are not newly remastered for the most part, but are taken from EMI's series of import two-fers and the domestic reissues Ron Furmanek and Bob Norberg produced in the early '90s. London was an album artist, not a singles artist - she had only one hit single in her long career - but she was a consistent favorite with adult contemporary and vocal jazz audiences and recorded over 20 LPs. Her albums often sustained a certain mood or assembled songs around a theme, but The Very Best of Julie London chops up her albums and rearranges the songs in no particular order - the repertoire and sequencing seem almost random…

Chicago Blues Session! features a session pianist Willie Mabon cut on Independence Day 1979 with guitarist Hubert Sumlin, guitarist Eddie Taylor, bassist Aron Burton and drummer Casey Jones. The album was originally released on the German L&R label, mainly because American labels were shunning the blues……