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I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
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This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
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The Sam Records label brings French-American jazz history back to life. If we vinyl nerds are being completely honest, we...
A comparative appraisal of the in-house audiophile reissues from Blue Note and ECM For some years now, audiophile vinyl reissues...
Jon and Dave had hit a rough patch. There were hardly any jobs for them, no record deals, no money....