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I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to...
That smell! Nothing compares! Old record sleeves, the dust of decades past. While record stores are dying out at an...
Jazz is like a dense forest, where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....