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Urszula Dudziak‘s debut single was deemed a ‘Pick of the Week’ by Cash Box whose October 4, 1975 review identified the Polish jazz vocalist as an important new voice from whom big things were expected: Since Minnie Riperton hit the scene a new vocal approach seems to be in the
As with Waylon Jennings‘ deeply-felt “Abilene” or Ruby Wright’s surprisingly bass-centric “Adios Aloha,” one cannot but feel alarmed by the depth of bottom in the opening synth notes of this charmingly analog production – recorded at Cincinnati’s Counterpart Creative Studios, with Shad O‘Shea and Wes Boatman at the helm (get
Is Cincinnati aware the degree to which Manzel‘s two 45s “Space Funk” (from 1977) and “Midnight Theme” (1979) have become revered dance tracks around the globe? Note the trippy backwards drumming intro that immediately draws in the listener on “Space Funk”: “Space Funk“ Manzel (1977) The number of times Dopebrother
How cool that a 45 released on Shad O’Shea‘s Counterpart label — “Get Down People” by 400 Years of What — sold on Ebay for over $500. However, if it weren’t for Buckeye Beat‘s comprehensive listing of 45s released on Cincinnati’s Counterpart Records, I might have missed out altogether on this
Weapons of Peace would spend their entire recording career on Playboy Records, interestingly enough. Robert Pruter at Chicago Soul, writes — Playboy Records was part of Hugh Hefner‘s Playboy empire and aspired to be an all-around label recording rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Although headquartered in Los Angeles, Playboy
Jan Davis is a guitarist who once played with B. Bumble & the Stingers, who are among the first groups to rearrange classical works (as the pioneering pianist, Dorothy Donegan had earlier done) into boogie and early rock & roll numbers. German Wikipedia, interestingly enough, helpfully names the musicians in
In the late 1990s I took a chance on a CD at Marshall’s (from the cheap-o bins they use to keep near the registers) by Astrud Gilberto — the 1960s singer who helped popularize bossa nova. The title of the disc, Gold, was not only misleading but annoying, since these
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