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Now playing…
Dhafer Yousef - Street of Minarets
Dhafer Youssef (Oud, Vocals), Herbie Hancock (Piano), Nguyên Lê (Guitars), Rakesh Chaurasia (Bansuri), Ambrose Akinmusire (Trumpet), Marcus Miller (Electric Bass), Dave Holland (Double Bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (Drums) and Adriano Dos Santos Tenori (Percussion).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… continuing on this morning with another album, released January 2023, from Dhafer and he and the band are sounding sublime! First time listen and enjoying the opening tracks…
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Did somebody mention Joe Harriott?
Lining up his superb early sixties album Abstract, leading a fine British band, Shake Keane, Pat Smythe, fellow Jamaican Coleridge Goode, Bobby Orr or Phil Seamen.
Classic album and one of the earliest UK journeys into free’er impressionistic styles of modern Jazz if I’m not mistaken
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With added bonus of Shake Keane’s perfectly pitched brandy glass !
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Well worth celebrating!
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This was used as a protective packing layer for another album. I’d never heard of her, but it’s great!
Smooth big band - popular classic songs sung beautifully - just lovely. She was active for a long time so I guess these recordings are 1940s -late 50’s.
Jo Stafford
Smoke Dreams
Music For Pleasure, flipback cover. Early 60’s release?
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Following one Harriott with another. Joe’s Jamaican brethren and just as important a figure but in another genre Derrick…
Derrick Harriott - Rock Steady Party (Trojan Fan Club CD)
Producer and artist Derrick Harriott earned a deserved reputation for quality productions and this lovely expanded edition of a once rare LP compiles top quality late sixties Rocksteady era music.
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Isn’t it great when just occasionally these unknowns turn up and are wonderful?
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Lionel Richie. Can’t Slow Down. Vinyl 1983.
" Can’t Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time;"
I got “dragged” along to see him on his “Dancing on the Ceiling” tour in the mid 80s at the NEC. Brilliant entertainment.
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Orbital - Live at Glastonbury 1994-2004 - 2007
Street Sounds Electro 2 - 1983
Great hearing the legendary Chime and White Lines again.
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Playing some vinyl this afternoon.
Original 1983 LP - when they were REALLY exciting.
50th anniversary half speed master - crisp and clear, it fairly jumps out of the speakers. My introduction to Bowie and still at school in 1972, still my favourite of his.
“Gimmee your hands”!!!
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Boston Boston
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away
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There is a programme on Radio 4 called ‘I’ve never watched Star Wars’ where people do things they’ve never done before.
I have owned a few double albums forever but never listened to them all the way through. The list:-
Bruce Springsteen- The River
Prince - Sign of the Times
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Clash - London’s Calling
So to start the double album therapy:
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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Yeah, but it still helps to print what it is 
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The Rolling Stones | England’s Newest Hit Makers | 1964
Bang in the mood for this one to try and unfrazzle my noodle. Creeping up on sixty years old. Jeez.
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