Pete Kelly

Dave Edmunds: Swan Songs: The Singles 1976-1981

by Doug Collette
October 5, 2024

Extended as is Joe Marchese's essay in the twelve-page booklet enclosed with Swan Songs, it is nonetheless as breezy and free-flowing as the content spread across the two compact discs. Consisting of cuts originally issued 45-rpm singles on the label imprimatur of Led Zeppelin (referenced in the main title of the package), the cumulative impact of these selections reaffirms the effect of the somewhat daunting expanse of prose, that is, clearly making the case for Edmunds as a decidedly rootsy ...

Pete Kelly's Blues

Source: All About Jazz
April 18, 2009

First-time viewers of Pete Kelly's Blues are often impressed by its dynamic, directional stereophonic audio.

The Warner Sound Department concocted a particular method of recording their orchestra that gave their music tracks more brass and more bite, whether on a big picture or a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

The movie is a visual treat as well. It begins with a beautifully realized prologue at a New Orleans jazz funeral that explains where Kelly got his cornet. The carefully designed shots segue ...
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