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Leon Russell

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Leon Russell is a music legend and perhaps the most accomplished and versatile musician in the history of rock 'n roll. In his distinguished and unique 50 year career, he has played on, arranged, written and/or produced some of the best records in popular music. Leon has played on pop, rock, blues, country, bluegrass, standards, gospel, and surf records. As a session musician, arranger, producer, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, record company owner, bandleader, and touring musician, he has collaborated with hundreds of artists. Born in southwest Oklahoma in 1942, Leon began piano lessons at age 4

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Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971

Label: Real Gone Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day; Crazy Love; Kansas City; Rock and Roll Gypsies; Tracks Of My Tears; Every Night Is Saturday Night; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Slinky Jam; Qualified; Washita Love Child ( jam 1); Washita Love Child (jam 2); kiowa teepee (Washita Love Child); Washita Love Child; Ain’t No Beatle; Caravan; Pat's Song (Golden Sun Goddess); Ululu.

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Jesse Ed Davis: Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971

Read "Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971" reviewed by Doug Collette


Originally reissued in November 2024 as a limited-edition vinyl set, the seventy-four-some minutes of The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971 derives from sessions for Jesse Ed Davis' debut LP Jesse Davis (Atco Records,1971) and its followup of a year later, Ululu (Atco Records, 1972). One of the most unheralded musicians of his time, Jesse Ed Davis' appearance ...

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Al Jarreau: Wow! Live at the Childe Harold

Read "Wow! Live at the Childe Harold" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Ecco un'altra brillante scoperta dal produttore Zev Feldman. Una registrazione inedita dell'agosto 1976, che documenta un concerto di Al Jarreau in un localino di Washington, il Childe Harold. Diciamo subito che la performance è intensa e trascinante, una delle migliori tra le sue registrazioni. Jarreau aveva 36 anni, era nel pieno della sua maturità ...

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Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: Secret Message

Read "Secret Message" reviewed by Jack Bowers


No fuss, no frills here, simply forty-seven or so minutes of generally bright and engaging straight-ahead jazz, stylishly performed by drummer Joe Syrian's admirable Detroit-based octet. This is music the group plays often, blending standards from the Great American Songbook with more recent themes by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Leon Russell and others. ...

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Taj Mahal: The Blues Is Eternal

Read "Taj Mahal: The Blues Is Eternal" reviewed by Doug Collette


Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and Caribbean styles has not only illuminated the links connecting the genres, but also increasingly honed a feel for sharp musicianship that ...

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Signature Songs

Label: Dark Horse Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tracklist: A Song for You; One More Love Song; Tight Rope; Stranger in a Strange Land; Hummingbird; Back to the Island; Out in the Woods; Lady Blue; Delta Lady; Magic Mirror; This Masquerade.

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Dr. John: The Montreux Years

Read "The Montreux Years" reviewed by Dave Linn


New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz. In the late 1800s, the city was a melting pot of different cultures, including African, European, and Caribbean. This cultural diversity had a profound impact on the music of the city. The new sounds of Dixieland and ragtime became the foundation in the evolution of jazz. Artists such ...

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Article: Book Review

Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History

Read "Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History" reviewed by Doug Collette


Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History Bill Janovitz 592 Pages ISBN: #978-0306924774 Hachette Book Group 2023 A quick perusal of the late Leon Russell: The Master of Space And Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History will most likely leave an ...

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Leon Russell: Signature Songs

Read "Signature Songs" reviewed by Doug Collette


Originally released in 2001 and out-of-print since a 2007 re-release, Leon Russell's Signature Songs is now available again on compact disc and vinyl LP in tandem with a new distribution agreement for late Beatle George Harrison's label imprint, Dark Horse Records. A collection of eleven stripped-down takes on The Master of Space And Time's best-known songs, ...


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