Archive for 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Freddie Hubbard R.I.P.
(April 7, 1938 - December 29, 2008)
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FREDDIE HUBBARD
Concerts By the Sea 1983 [no label, 2CD]
Live at Redondo Beach, CA; December 31, 1983. Very good FM broadcast.
Freddie Hubbard died on Monday (December 29, 2008) at Sherman Oaks ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
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VARIOUS
With Dexter Gordon and Friends
Jazz Alive New Year's Eve Special 1980 [no label, 3CD]
Live at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco, December 31, 1980. Very good NPR broadcast.
In the '60s, San Francisco's Keystone Korner played host to acts such ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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VARIOUS
Thompson Family Christmas 2008 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, December 17, 2008. Very good FM broadcast.
On this historic concert, the British Guardian newspaper reported: "A family moment - that happens every 30 ...
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
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GRATEFUL DEAD
(with Ornette Coleman)
Oakland 1993 [no label, 3CD]
Live at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA, February 23, 1993. Very good soundboard.
When it comes to jamming bands, the Grateful Dead are there among the top. Given the chance to ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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AIMEE MANN
3rd Annual Christmas Show 2008 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA, December 13, 2008. Very good FM broadcast.
Here's the third Aimee Mann Christmas Show, thanks to rockcat who shared the tracks on the Dime ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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JACK BRUCE, VERNON REID, JOHN MEDESKI, CINDY BLACKMAN
Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute 2008 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Motion Blue, Yokohama, Japan. December 14, 2008. First show. Very good audience recording.
On December 12, 2008, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
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RORY GALLAGHER
BBC Concerts 1971-72 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Paris Theatre, London, August 12, 1971 and January 13, 1972. Very good soundboard, taken from master reels.
At his peak in the early '70s, guitarist Rory Gallagher was probably the ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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JACO PASTORIUS
From Paris To New York [Megadisc, 1CD]
Live in Paris, France, December 19, 1984; live in New York, April 30, 1985. Very good soundboard.
Jaco Pastorius died on September 21, 1987. He was only 36. But the '80s were ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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GRATEFUL DEAD
with John Fogerty and Neil Young
Dead Moon Rising [Tuff Bites, 1CD]
Live at Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, November 3, 1991. Very good soundboard except some digital noise at the end of Track 4 and ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Elton John had six Christmas shows over five days at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1973. He brought the house down again in 1974.
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ELTON JOHN
Christmas Party 1974 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, December 24, ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
It's hard to imagine that a singer whose song was banned in da $ingapura in 1969 has come back with a song for Aung San Suu Kyi.
A track about Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi appears on singer Jane Birkin's new album Enfants d'hiver. Birkin wrote it herself and ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
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JACK BRUCE
Meets The BBC Big Band [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Birmingham Town Hall, UK, November 14, 2008. Very good FM recording.
At the height of Cream's popularity in the the '60s, it would have been very hard to ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
For eastern music, perseverance and practice make perfect. You don't score marks for attitude or outlandish costumes.
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HOSSEIN ALIZADEH & MADJID KHALADJ
In The Netherlands [no label, 1CD]
Live at Rasa Utrecht, The Netherlands, Feb 12, 2006. From an FM broadcast.
While ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Pop music conquered the world without a shot being fired. Some countries banned the music as yellow culture. But where the spirit was strong, the music survived.
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ILHAM AL MADFAI
Cafe Khuttar [no label, 1CD]
Live at Cafe Khuttar, Amman, Jordan, ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Every year in September, London celebrates middle-eastern music. Rich in history, full of culture, this is classical music in every sense of the word.
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KRONOS QUARTET AND ALIM QASIMOV ENSEMBLE
Ramadan Nights [no label, 1CD]
Live at Barbican Hall, London, UK, ...
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