By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk — he is often considered to have been Monk's most empathetic drummer,[5] and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for Blue Note Records in 1947) and his final one (in London in 1971), as well as many in between.
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Monday, 6 February 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
Mutant X Limited Edition
On January 30th 2012. Mutant X the complete series will be released in the UK by Deltamusic.co.uk, a 15 disc limited edition box set. Only 3000 have been made and each box is uniquely identified.
Protecting a world that doesn't know they exist. Mutant X: a team of
human mutants who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic
engineering. Like hundreds of other unsuspecting subjects, these people
were altered in secret experiments conducted in a covert government
project. Realising that events have spun out of control, the
organization that created them is now hunting them down in an urgent
product recall . Mutant X s mission is to seek out their fellow new
mutants, to help them come to terms with their astonishing abilities and
protect them from their creators.
Starring:
Victor Webster (Drop Dead diva, Bones) as Brennan Mulwray
Victoria Pratt (Lie To Me, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth) as Shalimar Fox
Forbes March (CSI, Wired City) as Jesse Kilmartin
John Shea (The New Adventures Of Superman, Gossip Girl) as Adam Kane
Lauren Lee Smith (The Listener, CSI) as Emma deLauro
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Barber Bilk and Ball
Donald Christopher ‘Chris’ Barber was born 17 April 1930 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He studied double bass and trombone at London’s Guildhall School of Music, and in 1948 put his first band together, the King Oliver-inspired Barber New Orleans band. In 1953, he co-founded Dixieland band The Jazzmen with cornetist and trumpeter Ken Colyer, but after Colyer left in ’54 the band became The Chris Barber Band. Barber and Lonnie Donegan are credited with starting the skiffle craze with their 1955 cover of Leadbelly’s ‘Rock Island Line’, the first ever debut single to go Gold in the UK, which made the US Top 10.
Bernard Stanley ‘Acker’ Bilk was born 29 January 1929 in Pensford, Somerset. He was more interested in athletics than music as a boy, losing two front teeth in a fight and part of a finger sledging, which he maintained affected his clarinet playing style. He first acquired a clarinet, for which he had to fashion a reed out of scrap wood, when serving with the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone.
Kenneth Daniel ‘Kenny’ Ball was born 22 May 1930 in Ilford, Essex. Ball played the trumpet as a sideman in the bands led by Charlie Galbraith, Sid Phillips and others before forming his own Dixieland combo in 1958. Their recording of Cole Porter’s ‘Samantha’ was a UK hit in 1961, but their biggest hit was the Transatlantic smash ‘Midnight in Moscow’, which made it to #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK singles charts .
Bernard Stanley ‘Acker’ Bilk was born 29 January 1929 in Pensford, Somerset. He was more interested in athletics than music as a boy, losing two front teeth in a fight and part of a finger sledging, which he maintained affected his clarinet playing style. He first acquired a clarinet, for which he had to fashion a reed out of scrap wood, when serving with the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone.
Kenneth Daniel ‘Kenny’ Ball was born 22 May 1930 in Ilford, Essex. Ball played the trumpet as a sideman in the bands led by Charlie Galbraith, Sid Phillips and others before forming his own Dixieland combo in 1958. Their recording of Cole Porter’s ‘Samantha’ was a UK hit in 1961, but their biggest hit was the Transatlantic smash ‘Midnight in Moscow’, which made it to #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK singles charts .
Trombonist Chris Barber, clarinettist Acker Bilk and trumpeter Kenny Ball were the acknowledged masters of British trad (traditional) jazz. Barber Bilk and Ball features 45 original recordings digitally remastered and is available from Delta 27-02-2012
A great companion piece to Delta’s 2011 3 CD set ‘It’s Trad Man!’
Now available on iTunes & Amazon MP3
Now available on iTunes & Amazon MP3
St Patricks Day - Country & Irish
The collection is brought up to the present day with Seán Murray's ‘The Galway Girl’, Donna Taggart’s superb version of ‘Danny Boy’ and Seán O' Farrell singing ‘I Can't Stop Loving You’ and ‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon’. Also features a selection of great tracks from artists including Johnny McEvoy, Gloria, The Cotton Mill Boys, and Seán Dunphy, making this truly the ultimate Country and Irish collection.
Now Available on iTunes & Amazon MP3
Friday, 6 January 2012
The Magic School Bus
The Magic School Bus is one of the most successful series of books for
children ever written. Intended to teach scientific concepts to
children, the books were written between 1986 and 2006 by Joanna Cole
and illustrated by Bruce Degen.
This release includes all 16 episodes of the first series of Magic School Bus, each featuring fascinating scientific facts to entertain and educate young viewers. The DVD also features an interactive educational quiz with questions based on answers found in the episodes.
The books were turned into this animated TV series which is has been shown on POP TV in the UK, starring the vocal talents of Lily Tomlin and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show).
They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body.
Available on DVD 27-02-2012 from Deltamusic.co.uk
This release includes all 16 episodes of the first series of Magic School Bus, each featuring fascinating scientific facts to entertain and educate young viewers. The DVD also features an interactive educational quiz with questions based on answers found in the episodes.
The books were turned into this animated TV series which is has been shown on POP TV in the UK, starring the vocal talents of Lily Tomlin and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show).
They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body.
Available on DVD 27-02-2012 from Deltamusic.co.uk
Classic Age of Steam
In February Delta release a brand new steam train DVD, featuring footage from some of the most famous trains in history.
This DVD includes a look at steam locomotives in preservation at Bridgnorth, archive footage from East Milton station, Birmingham New Street Station, the Southern Railway (SR), the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), and the Great Western Railway (GWR).
This DVD includes a look at steam locomotives in preservation at Bridgnorth, archive footage from East Milton station, Birmingham New Street Station, the Southern Railway (SR), the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), and the Great Western Railway (GWR).
The era when the speed and power of the stream trains epitomized the
freedom and romance of travel, the age when although elaborate and
delicate, the steam railway was one of the most successful feats of
construction and organisation ever evolved by man.
Also featured is footage of the Golden Arrow, the approaches to London on LNER in the 1930s, the Flying Scot on tour in North America in the 1930s leaving Montreal en route to the World’s Fair in Chicago, the Elizabethan leaving Kings Cross, and the Cornish Riviera Express. For more information check out steam train galleries.co.uk
Available on Amazon UK
The locomotives, the rolling stock and liveries, the journeys and
the architecture; all of which went to make one of the greatest eras in
railway history.
Also featured is footage of the Golden Arrow, the approaches to London on LNER in the 1930s, the Flying Scot on tour in North America in the 1930s leaving Montreal en route to the World’s Fair in Chicago, the Elizabethan leaving Kings Cross, and the Cornish Riviera Express. For more information check out steam train galleries.co.uk
Available on Amazon UK
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary on 7th February 2012
On February 7th 2012 the world will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived.
Dickens works are revered the world over, and include such classics as:
The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and many more.
As well as being a great author, Dickens was also a social commentator, often using the power of the pen to draw attention to poverty and corruption in Victorian England.
This DVD takes a look at the life of Charles Dickens, allowing the viewer to follow in his footsteps back to an age of romance, sentimentality and Victorian sensibility, coloured with larger than life characters that teach us all to laugh, cry and appreciate whatever hand in life fate might deal us.
Etta James, At Last
Etta James, At Last includes her timeless 1961 albums ‘At Last!’ and ‘The Second Time Around’ in their entirety, plus bonus tracks including her first ever single and duets with Harvey Fuqua. Also featured are the tracks ‘The Wallflower’, ‘I Just Want to Make Love To You’, ‘If I Can’t Have You (with Harvey Fuqua)’, and many more. All original recordings digitally remastered.
This album is also available on iTunes & Amazon MP3
& Spotify
1. Anything To Say You’re Mine
2. My Dearest Darling
3. Trust In Me
4. A Sunday Kind Of Love
5. Tough Mary
6. I Just Want To Make Love To You
7. At Last
8. All I Could Do Was Cry
9. Stormy Weather
10. Girl Of My Dreams
11. Don’t Cry Baby
12. Fool That I Am
13. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
14. In My Diary
15. Seven Day Fool
16. It’s Too Soon To Know
17. Dream
18. I’ll Dry My Tears
19. Plum Nuts
20. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
21. The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)
22. Good Rockin’ Daddy
23. Spoonful
24. If I Can’t Have You
25. I Hope You’re Satisfied
Elvis At The Movies and more!
Also includes songs from the ‘Something For Everybody’ LP and other
singles including ‘Surrender’ and ‘Little Sister’. 73 original recordings digitally remastered.
This Album is also available on iTunes and Amazon MP3
| 1. Love Me Tender 2. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear 3. Don’t Leave Me Now 4. Mean Woman Blues 5. Got A Lot Of Livin’ To Do 6. Lonesome Cowboy 7. Loving You 8. Hot Dog 9. Party 10. True Love 11. Blueberry Hill 12. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? 13. I Need You So 14. Jailhouse Rock 15. Young And Beautiful 16. I Want To Be Free 17. You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care) 18. Treat Me Nice 19. Don’t Ask Me Why 20. Trouble 21. New Orleans 22. Dixieland Rock 23. Lover Doll 24. King Creole 25. Young Dreams 26. Steadfast, Loyal And True |
1. G.I. Blues 2. Wooden Heart 3. Blue Suede Shoes 4. Pocketful Of Rainbows 5. Shoppin’ Around 6. Tonight Is So Right For Love 7. What’s She Really Like? 8. Frankfort Special 9. Big Boots 10. Didja Ever? 11. Doin’ The Best I Can 12. Blue Hawaii 13. Almost Always True 14. Aloha Oe 15. No More 16. Can’t Help Falling In Love 17. Rock A Hula Baby 18. Moonlight Swim 19. Ku-u-i-po 20. Ito Eats 21. Slicin’ Sand 22. Hawaiian Sunset 23. Beach Boy Blues 24. Island Of Love 25. Hawaiian Wedding Song |
1. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 2. It’s Now Or Never 3. Flaming Star 4. Summer Kisses Winter Tears 5. Surrender 6. Lonely Man 7. I Feel So Bad 8. Wild In The Country 9. His Latest Flame 10. Little Sister 11. There’s Always Me 12. Give Me The Right 13. It’s A Sin 14. Sentimental Me 15. Starting Today 16. Gently 17. I’m Comin’ Home 18. In Your Arms 19. Put The Blame On Me 20. Judy 21. I Want You With Me 22. I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell |
Monday, 12 December 2011
Flo Rida Samples Etta James
Flo Rida samples Etta James with a song called Good Feeling. The Song was released in october 2011 but is now number 4 in th UK charts.
Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles on January 25, 1938 to a 14 year old mother, Etta James was raised by a number of caregivers and received her first professional vocal coaching at the age of 5 from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in LA.
In 1960 Etta James signed with Chess’ Argo subsidiary, and immediately hit her commercial and creative stride with a pair of duets recorded with her boyfriend Harvey Fuqua, lead singer of The Moonglows: ‘If I Can’t Have You’ (R ‘n’ B #6)) and ‘Spoonful’(R ‘n’ B #12). Her first solo hit for the label was ‘All I Could Do Was Cry’ (R ‘n’ B #2), following Chess records co-founder Leonard Chess’ decision to push Etta James in the direction of classy ballad singing, wrapping her passionate vocals in lush string arrangements on songs like her signature tune at ‘At Last’ (R ‘n’ B #2, Pop #47) and ‘Trust Me’ (R ‘n’ B #4, Pop #30) amongst others on her debut LP, At Last. Etta James’ second album for Chess, The Second Time Around, also largely focused on orchestral pop as the label continued their push to cross her over into the pop charts with some success, as the singles ‘Fool That I Am’, ‘Don’t Cry Baby’ and ‘Seven Day Fool’ all made it into the Top 100 Billboard Pop chart at #50, #39 and #95 respectively.
Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles on January 25, 1938 to a 14 year old mother, Etta James was raised by a number of caregivers and received her first professional vocal coaching at the age of 5 from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir, at the St. Paul Baptist Church in LA.
In 1960 Etta James signed with Chess’ Argo subsidiary, and immediately hit her commercial and creative stride with a pair of duets recorded with her boyfriend Harvey Fuqua, lead singer of The Moonglows: ‘If I Can’t Have You’ (R ‘n’ B #6)) and ‘Spoonful’(R ‘n’ B #12). Her first solo hit for the label was ‘All I Could Do Was Cry’ (R ‘n’ B #2), following Chess records co-founder Leonard Chess’ decision to push Etta James in the direction of classy ballad singing, wrapping her passionate vocals in lush string arrangements on songs like her signature tune at ‘At Last’ (R ‘n’ B #2, Pop #47) and ‘Trust Me’ (R ‘n’ B #4, Pop #30) amongst others on her debut LP, At Last. Etta James’ second album for Chess, The Second Time Around, also largely focused on orchestral pop as the label continued their push to cross her over into the pop charts with some success, as the singles ‘Fool That I Am’, ‘Don’t Cry Baby’ and ‘Seven Day Fool’ all made it into the Top 100 Billboard Pop chart at #50, #39 and #95 respectively.
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