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Dave Specter & Barkin’ Bill Smith – Bluebird Blues (feat. Ronnie Earl)
Dave Specter & Barkin’ Bill Smith – Bluebird Blues (feat. Ronnie Earl) Delmark 652 Dave Specter and Barkin’ Bill Smith will be unfamiliar names to most listeners (as of the release of this album). But the music the two of them generate along with Ronnie Earl, Deitra Farr, and the Bluebirds is a lot of…
Jesse Fortune – Fortune Tellin’ Man (w/ Dave Specter)
Jesse Fortune – Fortune Tellin’ Man (w/ Dave Specter) Delmark 658 It doesn’t happen very often anymore… An obscure blues figure, revered by aficionados for a handful of memorable recordings, leaps right out of the dusty discographical pages and materializes in the flesh with something new to say musically. In Jesse Fortune’s case, that’s precisely…
Barkin’ Bill – Gotcha!
Barkin’ Bill – Gotcha! Delmark 627 Stylistically, Barkin’ Bill owes much to the great (but little) Joe Williams, whose warm, reassuring vocals, says Bill, have always been “like a friend.” He’s in debt as well to singers like Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Brook Benton, and other crooners and shouters of…
Magic Sam – Live At The Avant Garde
Magic Sam – Live At The Avant Garde Delmark 833 Before Magic Sam scored with 1967’s West Side Soul (Delmark 615) his recorded legacy included a handful of sides for Cobra in the late `50s, Chief in the early `60s and a few miscellaneous 45s in the mid-`60s. But just when it looked like things…
Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer
Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms – Spacer Delmark 2012 (2011) Sun Rooms is Jason Adasiewicz’s three year old trio featuring Jason (vibraphone), Mike Reed (drums) and Nate McBride (bass). Their debut record Sun Rooms (Delmark 593) was named by the New York Times (Ben Ratliff) as one of the Top 10 Pop and Jazz Records of…
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Stellar Pulsations
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Stellar Pulsations Delmark 2018 (2012) Rob Mazurek’s latest venture into the universe of sound is the all mighty Pulsar Quartet featuring the magic and power of Angelica Sanchez, piano; the melodic shapes of Matthew Lux, bass; the polyrhythmic galaxies of John Herndon, drums and the solar arcs of Rob Mazurek…
Jason Ajemían – Folklords
Jason Ajemían – Folklords Delmark 5016 (2014) Jason Ajemían’s music conjures a fever dream of multiple musical universes. The bassist-composer has acquired a high profile during his years in Chicago & New York, performing with Marc Ribot’s Sun Ship, Matt Bauder’s Day In Pictures, Matana Robert’s CoinCoin, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra & Chicago Underground…
Magic Sam – Black Magic
Magic Sam – Black Magic Delmark 620 Recorded on October 23 and November 6, 1968, Black Magic was released only days before Magic Sam’s untimely passing on December 1, 1969; he was only 32. The album went on to win a W.C. Handy Award in the classic blues album category. With Eddie Shaw, tenor sax;…
