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    Betty O’Hara – Horns Aplenty

    Betty O’Hara – Horns Aplenty Delmark DD 482 (1995) Compact Disc We quote the world renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather’s article in the Los Angeles Times in a feature on Betty O’Hara. “You don’t find many musicians around nowadays who can play jazz on the double bell euphonium. Even fewer are those who can also…

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      Earl Hines – At Home

      Earl Hines – At Home Delmark DD 212 (1997) Compact Disc Earl Hines is known as one of the best jazz pianists of all-time. Count Basie said Earl is “the greatest piano player in the world.” In his liner notes, Stanley Dance reports, “Everyone who has heard these performances-musicians and critics alike-has recognized them as…

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        Piano Red – Dr. Feelgood

        Piano Red – Dr. Feelgood Delmark DD 740 (2000) [Euphonic Series] Compact Disc Willie Perryman, younger brother of Speckled Red, began recording in 1936 accompanying Blind Willie McTell but it was during the 1950s that Piano Red recorded a stream of gold records for Victor. Red had a second successful career as Dr. Feelgood on…

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          Eddie C. Campbell – Spider Eating Preacher

          Eddie C. Campbell – Spider Eating Preacher Delmark DE 819 (2012) Compact Disc Spider Eating Preacher is the new album by Chicago blues legend Eddie C. Campbell and it’s a family affair. Eddie & Barbara’s musical partnership is in full blossom as Barbara plays bass on six songs. Barbara learned the authentic Chicago blues bass…

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            Eduardo Fernández – Guitar

            Eduardo Fernández – Guitar Delmark DE 5033 Compact Disc (2020) For his debut on Delmark Classics guitar virtuoso Eduardo Fernández put together a program covering two centuries of music and two continents. From Paganini to Brouwer, this album offers a variety of schools, tendencies and techniques that very few performers can match. In addition to…

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              Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me

              Breezy Rodio – Sometimes The Blues Got Me Delmark DE 853 Sometimes The Blues Got Me is Breezy Rodio’s debut album for Delmark Records. A review of Breezy’s self-produced 2015 release So Close To It said “Breezy Rodio absolutely smokes through this highly enjoyable mix of originals and covers. He has it all; the voice,…

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                Omar Coleman – Born & Raised

                Omar Coleman – Born & Raised Delmark DE 840 Compact Disc (2015) The music of Omar Coleman, like Chicago itself, contains multitudes. Rooted in the blues, spiked with R&B urgency, and resonant with deep-soul passion, it both moves the heart and galvanizes the feet –“grown folks’ music,” as they say, but abrim with the enthusiasm,…

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                  50 Years of Jazz and Blues: Jazz

                  50 Years of Jazz and Blues: Jazz Delmark DD 904 2-CD Set (2003) The past half-century of jazz, from the Chicago perspective of Delmark Records, is a bit different than you’d find if you plumbed the catalog of any other label. It’s more fun, stranger, grittier and more intimate than the music typically purveyed by…

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                    Exploding Star Orchestra – Stars Have Shapes

                    Exploding Star Orchestra – Stars Have Shapes Delmark 595 (2010) Jazz cornetist Rob Mazurek has created a sound world that is uniquely his own, sculpting a TOTAL sound environment, by fully utilizing the beautiful instrumentation of the Exploding Star Orchestra and sounds from a variety of sources, including: rain from the Brazilian Amazon, insects at…

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