The great Abbey Lincoln has been slated for some attention on this blog for years. At various points I have had one or another record from her early career lined up in the proverbial queue and yet they somehow missed the train. I’ve had a bit of melancholy and existential blues lately and her music…
The song “Ser ou não ser” may not be Shakespeare, but Reginaldo Rossi sure did sing some catchy tunes in his heyday. Rossi was the city of Recife’s contribution to the Jovem Guarda music style of Brazilian 60’s pop-rock in the era when electric guitars were considered too low-class and “foreign” by music critics. Although…
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Virgo Red 1973 Polydor PD-6016 Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Art scans at 300 dpi An underrated Roy Ayers Ubiquity album, Virgo Red has to overcome the fact that it leads off with its weakest track, a cover of the Hot Chocolate song “Brother Louie”, which became a #1 hit…
Arrow Hot Hot Hot 1982 Arrow Records ARROW-019 According to my well-placed sources, there was a time where you couldn’t go to a party in the Caribbean without somebody playing this record, or at least the title cut. Monserrat native and Pillies fan Arrow (Alphonsus Cassell) had been releasing calypso and soca albums since the…
Rubens da Mangueira Eu Sou Assim 1978 Copacabana COLP – 12225 The Mangueira escola de samba has produced no shortage of delights in terms of composers, singers, and musicians, and they are still going strong today. Understandably, with eternal titans like Cartola and Nelson Cavaquinho associated with the institution, other sambistas were destined to forever…
Ned Doheny – Hard Candy Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC | Art scans at 300 dpi 1.4801GB (24/192) | 714MB (24/96) + 238 MB (16/44) | 2014 Be With Records BEWITH003LP | Genre: Soul, Funk, Rock I’m not sure that the release of Ned Doheny’s 1973 album sold enough copies to inculcate anything…
