We remember Eric Dolphy. ‘Dolphy Is Out Too Much’
The Raconteurs release ‘Help Us Stranger’ their third album (their first in eleven years) (2019)
The Raconteurs' 'Help Us Stranger' is their third album (after a 11-year hiatus) featuring members Jack White, Brendan Benson plus Jack Lawrence (bass) and Patrick Keeler (drums) and released on June 21, 2019 by Third Man Records
a smooth and bluesy ride to provide a very analogue album for a digital world
Theirs is a union as progressive as a tin can on a piece of string, as zeitgeist-chasing as an old man playing shuffleboard Variety
...where frenzied guitars carry the moment and the band’s metropolitan muse, Detroit, gets an early shout-out.
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger
AMAZON . ITUNES . Paul McCartney is at the White House to accept the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Among the (con)tributing |
Philadelphia International release Lou Rawls’ ‘All Things in Time’ (1976)
Lou Rawls' 'All Things in Time' is an album released on June 7, 1976 by Philadelphia International.
Eminem releases his third album : ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’ featuring ‘The Real Slim Shady’ & ‘Stan’ (2000)
Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP" feat. "The Real Slim Shady" & "Stan" is his third studio album co-produced mostly by Dr. Dre. and released on May 23, 2000 by Aftermath Shady.
With a little help from George Benson and Snoop Dog, ‘The Now Now’ by Gorillaz is the pop album we need now. Right now!
Gorillaz' 'The Now Now' is their sixth album produced by Damon Albarn and James Ford, featuring George Benson and Snoop Dog and released on June 29, 2018 by Warner Bros / Parlophone
The follow-up to 2017’s bloated ‘Humanz’ is a trim and spritely listen prides itself on making 11 pop tracks that zip with energy, passion and an abundance of ideas
Gorillaz' 'The Now Now' Is a Focused Call for Unity In Hard Times opening with a vintage chilled-out summer jam certified with sugary licks by soul jazz touchstone George Benson The Sun
Gorillaz’s main man Damon Albarn talks new about his ‘fresh’ new album The Now Now – from politics to melancholic tunesartist Jamie Hewlett, who was present at the sessions to create new narratives for…
Helped by his own son, Ry Cooder turns to gospels to heal what he sees as a derelict ‘moral state’. ‘The Prodigal Son’ is all about a possible redemption
Ry Cooder’s 'The Prodigal Son' is his seventeenth solo studio album recorded with his son, Joachim Cooder and released on May 11, 2018 by Fantasy
(Source Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son | Official Site)
he never attempts to be “authentic” to the originals in form or style and yet something of the essence remains.
...his approach to the guitar meshes with his personality: unhurried, unadorned, and unusually reverent of tradition, without being tethered to it. Rolling Stone
'Reverence' is a word I heard my granddaughter’s nursery school teacher use, a Kashmiri woman.
Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son
AMAZON . ITUNES .The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings (Four-LP Box Set, 180-g vinyl)
 Exactly 40 years ago, popular music's top song stylist, Tony Bennett, joined together with the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans for two albums of sublime duets. Venerated as gorgeous gems of jazz grace, the two LPs, along with numerous alternate takes and bonus tracks, are combined on this 4-LP, 180-g vinyl boxed set, The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings. Included is a collectible lithograph, as well as a deluxe, 12-page booklet featuring rare photos and extensive liner notes by Will Friedwald (co-author of Tony Bennett's autobiography, The Good Life).  |
As far as the music itself, Evans can’t make a mediocre album, and Bennett in the Seventies is at his best, so…
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Apple Records release Paul McCartney’s ‘Ram’ featuring ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ (1971)
Paul McCartney's 'Ram' incl. 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey' is a studio album recorded with Linda McCartney and released on May 17, 1971 by Apple.
We Remember Johnny “Guitar” Watson. ‘Pimp My Funk’
Ben Harper releases ‘Give Till It’s Gone,’ his tenth album (2011)
Ben Harper's 'Give Till It's Gone' is his tenth (and first in five years) studio album released on May 17, 2011 by Virgin.
Atlantic record the first sessions of ‘Ray Charles,’ his debut album (1953)
'Ray Charles' is his debut album recorded between May 17, 1953 and November 27, 1956, released in 1957 (and re-released as 'Hallelujah I Love Her So' in 1962) by Atlantic .
Barking Pumpkin publish Frank Zappa’s ‘Tinseltown Rebellion,’ a double live album (1981)
Frank Zappa's 'Tinseltown Rebellion' is a double live album released on May 17, 1981 by Barking Pumpkin.
4AD publish ‘Trouble Will Find Me,’ The National’s sixth album (2013)
The National's 'Trouble Will Find Me' is their sixth studio album produced by band members Aaron and Bryce Dessner and released on May 17, 2013 by 4AD
Happy Birthday Taj Mahal. ‘Senor Mahal’
We remember Lucky Peterson
Blue Note publish Herbie Hancock’s fifth album : ‘Maiden Voyage’ (1965)
McCoy Tyner records ‘Time for Tyner,’ his ninth album with Bobby Hutcherson et al (1968)
McCoy Tynerr's 'Time for Tyner' is his ninth album recorded on May 17, 1968 and released the same year by Blue Note.
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The Beach Boys release ‘Pet Sounds’ featuring ‘God Only Knows’ and ‘Sloop John B’ (1966)
The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' incl. 'God Only Knows' is their eleventh studio album released on May 16, 1966 by Capitol.