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ORIGINALLY RELEASED in the summer of 1967, it seemed to have disappeared—that is, until now in this sparkling remastered stereo release (first time on CD). Considered by fans of Hayes and Gonsalves to be one of the hardest-to-find and most sought-after of their recordings. They first joined forces on “Just friends” in a rarity in more ways than one; British jazzmen rarely joined their US counterparts gathering around a microphone, let alone as equals. This follow-up was financed by London saxophonist Jack Sharpe, this album is a real revelation of just how advanced and unafraid these fine musicians were to push the borders out and demonstrate here, what truly accomplished talents they were! With his usual flair for explaining what you are about to hear, Tubby biographer and fellow saxophonist Simon Spillett has written an excellent essay to accompany the release. So, here we are, fifty years later...give your ears a treat Record Label: India/Harkit Style: Jazz

For some, the arrival of American tenor saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims at Ronnie Scott's club in early June 1965 couldn't have come soon enough. By the middle-1960s, the envelope of "modern" jazz was being pushed to breaking point, both in the US and the UK, and to Scott his two visitors that summer represented the perfect antidote to all the Coltrane and Ornette-inspired "freedom". Writing in Melody Maker, he described Al and Zoot as "their own men, concerned with a brand of jazz music that is to do with swing, melodic invention, and good sounds." Scott had long been an admirer. Indeed, he had chosen Sims as the first soloist to inaugurate his clubs policy of importing US guest artists four years earlier. When he returned again in late 1962, Sims brought his long-term confederate Cohn with him, upping the musical ante and delighting all those who'd admired the two-tenor team on record. "Zoot and Al were pure jazz incarnate," remembers saxophonist Peter King, one of many London musicians drawn to the Americans feel-good orbit.” They loved to play, respected Stan [Tracey]'s trio and positively relished working with it. They swung their asses off night after night and had a ball, falling in love with England, the admiring audiences and the excellent musicians they met here." Putting the visitors on record together with their UK counterparts was a logical next step, an exercise in mutual admiration masterminded by British saxophonist Jack Sharpe, a player who did a great deal to make life comfortable for touring American jazzmen. Indeed, he'd already produced three London-made recording sessions featuring a visiting US soloist, Duke Ellington star Paul Gonsalves (one of which Change of Setting, co-led by Tubby Hayes can be heard on Harkit HRKCD 8561). His fourth such effort, again taped at Lansdowne Studios in Notting Hill Gate, this time on the afternoon of Sunday June 27th 1965, was designed to showcase Cohn and Sims alongside their regular Scott club accompanists, Stan Tracey, bassist Rick Laird and drummer Jackie Dougan and two further guests, Peter King and Sharpe himself. Despite receiving some enthusiastic press reviews, including a glowing appraisal in Melody Maker, which noted the albums "highly professional jazz...concerned with form and coherence...and a belief that jazz should communicate with the paying customer", the LP quickly went out of print. Having also never received a US release, it soon became one of Cohn and Sims most sought-after recordings. Although the session and its back story are very much part and parcel of the Golden Era of British jazz, and of the whole zeitgeist of the early years of Ronnie Scott's club, the music on Al and Zoot In London itself stands very much on its own timeless merits. But then Cohn and Sims had never chased fashion. Interviewed by Max Jones in Melody Maker in summer 1967, a few months before this album was released, Zoot Sims observed how his and his partners preferred style had begun to sound "kind of mainstream" when compared to the pioneers of the avant-garde. At the time, fierce debate was raging in the pages of the jazz press about whether the idiom itself was dying, a victim of the scorched earth explorations of the new wave. Jones asked Sims if he thought the music was on its way out. His answer was as characteristically unpretentious as his playing; "I always say one thing: jazz has been dying for 70 years and it's going to last a lot longer than the record we're making now." Fifty-years on, that record is back, alive and kicking and sounding as good as ever! Excerpted from the accompanying notes by Simon Spillett © 2016 Harkit Record Record Label: India/Harkit Style: Jazz

Record Label: India Style: Jazz

Limited Edition Box Set contains Static On The Airwaves CD, Vinyl LP, Red 7” Truth Is Vinyl, t-shirt, poster and keyring. - "The Levellers album to silence the critics and repay the faithful is here - tune in." Classic Rock 8/10 - “This affirmative and emboldened revival by the alt rock rebels is a career best." Daily Mirror 4/5 - "Message received, loud and clear" Record Collector 4/5 Vinyl, LP, Album CD, Album Vinyl, 7", Red Transparent Box Set, Limited Edition

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DVD of the live-tour to Paul Carrack´s 15th solo-album. Style: Rock / Pop

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After 25 years of The Waterboys their head Mike Scott releases for the first time a live album of one of the best live acts in Rock/Pop/Folk recorded and selected from 30 concerts in 2003 and 2004 in Ireland and England. The album show every facette of Th Style: Alternative

Style: Rock

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The 2012 brand-new studio album by well introduced and internationally known artist The Levellers - on tour throughout Europe until end of the year! Folk-rock band Levellers release their tenth studio album, Static On The Airwaves, on 29 June 2012 in Europe. Already being heralded as their most accomplished album to date, Static On The Airwaves is the sound of a band whose incisive lyrics, innate musicality and passion have continued to improve rather than diminish in nearly a quarter of a century of writing, recording and performing. In many ways Static On The Airwaves represents a coming of age for Levellers, it is unquestionably their most mature and considered release to date and is an album rich in reasoned clarity and insightful observance of the world in which we currently live. Produced by Sean Lakeman, who is renowned for producing his brother's Mercury-nominated and gold-selling albums as well as Letters From The Underground (Levellers' previous album), Static On The Airwave Style: Folk

Style: Folk

Style: Folk

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Style: Folk

Style: Folk

Style: Folk

Style: Smooth Jazz