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Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee West Coast

By Armand Lewis Historians have dated the dawn of modern jazz in Los Angeles to December 10, 1945: The opening night of the Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet at Billy Berg’s nightclub in Hollywood. While this date mark...
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Snakes! Guillotines!

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The Smiths

The Smiths and Morrissey

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO COLLECTING By Raymond Elliot ~  The 1986 Smiths’ album, The Queen Is Dead is the “greatest album of all time,” according to the October 2013 issue of Britain’s NME magazine, in their list of The To...
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When In New Orleans, It’s Euclid Records!

When In New Orleans, It’s Euclid Records! By Michael Fremer ‘m in New Orleans this weekend at the Annual National Cardigan Welsh Corgi Board Meeting. No, I don’t show dogs but my wife does and she’s on the ...
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Grant Green

Grant Green

THE HOLY BARBARIAN By Armand Lewis Nightclubs come and nightclubs go. Troubles with rents, liquor licenses, attracting enough patrons to cover the overhead and pay the performers and staff are all understandable reasons for hig...
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David Bowie

David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane

REMASTERED FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCER AND ENGINEER KEN SCOTT By Harvey Kubernik David Bowie’s landmark album, Aladdin Sane, his 1973 follow-up to 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spid...
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HITS Presents History of the Music Biz Two – The Mike Sigman Interviews

As the son of Hall of Fame songwriter Carl Sigman (“It’s All In The Game,” “Ebb Tide,” “Crazy He Calls Me,” “What Now, My Love,” and many more), Michael Sigman grew up immersed in the pop and rock revolution o...
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Star Shots

Photographer Guy Webster’s iconic photos of Los Angeles’ film and music stars from the 1960s By Harvey Kubernik Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons (Insight Editions / $75.00 / October 2014) is an unparalleled, defi...
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Tin Pan Alley: The Rise of Elton John

AUTHOR KEITH HAYWARD REVISITS DENMARK STREET, LONDON’S TIN PAN ALLEY, WHERE ELTON JOHN MET BERNIE TAUPIN AND A ROCK MUSIC LEGEND WAS BORN By Harvey Kubernik Soundcheck Books has just published the wonderful and educationa...
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