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Catfish Collins dead of cancer at 66 Cincinnati guitarist Phelps “Catfish” Collins, of James Brown and P-Funk fame, died on 6 August 2010.
Buddy Emmons on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree Listen to the jazz licks in this instrumental piece from the world’s foremost pedal steel guitarist.
Black Noise: The Electric Dharma of FM An instrumental compilation from Black Noise [1977], Head Room [1978], Surveilance [1979], and Foreign Exchange [1980].
Fukuda Teruhisa’s Shakuhachi Banquet The traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute is carefully hand-crafted with the utmost precision from bamboo root.
Of Live and Love and Coltrane A 2-hour spiritual journey celebrating the life of jazz legend, John Coltrane.
Maria Muldaur and her Garden of Joy This “Good Time Music For Hard Times” was released on Stony Plain Records on 6 October 2009.
Does this sound like a children’s campfire song? Court orders Men at Work to hand over 5% of Down Under royalties after judge rules flute riff stolen.
It was a Rebellion, not a Riot Toronto’s G20 police state and the story of The Watts Prophets and the 1965 Watts Rebellion, in Los Angeles, California.
Lost and Found: Em Tempo Real A Portuguese Avant-Garde compilations featuring Plopoplot Pot, A Maquina Do Almoco Da Pancadas, Desirat-Toral-Silva, and No Noise Reduction.
  • Catfish Collins dead of cancer at 660September 01, 2010

    Catfish Collins dead of cancer at 66

    Cincinnati guitarist Phelps “Catfish” Collins, of James Brown and P-Funk fame, died on 6 August 2010.
  • Buddy Emmons on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree0August 14, 2010

    Buddy Emmons on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree

    Listen to the jazz licks in this instrumental piece from the world’s foremost pedal steel guitarist.
  • Black Noise: The Electric Dharma of FM0August 09, 2010

    Black Noise: The Electric Dharma of FM

    An instrumental compilation from Black Noise [1977], Head Room [1978], Surveilance [1979], and Foreign Exchange [1980].
  • Fukuda Teruhisa’s Shakuhachi Banquet0July 29, 2010

    Fukuda Teruhisa’s Shakuhachi Banquet

    The traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute is carefully hand-crafted with the utmost precision from bamboo root.
  • Of Live and Love and Coltrane1July 19, 2010

    Of Live and Love and Coltrane

    A 2-hour spiritual journey celebrating the life of jazz legend, John Coltrane.
  • Maria Muldaur and her Garden of Joy0July 12, 2010

    Maria Muldaur and her Garden of Joy

    This “Good Time Music For Hard Times” was released on Stony Plain Records on 6 October 2009.
  • Does this sound like a children’s campfire song?0July 06, 2010

    Does this sound like a children’s campfire song?

    Court orders Men at Work to hand over 5% of Down Under royalties after judge rules flute riff stolen.
  • It was a Rebellion, not a Riot0July 03, 2010

    It was a Rebellion, not a Riot

    Toronto’s G20 police state and the story of The Watts Prophets and the 1965 Watts Rebellion, in Los Angeles, California.
  • Lost and Found: Em Tempo Real2June 24, 2010

    Lost and Found: Em Tempo Real

    A Portuguese Avant-Garde compilations featuring Plopoplot Pot, A Maquina Do Almoco Da Pancadas, Desirat-Toral-Silva, and No Noise Reduction.
  • Memorial

    Catfish Collins dead of cancer at 66

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    Buddy Emmons on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree

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    Fukuda Teruhisa’s Shakuhachi Banquet

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    Of Live and Love and Coltrane

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    Maria Muldaur and her Garden of Joy

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    Does this sound like a children’s campfire song?

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    It was a Rebellion, not a Riot

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    Lost and Found: Em Tempo Real

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    The Kentucky Colonels 1965-1966

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  • General

    Feel free to adjust your set…

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    Frank Zappa predicts a fascist theocracy in America

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  • Memorial

    Dennis Hopper dead of cancer at 74

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    Farewell to the man on the silver mountain

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    The Best of John Hammond [1970]

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    Boss Brass Man Rob McConnell dead of cancer at 75

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    The Jazz Loft Project

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    Who says you need to buy a guitar?

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    Bring Out Your Dead 2009

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    Louis Martinez – Safari with Sabu

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    Carlos Malcolm – Skamania, The Sound Of The Soil

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    Santo and Johnny

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    Tito Rodriguez – Back Home in Puerto Rico

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  • Memorial

    Jazz drummer Steve Reid dead from Cancer at 66

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    Justin Evans – The Owls & The Hounds

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    Charlie McVay and the Lone Pine Boys

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    Forget the music industry: Remember Alex Chilton

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    Hopkinson Smith

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    Eric Bentley – Songs of Hanns Eisler

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    The Sculpted Sounds of Fran and Jay

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    Jazz After Hours with George Benson

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    The Library Café

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    Lost and Found: Catherine Lara

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    Fifths of Seven – Spry from Bitter Anise Folds

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    Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan In Concert 1972

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    Lost and Found: Kenny Dorham

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  • Memorial

    Kvetcher in the Rye – Greg Palast remembers Salinger

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  • Video

    Take Me Away Fast

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  • Jazz

    Lost and Found: Don Byas

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  • Jazz

    George Russell Sextet – Ezz-thetics

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  • Compilation

    The Best of The Basement Rug 2009

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  • Folk

    Kate McGarrigle dies of cancer at 63

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  • Soul/R&B

    The Roots of R&B

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