Personnel: Mustafa Al Sunni (vocals); Abd Al Hafiz Karar (bongos, percussion).Recording information: Bayt Semple, Oxford, England (08/27/1997).Translator: Anderson Bakewell.The Sudan is a place in which singers and instrumentalists...
Trust Weird Al Yankovic to name an album "Even Worse" even as his recordings were getting better again. After a bit of a slump, he rebounded in 1988 by making fun of the same old guy again, Michael Jackson. Video played a big part in the su...
Personnel: Al Green (vocals); Michael Toles (guitar, sitar); Teenie Hodges (guitar); The Memphis Strings (strings); Andrew Love (alto saxophone); Lewis Collins, Bill Easley (tenor saxophone); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jacks...
It's tough to live down one's past, especially if that past incorporates one of music's biggest "coulda been a star" stories since Pete Best. Al Atkins has been trying to escape the shadow of Judas Priest, the band he formed in the late-'60...
Personnel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals); Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (vocals).Even many years after the great qawwali artist's death, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan compilations are plenteous, and it's hard too distinguish between the good and the ins...
Lester Young's influence on younger tenor players was at its height in the early-to-mid-'50s. This enjoyable session matches together the three tenors of Al Cohn, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca but good luck telling them apart! Backed by pi...