Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter
I don’t have a lot to say about this one, primarily because we picked it out of the Forever Changes dollar bin last year entirely for the cover. I’m not a jazz guy, not...
Category: Jazz
Earth, Wind & Fire — Spirit
As I said last time, I just got these Earth, Wind & Fire records at the close of 2019. We had had what we thought then was a fairly rough year. Well, it still...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Open Our Eyes
We went through a thing last fall where, because of some family obligations that fall on the sandwich generation, my wife was away from home for weeks. When she got back home, almost the...
Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds – Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds
November, 2016: a time when we were going places and doing new things. Only two years in our new life as Phoenixville empty nesters, and we were mostly making friends through the local open...
Ray Charles – In Person
This is one I picked up just a couple of years ago, at Deep Groove Records here in Phoenixville. I’ll be honest — given naming conventions of the ’50s and ’60s, I didn’t necessarily...
Ray Charles – Yes Indeed!
This was another Ray album I only picked up recently. Man, these old Atlantic pressings sound sweet, even . . . holy cow, 60 years later. It was only his third studio album, and...
Ray Charles – Ray Charles at Newport 1958
Ray Charles. What can you say about Ray Charles that hasn’t already been said? He occupied an interesting space as I was growing up – acknowledged as a genius, ubiquitous on the “oldies” stations,...
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