Jazz Vol. 1: South/ Various - Jazz Vol. 1: South / VariousMoses Asch purchased the "race records" heard on this album in 1941 for 15 cents each. Demonstrating some of the musical styles characteristic of the American South that proved influential in shaping what is now called Jazz, the selections range from folk songs to urban blues to boogie woogie piano; artists include Dock Reese, Lead Belly, Scrapper Blackwell, Bessie Tucker and Champion Jack Dupree.

Indie-rock pioneers Sebadoh return with their first new studio album in more than six years

Born in Dresden in 1926

In 1880 New Zealand

These are wonderful performances of works of uncommon beauty

His force is alive to all of us and

The hard-hitting hip-hop rock group from the streets of Philadelphia deliver the goods on their debut album

Tracking the Man-with-no-name's increasingly byzantine mission across every level of the city's social strata

sonorous music

says the Belgian: on his side

the quartet then perfected it's skills with the Ysaÿe Quartet and under the aegis of Walter Levin in Basel

It's members are: Štepán Pražák (first violin)

Brazilian master guitarist Laurindo Almeida first came to prominence in the US as a member of Stan Kenton's band during the height of it's success in the 1940 s and then became one of the world's most sought after studio musicians