Various Artists - Doo-Wop Classics Vol. 1 / Tip Top RecordsThis series documents the various classic independent record labels that operated at the dawn of Doo Wop. This volume focuses on the Tip Top label and their stable of artists including the Emblems, Five Vets, Three Friends, Kingsmen and many more. 25 tracks

comes a new oratorio by one of most accomplished composers of our time

On his third Criss Cross leader date

and simpatico developed over their mutually extended tenure in various units devoted to Charles Mingus' music

For this album the artists have chosen an anthology of 21 Neapolitan songs

Lombardini Sirmen was one of the few women to realize a career as a professional musician in the 18th century and

Signs Of Life is the sound of a beloved singer-songwriter at the peak of his powers

Third Coast plays it's own arrangement of selections from Philip Glass's 12 Pieces for Ballet (originally composed for piano) - also drawing inspiration from Brazilian group Uakti's multi-instrumental version

he was the most generous of human beings and he inspired devoted affection among his friends and colleagues

Like A Cigarette'

In the 1970s era of country rock

on her solo projects

A vinyl was imminent