Bobby Sherwood - Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra, 1944-46 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A guitarist good enough to succeed Eddie Lang in Bing Crosby's band, Bobby Sherwood became a mainstay of Crosby's band from 1933 - 1942. During his tenure with the Crosby band, Sherwood led a busy career as a studio musician for MGM, led singer Eddie Cantor's radio show band and played briefly with Artie Shaw. In 1942, Sherwood formed his own band which included Flip Phillips, Dave Pell and Fritz Becker. Sherwood's orchestra scored a million-seller with their very first single, InchThe Elk's Parade,Inch and toured the country on the strength of the hit. Sherwood remained active leading his big band into the late 1940's and began the start of a successful acting career, eventually starring with Frank Sinatra in InchPal JoeyInch in 1957. Presented here are sessions culled from the height of Sherwood's big band career, featuring guest appearances by vocal group Hall of Famers the Skylarks, and female vocalist Gale Landis. All selections newly remastered.

New Brutalism - Requiescat Record [VINYL LP] date 10/03/2025

Renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician and author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with Live Like The Sky, the highly anticipated follow up to her Polaris Music Prize short-listed album Theory Of Ice (2021). Born in struggle, and written in response to a world engulfed in wild-fire smoke, fascism, colonialism, and hetero-patriarchy, the album draws surprising influence from formative alternative musics (The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, Depeche Mode) in combination with a vital Anishinaabe worldview to create a fugitive space of re-worlding and affirmation. Here are complex nuanced shorelines, where a newly developed alternative pop musical sensibility provides a counterpoint to lyrics of resistance and a powerfully emergent creative process. Working towards a reclamation of land, language, sonics, and possibility, Live Like The Sky records an expansion of imagination and relationship.