Duke Ellington - Live In 1947 at The Hollywood Bowl! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the late summer of 1947, the Hollywood Bowl set the stage for a night that would resonate through jazz history. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, already legendary, performed under the stars in an electrifying display of jazz innovation and mastery. By this time, Ellington was much more than a celebrated composer and bandleader; he had emerged as a visionary force, weaving together musical forms to reshape jazz and extend it's reach. This album immortalizes that unforgettable night, capturing Ellington's orchestra at a moment when jazz was evolving into a sophisticated art form with Ellington at the helm.

Fiercely working class in stance and attitude, the Cockney Rejects eschewed the political ramblings of punk's first wave and sang about the circumstances that surrounded them and millions of street kids in Britain's inner cities - police harassment, street battles and football to name three. Live At The BBC features two rip roaring BBC sessions recorded for Radio 1's John Peel show. The sessions capturing the very young punk band tearing through some of their earliest greatest hits. Recorded 8th August 1979 and 13th February 1980.

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2024 . South African pianist, composer, philosopher, and healer Nduduzo Makhathini travels beyond any existing notion of music-making to offer his most profound vision of creative mysticism yet with uNomkhubulwane, his stunning eleventh studio album which is his third to be released on Blue Note Records following 2020's Modes of Communication Letters From The Underworlds and 2022's In The Spirit Of Ntu. The transcendent three-movement suite-which pays homage to the Zulu Goddess uNomkhubulwane and explores Africa's tragic history of oppression-features Makhathini's trio with bassist Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere on bass and drummer Francisco Mela. The music is both an offering and an invitation to humanity to cultivate ways of being that strive for freedom and balance.