‘Talking Book’: 22-Year-Old Genius Stevie Wonder Speaks Volumes 1972 was the year in which the creative surge of Stevie Wonder became truly unstoppable. He had been raising the bar of his artistic imagination...
‘Diana & Marvin’: Motown’s Superstar Friends Finally Join Forces On Record For Diana Ross, 1973 was the year of Touch Me In The Morning, her first solo Top 10 album on both sides of the Atlantic....
‘Killer Queen’: Dynamite With A Laser Beam From Queen We couldn’t resist her. She kept Moët et Chandon in her pretty cabinet, spoke just like a baroness and was as playful as a pussycat. Who...
‘Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet’: Serving Up A Post-Bebop Classic The Miles Davis Quintet was big news in the jazz world during the late 50s. A groundbreaking and progressive group, it was crucial in establishing...
‘Southern Comfort’: The Crusaders’ Jazz-Funk Opus Jazz was in a funny place by the mid-1970s, the jazz police had declared that most of what was being released was at best worthless,...
‘Gainsbourg Percussions’: Serge Gainsbourg’s Rule-Breaking Afro-Cuban Jazz Album In 1964, Serge Gainsbourg was still a little-known French jazz musician who, despite having long earned his chops in local clubs (including a stint backing...