The ill-fated guitar legend in the best, clearest video of him that I've ever seen. In DC, Danny Gatton was king, but Roy was certainly a prince at least...

"The Rolling Stones wanted him to replace Brian Jones, and Eric Clapton asked him to play the guitar for Derek & The Dominos - but he turned down both offers. Roy Buchanan was a true master of the Fender Telecaster guitar; and his playing technique significantly influenced musicians such as Gary Moore and Jeff Beck. He moved to Los Angeles...

"Trumpeter, composer, long-time leader of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and founder of the famed Ashkenaz festival of New Yiddish Culture teams with award winning pianist/composer Hilario Duran to explore the exciting nexus of Cuban/Klezmer fusion...

Tony Buck: electric guitar, electric baritone guitar, arch-top acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mono-chord, waterphone, zulu-bells, and instrument preparations
Mark Nauseef: bells and gongs from Bali, Java, Korea, Japan, India, China and Tibet

“Mongrels—Buck Nauseef—two creatures with no pedigree or particular style who have absorbed, mixed and amalgamated numerous pedigrees and styles during long careers working closely with leading musicians of diverse genres including: orchestral, Javanese..

Never quite got the whole 'raised by chickens' thing, but he sure can play! Here's some very early material released - I believe - for the first time.

"An "official" Buckethead album, Acoustic Shards features Buckethead alone on acoustic guitar..

“Lord Richard Buckley was an American stage performer, recording artist and monologist, who in the 1940s and 1950s created a character that was, according to The New York Times, "an unlikely persona... part English royalty, part Dizzy Gillespie." Michael Packenham, writing in The Baltimore Sun, described him as "a magnificent stand-up comedian... Buckley's work, his very presence, projected the sense that life's most immortal truths lie in the inextricable weaving together of love and irony - affection...

Tim Buckley on vocals and 12-string guitar
John Miller on bass
David Friedman on vibraphone
Carter C.C. Collins on percussion

“This is the most important Tim Buckley release since Dream Letter, featuring a singular performance with a jazz-rock lineup that calls to mind Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. Buckley, father of Jeff Buckley, made his mark with his Southern California folk-rock sound and four-octave vocal range. But this rich weave of accessible, warm, improvisational music...

Tim Buckley was an extremely talented folkie guitarist and singer who started to stretch his music way beyond the boundaries of folk, culminating in his masterpieces Blue Afternoon, Lorca and especially, this particularly weird album of totally balls-out experimental music, performed with an immense confidence and daring and the peak of his career in my (and many other folks’ opinion), Starsailor, in 1970.
It still sounds like nothing else ever.
It has been available on CD before, but not for...

Hopefully I don’t have to tell you that these folks are NOT really a band of 70s musicians who were revived from their cryogenic slumber in the 20s in order to rock you ‘Under The Sign Of The Lamprey” with their (admittedly very good) retro Rock Progressivo Italino ...

“A band of musicians from the seventies to the present day, who escaped an unlikely plane crash awakened from a cryogenic sleep after being hibernated in an iceberg? "Under The Sign Of The Lamprey" is the name of the album...

"The long-awaited collaborative release from legendary American minimalist composer and pianist Harold Budd and Milanese producer and experimental electronic composer Eraldo Bernocchi. Recorded during a magic night in the courtyard of a Renaissance palazzo in Siena, Italy, Music For 'Fragments From The Inside' melds Budd's light tonal wash and sparse keyboard treatments with the deep electronic rumbles of Bernocchi. An astonished piano player drifts on beats and scrapes, while bass and drones join...

"David Buddin’s “Canticles” CD is an electronic music realization of the instrumental parts for a six movement chamber work featuring soprano voice. The music is vigorous, dissonant, rhythmically complex and exhilarating. Influenced heavily by the thrust of the Western classical music tradition, Buddin is a modern musical maverick in the lineage of radical, iconoclastic American composers like Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Elliott Carter, Ralph Shapey and Milton Babbitt. The timbral character of this...

"Joined by a superb cast of marquee players, Dewa Budjana's new release (his 4th on MoonJune), "Hasta Karma," sets a new benchmark for modern progressive jazz excellence in the 21st century. With a vibe and feel more akin to that of a band with decades...

“When an artist takes an unexpected turn into new musical directions, it may cause stirring among fans. This is not the case of the increasingly global fanbase of progressive fusion maestro Dewa Budjana, who always come prepared to the perennial journeys through the world of their favored guitarist. With a list of collaborations that sums up the who is who of contemporary progressive rock and jazz scene (Jack DeJohnette, Peter Erskine, Vinnie Colaiuta, Antonio Sanchez, Chad Wackerman, Gary Husband, Tony...

Sarah Buechi: Voice
Franz Hellmüller: Guitar
Rafael Jerjen: Bass

“She makes the music of the future”, headlines Zurich jazz critic Manfred Papst in an extensive portrait of singer Sarah Buechi. The singer has studied a wide variety of music in America, Ireland, Ghana and India to further develop songwriting, world and jazz in a highly personal way, whereby the balance of composition and improvisation is central. With Moon Trail she presents her new trio.
“A strong shared feeling...

Excellent debut album by a new group led by the fine English guitarist & composer Neil Campbell, whose earlier works we have championed to some of you who are paying attention.

This new one has a more electrified/spacerock sound/very modern....

Duo acoustic/electric guitar non-idiomatic free improvisations with some nice preparations that give a different, percussive sound to the free-flow of ideas. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

Hiram Bullock – guitar, vocals
Christopher Deli – vibraphone
Stefan Rademacher – bass
Billy Cobham – drums
+ WDR Big Band Köln

“WDR BIG BAND and Hendrix - what's that all about? Well, one may consider it simply outrageous to breathe the spirit of Hendrix into an orchestral ensemble. However, the world-renowned WDR BIG BAND takes on a subdued tone and gives just the right kind of tone to Hendrix classics like `Foxy Lady`, `Voodoo Child`, `Manic Depression`, and many other titles.

"Bump's 2 (the unreleased second album) was recoded in 1971, just a year later after the debut album, also on Pioneer Records and also produced by Gary A. Rubin. Paul Lupien (organ), George Runyan (bass, vocals), Alan Goldman (guitar) and Jerome Charles..

"Bureau B present a reissue of Michael Bundt's Electri City, originally released in 1980. Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (Medusa, Nine Days' Wonder), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, releasing three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. Delightfully varied and typical of his willingness to experiment, his music orbits around krautrock, Berlin School electronica, space-futurism and synth pop...

PROMO

Not only was this 'one and done' Italian band's only recording, recorded in 1972 quite good, but it gained the additional allure/intrigue of not being released until it came out in the early 90s for the very first time!

"Finally available again..

This is a rad best of featuring the 2nd edition of Eric's Animals, who were a much wilder, more psychedelic beast than the original band (A Girl Named Sandoz, San Francisco Nights, Monterey and the original, 7:31 version of Sky Pilot anyone?). Recommended to fans of original period psychedelia.

Excellent album by 1/3rd of the original Tin Hat Trio which features great musicians and great compositions.

Robert Burger has worked with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine, and was a founding member of chamber...

“While most of the rockabilly cats who recorded for Sun Records in its heyday seemed to believe in the idea that less is more, fronting bands that rarely had more than four pieces, Sonny Burgess had different ideas -- his group the Pacers was a full-bodied affair, featuring two guitars, bass, drum, piano and a trumpet, giving his best recordings a broad and full-bodied sound that sets his work apart from his peers.
Burgess also was willing to sway back and forth between his country and R&B....

Greg Burk (piano, small percussion), Henry Cook (saxophones, flutes, washint), Michel Lambert (drums, percussion), Ron Seguin (bass, percussion).

"Zealously recommended.." — Glen Astarita, Jazz Review

"Greg Burk (not this writer but an..