Valentin Radutiu / Benjamin Schaefer / Rieck - Remembering the Rain - a Jazz ViewOnly a few, famous jazz bassists have ever gone beyond the limitations of their instruments and sought new opportunities on the cello. The cellist Valentin Radutiu turns the tables to show how well the cello suits jazz at times taking the role of the traditional string bass, at others a resonant tenor guitar while at others giving it's voice wings. The repertoire on Remembering The Rain: A Jazz View, comes mainly from the "Great American Songbook",

118 and 119 - famous for their musical balance and quasi Zen-like distillation of the composer's life experiences - are the quite different small pieces from Brahms' early years: The Album blatt in A Minor

"The 'Heartbreak Hotel' Top 100" (ACQCD7122)and "The Day The Music Died - Feb 3rd 1959 Hot 100" (ACQCD7134) and "The 'Telstar' Hot 100 December 22nd 1962" (ACQCD7144) each comprising the records in the Top 100 for the date in question

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most of which had been posthumously released on now long deleted CDs on the small Watch Dog label

The rich and sophisticated Alessandra (Alexandra Stein) inherits a country cottage from her uncle

With words by Gord Downie and music by Bob Rock

have become standards

This is the first ever mainstream release of the "Harmony in Diversity" recordings

like the captain in the book

Gibbons was behind many of the 'definitive' versions of the classics

escape an angry storm goddess

Dreamcoats and Petticoats celebrates the greatest Christmas hits from the biggest artists since the evolution of pop music began