Tarots - Knight in Blue ArmourA 1960's style genre hopping mostly instrumental band, the Tarots is one of a long line of interesting obscure bands to come from the stable of the mysterious, legendary Los Angeles based musician producer entrepreneur known as Johnny Kitchen. The Tarots' album, "Knight in Blue Armour," originally released in 1977, has an interesting Chicago blues meets 60's soul jazz with a touch of psychedelic flavor, and copies of the original LP sell for top

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Sen Morimoto's third album Diagnosis sees him flip the script

Arms & Legs

to whom the concerto is dedicated

spending time together

Jacob Huffman

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a darker rendition merging past

introducing more adventurous vocal arrangements during the 1950s as gospel moved into the commercial arena

and appeared with his groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 New Port Jazz Festival

while at the same time counterbalancing the modern idiom with familiar features such as a slow variation movement and a rondo finale

all the while trying to avoid the clutches of the chapeau's original