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Album Reviews
Krall Sings Classics
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010

How many Diana Krall albums does one need? That's a personal decision of course. However, if you have more than three but no Shirley Horn albums in your collection, you have a few too many. Ditto Sarah Vaughan, Ella, etc. That's not meant as a slight against Krall. In fact I think she'd probably agree with me.

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Album Reviews
Band From Down Under Have Rota Covered
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010

The problem with an album like this is that there are two basically disinterested constituencies: Nino Rota fans who want to hear the actual soundtracks and people who don't know who Nino Rota is, or Fellini for that matter, and don't really care who they are or what The Umbrellas have done to interpret Rota's music.

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Album Reviews
Supergroup Put the Pedal to the Metal
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2010

It's an unacceptable prejudice and this review has nothing to do with me, but I admit to having had a problem with Lionel Hampton because he was a Nixon supporter. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean having a problem with it, not that Hamp supported tricky Dick. His politics are his of course, but this prejudice took hold during the 1970s.

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News
ABKCO Box Preserves Dynamic Range!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 11, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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News
Uh Oh! UMG's Stones Box Appears to be Compressed LIke "Exile...."
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 11, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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News
CORRECTION AND APOLOGY!!!!!!!New Deluxe "Band on the Run" WAS "Mastered at Abbey Road"!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969
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Features
Round and Round: The Sound of The Rolling Stones on Record
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969

Originally in issue 4 of The Tracking Angle, this dated discography still offers a bumpy roadmap to the best sounding Stones LPs

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Album Reviews
Costello Sees the World
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010

Elvis Costello took a quantum songwriting leap on his third album and with a generous six weeks in the studio following a world tour with new songs written, came up with intricate arrangements and sonically sophisticated production that while complex, was not detrimental to the intense propulsion of the music.

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Album Reviews
Rhino Box Documents Delaney and Bonnie's Legendary Seven Night, 13 Show Tour
Wayne Shelor  |  Nov 01, 2010

Rock ‘n’ roll historians invariably trace the roots of the now-expansive, constantly morphing music to a Mississippi bluesman named Robert Johnson, a 1930s guitarist who ostensibly made a deal with the devil – trading his mortal soul for stellar talent - one night at a rural intersection (a “crossroads”). Johnson’s canon of songs, bolstered by his pioneer legacy and dark mythology, is embraced universally as being instrumental to the very structure of rock ‘n’ roll.

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Beatles
It Was Forty Five Years Ago Today! (Sept. 12th)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010

The Beatles made four unforgettable live appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 16, 23rd 1964, and one more, over a year and a half later on September 12, 1965—forty five years ago this coming September 12th, which is five days after the re-release of this fascinating and endlessly entertaining 2 DVD set.

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