Spanning a full century of recordings, this survey puts forth almost a century-long chronology of jazz guitar, and with it an appealingly skewed take on jazz history.
He charged in a long interview that Mr. Kuchma had pocketed at least $1 billion for personal or political use, and that the full transcript of recordings made since at least 1998 in Mr. Kuchma's office would establish that "there is no greater criminal in Ukraine than Kuchma".
The recorded catalog is full of worthy recordings of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, a sublime 1919 work by an English master deeply affected by the horrors of World War I and, probably, by his own declining primacy.
Full of unreleased recordings (otherwise it would be very short indeed), the disc captures the trio making a racket that's ferocious yet surprisingly sprightly.
A deluxe set will also be released with four compact discs full of additional recordings from the sessions and a book of photos that have not been published.
Fuller sets of recordings have subsequently made the rounds among fans, but this is the first time that all the salvageable recordings – some of which were only discovered recently – have been made available, as a six CD boxset (and two CD highlights package).
At the time he started working on it, he already had two full albums worth of recordings sitting idle on his computer.
In the play, an old man celebrates his 69th birthday by sorting through boxes full of ancient tape recordings, trying to reconcile his memories of events with actual notes that he has scribbled on an old ledger.
At first, Sam Cooke sang gospel almost too beautifully: the first disc is full of a cappella recordings in which he evokes the grace of God, but not the grit.
He also jokes that when aliens visit what's left of this "husk of an earth" after the inevitable environmental meltdown, they'll find a box full of awards-show recordings and "and realise just how predictable these fucking things are".
