Most of the guitarist's best soul/blues Stax sides of the 1970s with plenty of his crisp guitar. ~ Bill Dahl, All Music Guide

CD $11.38

Pianist Uri Caine's work is always intriguing but this CD is something very different. This unusual release comes off like the soundtrack to an as yet unmade documentary about Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the century, complete with sound effects of horses and people on the street, folks celebrating in a rowdy saloon, and so on. "The Sidewalks Of New York" serves as a recurring theme, first as a dreamy solo by Caine, later with Ralph Alessi's distant trumpet, and finally in a bar with a deter...   [ read more ]

CD $18.98

It is a given that popular music is big business. This was not always the case, of course, and the roots of the current economic model can be found in the 1920s, when commercial recordings and the machinery needed to play them had recently become readily available to a newly affluent and youth-oriented American culture, and vaudeville and cabaret shows fueled huge sales of sheet music and player-piano rolls. Songs that have since passed beyond the status of classic and into the realm of clichT -- thi...   [ read more ]

CD $17.08