Back to Back (Acoustic Sounds): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features

Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from the original analog tapes mastered by Ryan K

it offers an intriguingly wide range of relatively concise ideas resulting in something of an anomaly in Sanders' prime period

and Karl Ratzer

The Consequence Of Jealousy featuring Meshell Ndegeocello

Small jazz groups brought out the best in Billie Holiday — especially groups as good as the one heard on this classic 1957 recording

Back to Back (Acoustic Sounds): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series featuresSeveral times in his career star alto saxophone soloist Johnny Hodges struck out on his own, only to return each time to Duke Ellington's band. Critic Michael Ullman suggested that the blues classics chosen for this program may have been neutral ground, where Ellington's playing could come to the fore and Hodges' irrepressible sensuality could have free rein. This is one of the very best small group records Ellington ever made a perfectly integrated