Ruben Blades / Con Boca Livre - PasierosIn 1966, growing up in Panama, I heard for the first time a Brazilian vocal group named Jongo Trio. From that moment on, my desire to record with a similar ensemble grew until finally, after 56 years, it has become a reality. My respect and love for Boca Livre represents my feelings for all the music and performers from Brazil I have enjoyed all these past decades. They educated and thrilled me. To have recorded, worked and toured with Boca Livre

With a few exceptions - the playful Ong Ong

utilizes live electronics and gradually layers Whiting's alto saxophone (stored in RAM) until there are dozens of him performing by the end of the piece

This album includes three recent orchestral works by the composer marked by highly pressurised and explosive rhythms and sounds

the work alternates between extremes of simplicity and density

The Thrillers

and Boleslaw Woytowicz

brain smashing

Hundreds of great young musicians were a part of this group over the 60 year tenure of the band

as evidenced by two Grammy nominations

the 81-year-old Pablo Casals took part in the (now annual) Beethovenfest held in the composer's home city of Bonn

On January 14

The last Topper label sides to be reissued are Priscilla Page's quaint 'Sho Be Doo Be' and the 45 remix of her 'I'm Pretending'