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Vinyl Release
Vinyl Release Sade Diamond Life
Steve Sutherland  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This genre-straddling, smash-hit debut LP from the British band laid down a template for others to follow. Smooth operator Steve Sutherland hears the 180g reissue

About a year ago the writer, editor and founder of Rolling Stone magazine Jann Wenner was unceremoniously booted off the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation board of directors. His misdemeanour? In an interview with the New York Times about his new book The Masters, featuring conversations he’d conducted with artists such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, etc, he claimed that he’d decided not to include any women or black artists because, ‘none of them were articulate enough on this intellectual level’.

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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, December 2024
Review: Andrew Everard,  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review and test releases from: Jordina MillÀ & Barry Guy; OTOOTO; Tomasz Stanko, Tomasz Szukalski, Dave Holland, Edward Vesala; Maven Grace and Beans On Toast
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Classical
Classical, December 2024
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst; Trio Bohémo; Sansara, United Strings of Europe/Tom Herring; and Vilde Frang, DSO Berlin/Ticciati
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Jazz
Jazz, December 2024
Steve Harris  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Emmet Cohen, Mark Cherrie Quartet, Etienne Charles – Creole Orchestra and Artie Zaitz
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Rock
Rock, December 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: David Gilmour, Gaudi Kosmisches Trio, Von Hertzen Brothers and HOO
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, December 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Alfredo Muro,Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Rain and 3 Mile Shout
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Classical Companion
Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 02, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
There’s a lot more than the Disney comforts of Frozen to Andersen’s Christmas stories in music, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores different settings of a timeless morality tale

A lifelong loner, unmarried and childless, Hans Christian Andersen was one of those authors for children who didn’t much care for children (or anyone else). Forget the image of Danny Kaye, in 1953, tip-tapping his way on to the silver screen with ‘I’m Hans Christian Andersen, I am’. The recollection of the poet Heine seems closer to the mark. ‘He is a haggard man with a hollow, sunken face, and his demeanour betrays an anxious, devout type of behaviour that kings love. He is the perfect representation of a poet, just the way kings want them to be.’

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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, February 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: Art Pepper Quintet, George Benson, The Impressions and Run-D.M.C.
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, January 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Tony Rice, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Mugwumps and Santana
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, December 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Dr. John, Paul McCartney & Wings, Ravi Shankar and The John Wright Trio
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