Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, is an album recorded in 1964 by folklorist Bruce Jackson. The LP features work songs, blues, spirituals, preaching and toasts (recited poems) performed by a group of inmates in the Lone Star State’s then-segregated agricultural prison farms. The recordings on this album were made in Texas prison farms in July 1964….

Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas is an album of Christmas music by guitarist Kenny Burrell and possibly one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time…. the album was recorded in 1966 and features some Christmas classics, played in the stylish and classy Burrell way….   Burrell was born in Detroit, Michigan. Both his…

David Amram’s  Jazz BIO 2018 Ever since meeting, jamming with and being mentored by Dizzy Gillespie in 1951 and Charlie Parker in 1952,.David Amram has continued over the past 66 years as one of the first  pioneers, along with Julius Watkins, to include  the French horn as an improvising voice in jazz.  He has also pioneered the use…

QUINCY JONES, the mastermind behind some of the 20th and 21st century’s greatest hits turned 85 this year And to celebrate his life and legacy, Moochin’ About has collected and remastered 12 of his classic early albums available to download… This collection features…. Jazz Abroad This Is How I Feel About Jazz Go West, Man!…

  Perry Blake Press Release   Internationally acclaimed Irish singer/songwriter Perry Blake will release a new album in September 2018 on Moochin’ About/PIAS Often described as a cross between Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, Blake’s new work is a classic return to form. Although not very well known in Britain and Ireland, Blake has…