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MPS Exhumes Marvin Peterson's 1976 Thrill Ride 'Hannibal In Berlin' [REVIEW]

Texas trumpeter Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, 67, gained a name for himself in the early 1970s by performing and recording as part of the Gil Evans Orchestra, and in the bands of Roy Haynes and Pharoah Sanders. By 1976, he was fronting his own combos with a curious mixture of tradition and totally avant-garde squeaks, freaks, blips, beeps, grunts, honks, squeals and any other possible sound he could think of. That year he performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and went wild. The set was preserved for posterity and re-released in 2015 as 'Hannibal In Berlin' by MPS Records out of Germany. The dude's a killer on this thrill ride of an album!
By Mike Greenblatt

  • 15 Greatest Blues Musicians of All Time: Stevie Ray Vaughan

    One could easily rank the fifteen best blues musicians of all time but then the onus would be on the number rather than the stories they told or the lives they lead, so this list will not be burdened by numbers. Instead, it will be all about the musicians and the music they created. Next is Stevie Ray Vaughan.
    By Thomas Swan

  • Tim Williams is 'So Low' on New Lowden Proud Recording (REVIEW)

    Tim Williams, the Californian who settled in Canada 45 years ago and never came back, fronts The Electro Fires but is 'So Low' (Lowden Proud Records Ltd) on his comfortable new CD: no edits, no guests, no overdubs, just a man, a Gretsch Alligator Resonator guitar and, as it says in the liner notes, "the tapping of a two-tone wing-tip shoe" acting as percussion.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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