Stanley Turrentine - Common TouchLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine imbued every note he played with feeling and soul. His lesser known 1968 classic, Common Touch, featured organist Shirley Scott, guitarist Jimmy Ponder, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Leo Morris (aka Idris Muhammad). Highlights include the groovy "Buster Brown" and the slow burn of "Lonely Avenue." Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 album by R&B and disco icon Linda Clifford

"Life in the Big City" is a hopeful tribute to a close friend of Roberge's who lost his life to gun violence standing up for a stranger and "Inside Out" that has a classic O

Aphorisms summons up hallucinatory vistas by way of the composer's collage technique

Wallin and Pöntinen round off the programme with transcriptions of two of Brahms's more lyrical songs

the theme of love is addressed in Ingeborg Bachmann's poem Erklar mir Liebe ("Explain love to me") and in Rilke's Liebes-Lied ("Love Song")

Import Hybrid-SACD pressing

and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world

Perhaps for this reason

The increased use of vocals – both sung and konokol (a Southern Indian tradition of spoken percussion) - gives today's Shakti a new degree of warmth

plus selected A & B sides for the Roulette and Kapp labels between 1958 and 1962

smooth vocals of Roberta Flack

The album is virile