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Two hour program focused on compositions of Billy Strayhorn.

Swing Plus #86
11/24/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Take the A Train – Billy Strayhorn
2- Dirge – live Duke Ellington
3- Stomp – live Duke Ellington
4- Interview – Lena Horne & Billy Strayhorn
5- Passion Flower – live Duke Ellington
6- Interview – Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
7- The Intimacy of the Blues – Duke Ellington
8- Upper Manhattan Medical Group – Dizzy Gillespie
9- Lush Life – Billy Strayhorn
10- After All – Ike Carpenter
11- Lotus Blossom – Julia Lee
12- Rain Check – Fred Hersch
13- Day Dream – Jo Stafford
14- Le Sacre Supreme – Dutch Jazz Orchestra
15- Blue Heart – Dutch Jazz Orchestra
16- Pretty Little Girl – Johnny Hodges
17- Something to Live For – Betty Roche
18- My Little Brown Book – John Coltrane & Duke Ellington
19- Three & Six – Johnny Hodges & Billy Strayhorn
20- Your Love Has Faded – Billy Strayhorn & Ozzie Bailey
21- Chelsea Bridge – Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster
22- Multi-Colored Blue – Billy Strayhorn & Ozzie Bailey

Two hours of the St. Louis Blues in very rough chronological order.

Swing Plus #85
11/17/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- St. Louis Blues – W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 1922
2- St. Louis Blues – Marion Harris 1920
3- St. Louis Blues – Fats Waller (organ)
4- St. Louis Blues – Louis Armstrong Hot 5s & 7s
5- American Symphonic Suite Based on St. Louis Blues – Concordia Orchestra
6- St. Louis Blues – Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang
7- St. Louis Blues – Boswell Sisters
8- St. Louis Blues – Washboard Rhythm Kings
9- St. Louis Blues – Ray Noble
10- New St. Louis Blues – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
11- St. Louis Blues – Cab Calloway
12- St. Louis Blues – Billie Holiday w/Benny Carter
13- St. Louis Blues – Mills Brothers
14- St. Louis Blues – Roy Eldridge
15- Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues – Earl Hines
16- St. Louis Blues – Harry James live 4/1946
17- St. Louis Blues – Charles Brown
18- St. Louis Blues – Dizzy Gillespie
19- St. Louis Blues – Babs Gonzales
20- St. Louis Blues – Svend Asmussen 1946
21- St. Louis Blues pt 1 & 2 – Billy Eckstine & The Metronome Allstars
22- St. Louis Blues – Slim Gaillard
23- St. Louis Blues – Lonnie Johnson
24- St. Louis Blues Mambo – Perez Prado
25- St. Louis Blues – Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra live 1968
26- St. Louis Blues – Sun Ra solo
27- St. Louis Blues – Sweet Hollywaiians

Two hours featuring swing bass players of the '30s & '40s. Next week- Halloween spooks.

Swing Plus #81
10/20/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Bassology - Slim & Slam
2- Bull Fiddle Blues - Johnny Dodds
3- Blues of Israel - Israel Crosby with Gene Krupa
4- Slappin' the Bass - Walt Yoder with Isham Jones
5- Untitled Double Bass Cameo - Ken Johnson's Rhythm Section
6- B Flat Special - John Kirby
7- Big Noise from Winnetka - Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc
8- Pagin' the Devil - Walter Page with the Kansas City Six
9- Laff, Slam, Laff - Slam Stewart with Erroll Garner
10- Firebird - Slam Stewart & Johnny Guarnieri
11- Slammin' the Gate - Slam Stewart & Red Norvo
12- Foolin' Around - Slam Stewart, Milt Buckner, Jo Jones
13- Pluckin' the Bass - Milt Hinton with Cab Calloway
14- Bass Pandemonium - Milt Hinton
15- Laughing at Life - Milt Hinton
16- Jack the Bear - Jimmy Blanton with Duke Ellington
17- Blues - Jimmy Blanton with Duke Ellington
18- Pitter Panther Patter - Jimmy Blanton with Duke Ellington
19- Sepia Panorama live Fargo 1940 - Jimmy Blanton with Duke Ellington
20- Pluckin' That Thing - Oscar Pettiford with Sam Price
21- For Bass Faces Only live Esquire Concert 1944 - Oscar Pettiford
22- Low & Behold - Oscar Pettiford & Charles Mingus
23- Headhunters - Chubby Jackson
24- Holiday for Strings live 1952 - Chubby Jackson with Woody Herman
25- Safranski - Eddie Safranski with Stan Kenton
26- Two Bass Hit live Club Downbeat 1947 - Ray Brown with Dizzy Gillespie
27- Shuffle Bass Boogie - Charles Mingus
28- Mingus Fingers - Charles Mingus
29- Bull Fiddle Boogie - Pee Wee King

Two hours in various afro-cuban shades from the '30s, '40s & '50s. Next week--Autumn odes.

Swing Plus #76
9/15/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Goin’ Conga – Cab Calloway
2- Moon Over Cuba 1935 – Duke Ellington
3- The Flaming Sword – Duke Ellington
4- Bunny Hop Mambo – Duke Ellington
5- Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga – Charlie Barnet
6- Pan Americana – Charlie Barnet
7- Volcano – Count Basie
8- A String of Pearls – Glen Gray
9- Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil) – Xavier Cugat
10- Yo Ta Namora – Xavier Cugat
11- Chiu Chiu – Desi Arnaz
12- Cuban Pete – Desi Arnaz
13- I Come From New York – Desi Arnaz
14- Jumpin at the Woodside – Perez Prado
15- Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White – Perez Prado
16- Swinging the Mambo – Tito Puente
17- Lolo, Lolo, Lolo 1940 – Havana Casino Orchestra
18- Bim Bam Bum – Machito
19- Blues A La Machito – Machito
20- Congo Mulence – Machito
21- Mango Mangue 1948 – Charlie Parker with Machito
22- The Peanut Vendor live circa 1950 – Stan Kenton
23- Rumba En Swing 1947 – Chano Pozo
24- Tropicana 1948 – James Moody
25- Algo Bueno – Dizzy Gillespie
26- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac – Dizzy Gillespie
27- Dizzy Talks Manteca – Dizzy Gillespie
28- Manteca 1957 – Dizzy Gillespie
29- Tin Tin Deo – James Moody
30- South America, Take It Away – Xavier Cugat

After partaking in the incredible festivities Saturday at Bumbershoot, Sunday's acts had to follow up big, and disappointed I was not. It's possible I could be a bit biased because I got a chance to check out one of my favorite artists, Raphael Saadiq, not once, but twice in one day, but more on him later.

Back in my college radio days at KZSU Stanford, one group I had in heavy rotation was the Swollen Members. I figured I'd peep their show since it's been a minute since I've seen them and I bugged out to see the line for their show, which was inside one of the indoor venues, was wrapped around the building! It dawned on me that they were from nearby Vancouver, but regardless, much props to them for drawing huge crowd.




Now, I meant to check out Seattle's own Common Market, but local radio station KEXP put together these live on-air performances with Bumbershoot artists in this small intimate theater and Raphael Saadiq just happened to be the scheduled artist the same time as Common Market set. I'll definitely catch up with Common Market another time, but I wasn't going to miss this show. I mean, an opportunity to catch him in a venue like this isn't going to come around too often, right?

For a 30-minute set, Ray Ray and band wooed and wowed the crowd with selections from his latest retro-soul album "The Way I See It," even coming back out for an encore performance with a special treat from his classic Instant Vintage album, "Skyy, Can You Feel Me." I left amazed, but this was just a teaser for more to come later.






I had to make a tough decision between checkin' out David Cross, Patton Oswalt or Roy Ayers. Of course I went with my first instinct and had to see the legendary Roy Ayers.

I knew I was missing his show in San Francisco so his show was definitely a priority on my list and dude was easily the coolest cat out in Seattle. After talking to the crowd for a minute, he jokingly told the crowd to "take their clothes off," then busted out some Dizzy Gillespie. Feel me?





But he was just warmin' up. His saxophonist kicked off the solos with "These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things," prompting the crowd to sing along.



The bassist got his ill licks in, so much so that he had to be cooled off by his fellow band members, a la James Brown:



The biggest surprise and easily the most entertaining solo was the drummer's. After started off with some casual rolls, dude seriously freaked his set by flipping a towel over his head, seamlessly continuing his solo, then adding body tricks similar to a turntablist. He ended his solo drumming all around the stage, tappin' anything and everything he could get near. This dude was ill!






From there, it was back to business, and the band started hittin' the crowd with gems like "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" and "We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" even replacing Brooklyn with Seattle for the second verse, nice.

Next up to bat was MSTRKRFT. I wasn't familiar with them at all, but I wanted to know what all the hype was about. I can't front, their DJ set was pretty dope, but I knew i was at the wrong show when I saw my co-worker Anngie in the photo pit. I kid, I kid. In all honesty, they had the room fool of teenagers going bonkers, but I had to make the trip from one teenage infested venue to another and check out what Jason Mraz' deal was all about.




Aight, I get it. Girls dig this dude, primarily girls who still need to get picked up after the show by their parents, who they may call their roommates to sound older, but that's another story. As for his music, it's catchy, it's poppy, no hate here, just not my type of music:



And no disrespect to your band, but they're the oddest collection of musicians I've seen. I mean if you took a look, you wouldn't think any of these dudes kicked it at each other's crib for the next UFC fight or Monday Night Football or keg party:




I think Jason lost a bet to the dude below in a bar. It probably went something like, "If you lose, then I get to play guitar in your band," or maybe it's that one crazy uncle in your family that you just had to put on otherwise he'd just be talkin' about what his band back in his high school days could have been if they would have written "Hard Day's Night" first:



From there it was back to check out Raphael Saadiq one mo time to cap off Sunday's festivities and if y'all thought we were just going to see the same show he gave the select few earlier in the day, you were sadly mistaken. Yes, he opened with several tracks from his new album, but quickly jumped into some classic Lucy Pearl joints like "Dance tonight" and "La La La" and eventually went into "Don't Mess With My Man," and I must say his backup singer seamlessly filled Dawn Robinson's vocals just as, if not, more impressively.




Saadiq gave the crowd about all they could handle, ending his first encore with a surprising cover of "let the sunshine in" from Hair, which was a bit disappointing only because I hadn't heard a few of my favorites yet. But he had yet to disappoint me at a show, and before I could walk 100 feet, he was back for a second encore. He had left out a ton of hits, but the two I really wanted to hear were "Still Ray" and "Get Involved," and that's exactly how he ended his show.



To quote the immortal words of Ice Cube, "Today was a Good Day." Indeed, it was.

Очередной пост, посвященный статистике. Сегодня нашей темой является джаз (точнее, топ-100 тега jazz).

Just another one statistical post. Jazz is our field of research today (top-100 of the tag jazz, to be exact).

предыдущие посты / previous entries
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Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








И тут, и там наиболее популярным исполнителем является Amy Winehouse (и, да, по личным соображениям я убрал из статистики Тома Уэйтса). Дальше начинается вполне классический джаз - Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong и так далее.

In both cases the most popular artist is Amy Winehouse (and, yes, I supposed it would be correct to exclude Tom Waits from jazz stats). Then the things go more classical: Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and so on.




А вот так выглядит общая зависимость количества прослушиваний джазовых исполнителей от числа слушателей. Заметно, что чем правее, тем сильнее эта зависимость идет вверх. Таким образом, получается, что лидеры находятся на каком-то особенном положении у слушателей.

And that's the way, general dependence of playcount to number of listeners looks like. You can notice, it's bending upwards with growing number of listeners. So, that means, the leaders of our statistics are treated by listeners in a different way, than other artists.




Это также подтверждается графиком удельного числа прослушиваний (число прослушиваний делить на число слушателей для каждого исполнителя). Вообще, у джаза этот показатель оказался рекордно низким - в среднем 11 прослушиваний. Наибольший показатель у вездесущей Эми Уайнхаус - 32.

The graph of specific number of scrobbles (a playcount divided by number of listeners for each artist) confirms that notation. Surprisingly, jazz artists have very low specific scrobble number - 11 in average. Amy Winehouse has the highest one - 32.




Гистограмма лишь подтверждает печальный факт концентрации удельного числа прослушиваний вблизи рекордно низких значений, в целом по форме повторяя распределение для других жанров. Джаз умер?

The histogram just supports concentrating of specific number of scrobbles near very low values, repeating the histogram for other genres in general. Sad, but true. Is jazz dead?




Немного статистики по активности слушателей в рупорах исполнителей. Как видно из графика, какой-либо строгой зависимости числа сообщений в рупоре от числа слушателей не наблюдается. То, что более популярным исполнителям больше пишут, понятно и так. Кстати, Эми Уайнхаус я сюда не включил - взглянув на следующий график, вы поймете, почему.

Some stats about the user activity in shoutboxes. As one can see, there's no strict dependence of number of shouts to number of listeners. It's obvious, that more popular artists should get more shouts. By the way, Amy Winehouse isn't included here - see the next plot to understand why.




А вот зависимость числа сообщений в рупоре от удельного числа прослушиваний. Эми Уайнхаус и здесь лидирует, причем с шестикратным отрывом. Короче говоря, для джаза она - исполнитель, аномальный по всем параметрам) А вот если убрать Эми, то будет видно обнаруженое ранее явление: среднее удельное число прослушиваний является чем-то вроде барьера, разделяющего исполнителей с малым и с большим числом сообщений в рупоре. Посмотрим, что покажут другие жанры)

And here's the dependence of number of shouts in the shoutbox to specific number of scrobbles. Amy Winehouse takes the lead again, having six times more shouts than others. So, she's really anomalous for the jazz. And without Amy, the graph exhibits the property, found in previous research: average specific number of scrobbles behaves like a barrier, separating artists with few shouts from artists with lots of them. Let us see, what another genres would show us the next time)

P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний в top-100 джаза - 348 миллионов.
The total playcount in jazz's top-100 is 348 millions.

P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

List of considered artists:

Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Thelonious Monk, Jamie Cullum, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Michael Buble', Katie Melua, Madeleine Peyroux, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Esbjo"rn Svensson Trio, Keith Jarrett, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, The Cinematic Orchestra, Oscar Peterson, Cassandra Wilson, Count Basie, Pat Metheny Group, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Koop, Weather Report, John Zorn, Richard Cheese, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Pink Martini, The Bad Plus, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Melody Gardot, Dexter Gordon, Julie London, Brad Mehldau, Cannonball Adderley, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Eva Cassidy, Stacey Kent, Benny Goodman, John Scofield, Horace Silver, Room Eleven, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Skalpel, Astrud Gilberto, Marcus Miller, Jan Garbarek, Wynton Marsalis, Lee Morgan, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Smith, Jaga Jazzist, Sade, Harry Connick, Jr., Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Bill Evans Trio, Lisa Ekdahl, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis, Ornette Coleman, Blossom Dearie, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Etta James, The Cat Empire, Paolo Conte, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Grant Green, Avishai Cohen, Quincy Jones, Al Di Meola, Keiko Matsui, Al Jarreau, Morphine, Silje Nergaard

1959;

1 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
4 Sonny Boy Williamson - Down And Out Blues
5 Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
6 Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley
7 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out!
8 Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns - Having A Good Time
9 Elvis Presley - For LP Fans only
10 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
11 Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul
12 Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
13 Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles
14 Rev. Gary Davis - Rev. Gary Davis at Newport
15 Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens

1958;

1 Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
2 Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
3 Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
4 Miles Davis/Gil Evans - Porgy and Bess
5 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
7 The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio
8 Tito Puente - Dance Mania
9 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
10 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
11 Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
12 Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Gangster of Love
13 Art Blakey - Moanin'
14 Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke
15 Elvis Presley - King Creole

1957;

1 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
2 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis
3 Louis Prima - The Wildest!
4 Machito - Kenya
5 John Coltrane - Blue Train
6 The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
7 Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy Q
8 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
9 Sabu - Palo Congo
10 Ray Charles - Ray Charles
11 Carl Perkins - Dance Album
12 Amos Milburn - Let's Have A Party
13 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
14 Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
15 Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar

1956;

1 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
2 Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
3 Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
4 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
5 Harry Belafonte - Calypso
6 Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
7 Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
8 Bill Haley - Shake Rattle and Roll
9 Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop!
10 Fats Domino - This Is Fats
11 Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
12 Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
13 Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
14 Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
15 Dinah Washington - Dinah!

See also;
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29

- 13th Floor Elevators, The psychedelic sounds of 13th Floor Elevators (Sunspots, 1966);
- MC5, Kick out the jams (Wrong, 1969);
- Adriano Correia de Oliveira, O canto e as armas (Orfeu, 1969);
- Afterglow, Afterglow (Sundazed, 1968);
- Al Wilson, Searching for the dolphins (Soul City, 1969);
- Alexander "Skip" Spence, Oar (Sundazed, 1969);
- Amon Düül II, Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969);
- Andrew Hill, Point of departure (Blue Note, 1964);
- Andromeda, Andromeda (Angel Air, 1969);
- António Carlos Jobim, Wave (Polygram, 1967);
- Arcadium, Breathe awhile (Akarma, 1969);
- Archie Shepp, Kwanza (Impulse, 1969);
- Argent, Argent (BSO, 1969);
- Art, Supernatural fairy tales (Fontana, 1969);
- Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, A night in Tunisia (EMI, 1960);
- Arthur Brown, The crazy world of Arthur Brown (Polydor, 1967);
- Arzachel, Arzachel (Akarma, 1969);
- The Association, Renaissance (Collectors’ Choice Music, 1967);
- Astrud Gilberto, Beach samba (Verve, 1967);
- Bakerloo, Bakerloo (Akarma, 1969);
- The Band, Music from big pink (Capitol, 1968);
- The Band, The Band (Toshiba, 1969);
- The Battered Ornaments, A meal we can shake hands with in the dark (Repertoire, 1969);
- The Beach Boys, Surfin' safari (Capitol, 1962);
- The Beach Boys, Surfer girl (Capitol, 1963);
- The Beach Boys, Little deuce coupe (Capitol, 1963);
- The Beach Boys, Today (Capitol, 1965);
- The Beach Boys, Pet sounds (Capitol, 1966);
- The Beach Boys, Smiley smile (Capitol, 1967);
- The Beach Boys, Wild honey (Capitol, 1968);
- The Beach Boys, Friends (Capitol, 1968);
- The Beach Boys, 20/20 (Capitol, 1969);
- The Beatles, A hard day’s night (Parlophone, 1964);
- The Beatles, Help! (Parlophone, 1965);
- The Beatles, Rubber soul (Parlophone, 1965);
- The Beatles, Revolver (Parlophone, 1966);
- The Beatles, Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (EMIv);
- The Beatles, Magical mystery tour (EMI, 1967);
- The Beatles, The Beatles (Apple, 1968);
- The Beatles, Abbey Road (Apple, 1969);
- Bee Gees, First (RSO, 1967);
- Bee Gees, Horizontal (Polydor, 1968);
- Bee Gees, Odessa (Polydor, 1969);
- Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch (Transatlantic, 1965);
- Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cheap thrills (Columbia, 1968);
- Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961);
- Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby (Riverside, 1961);
- Billy Nicholls, Would you believe (Castle, 1968);
- Blind Faith, Blind Faith (Polydor, 1969);
- Blodwyn Pig, Ahead rings out (BGO, 1969);
- Blonde on Blonde, Contrasts (Sanctuary, 1969);
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Child is father to the man (Columbia, 1968);
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears (Columbia, 1969);
- Blue Cheer, Vincebus eruptum (Universal, 1967);
- Blue Cheer, New! Improved! (Akarma, 1969);
- Blue Mitchell, The thing to do (Blue Note, 1964);
- The Blues Magoos, Psychedelic lollipop (Repertoire, 1966);
- Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1962);
- Bob Dylan, The freewheelin´ Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1963);
- Bob Dylan, The times they are a-changin' (Columbia, 1964);
- Bob Dylan, Another side of Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1964);
- Bob Dylan, Bringing it all back home (Columbia, 1965);
- Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisted (Columbia, 1965);
- Bob Dylan, Blonde on blonde (Columbia, 1966);
- Bob Dylan, Nashville skyline (Columbia, 1969);
- Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Bonzo Dog Band, Gorilla (BGO, 1967);
- Booker T. & The MG's, Green onions (Atlantic, 1962);
- Brian Auger & The Trinity, Definitely what!... (Disconforme, 1969);
- Bridget St. John, Ask me no questions (Cherry Red, 1969);
- Buddy Emmons, Steel guitar jazz (Verve/Mercury, 1963);
- Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield (Atco, 1966);
- Buffalo Springfield, Again (ATCO, 1967);
- The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia, 1965);
- The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia, 1965);
- The Byrds, Fifth dimension (Columbia, 1966);
- The Byrds, Younger than yesterday (Columbia, 1967);
- The Byrds, The notorious Byrd brothers (Columbia, 1968);
- The Byrds, Sweetheart of the rodeo (Columbia, 1968);
- The Byrds, Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde (Columbia, 1969);
- The Byrds, Ballad of Easy Rider (Columbia, 1969);
- Can, Monster movie (Spoon, 1969);
- Canned Heat, Boogie with Canned Heat (EMI, 1968);
- Canned Heat, Living the blues (Akarma, 1968);
- Canned Heat, Hallelujah (BGO, 1969);
- Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Mercy, mercy, mercy! Live at The Club (Capitol, 1967);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Safe as milk (Buddah, 1967);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Strictly personal (Liberty, 1968);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Trout mask replica (Reprise, 1969);
- Caravan, Caravan (Verve, 1968);
- Charles Mingus, The black saint and the sinner lady (Impulse!, 1963);
- Charles Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus (Impulse!, 1963);
- Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! , 1969);
- Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority (Columbia, 1969);
- Chick Corea, Inner space (Atlantic, 1967);
- Chick Corea, Sundance (Charly, 1969);
- Chicken Shack, O.K. Ken? (Blue Horizon, 1969);
- Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan (Capitol, 1961);
- Clark Hutchinson, A=MH2 (Repertoire, 1969);
- Climax Blues Band, Plays on (C-Five, 1969);
- Clouds, The clouds scrapbook (BGO, 1969);
- Colosseum, Those who are about to die salute you (Fontana, 1969);
- Colosseum, Valentyne Suite (Castle, 1969);
- Cream, Fresh cream (Polydor, 1966);
- Cream, Disraeli gears (Polydor, 1967);
- Cream, Wheels of fire (Polydor, 1968);
- Creation, We are paintermen (Repertoire, 1967);
- Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy, 1968);
- Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic, 1969);
- David Ackles, David Ackles (Elektra, 1968);
- David Bowie, Space oddity (EMI, 1969);
- Davy Graham, Folk, blues & beyond... (DECCA, 1964);
- Davy Graham, Midnight man (Fledgling, 1966);
- Davy Graham/Shirley Collins, Folk roots, new routes (Fledg'ling UK, 1964);
- Deep Purple, Shades of Deep Purple (EMI, 1968);
- Deep Purple, Concerto for Group and Orchestra (Warner Bros., 1969);
- Deep Purple, Deep Purple (EMI, 1969);
- Deep Purple, The book of Taliesyn (EMI, 1969);
- Dexter Gordon, Go (Blue Note, 1962);
- Dexter Gordon, Our man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963);
- Dizzy Gillespie, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1967);
- Donald Byrd, A new perspective (Blue Note, 1963);
- Donovan, Sunshine superman (PYE, 1966);
- The Doors, The Doors (Elektra, 1966);
- The Doors, Strange days (Elektra, 1967);
- The Doors, Waiting for the sun (Elektra, 1968);
- The Doors, The soft parade (Elektra, 1969);
- Duke Ellington, Money jungle (Blue Note, 1962);
- Duke Ellington/John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse, 1962);
- Duncan Browne, Give me take you (Immidiate, 1968);
- Dusty Springfield, A girl called Dusty (Philips, 1964);
- Dusty Springfield, Dusty (Mercury, 1964);
- Dusty Springfield, Where am I going (Philips, 1967);
- Dusty Springfield, The look of love (Philips, 1967);
- Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis (Mercury, 1969);
- Earth Opera, Earth Opera (Elektra, 1968);
- East of Eden, Mercator projected (DECCA, 1969);
- Eire Apparent, Sunrise (Sequel, 1969);
- The Electric Prunes, I had too much to dream (Last night) (Rhino, 1967);
- Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (Repertoire, 1967);
- The End, Introspection (DECCA, 1969)
- Eric Dolphy, Out there (Universal, 1960);
- Eric Dolphy, Out to lunch (Blue Note, 1964);
- Eyes of Blue, In fields of Ardath (Black Rose, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Fairport Convention (Polydor, 1968);
- Fairport Convention, What we did on our holidays (Island, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking (Island, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Liege & lief (Island, 1969);
- Family, Music in a doll's house (Reprise, 1968);
- Family, Family entertainment (See for Miles, 1969);
- The Five Day Week Straw People, The Five Day Week Straw People (Akarma, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (Blue Horizon, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, Mr.Wonderful (Blue Horizon, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, English rose (Epic, 1969);
- Fleetwood Mac, Then play on (Reprise, 1969);
- The Flock, The Flock (Sony, 1969);
- Forest, Forest (BGO, 1969);
- Frank Zappa,, Absolutely free (Ryko, 1967);
- Frank Zappa,, Lumpy gravy (Ryko, 1967);
- Frank Zappa, Uncle Meat (Ryko, 1969);
- Frank Zappa, Hot rats (Ryko, 1969);
- Freddie Hubbard, Open Sesame (Blue Note, 1960);
- Freddie Hubbard, Ready for Freddie (Blue Note, 1961);
- Freddie Hubbard, The body & the soul (Impulse!, 1963);
- Free, Free (A&M, 1969);
- Free, Tons of sobs (Fontana, 1968);
- The Fugs, The Fugs (Fugs, 1966);
- Gene Clark, Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers (Columbia, 1967);
- George Benson, It's uptown (Columbia, 1965);
- George Benson, Shape of things to come (A&M, 1968);
- George Benson, Giblet gravy (Verve, 1968);
- George Harrison, Wonderwall music (Apple, 1968);
- George Harrison, Electronic sounds (Apple, 1969);
- George Russell Sextet, Ezz-thetics (Riverside, 1961);
- Giles, Giles & Fripp, The cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp (DECCA, 1968);
- Grachan Moncur III, Some other stuff (Blue Note, 1964);
- Grant Green, Idle moments (Blue Note, 1964);
- Grateful Dead, Anthem of the sun (Rhino, 1968);
- Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (Warner, 1969);
- Grateful Dead, Live/Dead (Warner, 1969);
- Hank Mobley, Soul station (Blue Note, 1960);
- Herbie Hancock, Takin' off (Blue Note, 1962);
- Herbie Hancock, Inventions and dimensions (Blue Note, 1963);
- Herbie Hancock, Empyrean isles (Blue Note, 1964);
- Herbie Hancock, Maiden voyage (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Herd, Paradise lost (Repertoire, 1968);
- High Tide, Sea shanties (Repertoire, 1969);
- Holger Czukay, Canaxis (Spoon, 1969);
- Horace Parlan, Happy frame of mind (Blue Note, 1963);
- Horace Silver Quintet, Song for my father (Blue Note, 1964);
- Horace Silver Quintet/J.J. Johnson, The Cap Verdean blues (Blue Note, 1965);
- Humble Pie, As safe as yesterday is (Immediate, 1969);
- Igginbottom, Igginbottom’s wrench (Angel Air, 1969);
- Ike Quebec, Blue and sentimental (Blue Note, 1962);
- Ike Quebec, It might a well be spring (Blue Note, 1964);
- The Incredible String Band, The Incredible String Band (Elektra, 1966);
- The Incredible String Band, 5000 spirits or the cayers of the onion (Elektra, 1967);
- The Incredible String Band, The hangman's beautiful daughter (Elektra, 1968);
- The Incredible String Band, The big huge (Elektra, 1968);
- The Incredible String Band, Changing horses (Hannibal, 1969);
- Iron Butterfly, In-a-gadda-da-vida (Atco, 1968);
- Isaac Hayes, Hot buttered soul (Stax, 1969);
- Jack McDuff, Down home style (Blue Note, 1969);
- Jackie McLean, Destination out! (Blue Note, 1963);
- Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank (Columbia, 1965);
- Jefferson Airplane, Takes off (RCA, 1966);
- Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic pillow (RCA, 1967);
- Jefferson Airplane, Crown of creation (RCA, 1968);
- Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers (RCA, 1969);
- Jesse Colin Young, The soul of a city boy (Capitol, 1964);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are you experienced? (Polydor, 1967);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis, bold as love (Polydor, 1967);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric ladyland (Polydor, 1968);
- Jimmy McGriff, Electric funk (Blue Note, 1969);
- Jimmy Smith/Wes Montgomery, The dynamic duo (Verve, 1966);
- Joe Henderson, Page one (Blue Note, 1963);
- Joe Henderson, Inner urge (Blue Note, 1964);
- John Coltrane, Giant steps (Atlantic, 1960);
- John Coltrane, Coltrane plays the blues (WEA, 1960);
- John Coltrane, My favorite things (Audiophile, 1960);
- John Coltrane, Africa/Brass (Impulse!, 1961);
- John Coltrane, Olé (Atlantic, 1962);
- John Coltrane, Impressions (Impulse!, 1963);
- John Coltrane, Stardust (Prestige, 1963);
- John Coltrane, A love supreme (Impulse!, 1964);
- John Coltrane, Ascension (Impulse! , 1965);
- John Coltrane, Meditations (Impulse!, 1966);
- John Coltrane, A love supreme (Impulse!, 1966);
- John Coltrane Quartet, Crescent (Impulse!, 1964);
- John Fahey, The dance of death & other plantation favorites (Takoma, 1964);
- John Martyn, The tumbler (Fontana, 1969);
- John Mayall, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (DECCA, 1966);
- John Mayall, A hard road (London, 1967);
- John Mayall, Crusade (DECCA, 1967);
- John Mayall, The blues alone (DECCA, 1967);
- John Mayall, Bare wires (London, 1968);
- John Mayall, Blues from Laurel Canyon (DECCA, 1968);
- John McLaughlin, Extrapolation (Polygram, 1969);
- Johnny Cash, Ride this train (Columbia, 1960).
- Johnny Cash, Orange blossom special (Columbia, 1965);
- Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom prison (Columbia, 1968);
- Johnny Winter, The progressive blues experiment (BGO, 1969);
- Joni Mitchell, Song to a seagull (Reprise, 1968);
- Joni Mitchell, Clouds (Reprise, 1969);
- José Afonso, Cantares de andarilho (Movieplay, 1968);
- Kaleidoscope, Side trips (Epic, 1967);
- Karen Dalton, It's so hard to tell who's going to love you the best (Capitol, 1969);
- Kenny Burrell, Midnight blue (Blue Note, 1963);
- Kenny Dorham, Whistle stop (Blue Note, 1961);
- Kevin Ayers, Joy of a toy (EMI, 1969);
- King Crimson, In the court of the crimson king (EG, 1969);
- The Kinks, Face to face (Essential, 1966);
- The Kinks, Something else (Essential, 1967);
- The Kinks, The Kinks are Village Green Preservation Society (Essential, 1968);
- The Kinks, Arthur or the decline and fall of the british empire (Essential, 1969);
- La Monte Young, The black record (Edition X, 1969);
- Larry Young, Unity (Blue Note, 1966);
- Laura Nyro, Eli and the thirteenth confession (Columbia, 1968);
- Laura Nyro, New York tendaberry (Columbia, 1969);
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (Atlantic, 1969);
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic, 1969);
- Lee Morgan, The sidewinder (Blue Note, 1963);
- Lee Morgan, In search of the new land (Blue Note, 1964);
- Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia, 1968);
- Leonard Cohen, Songs from a room (Columbia, 1969);
- Love, Da Capo (Elektra, 1966);
- Love, Forever changes (Elektra, 1967);
- The Lovin' Spoonful, Daydream (Buddah, 1966);
- The Lovin' Spoonful, Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful (Buddah, 1966);
- Lucky Thompson Quartet, Lucky strikes (Prestige, 1964);
- Luiz Bonfá, Plays and sings Bossa Nova (Verve, 1963);
- The Mamas & The Papas, If you can believe your eyes and ears (Dunhill, 1966);
- Manfred Mann, The five faces of Manfred Mann (EMI, 1964);
- The Meters, The Meters (Sundazed, 1969);
- Miles Davis, Someday my prince will come (Columbia, 1961);
- Miles Davis, ’Round about midnight (Columbia, 1962);
- Miles Davis, E.S.P. (Columbia, 1965);
- Miles Davis, Miles smiles (Columbia, 1966);
- Miles Davis, In Berlin (Sony BMG, 1966);
- Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968);
- Miles Davis, Nefertiti (Columbia, 1968);
- Miles Davis, In a silent way (Columbia, 1969);
- Moby Grape, Moby Grape (Sundazed, 1967);
- The Monks, Black monk time (Repertoire, 1966);
- The Moody Blues, Days of future passed (DECCA, 1967);
- The Moody Blues, In search of the lost chord (DECCA, 1968);
- The Moody Blues, To our children's children's children (DECCA, 1969);
- The Mothers of Invention, Freak out! (Rykodisc, 1966);
- The Mothers of Invention, We're only in it for the money (Verve, 1968);
- The Move, The Move (Repertoire, 1968);
- Music Emporium, Music Emporium (Sundazed, 1969);
- The Music Machine, Turn on (Repertoire, 1966);
- Os Mutantes, Os Mutantes (Omplatten, 1969);
- Nazz, Nazz (Castle, 1968);
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Everybody knows this is nowhere (Reprise, 1969);
- The Nice, The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (Immediate, 1967);
- The Nice, Ars longa vita brevis (Immediate, 1968);
- The Nice, The Nice (Essential, 1969);
- Nick Drake, Five leaves left (Island, 1969);
- Nico, Chelsea girl (Verve, 1967);
- Nico, The marble index (Sundazed, 1968);
- Nirvana (UK), All of us (Island, 1968);
- Open Mind, Open Mind (Philips, 1969);
- Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, Free jazz (Atlantic, 1961);
- Oscar Peterson Trio, Night train (Verve, 1962);
- Otis Redding, The soul album (Stax/Volt, 1966);
- Otis Redding, Dock of the bay (Atco, 1968);
- Paul Desmond, Bossa Antigua (BMG, 1964);
- Pearls Before Swine, One nation underground (ESP-Disk, 1967);
- The Pentangle, Basket of light (Sanctuary, 1969);
- The Pentangle, The Pentangle (Transatlantic, 1968);
- The Pentangle, Sweet child (Transatlantic, 1968);
- Peter, Paul & Mary, See what tomorrow brings (Warner Bros. , 1965);
- Pharoah Sanders, Karma (Impulse! , 1969);
- Pierre Henry, Le voyage, d'après le livre des morts tibétain (ECM, 1962);
- Pierre Henry, Messe de Liverpool (Philips, 1967);
- Pierre Henry, Messe pour le temps présent (Philips, 1967);
- Pink Floyd, The piper at the gates of dawn (EMI, 1967);
- Pink Floyd, A saucerful of secrets (EMI, 1968);
- Pink Floyd, More (EMI, 1969);
- Pink Floyd, Ummagumma (EMI, 1969);
- The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow (Snapper, 1969);
- Procol Harum, A whiter shade of pale (Repertoire, 1967);
- Procol Harum, Shine on brightly (Repertoire, 1968);
- Procol Harum, A salty dog (Repertoire, 1968);
- Pussy, Pussy plays (Edsel, 1969);
- Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy trails (Repertoire, 1969);
- Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin, West meets east (Angel, 1967);
- Renaissance, Renaissance (Island, 1969);
- Robert Johnson, King of the delta blues singers (Columbia, 1961);
- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones (England's newest hitmakers) (Abkco, 1964);
- The Rolling Stones, 12 X 5 (London Records, 1964);
- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones N°2 (DECCA, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Now! (Abkco, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Out of our heads (Abkco, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, December's Children (And everybody's) (London Records, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Aftermath (DECCA, 1966);
- The Rolling Stones, Between the buttons (Abkco, 1967);
- The Rolling Stones, Their satanic majesties request (Abkco, 1967);
- The Rolling Stones, Beggars banquet (DECCA, 1968);
- The Rolling Stones, Let it bleed (Abkco, 1969);
- Roy Harper, Sophisticated beggar (Sundown, 1967);
- Sam Rivers, Contours (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Savage Rose, In the plain (Polydor, 1969);
- Scott Walker, Scott (Fontana, 1967);
- Scott Walker, Scott 2 (Fontana, 1968);
- Scott Walker, Scott 3 (Fontana, 1969);
- Scott Walker, Scott 4 (Fontana, 1969);
- Silver Apples, Silver Apples (MCA, 1968);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of silence (Columbia, 1966);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Columbia, 1966);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends (Columbia, 1968);
- Skin Alley, Skin Alley (Akarma, 1969);
- Sonny Rollins, The bridge (RCA, 1962);
- The Small Faces, The Small Faces (DECCA, 1966);
- The Small Faces, From the beginning (DECCA, 1967);
- The Small Faces, Ogden's nut gone flake (EMI, 1968);
- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Make it happen (Motown, 1963);
- Soft Machine, Soft Machine (Probe, 1968);
- Soft Machine, Volume Two (One Way, 1969);
- Spirit, Spirit (Epic Legacy, 1968);
- Spirit, The family that plays together (Ode, 1969);
- Spooky Tooth, It's all about (Edsel, 1968);
- Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry, Ceremony, An electronic mass (Edsel, 1969);
- Stan Getz, Getz Au Go Go (Verve, 1964);
- Stan Getz/João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1963);
- Status Quo, Picturesque matchstickable messages from the Status Quo (Essential, 1968);
- Status Quo, Spare parts (Sanctuary, 1968);
- Steve Miller Band, Children of the future (Capitol, 1968);
- Steve Miller Band, Sailor (Capitol, 1968);
- Stevie Wonder, For once in my life (Tamla Motown, 1968);
- Stevie Wonder, My cherie amour (Tamla Motown, 1969);
- The Stooges, The Stooges (WEA, 1969);
- Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and peppermints (Big Beat, 1967);
- Tea & Symphony, An asylum for the musically insane (Si-Wan, 1969);
- The Temptations, Cloud nine (Tamla Motown, 1969);
- Terry Riley, Reed streams (Mass Arts, 1966);
- Terry Riley, A rainbow in curved air (Columbia, 1967);
- Thelonious Monk, Monk's dream (Columbia, 1962);
- Thelonious Monk, Big band and quartet in concert (Columbia, 1964);
- Thelonious Monk, Straight, no chaser (Columbia, 1967);
- Thelonious Monk, Underground (Columbia, 1968);
- Them, The angry young Them (DECCA, 1965);
- Them, Them again (DECCA, 1966);
- Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley (Elektra, 1966);
- Tim Buckley, Goodbye and hello (Elektra, 1967);
- Tim Buckley, Happy sad (Elektra, 1969);
- Tim Hardin, 1 (Verve, 1966);
- Tina Brooks, True blue (Blue Note, 1960);
- Tom Rush, Circle game (Elektra, 1968);
- Townes Van Zandt, Our mother the mountain (Tomato, 1969);
- Townes Van Zandt, Townes van Zandt (Tomato, 1969);
- Traffic, Mr Fantasy (Island, 1967);
- Traffic, Last exit (Fontana, 1969);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, My people were Fair and had sky in their hair... (A&M, 1967);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, Prophets, seers & sages, the angels of the ages (A&M, 1968);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, Unicorn (A&M, 1969);
- Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach (Akarma, 1968);
- Ultimate Spinach, Behold & see (Akarma, 1968);
- Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach III (Akarma, 1969);
- The United States of America, The United States of America (Edsel, 1968);
- Van der Graaf Generator, The aerosol grey machine (Fontana, 1969);
- Van der Graaf Generator, The least we can do is wave to each other (Virgin, 1969);
- Van Morrison, Blowin' your mind! (Epic/Legacy, 1967);
- Van Morrison, Astral weeks (Warner Bros. , 1968);
- Vanilla Fudge, Vanilla Fudge (Atco, 1967);
- Vanilla Fudge, Near the beginning (Repertoire, 1969);
- The Velvet Underground, White light/White heat (Polydor, 1968);
- The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground (Polydor, 1969);
- The Velvet Underground/Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve/MGM, 1967);
- Wayne Shorter, Speak no evil (Blue Note, 1964);
- Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia (Blue Notev);
- White Noise, An electric storm (Island, 1969);
- The Who, My generation (Brunswick, 1965);
- The Who, A quick one (Reaction, 1966);
- The Who, The Who sell out (MCA, 1967);
- The Who, Tommy (Polydor, 1969);
- Wooden O, A handful of pleasant delites (Akarma, 1969).
- Xhol Caravan, Electrip (Garden of Delights, 1969);
- The Yardbirds, For your love, heart full of soul & others (Sunspots, 1965);
- The Yardbirds, Roger the engineer (Warner Bros., 1966);
- The Yardbirds, Little games (EMI, 1967);
- Yes, Yes (Atlantic, 1969);
- The Youngbloods, Elephant Mountain (Edsel, 1969);
- The Zombies, Odessey & oracle (Repertoire, 1967).