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At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm is a two-volume album by the Ornette Coleman Trio, documenting concerts on the nights of December 3 and 4, 1965, in the Gyllene Cirkeln club in Stockholm. It was released in early 1966, and marked the beginning of Coleman's contract with Blue Note.

12" Vinyl Re-issue of the extended radio mix of the theme song from "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"called "Yo Home To Bel Air". The Extended radio mix includes two rarely heard additional verses. This 12" 45rpm colored vinyl re-issue also includes the hit single "Parents Just Don't Understand" on the B side.

Songs of Love and Hate is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Produced by Bob Johnston, the album was released on March 19, 1971, through Columbia Records.

It's hard to quantify a sound, but our definition would include 70s Soul or Modern Soul 45s that fit into the disco sound, soulful and magical. The whole LP is straight up dance-floor fire, no matter who you are or where you're from - a soul boy, disco lady, or a house head you are going to feel the heat of these club smashers. Compilation by David Haffner.

Songs from a Room is the second album by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen, released in 1969. It reached No. 63 on the US Billboard Top LPs and No. 2 on the UK charts.

Dire Straits went from strength to strength, following up their first album with the excellent ‘Communiqué’ (1979) and ‘Making Movies’ (1980). With each successive release, the sound got more sophisticated and the songs more complex. Hits like Lady Writer and Romeo and Juliet took them to a wider audience, but the understanding was that this was very much an albums band. As each new Long Player came out, production and recording quality ratcheted up.

Debut studio album by the British rock band, originally released in 1978. The album produced the hit single 'Sultans of Swing', which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The band’s eponymous first album, infused with the sound of early sixties Fender Stratocasters – no synthesisers here – further underlined the fact that Dire Straits were more in the mould of JJ Cale and Eric Clapton than the New York Dolls. Produced by Muff Winwood and engineered by Rhett Davies, the new album had a more grown-up feel than any of the band’s chart contemporaries.

Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver on ECM.

The sassy ‘Brothers in Arms’ (1985) pushed the band to global megastardom. A technical masterpiece, it was arguably the state-of-the-art eighties rock recording alongside Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’.

A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest calibre. The adroit, almost telepathic interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why he is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene.