Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table
London - Vicky Shipton
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr.Bean in town
Robin Hood
The Mummy Returns
The Wave - Morton Rhue

The saxophone was patented more than a half century before jazz developed but their affinity for each other might be nearly perfect. Potent, like the brass instruments whose ringing bell it shares, yet, sensitive as a clarinet thanks to the way its cane reed responds to changing embouchure, tonguing, breath, and attack, the saxophone can do everything a jazz instrument needs to do.

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Defining the blues is a simple task: a basic I-IV-V chord progression laid over a 12-bar framework, however the blues have evolved from African-American field hollers through rough-hewn rural heavyweights such as Blind Lemon Jefferson to the immaculate guitar excursions of B.B. King. The Story Of The Blues traces the four principal traditions of blues music: Blues Form - Country Blues - Urban Blues - Electric Blues and it's significant contribution to the development of jazz, rock music, and country and western music.

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The Masterpieces – The Greatest Artists
The symphonies, concertos, orchestral, choral, chamber and piano music plus CD30: Elgar conducts Elgar
[30 CDs: 1904:17]

Here is a huge, super-budget price issue from EMI Classics to commemorate, in a very big way, the 150th anniversary of Sir Edward Elgar's birth (June 2, 1857). EMI recorded Elgar's works profusely with their top artists. For this compilation they have selected stereophonic recordings of major performances, many of historic interest. We have all of the symphonic and choral works as well as chamber music, instrumental and stage works, plus many relatively known pieces. Conductors include Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley and Sir Charles Groves. Audio throughout is excellent and it is obvious much care has gone into putting this set together. The final CD is devoted to early mono recordings with Elgar conducting his own music recorded 1926-1933 (he died February 23, 1934). We even hear him introducing his own Land of Hope and Glory for a 1931 Pathé newsreel. A 32-page booklet accompanies the set giving details of all performances, performers, and recording dates, but no texts—that would be a volume by itself. Each disk has its own plain white sleeve—this is not deluxe packaging, but it serves the purpose very well indeed—and the price is unbelievably low.
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