Mick Kolassa - Blind Lemon SessionsMick Kolassa began this acoustic album when Thomas Schleiken, of Blind Lemon Records, invited him to do some shows in Germany and record a couple songs for a compilation album. What began as a couple songs kept expanding into this where Mick got a chance to play some of his old favorite songs, as well as a couple of new favorites and some new compositions. It also gave him a chance to stretch his vocal cords and different guitar chords as he traveled

all for the Columbia label

muscle toning

Grant Green was Feelin' The Spirit on this deeply soulful 1962 date that found the great guitarist interpreting a set of spirituals with a state of the art modern jazz line-up featuring Herbie Hancock on piano

based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth

pieces exploring a mode or scale

1984's Bad Attitude

but bari saxist Glenn Wilson and pianist Chip Stephens prove throughout Sadness and Soul that these instruments belong together

Blackwater Holylight

caresses and is riddled lyrically and moodily with signs of these very weird and worrisome times

amply presented through the eyes and the mind of a shepherd (who symbolically stands for a link between the two dimensions

when he was sought out by directors including Francesco Rosi

yet functional cuts