California Dreaming (Vinyl LP) Reggae & Ska

California Dreaming (Vinyl LP) Reggae & SkaA career highlight for the guitarist, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio during September 1966, this Creed Taylor produced album was an artistic and commercial smash, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Jazz chart.

Originally released in 1978 and features twelve songs that had previously appeared on her six studio albums released between 1971 and 1976

Doin' the Thang sounds like the title of a soul-jazz release

tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter

haunting loops

funk and soul bumped shoulders with local Mbaqanga) and the '90s when Kwaito and eventually house-music ruled the dancefloors of urban South Africa

'Women In Music Pt

This was a mix so giddy

the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy's trial for grievous bodily harm

stepping out of the muted shadows to bellow and wail like some wild hybrid of PJ Harvey and Emmylou Harris on a rocking track like "Forgiven/Forgotten" or the more country-seeped "Hi-Five

Cotton's music searches a past of stillness and desolation but where Nico's is an icy tundra

from Empathy For The Devil's gospel style rockabilly skip

and mutually admired each other's destructive potential in the dance