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 "Good Hargrove would give his best in the later years of his career, and in those years - paraphrasing the album title - he was still a 'diamond in the rough.'

 A New Joy - my favorite track - and also Confidentiality and All Over Again... I would rank them a notch above the others.

 Listen to Roy Hargrove’s 1989 debut and explore the roots of a jazz legend’s sound!

 An Art Pepper truly in a state of grace.

 Truly two anthology pieces that fear no comparison with the most celebrated solo performers of contemporary jazz.

 Discover the lyrical brilliance of Art Pepper in Artworks—listen now and explore jazz history through his timeless sound.

 He manages to scrape away certain country languors leading us into musical territories close to roots-rock.

 An album highly recommended for anyone who still doesn’t know Joe Ely.

 Listen to Joe Ely’s 'Live at Liberty Lunch' and experience classic Texas country-rock live energy!

 These 35 tracks constitute an 'authentic summa' of the period 1966-1976, supervised and described by Neil Young himself.

 The digital version flows like a real concert, lasting over two hours without glaring discontinuities.

 Listen to Neil Young's Decade and experience the timeless classics that shaped rock music history.

 The whole album seemed insubstantial to me.

 "There Is a War," for me the most beautiful song, with its ruthless metaphor of love as a battlefield.

 Explore Leonard Cohen's challenging yet profound album and discover its hidden lyrical gems today!

 With SECRET SECRETS, our Joan… reaches the heights of expressiveness and writing ability, signing all the songs.

 The heartfelt "Strange" closes the album with disillusioned melancholy: 'No happy ever after / No beginning again.'

 Explore Joan Armatrading’s Secret Secrets and experience one of her finest and most expressive albums today.

 This record remains a precious testament to the last months of the great Charlie’s life.

 In this unorthodox and in a certain sense incomplete collaboration, there is probably the intuition of a new path for jazz singing.

 Explore Joni Mitchell's daring Mingus album and experience a pioneering jazz-folk masterpiece today.

 All this always with her soothing voice and without ever sounding like she's giving us a sermon on male incommunicability!

 For all those who loved the elegant atmospheres of the so-called English sophisti-pop, Everything But The Girl was an essential name.

 Listen to Everything But The Girl's classic The Language of Life and experience the blend of jazzy sophisti-pop and heartfelt lyrics.

 "Our Beth is a true rockeuse, one of the most interesting female voices in the contemporary American rock-blues scene."

 "The substance of the music prevails over the image, and this is a great album that certainly didn’t make me regret the expense."

 Listen to Beth Hart's Bang Bang Boom Boom and dive into a soulful rock-blues experience filled with passion and powerful vocals!

 Geri Allen, first and foremost: light and incisive, she is the true glue of this album.

 There is in Charles Lloyd's sound… a streak of austere mysticism: solemn in the Ellingtonian 'Come Sunday', meditative in 'Angel Oak Revisited', nervous in the title track.

 Listen to Charles Lloyd’s Jumping the Creek and experience a masterful blend of jazz artistry and soulful mysticism.