John Tucker - Broadway Impromptu BlueMonterey, California based blues singer presents another fine album featuring his soulful, earthy vocals in a jazz blues setting, backed by a band led by the proficient pianist Bill Heid all nine songs are covers, and Tucker & his band give each song their own style, inc. An uptown blues treatment of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Help Me"

a work scored for the same forces as Schubert's 'Trout quintet' and inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's first two Duino Elegies: 'Angels (it's said) are often unable to tell whether they move amongst the living or the dead

Peter Eötvös's work - which was written for her - therefore provides the perfect ending to this very personal project

and adds two brand-new tunes: "The Muck" and "Good to Drive

to further explore the country and it's music

When Ryota Sakamoto wakes up on a strange island with a bag of bombs and a crystal in his hand

For his interpretation with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

His signature is the quiet

Royalty income from the Beatles aside

is sure to make this a staple in dj sets around the globe

and leading her own orchestra or with various top class accompanists

a certain beautiful and well endowed innkeeper he rescues quickly becomes a fan

including those which her wayward pops bizarrely keeps sending her