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| ORIGINAL VINYL RECORDS: New Store Hours-The Return of the Talkin' Vinyl Series-Happy Leap Year Sidewalk Sale Where Old Records Go To Live NEW STORE HOURS MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NOON TO 5:00 pm The Return of the Talkin' Vinyl Series Sunday, April 26th 4 to 6pm Bob Porter & Tad Richards Listening To Prestige HAPPY LEAP YEAR SIDEWALK SALE We're Cleaning House Out With The Old In With The New Hundred's of LPs-CDs-DVDs FILL A BAG FOR $20 The Return of the Talkin' Vinyl Series Sunday, April 26th 4 to 6pm Bob Porter & Tad Richards Listening To Prestige Bob Porter is a record producer, writer and broadcaster in the fields of Jazz and Blues. He has worked for such prominent record labels a Prestige, Savoy and Atlantic. He has produced more than 175 albums and several hundred reissues. He has contributed to DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazz Journal (London). He is a two-time Grammy winner, was awarded the Marion McPartland Award for Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting and is a member of the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. He currently is the host of three separate radio programs on WBGO Newark. His most recent book is Soul Jazz a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. James (Tad) Richards, creator of the Listening To Prestige Blog is an American writer and visual artist. He is also artistic director and former president of the Opus40 sculpture park Saugerties, New York. His portraits of jazz musicians illustrate his most recent books, Listening to Prestige, Vols 1, 2 & 3, a history of jazz of the bebop era through listening closely to, and investigating, the recordings on one of the most important independent jazz labels Prestige Records. write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |