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Album: Karl Jenkins, Quirk: the Concertos (EMI) (Independent) Karl Jenkins is a rarity among contemporary composers, balancing popularity with innovation, his fancy for unusual instrumental combinations not diminishing his saleability. Like Robert Wyatt, Jenkins paid his jazz-rock dues in Soft Machine, of which he became the final custodian, and that questing spirit is well in evidence here in pieces such as La Folia ("Leaves"), his concerto for marimba ... Music Review: Don Harris's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues and Pork Pie's Transitory (Blogcritics.org) Most Promising Sound?s motto is 'to make music lovers happy? and they have done just that with these two classic fusion reissues. From the outer worlds of rock & roll, jazz, and funk, I have a couple 70?s-era fusion gems to tell you about that German label, Most Promising Sound has once again made available to the ears of all of us musical adventurers. One is a 1972 Don ?Sugar Cane? Harris ... Different every time (The New Statesman) Robert Wyatt is one of the most influential musicians of his era. Daniel Trilling visited him at home to talk about his musical tastes, communism and pork sausages Venice goes retro (Mail and Guardian) When architects are asked to imagine futuristic buildings, they tend to come up with colourful sci-fi blobs, big swirling objects and intense videos set to monotonous electronic music. Off the beaten tracks: Obscure rock'n'roll (Independent) BLUES: SUGAR PIE DESANTO Of all the great artists to record for Chicago's legendary Chess Records, perhaps the most unfairly overlooked is Sugar Pie DeSanto. She stood no more than 5ft tall ? but as she shouted in one of her better-known songs, "if you know how to use what you got, it don't matter about your size".

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