Video of the late American guitarist Tony Mottola from a Sammy Davis Jr. show from 1966, presented temporarily by Johnny Carson because of a contract problem Sammy Davis had with ABC. Starts at 2:20 but watch the intro by Carson.

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Well, it’s September and summer is about to end. Personally, I think it used to take twice as more to end yet every year it seems to speed up more and more. Anyways at least it’s still sunny for the time being.
Here’s a 4 song selection suitable for sunny summer/early autumn days. Starts off [...]

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Back to our usual programme, here’s a review I promised you before our holiday break, the new effort by Marc Ribot’s power trio Ceramic Dog, “Party Intellectuals” out on Pi Recordings. The left handed avant/jazz/punk/rock guitar mammoth Marc Ribot teams up with Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith from Secret Chiefs 3, to give another taste [...]

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Rewind!!
Here are some of the dead links from the past months, the Shackleton remix by Ricardo Villalobos has been getting mad clicks but it’s been dead for a while, so are the others. Enjoy!
UPDATE : realized that mp3space doesn’t let direct linking. Reupped to a new server. Bye bye mp3space, you looked promising..

Shackleton [...]

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I normally can’t get my ass off the chair to go to a concert if I don’t know it a few days beforehand. Yesterday night though I had to act spontaneous as Marc Ribot was in town with his Spiritual Unity project playing Albert Ayler pieces. It was an intense show with little interaction between [...]

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Cuneiform never fails to impress us with a steady supply of brilliant albums. Here’s a new album, by the band that I still haven’t been able to pronounce correctly : Ahleuchatistas. The North Carolina power trio belongs to the increasing number of brilliant progressive math rock albums that I’ve been listening to this year, full [...]

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Marc Ribot by Pennello
Here’s the second post I’ve backed up before I went on vacation, 2 great songs from 2 guitar giants. First Marc Ribot going wild with Yezriel, a bluesy song off his new album on Tzadik with a powerful riff on the wonderful Book of Angels series which previously saw the Jamie Saft [...]

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Jaguey
Here’s an album that I’m sure some of you already know. The Jewish American guitarist Marc Ribot, an important figure from downtown NYC and the John Zorn inner circle, and guitar player for rock giants like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, was the leader of the successful but now defunct latino band “The [...]

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“Tales of Robert Dickson” is the latest solo album, from Teemu Viinikainen, the talented Jazz guitarist and band leader from Helsinki jazz scene, who’s playing list includes Finland Trio and U-Street Allstars. He’s the winner of many awards, including the Sony Jazz Award on 2004 (which is won by Jukka Eskola on 2005 another [...]

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