Charlie Singleton - Charlie Singleton at His BestCharlie Singleton was a New York City based saxophonist and bandleader who worked in a jump blues R&B vein during the late '40s and early '50s. During his tenure with Atlas Records; one of the first New York based, Black owned independent record labels of the early fifties, Charlie recorded a number of highly influential jump blues instrumentals and also backed many of the groups who recorded for Atlas including the great jump blues singer, H Bomb

and Odysseus

who has said: "He only had to sit at the piano and play for a few minutes to widen your horizons

writer Kazunori Ito (Ghost in the Shell) and SFX director Shinji Higuchi (who went on to co-direct Shin Godzilla)

these pieces require some improvisation and a modern and transverse freedom of interpretation

as the Chicago Tribune wrote of them "when their two guitars play

sung by soprano Anna Mikolajczyk accompanied by pianist Edward Wolanin

while Duncan Browne's shape-shifting 'Ragged Rain Life' feels like a decent summary of Britain in both 1970 and 2020

Gaétan Jarry offers us the three most splendid jewels

"A lot of people think of the bassoon as an amusing instrument

In When Angels Come To Town

using trombone

and a retrospective bookletwith archival photos