For all the hits that Burt Bacharach wrote (usually though not always in partnership with Hal David) over the course of his long career, many records featuring his songwriting never got a wide hearing, even though these were often by popular singers with chart singles to their credit. Always Something There: A Burt Bacharach Collectors' Anthology 1952-1969 has 26 such rarities, most of them from the early- to mid-'60s, though there are a few stray items from the '50s (and a 1969 Dionne Warwick ...   [ read more ]

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In 1994, acid jazz cum soul diva Monday Michiru jammed with members of the premier members of Japanese funk-jazz band Mondo Grosso for a club date. The beguiling result prompted the two acts to work together again in 1996, and Delicious Poison is the end result of that studio collaboration. Mondo Grosso is a deep-groove, funky, slippery bunch. Led by keyboard king Hashime Yoshizawa, they are at home in any setting as long as heavy, souled-out groove is the goal. Michiru, who had ...   [ read more ]

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