Thanks once more to our Stateside sax benefactor for supplying this rare Hen Gates LP issued on the Plymouth label. It’s a great follow up t...

1. Rock Me Sugar 2. Rock Around My Baby 3. Love To Rock With You 4. Choo Choo Rock 5. Rock Clock Rock 6. Rockin' And Walkin' 7. Grea...

During the early 1940s tenor saxman Freddie Mitchell played in the bands of Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong and Hot Lips P...

Here’s yet another LP which has gathered dust on the shelves of my vinyl vault for the last few decades. And now it’s resurrected in all its...

Thanks to Joan for this post which appeared on the old Be Bop Wino blog back in April 2009. This Imperial LP was released in 1961, although ...

News in that Charlie Gillett, deejay, record label owner, and of course writer, has died. While still a schoolboy I borrowed the first editi...

Man oh man! This is the holy grail of honk. Sil Austin and Red Prysock , two of the all time great R&B tenor sax men, square off for a ...

Here’s a great 1984 Charly LP of 16 of Ruth Brown’s best 1950’s tracks recorded for Atlantic. Nicknamed “Miss Rhythm”, Ruth Brown was the to...

It’s about time we had another Be Bop Wino comp and so here’s a nifty little eighteen track collection of late 1940s’ and early 50’s R&B...

This was one of the first LPs I ever converted to mp3 and then I uploaded it to Rock Hall. I never got round to posting it on the original B...