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David Axelrod Remembered
6th February 2017
This one has hit me hard. Only yesterday, whilst hunting for an old royalty statement, I stumbled across my David Axelrod file: faxes, letters, reviews, articles on the ultimate Sherlock Holmes (Brett, of course!), and my ticket to the jaw-dropping 2005 concert at the Royal Festival Hall. It reminded me that I needed to call him, that I needed to tell him how much of a fan the latest Doctor Watson was. He would have loved that.
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Ace Singles Club
30th October 2012
This month we're proud to announce two more releases in the ‘Ace Singles Club’, a series of vinyl 7’s that will be pressed in highly limited quantities and that will only ever be available directly from our site. These fine looking and fine sounding forty fives are manufactured to look like The Real Thing – that’s to say, we’re using the original label designs that these singles would have had, if they had originally been released as singles…
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Johnny Otis
19th January 2012
Pioneering rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader, disc jockey and good friend to Ace, Johnny Otis sadly passed away last week at the age of 90. Alec Palao pays tribute to the music legend who also happened to officiate at his wedding.
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The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard Documentary
7th July 2014
LOS ANGELES, JULY 7th: A long form 110+ minute documentary The Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard, directed by Neil Norman for GNP Crescendo, is scheduled for debut theatrical release on August 16th 2014. The Egyptian Theater at the American Cinematheque will premiere the movie.
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Terry Callier Remembered
29th October 2012
On my first day at work in July 1990, the very first record that I worked on was the Acid Jazz reissue of Terry Callier's 'I Don't Want To See Myself'. This record had been championed on the modern soul scene by Dr Bob Jones, and Eddie Piller had tracked down Terry to his home in Chicago to license the record. Terry had retired from the music industry about eight years previously and retrained as a computer programmer so that he could be at home to look after his daughter Sundiata.