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^^^^^dammit, something else I used to have on cassette.
Live At Last - The Slickee Boys
Few independent labels can claim a 50-year history of seminal releases that changed the course of both blues and jazz. In fact, there is only one: Chicago's Delmark Records. While being the first to record the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (Roscoe Mitchell's Sound) and Sun Ra (Sun Song), Delmark was also first with Chicago electric blues (Junior Wells' Hoodoo Man Blues). Their recent acquisitions of the extensive United blues and Apollo jazz catalogues has also given Delmark custodianship of the first bebop recording (Coleman Hawkins' Rainbow Mist). A stunning 4 CD and bonus DVD box set (50 years of Jazz and Blues) appropriately celebrates the label's 50th anniversary. This release not only presents important past recordings from the above musicians and many others, but includes previously unreleased material from artists like saxophonist Sonny Stitt and trumpeter Malachi Thompson...
