Adam Schroeder - A Handful Of StarsA Handful of Stars is a most apt description for Los Angeles' first call baritone saxophonist Adam Schroeder's debut release as a leader. He has assembled a hard swinging and sublimely sensitive quartet with veterans John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and rising star guitarist, Graham Dechter. The eleven tunes include works by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones and other composers as well as two of Schroeder's elegant originals. While

It also features 27 records which made either US or UK charts

and these are albums compiled by rocking people

This album includes tracks from a pair of their 70's soul 45's and the best tracks from the schizophrenic and wonderful self-titled super rare LP from Melvin Miller and Finley Martin's band known as Premonitions

set in Europe during the roaring twenties

The 17-track album features songs from Good Things Fall Apart featuring Jon Bellion

the common denominators being perfect architecture of form

Formed in 1978

but the composer's First Cello Sonata is nevertheless the centrepiece of the programme

Fauré and Ravel

Hillbilly Boogie comes from "Little" Jimmy Dickens

who studied with Janácek in Brno in the 1920s

arrivals and departures