Raul Souza - Sweet Lucy / Don't Ask My Neighbours / 'til Tomorrow ComesThree late 70s Capitol Albums by Raul de Souza: 'Sweet Lucy' (1977), 'Don't Ask My Neighbors' (1978) and 'Til Tomorrow Comes' (1979) available in a double CD package, with additional bonus tracks. Unquestionably a giant of Brazilian music, whose mastery of the trombone placed him in the instrument's elite. Featured tracks to check out on this package include 'Sweet Lucy', 'Overture', 'Daisy Mae', 'Jump Street' and 'Don't Ask My Neighbors' to name but

without a conductor

New Orleans-inspired sound

was one of the most exciting female R&B singers on the scene in Chicago in the mid-1950s

has garnered an international reputation as drummer of choice for Christian McBride

Michael Shrieve and Jeff Sipe

and worked them into a savagely satirical tale set amongst London's thieves

on which he brings together piano music from Schubert

propelled by his spirited

Walter TV are contemporary nomads

Staskiewicz (who has appeared on previous Glossa albums in the company of Herve Niquet and Fabio Bonizzoni) herself contributes an intriguing note about this program's genesis- complete with alluring cover design - but it is the singer's superlative control and expertise in Baroque repertoire that Tempesta best highlights

but is still somehow strangely familiar

The works on this CD span almost 30 years