J Rocc - A Wonderful LetterVinyl LP pressing. DJ and producer J Rocc revisits his LA underground hip hop roots on A Wonderful Letter. The album is a love letter to the city that constantly inspires him. J Rocc has been a center of gravity for the LA beat scene for over 20 years, and a staple of the Stones Throw roster for nearly two decades.

(Several have died under questionable circumstances

Don Siegel (THE KILLERS) made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary

The album features a mix of original compositions and arrangements by Stitt as well as covers of some of Parker's most well-known songs

and in this respect the Purcell Fantasias resemble Bach's The Art of the Fugue

but they are a ray of light in a very dark place

This new edition was remastered by Josh Stevenson in Canada and enriched with notes in French and English by the specialist Rabah Mezouane

Only a handful of releases exist from Red Seal

with the added bonus of a French-language version of the title track

probably drawing on an edition printed almost fifty years earlier in Amsterdam and London

recounts his participation in deep cover black operations run by the intelligence community during the height of the Cold War

His cantatas are in essence miniature operas in which the themes of love and the complexities of the human condition reflected the composer's own 'cloak and dagger' misadventures amidst Roman and Venetian aristocracy

originally released in 1976