A lavishly illustrated and elegantly designed hardback; full of gorgeous gear. Early days but a lovely Christmas present.

‘The design, history, and cultural impact of turntables and vinyl technology… the early decades of turntable design and vinyl technology from the late 19th century to the 1940s will set the scene, followed by chapters dedicated to the best turntables of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s… includes 300 illustrations from the world of turntables, from affordable to high-end, and everything in between.’

Don Cherry meets the Groupe de Recherches Musicales!
Recorded in 1977 at the Paris MIX festival organised by INA grm and hosted by François Bayle, this is a terrific, deeply congruent, soulful encounter.
Cherry plays pocket trumpet extensively and beautifully (also n’goni and whistles), with characteristically unguarded, elemental sublimity; Nana Vasconcelos is dazzlingly, hypnotically grooving. Electro-acoustic pioneer Jean Schwarz — a collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard — contributes elegant tape-work, synths, and treatments; his long-time associates Michel Portal and JF Jenny-Clark are highly accomplished European jazz legends. (Feted recently by Souffle Continu, the clarinettist is a mainstay of the Jef Gilson set-up, who recorded with Serge Gainsbourg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sunny Murray; the bassist played on DC’s 1965 Blue Note classic Symphony For Improvisers… not to mention Brigitte Fontaine’s Comme à la Radio).
Remastered from the original master tapes; out here for the first time.
It’s a must.