Merulo/ Tasini - Il Primo Libro AEC Music Bear Family's new overview of

Bear Family's new overview of McPhatter's seminal upbeat catalog follows him from his early salad days fronting The Drifters on Atlantic Records

This great value 55-track 2-CD set primarily comprises A and B sides recorded during this period for the 4 Star

with recordings as The Wenatchee Mountaineers

blistering sound evident on it's Cameron Webb-produced predecessor

Merulo/ Tasini - Il Primo Libro AEC Music Bear Family's new overview ofAccording to fellow organist and composer Costanzo Antegnati (1549 1624), Claudio Merulo (1533 1604) was famous for 'the sweet way he played'. In the 16th century the term 'sweetness' was mainly related to the practice of 'diminution', or ornamentation, with skillfully executed passeggiando and a 'judicious breaking up of the figures', so that the application of the coloratura might confer a personal and lively chiaroscuro effect. In 1574 Merulo