Mike Batt

This link takes you to the official homepage of one of my absolute musical heroes, the brilliant composer of the Wombles music, & some of my alltime favourite albums, including 6 Days in Berlin, Schizophonia, Songs Of Love & War, The Hunting Of The Snark, Tarot Suite, etc etc...One of the truly great composers of our times...

Hot Club Records

Pioneering label devoted to Django-style playing...

Ari Davidow's Klezmer Shack

The Ultimate Site for info on Klezmer Bands etc

Kip Hanrahan interview.

Uncategorizable, inspiring - amazingly consistent musical-visionary. Highly recommended: "Coup De Tate", "Tenderness", and absolutely anything/everything else on his extraordinary

American Clave label...

Astor Piazzolla

An overview of the great Bandoneon player's career. Has some more Piazzolla links...

Django's Castle

Great site that has bios & contact details for some of the greatest Gypsy guitarists of all time.

Eastside Radio 89.7FM

Coming soon - live-transmissions of "The Hot Club" on the net!

Tom Waits

This is a good site to start searching for all-things Tom Waits...features great Tom Waits links (including mail-group), a vast array of interviews, etc etc

Randy Newman Home page (hey, why not subcribe to the R.N. Mailing List??)

"Newman is one of the most sardonic, iconoclastic, musically adept & stylistically diverse singer/songwriters in the music industry... he is at once a gifted composer & a mordant social satirist..."

Fourplay - Electric String quartet

Great Sydney-based band. I love their arrangements (and their original compositions), & Lara has a beautiful voice...

Elvis Costello Information Service

Lots of links, plus lyrics/chords, concert-reviews, articles, & mailing lists...

Corky Siegal's Chamber Blues

Full of wit & warmth....one of my Top 10! "...an irresistible exotic new music form that classical & non-classical critics are raving about..a bridge between classical music & the blues..."

Claude Bolling

Gifted pianist & composer - created a wonderful & unique series of themed classical-jazz 'crossover' albums...

Gorman Bechard interview

Still only read 1 of his books, but its an absolute favourite! You MUST buy, borrow or steal a copy of "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" Then lend it to all your friends!

Unofficial Leonard Cohen Home-Page>

Excellent site! You may also wish to visit The Official Leonard Cohen Site. Recommended listening: "Recent Songs" & "New Skin For Old Ceremony"...

"Shellshocked" - The Michelle Shocked Homepage>

"Captain Swing" is another perfect album!

Carla Bley's "I Hate To Sing"

"Because she takes her music - if not herself - seriously, composer Carla Bley's albums are often unpretentious masterpieces & I Hate To Sing is no exception. The live tunes are exercises in avant-garde vaudeville. The leader, who plays organ and does some singing a la Marlene Dietrich-meets-Goldie Hawn, manages to continually reinvent the music with some of the most basic elements of European folk and vernacular American traditions....and making a march, a polka or a shuffle seem new is truly avant-garde...." Also recommended: "Duets" & "Go Together" - 2 beautiful piano/bass duo albums recorded with Steve Swallow.