Album

The late thespian's MGM curio from September '67

Another tasteful Soul Jazz series rolls on

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut

Howe Gelb's peripatetic lifestyle captured on record

Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend

Glittering twin set from revitalised godfather of gloom

Self-styled Chauncey Gardiner of cute implies a lot but says little

London country duo relocate to US and make masterpiece

Icelander moves into new career phase with experimental vocal fantasies

The late Tom Dowd's influence on music is legendary. As an engineer, he invented the eight-track recorder. As Atlantic Records' in-house producer, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman before helping Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, The Allman Brothers and Ray Charles. His life is traced here through interviews with Dowd himself, Charles, Franklin, Ahmet Ertegun and Eric Clapton, and through fine archive footage and recordings, Inspiring.