“America’s Big Band,” the US Army Jazz Ambassadors, based in Washington, D.C., has teamed up with legendary composer and arranger Sammy Nestico for a release of new music recorded in high-resolution audio. Of the 13 tracks, seven are Sammy originals—Toni, Cell Talk, Shirley, Hip Music ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Using a deep time perspective composer Henning Sommerro chooses themes from myths and from European history. Three works for soloist and orchestra and three visions encounter resistance before they struggle forward to possible redemption and resolution. ..
Composer: Henning Sommerro (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
The work was premiered on May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, as a staged production of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, with Pierre Monteux conducting. Monteux also led the first SFS performances of the original 1913 version in February 1939. ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The music for Certainty of Tides was initially recorded with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra with Nils Petter Molvaer as a soloist in 2020. He had asked several wonderful Norwegian composers to arrange a set of music from his back catalogue. ...
Composer: Nils Petter Molvær (1960)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
"Exploring New Boundaries" published by Neuklang, ADA Music (Warner Music Group) and Verlag follows their first EP entitled "Overture" released in 2022, which received considerable acclaim from the public and critics. The recordings were made at Bauer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Remastered)
Joni Mitchell continues the journey through her previously unmined archives. The set includes sessions with Graham Nash, James Taylor, Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers, & Tom Scott and the L.A. Express. It features never-before-heard demos, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings
Producer Snyder had long wished to record Pepper, and to that end, booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. But the sax man was under contract to Contemporary Records, whose head Les Koenig opted to record the stint himself. Pepper, however, remained committed ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bob
Something New: Unreleased Gold (Remastered)
In the mid-1970s, Andrew Gold’s skills as a musician and an arranger were ubiquitious, appearing on some of the biggest records of the decade by artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Art Garfunkel, and James Taylor. By 1977, he had reached the Billboard Top 10 as an artist and writer with his self penned hit, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Singer
Never Stop... The Best of (Remastered)
The success of the Brand New Heavies in the early 1990s heralded the golden age of Acid Jazz. They gave us our first Top 40s hits and remain an essential presence in our story. “The Brand New Heavies and their pitch perfect jazz-funk revival were my musical coming out party. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Dustin Lynch's sixth studio album, "Killed the Cowboy", promises to be his most relentlessly honest and self-inquisitive project to date. The 38-year-old country star had achieved many of his goals: He spent the last decade securing country radio hits, raking in billions of streams and touring with the likes of Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Brad ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
Ed Sheeran has released his new album "Autumn Variations". The album contains a total of 14 tracks, including "American Town", for which a new live performance video can be seen below. Ed also performed the song a few days ago in the kitchen of his good friend Courteney Cox, to whom he explained in advance that "American Town" was inspired by ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté
After twenty studio albums in a career spanning forty years (to which can be added no less than five live albums and as many collaborations with the likes of Marcus Miller, Michel Petrucciani, Lenny White, Kenny Garrett, Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Larry Coryell and Sylvain Luc), Biréli Lagrène returns with his Gipsy Trio (featuring Hono ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Jazz
The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and its Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now ‘traditional’ recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Ravel’s Shéhérazade. ...
Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Diamonds and Pearls (Remastered)
Diamonds and Pearls is the thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Prince, and the first with his new backing band The New Power Generation. It was released on October 1, 1991, by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album produced several hit singles, including "Gett Off", "Cream", "Money Don't Matter 2 Night", "Insatiable", and the title track. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
The members of The Bootheels were frontman/songwriter/bassist Luther Russell, who would later lead The Freewheelers before emerging as a prolific solo artist and half of Those Pretty Wrongs (with Big Star’s Jody Stephens); guitarist Jakob Dylan, who would soon achieve stardom as leader of The Wallflowers; future Wallflowers guitarist Tobi Miller, whose instrumental ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Louisville Sluggers (Remastered)
In 1966, Terry Adams and Steve Ferguson, two musicians from Louisville, Kentucky, formed the New Rhythm And Blues Quartet after playing together in earlier bands. From the release of their 1969, self-titled debut, NRBQ became not only one of the greatest genre-defying bands on the planet, but ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
There is a cinematic quality to “Our Roots Run Deep”. Dominique Fils-Aimé frames her latest album with a loose, dreamlike narrative structure that tells a story of growth. The first track sets the stage with the phrase: “our roots run deep underground”. Along the way, there are a myriad of human challenges and forms of ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Superstar and cultural icon Kylie Minogue has releases her greatly-anticipated new studio album Tension as Deluxe version which includes 3 bonus tracks. "I started this album with an open mind and a blank page. Unlike my last two albums there wasn’t a ‘theme’, it was ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
