Miles Davis shocked the music world in 1985 when he left Columbia Records after 30 years to join Warner Bros. Records. In October of that year, he began recording the album Rubberband in Los Angeles at Ameraycan Studios with producers Randy Hall and Zane Giles. ...
Genre: Jazz
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The 12th studio album from Ry Cooder was his first concept album and historical album telling the story of Chavez Ravine. The Mexican-American community was demolished in the '50s in order to make way for public housing. That housing was never built and, instead, the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium was erected on that site when they moved to L.A. ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Omara Portuondo (Buena Vista Social Club Presents) (2019 - Remaster)
Bearing the trademark of the most successful world music phenomenon of the era comes the solo debut of Cuban singer Omara Portuondo. A key artist in the original Buena Vista sessions, Omara was among the most talked-about discoveries to emerge from the project, and has since - in her touring with Ibrahim Ferrer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
BLACK STAR RIDERS are back – with a new album, a new line-up, and what frontman Ricky Warwick calls “a new energy and chemistry”. In the seven years since Warwick and legendary guitarist Scott Gorham put BLACK STAR RIDERS together, they have made three of the finest hard rock albums, “All Hell Breaks ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Foy Vance will be continuing his musical city hopping campaign with the release of a new album called "To Memphis" on September 6th and is the e companion album to "From Muscle Shoals", which he released last month. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
The Highwomen -- the all-female supergroup comprised of Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Maren Morris -- are gearing up to release their first full-length project. The band's name is inspired by another iconic country supergroup, the Highwaymen (no, it's not a pot reference). ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Avant-garde folk artist Emma Frank returns with a new album on September 6th entitled Come Back, the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2018 release, Ocean Av. The Brooklyn, NY resident has a sound so multifaceted it intertwines folk, R&B, and even jazz to create shifting tempos and winding melodies that ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
After the resounding success with Verdi’s Falstaff (Dutch National Opera, 2014) the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti once again proved their operatic prowess at DNO in Richard Strauss’s Salome, a work which caused a sensation in 1905. The libretto was dark and bold, the music modern ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mahalia (pronounced “Ma-hay-lia”) is a 21-year old R&B/soul artist based in London, England. Featured on Rudimental’s 2015 anthem “We The Generation”, Mahalia has a rich sound that recalls the likes of Erykah Badu, Sade, and Lauryn Hill. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
The Blue EP follows up Death Cab for Cutie's latest full length, Thank You For Today, which was released last summer and debuted as the #1 album on Billboard's Top Rock Albums and Alternative Charts, as well as the band's first #1 album on the Billboard Vinyl Charts. The band announced The ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Los Angeles, CA alt-pop band flor have announced they will release their much anticipated sophomore album ley lines on September 6, 2019 via Fueled By Ramen. "We’ve gotten where we are by following our instincts, so when we started to record the album, ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Opera Rara releases Bellini’s first opera Adelson e Salvini, written in 1825 while the composer was still a student at the Naples Conservatory. Marking the company’s third complete opera recording by Bellini, following La straniera and Il Pirata, up and coming bel canto specialist Daniele Rustioni ...
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vivaldi: 5 Bassoon Concertos (Remastered)
French bassoonist and teacher. A precocious talent, he won a premier prix at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 17. He won a first prize at the Geneva International Competition in 1949 and was appointed to the Paris Opéra the same year. In 1957 he succeeded his teacher Dhérin as professor of bassoon at the Paris ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Wolf: Songs from the Romantic Poets (Remastered)
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, ...
Genre: Classical
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The Swedish jazz pianist and composer Jacob Karlzon creates music for the inner film in his head. This latest album was recorded in January and he says: “I’m happy when people interpret my music this way. I really do want to take them emotionally out ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On her first Warner Classics album pianist Mariam Batsashvili combines solo works by Franz Liszt – a figure of special significance for her – and his contemporary Frédéric Chopin. She left her native Georgia to study at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar and gained international recognition ...
Composer: Ferencz Liszt (1811-1886), Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Sun Rings began with a call from NASA to Kronos Quartet's manager. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Voyager 1 space probe's launch was coming, and the agency wondered if Kronos would be able to use the "space sounds" that Voyager 1 and 2, as well as other spacecraft, had sent back to Earth in its performances. ...
Composer: Terry Riley (1935-)
Genre: Classical
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