New Works & Classics Reimagined (Live from SFJAZZ Center 2022)
Recorded during the SFJAZZ Collective’s four-night residency in October 2022 on the Miner Auditorium stage at the SFJAZZ Center, documents new works from the all-star ensemble. Additionally, the album includes fresh new approaches to timeless classics, like a two-part medley of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless The Child” and Earth, Wind ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
In the autumn of 2021, four musicians and close friends joined forces for a week of touring and recording. This double longplayer album captures the essence of their appraise live performances accumulating in a 2-day recording frenzy at the legendary Finnvox studios Helsinki. The album features a mix of new and original Aleksi Heinola ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
One of the most-anticipated albums of the year, is the upcoming Blood Brothers album featuring multi-Blues Music Award-winners Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia. The duo concluded a highly-successful string of “Blood Brothers” shows in the spring/summer of 2022 with new tour dates already announced beginning in February and running through the summer, culminating with a special appearance at the Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Killing Joke confirm that all hope is probably lost (or at least missing) with their first new studio material in over seven years… Enter the “Lord of Chaos” EP—two brand new recordings, plus two re-workings of songs from the confrontational UK band’s last studio album, Pylon (2015). ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Balans, Harald Lassen's fourth album, is a fascinating self-portrait of an improviser who finds freedom in a good song, a songwriter who invites listeners and fellow musicians to explore what he has created, and an artist who understands that the only valid taste is the personal. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The debut album from the brand-new collaboration between three of UK folk’s most unique and prestigious voices; Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. ‘Blackletter Garland’ by Hack-Poets Guild boasts twelve fascinating interpretations and original compositions that tell intricate tales of birth, love, conflict and ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Traditional Folk
This new Laibach album, through a new/fresh interpretation, examines the conflict-ridden genesis of the band's formation in the industrial town of Trbovlje in 1980 and questions the band's aesthetic, sonic and ideological roots from the distance of time. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Experimental
Mistakes… well, we are not machines. We do mistakes – sometimes you hit the wrong note at the wrong time etc., but for me it doesn’t matter. Mistakes make the music live, so I try to handle them as a part of the music. How can I make them sound good? How can we make them fit into context? That is the point I think. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
She Works Hard For The Money (Deluxe Edition Remastered)
Newly remastered! This 1983 album was one of Donna Summer's most popular, reinforcing her status as a major pop/dance star. Besides the title track major hit, the album includes well-known songs 'Unconditional Love' and the soulful 'Love Has a Mind of It's Own.' ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Contemporary
From Nothing To A Little Bit More
Having lived their rollercoaster ride to the top of the charts and main stages inside just two years, The Lathums state their intentions to supercharge their continued rise with the release of “Say My Name.” Simultaneously stating that the album, set for release on February 24, 2023, on Island Records, will be “an act of ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Morgan Wallen's 3rd studio album, One Thing At A Time, is set for release on 3/3/23. Wallen's 36-song, deeply personal album combines his musical influences (country/alternative/hip-hop). With so much new music, the stage is set for his 63-date/30 stadium One Night At A Time World Tour. This album follows the success of his ....
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
"Olympians" – das neue Album des Grammy-Preisträgers hebt die neun Originalkompositionen hervor, die Mendoza während seiner 27-jährigen Zusammenarbeit mit dem Metropole Orchester geschrieben hat. Seit 27 Jahren arbeitet der Amerikaner Vince Mendoza mit dem niederländischen Metropole Orkest zusammen. Big Band und Orchester in Einem: ein Klangkörper wie geschaffen für einen führenden Komponisten und Arrangeur ... #!EN!#> Seven-Time Grammy Award-Winner Vince Mendoza Reunites with Longtime Collaborator Metropole Orkest on Olympians. Featuring Dianne Reeves, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Chris Potter, David Binney, Alex Acuña and Ramon Stagnaro. Vince Mendoza, who has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated 36 times, reunites with his longtime collaborator Metropole Orkest, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard
For his new album, Willie Nelson and band recorded fresh interpretations of 10 classic compositions penned by the legendary American songwriter Harlan Howard, an early musical contemporary of Willie’s who famously defined a great country song as “three chords and the truth.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
They affectionately call themselves "The greatest string quartet in the world" and have been putting on exciting, surprising and highly virtuoso programmes time and again for years: The Swiss chamber orchestra CHAARTS. Just recently, they were in the classical charts together with soprano Regula Mühlemann, and the Berlin Classics label was also able to ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Yann Tiersen's (b.1970) music traverses genres from French folk music and chanson to minimal, avant-garde and post-rock. The French composer and multi-instrumentalist is primarily known for writing the music for the film Amélie. In 2016 he made the album EUSA, then in 2021, he ventured a step further towards electronic music with his ...
Composer: Yann Tiersen (1970)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Burnin' (Expanded Edition Mono Remastered)
This expanded 60th anniversary edition of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, offers both stereo and newly mixed mono versions of the album. The tracklist features the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” plus a previously unreleased alternate take of “Thelma,” captured during Hooker’s 1961 session. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Classic Blues
With "Wille", its second album, the Vincent Meissner Trio shows that young, complex, crisp piano trio jazz does not have to come from the USA, England or Scandinavia, like many famous current representatives. Totally contemporary music, with heart and brain, whether in the form of original compositions or re-constructions of Whitney Houston, Louis Cole or The Beatles.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Christian McBride's New Jawn Prime
Christian McBride's New Jawn — trumpeter Josh Evans (Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Rasheid Ali), saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Chris Dave, Bilal, Robert Glasper), and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran, Joe Lovano, John Medeski) — is back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer Jörg Widmann. Not only is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto a particular favourite of Veronika, it has been central to her career to date— ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
"The sound and the arrangements are from the present, but the music is from the Golden years of Rock! This means for example that the vocals have to start after an instrumental intro." Two sentences are enough for the lead guitarist of the Ellis Mano Band to sum up his own claim for the current album "Luck Of The Draw". ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
