Strongly impregnated with the idioms of current American and European jazz, the original compositions of the "guitar trio" also reflect the eclecticism characteristic of the new generation of French musicians. A beautiful rock energy, contemporary colors, underlying blues, multiple influences that allow the trio to interact with great freedom. Far from a juxtaposition of styles, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Chinoiserie: Building New Musical Bridges
A true melding of Eastern and Western cultures, Duo Chinoiserie’s CHINOISERIE combines the Chinese guzheng and European classical guitar to create an inspired new canon of classical repertoire. A bold and carefully handpicked selection of compositions—including new arrangements of Granados, de Falla, and Debussy alongside a transcription ...
Composer: Claude Debussy 1862-1918), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Mathias Duplessy (geb. 1972), Clarice Assad (1978), Sir John Goss (1800-1880)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Six-time GRAMMY nominated artist Gerald Clayton returns with Bells On Sand, his ravishing second album for Blue Note Records. Recorded at Sam First in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Sound Design, the album features eleven tracks of fresh orchestration and original music with contributions from mentor Charles Lloyd on saxophone, father John Clayton on bass, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Arnold, Schönberger & Gipps: Horn Concertos
This recording not only celebrates multiple centenaries of Malcolm Arnold, Ruth Gipps and Dennis Brain (the dedicatee of the Arnold concerto) who were all born in 1921 - but also three composers whose musical language and worlds bear striking similarities. Both Arnold and Gipps were writing at a time when the grain of musical fashion was going against them. ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Ruth Gipps (1921-1999), Arnold Schönberger (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Maxxxtet releases its long awaited third album called Chapter 3. The compositions and playing of the group continue to tell the unique story of Maxxxtet, which always includes surprise even to the experienced listener. The album consists of ten tunes; the rhythmic entity called the Demons 1-5 plus five melodic and dramatic compositions, each and every one of them ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The Beginning of a Love Affair
Iponcontrio is a jazz trio from Salerno formed by Bruno Salicone on piano, Francesco Galatro on double bass and Armando Luongo on drums. Their jazz is classical, in the fullest sense of the term, because it contains all the different urges that animated the world jazz of the post-war period. The famous standard "The end of a love affair" (brought to success ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Manz and Summer are two of the most outstanding talents to emerge from the young German jazz scene in recent years. As a duo, their dialogue is intimate, open and scintillating. From the very first note, it is evident how perfectly matched Manz and Summer are. A magic and freedom emerge in the way they play together. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Following their acclaimed 2015 album, Molecules, Switzerland-based outfit, Akku Quintet have released their third record, Aeon. Intense, brooding and powerful, it contains a sequence of darkly beautiful compositions by Akku Quintet founder, drummer Manuel Pasquinelli. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of purpose. Timeless and salient, these themes echo throughout the fifth album from Midlake, their first since Antiphon in 2013. Produced to layered, loving perfection by John Congleton, For the Sake of Bethel Woods is an album of immersive warmth and mystery from a band ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
April March has quite the resume: an animator on Pee Wee’s Playhouse and for Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl” video, and collaborating with Brian Wilson, Jack White, LL Cool J, Jonathan Richman, Ronnie Spector and Bertrand Burgalat. But she also has an acclaimed recording career, heavily influenced by French pop music, making a name for herself in France with her self-produced albums as well as albums ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
New Works Reflecting the Moment (Live from the SFJAZZ Center 2021)
All-star ensemble presents new music addressing racial injustices, the global pandemic, and more. Including new versions of Marvin Gaye's "Whats Going On", Abbey Lincoln's "Throw it Away," "Lift Every Voice & Sing," and others. An all-star ensemble comprising the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the Collective has ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Gentilo now releases his debut album that ambitiously mixes Mississippi blues and roots with GoGo, the funk, soul, and blues inspired music from his hometown of Washington D.C. The surprising result is a fresh collection of dance-infected tracks featuring his sparkling tenor, skillful musical passages and, above all else, great grooves. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
New Gospel Revisited is the new album from the fearless and formidable American composer and trumpeter Marquis Hill. A live recording that revisits and reinterprets his debut 2012 album New Gospel, this time round employing a band of super-heavyweight musicians including Walter Smith III, Joel Ross, James Francies, Kendrick Scott and Harish Raghavan. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Revisited is a hybrid of studio and concert recordings from the acclaimed Norwegian pianist/composer Helge Lien and his trio. Miraculously, however, you can't hear the hybrid nature of the source material. All tracks blend into a cohesive, 50-minute piece: There are no sounds from the audience and the studio takes feel as urgent as the live performances. ..
Composer: Helge Lien
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
We're Gonna Get Together (Remastered)
The 1970 Top 10 debut duet release from Buck Owens and Susan Raye: The first of the four duet releases from Buck Owens and Susan Raye. Released in 1970, the album hit #10 on the Country Albums chart, with its 2 singles “We’re Gonna Get Together” and “Togetherness” nearly cracking the Top 10, as well. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
Rage, confusion, despair, self-deception, and introspection—Madi Diaz cycles through the full spectrum of emotions on History Of A Feeling, her debut on ANTI-. It’s an album that undeniably marks Diaz’s status as a first-rate songwriter, a craft she’s spent years refining, and one wherein Diaz establishes herself as an artist ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Daniil Trifonov, winner of the XIVth International Tchaikovsky Competition, is probably the world’s most exciting young pianist. On his first Mariinsky recording he joins Valery Gergiev for a scintillating performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Daniil also presents a selection of recital repertoire including music by Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Liszt transcriptions of Schubert and Schumann. ...
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It’s been 30 years since Stigers released his eponymous debut album which took the charts by storm and generated the international hits “I Wonder Why”, “You’re All That Matters To Me”, and “Never Saw A Miracle”. For This Life a seasoned Curtis Stigers has revisited these early successes (and a couple of later ones) and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Russian Roots is the début recording of Trio Gaspard for Chandos Records, for which the group is joined by the soprano Katharina Konradi in a diverse and rewarding programme that explores the Russian influence across almost 200 years of music. A selection of Russian folksongs set by Beethoven, Shostakovich’s First Piano Trio and Seven ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971), Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Lera Auerbach (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
