Les Baxter's Teen Drums (Remastered)
Les Baxter (1922-1996) used to be an utterly talented composer and bandleader who was on the go to the max during his active years. His version and as I should say vision of jazz music was a contemporary fresh and colorful sound with an exotic vibe due to the use of many elements of latin music within a modernized big band sound. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
With their brand-new sophomore album, Patina, Toronto-based indie pop band Tallies have found a way to expertly walk that razor-thin tightrope between nostalgia and the present, nodding to their favorite bands of the past while transforming their sound into something tight, bright, and undeniably fresh. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
10-track, gospel-flared jazz album Honoring Louis Armstrong featuring John Redmon and accompanied by the world-renowned Thomas J. Dawson, Jr. iOrchestra. Redmon, Dawson and a host of stellar talent from around the nation have come together on one unforgettable recording to pay homage to a man of inescapable influence…Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame Inductee Louis Armstrong. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Entering Heaven Alive is the fifth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Missa Festiva: Choral Music by Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters was one of the most significant Catholic composers of the twentieth century, whose deeply spiritual œuvre incorporates elements of Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony. This recording celebrates his Latin choral music, a perfect assimilation of the motu proprio of Pope Pius X in 1903, which was unjustly neglected following ...
Composer: Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Among all the young, contemporary jazz singers who are finding their own way with the music, Erik Leuthäuser is a unicorn. German-born and based in Berlin, Erik is fast becoming known for giving fresh voice to a connoisseur’s array of treasures from the Great American ...
Composer: Ronny Whyte
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre:
The debut album from singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter Kathryn Williams. The collection explores a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation, particular emphasis on the strings and production from Ed Harcourt. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Back Into The Groove: The 2022 return of Ronnie Foster to Blue Note Records is an event of synergistic quintessence, completeness, and cool. The organ great’s dynamic new album, Reboot, arrives upon the 50th anniversary of his 1972 Blue Note debut Two Headed Freap. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum superstar Lizzo returns with Special, her massively anticipated second full-length offering which includes the help of collaborators Ricky Reed, Max Martin, and Mark Ronson. When you love yourself, anything becomes possible. Channeling boundless self-confidence through a downright earth- ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe present Beethoven’s nine symphonies in what is the very first recorded cycle to be based on the recently concluded New Complete Edition of the composer’s works. “I’m interested in how Beethoven’s music can surprise us today,” says Maestro Nézet-Séguin. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Drummer Gard Nilssen’s ECM leader debut follows acclaimed recordings for the label with the Maciej Obara Quartet. Elastic Wave presents Nilssen’s powerful trio with fellow Norwegian André Roligheten on reeds and Swedish bassist Petter Eldh (recently heard with Kit Downes). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Renaissance", the debut full-length from London-born composer and multi-instrumentalist DoomCannon, continues this tradition by employing the compositional and improvisational potential of jazz as a means of speaking to the politics of contemporary Black life. Combining a groovy jazz-funk sensibility with the weight and rhythmic ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Haydn Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 1 - Fischer one bar wonder
Haydn has been central to the repertoire of the Trio Gaspard since its inception, to the extent that it is rare for it to perform a programme that does not include his music. For this complete survey of Haydn’s Trios, the pianist Nicholas Rimmer notes: ‘we have decided to record the trios neither chronologically nor in the groups in ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Jasmine Myra is a saxophonist, composer and band leader, based in Leeds. Part of the bustling, creative, cross-genre music scene in Leeds (she attended Leeds Conservatoire) Jasmine has surrounded herself with some of the best young talent in the city. Her original instrumental music has a euphoric and uplifting sound, influenced by artists as diverse as Kenny Wheeler, Bonobo, Olafur ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
As the bandleader on David Bowie's final album Blackstar, saxophonist Donny McCaslin collaborated with the Starman to carry forward his penchant for reinvention. With his upcoming studio album — a daring fusion of vibrant electronica, and bombastic art-rock due this fall — McCaslin applied that mindset to his own work, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The quartet's music uses elements from avant-garde trends, while the content is "sheet music" jazz. Grotesque and postmodern sound is built on energetic solos and melodic themes. The multi-instrumentalist Béla Ágoston condensed the driving force of his work, which dissolved the boundaries between genres, into the concept of "music-making", and in this spirit he became an inescapable figure in our popular music life. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Between Us... (feat. Manu Delago) (Live)
The album "Between Us..." sees Anoushka Shankar maintain a long tradition of collaboration which began as a 13-year-old girl, when she started performing sitar alongside her father and teacher Ravi Shankar. Since then she’s worked alongside an extraordinary range of people, including her half-sister Norah Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, MIA, Patti Smith and even the Dalai ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
On The Wall In The Morning Light
Fresh from a lap of the country on a national tour, today Great Gable announces their second studio album On The Wall In The Morning Light, available Friday 8 July via Rainbow Valley Records. To mark the release, the Perth four-piece have unveiled the exuberant new single Dancing Shoes. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
"Sumna" is the third solo album of Kivie Cahn-Lipman (founding cellist of the International Contemporary Ensemble, founder of baroque band ACRONYM and HiP Scottish ensemble Makaris, and co-founder of viol consorts LeStrange and Science Ficta). Here he offers first recordings of new cello solos written for him by Daijana Wallace, Édgar Guzmán, and Vincent Calianno, along with a ...
Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Outside Notion (2021 Remaster)
As a kid growing up in the noughties, I was 16 when Maximo Park formed back in 2005, of course I was a fan. They were so good and fresh. I think I Graffiti was on permanent repeat on my original Ipod Classic. Remember those? Those glory days before spotify! ....
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
