As a tight, longstanding jazz ensemble, Yellowjackets has explored a universe all its own of electro-acoustic soundscapes in its nearly four-decade history. Since the band’s eponymous 1981 debut album, Yellowjackets has consistently forged ahead with innovative and challenging artistic statements. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Whitesnake brings together some of the most-passionate music of its multi-platinum career on LOVE SONGS, a new collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best love songs. It’s the second release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy,” a series of compilations organized by musical ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Live At Montreux 1983 (2020 Remaster)
The legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker brought his boogie style blend of rhythm & blues to deliver two blistering performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983. Joined by The Coast-to-Coast Blues Band they cover an impressive set of hits from across his career including ‘Boom Boom”, “Crawlin' King Snake” and his very first single “Boogie Chillen’”. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
It’s hard to not get jaded about music itself when one deals with the ins and outs on a daily basis of what remains of the music industry. And then, well, you know how it is--when presented with music that’s actually fresh and unique, or simply fucking good, not only are we reuinited with the reason we all are grinding away ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration
Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. See some of your favorite feathered and furry friends like Big Bird and Elmo sing classic Sesame Street songs alongside the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Wonderful Deeds And Adventures (Remastered)
This release’s subtitle, A Collection Of Stirring Scenes & Moving Accidents, hints quite strongly at a bit of a mixed bag where perhaps not everything is totally pulled off. There is, however, a good deal of interest here, notably on the opening track which is a radical and fascinating reworking of Buffalo ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Positions is Grande’s third album in as many years – her fourth in five – and if you read Best Fit's review of her last one, we said that thank u, next was “contradictory, assured yet tender… delicate but strong. It’s sweet pop music wrapped in an unbreakable metal shell. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Amy Macdonald has achieved huge international success while resolutely doing things her own way. World tours in front of 3.3 million people, over 200 million Spotify streams, four Top 5 albums (including her #1 debut), six million album sales and the landmark hit ‘This Is The Life’ which topped the charts in ten countries, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
When Frank Woeste's "Pocket Rhapsody" album was released in early 2016, the pianist earned a well-deserved place in the limelight. Here was a pianist who “doesn’t sound like anyone else out there at the moment" (London Jazz News) with a "style at once powerful, elegant, rousing and outlandish" ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
For their third album, Love Goes, Sam Smith has focused inwards - reflecting, celebrating and commiserating. Love Goes feels like the first album Smith has had fun with. Although still featuring their primary song topics of love, lost and found, the upbeat and relaxed nature makes it feel like a breath of fresh air ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Indeed, ‘Recollections,’ Wynonna’s captivating new EP, marks both a literal and a figurative homecoming for the GRAMMY-winning icon, who recorded much of the collection while quarantining on her Tennessee farm in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Forced off the road for the first time in years, ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
HARDYLACKNER is the joint Duo project of the german-american pianist, Benny Lackner and the Berlin based drummer, Rainer Winch. They have been playing together in many different settings since 1996. They chose the duo format for ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
To say that singer/songwriter Chlara is popular at the moment is something of an understatement. The honey-voiced 26-year-old is regarded as a rising star in Asia as well as further afield. Astonishingly, three of her songs - 'The Nights,' 'Say You Won't Let Go,' and 'ILYSB' - which all ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
In a history that stretches back some 25 years, Faithless have long occupied a pivotal position in the world of British electronica. Marrying elements of house, trip hop, dub and a songwriting flair into arena filling explosive, euphoric sounds. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
As the events of 2020 have unfolded, Devon Gilfillian has sought solace and solutions in music – and found both in the timeless songs of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 album, What’s Going On, which took the No. 1 spot on Rolling Stone’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” published last week. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
His new album, HH, released on Edition Records in Oct 2020, is a pivotal album in his already fascinating journey from humble roots to international stardom. Over the last two decades, he has worked tirelessly as a sideman and guitarist for hire. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“We are living in stressful times and music is the best way to bring people together and give them some comfort,” says Gomes about the album. “It was wild to record with just one mic and no overdubs. I had to move the guitar closer to the mic in certain points and back it off in others. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
A major statement by a composer still in his mid-twenties, Alex Woolfs Requiem, composed in 2018, combines powerful expressive immediacy with an impressive ability to synthesize the diverse traditions that have grown up around the requiem genre in the past two hundred years, as ...
Composer: Alex Woolf (1995)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Listen to the fascinating album of the world-class tango orchestra Bandonegro and the sensational Uruguayan singer Andres Martorell. The album “Tangostoria”, kept in the traditional tango trend, is carefully selected compositions of such artists as: Aníbal Troilo, Lucio Demare, Vicente Greco, Horacio Salgán and Astor Piazzolla. ...
Composer: Aníbal Troilo, Lucio Demare, Vicente Greco, Horacio Salgán (1916-), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: World Music
Subgenre:
You’re holding Flex Ensemble’s third album in your hands – Inside Eroica: an exciting programme that we are enormously proud to present! The following conversation between Martha Bijlsma and Gordon Williamson provides you with some insight into the creative process, our choices and how we landed Inside Eroica. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Gordon Williamson (1974)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
