Ryuichi Sakamoto’s legions of fans will have a new special 2-CD package to savor on September 28th (Decca Label Group): the two albums, playing the piano and out of noise, present a wide-ranging view into the world of this composer, musician, producer, actor, and environmental activist. The first CD, playing the piano, is a series of miniatures or …
Compared to his other albums, Bird’s improvisations here are more distilled and economical; at the same time, he’s never been more clear-headed than this (it’s no wonder Parker himself named this record as his personal favorite)! The lush string arrangements and rhythm section’s delicate swing intertwine on Just Friends; Everything Happens to Me; April in Paris; Summertime; I …
The Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio was a true revolution in the classical world in the US when it was firs released on LP in 1976 . Firstly because Claude Bolling had the idea of mixing the greatest musical movement of the 20th century – jazz – with classical music. America’s appreciation of this cross-breeding raised …
The latest studio release from the modern trumpeter. Chris has steadily built up a fan base in the last several years. He has toured with Sting, Shawn Colvin and many others as well as appearing regularly on the Caroline Rhea Show. This will be the break-through POP album fans have been waiting and wanting …
The debut recording from the Harlem Quartet, this recording features the music of Wynton Marsalis, Billy Strayhorn, and others. This is music that tells a story, from the life of a slave in the Deep South to a conga line working its way through the streets of Havana. The title track is a popular jazz standard heard here …
Accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano has proved himself to be exceptionally versatile, having made his mark in all kinds of musical contexts; from establishing the accordion on the Jazz scene through various collaborations with the likes of Chet Baker, Steve Potts and Jimmy Gourley, to his impressive interpretations of classical repertoire, as found on his previous release for DG.Galliano’s …
Trumpet Star, Alison Balsom, Transforms the Traditional Italian Baroque Concerto in This New EMI Classics Release Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a program of Italian Baroque concertos. In this new recording, Balsom, plays various popular concertos originally composed for the violin or oboe by Vivaldi, …
The Thelonious Monk Quartet: The Complete Columbia Studio Albums brings together the most popular of Monk’s recordings of the period, including Monk’s Dream (1962), Criss Cross (1962), It’s Monk’s Time (1964), Monk (1964), Straight, No Chaser (1966) and Underground (1967); albums that found the influential and iconoclastic pianist and composer collaborating with one of the most sympathetic interpreters …
The New York Times called Pat Metheny’s 1992 Grammy Award-winning Secret Story the most sweepingly ambitious album that the jazz guitarist has yet recorded…a nearly 80-minute world-music suite with symphonic underpinnings. If the album functioned then, in the words of critic Stephen Holden, as part travelogue and part soundtrack for a nonexistent film, then this expanded and re-mastered …
12 of the finest horn players in the world recording works composed or transcribed specifically for them. Principals are renowned hornists Gregory Hustis and William VerMuelen. James Beckel, Portraits of the American West; Kerry Turner, Bronze Triptych; John Williams, Hooked on Williams (arr. Anthony Di Lorenzo); Samuel Barber, Adagio (arr. Roger Kaza); Thad Jones, A Child is …