2009 album from the American Heavy Metal heads, a release inspired by and based on the 10 plagues from the book of Exodus. After the reflective Sacrament (2006), a deeply personal album that found Blythe exorcising his personal demons, Wrath turns its lyrical focus outward, and returns to more of the breakneck riffing that characterized the band’s early …
For six years each Wednesday in Colorado Springs, believers from many denominations in the city and surrounding areas gathered at noon in the World Prayer Center to worship the Lord. This recording is a digital compilation of several of these worship sessions. As you listen, may you experience the glory and power of His presence while you magnify …
Forty years after the Summer of Love (and 30 years after the Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled Pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose …
If you set out to create a single anthology that charted all the twists and tributaries of that uniquely American river we call jazz, you couldn’t do better than this companion set to the PBS series-94 tracks on 5 CDs licensed from virtually every important label in the history of the music. Includes The Pearls Jelly Roll Morton; …
This 4-CD, 75-track overview of the history of jazz guitar draws on *over 30 labels* in putting together the definitive six-string set and tops it off with a 148-page book. The box covers all styles and eras, featuring tracks by Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Eddie Lang, Eddie Condon, Tal Farlow, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, George Benson, …
Everybody knows Louis Armstrong–even if it’s just for his heart-pleasing renditions of “Hello Dolly” and “What a Wonderful World.” Well, this four-CD box set marking the 100th anniversary of his birth–give or take a year–contains some of his most groundbreaking, historic works. Recorded between 1925 and 1929, the Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings find Armstrong with …
Sidney Bechet was one of the great pioneers of jazz, a New Orleans clarinetist of unmatched improvisational creativity who developed a highly personal voice on the difficult soprano saxophone. He could soar above an ensemble or develop lead lines with a power that rivaled trumpeters. Although he was the first great jazz soloist to record–on 1923’s “Wild Cat …
Blow by Blow served as a new creative peak for Beck and is, to date, his most commercially successful release. Offering a one-two punch of ingenious production and imaginative soloing, the wonderfully unpredictable guitar genius meshes stinging jazz-rock with string arrangements and energetic rhythm for You Know What I Mean; Constipated Duck; Air Blower; Scatterbrain ; Stevie Wonder’s …
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 …
“A passionate evening of instrumental storytelling…it was apparent from the first notes Chris Botti played at the Wilshire Theatre on Friday, that the sold-out house was in for a special evening.” -Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times December 2005. Los Angeles, California. Trumpeter Chris Botti, on the heels of his break-through gold certified album”When I Fall In Love,” …