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Bill Frisell
Valentine [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] The debut recording of guitarist Bill Frisell's trio with bassist Thomas Morgan & drummer Rudy Royston is a wide-ranging 13 song set that mixes Frisell originals new & old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy [ ECM / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Small Town [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Goes Wild Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Valer Sabadus (counter-tenor) & Nuria Rial (soprano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "Christina Pluhar has great taste. She brings great musicians together with great music. And of course, if you've liked their past collections, you're likely to find something very appetizing in this release as well." (AudAud) |
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VIVALDI / RICHTER
Vivaldi Recomposed: The Four Seasons (Recomposed by Max Richter) [plus bonus concert DVD] Daniel Hope (violin) Max Richter (moog) Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD/DVD - released 6/May/2014 ] Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote the four violin concertos known as Le quattro stagioni - "The Four Seasons." Today The Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. Max Richter, the award-winning British... |
Gwyneth Glyn
Tro [ Arc / Bendigedig / CD - released 3/Nov/2017 ] Tro, which is Welsh for 'turn', is the first major solo album from one of Wales' most intriguing and talented artists, with a passion for language, who applies her delicate craft and exquisite gift to this compelling new work, which also features... |
Jaco Pastorius
Truth, Liberty & Soul - Live in NYC: The Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! Recording [ Resonance / 2 CD - released 26/May/2017 ] Jaco Pastorius: Truth, Liberty & Soul Live in NYC: The Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! Recording , a first-time release comprising more than 130 minutes of extraordinary, high-fidelity, ground-breaking music presented from beginning to end exactly as... |
Lee Hazlewood
The Lee Hazlewood Story 1955-1962 - Fools, Rebel Rousers & Girls on Death Row [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The late LEE HAZLEWOOD is one of R&R and Pop's most iconic cult figures, with a huge reputation as a producer, songwriter and singer. This 35-track compilation presents an eclectic selection of rarities, juxtaposed alongside a handful of his early... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Les Francs-juges Overture, Op. 3 Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Roth seems to have an emotional hotline to Berlioz, alive to every twist and turn of the composer's fevered passions." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Orchestral |
Leyla McCalla
A Day For the Hunter, A Day For the Prey [ Jazz Village / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey, the follow up to Leyla McCalla's critically acclaimed Vari-Colored Songs, is a musical exploration of two cultural identities, one sprouted in the United States and the other firmly planted in... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: From Sleep Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] "Sleep is functional music, furniture music, a soundtrack for relaxing and sleeping, and as such it's successful. It's not "classical" music, and shouldn't be judged as such. It does what it claims, and it's enjoyable." (Musicweb) |
CLARA SCHUMANN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Schumann (C) & Mendelssohn (Fanny): Piano Trios & String Quartet The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] A release which celebrates the talents and importance of the 'other' Mendelssohn and Schumann, who emerge from the shadows of their illustrious family names in a blaze of triumphant chamber music. |
Ron Samsom and the Nutrino Funk Experience
Ace Tone [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] A regular sideman on numerous Rattle Jazz releases, Ron Samsom's first album as band leader is an affectionate, no-holds-barred, pumping homage to 70s jazz funk. Ace Tone bristles with energy and attitude, evident not only in the forward-leaning... |
CYRILLUS KREEK
Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel Vox Clamantis [ ECM / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] "The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression is abiding solace for these distracted times." BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice July 2020 |
Wes Montgomery w/ the Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (LP) [ Resonance / LP - released 22/Apr/2017 ] Previously unreleased live sets featuring jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery with piano legend Wynton Kelly's Trio featuring bassist Ron McClure & drummer Jimmy Cobb Recorded at Seattle's Prestigious Jazz Club, the Penthouse, on April 14 and 21,... |
Wes Montgomery with The Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) [ Resonance / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Previously unreleased live sets featuring jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery with piano legend Wynton Kelly's Trio featuring bassist Ron McClure & drummer Jimmy Cobb Recorded at Seattle's Prestigious Jazz Club, the Penthouse, on April 14 and 21,... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Songfest (with works by Gershwin & Copland) Wolf Trap Opera, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Judd [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] An American in Paris is one of Gershwin's most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin's original orchestration. |
9Bach
Anian [ Real World / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] 9Bach made their name by taking traditional Welsh folk songs and recasting them onto a spectral and haunting sound canvas. Their 2014 album Tincian was the worthy winner of the coveted Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015. New album Anian,... |
Aaron Frazer
Introducing... [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Soft-spoken with the look of a slightly disaffected 1950s matinee idol, Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications) possesses a unique voice that's both contemporary and timeless. The Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-raised songwriter first came... |
Aaron Frazer
Introducing... (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Soft-spoken with the look of a slightly disaffected 1950s matinee idol, Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications) possesses a unique voice that's both contemporary and timeless. The Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-raised songwriter first came... |
