JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos in D & C (LP) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Academy St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "A quite extraordinary achievement. Marvellously expressive cello playing. The orchestra gives splendid support and the sound is warm and ingratiating" (Gramophone) |
Clifford Brown
Memorial Album (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953-a co-led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date-that were compiled on the 12" LP Memorial Album (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in... |
Danny Brown
Quaranta [ Warp Records CD / CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] Detroit spitter Danny Brown is a fan favourite for a reason. Few MCs have taken true-blue lyrical ferocity and draped it in a persona as arresting as Danny's. Recognized in his early days as much for his streak of permed hair, toothy grin, and... |
Danny Brown
Quaranta (Black LP) [ Warp Records LP / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] Detroit spitter Danny Brown is a fan favourite for a reason. Few MCs have taken true-blue lyrical ferocity and draped it in a persona as arresting as Danny's. Recognized in his early days as much for his streak of permed hair, toothy grin, and... |
Danny Brown
Quaranta (LTD Edition Red LP) [ Warp Records LP / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] Detroit spitter Danny Brown is a fan favourite for a reason. Few MCs have taken true-blue lyrical ferocity and draped it in a persona as arresting as Danny's. Recognized in his early days as much for his streak of permed hair, toothy grin, and... |
Butcher Brown
Solar Music [ Concord / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] The Richmond, VA band Butcher Brown's new album Solar Music explores a blend of genres including Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B/Soul. Following the release of Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey and #KingButch, this forward-thinking band shares 17-tracks... |
Butcher Brown
Solar Music (LP) [ Concord / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2023 ] The Richmond, VA band Butcher Brown's new album Solar Music explores a blend of genres including Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B/Soul. Following the release of Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey and #KingButch, this forward-thinking band shares 17-tracks... |
Alan Brown
Ondulation [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo - a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot... |
James Brown
James Brown: Four Classic Albums Plus...Four Bonus Tracks [ Avid R & B / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] AVID R&B presents the latest release in their Four Classic Albums Plus series with a re-mastered 2CD set from James Brown & The Famous Flames, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Please, Please, Please"; "Think";... |
Brown, Dennis
Dubbing At King Tubby's [ Jamaican / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] |
JEFFREY LUNDEN
Lunden: Wings Linda Stephens & William Brown / 1993 New York Shakespeare Festival Cat [ RCA Victor / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Wings is a musical with music by Jeffrey Lunden and book and lyrics by Arthur Perlman adapted from Arthur Kopit's play of the same name. |
James Brown
Soul On Top (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album, featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson, the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a "jazz man at heart". Brown's soul consigliere, saxophonist... |
Mel Brown
Chicken Fat (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] Guitarist Mel Brown's 1967 Impulse! debut is possibly the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. Brown's clean blues picking style-honed while playing in John Lee Hooker's and T-Bone Walker's bands-marinates funkily with the... |
Kane Brown
Different Man (LP) [ RCA Nashville / 2 LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Multi-platinum and award-winning artist Kane Brown is back with his third studio album. 'Different Man' features seventeen songs, including his hit single "Like I Love Country Music", his co-produced track "Whiskey Sour", his #1 hit "One... |
Mansur Brown
Naqi Mixtape (LP) [ Amai Records / LP - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Mansur Brown returns with the Naqi Mixtape - an LP that combines both Naqi EPs from earlier in the year. Side A finds Mansur exploring the influence of '00s hip-hop innovator Timbaland and Afrobeats artists like Burna Boy and Wizkid. Side B pares... |
Kane Brown
Different Man [ Rca Nashville / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Multi-platinum and award-winning artist Kane Brown is back with his third studio album. 'Different Man' features seventeen songs, including his hit single "Like I Love Country Music", his co-produced track "Whiskey Sour", his #1 hit "One... |
Jimmy Scott / Oscar Brown Jr
Five Classic Albums (Very Truly Yours, If Only You Knew, The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott, Sin & Soul, Between Heaven & Hell) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD shared release from Jimmy Scott and Oscar Brown Jr., complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. Here we feature three albums from... |
Dennis Brown
Tribulation Times (LP) [ Kingston Sounds / LP - released 10/Dec/2021 ] |
Alan Brown
Murmur [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Alan Brown is a musician with a long and revered history in the New Zealand jazz scene. MURMUR presents ten wonderfully textural environments, a contemplative album rich in open ambiences and colours. This is a restrained and mature work from one of... |
Larry Carlton & Paul Brown
Soul Searchin' [ Shanachie / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Between them they have won an incredible eight Grammys. Now these two jazz greats come together to create the guitar event of the year. Larry Carlton has been a guitar icon for close to five decades. Famous for his work as the lead guitarist of the... |