W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Masses Vol 3 Carolina Ullrich (soprano) lvira Bill (alto) Dominik Köninger (bass) / WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] The third volume of Mozart's Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists. |
Bill Withers Studio Rio
Lovely Day Versions 7" [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Mr Bongo proudly presents a reissue of this brilliant, bossa-channelling Bill Withers reinterpretation from Studio Rio's 2014 release 'The Brazil Connection'. Masterminded by the German Grammy award-winning Berman Brothers, the project was born out... |
Bill Frisell
Orchestras (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Guitarist Bill Frisell's new double LP Orchestras documents two inspired concert-hall engagements arranged by Michael Gibbs for Frisell's long-standing trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston: one featuring the nearly 60-piece... |
Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans
Know What I Mean? (Original Jazz Classics Series) (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] "Know What I Mean?" was originally released in 1960 as a collaboration between jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley and legendary pianist Bill Evans, along with the rhythm section of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath (bass) and Connie Kay... |
Bill Fay Group
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (Reissue) [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new... |
Bill Fay Group
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (Reissue LP) [ Dead Oceans / 2 LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new... |
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve Acoustic Sound Series LP) [ Verve Us / LP - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Bill Evans and Stan Getz are about as close as musicians can get in terms of artistry, musical philosophy and technique. These sessions, recorded in 1963 with drummer Elvin Jones and bassists Ron Carter (Side A) and Richard Davis (Side B), perfectly... |
Bill Evans Trio
Moon Beams (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Bill Evans was left reeling by the accidental death of his brilliant bassist Scott LaFaro in mid-1961 and didn't feel ready to record with his new bassist until nearly a year later. When he did go into the studio in May and June of 1962 with Chuck... |
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 8/Dec/2023 ] The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) brings together two legends of modern music. Featuring just vocal and piano, without any additional musicians, the two artists selected the songs and worked out the arrangements for what was to become the... |
Bill Evans Trio
Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Original Jazz Classics Series LP) [ Concord / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The first of two albums recorded at the legendary final appearance of the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Vanguard, these recordings have long been recognized as capturing the unique interaction that characterized the trio of Evans, LaFaro and... |
Bill Evans Trio
How My Heart Sings! (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Bill Evans' 1962 studio sessions with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Paul Motian produced two of the jazz legend's most popular sets with both Moon Beams and How My Heart Sings! Displaying more of a mid and even tempo flair than the all ballads... |
Fatback Brother Bill Curtis
Dance Girl / Keep On Brother Keep On (7") [ BGP / Ace Records / 7in - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Before the soul and disco hits, Bill Curtis' Fatback Band were one of the tightest funk groups in the world, and their catalogue threw up several rarities. 'Dance Girl' was their final single released in 1974 before they signed to Event/Spring. A... |
Bill Brewster
Late Night Tales Presents: After Dark - Vespertine [ Late Night Tales / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] A throbbing, louche and leisurely affair, groove is very much at the heart of this freestyle selection, a vibe which Bill de¬scribes as "a basement, a red light and a sound system. Or, as the Beastie's once rapped, slow and low, that is the... |
Bill Brewster
Late Night Tales presents After Dark - Vespertine (LP) [ Late Night Tales / 2 LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] A throbbing, louche and leisurely affair, groove is very much at the heart of this freestyle selection, a vibe which Bill de¬scribes as "a basement, a red light and a sound system. Or, as the Beastie's once rapped, slow and low, that is the... |
Bill Direen
100 Years Of Darkness [ Grapefruit / Book - released 30/Jun/2023 ] 100 Years of Darkness is a homage to a century of films and film music. The front cover boxes represent film aspect ratios (1.17:1 up to 2.35:1) as used worldwide between 1888 and the present. The films are drawn from many countries, such as Japan,... |
Hicks, Bill
The Complete Letterman Broadca [ Fm Records / 2 CD - released 19/May/2023 ] |
Bill Callahan
YTI⅃AƎЯ (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] From the beautiful to the jarring, intrepid explorer Callahan charts a passage through all kinds of territory, pitting dreams of dreams against dreams of reality. When he makes it back to us, his old friends 'n' acquaintances, we are reminded how... |
Bill Nace
Through A Room (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "Bill Nace's 'Through a Room' represents a seismic progression from 'Both', his startling 2020 debut solo LP for Drag City. Nace's career has been defined by a relentless probing of ways to frame the complex menu of human emotions, and that the... |
Bill Frisell
Four [ Blue Note / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Bill Frisell convenes a new line-up of musical friends on his third Blue Note album Four, which features the acclaimed guitarist with Greg Tardy on saxophone and clarinet, Gerald Clayton on piano, and Johnathan Blake on drums. |
Bill Callahan
YTI⅃AƎЯ [ Drag City / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] From the beautiful to the jarring, intrepid explorer Callahan charts a passage through all kinds of territory, pitting dreams of dreams against dreams of reality. When he makes it back to us, his old friends 'n' acquaintances, we are reminded how... |