Andrea Bocelli (tenor) with Sarah Brightman, Gerardina Trovato & John Miles
Romanza (Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition, with bonus tracks) [ Universal Music / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Considered Andrea's breakthrough album and still the best-selling Italian album of all time, this special re-mastered edition also boasts 3 bonus tracks including 2 brand new versions of the legendary 'Con Te Partirò' (Time To Say Goodbye). |
Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue [ Sony / BMG / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] A masterpiece that forever redefined the place of jazz in popular music. |
Miles Davis
Porgy & Bess (Mono LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 31/Jan/2013 ] Porgy & Bess (1958) is the interpretation of Gershwin's work by Miles Davis and composer Gil Evans, a point where the collaboration between the pair came to full fruition. With Evans's intimate knowledge of Gershwin, and it's prime performer Davis,... |
Miles Davis
That's What Happened 1982 - 1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (White Vinyl LP) [ Columbia Records / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2022 ] That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next instalment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular... |
Miles Davis
Volume 2 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12" LPs as part of the 1500... |
Miles Davis All Stars
Walkin' (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] The undeniable strength and conviction present in Miles Davis' performance on Walkin', underscores the urgency and passion with which he would rightfully reclaim his status as a primary architect of bop. Davis is supported by his all-stars,... |
Miles Davis & Michael Legrand
Dingo: Selections From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 7/Jan/2022 ] Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1992 movie of the same name. Late jazz great Miles Davis made his only acting appearance in Dingo, a film about a jazz trumpeter who dares to realize his musical dreams... |
The Miles Davis Quintet
The New Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The album is the debut record by the Miles Davis Quintet, and generally known by the original title Miles as indicated on the cover. It features the same personnel that played on the classic 1956 sessions. |
The Miles Davis Quintet
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Featuring an all-star personnel of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is one of the four albums that came out of the two legendary 1956 sessions of the... |
WOLF / BRAHMS
Lieder by Wolf & Brahms Alastair Miles (bass) & Marie-Nöelle Kendall (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] Miles's oaken depth of tone and amplitude of line are impressive, and ultimately moving...it's a nobly sung recital, confirming that the leading English operatic basso cantante is also a Lieder singer of intelligence and insight. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) (Complete Oratorio in German) Alastair Miles, Jard van Nes, Helen Donath / Israel Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Teldec / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1993 ] Contains comprehensive book and translations |
Cannonball Adderley / Miles Davis / Hank Jones / Sam Jones / Art Blakey
Somethin' Else (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl reissue. |
Carmen McRae, Miles Davis Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Ruby Braff, Paul Desmond, June Christy, etc
Rodgers & Hart Songbook - Blue Moon [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Mass in C major / Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] "As in the Missa solemnis, an outstanding contribution is made by the Monteverdi Choir. Splendidly athletic, for instance, are the leaps of a seventh in the fugal "Hosanna". Distinction is certainly a word to use of the record as a whole." (Gramophone) |
WILLIAM CONGREVE / GEORGE FARQUHAR / RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: An 18th Century Comedy Album: The Way of the World; The Beaux' Stratagem; The School for Scandal Dame Edith Evans / Sir John Gielgud / Pauline Jameson / Ralph Truman / Miles Malleson / Anthony Quayle and others [ EMI Classic English Drama / CD - released 17/Sep/2006 ] A demonstartion of Edith Evan's matchless prowess in Restoration comedy. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Requiem / Quattro Pezzi Sacri [Four Sacred Pieces] Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luca Canonici, Alastair Miles, Donna Brown / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Philips / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "Gardiner, using period forces, is searingly dramatic and superbly recorded, with fine detail, combining transparent textures, weight and atmospheric bloom...The soloists make a characterful quartet." Penguin Guide |
Joshua Redman, with Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade
Still Dreaming [ Nonesuch / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles for Still Dreaming - an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976-1987 band, Old and New Dreams. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio recorded in 1994)) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2000 ] "John Mark Ainsley makes an admirable tenor soloist, with a combination of a lovely sense of line and certain muscularity. Hilary Summers is quite a cool alto soloist, her wonderfully straight tone suits Handel's music well." MusicWeb |
Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue (LP) [ Columbia / Legacy / LP - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album. To be reductive, it's the Citizen Kane of jazz -- an accepted work of greatness... |
Miles Davis
Agharta (2LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 12/Nov/2015 ] Agharta was recorded on the afternoon in 1975, at one of two concerts Miles Davis performed at the Osaka Festival Hall in Japan.The album has received retrospective acclaim as an important and influential Jazz-Rock record. Its abrasive music and... |