Bill Withers Studio Rio
Lovely Day Versions 7" [ Mr Bongo / 7in - due 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... |
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. |
Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
Great Bluesmen In Britain [ Avid / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] |
Bill Callahan
Gold Record [ Drag City / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] For his first record in....uh, well, just over a year (woot!), Bill Callahan gives us a Gold Record. For Bill, preparing to tour for Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest meant considering being away from home for long stretches of time - months, seasons,... |
Bill Connors
Of Mist and Melting [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A guitarist's guitarist, Bill Connors has always had the admiration of his peers. Steve Tibbetts recently praised Connors's "left-hand vibrato, his sense of space, his liquid phrasing, the way he lingers on a note" - all qualities in evidence on... |
Bill Evans
Waltz For Debby (LP) [ 20th Century Mastersworks / LP - released 1/Jan/2021 ] "Whether the Village Vanguard group could have topped or extended the achievements of June 1961 is a matter for empty conjecture only. Evans continued to make great music for almost two more decades, but he must have known deep down that the... |
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Undercurrent (LP) [ Dol / LP - released 11/Nov/2017 ] Deluxe gatefold edition, 180g vinyl. |
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... |
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... |
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 Kirchen & Austin De Lone
Transatlantica [ Red House Records / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Bill Kirchen and Austin de Lone team up for a hands-across-the-Atlantic new studio album, Transatlanticana. The long-overdue release unites the pioneers of two major musical movements; Kirchen co-founded the original "Americana" band Commander Cody &... |
BILL MANHIRE
Tell Me My Name (CD & Book) Bill Manhire, Norman Meehan & Hannah Griffin [ Victoria University Press / CD/Book - released 9/Mar/2017 ] Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin. This hardback book includes the full texts and eight photographs by celebrated artist Peter Peryer, and includes a... |
Bill Sevesi
Thank You For Making My Day [ Rajon Music Group / CD - released 21/Jul/2002 ] The legendary steel guitarist offers more great Pacific Island music, featuring contributions from Daphne Walker, Rene Taylor, Lois Whaia McIvor, Sione Aleki, and Trevor Edmondson. |
Bill Sevesi and His Islanders
25 Hawaiian Favourites [ Ode Records / CD - released 21/Jun/2013 ] Every now and then an album comes along that stuns with its simplistic beauty and charming melodies...this is one of those albums. |
Bill Whelan / Various Artists
Riverdance: Music from the Show [ Celtic Heartbeat / CD - released 2/Nov/1995 ] Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean... |
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... |
HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
The 'Lost' TV Episodes Tony Hancock with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques & Bill Kerr [ BBC Audio / CD - released 6/Aug/2009 ] Tony Hancock stars in two long-lost episodes from the classic BBC TV series. This title includes "The Flight of the Red Shadow" - 23 January 1959, and "The Wrong Man" - 6 March 1959 that was broadcast live in 1959. These rare recordings are made... |
JANET JENNINGS
Jennings: Voices Of Men James Harrison, James Ioelu, Will King, Katherine Austin, Richard Liu, Sarah Watkins, James Jin, Bill Stoneham [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Including 'Songs of War' and 'Songs of Exile', Voices of Men features leading male vocalists, accompanied by renowned musicians, singing the words of some of New Zealand's most well-known male poets. Brian Turner's words in 'Taking Off', reflect on... |
John Scofield, with Steve Swallow & Bill Stewart
Swallow Tales (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 15/May/2020 ] Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in a day in New York in March 2019 - "old school" style as Scofield says, while acknowledging that more than forty years... |