Music and friendship are utterly intertwined for Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher, who first collaborated in 2015 on their album Biala Flaga, featuring their arrangements of Polish rock star Grzegorz Ciechowski’s music.

Santana have announced a new album, Blessings and Miracles, which will arrive on Oct. 15. The LP will feature appearances by several guest musicians and collaborators, including Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Steve Winwood, Chris Stapleton, Rick Rubin and Corey Glover of Living Colour.

The album is a beautiful and thrilling dialogue between Japan's most talented trumpeter Miki Hirose and Mayuko Katakura, a first-call pianist who has earned the tremendous trust of many musicians. The recording was made by Taro Okamoto's atelier in the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum Tokyo, and Mayuko plays the upright piano that Taro loved and made 100 years ago. In a unique art space, two top players develop a sound full of speed and tension.

The first call pianist Masyoko Kagura, a proud Japanese jazz world, challenging the opposing theme. "Plays Coltrane" and "Plays Standards" are released simultaneously on October 27. With different color arrangements, John Coltrane famous songs, "Plays Coltrane", a simple standard. "Plays Standards" brings new life to the Do. The two concepts are oppositive, but each one has the talents of Masyuki Katakura. It is a drawer, and its powerful groove embodies the original charm of the jazz. Enjoy the fun, beauty and thrill of a piano trio with creative one-of-a-kind sound. Dare to challenge the simple standard. A new breath to the famous jazz that you have been listening repeatedly.

Tropicale is the explosion of joy of the Italian economic miracle, the promise of distant destinations becoming all of a sudden tangible, the illusion of a taboo world where everything seems possible. Through rare and unreleased cuts from the CAM Sugar archive, Tropicale traces the incendiary liaisons between Italian film music and tropical culture in the 1960s across bossa nova, samba, Latin jazz, exotica, calypso, mambo and other tropical rhythms.

This compilation album offers a rich selection of French film music from the 1960s and 1970s. Listeners are taken on a journey through a cinematic and tropical atmosphere, infused with jazz, mambo, samba, and exotic melodies. Early listens reveal deep, rhythmic, and melodic compositions crafted by master composers such as Claude Bolling and Michel Colombier.

Jazz classics and modern songs in the spirit of the 1950s. After his tribute to Nat King Cole's album ‘Gentlemen are hard to find’ and ‘Somethin’ Old & Somethin‘ New - Somethin’ Else", Martin Lechner's third album now follows: “Another Step”. On it, he and his band interpret jazz classics, present their own pieces and breathe the breath of the 50s into modern songs. Lechner's songs, sung in the warm timbre of his voice, get under your skin - cosily embedded in the sound of a strong, well-rehearsed band made up of some of the best-known names on the Swiss jazz scene.

Polish keyboard master who had been super busy since 1972, apparently having played with some of Sweden's jazz- rock fusion stars, met Steve Gadd and Anthony Jackson while working on compatriot Michal URBANIAK (Jean-Luc PONTY, DZAMBLE, NEIMEN, Larry CORYELL)'s Fusion III and FUNK FACTORY albums in 1975.

After a sold-out tour in the Netherlands, the renowned Dutch saxophonist Benjamin Herman links up with his long-time friend and fellow jazz compatriot, Japanese pianist Mayuko Katakura, to craft an intimate and emotional ballad-based EP, Café Largo. The project is shrouded in mystique, enticing listeners with its slow, spellbinding saxophone and delicate piano. Each track exudes a relaxed ambiance, allowing the music to flow effortlessly, resulting in a rich tapestry of moods and atmospheres.

John Henry Maunder studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and served as organist in several London churches, including St Matthew's, Syndenham and St Paul's, Forest Hill. Maunder started his career as a theatre composer during which time he wrote the operetta 'Daisy Dingle'. He later devoted himself exclusively to sacred music. While his oratorio 'The Martyrs' became a perennial favourite it is 'Olivet to Calvary' which has retained its popularity and appeal through the generations.

In 1973, the Sound Sculpture Show took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery. An LP audio catalogue of the exhibition, entitled “The Sounds of Sound Sculpture”, was released in 1975 under the supervision of the Canadian sound sculptor John Grayson and US composer David Rosenboom. Grayson had edited an important early book on the field, “Sound Sculpture”. The LP included rare takes of Rosenboom and Grayson, amongst others, playing famous pieces by pioneering sound sculptors including the Baschet brothers and Harry Bertoia, the latter best known for his Sonambient series. It also included some of the few recordings by Stephan Von Huene, who had begun to create his kinetic sculptures, and the profound atmospheric pressure systems constructed by the New York sound artist David Jacobs.

"Smoke & Mirrors + Other Ghosts" is a 2009 album by The Eden House, a musical collective featuring various vocalists and musicians.

Anthony "Big A" Sherrod's Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound
In the middle of the Mississippi winter, just six weeks into 2025, Jimbo Mathus set up two microphones in an old Clarksdale storefront. He was satisfied with the way the plaster-coated bricks cradled the sound, so he knew he could keep it simple–one mic for the singer, one suspended over the room for everything else.

No Sign of Weakness is the eighth studio album by Nigerian singer Burna Boy.

Grupo Libra is a Latin Pop band from Costa Rica. It was formed in 2003 by Juan Carlos Salas, Luis Ramírez and Humberto Salas. The trio has released two studio albums, two live albums and two compilations of singles.