Dr. Rochelle Sennet has established herself as a well-known performer, teacher, and scholar.

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist.

ames Victor Scott (July 17, 1925 – June 12, 2014), known professionally as Little Jimmy Scott or Jimmy Scott, was an American jazz vocalist known for his high natural contralto voice and his sensitivity on ballads and love songs.

A Night at Count Basie's is a live album by vocalist Joe Williams recorded at Count Basie's nightclub in Harlem in 1956 and released on the Vanguard label.

"Tales of Love and Loss" is a brand new compilation album curated by Mediaeval Baebes founding member Marie Findley.

It can't be stressed enough how much the ambient and 'art rock' work of David Bowie, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp has influenced an entire generation.

Schubert Complete recording: The Alinde Quartet - named after Franz Schubert's song "Alinde" - is currently devoting itself to an ambitious Schubert complete recording.

Joni Mitchell Counterbalances Love and Trust with Freedom and Confusion on Court and Spark: Ranked the 110th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone. Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Revealing Detail, Clarity, Presence, and Openness. Court and Spark, the most commercially successful album of Joni Mitchell's trailblazing career, arrived after a year in which she took some time to breathe and kept a low profile. The pause led to more breakthroughs for the singer-songwriter. Marking Mitchell's increasing drift toward jazz (and affinity for Miles Davis and John Coltrane), Court and Spark garnered four Grammy nominations, earned the Best Album of the Year vote in the prestigious Pazz & Jop poll, and ranks #110 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Get Funked Up with Mothership Connection: Cosmic Parliament Record Ranked the 363rd Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, Includes “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)”Mobile Fidelity Presents the 1975 Funk Milestone in Audiophile Sound for Its 50th Anniversary: 180g 45RPM 2LP Plays with Intoxicating Definition, Immediacy, and Clarity. “Do not attempt to adjust your radio.” The instruction that begins Parliament’s Mothership Connection prepares you for an ecstatic journey and establishes the setting for a cosmic trip into galaxies populated with galactic grooves, joyous vibes, cheeky humor, streetwise slang. This is nearly 39 minutes of some of the best, sweatiest, most enthusiastic funk devised — all laid down by an all-star band responsible for what Rolling Stone named the 363rd Greatest Album of All Time.

Record Store Day 2025. -Meticulous reproduction of the original 1967 stereo mix, staying true to every nuance from the original mixed master tapes. No rebalancing or EQ adjustments made to the original audio, preserving the full psychedelic authenticity Half-speed mastering process, providing enhanced clarity, deeper stereo imaging, and a pristine listening experience like never before Produced by Walt Andrus and Frank Davis, the same masterminds behind the recording of the 13th Floor Elevators’ iconic Easter Everywhere, which was made shortly after Power Plant

The Human League’s iconic third studio album, Dare, will be reissued as an SDE exclusive blu-ray audio in October.
Produced by Martin Rushent, Dare was created by a new look Human League line-up that consisted of Philip Oakey (vocals, synthesizer), Jo Callis (synthesizer, guitar), Philip Adrian Wright (visuals, synthesizer), Joanne Catherall (vocals), Susan Ann Sulley (vocals) and Ian Burden (synthesizer). With the new personnel came a fresh, cutting-edge pop sensibility and the group used this to create an album that was not only an enormous commercial and critical success upon its release, but one which has since been hailed as one of the most groundbreaking records of its time.

Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, completed in 1845, opened up a new concept of piano concerto. In lieu of virtuosic pyrotechnics of the Romantic concertos, Schumann’s piano concerto demands from the piano soloist a subtler and higher level of musicianship to be intimately interplayed with the orchestra. This concerto was one of the finest fruits he bore from the happy and productive years from 1840-1845. In this period, he produced works at largerscale forms such as symphonies, oratorios, concertos, and chamber music, and the piano concerto was the first of those attempts.

Featuring 20+ groundbreaking artists from Rio’s resurgent music scene, intent on bringing an avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk.

Singer, songwriter and author Ali Sethi had been entranced by Jaar’s music long before they began collaborating. He’d absorbed the sounds over a number of years, listening casually and taking in their subtleties in bars and rooftop parties across Lahore and London. “It felt familiar to me, that sense of adventure you have when you hear his music, like a tale that teases you and plays with your expectations as it unfolds,” says Sethi. “In that sense it resembled the leisurely improvised ghazals and qawwalis I grew up hearing in Pakistan.”

A Sonic Apéritif! This auditory hors d'oeuvre spawned the album that helped start the cocktail and exotica rebirth of the '90s! It's hard to call recordings as lush and beautiful as these demos, but that's what they are. These reels preceded the band's Sub Pop debut I, Swinger, and contain early versions of most of that album along with songs you've never heard on record before!