Spanish football managers are all the rage (MV contends that Pep Guardiola has ruined the game, but we will move on), even my hapless lot has one. Spanish rock bands, though? Harder to think of.

In 2025, for its 31st edition, La Folle Journée will focus on cities that, at some point in their history, played a crucial role in the evolution of music.

No More Lonely Christmas, the new album from ALYA, which was just dropped, is a fulfilment of the artist’s Christmas wish, embodied in the track that provides the name for the album.

"Free Lancing" is James Blood Ulmer's first of three albums recorded on the Columbia label and was recorded in 1981. Ulmer's playing has been described as "blistering" and "stinging" on this record, and Trouser Press described it as "a technical masterpiece".

This is the first of three volumes featuring Beethoven's five piano concertos performed by Olli Mustonen, acting here as both soloist and conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. The Finnish musician is known for delivering fresh, visionary readings of popular standard repertoire music, such as Beethoven's concertos which he had never recorded before. Mustonen has maintained a close relationship with chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta, accompanying this ambitious recording project with acclaimed tour performances. Also a published composer, Mustonen is playing his own cadenzas in the First Concerto.

The Latin word for passionate is apasionado, and in any language, the meaning is synonymous with the extraordinary talent of drummer, producer & songwriter, Javo Barrera! “I believe timing in life is the most important thing; so this is the perfect time for my first album release as a label owner, musician, producer & songwriter on the worldwide contemporary jazz stage”, says Javo Barrera. The focus track, “Just In Time”, was co-produced & features the great Najee on flute. „Far From Home“ is a pristine masterful work of art that will thoroughly delight jazz aficionados & audiophiles alike!

Things sure were swingin' on this 1959 Capitol album, one of Peggy's finest and most overlooked jazz outings. Accompanied by an all-star tentet that featured Pete Candoli, Barney Kessel and Shelly Manne among its members, she tackled originals and great standards including "It's a Wonderful World"; "Ridin' High"; "I'm Beginning to See the Light"; "Alone Together", and more.

Deluxe two CD / two multi-region Blu-ray edition of the classic album by Jack Bruce. Songs For A Tailor was Jack Bruce's first solo project to be released after the demise of Cream in November 1968. Eager to make his debut solo album distinctly diverse from the music he had recorded with Cream, it featured music which stylistically drew on jazz, folk, classical and rock influences. Joining Jack and producer Felix Pappalardi for the recording sessions at London's Morgan Studios were some of Britain's best musicians such as Chris Spedding, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, John Marshall, Art Themen and Henry Lowther. One session was also notable for the presence of George Harrison. 'Songs For A Tailor' was a chart success in both the UK and the USA and is now rightly regarded as a masterpiece and one of Jack's seminal works. This boxed set edition features the original 1969 album mix (newly remastered from the original master tapes), along with wonderful new stereo and 5.1 Surround sound mixes of the album by Stephen W Tayler (from the original 8-track master tapes) and previously unreleased session out-takes and demos. The set also includes the marvellous 1970 documentary Rope Ladder to the Moon on Blu Ray video for the first time. Originally screened by the BBC, this film features live performances and an insight into Jack's heritage, life and influences.

Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, originally released on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's 1935 opera of the same name. It is the second collaboration between Davis and Evans and has garnered much critical acclaim since its release, being acknowledged by music critics as the best of their collaborations. Jazz critics have regarded the album as historic.

Ensemble Marsyas performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras on period instruments at festivals all across Europe. On this recording of Johann Fasch's finest chamber music demonstrates why the man and his music were so appreciated in his own lifetime.

"Es Fácil Amar" is a studio album recorded by American singer Lani Hall. It was produced by Albert Hammond, mixed by Bill Bottrell, mastered by Arnie Acosta, and released in 1985. After almost two decades of being out of print, the album was made available again through Herb Alpert's official website as a digital download. Alpert also provided a trumpet solo for the album's title track. The album won Hall a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance in 1986.

This assortment of seasonal cheer features Stevie Wonder applying his inimitable vocal technique to familiar and unusual Yuletide songs, with predictably successful results. In "Someday at Christmas" he yearns for a Christmas when "Men won't be boys/playing with bombs like kids play with toys" - this album was recorded during the Vietnam War - striking a plaintive tone not often found on Christmas albums. Other high points include his joyous reading of "Little Drummer Boy", with its steadily building martial beat, and chestnuts like "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song", which Wonder delivers with total assurance, as well as a palpable sense of fun. He even brings a measure of soul to more sentimental numbers like "One Little Christmas Tree" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me", while "What Christmas Means to Me" invokes the bubbling bass line of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk", and features a blissful harp solo.

Die Band Marriage Material um den renommierten Schlagzeuger Felix Lehrmann wurde 2018 von ihm und E-Bassist Thomas Stieger gegründet.

Elvis Presley is the debut album by American musician Elvis Presley, considered one of his best works.

Walking in Space is a 1969 studio album by Quincy Jones.