American rock singer, guitar player, record producer, and actress. Born on September 22, 1958 as Joan Marie Larkin. After the divorce of her parents she changed her surname to her mother's maiden name: Jett. At age 15, Jett co-founded The Runaways. As the leader of Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Jett has had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles…

SWING OUT SISTER Splendid Collection (Rare 1991 Japanese 4-CD box set comprising the albums It's Better To Travel, Kaleidoscope World, Another Non-Stop Sister and Remixes And Others - featuring a total of 49 tracks, including 5 bonus tracks.

This box set contains five of ZZ Top's very best albums – Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango, Deguello, and Eliminator – each presented as a mini-LP in a cardboard sleeve within this small slipcase box…

Richard Hartley is a New York-based pastor, singer, arranger, songwriter, actor and musical director who has spent much of his career helping other major artists sound their best. He's recorded and/or performed with Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Tricky, Kelly Price, Candi Staton, the Staple Singers,Edwin and Walter Hawkins,Celine Dion,Mary J Blige,Faith Evans,Diddy R.Kelly,a tv appearance with Ms Aretha Franklin and and a movie appearance with the legendary Diana Ross and more! He's been lauded by Luther Vandross,Ashford and Simpson,Andrae Crouch and others.

Café del Mar Terrace Mix continues its successful story with another great selection of 13 titles, carefully compiled by Toni Simonen. An album that builds up gradually from mellow sounds to deep steady grooves and that delivers the finest Line Up since the first installment. So without any doubt this album belongs to the best realizations of Toni Simonen's mission to bridge the gap between chill and electro beats.

There’s no shortage of Christmas music out there that can evoke the holiday spirit. But it takes a master of groove and swing like Warren Wolf to conjure a true feeling of Christmas Vibes. On his new album, the vibraphone great and father of five offers an album of jazzy Yuletide cheer sure to provide the ideal soundtrack to the season for the hippest families on the block. Wolf takes an even more prominent role than usual on Christmas Vibes, playing all the piano and keyboard parts as well as spotlighting his usual virtuosity on the vibes. In part, it was the outcome of necessity: the album was recorded in mid-March, just as much of the country was beginning to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating some last-minute changes of plan. But it also gave the leader a long-overdue opportunity to showcase his multifarious talents.

First Word Records is extremely proud to welcome aboard Takuya Kuroda. A highly-respected trumpeter born in Kobe, Japan, Takuya is a forward-thinking musician that has developed a unique hybrid sound, blending soulful jazz, funk, post-bop, fusion and hip hop music.

Catastrophe were an obscure Jazz/Rock band out of France who released this sole album in 1982. The title "High Dynamic" certainly is a good description of the music here as we get this relentless brand of Fusion from this four piece of drums, guitar, sax and bass. The guitarist and bassist composed these songs and the bass player is the star here as he steals the show but all are outstanding.

Shirley Brown (born January 6, 1947, West Memphis, Arkansas) is an American R&B singer, best known for her million-selling single "Woman to Woman", which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975.

Exumer was an early German thrash metal band with close ties to Angel Dust (their labelmates on the Desaster imprint) and a raw, vicious, unsophisticated style derived chiefly from influences like Venom, Exodus, and Slayer…

This luxury Belcea Quartet Box brings a new high-definition audiovisual reference recording of Beethoven's Complete String Quartets! The ensemble embarked on the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets, playing the whole program within twelve days, and recorded at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2012, with each concert featuring one work from the early, middle and late quartets, including perhaps the most exciting of all works by Beethoven: the Opus 133, the 'Große Fuge' which he wrote as the finale of the quartet Opus 130.