One of the most well-known Japanese jazz musicians of his generation, Sadao Watanabe is an adept, bop-influenced saxophonist with a deep love of Brazilian bossa nova. He initially gained global fame in the 1960s with Bossa Nova Concert and Sadao Meets Brazilian Friends, showcasing his warm tone and lyrical, swinging sound.
His first studio album in seven years, "Peace," is a ballad-themed album filled with thoughts of peace.
This ballad album starts with "Peace" composed by Horace Silver, and includes standards such as "I Fall in Love Too Easily," "Lament" composed by J.J. Johnson, and "I'm a Fool to Want You," also known as the song of Billie Holiday, as well as four of his own songs. When he was young, he loved Frank Sinatra's ballad collection "In the Wee Small Hours," and he had always envisioned releasing a ballad album someday…

The follow-up to his multiple award-winning, critically-acclaimed 2021 album, Dear America, Ridin’ is a continuation of the vision that informs Bibb’s artistry as a modern-day Blues troubadour. Grounded in the folk and blues tradition with contemporary sensibilities, Bibb’s music continues to reflect his thoughts on current world events and his own lived experiences, whilst remaining entertaining, uplifting, inspirational and relevant.

Night Reign is the new album from GRAMMY-winner Arooj Aftab, an ode to the night as her primary source of inspiration and a vivid reflection of the creative community she has fostered in her home of Brooklyn, New York. Featuring nine original compositions, three English-language tracks, and an array of guest artists, Night Reign is a perfumed, public garden of renewal, desire, shelter, and love guided by Aftab’s voice – its reach and intensity complementing the sun’s departure.

Instrumental psych rock frontrunners, MONKEY3, herald 2024 with a true album highlight of the new year. Mankind vs machines, spaceships launch into the deep space. Welcome To The Machine is inspired by movies such as 2001: A Space Oddity, Matrix, Sunshine, Solaris or 1984, and right from its first tones immediately marks the soundtrack of a journey to the unknown. Once again, MONKEY3 will drench album listeners and audiences, into their unique, cosmic smoke. Welcome To The Machine not only marks the seventh studio album in their impressive band history, capturing the Zeitgeist with their most epic, darkest and enthralling record to date, but also clearly proves why MONKEY3 belong to one of the most exciting instrumental rocks bands of the modern stoner and psychedelic rock scene!

After remastering all of their full-lengths from Autobahn onward for the long-in-production 2009 box set The Catalogue, pioneering electronic group Kraftwerk began performing the albums in full during series of retrospective concerts, beginning at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012. As with their concerts since 2009, the group designed special three-dimensional visuals for the performances, and equipped the audience members with 3-D glasses straight out of a 1950s movie theater. Box set 3-D The Catalogue is an audio document of the arrangements devised for these concerts. No crowd noise is audible, but there is somewhat of a rough quality to the vocals, so they sound like live takes rather than polished studio perfection. By no means are these arrangements carbon copies of the album versions - they're arranged to flow as performances rather than home-listening experiences…

Experience two grand classics, alive with all the excitement and verve of their very first performances. Thrill to one of Haydn’s masterful ‘London’ symphonies that wowed England’s capital – the smash hit ‘Military’, so-called for intense depictions of the clash of arms and ferocious roar of war. In the epic Nelson Mass Handel and Haydn Society's magnificent chorus and soloists join the orchestra in this homage to the heroic admiral who helped to vanquish Napoleon.

Compositeur de la fin du XIVe siècle (il mourut vers 1418), Matteo de Perugia n'est pas encore suffisamment reconnu. Pourtant, à l'écoute de ce disque, on reste sans voix devant tant d'inventivité, de modernité et d'inspiration. Grâce au travail historique et musicologique de l'ensemble Mala Punica dirigé par Pedro Memelsdorff, on retrouve tout l'univers de ce compositeur charnière. Sérénité des climats, modernité des rythmes, toute la musique de Perugia est un perpétuel renouvellement.

The opening Overture (Suite) in A minor is one of Telemann's most ambitious concerted works, running to seven distinct dance movements in 30 minutes. The rhythmic shifts in the "Air à l'Italien" are pretty abrupt and really catch your attention. Of the three concertos, the Double Concerto in A minor for flauto dolce and viola da gamba is a standout, owing to its occasionally explosive gestures and knotty emotionalism. All of these works have been recorded numerous times, but most commonly on the standard transverse flute, but only the F major concerto was originally written for flute, and many versions of the Overture in A minor show signs of having been somewhat condensed.

Miles in France is the eighth installment in the celebrated Miles Davis Bootleg Series and this edition focuses on the birth of the Second Great Quintet in 1963 and 1964. The music heard here represents the sound of an end and a beginning coming through at once. The set contains 5 separate performances of the Miles Davis Quintet spread over 6 CDs and the energy and depth of feeling in the transcendent playing hint at the special relationship Miles and the group had with the French nation that embraced them in a way their homeland would not. It contains over 4 hours of revelatory, unreleased live music featuring Miles backed by George Coleman (on the 1963 recordings), Wayne Shorter (on the 1964 recordings), Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.

Sony’s Legacy Recordings continues the long running Bob Dylan ‘Bootleg Series’ as they announce Travelin’ Thru 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series vol 15 which revisits Dylan’s musical journeys to Nashville from 1967-1969, focusing on previously unavailable recordings made with Johnny Cash and unreleased tracks from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, and Self Portrait sessions.

The album "Ice Blue, Silver Sky" is the debut release by the Cross, David Band. It was released by Cherry Red Records. With a blend of melodic rock and progressive elements, "Ice Blue, Silver Sky" showcases the musical talents of David Cross and his band. The album features a collection of captivating tracks that take listeners on a journey through intricate compositions and thought-provoking lyrics.