On his second album with KAIROS, Fixations, Andrew McIntosh presents music for scordatura strings in just intonation, recorded with longtime collaborators Wild Up, Christopher Rountree, Aperture Duo, and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick—who, together with the composer himself, appears as soloist. The album, produced by Lewis Pesacov, offers a unique exploration of the nuanced social and spatial dimensions of rhythm and tuning. Featuring 434.6, Fixations, and Duo for viola and cello, with any number of violins, it also includes a printed conversation between McIntosh and Cassandra Miller inside the booklet, opening a window into a world of circular time, care, and musical generosity.

Johnny Hartman gained posthumous fame as one of the warmest ballad singers of this century, and his deep baritone voice is well showcased on this 1958 date, which emphasizes slower tempos with a couple of exceptions ("Sunday" and "After You've Gone"). Accompanied by a subtle orchestra arranged by Rudy Traylor (the personnel is unknown), Hartman is in such fine form that it seems sad that this obscure effort was his only studio date of the 1957-62 period. Highlights of the brief (33-minute) set include "To Each His Own," "Little Girl Blue" and "There's a Lull In My Life."

In early 1956, Bing Crosby ended the two long-term company affiliations that had defined his career for more than 20 years, leaving his exclusive associations with Paramount Pictures and Decca Records. Thereafter, he made movies and records on a freelance basis. The immediate results were more felicitous for his film work than his recording, as he went to MGM for the successful movie High Society. As a recording artist, in rapid succession he cut the movie soundtrack for Capitol (January-February); a new album for Decca, Songs I Wish I Had Sung (The First Time Around) (April); and a new album for Verve, Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (June).

Deep Roots is an album by American jazz vocalist Lorez Alexandria featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Argo label. AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek stated "it was recorded with a killer group … The material is made up mostly of standards … in her signature style"

Roots 'N Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 is a four-CD box set released on Columbia Records in June 1992. The set features five hours worth of early blues, folk/country and gospel recordings from a variety of American artists. Many of these recordings had never previously been issued in any medium.

A unique strictly limited (500 only!) three CD set! This collection of pre-war Blues, Country, and Folk, expertly compiled illustrates the beginnings of what we now call AMERICANA. Disc one highlights Blues, disc 2 Country, and disc 3 Folk.

Following the commercial and critically acclaimed success of the recent albums “Blues” (2019) and the three-week running No.1 album on the Billboard Blues Chart “Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77” (2020), UMC is pleased to present a new Rory Gallagher best of collection entitled “The Best Of Rory Gallagher” on Friday 9th October 2020.

Given his brief lifespan, the multi-talented musician Paolo Sandrini made a considerable impact in his thirty-one years. He was born in Gorizia, in what is now the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, an area representing a border between various ethnicities, most especially those speaking Germanic, Italian, and Slavic languages. At the time when Sandrini was born, Gorizia was part of the Holy Roman Empire, governed politically from Vienna. Culturally, the coastal regions east of Venice were predominantly Italian, usually speaking the Venetian dialect, at least as far as Fiume (now Rijeka).

'Between the Sheets' is the second studio album of smooth jazz group Fourplay and was released in August 1993. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 15 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. 'Between the Sheets' sold over 500,000 copies in the United States and thus certified gold by the RIAA. 'Between the Sheets', the popular single, written by the Isley Brothers, features Fourplay members Bob James (piano), Lee Ritenour (guitar), Nathan East (lead vocals and bass) and Harvey Mason (drums) with guests, soul singer Chaka Khan on lead vocals, backed-up by Philip Bailey and Phil Perry.

BBE Music presents a meeting of musical spirits in a unique live recording captured just a few months before the world changed due to a global pandemic. Recorded in September 2019, Live at Café Oto sees two giant heavyweights of the post-war Japanese jazz scene come together with a pair of exemplary musicians from the heart of the new UK jazz movement. Generations and continents apart but united as one for a very special concert.

Diamanda Galás has announced the June 10 release of The Divine Punishment via Intravenal Sound Operations. Remastered, this 1986 classic will be available via all DSPs and on CD. The vinyl version will be released later in 2022.

On the evening of September 8, 1974, Rory Gallagher brought his explosive blend of blues, rock and Irish fire to the intimate stage of My Father's Place, the legendary Roslyn, New York club that became a proving ground for the era's greatest performers. This live radio broadcast recording captures Gallagher and his powerhouse band at the height of their powers, delivering a sweat-drenched set that brims with raw energy and virtuosity.

Having spent years as a jobbing musician and songwriter, Bruce Hornsby finally made his commercial breakthrough in late 1986, when The Way It Is topped the US singles charts. This superb live set was broadcast on WNEW-FM a week after its release, and captures the band at their jazzy, melodic best, with Hornsby s remarkable keyboard work to the fore.

The Rockpile was Toronto's hippest club, and 4000 of the city's hippest heads flocked there on February 23rd 1969 to see the great Frank Zappa and his Mothers Of Invention. They did not disappoint, playing a remarkable set that combined their uniquely skewed take on rock'n'roll with virtuoso solos and improvisations, as well as their trademark humorous interludes.

Few guitarists can transform a single note into a melody that sings, burns and heals the way Carlos Santana can. This special collection of live performances–captured from rare and legendary radio broadcasts spanning key moments of his career–offers a front-row seat to the artistry of one of music's true visionaries.