Real Friends is the third studio album by R&B group The Friends of Distinction, released in 1970 on the RCA Victor label.

Jenny Lin commands a vast repertoire, from the most obscure modern music to the most tried and true of romantic warhorses.

Empire is the fourth full-length studio album by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released on August 20, 1990.

Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin’s iconic cultural hub and community gathering place, and Luck Reunion announce the return of Long Live Music Presented by White Claw, a socially distanced concert series that will feature performances from some of music’s most cherished acts, including Patty Griffin with Carrie Rodriguez, Billy Strings, Nikki Lane & Jade Bird with Sir Woman, and Blind Boys of Alabama.

International lawyer by day and piano virtuoso by night, Paul Wee made his recording début in 2019 with some of the most technically demanding piano music there is: Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano. He now returns with music which presents a different, but not lesser challenge: how make the keyboard sing. The piano is by nature a percussive instrument – the sound is created by little hammers falling on strings. To create a true legato – or the illusion of it – has been the aim of generations of pianists, but few have taken the matter as far as Sigismond Thalberg.

Yantras come from Hinduism. They are cards bearing geometrical symbols that capture dynamic forces and that are used as support to gradually stabilize a vision. Symbols and geometry often coexist in the systems used by music composers. It is no exception in trumpeter Olivier Laisney’s new quintet : each musician will pick material from a set of melodic and rhythmic items in order to create and communicate.

4 disc, 60 track anthology compiling early work by Warren Defever aka His Name Is Alive, prior to signing to 4AD. This set compiles 3 volumes previously released on vinyl, alongside a bonus disc.

Violoncello is a word that names the bass instrument of the violin family, an instrument of which the origin dates back to the beginning of the sixteenth century. However, the first document that contains this term is in a collection of sonatas by Giulio Cesare Arresti published in 1665.

Jayve Montgomery: Saxophone, Flute, and effects. Nick Turner: Mellotron and effects. Written and recorded by Montgomery and Turner in the spring/summer of 2020.

Armonico Consort return to album on Signum with a collection of Handel arias, performed by leading counter-tenor William Towers.

“This album has everything. Which is why it’s not for everyone.” The statement belongs to Øyvind Skarbø; bandleader, drummer and composer.

As its title implies, this is a spiritually based collaboration from three distinct - even disparate - yet surprisingly harmonious voices. Mostly, but not entirely acoustic, the trio of rootsy singers trade lead vocals on smooth jazz/blues (“Bessie’s Dream”), folk-blues (“Good Stuff”), Delta blues (“Rolling Log”), gospel (an a cappella version of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s “Rock Daniel”), and combinations of those genres.

In the expansive acoustic of Hereford Cathedral, these three musicians draw the listener into a late-Romantic world of outstanding and strikingly idiomatic ensemble music creatively reimagined for two trumpets and organ. Features works by Richard Strauss, Edward William Elgar, and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger.

Hitomi Niikura is a sought-after soloist and chamber musician who performs regularly at international venues in Japan and Switzerland.

The Skyliners were a white American doo-wop group from Pittsburgh. The original line-up was: Jimmy Beaumont (lead), Janet Vogel (soprano), Wally Lester (tenor), Jackie Taylor (bass voice, guitarist), Joe Verscharen (baritone).