The flute … it is a very special instrument. Jazz history is not rich in musicians who specialized in the flute alone; most also played the saxophone, clarinet, or other woodwind instruments.

The Beggars Arkive BBC sessions is a brand-new UK-based limited edition subscription series featuring ten sessions recorded for John Peel.

Anna Rakoczy studied music at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of music as a student of Zoltan Gyalossy. He is a fellow of the Republic, a member of the Erdody Chamber Orchestra, and a flautist of the Budapest Mountain Chamber Orchestra.

Debut 30th anniversary album Keiko Lee, one of Japan's leading jazz vocalists, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her debut with Sony Music at the end of October this year.

Fluorescent clear red vinyl reissue of Chick Corea’s exploratory jazz-fusion classic “Sundance.” Originally recorded in 1969, this pressing features a remastered cut on heavyweight vinyl. Featuring an all-star ensemble including Dave Holland, Hubert Laws, and Woody Shaw

Psych-Rock Wizards on a Roll. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are one of the most exciting forces in modern rock. Formed in Perth in 2014, their blend of frantic psychedelic riffs and whimsical charm has established them as one of the best psych-rock groups in the world right now. Their sound channels the spirit of classic ‘60s-’70s psychedelic rock from Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath to The Beatles, but turbocharges the nostalgia with chunky modern adrenaline and multi-layered guitar harmonies. There’s no down-tuned seven strings or machine-gun double bass drums, instead citing Monty Python and The Mighty Boosh as key influences on their style and humour. The band’s instrumental skill is top-notch with scorching riffs, powerful drumming, and swirling basslines with as many psychedelic breakdowns and dizzying tempo shifts as there are catchy earworms and danceable grooves.

Housewives, househusbands, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between… Avril A is ready for relaunch. A - V - R - I - L
Never released Hi-NRG, synth-pop, wonky rock n' roll from a queer Manchester underground icon of the 80s and 90s. By day, Avril Eventhal was a housewife in North Manchester's Orthodox Jewish community. By night, she was the fabulous Avril A, a larger than life cabaret performer who found a loyal audience in gay venues across the country and was adored for her outrageous live shows. She celebrated her unconventional style, finding joy and space for creative reinvention with the queer community. Avril died in 2017, leaving behind a massive archive of material documenting every aspect of her career in songwriting and performance. For two years, Memory Dance has been working with Avril's niece and family on a digitisation and restoration project bringing these audio recordings back to life. With her signature leopard print dress and feather duster in hand she delivered an unforgettable song and dance routine - as it was billed, “an audio-visual assault on the audience”.

Dark Harvest Pt. 2 is the other side of the same journey, the season of growth after the breaking. If Part 1 was about descent and surrender, this is about the inner harvest that follows.

Dark Harvest Pt. 1 was born from a time when everything in my life was being dismantled. As things fell apart, a friend said to me, “There will be a dark harvest.”

Provocation! Anarchy! Scandal! All too often we encounter Arnold Schoenberg in writings as an enfant terrible, as a radical innovator who sacrificed late Romantic tonality for his highly complex system of “composition with twelve tones related only to each other”.

Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.

When his mother brought Stanley Turrentine’s Salt Song LP back from a trip to Canada, Julien Lourau, then a teenager, was impressed by the scope of the sound and the groove of the saxophone. He was also charmed by the lush arrangements and funky sound of the record, typical of releases on the CTI label. Created by producer Creed Taylor, CTI left an imprint in the minds of 70s jazz fans much like Blue Note did in the 60s, and it even ended up releasing work by artists who started out on this mythical label such as Stanley Turrentine and Freddie Hubbard.

Rubicon Classics is pleased to announce the third solo album for the label from pianist Alexander Ullman, presenting here a programme of Edvard Grieg’s Moods, Songs and Lyric Pieces. The prize of the album, Alexander’s own transcriptions of music from the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, draw out the colour of the orchestra from the piano, perhaps more than the composer’s own.

At the heart of the story of jazz is the story of an interaction between two dynamic elements - the improvising musician, and the song. David Forman, well known as a concert photographer and one of the UK's foremost aficionados of jazz, has been composing songs for seventy years. Under the direction of renowned pianist and producer Mark Edwards, a fabulous team of creative jazz musicians have brought David's songs to life. David's compositions arise from the inspirations of his long and eventful life given shape and direction by his enduring love of the Great American Songbook tradition: unafraid to embrace sophistication but always adhering to the timeless appeal of direct melody.

Ben Astrachan (He/Him) is a musician based out of Chicago, IL. He plays in three other bands: Berta Bigtoe, Astro Heart, and Porkomorph. He was the Cofounder of all three! It's pronounced "Astra-Can."