Cris Barber fuses fresh and vibrant vocals with the elegance of the greatest of the great ladies of jazz. The band's blend is sublime, demonstrating the art of musical conversation which in jazz is delicious to the ear, ecstatic on the spirit and smooth on the soul. Barber's voice is effortless - lazy but clear, textured but refined, sure and sensual.

All the intimacy of chamber music: two favourite Mozart piano concertos in as near perfect performances as you could wish. Gramophone
With this release, Richard Goode continues his excellent series of Mozart piano concertos in the company of the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. David Hurwitz

Flying Colours is singer Chris de Burgh's 9th studio album, released by A&M Records in 1988. Notably, the single Missing You peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, and No.1 in Ireland in Dec 1998. Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison on 15 October 1948) is an Argentinian-born Irish singer-songwriter, perhaps most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red". He does, however, write in a wide variety of genres, and is a gifted instrumentalist. Chris de Burgh was born in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe Province, Argentina to Colonel Charles Davison, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily de Burgh, an Irish Secretary. His father had substantial farming interests, and he spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria and Zaire, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his Diplomatic and Engineering work.

What a beautifully recorded and sung album! My God, these guys sound as good as they did back in the seventies! Sure, their voices are a bit lower now and maybe they can't hold the notes quite as long, but this is as excellent a collection as anything else they've done. Kudos to fantastic instumental accompaniment by James Raymond, Dean Parks, Jeff Pevar, Lee Sklar and Russ Kunkel! And the songwriting is consistently powerful as well, "Lay Me Down," "Don't Dig Here," "Jesus Of Rio," "Milky Way Tonight," and "Live On (the Wall) are instant classics. If there's anything to criticize, it's the length of disc two, which is just about 29 minutes long, but, who cares !!! It's a must have for any fan anyway !!!

During the later seventies and the early eighties R&B lost its Soul. R&B charts were dominated by polished artists as Whitney Housten, Michael Jackson and George Michael even. Artist like Candi Staton became either marginalized or were forced into the new mold. The Nu-Soul movement appeared to bring some promise of better days. But artists like D'Angelo and Erykah Badu failed to deliver in the long run. It did however rekindle interest in the forgotten veterans of Soul. Recent years have brought us successful comeback albums by Solomon Burke, Al Green and Bettye Lavette. Although the production was different from the golden age of Soul the essence was the same. Stories of love lost and love gained sung with a whole lot of hope and dignity.
Candi Staton is the latest in the row of veterans to be brought back under our attention. The last two decades she mostly spend singing gospel. His Hands is her first secular effort in years. And a successful effort it is. In part because of the choice in song, in part because of her deliverance.
A great deal of this disc is filled with country songs. Candi tackles the songs of Merle Haggard and Will Oldham, a beautiful throwback to her Muscle Shoal years. Her singing on this disc is great. Her voice didn't lose in quality over the years. It seems as if Candi Staton is not only enjoying herself but is taking the material seriously. The production in turn sounds as if Candi Staton as a secular artist is taken serious again. And that was long overdue.

Rodeo cowboy turned country singer Chris LeDoux plays a set of his best-known songs for a crowd of Sin City fans in this performance video, recorded during a show in Las Vegas in December of 1992. Chris LeDoux: Live at Bally's Las Vegas includes the songs "Wild and Wooly", "Hooked on an 8 Second Ride," "Cadillac Cowboy (Other Side of the Hill)," "Working Man's Dollar," "Ridin' for a Fall," and eight others. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

With the reissue of Where Is Brooklyn?, Blue Note completes a trilogy of Don Cherry releases (also including Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers) which up to now had only been available on CD in a limited edition Mosaic box set. Cherry initially came into wide prominence in jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's landmark 1959-61 quartet.

Tenor saxophonist Nakamura Seiichi recorded this album live in 1973 at the jazz club Rob-Roy in Aoyama with his quintet, the LP was released in 1974 on the Bellwood label, personnel is Nakamura Seiichi on sax, Mukai Shigeharu on trombone, Tamura Hiroshi on piano, Fukui Isoo on bass and Kusumoto Takuji on drums.