Summer Horns is the first studio album from Dave Koz since 2010's Hello Tomorrow. That said, it's not solely billed to him. The "and Friends" on the bill refers to three other contemporary jazz saxophonists: Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and Richard Elliot. Produced by Paul Brown, this is a big up-front horn section record, full of jazz, funk, and R&B covers, alternately by Greg Adams, Tom Scott, Gordon Goodwin, and Albright. The four-sax line is augmented by brass in various places, too. While Brown's production sound stays within the genre of contemporary jazz – it's both clean and bright – the feel is all groove.

FM is Mervyn Goldsworthy, Stephen Overland, Jeremy Davis & Jim Kirkpatrick. The summer of 1984, over a few drinks in a London pub, FM was formed and they hit the charts and the road in Europe supporting Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Foreigner, Bon Jovi and more in the 80’s and 90’s.

Milk Inc. - Undercover (iTunes Version) 2013
M4A 256 kbps | Tracks: 21 | 01:12:54 | 150.58 Mb
Genre: Dance, Electronic

Following their gold single “Last night a DJ saved my life”, here’s the iTunes version to Milk Inc.’s new album: Undercover

This is an ambitious two-disk set comprising interesting performances of GENESIS material by mostly unknown groups and individual artists (except perhaps for GALAHAD and a couple of other professional musicians). While not every track works perfectly, most are interesting because rare are the ones so faithful to the originals that nothing new is added to them…

Until the arrival of the Sugarcubes, jazz fusion band Mezzoforte was Iceland’s best-known musical export. The group was formed in 1977 at a Reykjavik high school by Fridrik Karlsson (b. 24 April 1960; guitar), Eythór Gunnarsson (b. 9 September 1961; keyboards), Jóhann Ásmundsson (b. 30 March 1961; bass), and Gunnlaugur Briem (b. 8 September 1962; drums). They signed a recording contract with local label Steinar, and with the assistance of Stefán S. Stefánsson (saxophone) recorded their debut album. Bjorn Thorarensen (keyboards) joined in time for the recording of the band’s second long-player. Kristinn Svavarsson (saxophone) was featured on the exuberant ‘Garden Party’, which was a Top 20 hit in the UK in 1983.

Best known for expanding the possibilities of the musette an early 20th century French ballroom dance to incorporate contemporary attitudes and the postmodern improv of more traditional jazz, the accordionist Richard Galliano ultimately posed a triple threat in the music world, establishing himself with like force as a composer and arranger. With time, Galliano a protégé of Astor Piazzolla worked elements of Piazzolla's tango nueve into his style.