Disco published in the former Yugoslavia in 1977 and performed by 'The Sunshine Terrace Swing Band', offering a short set of 8 songs which include classical 'swing' pieces interpreted in a style more dump to 'pop' , outside the original line scores. Half an hour for an LP intended for a session 'pop' entertainment with music stand 'swing'.

The composer and instrumentalist from New Zealand, resident in Britain, Brendan Power is acknowledged as one of the more creative harmonica players, skilled and versatile in the world, with both diatonic and sophisticated chromatic. His remarkable technical and interpretative skill, deep knowledge of the instrument and a truly creative approach carry the sound of the harmonica to levels that hardly thought he could get. Brendan has become a demand session musician, which has led him to work with renowned artists Sting, Van Morrison, Paul Young, Shirley Bassey, John Williams and many others, as well as appearing on numerous soundtracks of cinema.

Led by pianist Sante Palumbo, Sway is an excellent album heavily influenced by early 70s Miles Davis, even without the presence of trumpet. Throughout, the album features wah wah guitar rhythms and tribal drumming. The first side is a bit looser, with some shrieky sax, drum solos and some piano noise bits. But Side 2 contains 'Mad' which is absolutely sublime. The sax is traded in for flute, there's an actual melody line carried throughout, and the guitar fuzzes out some wonderful solos…

Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions Vol. 1 & 2 {S-Curve Records}
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Soul / R&B / Blues / Neo-Soul

Hot on the heels of Amy Winehouse and Katie Melua, Joss Stone is the latest teenage sensation to be feted by the music industry. There's a massive buzz about Stone at the moment, with both Paul Weller and Lenny Kravitz offering to write songs for her, and soul legend Betty Wright producing this, her debut album. Joss Stone launched her career by singing soul standards so when it came time for a reboot she went back to the beginning, dusting off the old blueprint for The Soul Sessions and following it to a T, right down to replicating its title and giving a contemporary alt-rock hit a soul makeover. First time around, the intent was to prove that teenage Joss had soul bona fides, but in 2012 the purpose of The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 is to signal how she's done messing around with fleeting fashions and is getting back down to the real business.

Vivaldi could not have the same confidence with the bassoon as he had with the violin; but this seems to have stimulated him to invent a writing of interesting virtuosity in the 39 solo concerts for this instrument which few great composers dedicated so much attention to with such high quality results. In the precious Vivaldi Edition by Naïve the recording of all the bassoon concerts continues in the best way: after the flattering awards obtained from the first cd in 2010, a second one comes out, always the result of the collaboration between the talented Sergio Azzolini (soloist and director) and the ensemble L'Aura Soave (a formation of musicians not only Italian founded in Cremona by Diego Cantalupi in 1995). The seven concerts performed here are those that in the Ryom catalog carry the numbers 499, 472, 490, 496, 504, 483 and 470 and are of great variety and inventive wealth, as always in the best Vivaldi. The use of "original" instruments and the perceived stylistic sensibility are combined with a clear and free exploitation of the esthetics and vitality of these pages, where it sometimes strikes the melancholic tint evoked by the solo instrument.

–Paolo Petazzi

"Carnegie Hall Concert" is a compilation of material from the original CTI releases: "Carnegie Hall Concerts, Volume 1 and 2".
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, November 24, 1974.

Mulgrew Miller - The Sequel (2002) {Maxjazz}
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Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Piano

The Sequel has a threefold meaning for pianist Mulgrew Miller and his listeners. First, it reunites him with Wingspan, the reputable quintet he formed in 1987; second, it ends his self-imposed seven-year hiatus as a bandleader; and third, it is his debut for the Max Jazz recording label. This highly enjoyable recording features ten great jazz songs in their pure form on which members of the ensemble excel. Wingspan is comprised of Steve Nelson, Steve Wilson, Duane Eubanks, Richie Goods, and Karriem Riggins, all of whom have established themselves in the jazz idiom as remarkable leaders and sidemen in their own right.

Wulfin Lieske - What About This, Mr. Tárrega?
Guitar works by Milan, Bach, Albeniz, Tarrega, Brouwer, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla
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Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 65 | Country/Year: Germany 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Classical Guitar

…This legendary instrument is recorded here for the first time on disc. And there is more: Wulfin Lieske plays the best instruments by the world's most famous guitar manufacturers for comparison…

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Freiburger Barockorchester - Concerti
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Label/Cat#: Carus # 83.304 | Country/Year: Germany 2002
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Early Classical Period

…In short: an all around enjoyable and highly recommended CD!

In June of 1990, drummer Jack Dejohnette, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Dave Holland, and guitarist Pat Metheny, went on tour together to promote Dejohnette's album, Parallel Realities. The two of these shows, which were performed at the Mellon Jazz Festival, were edited to make the very exciting DVD, Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland, Metheny in Concert. Watching the disc, I became very envious of the audience for being able to see four musicians of this caliber play together on one stage. In fact, watching the tremendous amount of skill and creative energy exhibited by the musicians in this DVD is a good reminder of why jazz is such an important school of music.