Classic jazz guitar trio at it's best as they swing through six well known standards and three original compositions. The Gerry Beaudoin Trio has been a musical vehicle for award winning jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin for almost thirty years. During this time Gerry has carved out a career as a leader, arranger and guitarist and educator. His first national success was in 1990 with the Boston Jazz Ensemble. Gerry then went on to make three critically acclaimed Gerry Beaudoin Trio recordings with mandolin titan, David Grisman…

Framlingham’s Polly Gibbons is one of the most respected and talked about young singer/songwriters of her generation. Nominated for a BBC Jazz Award back in 2006 with no album release to her name, was an early and clear indication of just how special a singer and performer Polly’s talents. Much esteemed by her contemporaries, Polly has built a reputation as being an original and gifted voice. With warm, rich, soulful vocals and an innate blues sensibility, Polly has been likened to many of the jazz and soul greats bringing her own storytelling and earnest depth alongside unique humour and fun to performances…

In 1968 Eberhard Schoener raised a laboratory for electronic music at the Bavaria Studios, Munich, being the first German musician to own a Moog synthesizer. He brought electronic music from Germany into the world and also released the first German album with exclusively electronic meditation music. Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland worked with Eberhard Schoener for years before their international breakthrough as 'Police'.

Dub Backups. One. Part III in the compact compilation series introducing the futuristic sound of Elektrolux is the Dub Backups.One"" Compilation reflecting the Ganja side of life. With a nice melange of stripped down Steppers, abstract Drum 'n' Bass riddims and digital infested echo-madness, a dozen Elektrolux-artists show their knowledge in heavy Dub science. The line up includes well known artists such as: Dub Mix Convention, DJ Tricky Cris, Tone manipulators, Winston D., Aural Float & the Rootsman, Dr. Scissors, S.O.A.B., Futuristic Dub Foundation, Aural Float, The Saafi Bros. and The Weedselectors…

Fritz Reiner was one of the foremost conductors of his time. Crowning his long career in Europe and America was the decade from 1954 to 1963 as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra an illustrious partnership that ranks along such other historical tenures as Karajan's in Berlin, Szell's in Cleveland and Bernstein's in New York.
Luckily for posterity, Reiner's legendary interpretations at the helm of the Chicago Symphony which no less than Igor Stravinsky called "the most precise and flexible orchestra in the world" were captured on record by RCA Victor. Now for the first time ever, they are being issued together in a single Sony Classical box set of 63 re-mastered CDs.

A rarely seen filmed performance by the splendid Miles Davis septet, recorded live in Warsaw in 1983 - with saxophonist Bill Evans and guitarist John Scofield. This fabulous, complete concert was filmed shortly after Miles Davis recorded his celebrated album 'Star People' - and features many of the compositions from the album, although it hadn`t actually yet been released when they performed in Poland. Bill Evans (the sax player) had been replaced by Branford Marsalis on the original studio versions of 'That`s Right' and 'Code M.D.'

What mysteries of artistic creation and transmission over the centuries lie behind the ceremonies of the young Moxeno Indians of eastern Bolivia? These guardians of the archives of Baroque music, which they collect on their voyages up the river Mamoré, reconstitute year after year the musical heritage of the famous Jesuit missions of Amazonia, until recently thought to be entirely the work of the Italian composer Domenico Zipoli, whose 'Missa San Ignacio' and 'Beatus Vir' are included here.

Hyperion’s record of the month for July celebrates the (probable) 500th anniversary of the birth of England’s first superstar composer, Thomas Tallis, and welcomes the signing to the label of The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood. In a fifteen-year history The Cardinall’s Musick has progressively built an enviable reputation for excellence. Some twenty recordings on the ASV Gaudeamus label have seen accolades from around the world, including a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d’Or, while in the concert hall and workshop the group has consistently displayed innovation and a freshness of approach, whether tackling contemporary works (many of them commissions) or sharing the fruits of years of research into the music of the English Renaissance.

Brahms’s Missa canonica is something of a rarity: composed around 1856, the work lay unperformed until 1983 despite being regarded highly enough by its composer for him to have re-used some of its material in the popular motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben?. The absence of both Gloria and Credo settings (these texts being too long to be easily suited to the form of a canon) probably explains the neglect, yet the four movements of this work show all the hallmarks of Brahms’s compositional mastery and deft handling of choral effect that are well known from his many motets, six of which, including the sublime Op 30 Geistliches Lied, are also recorded here.

You can give ‘Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams’ this much: From the start, you know what you’re in for. The documentary opens with almost three minutes of people talking about how much they love the singer and what a genius she is. What else do you need to know? At this point in Nicks’ career, we should expect a certain amount of veneration from a movie about her. She’s an established artist with nothing to prove, and a film like this is pretty much made for fans who are already 100 percent on board with the singer. Still, she and the filmmakers could have used that security to provide a peek into Nicks’ creative process.