Famous and lesser-known Jazz standards sung beautifully - feeling at once timeless and new. With Joe "Sonny" Barbato - piano, Jim Lyden - bass, Les Harris, Jr. - drums, Vinny Raniolo - guitar, Matt Langley - Saxophone, and Jason Anick - violin…

From the upstate region of South Carolina to the musical meccas of the jazz universe is an unexpected journey for anyone to travel. Yet Lauren Meccia’s debut vocal album, Inside Your Eyes, will introduce the diversely talented vocalist, saxophonist and composer to an unsuspecting world-wide audience. Through the album’s vintage yet crisp, cosmopolitan sound, listeners will be transported to the famous, gritty jazz clubs of the mid-20th century such as The Embers, The Village Vanguard and The Cotton Club…

Geila Zilkha is a successful and highly recognized singer in Japan. With a solid background in jazz and additional essence of strong soul music, her vocal performances delight the audiences’ ears and hearts wherever she sings. Born and raised in Kobe to an Israeli father and Japanese mother, Geila attended the international school Canadian Academy from kindergarten through high school and is fluent in both English and Japanese. She showed a strong interest in the arts and music from an early age, and studied ballet from the age of three. When Geila was nine years old, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and underwent surgery during which a metal rod was implanted in her back…

It's been almost three years since The D Project has released a new album. Supported by great guest musicians such as Tony Levin and Lalle Larsson to name but two, the Big Face album (2011) was highly praised by the . In May 2014, D Project will release their 4th album named Making Sense. Desbiens and Foy once again worked together to create a new classic neo-prog experience. Eight tracks of inspired music enriched by special guests; Sean Filkins (ex Big Big Train) Claude Leonetti (Lazuli), Guillaume Fontaine (Nemo) will, doubtless, stretch the listener's horizon to unexpected territories. And as the "Making Sense" title suggests, a trip back to Desbiens' "Sense" area will revive some interesting memories! Mastered by Andy Jackson of the Pink Floyd hall of fame.

Krakatau is an ever-exciting fusion project from Finland that left two broad gasps on ECM. Matinale was the second, and remains the more politically astute of the pair. Guitarist Raoul Björkenheim is the main compositional force behind the album, and leads a quartet of hip multi-instrumentalists squared out by reedman Jone Takamäki, bassist Uffe Krokfors, and drummer Ippe Kätkä. The title track emerges from the gates with a blast of fresh energy in which Björkenheim and Takamäki dominate the left and right channels vying for the middle ground, which has been claimed as the rhythm section’s sole territory.

Blood Mantra is the follow-up to Decapitated's 2011 album Carnival Is Forever. It was recorded at Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland, with producers Wojtek and Sławek Wiesławscy. The album cover art was created by Polish artist Łukasz Jaszak. The album is set to be released on September 24, 2014, via Nuclear Blast Records. Blood Mantra is the recording debut of drummer Michał Łysejko, who joined the band in January 2014,and bassist Paweł Pasek.

Much like the Moody Blues (and others), Stern-Combo Meissen started out as a rock band in the early '60s. The usual lineup and style changes occurred, until they settled into symphonic prog. This didn't happen until 1977, when they released their self-titled debut. SCM became one of the bigger East German bands of the seventies. They relied heavily on keyboards (ala Emerson and Wakeman), and classical influences. A performance of the band at Furstenwalder Hof in Furstenwalde was captured live in 1976 but never saw the light until 1996, when it was released on Edition Barbarossa.

Cassiopeia, is a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of Casiopea. The group debuted with the self-titled album Casiopea in 1979, featuring Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn as guest musicians. In 1980, Sasaki was replaced by Akira Jimbo. Casiopea has released over 35 albums to date in both Japan and the United States.

The Breathtaking Blue was a somewhat disappointing follow-up to Alphaville's early-1980s records Forever Young and Afternoons in Utopia. It lacked the shimmering standout quality of songs like "Big in Japan," "Forever Young" and "Afternoons in Utopia." The production, by Klaus Schulze and Alphaville, experiments with a somewhat richer instrumentation, adding strings, saxaphone, trumpet, double bass, electric and even acoustic guitars to Bernhard Lloyd's synthesizers. This strategy is met with mixed success. The lush production only serves to muddy "The Mysteries of Love," which might have been one of the album's better tracks had the songwriting been valued above the somewhat ostentatious arrangement. But the slinky bass and restrained sax ornamentation make the mildly jazzy "Heaven or Hell" one of the album's more interesting efforts. And "For a Million" is about as genuine as the band gets, thanks to the attractive minor-key melody and the surprising piano and acoustic guitar solos.