While not a new album as such, this movie soundtrack confirms Boubacar Traore's iconic status in his native Mali. The music is his journey, from his home city of Kayes to Bamako, and through his life, with a special focus on his late wife, Pierrette, who's beautifully celebrated on this version of "Adieu Pierrette." Plenty of people come out to help, including guitarist Ali Farka Toure on "Diarabi," "Duma Me Yelema," and "Improvisation 2," while rising star Rokia Traore and her band back him on a live version of "Sa Golo."

Disky Communications Europe B.V. "Rock Classics From The 80's" collects 30 original hits of the era featuring Golden Earring' "Twilight Zone," Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonight," MSG' "Anytime," Huey Lewis & The News' "I Want A New Drug," Billy Idol's "Rebell Yell,"… "Rock Classics From The 80's" is a good album for anyone who stood up in a bleacher seat at an arena and jammed a thumb onto a portable lighter during Poison's "Your Mama Don't Dance." And, for better or worse, there are several million of them.

"Riot Live" (not to be confused with the 1982 EP of the same name with Rhett Forrester on vocals) is Riot's first full-length live album, recorded in the UK in 1980, but not issued until 1989 on CBS/Sony Music in Japan. This is the band's last output with original vocalist Guy Speranza. The album contains a cover of the well known 1950s rock'n'roll classic, "Train Kept A-Rollin'", brought to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s by the likes of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and Aerosmith.

Here we have Beat Baumli on guitar, Lorenz Beyeler on bass and Alexia Gardner on vocals. The album consits of excerpts of 3 nights at the Birds Eye Jazz Club in Basel, Switzerland. Read on for the Linear notes on this sophisticated Live Trio recording. Liner Notes provided by Phil Morrison from Brunswick, Georgia in the US. (Bassist/Composer/Songwriter)All too often we use the phrase "jazz singer" when referring to vocalists who sing standard tunes from the jazz repertoire. Many are very good singers who sing in tune and in time with the music…

"Honest and direct, reflective and sensual, serious and sometimes melancholy, but always with a subtle wink and an unerring sense of the appropriate level of of Humour as Julia Zipprick describes with subtle melodies, so prominent as haunting rhythms and in so poetic and direct words, a whole emotional universe. "

Filmed in 1983, this DVD captures the Metropolitan Opera’s sweeping sets, its army of authentically costumed singers, and a cast of glowing soloists led by Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry and Nicolai Ghiaurov.
Verdi’s drama of private passions played out against a backdrop of intense political battles becomes extra vivid in this immense staging. This Met version, sung in Italian, includes the oft-omitted Fontainebleau scene, as well as the Prelude and Introduction.