He never forgot his italian origins, (he liked to say that he was born aboard a ship when his parents emigrated from Italy, also if he was born in Philadelphia), and in last years of his life he played different times in Italy meeting some italian jazz players. The following concert was performed in Turin at Teatro Erba, on March 26, 1971 by an italo-american quartet with the philadelphian jazz pianist Lou Stein (1922-2002) and the italians Marco Ratti (1932-2007): bass and Gil Cuppini (1924-1996): drums. The tapes of this concert were preserved by Venuti's family for years. Many years after they were issued in the 100 LP collection I Giganti del Jazz by italian publisher Curcio and till now never reissued.

On PENNY LANE The pop standard has been the jumping off point for jazz artists since jazz s birth. The formula is simple, but not easy. You stay true to the melody and you go where it takes you. But the Beatles? Yes, especially the Beatles. In John Basile s Penny Lane, the guitarist is honest to both of his project s masters. The iconic melodies of Lennon and McCartney and Harrison are given homage, not just simply run through as a starting point for some string gymnastics. They are there and they are honest. Yet, at the same time it is Basile s jazz guitar that let the classics breathe new air and come to life in this form. You hear it; actually you experience it, in the subtle and smooth Eleanor Rigby with its rich tones and lines that recall the original but with a fresh feel…

Moving to Helsinki from London back in the mid ‘60s, Jim Pembroke became situated as one of a select few of first class U.K. rockers to move their talents to the continent. Pembroke’s amazing songs, vocals, lyrics and production has graced many fine rock records to come out of Finland and even Sweden. Now 35 years after his early recordings with Blues Section and Wigwam, Pembroke & Co. have recorded and released another brilliant new studio album in 2005.

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 255 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony MasterSound # CK 64420 | Country/Year: US 1994, 1976
Genre: Rock, Pop | Style: Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Album Rock

"Both artistically and commercially, Boz Scaggs had his greatest success with Silk Degrees…" ~allmusicguide

Johann Sebastian Bach - Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Die Kunst der Fuge
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 305 MB | Full Artwork: 187 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 00289 477 7345 GH | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Piano

"Die Kunst der Fuge: what a way to make your Deutsche Grammophon solo recording debut. That's especially true if you're Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose full-time gig is with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain and whose reputation was made in the avant-garde and not the late Baroque…" ~allmusicguide

Over the last decade, a growing movement of bands have started to reclaim and reinvent aspects of the pioneering Progressive, Post-Punk and Post-Rock genres, re-establishing a desire to experiment with eclectic musical sources and cutting edge sonic possibilities. Kscope was created in 2008 to provide a home for this evolving and adventurous style of music without boundaries. The selection of tracks on Volume 6 showcases the ongoing vitality and diversity of Kscope's 'post-progressive' philosophy…

Two fantastic examples of 17th century mass performed by specialists of the genre. The whole is perfectly chiseled, mixing the warm sonorities of the viols with the vocal and textual rigor of the singers, restoring in a serene atmosphere the style appropriate to each of the composers (delicately archaic for the one, soberly modern for the other.

The final release of the George Enescu (1881-1955) symphony cycle includes two neglected masterpieces: the 1st Symphony filled with youthful energy and the poetic and lyric Symphonie concertante for Cello and Orchestra. The soloist of the Symphony concertante is the award-winning cellist Truls Mørk. Enescu wrote both of the works at a relatively young age: the Symphonie concertante was written at the age of 20 and the 1st Symphony was premiered when the composer was 25 years of age. Even so, Enescu had already created himself an impressive career as a composer with several large-scale works.