Today Daniel Barenboim is internationally recognized and revered as an orchestral and operatic conductor, pianist, and a musical ambassador and also as a humanitarian. Partnering him is the remarkable conductor Sergiu Celibidache. “He was one of the greatest musicians I ever encountered”, says Barenboim. Sergiu Celibidache has been called a musical giant, a magician, a brilliant lion-tamer and an enfant terrible of classical music. He was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerizing orchestras audiences and critics with his intensity and brilliance.

100 Hits Halloween features scary chart sounds including "Ghostbusters" (Ray Parker Jr.), "Feed My Frankenstein" (Alice Cooper),"Hunting For Witches" (Bloc Party), "Amityville (The House On The Hill)" (Lovebug Starski), "I Put A Spell On You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins), "Monster Mash" (Bobby Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers) and many more. Also features a Karaoke DVD featuring 20 Halloween classics such as "Thriller", "Highway To Hell", "Ghost Town" and a 20 track movie theme disc featuring tracks from classic horror films such as Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Exorcist and The Omen.

U2‘s tenth studio album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, is being reissued next month to celebrate 20 years since the original release.

Halford's Live at Saitama Super Arena, which features Roy Z and Metal Mike Chlasciak on guitars, Mike Davis on bass, Bobby Jarzombek on drums, and the "Electric Eye" himself, Rob Halford on vocals, incudes 15 tracks, all of which were recorded in 5.1 Surround audio and draw from the works of Halford, Fight, and Judas Priest…

This edition of Pure Fucking Armageddon is released an an honourable tribute to Øystein Aarseth aka Euronymous 1968-1993. Originally recorded anno 1986 C.E. in Hell

Live After Death is a live album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US. The 1998 and 2020 remastered CD reissues include the full concert in its original length, plus the additional tracks from side four on a second CD.

Every one of the six volumes of Café Zimmermann's recordings of Bach's "Concerts avec plusiers instruments" is absolutely excellent. The music is all magnificent and played with a freshness combined with depth of understanding which is a real joy. You may like to know that they have now been issued as a set J.S. Bach: Concertos with Several Instruments Complete Works Vol. I-VI which I recommend in the strongest possible terms.

A culmination of influences from an illustrious career spanning 25-plus years, Departure is the latest studio recording from pianist Dan Siegel. He brilliantly blends his melodic and rhythmic pop sensibilities with his traditional jazz roots and offers up an amazing acoustic vision of original compositions. This CD is graceful, noble, and reflective, since it transcends categorization as it speaks to earlier times of adult instrumental acoustic music with classic themes that were influenced by the song, its melodies, and its virtuosic musicians.

The group Full Moon represented one of the first attempts at fusing jazz, blues, and rock in the very early 1970's. The group's members consisted of some surivivors of the 60's, mainly from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Buzzy Feiten, a guitar legend at age 18 played lead guitar for Butterfield from 69-71, and then went on to record two albums with Stevie Wonder, and even toured with Stevie Wonder in the Rolling Stones tour of 1972. Phil Wilson was the original drummer for Butterfield, and wanted to write songs and do something other than blues. "Brother" Gene Dinwiddie was a consumate and perfectionist sax player who also wanted to write songs. Freddie Beckmeyer on drums, and a young Neil Larsen on keyboards rounded out the group. Neil Larsen was a keyboardist with no bounds, and a favorite of jazz producer Tommy LiPuma…

Japanese pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara dazzled the jazz world with her 2003 debut, Another Mind. Its mash of keyboard pyrotechnics and range of compositional styles was multiplied exponentially by her irrepressible energy. On that set she used variously sized ensembles to articulate her compositions. On Brain, Hiromi strips it back to a trio and offers a more intimate look at her wide musical universe, utilizing drummer Martin Valihora, bassist Tony Grey (both fellow Berklee College of Music alums), and alternately bassist Anthony Jackson.

Gary Burton - Works (1984) {ECM Records 823 267-2 rec 1973-1976}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Vibes

Vibraphonist Gary Burton, one of the defining voices of ECM’s formative years, is worthily honored in this second “Works” series installment. His contributions as virtuoso and interpreter of the instrument are unparalleled, and on ECM both aspects of his career found ample space in which to flourish. This particular era of the 1970s, which followed his RCA blitz, showed him also to be a musician of great patience, as on The New Quartet. The 1973 classic dropped him into a studio with guitarist Mick Goodrick, bassist Abraham Laboriel, and drummer Harry Blazer for a set as gorgeously played as it was conceived. From it we are treated to Keith Jarrett’s “Coral,” of which every spindly leaf is accounted for, and Carla Bley’s “Olhos De Gato,” which waters a groove that is laid back but never subdued. Those chamber sensibilities give way to more luscious details in “Vox Humana,” another Bley tune that references 1976’s quintet outing, Dreams So Real.

Red Prysock - Swingsation (1999) {Verve 314 547 878-2 rec 1951-1961}
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Jazz / Jump Blues / Swing / Jazz Blues / Saxophone

I first heard Mr. Prysock on the juke box at the Campus Inn soda counter in Utica, New York, circa 1953. At that point, I became an ardent jitterbugger, and life-long fan of Red. This album is a must-buy for me, though I have some of the tracks, already, on their original 45-rpm pressings. He inspired me, also, to take on the tenor sax, which I play to this day. The stomping, driving, energy of Red came though like a locomotive run wild, though completely on track. Prysock, the brother of singer Arthur, was the best of the Jump Tenor school, coming out of the stylings of Illinois Jacquet.