2013. The standard sources on jazz list Mary Lou Williams’ birthplace as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In her liner notes for My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me, Mary Lou sets the record straight: “I was born in Atlanta, Geo..

2019. There we go with another Afro beat classic that did not really leave Nigeria back in the day it was released. Therefore we can only guess the value among collectors but some reliable sources tell us that even..

2017. Kelly Hall-Tompkins Violin Kelly Hall-Tompkins is one of New York City’s most in-demand violinists, whose dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was winner of a ..

2016. Edward Smaldone—The Beauty of Innuendo The Beauty of Innuendo was composed in 2013 at the invitation of conductor Daijiro Ukon and was first performed by him and the Oratorio Sinfonica Japan in Tokyo in March ..

2017. Marty Nelson has been writing, producing and performing in the music industry since the 1970's when, as a teenager, he began his career as a founding member of the vocal jazz quartet, 'Manhattan Transfer.' He..

2017. This is home in the sense that these are the streets I grew up in, this is where my friends are. But that's home because that's where my parents came from and they always talk about that and I dream abou..

2023. 'Avenham' is about a feeling. It's a place John Foxx knew as a young man, but its more than a location. It's less defined, more dispersed and mysterious than that. This work has echoes of his own 'London Overg..

1971. Iranian born American guitarist and composer Ahmad Mansour attended Berklee College of music in the early eighties, also studying with John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick and Ritchie Beirach before moving to New Y..

2019. There we go with another Afro beat classic that did not really leave Nigeria back in the day it was released. Therefore we can only guess the value among collectors but some reliable sources tell us that even..

2018. Modern Harmonic is proud to begin its exploration of the vast and eccentric Starday catalog with classic steel guitar instrumental long players. The sound of Nashville nightlife, circa 1962! Steel guitar pio..

2016. Pianist/Composer Michael XtraSolar Michael XtraSolar Michael wrapped up the end of the 20th Century in a log cabin nestled in the Canadian woods. He had spent the previous decade immersed in media production..

2013. 48 at the time that he recorded his Harold Arlen tribute album in 1978, Tommy Flanagan had a successfully emerged from relative obscurity. Although an important graduate of the Detroit jazz scene of the 1950s ..

2017. In the late summer of 1967, two eminent Kentucky residents met for the first time. Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a Trappist monk and author, traveled around the world to settle in the Abby of Gethsemani. John Jac..

2009. The Dutch composer Douwe Eisenga writes post-minimal music that is accessible without becoming superficial. Better evidence of this than the CD Rose Road—City Lines, is scarcely conceivable. Time and again he ..

2011. The oratorio developed out of paraliturgical devotional practices of the Oratorian order during the sixteenth century. By the seventeenth century, it had grown into an independent genre and spread rapidly acro..

2015. For his debut album Plunge For Distance, Dutch guitarist Syberen van Munster has brought together an unusual formation of talented peers: Saxophonist and Monk competition semi-finalist Ben van Gelder, Brazilia..

2010. Brazilian import. One third of the cult post-industrial Swedish legends MZ.412, one half of the amazing experimental act Beyond Sensory Experience and Nordvargr's long running loyal partner on classic endeavor..

2016. My Favourite Things is the hotly anticipated third release from the popular Melbourne jazz group, The Daimon Brunton Quartet. “It’s strong melodically as well as having some harmonic ideas which I think are q..

2012. 'Ferenc Nemeth is a nimble Hungarian drummer with a feel for African rhythm, as he has proved through a marquee association with the guitarist Lionel Loueke. On “Triumph” (Dreamers Collective), an album due ou..

2017.  Wave in head - 'im augenblick' all songs written, performed and produced by wave in head mastering by brian hazard @ resonance mastering cover design by wave in head additional cover art 'das aug..

2004. 'Schuller is a drummer who starts at the boundaries and then extends them. He can take the music through difficult and surprising changes with astonishing economy.' - All About Jazz 'Schuller's cha..

2017. “Bogna Kicinska (…) is a real discovery, she is a vocalist with a wide range of voice, singing with great feeling and improvising using scat technique without any restraint” – Jazz Forum Magazine (Poland) Ori..