"Dirt Floor" is the fourth studio album by a rootsy, blues-influenced rock guitarist who spent his career on the margins of mainstream acceptance. It was produced by Craig Street and recorded live direct to a two-track analog recorder using a single stereo ribbon microphone by Danny Kadar at Blue Moon Racing Shop (Whitley's father's barn) in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

This 60 minute program showcases Sara K's unique blend of acoustic folk, blues, pop, and jazz in an intimate setting. It features classics like If I Could Sing Your Blues (with special guest Chuck Mangione), Horse I Used to Ride, and I Couldn't Change Your Mind. "With the sparest backdrop of guitar, bass and light percussion, Sara's vignettes are personal and romantic, spun from a calm center that can only house those with the sense to find it…Thanks to the flawless production, Sara sounds as if she's playing right in your living room".

"Eye in the Sky" is the sixth studio album by English rock band The Alan Parsons Project. Songs on this album are in a number of different styles, from cool and funky to lyrical and heavily orchestrated. The album contains the Project's biggest hit, the title track with lead vocals by Eric Woolfson. The album itself was a major success, reaching the Top 10 in numerous countries. "Eye in the Sky" is the first of three albums the Project recorded on analogue equipment and mixed directly to the digital master tape.

"Percussion XX" showcases the talents of Italian percussionist Jonathan Faralli with a selection of compositions for percussion from the 20th Century. Featuring compositions by Hans Werner Henze, Elliott Carter, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, this disc is a welcome addition to our small collection of percussion recordings.

Recorded in late 1960, Kenny Drew's seventh recording as a leader is significant for many reasons, not the least of which that it is one of the finest Blue Note hard bop statements in either of their catalogues. Teamed with rising young star trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and the wonderful tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley fresh off stints with Donald Byrd and Art Blakey, Drew joined the ranks of the premier mainstream jazz pianists just prior to moving permanently to Europe. He's a complementary piece of the puzzle as a player, but stirs the drink as the composer of all of these very fine hard bop vehicles.

"Cool Struttin’" is a 1958 album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark. Described as an "enduring hard-bop classic" by The New York Times, the album features alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, trumpeter Art Farmer and two members of the Miles Davis Quintet, drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Paul Chambers. According to The Stereo Times, the album enjoys "a nearly cult status among hardcore jazz followers", a reputation AllMusic asserts it deserves "for its soul appeal alone".

Whatever the coincidence or lack thereof, jazz listeners were fortunate when Armstrong's and Ellington's paths crossed in an RCA Victor recording studio in 1961, thanks to producer Bob Thiele's influence. And jazz listeners are doubly fortunate that devoted jazz re-issue producer Michael Cuscuna found the out-takes from those sessions. The result is that listeners can be a fly on the wall during the creative process as the two kind-of centeniarians develop the final recorded tracks that the public heard on the original Roulette recordings.

"Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You" gives us a part of that wonderful evening of October 30, 1967 in the Fine Recording Studio on West 56th Street in Manhattan when the tapes rolled while Rushing and his old Basie bandmates, Dicky Wells, Buck Clayton, and Jo Jones reunited and entertained a select audience with relaxed, freewheeling renditions of classics from the blues and swing lexicon.

"Touch" is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, released in 1988 and then re-released in 1989. The album was popular in alternative rock circles, but McLachlan would not achieve commercial stardom.

Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of a newly re-mixed and re-mastered edition of the classic 1974 album. Originally released in June 1974, the album has now come to be regarded as one of the band's finest.

Doctor John's second solo piano album finds him combining country, blues, and New Orleans standards with originals, half of them instrumentals, and half of them containing vocals that sound like they were recorded off the piano microphone. This is not a high-tech recording, by any means, but in its unadorned way it does capture the flavor of Doctor John as directly as any record he's made.

"Open Sesame" is the debut album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard released on the Blue Note label in 1960 as BST 84040. It features performances by Hubbard, Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis. The Penguin Guide to Jazz has included Open Sesame as part of a selected "Core Collection", and has summarized the album as "a great Blue Note set".