Miles Davis Septet, live from Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo Japan 19th June 1973 The early-to-mid 1970s marked perhaps the most unique and radical period in Miles Davis career. With bands such as Sly & The Family Stone and Parliament/Funkadelic becoming increasingly popular, Davis began to draw considerable influence from their up-tempo, electronic funk sound. By 1973, Miles was showing little sign of slowing the pace of his extraordinary workload that had continued unabated from In A Silent Way up to On The Corner and he continued to tour relentlessly worldwide. June 19th 1973 saw him take to the stage in Tokyo, Japan, playing a selection of previously recorded numbers and extended jams, in a show broadcast live across the region by NHK radio. Hi-Hat proudly presents the complete and definitive broadcast of Miles Davis; live from Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo Japan 19th June 1973.

Lowe once the cheeky chappy of British post-punk and New Wave – had a life before his great songs like What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding and his production work for Elvis Costello, Dr Feelgood, Graham Parker and others.
He'd been in pub rock bands before punk and had one eye on American country music as much as the bar for a few pints in Brinsley Schwarz and Rockpile.

Herbie Hancock is one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the late twentieth century. A revered pianist, he is just as controversial by his early fans, as was his employer and revelator : Miles Davis. But unlike the trumpeter who never turned back (except at the extreme end of his life), Hancock never stopped zigzagging between acoustics and electronics, classical, jazz and R&B, standards and compositions, solo and orchestra. A Disciple, in his own way, of Bill Evans, he quickly imposed his own harmonic and rhythmic approach, not refusing black American influences, blues, funk, gospel, rhythm'n blues, while absorbing the complexities of classical culture.

“Europe is different, every country is different,” says violinist Adam Bałdych, “but music is a language which can bring us together, to one place.” He, Dutch pianist Rogier Telderman and French cellist Vincent Courtois combine and juxtapose their different sounds and heritages. That is the central concept behind the trio of equals that they formed two years ago. “We have three very different personalities, we each bring very different colours,” says Bałdych.

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin left the Columbia command module, and just under three hours later became the first people to land on the moon. Michael Collins stayed on board Columbia and spent the next day alone orbiting the moon, waiting for his colleagues to return, losing visual and radio contact with the earth for 46:38 minutes of each orbit. One report of the time claimed that “not since Adam has any human known such solitude”, but when Collins was asked about that, he explained that his solo orbit of the moon, despite the fact of being alone, was characterized by the following states of mind: “awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation.”

Nicola Matteis came to England about the year 1672, and the earliest account we have of his wonderful powers on the violin is given us by the gossiping Pepys: November 19, 1674. I heard that stupendous violin, Sig. Nicholao (with other rare musicians), whom I never heard mortal man exceed on that instrument. He had a stroke so sweet, and made it speak like the voice of a man, and, when he pleased, like a consort of several instruments. He did wonders upon a note and was an excellent composer. Here was also that rare lutenist Dr. Walgrave; but nothing approached the violin in Nicholaos hand. He played such ravishing things as astonished us all. The present release from violinist

With its program "Friedens Hall" on this CD, the memorial choir is on the road as a traveler, ambassador and seeker of a common sound of peace. The ensemble, under the direction of Philipp Goldmann, presents the motto in very different associations: the musical range alone from over five centuries of music history deliberately breaks all limits.

The Mass solenelle in D minor by Luigi Cherubini is an extraordinary work: after a seemingly familiar beginning, melodic progressions and harmonic developments always take a completely new direction through unforeseen and witty turns. Subtle instrumentation lends many sections an exquisite sonority. Thanks to the wonderful Kammerchor Stuttgart, a select group of soloists (including Ruth Ziesak) and, last but not least, the conducting by Frieder Bernius, the audience of the Schleswig-Holstein-Musik Festival 2001 experienced a great musical moment, which is now finally available on CD.

The Delmore Brothers are not nearly as well-known as such early country giants as the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, and Hank Williams. The reasons for this, upon close inspection of their work, are not readily apparent. They were one of the greatest early country harmonizers, drawing from both gospel and Appalachian folk. They were skilled songwriters, penning literally hundreds of songs, many of which have proven to be durable. Most important, they were among the few early traditional country acts to change with the times, and pioneer some of those changes. Their recordings from the latter half of the 1940s married traditional country to boogie beats and bluesy riffs. In this respect they laid a foundation for rockabilly and early rock & roll, and rate among the most important white progenitors of those forms.

The week before Halloween 2014, composer Alan Howarth presented a live show of his film music in Portland, Oregon. It was a kind of pinnacle of Howarth’s nearly forty years of music and sound design for motion pictures that began with creating sound effects for STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE in 1979, found him co-composing the music for a number of director/composer John Carpenter’s films, and moving on to have a successful career scoring films up into the current day.

The Everly Brothers (qui, fait exceptionnel pour l’époque friande d’appariements inventés, sont vraiment frères), ne comptent pas seulement parmi les artistes les plus fameux du rock'n'roll et de la country des années cinquante, et du début des années soixante. Leur approche des harmonies à deux voix leur a de plus permis d’exercer une durable influence sur des musiciens majeurs de la pop music, comme The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, ou Simon and Garfunkel. Entre 1957 et 1964, leurs succès mondiaux (« Bye Bye Love », « All I Have to Do Is Dream »), pour un total de 35 chansons classées dans le Top 100 américain, en font incontestablement le premier duo du genre.

David Bowie was not a" rock legend " like the others. Going through decades and fashions like this has always given Bowie the status of an innovator, a singular artist who manages to perpetually reinvent himself, to challenge himself as well… Whether glam, new wave, funk or soul, disco or electro, David Bowie has embraced all genres; sometimes even one step ahead. From Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust, from Aladdin Sane to Thin White Duke, he invented and reinvented himself, metamorphosed and showed off his body turned show. Body he made travel to the four corners of the world, from London to New York through Berlin. A geographical, physical, intellectual, dense and quite fascinating route that has made David Bowie an icon of the world of modern culture and a pioneer of pop. An icon playing on an assumed androgyny for, not to say claimed.

Jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein was born September 3, 1967, in New York City. He got his first break while attending the New School when he met Jim Hall, who recruited him for a concert of guitarists as part of the 1990 JVC Jazz Festival in New York. The show was recorded by MusicMasters and issued as Live at Town Hall, Vol. 2. Bernstein quickly began playing with other jazz musicians, notably appearing on albums by Lou Donaldson, Michael Hashim, Larry Goldings, Mel Rhyne, Jesse Davis, and Geoff Keezer. He recorded his first album as a leader, Somethin's Burnin', for Criss Cross in December, 1992, as part of quartet with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist John Webber, and drummer Jimmy Cobb. After working with such artists as Patti Page, Walt Weiskopf, Brian Lynch, Laverne Butler, Eric Alexander, and Hendrik Meurkens in 1993-1994, Bernstein returned to his solo work with Signs of Life.

Founded in 1977 as an anarchist and left-liberal music rock theater by original member Thomas Spitzer, the Band still deals with harsh social criticism in its lyrics. You can look back on a 42 years long career with well over 1600 concert appearances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and the Czech Republic, on over 10 million sold major recordings, 20 top 10 albums in Austria/Germany/Switzerland and countless other awards.

Suor Angelica is one of the three one-act operas that comprise Puccinis Il Trittico. Of the three, its the most lyrical and tragic; it also features an all female cast. Set in a 17th-century convent near Florence, it tells the tragic tale of a noblewoman who is forced to become a nun to repent the sin of having had a child outside wedlock, thus causing a huge scandal in her social circle. The baby is immediately taken from her, and Angelica is left with no news about him, nor her family, for seven long years. Although seemingly adjusted to the convents daily routine she has become an expert in herbal remedies Angelica is desperate to hear from her family, but when an aunt finally visits her, Suor Angelica is coldly informed that her son died from an incurable disease two years earlier.