Trombonist Steve Turre is backed by a true dream team rhythm section on "Colors for the Masters": pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ron Carter and 87-year-old drummer Jimmy Cobb. The album, recorded live off the floor, is a combination of originals, choice songs by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter and J.J. Johnson and a fresh take on the standard "When Sunny Gets Blue".

One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, Steve Turre makes a powerful statement for the healing powers of music. "Spiritman" reflects his belief that 'without spirit, music is just notes'. The first recording - after many years of development by Turre - of sea shells played into the piano's open strings creating an ethereal, mystical, acoustic sound.

DiFranco's 2008 album celebrates existence, professes love and tackles thorny political issues with an infectious sense of glee. It's one of Ani's most joyous records to date, incorporating New Orleans jazz, funk and folk into an exhilarating and innovative sound.

Small World was another platinum hit for Huey Lewis & the News, but the album was noticeably weaker than their previous three records. Lewis tries to position himself as a socially conscious rocker – no less than three tracks have the word "world" in their title – writing songs about the perilous state of the environment and urging everybody to live together peacefully, since "there ain't no livin' in a perfect world." Such sanctimonious and simple lyrical platitudes would be acceptable if the band had written a set of catchy pop to support them.

Abandoning California for Nashville, Linda Ronstadt does take a stab at relatively straight-ahead country on her second album, Silk Purse. She's changed location and producers – Elliot Mazer, who'd later be Neil Young's right-hand man for archival projects, helmed this – but she hasn't quite thrown herself into the maelstrom of Music City here.

Main Squeeze is the twelfth studio album by jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. This album was only briefly released on CD and quickly discontinued, making it a rare find. It features one of Chuck Mangione's most popular songs, "Main Squeeze".

The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall is the fourth installment of the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, released in 2004 on Legacy Records. The complete recording from October 31, 1964 "Halloween" show at Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan by Bob Dylan, it had been widely circulated on pirate tapes for decades.

Bringing Down the Horse is the second album by the American rock band The Wallflowers. It was released worldwide on May 21, 1996. The album was produced by T-Bone Burnett and features hits such as "One Headlight", "6th Avenue Heartache", "The Difference", and "Three Marlenas".

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation for the Jackson 5 released by Motown Records in late 1971, and selling over 5.6 million copies worldwide. The top 10 single "Sugar Daddy" is included as a new track alongside J5 hits such as "I Want You Back" and "I'll Be There".

The Progressive Blues Experiment is the debut album by American blues rock musician Johnny Winter. He recorded it in August 1968 at the Vulcan Gas Company, an Austin music club, with his original trio of Tommy Shannon on bass guitar and John "Red" Turner on drums. The album features a mix of Winter originals and older blues songs, including the standards "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Help Me", and "Forty-Four".

Storm at Sunup is the title of the third album and opening track of Italian-Canadian jazz-pop singer-songwriter, Gino Vannelli, and was produced by Vannelli and his brother Joe. Unlike his other albums, Storm at Sunup is a jazz fusion album with much less pop influence.

Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words.

Proto Moro is a Psychedelic Melbourne Jazz outfit comprising of Harry Leggatt aka Uno Lizard on Guitar, Jack Eden aka Madayana on Bass, Gene du Vergier aka Pearl E. Gates on Drums and Nikodimos aka Nikodimos on Woodwind.

The veteran Bay Area jazz singer, Barbara 'Bobbe' Norris began her professional career singing in restaurants and clubs in Sausalito, California, and worked in San Francisco in the late 50s and early 60s. During this period, she was also secretary to the Kingston Trio. In the mid-60s, Norris moved to New York where she was signed to Columbia Records by John Hammond Jr., subsequently performing at the Persian Room of New York's Plaza Hotel and in Las Vegas at The Sands Hotel with the Buddy Rich band, and released for Columbia an album called "The Beginning".