Thelonious Monk fans in particular are advised to search for this valuable two-LP set for it contains a variety of unissued material from the pianist/composer's six-year period with Columbia.

The Genius After Hours is a 1961 album by Ray Charles. All of the songs were taken from the same three studio sessions that created the album The Great Ray Charles which featured the use of both a trio and a septet; the later arranged by Quincy Jones.

This recording was not only Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s but one of the truly classic jazz sets. Armstrong and his All-Stars (trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Barney Bigard, pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Arvell Shaw, drummer Barrett Deems, and singer Velma Middleton) were clearly inspired by the fresh repertoire, 11 songs written by W.C. Handy.

It was in the midst of the pandemic, devoting herself to personal studies, that Olga Kopylova-titular pianist of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) since 2000 – approached the work of the post – romantic French composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944), with whom she established a strong bond of admiration and recognition.

Hope for the Future is a song written and composed by the famed Beatles member Paul McCartney. I

This complete double album of the 1956 live recording from Café Bohemia in New York City features Kenny Dorham and his musicians, including a very young Kenny Burrell on guitar. This album is included in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Core Collection where it was awarded four stars out of four.

Popular English rock/electronica band Bloc Party's fifth studio album. "Hymns" is a rebirth for Bloc Party. After 16 years as a band, countless world tours and awards and four studio albums, Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack are taking it back to where it all began…

"Dreams" is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Skye label. The Allmusic review states: "a collection of originals, pop covers, and classical reinterpretations. The result is a sort of accessible third-stream music. Szabo has many fine moments".

Nika is the 25-year-old sole singer and songwriter behind Zola Jesus. Her album "Taiga" is at once challenging and accessible, and is undeniably branded with what Nika terms a “piercing ambition.” Such encompassing purpose, she explains, would be impossible without a newfound sense of personal and artistic self. The album is a declaration of that purpose; one laced with jarring clarity in both its content and production. Taiga, the Russian name for a boreal forest pays homage to Nika’s Russian roots and her time spent growing up in rural Wisconsin on a 100-acre farm.

Manchester alternative band that layers socially relevant lyrics, steeped in the British experience, over atmospheric, epic rock. The making of "The Take Off and Landing of Everything" saw the band take a new approach to writing and recording. Previously songs were mostly developed by the band as a whole, but this new album sees individual members and sub-groups take the lead on several tracks.

Big Generator is the twelfth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released on 21 September 1987 by Atco Records.

For violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja a bout of tendonitis was the perfect opportunity to widen her musical perspective by taking on the title role in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, as she tells Toby Deller.

Following up his 2011 album "Ashes & Fire", which was the best reviewed and highest charting of his career, Ryan Adams’ returns with his self-titled Blue Note debut. Recorded at his PaxAm studios and produced by Adams, the album represents another leap forward in his development as both songwriter and performer. Easily his most fully-developed musical statement, the album takes Adams’ inspired songcraft and brings it into a more hard driving rock direction that will please the hardcore Ryan devotee but will also turn on a broader audience.

"You're Dead!" is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife. A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasm that could only exist between our world and another. The enduring universe of Lotus supporting cast has expanded and evolved to feature in order of appearance, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat, Niki Randa, alongside mindblowing original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago.

Four-time Grammy-winning violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006 with a series of releases of all his major works for violin, among them this performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mutter herself. Plus, violist Yuri Bashmet appears on the Sinfonia concertante.