Steven Mark Grossman (January 18, 1951 – August 13, 2020) was an American jazz fusion and hard bop saxophonist.

Throughout their legendary, decade-long run, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7"s, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning this year with the first-ever vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club (1992), Blank Forms Editions is conducting a systematic retrospective of the storied group, including a multi-year LP reissue effort and a forthcoming comprehensive CD box set and an over five hundred page book.

On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty - they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel a large swath of their North American tour dates due to ongoing health issues.

While some people’s lives get muddled up in the meanders of complexity, others, on the contrary, dazzle by the clarity of their path, which they follow step by step according to the quiet rhythm of obviousness.

The life of keyboard player, composer and innovative jazz musician Murray McNabb was full of ironies.

For many years, the concerto recordings made by Herman Krebbers were staples of the Philips LP catalogue.

The Man With The Horn was the first album Miles Davis recorded after his prolonged retirement in the second half of the 1970s.

Schon der brasilianische Komponist Heitor Villa Lobos (1887–1959) brachte seine immense Bewunderung für Johann Sebastian Bach mit den insgesamt neun Bachianas Brasilieras kreativ zum Ausdruck, die heute noch immer zu seinen bekanntesten Werken zählen.

The Rolling Stones once again reach into the archives - and release the live album Licked Live in NYC in restored and remastered version with four unreleased bonus tracks.

“Jackie’s musical gift, cellistic prowess and personality were so inseparable that it made her probably one of the most unique musical personalities ever to perform on the stage,” says the great violinist Itzhak Perlman, who knew Jacqueline du Pré well.

Cobos initially began as an arranger and composer for a Los Angeles latin-soul aggregation called 'Conexión' who released a number of popular dance cuts and one album including "I will pray" from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

The overture in E major, Op. 21, was written by Mendelssohn at 17 years and 6 months old (it was finished on 6 August 1826).

“The world’s greatest tenor” – at any given moment, across the history of opera and classical singing, those would have been fighting words.

Celia Cruz (vollständiger Name Ursula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, vermutlich * 21.

Russell Garcia, QSM (12 April 1916 – 19 November 2011) was an American composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast.