Celebrated British jazz vocalist Emma Smith, already a musical force with a devoted and ever-growing following in the UK and European markets, embarks on captivating the US fans with her forthcoming album, Bitter Orange, due out July 18th on La Reserve Records. Known for her virtuosic chops and signature vivacious live shows, Smith, who is a multi-million streams artist, is the first UK artist to join the label’s roster and brings a lifetime of stories to these shores.

FEELING MOZART arrives — the debut album by Edgardo Rocha, accompanied by Concerto Málaga under the baton of Juanma Parra. An intimate, powerful, and emotional interpretation of some of the most iconic arias by the prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A tribute to Mozart’s spirit through the lens of an artist who breaks boundaries and challenges tradition with a unique sense of authenticity.

Displaced Dreams, the new album by Cypriot violinist and composer Michalis Kouloumis, is a deeply emotional reflection inspired by the plight of displaced people—an experience that also shaped his own family history. Blending musical elements from the Eastern Mediterranean and Western traditions, Kouloumis crafts a poignant statement on shared humanity amid global political turmoil. This work offers both a personal and universal narrative through a unique fusion of styles.

Acclaimed pianist Asher Ian Armstrong presents an album of rarely-heard “outcast” works written by women between the two World Wars. Includes music by Henriëtte Bosmans, Jean Coulthard, Varvara Gaigerova, Katherine Parker, Ilse Fromm-Michaels, and Gayane Chebotaryan.

Alex G's Headlights is his tenth full-length album and his first with RCA Records. The album was written by Giannascoli and recorded across various locations in Philadelphia and New York. It was co-produced alongside his longtime collaborator Jacob Portrait. Headlights is a gorgeous collection of surreal storytelling over twelve new songs. Giannascoli delves further into the reality-bending terrain that has made him one of the twenty-first century's most celebrated and influential musical architects.

Recorded in the spring of ’85, this fired-up blast of West Coast blues finds former Canned Heat guitarist Buddy Reed stepping into the spotlight with gritty guitar work, feverish vocals, and a band that hits like a live wire. Tough, loose, and bursting with juke-joint energy, this session is the sound of a blues lifer finally calling his shot, and playing like everything’s on the line.

A great little set – warmly spiritual soul jazz, recorded as one of the few mid 70s releases to grace the Catalyst label. Pianist Mark Levine leads the set – and he's got a gentle west coast touch that fits perfectly with the album's horn work by Tom Harrell, Mike Morris, and Ray Pizzi. The set's got some nicely grooving numbers that spiral out with a bit of modal, a bit of Latin rhythms, and a free dancing soul that will keep you coming back to this one more than you'd expect! Titles include "Ixtlan", "Up Til Now", "Sweet Pea", and "Something Old, Something Blue".

Jess Gillam is a phenomenal young saxophonist who at 27 has already made her mark in the world of classical music. When she was 11, she started what is now an annual music festival in Ulverston, a small town in the Cumbria region of England, where her parents run a traditional English tea room and grocery shop. At 17, she became the first saxophonist in history to make the finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. The EP PRISM, Vol. 2 includes arrangements of works by Debussy, Scarlatti, Boulanger, Telemann, and Liszt, performed by Jess Gillam and the Jess Gillam Ensemble.

The Violin Sonata that I wrote was meant to express the longing and the striving for an inward, profound truth, which is not to be found in the outer surface of everyday life, but in the emotional depths of the human spirit. It is a mirror on the era in which it was written, in which I as an individual was seeking a new, personal language of music - Cesar Franck

We continue our recordings with Scottish pianist John Bryden who on this occasion brings us a selection of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. Some of the most beautiful Preludes and Fugues, the Partita no. 1 and the iconic Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.

Vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi performs the revered Iraqi Maqam tradition, accompanied by traditional instruments of the Chalghi Baghdadi, featuring Amir ElSaffar on the santur.

This Was Then is the ninth full-length album by pianist/composer Erik Deutsch. His long-running NYC sextet has once again been enlisted to conjure their magic: Tony Mason on drums, Jeff Hill on bass, Avi Bortnick on drums, Mike McGinnis on Reeds, and Brian Drye on trombone; plus special guests Mauro Refosco on percussion and Victoria Reed on vocals. In between touring full time with The Black Crowes, piloting multiple projects, and recording with an incredible variety of artists, Deutsch has found the time to create an excellent new album of original material.

It is a rather widespread opinion that the genesis of musical compositions intended to positively impress the listener’s soul is often connected to an initial illumination that expands within a creative process that is per se rather ordinary. It is that creative spark constituting the generating principle which, as it unfolds, gives form and narrative cohesion to the sound archetype.

Brand new album from Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) performing acoustic covers of Bob Dylan songs.

Writing the liner notes to this album necessarily compels me to begin with a preamble which fully complieswith the music and renditions it contains: listening to a discographical work is an active act of creation, the moment when we choose to shift our point of observation towards an imaginative reality that, once experienced, appears more authentic and faithful than everyday's ordinariness.