Francesca Massey is an outstanding British organist who at the age of 19 had gained all the top prizes in the Followship in the Royal College of Organists'diploma and was subsequently awarded the WT Best Memorial Scholarship and Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Musicians Benevolent Fund's Ian Fleming Award.

Balmorhea's debut album The Wind, a stunning blend of ambient Americana and contemporary classical, received rave reviews upon its release last year. Now the Texas duo, consisting of Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller, has teamed up with award-winning filmmaker and Amazon Music creative Director Jared Hogan to film a unique live performance of the album at the Chinati Foundation in the desert city of Marfa, Texas.

The Chopin Project is Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas' most ambitious project to date, comprising a trio of albums that pay tribute to Chopin's favorite instrument.

Who are these guys? That’s the usual reaction of anyone fortunate enough to have come across this remarkable (and remarkably rare) session from 1963.

The Tenors recently welcomed Grammy and Juno award nominee and international recording artist Mark Masri and the most celebrated new voice to emerge from Italy in a generation, winner of Italy’s most prominent TV competition “AMICI”, Alberto Urso.

Recouping after a car crash and faced with the loss of Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, Jeff Beck redefined what the Jeff Beck Group was about, deciding to tone down the bluesy bombast, adding keyboardist Max Middleton for a jazz edge, then having Bob Tench sing to give it an overblown early-'70s AOR edge.

Continuing with the same group lineup as on Rough & Ready, Jeff Beck Group was slagged off by critics for Steve Cropper's admittedly lazy production. However, several of the songs hold up masterfully, including the skronky "Ice Cream Cakes," the superlative redo of Don Nix's "Going Down," and the beautifully sad and wistful instrumental, "Definitely Maybe".

Originally released in 1976, Jeff Beck's Wired contains some of the best jazz-rock fusion of the period. Wired is generally more muscular, albeit less-unique than its predecessor, Blow by Blow. Joining keyboardist Max Middleton, drummer Richard Bailey, and producer George Martin from the Blow by Blow sessions are drummer Narada Michael Walden, bassist Wilbur Bascomb, and keyboardist Jan Hammer. Beck contributed no original material to Wired, instead relying on the considerable talents of his supporting cast.

Best-known for his 1970 hit "Spirit in the Sky," singer/songwriter Norman Greenbaum was born November 20, 1942, in Malden, MA.

"Gautier Capuçon plays what many people love, and he plays it masterfully," wrote ndr. de about the exceptional cellist.

This 1970 holiday release is the second Christmas album from The Miracles, following a successful, highly acclaimed 1963 outing. "The Season For Miracles" features traditional numbers, classic favourites and several originals, including two songs by Stevie Wonder. The Temptations join The Miracles on Mel Tormé's "The Christmas Song".

Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim sets the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), using the inspired contemporary English-language versions of Coleman Barks and Kabir Helminski as his source texts. Trygve responds both to the musicality of the translations and to Rumi’s gifts as a storyteller and with Rumi Songs seems to have invented a new kind of Lieder with a Nordic-Oriental orientation. The line-up is strikingly unorthodox, with each of the quartet members bringing their own musical personalities to the material. Classical mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad is well-known as the leader of her own ensemble Music For A While, and for her numerous music-theatre collaborations with Christoph Mathaler. She finds an intimate tone to convey Rumi’s thoughts, underlined by the elegant arrangements and the improvisational input of Seim, Haltli and Henryson.

The Jesus and Mary Chain fronted by the Reid brothers Jim and William, released their long awaited studio album "Damage and Joy" – their first album since "Munki", released back in the summer of 1998. Including lead track ‘Amputation’ and a re-energised new version of ‘All Things Must Pass’ which previously featured in the TV show ‘Heroes’.

Czech multi-instrumentalist-composer Karel Velebny was a major force in the emergence of Czechoslovakia onto the international jazz scene in the 1960’s. Appearances at the Berlin Jazz Days in 1964 and subsequent tours throughout Western Europe led to his group’s (SHQ) breakthrough. Here the group is augmented by four woodwinds. All the tunes are by group members.

Like Love You Live before it, Still Life showcases the Stones as pure entertainers, although the band adds enough rhythmic grit to keep the record from sinking into pure showbiz formula.