Life of a Song is Geri Allen's first recording under her own name in six long years. She teams with the rhythm section of bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette, whom she worked with on the late Betty Carter's stellar live date Feed the Fire in 1993. Allen composed eight of the album's 11 cuts, and the covers include Bud Powell's "Dance of the Infidels," Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," and Mal Waldron's "Soul Eyes." This last selection is augmented by the participation of Marcus Belgrave on flugelhorn, saxophonist Dwight Andrews, and trombonist Clifton Anderson.

Donald Runnicles, Atlanta SO - Britannia: Elgar, Davies, Turnage, Britten, MacMilan (2007)
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra play brilliantly for Donald Runnicles, and aside from coolly matter-of-fact performances of two of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, the conductor proves a persuasive interpreter of some challenging scores.

World premiere studio recordings of newly commissioned works for solo piano (years 2023/2024) by some of the most renown contemporary Baltic composers.

Blues musician Bernard Allison began his musical career in the early 1990s and since then he been leading the blue scene as one of the best blues guitarists. He is especially thankful for the other members playing on this album because their collaboration give Allison great hope for the future of the blues all over the world. “We made the decision to not flood the album with keyboards or horns, to go back to the true basic rhythm section sound – and to show more mature songwriting” – Bernard Allison

Cruzh are another one from that seemingly inexhaustible pool of Swedish talent and Tropical Thunder is their second album, following on from their 2016 debut, albeit with a new vocalist, Alex Waghorn. This album is another cavalcade of melodies, hooks, and catchy songs from these Swedish hard rockers. If you are a fan of AOR, and if you've enjoyed recent releases by Creye, One Desire and H.E.A.T. etc, then you should check this immediately and with no hesitation as it'll be right up your AOR boulevard and no mistake! Absolutely essential AOR/Melodic Rock!

Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990. "The Second Brightest Star" is the last album in a cycle of releases which started back in 2009 with "The Underfall Yard" album. The band writing over this period has focused on the English landscape, the people that work on the land and their folklore stories. The band will be moving on to different landscapes and subjects in future years as the band play more shows outside of England. But the band had a few more stories left to tell and wanted to bring them together on "The Second Brightest Star".

"Folklore" is the ninth studio album by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train. It was recorded at English Electric Studios, produced by Big Big Train, and mixed and mastered at Aubitt Studios by Rob Aubrey. It is the first studio album to feature Rachel Hall and then-Beardfish lead vocalist Rikard Sjöblom as official members. Reviews were largely positive for this release, the ProgReport saying "from the first listen is so breathtaking and magnificent, that more listens are welcomed". Concluding with "All in all, this is a sprawling collection of brilliantly told stories with even more impressive music".

Don't let the seemingly metal sounding name fool you: MONOLITH make pure art rock that rides on Bill Hamer's 70's-style bombastic keyboards - the listener will soon notice how good a student he is of both Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson.

Finnish Metal band Ice Exiled have released music video for a rendition of a cut titled “Anthropocentrum (Set Me Free)” that will not be the version that appears on their album “Reset The Sky” when 29th November rolls around.

The GoYa Quartet was born in 2014 and is formed by Sylvia Huang, Mirelys Morgan Verdecia, Saeko Oguma and Honorine Schaeffer.

The best of shoegaze, dream pop, shoegazing (indie with shoegaze influence) and dreamy (indie with dream pop influence). 16 years surviving the dictatorship of the music industry and the greed of big tech and its AI.

He is said to have introduced the first Slide Guitar Syllabus in the world.

Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the most sought-after vocal accompanists and chamber musicians of his generation.

Sergey Malov is one of the most versatile string players. Coming from St. Petersburg, he is considered as versatile as he is virtuoso: he plays violin, viola, baroque violin and cello da spalla – the instrument on which Johann Sebastian Bach himself probably played his cello suites.

Pina Napolitano is one of the finest living interpreters of the music of the Second Viennese School" (Classical Explorer).