Stripping sometimes makes it possible to take stock.

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress of Italian ethnicity.

Mingus, the album by Joni Mitchell from 1975 is the result of a 45-minute meeting arranged by Mingus's wife between Mitchell, who was drifting towards a style of music jazzier than her previous output and Charles Mingus.

Wolf-Ferrari is famous for his operatic works in which he invented a new idiom by transplanting 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century.

"Karajan recorded the Fourth Symphony three times, once in the 1950s with the Philharmonia and twice with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Since Ritchie Blackmore‘s time with Deep Purple, he was party to a string of well-received DP albums that included the highly favored Machine Head, and the best-selling live follow-up, Made In Japan.

THERION have always been a band that have challenged themselves to explore new paths, while remaining true to their musical core values.

Founded by Jeroen Finke and friends in 2015, "La Protezione della Musica" has developed into a recognized ensemble for historically informed performance practice within a very short time.

Iraqi-American trumpeter, saunter player, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar leads his Rivers of Sound Orchestra in a performance of his own Not Two. The result is a new approach to transcultural music as the seventeen musicians create a new musical language through combining contrasting musical traditions, contributing to ElSaffar’s reputation for extending the boundaries of both jazz and Middle Eastern music.

The main protagonists of the acoustic club music, legendary Austrian Jam-band Café Drechsler is back with the new record "And Now… Boogie!". The group was formed in December 2001, have won Austrian Amadeus Music Award in 2005, and after more than 10 years of hiantus, have reunited and return with their third studio album.

Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Andrew McCormack consistently challenges himself to explore new and very different musical styles as an artist. Whether appearing with Kyle Eastwood or Jamie Cullum, with a symphony orchestra or as a solo pianist, at outdoor festivals or an intimate club, you can always expect the highest level of performance. With "Graviton" he has assembled an A-List of the most sought-after musicians in the modern jazz world, all of whom bring something special to the mix. Their music may be best described as a mix of Steve Reich and Tigran Hamasyan, without boundaries.

Bad Benson is a 1974 studio album by American guitarist George Benson, released on CTI Records. Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Foghat is an English Rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in their music. The band has achieved eight gold records, one platinum and one double platinum record, and despite several line-up changes, continues to record and perform. "Foghat Live" is a 1977 live album by Foghat. The release is Foghat's bestselling album with over two million copies sold, and certified double platinum in the United States.

The opening track to the Alan Parsons Project's Eye in the Sky remains the most recognized instrumental in sports – fanfare inseparably tied with introducing NBA legend Michael Jordan and his six-time world-champion Chicago Bulls mates before games, and still used by many teams as an energy-raising prelude. Indeed, the subdued grandiosity, cosmic bluster, and lights-out wonder of "Sirius" also sets the table for the band's smash 1982 album, whose hallmark smoothness, lushness, and balance reach epic heights on Mobile Fidelity's collectible reissue. Mastered from the original master tapes, this numbered hybrid SACD of Eye in the Sky features succulent warmth, magnificent balance, low-end heft, and see-through transparency that takes you into the studio with Parsons and creative partner Eric Woolfson at Abbey Road. this super-clean edition will test the full-range capabilities of the world's finest stereo systems.

I Robot is the second studio album by English progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project. The album draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction Robot trilogy, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence.