If the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses…

Duran Duran continue to celebrate Halloween with a darker re-record of their 1983 track “Shadows on Your Side” [featuring Andy Taylor on guitar], which originally appeared on the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

With Stravagante pensiero, Rinaldo Alessandrini and the vocal soloists of his Concerto Italiano revisit the genre of the madrigal, spanning the vast landscape of musical Naples at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A host of musicians thus embraces a new, revolutionary, hyper-expressive, theatrical and feverish musical language. Intoxicating.

In 2023, the Armenian pianist Heghine Rapyan released on the Label Solo Musica her debut album featuring the complete piano sonatas of Stephan Elmas, presented as a world premiere. The international press and critics quickly showed immense interest in this beautiful and long-overlooked music. Stephan Elmas has often been referred to as the “Chopin of Armenia.”With this second CD, she continues this mission with great responsibility – bringing to light Elmas’s legacy as a true Romantic composer in the spirit of Chopin.

The illustrious French organ tradition is celebrated in this album of Toccatas and Méditations, including masterpieces drawn from across the repertoire. Charles-Marie Widor was the founding father of the French Organ School, and his Toccata from Symphony No. 5 is a cornerstone of the organ repertoire. The Méditation by his contemporary Louis Vierne is among the highlights of Romantic organ works. Duruflé, Boëllmann and Guilmant are also represented, as is a beautiful Ravel arrangement. They’re played on the magnificent Grenzing organ at Bauernkirche Iserlohn by Dariia Lytvishko – a Ukrainian-born virtuoso and one of the most lavishly gifted organists of her generation.

First Flight marks the debut album of saxophonist and composer George Kontomichalis. Rooted in jazz traditions like post-bop, hard bop, and modal jazz, it blends classic influences with modern improvisation and introspection.

Adhyâropa Records is thrilled to announce Listen In, the new album by Brazilian experimental jazz bassist Gui Duvignau featuring Jacob Sacks on piano and Nathan Ellman-Bell on drums.

Brad Allen Williams (born September 10, 1980) is an American guitarist, producer, and songwriter/composer. He was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Anna Phoebe is a genre-defying, contemporary writer and performer, an award-winning film composer, a record producer and a national broadcaster.

Pianist Sarah Beth Briggs’ latest AVIE offering, Small Treasures, leads with music by two composers of which her interpretations have been widely praised – Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms – alongside works by Robert’s wife Clara, two members of the French composing circle ‘Les Six’ – Poulenc and Tailleferre – all capped with a Mozart miniature.

There is no prominent jazz group named "Eddie Kirk Quartet."

Centaur Records will release Paganini: Capriccio, a new album by violinist Tomás Cotik, on October 24, 2025. The recording presents a personal selection of seventeen of Paganini’s twenty-four Caprices, framed by the lyrical Cantabile and the Moses Fantasy. Pianist Monica Ohuchi joins Cotik for these opening and closing works.

"After five band records, I've opened my treasure chest of personal storytelling songs that I've built up over a decade. Songs that didn't make it into other albums, some songs I never thought would see the light of day," Lou said in a press release. "I embarked on the brave and thrilling journey of recording these songs as they are, with love and playfulness, simple and all my own."

When Cory Weeds first approached me about this album, he told me, “I want young people, swinging”, so I happily hired the most swinging young people I know. I don’t think there is anything more inspiring and authentic to the history of hard bop than that. This album is an homage to many of my favorite prodigious hard-boppers, such as Kenny Dorham and Lee Morgan, but especially to people like Art Blakey. He was always a proponent of swinging hard and hiring the up-and-coming young cats. Swing has always and will continue to provide a voice for the youth. Cellar Live artists Jacob Chung and Tyler Henderson are featured on this record, as well as star-saxophonist Erena Terakubo, the constantly-hired Joey Raneiri, and the New York Native taking names, Willie Bowman.

The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro Baroque proves that what could have been a chaotic collision of styles instead shows how rhythm, melody and cultural expression can complement each other to produce an album of dynamic interplay that entertains throughout.