"Giant Box" is a double album by American arranger/conductor and composer Don Sebesky featuring performances recorded in 1973 and released on the CTI label. The Allmusic review states "This may have been Creed Taylor's most ambitious single project… Thankfully the musicmaking lives up to the billing. Everything that gave CTI its distinctive sound and identity is here – the classical adaptations, elaborate orchestrations and structuring, pop-tune covers, plenty of room for the star soloists to stretch out in a combo format… Giant Box still ranks as a sensational coup and a reminder of how potent CTI was at its peak".

"The Rape of El Morro" is an album by American arranger/conductor and composer Don Sebesky featuring performances recorded in 1975 and released on the CTI label.

This music has been specially chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary in 2014 of the Norwegian Constitution. As well as being compelling in its own right, the works featured here serve as a musical history book, offering an insight into parts of the Norwegian saga. Several songs are clear examples of how a "national song" can be a way of marking and remembering the nation's history. In this recording we give the national anthem in its complete form, something that is seldom done, and, through many fresh arrangements of familiar melodies and a splendid "outdoor" sound, offer a new and invigorating listening experience.

Originally released on MPS Records, this is a subtle and fairly creative duet set featuring pianist Monty Alexander and the Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin. On seven standards (including "Just Friends", "If I Should Lose You" and "Fly Me To The Moon") and three originals, Alexander and Ranglin listen closely to each other and indulge in some tight musical interaction. Although boppish, the music is not overly predictable; the musicians' mutual respect is obvious. Well worth searching for.

Andy Grammer is a Singer/Songwriter from Los Angeles with a bent toward soulful, R&B-infused pop. He is all about inspiring and empowering the world by communicating his truths through his music. The first male pop star in a decade since John Mayer to reach the Top 10 at Adult Pop Radio on his first two singles, Grammer has taken the music world by storm with a succession of anthemic pop hits. "The Good Parts" is his third full-length studio album.

"Dein Begleiter", das elfte Studioalbum von Laith Al-Deen, erscheint am 19. April 2024, passend zu seiner Frühjahrstour.
Laith bezeichnet es als "eine moderne Produktion. Ich habe in meiner Band fast ausschließlich Leute an Bord, die ich seit Beginn meiner Karriere kenne. Einige Texte sind äußerst autobiographisch. Andere wiederum stecken voller Anekdoten von Freunden und Menschen, mit denen ich Songs schreibe, die sowohl erlebt als auch fiktiv sind."
Mit dem neuen Werk besingt die charismatische Größe des Deutsch-Pops mit der einzigartigen Soul-Stimme das Leben in all seinen Facetten. Die Albumankündigung wird von der Videopremiere zu Laiths zweiter Single "Dein Begleiter" begleitet und bietet einen exklusiven Einblick hinter die Kulissen.

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony release Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, recorded live in concert with Salonen and the Orchestra in June 2022.

Das mit einem GRAMMY ausgezeichnete Duo Blue Lab Beats, eines der am heißesten gehandelten Produktionsduos der Welt, veröffentlicht mit “Blue Eclipse” sein mit Spannung erwartetes viertes Studioalbum. Das talentierte Duo, welches das Jahr 2023 mit einem ausverkauften KOKO und seiner zweiten MOBO-Nominierung beendete, startete mit dem üppigen Soul-Groove der neuen Single “Wait A While” ins Jahr 2024, auf der die GRAMMY-nominierte Amber Navran, Sängerin/Produzentin aus LA und Gründungsmitglied des Neo-Soul-Trios Moonchild, sowie die aufstrebende britische Neo-Soul-Künstlerin Farah Audhal zu hören sind.

David Starobin is the dedicatee of more than 350 new works which he has performed throughout the world, collaborating with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic; the National, Houston, San Francisco, Saint Louis, and BBC symphony orchestras; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the Danish Radio Orchestra; the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and the Emerson and Guarneri quartets.

The Tortured Poets Department (colloquially shortened to Tortured Poets) is the upcoming eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is set for release on April 19, 2024, via Republic Records. Swift wrote the album with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.Swift announced the album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022). She conceived The Tortured Poets Department shortly after finishing work on Midnights and continued developing the former during the Eras Tour (2023–2024), her ongoing sixth concert tour. With a concept fashioned after the five stages of grief, The Tortured Poets Department is Swift's self-proclaimed "lifeline" album. It consists of sixteen songs, featuring collaborations with the American rapper Post Malone and the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The physical editions of the album include bonus tracks.

The Tortured Poets Department (colloquially shortened to Tortured Poets) is the upcoming eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is set for release on April 19, 2024, via Republic Records. Swift wrote the album with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.Swift announced the album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022). She conceived The Tortured Poets Department shortly after finishing work on Midnights and continued developing the former during the Eras Tour (2023–2024), her ongoing sixth concert tour. With a concept fashioned after the five stages of grief, The Tortured Poets Department is Swift's self-proclaimed "lifeline" album. It consists of sixteen songs, featuring collaborations with the American rapper Post Malone and the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The physical editions of the album include bonus tracks.

Banana Wind is typical latter-day Jimmy Buffett. Over a laidback, Caribbean-inflected folk-rock, Buffett waxes eloquent over boats, booze, sun, and women. Although the sound of the album certainly is pleasant, there's not a single distinctive song on the record, which means it's good for Parrotheads, but casual fans should let this Banana Wind sail on by.

By the time of his fifth album, Havana Daydreamin', Jimmy Buffett seemed to have established a pattern for what a collection of his songs would be. The best one-word description for the musical style still would have to be "country," but Buffett, and probably his record label, had given up on trying to sell him to the conventional country audience, and instead aimed at a slice of the pop market. That was fair enough, since he had evolved a persona as a Gulf Coast ne'er-do-well in compositions full of sentimentally viewed oddball characters ("Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street," co-written with Steve Goodman, a re-recording of "The Captain and the Kid" from his first album, Down to Earth), self-deprecating self-portraits ("My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus"), and humorous depictions of life on the road for the working musician ("Big Rig," written by Gregory "Fingers" Taylor, harmonica player in Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, "Kick It in Second Wind," co-written with girlfriend Jane Slagsvol), with plenty of references to alcohol and recreational drugs thrown in. It was perhaps unfortunate that the two best-written songs on the album, each of which ended one side of the LP, were written by others, Jesse Winchester's touching, whimsical "Defying Gravity" and Steve Goodman's road song "This Hotel Room." But that suggested that Buffett was looking for good songs to sing, whether he wrote them himself or not. © William Ruhlmann

While it still lies much closer to Nashville than Key West (like in the boisterous slide guitar solo that lights up "The Great Filling Station Holdup"), Jimmy Buffett's A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean does begin to delineate the blowsy, good-timin' Key West persona that would lead him to summer tour stardom and the adoration of millions of drinking buddies everywhere. "Why Don't We Get Drunk," "Railroad Lady," and "Grapefruit – Juicy Fruit" rightly became crowd pleasers. But Buffett reveals himself a storyteller with the touching sigh of "He Went to Paris," where a slide guitar appears again to lend a subtle gleam to the arrangement, or in the gorgeous, sweetly sad tale of a passed-away poet's unlikely posthumous success. It's in this wide-eyed honesty, as well as the winking sarcasm of the scrambling honky tonker "Peanut Butter Conspiracy" – "We never took more than we could eat/And we always swore if we ever got rich, we'd pay the mini mart back" – that Buffett's flair for easygoing accessibility really emerges.

Die neue Deluxe-Edition von „Der Sommer ist vorbei“ als limited Digipak mit CD + Blu-Ray (VÖ 19.04.2024) mit 3 brandneuen Songs, 2 neue Remixe Roosevelt und TIMTIM und auf Blu-ray HD der 51 min. Konzertfilm Juli Live bei Poparound@bauhaus 2023 mit allen großen Hits. JULI meldeten sich erst letztes Jahr mit ihrem gefeierten Top10 Album „Der Sommer ist vorbei" und ihrer ersten Tour seit über 8 Jahren mehr als eindrucksvoll zurück. Die über 350K Follower:innen und über 1 Millionen monatlichen Spotify Hörer:innen begegneten der Deutschpopformation um Frontfrau Eva Briegel mit purer Euphorie und Liebe. Juli sind nicht nur Kult, sondern hoch-geschätztes Kulturgut aller Generationen. Und so sollte der Ruf von VOX nach Südafrika für SingMeinenSong 2024 nicht lange auf sich warten! Im Zuge dessen legt die Band mit der neuen DELUXE- Edition ihres Albums "Der Sommer ist vorbei" nach und veröffentlicht darauf mit "Im Großen und Ganzen", "Bitte Herz", "Delfine" gleich drei brandneue Songs. Auch Clubfans kommen mit den neuen Remixen "Der Sommer ist vorbei" vom gefeierten Producern Roosevelt und TIMTIM auf ihre Kosten. Abgerundet wird die neue Deluxe Edition mit 51 min. purer Live-Energie von Juli auf Blu-ray HD beim Poparound@bauhaus Konzert aus dem Jahr 2023, wo sie neben neuen Songs wie u.a. "Fette Wilde Jahre“ auch ihre Megahits "Geile Zeit" oder "Perfekte Welle" live auf die Bühne bringen.