Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan will comprises nine renditions of Dylan’s songs and it’s due for release on 21 May – a few days before the icon’s 80th birthday.

Best known world-wide for her 1973 pop mega-hit "Midnight at the Oasis," which received 2 GRAMMY nominations, Muldaur's 62 year career could best be described as a long and adventurous odyssey through the various forms of American Roots Music. In Sept. 2019, The Americana Music Association awarded her "The Lifetime Achievement Americana Trailblazer Award" for her lifelong work of covering the depth and breadth of American Roots music.

5 Hours of Vangelis inspired music with plenty of references to the beloved music of BLADE RUNNER. When Vangelis died on 17 May 2022 (aged 79), it hit harder than I could have imagined. Coming only weeks after the death of Klaus Schulze, I found myself in a fug of unproductive thoughts about mortality and what we really leave behind when we depart. It's probably my age. I was thrown a lifeline by @KidNarco over on Twitter who DMd me to say, "Vangelis tribute compilation? I appear to be ready." I slept on it and in the cold light of day I realised that it had to be done. For Vangelis, for me, for Kid Narco. For all of us. I went back to him. "I’ve been thinking that this is a pretty fucking great idea." I told him. It was on.

Clive Hunt is a Jamaican musician, arranger, composer, and producer, born on May 31, 1952, in Linstead, Saint Catherine, Jamaica. He began his musical career at 17, playing the trumpet in the 1st Battalion Jamaica Regiment Orchestra. After military service, he became a sought-after session musician, mastering instruments such as bass guitar, flute, keyboards, and saxophone. He has collaborated with renowned artists, including Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Grace Jones. Hunt has announced an upcoming reggae tribute album dedicated to Sting, blending the legendary artist’s songs with reggae traditions. One of Sting’s most iconic tracks, *Fields of Gold*, was originally released in 1993 on the album *Ten Summoner’s Tales*.

Dozens of luminaries from rock, country, and soul gathered at the Meadowlands’ Izod Center on October 3, 2012, to pay their collective respects in an unforgettable final tribute to Levon Helm. This incredible night was filled with one-of-a-kind performances by greats including Gregg Allman, Mavis Staples, Allen Toussaint, John Prine, Joan Osborne, Ray LaMontagne, John Mayer, Joe Walsh, Dierks Bentley and many others. The iconic artists performed songs associated with Levon Helm and The Band including “Up on Cripple Creek,” “Life Is a Carnival,” “Ophelia,” “The Weight,” “Rag Mama Rag,” “Ain’t Got No Home” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.

Claus Ogerman was a German arranger, conductor, and composer best known for his work with Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, and Diana Krall. Also he's charted with his own Orchestra in the middle of 60s.

Perennial DownBeat Critics Poll winner, trombonist Michael Dease has embraced his role as a torchbearer for his mentors and the great jazz ancestors over his 15 deeply-swinging, state-of-the-art mainstream recordings. For The Other Shoe, Dease teams with the formidable composer Gregg Hill, expanding his rhythmic & harmonic palette with a flexible, in-the-moment perspective while remaining true to the sensibilities at his musical core. With the prodigiously talented pianist Geoffrey Keezer as a central foil, Dease brings along a wide-ranging collection of musicians, each specifically brought in for their unique outlooks and talents, including clarinetist Virginia MacDonald, Liany Mateo on bass, and drummer Colleen Clark, among others.

Recorded at Willie’s Pedernales Studio, Texas, and featuring her brothers Jay and Todd on backing vocals, guitar, bass and drums.

60 years have passed since the release of a recording that would change Swedish jazz forever. Bill Evans, with his incredible touch and mastery of harmony has made an undeniable imprint on jazz musicians all over the world - and through his collaboration with Monica Zetterlund on "Waltz for Debby" in 1964, a new era for Scandinavian music was born.Impressions of Evans is an effort to pay tribute to this - a gesture of gratitude for making pine trees and 5th Avenue come together in a remarkably seamless, beautiful way and for being the perfect example of how one plus one sometimes equals three.

The Henry Mancini family continues to celebrate what would have been the late legendary composer’s 100th birthday with the announcement of Dinner at Mancini’s, a lo-fi celebratory retrospective album to be released on Friday, August 30th via Primary Wave Music and Downtown Music Services.

Portland’s premiere alt-classical group brings a huge, orchestral ensemble - including brass, percussion, and guest vocals by Patti King of The Shins - to perform a night in homage to Radiohead, including from start to finish, Radiohead’s seminal OK Computer.

Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around is an album by Michael Bolton, produced by Alex Christensen, arranged and conducted by Chris Walden. Bolton records songs originally made notable by Frank Sinatra.

Scott Kinsey’s connection to the music of Joe Zawinul and Weather Report is undeniable and hardly new to even casual partakers of the keyboardist’s work. As Kinsey explains, the pull was there from the beginning: “Joe was an innovative improviser, composer, and conceptualist but for me, especially so as the first jazz synthesist I had ever encountered. His electric keyboard work was showing us the future, note by note.”

British folkster Nick Drake's gorgeous, melancholy, tantalizingly ambiguous songs have been covered often, but not perhaps with the range of interpretive powers & depth of emotional commitment that these (mostly) Vancouver & Seattle artists bring to bear in re-imagining his music…

Contemporary artists performing music from the bands featured in Stanley's iconic artwork since the 60s; from original Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore posters to album covers by the Grateful Dead, Journey and all the great groups including Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Cream, The Beatles, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Bo Diddley, Sir Douglas Quintet, Moby Grape, Howlin’ Wolf, etc. 12 new tracks by Chuck Leavell, Leftover Salmon, Charlie Musselwhite, Nicole Atkins, Shawn Sahm & The Tex Mex Experience, Junior Brown, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Poor Man’s Whiskey, The Mother Hips, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, Jason Crosby, and the Pimps of Joytime. Featuring the music of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Beatles, Howlin’ Wolf, Journey, Cream, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bo Diddley, Sir Douglas Quintet, Moby Grape, and Stanley Mouse.