Born in Ithaca, NY, Trevor Exter always played different things but kept coming back to the cello. He sits with the cello and sings, but he plays it weird – like a tiny bass or a big ukulele.

Twist with the Ventures is the fifth studio album by the band The Ventures; released in 1962 on Dolton Records BST 8010 (stereo) and BLP 2010 (monaural).

A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter Miles Davis helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion.

The story of DJ and producer Robin Schulz reads like one in a million.

CABARET VOLTAIRE share a new track today, ‘Billion Dollar’, taken from the Shadow Of Funk EP, out on 26 February 2021. The new EP, out on limited edition coloured vinyl and digitally, follows 2020’s album Shadow Of Fear, Cabaret Voltaire’s first release with Richard H. Kirk as the sole member of the band.

Bill Booth's musical influences cover a wide range, stretching from Americana, celtic and nordic folk to country, blues and rock. A native of the State of Maine, , this singer songwriter with fiddle and guitar has led a life of frequent journeys. From the folk and dance halls of rural New England to Louisiana and the deep south to the city streets of New York and the far shores of Scandinavia, Booth has soaked up musical influences all along the way.

Guitar virtuoso Kaare Norway's album no. 24 "AMOROSO" is ready for release. The guitar and music have been Kaare Norway's regular companions since he was 10 years old. Most people know Kaare Norway's elegant and virtuoso interpretations of Bach, Carl Nielsen, Chopin and other classical composers. At AMOROSO, Kaare Norge has composed all the songs with love for the guitar and music. Kaare Norway hopes that the new compositions can open the mind with peace and love.

Peruvian-born, American-trained conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, is inspired to look at how music, like the poetic concept of peace, can unite the world.

The foundations of Sibelius reputation are his symphonies, tone poems and increasingly his songs but the music he wrote for the stage throughout his creative life includes some of his finest scores. This Linn Records' disc presents his theatre music from 2 distinct periods - the 1900s (contemporary with his Violin Concerto, and the Second and Third Symphonies) and the 1920s, including some of the last works of his to survive.

Italian Soundtracks, the new album by maestro Giuseppe Grazioli together with the Verdi Orchestra of Milan, is a heterogeneous collection of composers who have written for the cinema, born from the idea of ​​highlighting an Italian method to film music, an unmistakable "sound" that - as Grazioli himself states - has been able to draw from the Italian musical heritage by seizing a legacy left by Vivaldi, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, and more.

Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors is an album by Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane and Bobby Jaspar.

"The Italian Smooth Jazz All-Starz" is, as the title suggests it might be, a seventeen-track compilation of some of the best Italian contemporary jazz around. It is a really top notch collection which includes fabulous tracks such as Renato Falaschi’s ‘Following My Soul’ and ‘Top Down’ by Gianni Vancini that are both right up there with the best that Alfa's release has to offer.

They say the night conceals many stories. China Moses is the narrator of the night; her album "Nightintale" shines a fascinating light on her journey through night time’s terrain. She conjures up images and moods with her warm, astonishingly flexible alto voice, as figures and places take shape in the listener’s imagination. Eleven expressive songs recount the intoxication of love (Hang Over) and its bitter ending (Whatever), of vices (Nicotine) and passions (Put It On The Line), of awakenings and courage (Running). It’s a sparkling kaleidoscope that blends jazz, soul, R & B, blues and pop into a multi-faceted whole. Her 2008 debut album "This One's For Dinah", a tribute to the legendary Dinah Washington, established China Moses as a major voice. Now recognized as a jazz and soul diva with her own style, Moses has no need to hide behind her idol. For the listener, many a pleasurable evening enjoying this rich, multi-hued jewel of an album lie ahead.

With time passing by, one is beginning to grasp the weight and significance of Bach’s music. And most certainly, it is more telling to the man of the 20th century than to anybody ever before.

Formed in 1972 by Swiss jazz giants pianist George Gruntz, alto saxophonist Flavio Ambrosetti, his son, trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti, and drummer Daniel Humair, The Band would later metamorphose into the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band. The predilection towards a combination of international jazz all-stars and home-grown compositions is already in evidence on this, their first album, and a bevy of jazz greats are along for the ride.