Bernard Allison is unstoppable. He's the face on the magazines and the voice on the radio. He's the showman roaming the open road on the 2018 Blues Caravan tour, bringing it to the people each night with compadrés Mike Zito and Vanja Sky. He's the visionary songwriter whose latest studio release - Let It Go is already tipped as an album of 2018. It's a work ethic that would leave most musicians gasping, but for this creative dynamo - now entering his fifth decade at the head of the blues pack - it's all in a day's work. Starting the blues calendar with a bang in January 2018, Let It Go feels like a homecoming. After all, this latest studio album sees Bernard return to Ruf Records: the iconic German label that was created in 1994 to serve as a home for his father, the much-missed Chicago heavyweight, Luther Allison.

In the same spirit as the DHM boxes, Sony Music revives the pearls of its other legendary label devoted to ancient, baroque and classical music on period instruments - VIVARTE
From the renaissance to the 19th century, the VIVARTE label repertoire was recorded with the most advanced technologies, by the best production teams in the world (Tritonus Music Production in Stuttgart).

The Zombies EP Collection, from the See for Miles label, contains the British Invasion bands biggest hits from 1964 through 1966, including "Tell Her No," "Time of the Season," and, in both mono and stereo, "She's Not There."…

Martha Argerich’s return to the studios in two concertos she has not previously recorded is an uplifting moment. As always with this most mercurial of virtuosos, her playing is generated very much by the mood of the moment, and those who heard her in Prokofiev’s First Concerto with Muti at London’s Royal Festival Hall some years ago – a firestorm of a performance – may well be surprised at her relative geniality with Dutoit. Her entire reading is less hard-driven than from, say, Richter or Gavrilov, her opening arguably more authentically brioso than ferocious, her overall view a refreshingly fanciful view of Prokofiev’s youthful iconoclasm.

Ginger Baker, Charlie Haden, Bill Frisell - Going Back Home (1994) {Atlantic 82652-2}
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© 1994 Atlantic / WEA | 82652-2
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop / Fusion / Art Rock

Give Ginger Baker this: He sure knows how to choose his sidemen. In fact, there is a certain pleasant symmetry to his recording career between the mid-'60s and the mid-'90s. It is a career bookended by power trios, first with his partnership with fellow virtuosos Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in Cream, and then, almost 30 years later and well after most would have written him off as a relic from a bygone era, this trio with Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell. More surprising even than this unlikely partnership is the fact that the album actually works.

John Wetton is easily one of the greatest singers of the rock era and he shines on this soundtrack CD with two compelling versions of "Battle Lines." His orchestrations of the music for the film are also top shelf…