Fire Sign is the 2011 album by clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman. This was released by Tzadik as part of the label's Composer Series and is one of two albums Cymerman made for the label.

The Unlearning is the 2011 album by Theresa Wong. Known for her modern classical work, this was released by Tzadik as part of the label's Oracles series.

AVID Jazz here presents three classic Roy Eldridge albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. “Roy And Diz”, “Little Jazz”, “Swing Goes Dixie” plus 7 of 8 tracks from “Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge at the Opera House”.We have something to trumpet about for our first album selection in this collection “Roy and Diz”. In fact, make that two things! Here we feature the first recorded collaboration between two of the finest exponents of the jazz trumpet………Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge and Dizzy “Diz” Gillespie.

SIN-Atra: A Metal Tribute To Frank Sinatra is a 2011 Frank Sinatra tribute album featuring a number of well known rock and metal artists. Armoury Records made this possible.

Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I is the 2011 album by Olympia, Washington's Earth. Birth canal this was released by Southern Lord almighty.

Ready For Confetti is the 2011 by Texas country singer Robert Earl Keen. This is part of the Lost Highway exploration.

The Story, So Far is the 2011 album by New York City jazz vocalist Katie Bull. This is a CD/DVD presentation, with the DVD featuring two different videos, one described as a documentary but both are neither. This was released by Cold Hill Indie.

Nina Simone was a singular artist, and she went where she pleased, leaving behind a recorded legacy that is passionate, political, defiant, and delicate by turns, no matter what strain of folk, blues, jazz, or gospel she was dipping into, and she did it all with dignity, grace, and intelligence. This set collects all nine of her albums for RCA Records (released between 1967 and 1974), and thus includes some of her greatest recordings. Signature songs like "I Loves You, Porgy," "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" (in a couple of versions), and "Mississippi Goddam" (a Simone original – one wishes she had written more than she did) are all here, along with powerful versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Willie Dixon, the Beatles, and Randy Newman, among others. Simone didn't just sing a song. She made it hers. ~ AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett

Dans cette collection de compils, The Quintessence, dirigée par le prolifique écrivain de jazz, essayiste et romancier Alain Gerber, surgissent des gemmes considérables. Comme celle, noire comme un diamant, consacrée à Thelonious Monk, qu’on comparerait volontiers à cet aérolithe qui hante 2001 : l’Odyssée de l’espace, de Stanley Kubrick, et émet une musique cosmique connue de tous. Supplique aux jeunes gens qui croit connaître Thelonious Monk : écoutez son premier "Round midnight", enregistré en quintet, en 1947, pour Blue Note. Suivront étonnements et émerveillements inquiets puis admiration définitive pour celui que la critique avait désigné de son vivant comme « The Prophet of modern jazz ». Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982), pianiste, compositeur, prophétise encore aujourd’hui un jazz qui bannit toute joliesse, toute complaisance.

Les coffrets « The Quintessence » jazz et blues, reconnus pour leur qualité dans le monde entier, font l’objet des meilleurs transferts analogiques à partir des disques sources, et d’une restauration numérique utilisant les technologies les plus sophistiquées sans jamais recourir à une modification du son d’origine qui nuirait à l’exhaustivité des informations sonores, à la dynamique et la cohérence de l’acoustique, et à l’authenticité de l’enregistrement original. Chaque ouvrage sonore de la marque « Frémeaux & Associés » est accompagné d’un livret explicatif en langue française et d’un certificat de garantie.

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. A native of Kansas City, Missouri he studied violin, learned how to play blues on the piano from Pete Johnson, and received saxophone lessons from Budd Johnson. He played with Lester Young in the Young Family Band. He recorded with Blanche Calloway and became a member of the Bennie Moten Orchestra with Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, and Walter Page. For the rest of the 1930s, he played in bands led by Willie Bryant, Benny Carter, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Andy Kirk, and Teddy Wilson. He was a soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1940s, appearing on "Cotton Tail". He considered Johnny Hodges, an alto saxophonist in the Ellington orchestra, a major influence on his playing.

Eight albums on a 4xCD set. Includes 'This Is Anita', 'Pick Yourself Up With', 'Anita Sings The Most', 'Anita Sings The Winners', 'Swings Cole Porter With Billy May', 'Anita O'Day & Billy May Swing Rodgers & Hart', 'Waiter, Make Mine Blues', 'Trav'lin Light'.

This anthology of The Divine One's greatest works of the late 1950s to early 1960s (1958-1962) includes more five-star performances than any chanteuse should be able to lay claim to. The anthology kicks off with the Basie Orchestra (sans Basie) "No Count Sarah", a date which simply skips nimbly from peak to peak beginning with 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', progressing through' Darn That Dream', 'Just One of Those Things', to the improvised title track and my favorite 'Cheek To Cheek'. The album "Dreamy" is, in my view, the apogee of Romance while "The Divine One" runs the gamut of her musical palate. "Count Basie-Sarah Vaughan" is the successor to "No Count Sarah" and is in its selections superior, IMO.

Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. Born and raised in Alabama, Blount became involved in the Chicago jazz scene during the late 1940s. He soon abandoned his birth name, taking the name Le Sony'r Ra, shortened to Sun Ra (after Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun). Claiming to be an alien from Saturn on a mission to preach peace, he developed a mythical persona and an idiosyncratic credo that made him a pioneer of Afrofuturism. Throughout his life he denied ties to his prior identity, saying "Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym."

Andre George Previn KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-born naturalised American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is a winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings.