How do you spend your quarantine? Jimmy asked fans to tell him which songs, not in his usual repertoire, would they like to hear? Within minutes, over 10,000 tracks were requested. Some songs he had to re-learn as it's been so long since he played them!

When the time came for Steps to record their sixth studio album, their brief was typically singular. “We wanted it to sound like sliding down a rainbow, landing in a pot of glitter and dancing with unicorns,” Ian “H” Watkins tells Apple Music. In fact, the quintet had been undecided about making new music together, following the success of 2017’s Tears on the Dancefloor—until they heard Sia’s demo of “What the Future Holds.” Suddenly they had a lead single, album title and concept all at once. “That song was the catalyst,” says Lee Latchford-Evans. “The lyrics, ‘One foot in the past and one foot in the future’ felt like where we were at that point in time.” Freshly inspired, they set out to make a record which combined the nostalgic and the contemporary. “Steps songs always have to be anthemic, to have emotion, drama, melancholy and a key change,” says H. “But this time we wanted to nod to the future, as well as the past,” adds Faye Tozer. “This album is more of a rollercoaster of styles, with ballads and intimate moments, as well as dance floor fillers.”

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong release his covers series No Fun Mondays into a 14-song collection via Reprise / Warner Records. No Fun Mondays sees Armstrong putting his signature melodic-punk spin on the songs that have formed the soundtrack to his life, including classics by John Lennon, Billy Bragg, and Johnny Thunders.

Worthy of audiophile treatment. Not every Christmas tune meets that high standard. But each song on this SACD, with each song chosen by Acoustic Sounds owner and CEO Chad Kassem, sound better than it ever has before. These are some of the most familiar - and well-recorded - Christmas tracks ever. We feel we're bringing you a record that you and your family will enjoy every year forevermore. These truly are The Wonderful Sounds Of Christmas. From the peaceful solemnity of Harry Simeone Chorale's "The Little Drummer Boy" to the festive spirit of Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," The Wonderful Sounds Of Christmas brings you the very best examples of holiday songs ever recorded. With wonderful music in abundance, this Christmas compilation offers a celebration of the season's most joyous and cherished songs. Truly, Christmas has never sounded better!

Lavoro dedicato al Funky come suggerisce il nome e suonato interamente da Andrea Braido per quanto riguarda chitarre,bassi,batteria,percussioni e composizione di tutto l’album. Ci sono alcuni ospiti per gli strumenti marimba/xilofono/sax alto e soprano. Il primo brano “M Funk” è un funk serrato con basso elettrico molto incalzante e dedicato a Marcus Miller con cui Andrea Braido collaborò nel cd “Marcus” /Free/versiose europea” 2008. Altri brani interessanti sono “the Sound Of The Future” omaggio a Joe Zawinul & Jaco Pastorius e “Industrial Funk” versione acustica dove si trovano molti segni distintivi dello stile chitarristico di Braido! Un cd all’insegna del groove,del ritmo e dell’improvvisazione Jazzy!

Italian born, Toronto based drummer and composer Andrea Scala has a style that Hi-Res Edition calls a blend of "electronic, modern, avant garde, deep nu, standard and some swinging jazz." His debut album as leader, Coming Back, Leaving Again, features an allstar cast of Italian jazz and pop musicians.

Michael Kaeshammer Live in Concert is a live album from the internationally-acclaimed Canadian jazz pianist and singer. Captured during a pair of intimate hometown shows at the Charlie White Theatre on Vancouver Island, the special was broadcast on PBS stations across the US in March 2020. Kaeshammer's unmistakable talent and artistry is showcased through the performance through a diverse set featuring brand-new songs and collaborations with some high-profile guests Randy Bachman, Curtis Salgado, Nicole Sinclair and Colin James. Loved the world over for his talent on the piano, effortlessly weaving threads of classical, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, stride, and pop into a one-of-a-kind concoction, Michael Kaeshammer began performing club, theatre, and festival stages throughout Europe in his early teens and has released 12 full length albums to date.

Giovanni Cigui is a saxophonist, EWI player and composer. Originally from Italy, he is living between Mexico and Europe. Musically trained in Amsterdam, Philadelphia and Graz he is been active all over Europe, the US and Mexico. In July 2020 he will release CHEEWI BEATS, the first album of the homonymous band, presenting a vibrant blend of jazz, electronics and groove based improvisation.

It is a tremendous challenge to find a fresh approach to standards and frequently performed jazz compositions. But pianist Enrico Pieranunzi is up to the task in this collection of live trio performances from 2001 in Paris.
He is accompanied by two of Europe's finest musicians, bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer André Ceccarelli (who worked together in singer Dee Dee Bridgewater's band). The leader's take of "Body and Soul" includes a fluttering introduction and some dazzling Tatum-like runs. "I Hear a Rhapsody" is transformed into a daredevil post-bop anthem, while Van de Geyn introduces "I Fall in Love Too Easily" with a heartfelt solo.

Steven Gene Wold commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. He plays mostly personalized guitars and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work. From the late 1960s, he worked as a musician and recording engineer in the US and Europe, as well as pursuing other work, before his commercial breakthrough, initially in the UK, at the end of 2006. Some sources suggest an earlier birth date.

SONG OF SEVEN was a UK top forty hit upon its release by Atlantic Records in November 1980 and spawned a solo tour which established Jon Anderson as a regarded artist in his own right. This Esoteric Recordings edition has been newly remastered from the original Atlantic Records master tapes and is expanded to include two rare US single edits previously unreleased on CD and restores the original album artwork in a digipak.

Double live set that eatures her solo hits Stop Dragging My Heart Around, Stand Back and Edge Of Seventeen, as well as Fleetwood Mac’s Rhiannon and Gypsy. Also includes the first ever live recording of Crying In The Night, and other live rarities.

What the pianist from Cádiz (Andalucia/Spain) is doing in terms of jazz, in the light of flamenco, may finally unite believers and non believers from either side. While taking the jazz language to the limits of those permitted by flamenco styles. . Leaving no room for doubt, Chano has placed his mainly jazz piano in the middle of flamenco art, while favoring the exaggerated "jondo" side, and has found his philosopher’s stone, he is drawing flamenco’s blood through jazz’s veins, adding an “olé” to even the blues and the more recent bebop.

Anima latina (Latin soul) is an album by the Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti. It was released in December 1974 by Numero Uno. The album was arranged and produced by the lyricist Mogol and Battisti in its entirety, with performances by various semi-unknown musicians. It is considered one of Battisti's masterpieces for signalling a significant departure from his previous records. Anima latina was Italy's eighth best-selling album of 1975.

Neuzeit, which German electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm views through his new duo outing with the Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, is generally taken to refer to the modern era that began in the 16th century and witnessed the rise of Western Civilization. Schwalm chooses to take the term onits face, however; the fusion of “new” and “time” he defines as a period marked by sudden and drastic change. To borrow another word from the German, it ably yet dauntingly captures the zeitgeist of our tumultuous moment, one in which political upheaval, global pandemic and catastrophic climate change seem poised to usher in an uncertain new existence.