John Pizzarelli lays it all out in the title of his 2015 album: this tribute to Paul McCartney is designed for play in the smoky late-night hours, when everything turns sweet and mellow. Furthermore, this is a tribute to McCartney, not the Beatles. There isn't a Fab song to be found here, as Pizzarelli focuses entirely on Paul's solo work (for these intents and purposes, this includes Wings records), concentrating on the '70s but also sliding McCartney's Great American Songbook wannabe "My Valentine" into the mix. Pizzarelli digs up a few other obscurities – the early Wings song "Some People Never Know," the Speed of Sound deep cut "Warm and Beautiful" – and he also plays around with expectations, making "Let 'Em In" swing like mad and relaxing "Hi Hi Hi" so it doesn't rock, it grooves. He also invites Michael McDonald to sing on "Coming Up," which swaggers like Sinatra in Vegas, but for as delightful as that is, the key to the record's success is Pizzarelli himself, who delivers upon the laid-back promise of the title but is savvier than he needed to be, which is why Midnight McCartney satisfies.

Hootie and the Blowfish followed the huge success of Cracked Rear View with Fairweather Johnson in 1996, and while it had a lot to live up to, it still landed at #1 on the Billboard 200. With songs like Old Man and Me (When I Get to Heaven) and Tucker’s Town, it shows the band stretching out while holding onto the easy warmth that made so many people connect with them in the first place. Over the last thirty years, Fairweather Johnson has grown into a real fan favourite and stands as an essential part of ’90s rock history, capturing the rise, evolution, and lasting charm of one of the era’s most beloved bands.

Thoughtfully curated by the artist, the EP brings together music by Felix Mendelssohn, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Camille Saint-Saëns and Nina Simone, continuing Jeneba's passion for championing overlooked voices and tracing the evolution of the Songs Without Words tradition across generations, musical styles and genres.

Experience the cinematic genius of Howard Shore like never before. In celebration of the legendary composer’s 80th birthday this October, this monumental tribute album reimagines Shore’s most iconic, Oscar-winning film scores and beyond through a stunningly intimate lens. Across a career spanning The Lord of the Rings, The Departed, Seven, and The Silence of the Lambs, Shore’s masterpieces have amassed billions of streams. Now, these traditionally grand orchestral works are distilled into breath-taking, close-up portraits.

“I marvel afresh at Béla’s extraordinary vision, his indefatigability as a creator, his galvanizing presence as a bandleader, and of course, his freaking banjo playing. Live Heart will reverberate through and energize the bluegrass community forever.” – Chris Thile Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman is a 3LP set capturing one legendary night in bluegrass. On January 8, 2022, after a Nashville blizzard, Béla Fleck was joined by Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton, Tony Trischka and Molly Tuttle. The celebrated banjo virtuoso has explored his instrument’s complex global history and expanded its possibilities. He has earned 19 Grammy Awards, and the music from his Grammy-winning studio album My Bluegrass Heart forms the third chapter in a trilogy that began with Drive and The Bluegrass Sessions in 1999.

“Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words are very well known, yet little known at the same time,” says Bertrand Chamayou. “There are 48 of them in all, but fewer than ten of them feature regularly in concert programmes.” With this recording of the complete Songs without Words the French pianist applies his probing imagination to a collection of pieces which, over a period of nearly 200 years, have remained captivating for their refinement, charm and intimacy of tone.

In 1988, The House Of Love's debut album arrived as a fully-formed piece of pop perfection, following two years of intensive writing, rehearsing and live performances. 'The Gift' explores those two years, as the band leapt from the Camberwell squat scene into the centre of the UK's indie world as it went overground.

Verve Remixed // Nina Simone gathers the full run of this standout series into one complete release, bringing every remix from the campaign together in one place. It is a fresh way into Nina Simone’s catalogue, with each version connecting her recordings to new audiences without losing their original force. Across the record, Solomun, Mochakk, DESIREE, Supershy, HAAi, dublon, Antdot and Austin Millz each offer their own take. More than a compilation, this feels like the definitive version of a landmark project, and a strong reminder of Nina Simone’s enduring influence and the ongoing evolution of the Verve Remixed series.

In 2013 Chris Hazelton invited Cory Weeds to the mid west for a few gigs and workshops. The last gig was in St Louis Missouri which is about a 4 hour drive from Kansas City. The only option for music on the trip was a CD that was stuck in Chris’ dads vans CD player. That CD was Huey Lewis and News’ Greatest Hits.

The legacy of Joey DeFrancesco was solidified decades ago, not only by single-handedly resurrecting the organ’s prominence in jazz, but through the passion and power of every note he played on any instrument he touched. Live at Keystone Korner, the first posthumous album from the legendary organist and multi-instrumentalist following his untimely passing in 2022, was recorded only weeks before his transition and stands as his final known recording as a bandleader—capturing a virtuoso at the height of his ever-evolving innovation. With his extraordinary talents on organ, trumpet, tenor saxophone and a rare vocal feature in the spotlight, it is safe to say Joey’s influence on the musical community will resonate far beyond our lifetime, inspiring generations to come.

Oscar-nominated composer Max Richter’s album While The Flood Rages, drawn from Richter’s latest collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor, MaddAddam, inspired by Margaret Atwood’s trilogy. Across 15 tracks split into three acts, Richter blends orchestral writing, electronics, processed field recordings, choir and piano to create an immersive sonic journey. Themes of ecological collapse, technological acceleration and resilience run throughout, with recurring piano motifs providing moments of reflection amid dense, cinematic soundscapes.

For Corners, Italian trumpeter and long-time label-companion Enrico Rava has once again surrounded himself with a new generation of Italian players eager to defy the paradigm. As a collective they call themselves the Fearless Five – an all-Italian-quintet joined here by guest saxophonist Joe Lovano for an album of originals exclusively, fashioned with a sense of adventure and panache as the Italo-American connection draws from a common pool of imagination. Corners, the group’s first record for the label, is abound with evocative melodies, representative of Rava’s signature lyrical style but also new facets, brought to the table by his younger conspirators as well as Lovano’s unique sensibilities to adapt to any player, idiom and room. Rava, explaining how the programme came together, notes: „As they all have their own bands, where they are leaders and composers, I thought I makes sense to let each one of us contribute tunes to that new album – this makes Corners pretty different from my other albums.”

Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix's legendary first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970. Fans first became aware of his Berkeley performance when two early posthumous releases featured a stunning Hear My Train A Comin' on 1971's Rainbow Bridge and his electrifying rendition of Johnny B. Goode on 1972's Hendrix: In The West. The shambolic 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley stoked the fires further with extracts of Purple Haze and Star Banner. Magic Boy includes those two classics and assembles the performance in its running order for the first time. It also offers Ezy Ryder and Freedom in development before completion in the studio by the guitarist, plus Message To Love and Machine Gun from his recent Band Of Gypsys album, alongside Fire and Voodoo Child (Slight Return), all newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes.