The members of Faust are the jokers in the Krautrock pack – jokers because they never formed with any serious intentions, and jokers, too, because whatever preconceptions you might have in approaching that most disreputable-sounding of sonic genres, Faust is guaranteed to explode them…

Studio Trieste is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker, guitarist Jim Hall and flautist Hubert Laws which was recorded in 1982 and released on the CTI label. Chet Baker's CTI recordings (which were usually arranged by Don Sebesky) always came off well. For what would be his final CTI date, he was matched with guitarist Jim Hall, flutist Hubert Laws and a fine rhythm section for two jazz standards ("Django" and "All Blues") and a pair of unusual pieces ("Malaguena" and "Swan Lake"). Throughout, Sebesky's charts favorably showcase Baker's lyrical trumpet, making this a recommended LP.

Who would believe that Progressive rock reached Armenia? However this former Sovietic Republic has much to share. Just listen to Artsruni to be convinced. This current band proves that it has known how to get in touch with major influences coming mostly from Europe, without abandoning their strong local identity (Use of traditional instruments). We are in front of exceptional, virtuous and imaginative musicians, heirs of Jethro Tull or Camel. It's nothing exceptional when you know they are teachers at the Erevan University, gathered around great guitarist Vahan Artsruni.

After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of "Jealous Guy" lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty "Crippled Inside" is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and "Imagine" is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal…

Rendezvous With Peggy Lee is really more of an anthology than an album reissue, but the first six tracks indeed constituted her first album–a boxed set of three 78s, released in 1948–bearing the same title and cover art. The rest of the "reissue" draws from recordings made for Capitol in 1946-1949…

Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Concertos contains the definitive Artists & Classical. The Best hits from John Corigliano , Laszlo Varga , Leonard Bernstein and many more.

Intorno alla personalità di Maria Pia De Vito, tecnica, stile e creatività enormi, è nato e cresciuto l’ampio ensemble vocale Burnogualà, in cui convergono dodici voci femminili e dieci maschili (Valentina Rossi, Vittoria D’Angelo, Ilaria Gampietri, Oona Rea, Mary De Leo, Francesca Fusco, Marta Colombo, Lucia Mossa, Laura Sciocchetti, Elisabetta D’Aiuto, Margherita Rampelli, Elena Paparusso, Danilo Cucurullo, Daniele Giannetti, Tommaso Gatto, Stefano Minder, Paolo Caiti, Flavio Spampinato, Gianfranco Aghedu, Marco Lizzani, Sebastiano Forti e Fabio Grasso), e le cui origini sono rintracciabili all’interno dell’attività didattica di musica d’insieme svolta da Maria Pia a Santa Cecilia. Ai cantanti si unisce il composito organico strumentale comprendente Lorenzo Apicella (pianoforte), Dario Piccioni (contrabbasso) e Arnaldo Vacca (percussioni).

Motörhead have an overabundance of rarities in their vaults, as evidenced by the bonus tracks included on the 2001 Castle reissues of their early releases. Somehow, the group even had more rare tracks lying around, which comprise the 2002 double-disc set Tear Ya Down: The Rarities…

Dempsey Wright, who came out of nowhere to record a small label album in the 1970s, has been essentially forgotten for decades. However, on this Andex album (reissued on CD by V.S.O.P.), Wright holds his own with a strong supporting cast (Richie Kamuca on tenor, Victor Feldman doubling on piano and vibes, bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Stan Levey) on six swing-oriented standards and the obscure "Something for Lisa," all given Bill Holman arrangements. Wright had a quiet, appealing tone and a strong bop-based improvising style.

Here is a second volume in Splasc(h)'s '60s jazz reissue series – the first being Mario Schiano's Original Sins featuring material from 1967-1970. The presentation on Ecstatic is somewhat misleading, as Gruppo Romano Free Jazz is really just Schiano with many of the ensemble players from the first volume: namely Giancarlo Schiaffini on trombone, ocarina, and baritone flugelhorn; Schiano on alto and soprano saxophone; Marcello Melis on bass and toy guitar; and Franco Pecori on drums…

Syriust was founded in 1962 by Zsolt Baronits . At first they played dance and beat music, then in 1968 the band broke up, some of the members formed the Juventus band . Baronits as leader of the Syrius band started to reorganize their ensemble. László Pataki from Liversing , Miklós Orszáczky and László Mogyorósi from the New Cancer , and András Veszelinov from the Metro . Tomorrow he was replaced by Tamás Barta at the guitars and then left the band with László Rákosi, another guitar player. 1970At the beginning, Mihály Ráduly joined the exquisite jazz musician of the Pege Quartet, creating the legendary lineup of Syrius.
Recorded live at the Margitszigeti Szabadtéri Színpad (Budapest), September 7th 2001

Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s. Ironically, before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America. Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, plus a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with a new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience ten-fold overnight.

This recording of Bach's great Mass in B Minor has none of the mannered control and deadening pace of other recordings I've heard. It is satisfyingly passionate and exuberant. The production is vibrant - turn up the volume – each voice and each instrument can be distinctly heard. The chorus pieces are startlingly clear. If you own only one copy of Mass in B Minor this is the one.

Swedish melodic hard rockers STONELAKE are releasing their new studio album "Thunder And Rain", their first for MelodicRock Records. Founded by Jan Akesson (S.A.Y., Jan Akesson’s Shadow Rain) the band has grown in all aspects, but essentially, they turned much more Melodic Hard Rock oriented adding keyboards, soaring harmonies and a very polished sound to their music. This is simply a good album where everything works. Rock lives with this album.

The great Swedish trio of Bobo Stenson takes a stand against indecision in a decisively beautiful new album. As ever, the trio draws upon a wide range of source materials. A yearning title song by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, Bartók’s adaptation of a Slovak folk song, a piece from Mompou’s Cançons I Danses collection, and Erik Satie’s Elégie are integrated into the programme, alongside original compositions by Stenson and Anders Jormin and group improvising.