"Tracks" is a four-disc box set by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1998 containing 66 songs. This box set mostly consists of never-before-released songs recorded during the sessions for his many albums, but also includes a number of single B-sides, as well as demos and alternate versions of already-released material. A treasure trove of material mostly left on the cutting-room floor from his early auditions for John Hammond through his work in the 1990s. Not a retrospective but an “alternate road map” and a glimpse at the ambition, development, and prolific creativity of a Rock icon.

Arthur W. Hodes, known professionally as Art Hodes, was an American jazz pianist. Storyville Records presents "Selections from the Gutter", a collection of eight original songs originally released in 1973.

British jazz musician Bob Wallis was one of the peak figures of the UK traditional jazz boom of the early 1960s with his Dixieland trumpet stylings and imaginative takes on New Orleans classics. Originally released in 1973, this remastered digital reissue presents the seven tracks of Doctor Jazz, including live recordings of standards such as China Boy and Snag It, this a classic, swinging collection from Wallis and his Storyville band.

Displacement, escape, disaster and death or a source of new inspiration and strength - these are the two poles between which the state of exile is ascribed. Even in ancient times, exile was used as a method of punishment. Leaving one's homeland, arriving in the unknown and finding a new place - a fate that also befell Ovid, for example, when he had to leave Rome and move to the city of Tomis on the Black Sea. For artists in particular, exile brings difficulties in several respects: it is not only their home in life that they lose, they also have to leave behind their creative home, the cultural space in which they were shaped and grew up, the spoken language, the musical, the artistic and the aesthetic. And not least the audience that has understood and accepted them.

In February 1924, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was premiered in New York City, capturing the exuberant essence of what Gershwin called “a musical kaleidoscope of America.” 100 years later, American pianist Lara Downes reimagines Gershwin’s masterpiece to reflect on a century of immigration and transformation. Downes has commissioned a radical new arrangement of Rhapsody In Blue by Puerto Rican composer Edmar Colón that reverberates with the multicultural, kaleidoscopic sounds of America today. Rhapsody In Blue Reimagined, a 30-minute piece featuring Downes at the piano, was recorded with the dynamic young musicians of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra.

When he wrote the cycle that was to change the musical course of the twentieth century, Arnold Schönberg wanted the 21 melodramas based on Albert Giraud's famous collection of poems to be 'spoken and sung' in the language of the country in which they were set, in keeping with the fledgling Berlin cabaret tradition… In doing so, he may not have appreciated the problems that the exercise would pose. The fate of Albert Giraud's verses is inextricably linked to Otto Erich Hartleben's free translation of them. It was in this version that they were most frequently set to music. Stripped of their rhymes and original metre, they are in fact another poetic work. When Darius Milhaud presented Schönberg with a French version recited by Marya Freund in 1922, the composer was disappointed and went so far as to say that he did not recognise his own work!

Adam and Patrick followed a similar pathway in these records as they have in the past for their first and second albums and first single. They began two years ago in the UK in Birmingham and Bristol where they created 62 demos with help from local Bristol Jazz musicians. They selected 12 tracks and took these to the Bunker studio in Brooklyn where Alex recorded additional parts from 5 New York Jazz musicians. The music was brought back to London and mixed in the Premises studios and mastered at Abbey Road and Metropolis studios.

Billy Butler was an American soul singer and songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s. Butler was Jerry Butler's younger brother. He formed the vocal group the Enchanters while at high school. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1963, and was produced initially by Curtis Mayfield and later by Carl Davis. His first and biggest hit was 1965's "I Can't Work No Longer", which reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Black Singles chart and #60 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group disbanded in 1966, and after a minor solo hit with "The Right Track" he left Okeh. "The Right Track" is placed at number 11 in the Northern Soul Top 500.

This quartet is the heir to those experimenters who opened wide the windows onto codified genres, both in music and elsewhere. The group hasn't plundered their aesthetic, but transposed their approach onto our own, ultra-referenced time. It has chosen the most radical path, and is our indispensable contemporary.

After two very intimate solos, pianist and singer Grégory Privat returns with PHOENIX, a luminous album which celebrates the cycle of life and the fact of constantly being reborn from one's ashes. A metaphor on the firebird which is intended to be a continuation of the SOLEY album released in 2020. We find double bassist Chris Jennings and drummer Tilo Bertholo for an extraordinary trio, towards a spiritual jazz between urban pop, songs Creoles, and electronic music.

This album features a collection of composers with diverse backgrounds, including Glazunov, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Kokai, and Jan van der Roost, showcasing a fusion of Eastern and Western musical elements. The composers share a common toolbox of themes and techniques, emphasizing the unity in diversity across different cultural influences, providing a cohesive and well-integrated musical journey.

String Quartet No. 3 derives from a tune sung by Nadia who is looking for her mother. She cannot find her, even though she is looking everywhere. The composition was written in 2019/2020, commissioned by the Royal String Quartet. Aleksander Nowak String Quartet No. 4 written in 2022 was commissioned by the Royal String Quartet and is dedicated to the ensemble. Paweł Mykietyn The piece Magenta [2021] is a kind of reflection on the historical form of the string quartet. In it we can hear both classical and contemporary playing techniques. Sound samples accompanying the instruments come from a variety of sources and times. For example, we can hear a fragment of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1, recorded in 1921.

Dave Wilczewski was an American saxophonist living in Stockholm. Working with many groups on the road as well as in the recording studio, Dave was one of the most outstanding and coveted jazzsoloists in Sweden. He played with a melodic unique and personal style, which assembled many elements from different jazz and fusion areas. He has played on over 200 albums and in 2006, released his own album, "Room In The Clouds". This album is a mature and relaxed offering from a musician who is equally gifted as a player and writer. This distinctive recording will resonate with fans of the contemporary music scene and undoubtedly stand the test of time.

Great movie themes in orchestral and symphonic profusion, based on famous works by classical masters including Mozart, Bernstein, Khatchaturian, Barber, Puccini, and John Williams, featuring famous violin soloist in dramatic arrangement. A true audiophile recording, which is only enhanced by FIM's SACD transfer.

Perhaps the world's most famous Italian jazz musician, trumpeter Enrico Rava has established himself as both accompanist and leader. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked with Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, John Abercrombie, Joe Henderson, Richard Galliano, Miroslav Vitouš, Andrea Centazzo, Joe Lovano, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor.