Gregory Porter’s new release Still Rising, due out November 5, is an exquisite collection of musical delights.

There’s a ‘before and after’ Out Of Time in the life of R.E.M. This ‘before’ for Michael Stipe’s band is mainly found on university campuses where the group gained a cult following in the ‘80s…

New York, NY (September 9, 2021) —Eric Clapton returns with a remarkable new release, Eric Clapton “The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions” on November 12.

The inaugural album by the Jazz super-group, Spirit Fingers, features 4 of the hottest young lions on the Jazz scene today. Having played to sold out audiences from New York to LA and having already attracted over 300,000 views on YouTube, the over-the-top energy and spectacular virtuosity of Spirit Fingers reaches across the spectrum, from the Jazz aficionado to the jam band audience and beyond. “A thrilling soundscape…explosive…riveting…a glorious genre-bending excursion of free-wheeling groove”. –- TheJazzWorld

While big bands seemed to be fading fast during the late '50s and early '60s, bandleader Si Zentner was one of the few to front a successful big band - enjoying both critical and commercial acclaim.

While big bands seemed to be fading fast during the late '50s and early '60s, bandleader Si Zentner was one of the few to front a successful big band - enjoying both critical and commercial acclaim.

Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

On 2020's Believe, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli presents an uplifting and relaxing album of originals and finely curated classical works centered on the values of faith, hope, and charity. Produced with lush orchestral instrumentation by Steven Mercurio and Haydn Bendall, Believe follows Bocelli's 2018 album Sì.

British folk rock singer-songwriter Frank Turner calls this album his "definitive statement.” Together with his band the Sleeping Souls and producer/guitarist Butch Walker he covers a wide range of subjects, from matters of the heart to social injustice, the suicide of a close friend and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion from the perspective of astronaut Christa McAuliffe and a four year boy who may or may not have been Turner himself.

Ivo Michael Beale Neame is a British jazz pianist, saxophonist and composer. For this release, he's returns as a bandleader to Edition Records and "Moksha" reveals his true class and brilliance: a new album, new lineup and new sound, marking a new era in his already illustrious career.

American composer Leroy Anderson was known for his lighthearted orchestral music; many of his most popular and famous pieces are included on this archival recording from the Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra and a British orchestra, both led by Frederick Fennell. The majority of these works were recorded in Rochester, New York in March 1958 and October 1956; the London session dates back to July 1964. All performances remain highly appreciated and illuminating.

Composer & analog synthesist Todd Barton created an album of music as an integral part of Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking novel, "Always Coming Home". The main peoples of this book are call the Kesh. Originally released in 1985 as a cassette tape bound with the hardback printing, "The Music and Poetry of the Kesh", which features readings of Kesh poetry by Ursula Le Guin, finally have be re-issued in March 2018.

"Beyond the Red Mirror" is the tenth studio album by German metal band Blind Guardian. A concept album and a sequel to "Imaginations from the Other Side", "Beyond the Red Mirror" has been described by Hansi Kürsch as "A story between science fiction and fantasy. The two worlds described have changed dramatically for the worse since then. While there used to be several passages between the worlds, there is only one gate left now: The Red Mirror. It has to be found at any cost".

Crafting seductive R&B, Indie Pop that homes in on the simplest and most mysterious aspects of desire, Nantes, France's HER is the project of Simon Carpentier and Victor Solf. The pair met in high school, where Solf, a German native, was in choir and played classical piano and Carpentier played saxophone. Prior to forming HER, they played in another group that achieved some success in Europe before disbanding. Solf and Carpentier then took their music in a very different direction, borrowing inspiration from sounds ranging from Motown to Kendrick Lamar. After several EPs (Tape and Tape Live), HER released their first full-lenght self-titled studio album, which includes their classics: Swim, Union, Quite Like and Five Minutes, as well some new titles, including a collaboration with Belgium's Hip-Hop sensation Romeo Elvis.

"137 Avenue Kaniama" is the highly anticipated debut album from Baloji, a Congolese-born, Belgium-based poet, composer, lyricist, beat maker, scriptwriter, actor, video artist and stylist. His singular sound stands at the unlikely crossroads of traditional African music, hip-hop, French folk, soul, funk, jazz and electronic. Through this amalgamation of influence, he produces a musical hybrid that's intelligent, earnest and demanding of movement.