What a collection of songs! All the hallmarks of a Kapp album are here again: gorgeous ballads, reinterpretations of pop standards and current hits, several jazz excursions, powerful stage anthems, plus another surprising, unforgettable obscurity. The brilliant Marty Paich is back to chart this entire album - he and Jones have done so much incredible work together since the young singer was first signed at Kapp. And Doug Talbert is once again at piano - he contributed so much to the Kapp masterpiece, Jack Jones Sings. There's such a smooth romanticism to this entire album.

To paraphrase Marc Antony, the listener may not be able to decide whether to praise Mickey Newbury or bury him. This record hits one with the full Newbury experience, because, debut album or not, he comes across as a fully developed artist. His originality and talent is wonderfully evident in a series of songs that, whether brilliant or dreadful, always reveal an incredible amount of care being taken. Newbury never settled into any kind of standard arrangements or simple combo sound in his career, preferring to perform solo on acoustic guitar. But he and his producers went wild in the recording studio, baking in multiple layers that are likely to include any and all possible instruments, combined in a manner both audacitious and typical of the anything-goes '60s.

Compared to the gargantuan Live/1975-85, 2001's Live in New York City seems like the very definition of restraint, but consider this – not only does it span two discs, it leaves out a considerable portion of the set list from the show and thereby the set list of Springsteen's celebrated 2000 reunion with the E Street Band.

The Liberation Project is driven from South Africa and features a unique collaboration of musicians mainly from South Africa, Italy and Cuba who have joined forces to celebrate their liberation struggles from various different corners of the world with the main focus being on music from South Africa, Italy and Cuba. Musicians from France, La Reunion, Guinea, Burundi, the USA, Brazil and the United Kingdom have also contributed.

Three suites for Violoncello by J. S. Bach, played by Gyongy Erodi on a baroque violoncello in the incredible acoustics of a small chapel in the Austrian mountains. A very special and personal rendering of these iconic masterworks.

John Smith is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist from Devon, England. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and sold-out concert halls. He is a genuine folksinger, an inquisitive truth-seeker, devoted song interpreter, and enchanting writer. A contributor and collaborator, John quickly and effortlessly earns the esteem of his comrades and heroes. He has opened for folk greats including John Martyn, Davy Graham and John Renbourn, who called John Smith the future of folk music.

Au carrefour des musiques écrites et improvisées, Laurent Bonnot nous dévoile, dans son troisième album en leader, son amour pour le métissage à travers un univers qui lui tient particulièrement à coeur, le mélange de ses influences avec comme aboutissement une musique unique et novatrice. Contrepoint, métriques impaires, science harmonique sont au service d’un langage musical très personnel et original que l'on aurait peine à rattacher à une quelconque école.

Born in 1975, Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall – not short for anything, the KT is just an alternate spelling of Katie – comes from the quaint university town of St. Andrews. Due in part to being adopted at birth, her imagination and creative side flourished from early on as she thought about how her life could have gone in any given direction. As she was growing up, her physicist father would take Tunstall and her brothers into the St. Andrews observatory to look at the sky, thus fueling her youthful love for space and sci-fi. It wasn't until discovering hair metal through a brother that music really started to become important to her, and when it did, her affection for spacy things was reflected in her favorite album, David Bowie's Hunky Dory.