Pianist Rafał Blechacz is returning with beautiful, ecstatic and very colorful French/Polish chamber music repertoire. For his first ever chamber music recording on DG he teams up with the supreme musicianship of Korean violinist Bomsori Kim.

Jazz tradition - continued. In recent times few jazz musicians have gained as much public attention as the French soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien. His new album "Double Screening" combines all of his exceptional qualities. With breathtaking technical skills, great sensitivity, imagination and a good amount of anarchy, Parisien investigates, challenges and expands the jazz genre. The result is fresh, European music, rousing, virtuoso and full of emotion.

Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai has made important contributions to the music of Avishai Cohen, as documented on Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. In parallel, over the last five years, he has been developing his own project with the trio heard here, with Paris-based Israeli bassist Yoni Zelnik and Donald Kontomanou, French drummer of Guinean and Greek heritage. Sometimes known as the Modern Times Trio, its programme here opens with Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”: “Ellington is still a thoroughly modern pianist and composer,” Yonathan Avishai muses. In the original pieces that follow, Avishai makes references to a broad range of musics and experiences. “Les pianos de Brazzaville” recalls his journeys to the Republic of the Congo.

Julia Michaels brightened up New Music Friday by announcing the imminent arrival of her Inner Monologue Part 1 EP. “Couldn’t be more nervous if I tried,” the breakout star wrote on social media.

Reviewing an album which has already spent three weeks at number 1 in the UK country charts feels a bit like being the last person to get to a party that’s already been underway for some time but, feelings of social anxiety aside, it’s better to be late than never.

Sarah McCoy went from playing piano and singing in hotter-than-hell New Orleans dives to appearing in-front of enthusiastic crowds in hip Paris night clubs. Now, with her Blue Note album debut, she carries on a tradition perfected by the likes of Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, and Janis Joplin, who turned their complicated lives into dark but beautiful poetry and music.

Jack & Jack announced on Wednesday morning (Nov. 7) that their debut album, A Good Friend Is Nice, will be released on Jan. 11. A Good Friend Is Nice will feature the duo's single “No One Compares To You" as well as their collaboration with Jonas Blue, "Rise." In conjunction with the record, the electronic duo will also tour all over North America and Europe in 2019.

Pitched as Britain’s answer to Frank Ocean, XamVolo had a lot to live up to before even dropping his debut album. Looking back to when Ocean first made it big with 2012’s ‘Channel ORANGE’, there were no similar comparisons placed on his shoulders, as there wasn’t anyone out there that sounded like him.

In Search of Mona Lisa is the new five-track EP from the legendary Santana. It was inspired by Carlos Santana’s interaction with the Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre in Paris, France. The EP was produced by Narada Michael Walden and Carlos Santana.