Sun City was a 1985 album that contained several versions of the Steven Van Zandt-led Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City" protest song against apartheid in South Africa as well as other selections in the same vein from that project.

This release in the Steinway Standard series is the first of a collection of American Songbook sets that celebrates the immortal Cole Porter in arrangements for solo piano. Steinway artists Simon Mulligan, Adam Birnbaum and Jed Distler start our survey.

She's back: Lena Meyer-Landrut alias Lena presents her new studio album in April 2019, which is now her fifth.

“Finesse and fire from a starry musical duo … A recital that showcased the very best in collaborative music-making,” was how the Toronto Star described the concert at Koerner Hall in Toronto that formed the basis for this recording.

By the early '70s, despite a roster that included the Dramatics and Isaac Hayes, Stax Records was winding down. The Staple Singers, signed to the label in the late '60s, always provided hit singles and respected album efforts. Despite their gospel beginnings, the Staple Singers' biggest draws became Pops Staples' blues-based "devil's music" guitar and Mavis Staples' breathy and sexy vocals.

As a young guitarist growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Charlie Hunter was looking for a way to stand out in the '80s. His primary influences were jazz great Joe Pass and the fluid Tuck Andress (of the guitar/vocal duo Tuck & Patti), both six-string guitarists who were adept at blending bass notes into their standard guitar melodies to make themselves sound like two musicians at once. But Hunter wanted to take it one step further and set out to find an instrument on which he could simultaneously function as both a guitarist and a bassist.

With the team they have the renowned and versatile Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. The project is based on enlarging the detail richness of the solo hardening flaw game - which has traditionally been the most common way to use hardening flaws. The large ensemble acts as a magnifying glass where they look for the details, then mix, throw it around and evaluate. With Olav and the hardening fella in the center. In addition to the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, they have Alexander Zethson and Lene Grenager on the team, where the latter have arranged several songs. The remaining songs are arranged by Explosive jazz music centered around the HardingfelaSofia itself. The album was recorded in 2014, the ensemble has played several concerts together, the project premiered at Vossajazz in 2012, Riksscenen and Umeå Jazz Festival in 2013, and later played at Stockholm Jazz festival, 2014.

Trumpeter, crooner & composer Benny Benack III returns to Dazzle with some seasonal selections in tow! Having just released his Christmas EP featuring the Steven Feifke Big Band, Benack will be playing some fresh holiday classics in quartet form alongside some of Denver’s finest. Whether it’s “The Christmas Song”, one of Benack’s own fresh hits such as “I Think My Girlfriend is an Elf”, or even a revamped version of “The Dreidel Song”, Benack will ring in the holiday season in style as only he can!

Like Emotional Rescue before it, Tattoo You was comprised primarily of leftovers, but unlike its predecessor, it never sounds that way.

Sliding out of perhaps the greatest winning streak in rock history, the Stones slipped into decadence and rock star excess with Goats Head Soup, their sequel to Exile on Main St.

When Rolled Gold was initially released in 1975, there was no shortage of Rolling Stone compilations — hell, there were two others released that year, the useful Decca/London-era rarities compilation Metamorphosis and the slapped-together Rolling Stones Records singles comp Made in the Shade, containing the American singles released on Rolling Stones Records in the early ’70s, along with assorted album tracks.