There is an Arab concept borrowed from mysticism and literature called "barzakh", which literally designates the barrier that separates the physical and spiritual worlds. It is in this inter-world - here transatlantic - that On Both Sides of the Atlantic! shores of the ocean, as if to free oneself from space and time.

The debut album from 21-year-old German keyboard phenomenon Simon Oslender. Despite his young age he is already a member of the Bill Evans band, Wolfgang Haffner band and has worked with Randy Brecker. 'About Time' features his regular band plus special guests Evans and Brecker. The album also includes keyboardist and producer Ricky Peterson, vibraphonist Christopher Dell, guitarist Hanno Busch, percussionist Roland Peil and the vocalists Peter Fessler and Cosmo Klein. This is a brilliant debut that is released at the right time in his career. A large-scale party that moves seamlessly between funk, jazz, fusion, soul, blues and pop.

Once again, The Metamorphosis lives up to its name. On their new album, the top-class quartet of award-winning musical personalities (a total of six jazz echoes, New German Jazz Award, WDR Jazz Award) once again accomplishes a stylistic and tonal change of direction. Especially in direct comparison to his Homeward Bound Suite released in 2018. The spectacular orchestral work was widely praised at the time, for example as "a successful interweaving of jazz and classical elements with emotional depth" (Jazz Podium).

With his new album "Lovers", Kid Francescoli announces a resounding return. Surrounding himself this time with several singers from different backgrounds, in order to enrich the sounds and ambiances of his music, he found the inspiration and the main atmosphere of the album by fully embracing the wonders that the cornice of Marseille and who greatly influenced it: the sun, the sea, peaceful love. A classy and sensual synth-pop album. Definitely irresistible.

"Letting go can be a scary prospect," says Son Little. "But there's beauty in it, too. Everything you leave behind opens up space for something new in your life." That was certainly the case with his new album, aloha, his third studio album. Recorded at Paris's iconic Studio Ferber, the entire project was an exercise in letting go, in ceding control, in surrendering to fate. While SON LITTLE (the stage name of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Livingston) still plays nearly every instrument on the album himself, he put his songs in the hands of an outside producer for the first time here, collaborating with French studio wizard Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao) to create his boldest, most self-assured statement yet.

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
Out of limited number of albums that I have on Jan Akkerman's solo works, this is the album that I like most for a very simple and basic reason: the music is nice even though not that progressive or not that jazz.

Essential: a masterpiece of Progressive Rock music
What can a man do with a guitar?

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
This self-titled reunion album is fantastic and one of my favorites in the Focus catalog for the same reason that it is mostly ignored: it only features two important members of the original band and the music is based much more in jazz-fusion and heavy new age.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
For those who still do not know the work of "Focus"…

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music.
Focus has always been a band with sense of humor, not only for the strange sounds and yodeling emitted by Thijs Van Leer but also for the jokes they made of sacred cows.

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
This is a live album by Focus. It is an excellent live performance of the early Focus.

"… Already the music made by the young Collins, born 1932 in Leona/Texas, was praised to be especially 'cool'; and of course, when he performed on the tiny stage of Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall on Eppendorfer Lehmweg in Hamburg, he was joined by his band called The Icebreakers. Naturally, on this winter evening no cold barrier needed to be overcome, certainly not in the overcrowded Pö, where most probably (as so often) tropical temperatures will have prevailed. . . . His name adorned the star line-up at the Montreux Jazz Festival and at the Paleo-Festival in Nyon, just around the corner on Lake Geneva. It was also in Nyon that his terminal illness first broke out.

Jazz/pop vocalist Esther Phillips is joined here by Henry Cain, Wes Blackman, Bill Upchurch, and James Levi for a set that includes 'Stormy Weather" and "What A Difference A Day Makes".

"Considering the current developments on the market for Presidents of the United States one should probably remind the public, that even this strange bird – John Birks Gillespie from Cheraw, South Carolina, born in October 1917, nicknamed 'Dizzy' since the start of his professional career and thus declared a bit crazy – once wanted to become President of the United States. Seriously? Most probably not.

Extraordinary talented jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw recorded at the zenith of his personal development in 1982, accompanied by a sensational group of musicians. The group includes drummer Tony Reedus, bassist Stafford James, the pianist Mulgrew Miller and the trombonist Steve Turre, who became one of the new young voices of the jazz trombone shortly afterwards. Shaw's playing was characterised by technical perfection (just as those of his role model Freddie Hubbard) and a hands-on approach when it came to sound and tonality; Shaw was extremely fast when he wanted to be but never lost the clarity of his musical language.