Lurlean did three LPs for RCA and one for Atlantic. She was a big star in Chicago and I think she was happy enough with that and the opportunity to record. Her model clearly was Sarah Vaughan (in fact there are similarities in their faces as well as voices) but she was no imitation or shadow.

Barbara Carroll remains at the top of her game at age 80. This wonderful program of standards shows her at her swinging best. If her voice has lost a little of its bloom (she sings, or rather speaks, on a couple of numbers) her fingers certainly have not. Very few jazz pianists get a truly individual sound from the piano, but Carroll's full, two handed style is unique, and has been for decades. An excellent rhythm section and the usual fine sound from Venus make this a winner. With Jay Leonhart playing bass and Joe Cocuzzo playing drums, the trio performs such classics as "Fly Me To The Moon", "My Funny Valentine" and "Autumn In New York".

New Age Doom follows up its critically acclaimed 2020 drone metal opus Himalayan Dream Techno with a serendipitous LP featuring the dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry as lead vocalist.

Santana live at House Of Blues, Las Vegas, 3 November 2021.

Luca N. Stradivari (1993) is a composer and pianist of his own music. After he graduated at the University of Nottingham, he started to hold composition seminars and concerts in China since 2018. He writes: “The first part of this release is marked by the performance of The King is Dead – shipwreck for violin and piano…"

The true vox humana in the form of a bell-like soprano voice, plus the artificial imitation of it in harmony with all the pipe works, to which the queen of instruments owes her majesty; complex lines and chords, woven into surfaces, over which simple, song-like singing rises in garlands to tell of eternal secrets: this is the new production with which Carine Tinney and Martin Gregorius are making their PASCHENrecords debut.

Giampaolo Bandini is considered to be one of the best Italian guitarists on the international music circuit. In 2003, he was nominated as the best Italian guitarist of the year by the magazine Guitar’s readers.

Florian Noack offers a clear, imaginative and vigorous reading of these brilliant yet still little- known pieces. Like Liszt’s Douze Études d’exécution transcendante, which Lyapunov revered, these visionary and colourful works, sometimes steeped in Russian folklore, require the performer to possess technical prowess and poetic sensibility in equal measure. Florian Noack overcomes their countless difficulties with magnificent brio and exemplary musicality.

The friendship between Mátyás Seiber and Antal Doráti dates back to their youth, when they were the two youngest students in Zoltán Kodály's composition class in Budapest in the 1920s. Doráti was one year younger than Seiber and held him in high esteem from the beginning.

After Concerto Ostinato, Ore Diciotto in Punto, Pianosequenza, Visioni, here is a new album by the Italian composer Francesco Di Fiore. Family Album is a solo piano project inspired by a real photo album, actually belonged to his family. 'The process of composing this work has been joyous but also painful.

The Alexander String Quartet launches its 40th season with this recording of Brahms String Quartets — plus Brahms’ Intermezzo (transcribed for string quartet by Zakarias Grafilo).

Legendary conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler leads the Philharmonia Orchestra with soloist Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in this programme of works from Mahler. The music sounds better than ever thanks to the new remastering from original tapes in HD 192kHz/24-bit done for Warner's upcoming Furtwängler box!

Legendary conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in this programme of Wagner.

Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.

Legendary conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler leads the Wiener Philharmoniker with soloists Wolfgang Windgassen and Martha Mödl in this legacy recording of Beethoven's Fidelio.