The life of a professional musician typically requires stretching beyond a single genre to insure a healthy career. Pianist David Cook is a jazz pianist and composer of the highest order.

Albert King recorded a lot in the early '60s, including some classic sides, but they never quite hit the mark.

Following the success of their award-winning debut album, La Peste, Les Barocudas period ensemble returns with Basta parlare! (Enough said!), a program exploring the dynamic, experimental musical style that swept 17th century Italy — in particular, works that showcase the violin and recorder.

German-Iranian singer Cymin Samawatie and her band Cyminology continue on their unique course, allowing the subtle yet dynamic sounds and rhythms of Persian poetry to influence their compositions and improvisation. "Phoenix" is their third disc for ECM, like its predecessors produced by Manfred Eicher at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio.

In the 1950s and early '60s, producer Norman Granz perfected the songbook approach to album production by having vocalist Ella Fitzgerald interpret large segments of the standard jazz repertoire. In a frankly stated effort to expand the listening audience for this great body of work, Granz also asked Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson to churn out numerous instrumental songbooks albums under his own name with various combos. By the end of the decade, these included Oscar's newly reconfigured trio with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen. Like its companion albums, Peterson's Richard Rodgers Song Book was never intended as a set of exercises in soul-searching profundity. Instead what you get are simple, straightforward, well-played appreciations of great American songwriting.

Mary Mundy’s 1980 album for the obscure Image label goes for hundreds of bucks if you can find it at all (which, as of this writing, you can’t).

Ein einzigartiges Gespräch zwischen der Musik von Cyril Scott, George Enescu und Maurice Ravel.

Reputedly Boz's own favourite album released under his own name.

Having graduated with the highest honours, Italian pianist Nicola Losito, 22, is currently studying with Leonid Margarius at the Imola International Piano Academy ‘Incontri col Maestro’ and with Massimo Gon at the Giuseppe Tartini Music Conservatory in Trieste.

BBE Music are proud to reissue one of the most elusive and sought-after Afro-Funk LPs of all time: Son of Africa, by Remi Kabaka.

HUSH is an album of original music by contemporary jazz artists “Le Boeuf Brothers” (identical twins Pascal and Remy Le Boeuf) featuring longtime collaborators Dayna Stephens, Linda May Han Oh, and Christian Euman.

The instrumental version of FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, Brian Eno’s critically acclaimed 2022 album, is to be released exclusively for Record Store day 2023. With FOREVER VOICELESS he has removed the voice, moving the focus back onto the core music for this special 2023 Record Store Day vinyl exclusive. These instrumentals reveal the starkly dramatic and delicate tones that set these shifting moods. The album’s theme, a reaction to the ongoing climate crisis, is now laid out clearly in this hypnotic, sonic landscape.

Robert Schumann was a modern musician in opposition to the formality of the German musical world – his Fantasie of 1836 is a noble homage to Beethoven as well as a love song to his future wife Clara Wieck. The Albumblätter (‘Album Leaves’) is an extraordinary set of short pieces that range in content from dramatic and dreamy moments of lost youth to a delightful lullaby for his daughter Marie, while the brief Canon über ‘An Alexis’ is an early piece reflecting Schumann’s fascination with Bach.

Hailed by the New York Times as “a marvelous pianist,” Peter Takács has performed widely, receiving critical and audience acclaim for his penetrating and communicative musical interpretations.

William Blands cycle of 24 piano sonatas, one in each of the major and minor keys, was composed between the years 1998 and 2014.