"Diana Panton is one of my favourite jazz singers of the new generation. Her vulnerable, gentle voice has peacefully coaxed me to fall in love with her singing. In addition, the high-quality sound of her recordings, both detailed and exquisite, is superior to many so-called 'audiophile' CDs.

Iggy's 19th solo album and his first to be released via the recently announced partnership between Atlantic Records and Gold Tooth Records, the new label founded by the album's Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum executive producer, Andrew Watt.

Action-Refraction is the tenth album by American bassist Ben Allison. It was released on the Palmetto Records label in 2011. It's his first album to focus on the compositions of others.

Claudio Arrau war das jüngste von drei Kindern der Eheleute Don Carlos und Lucretia Leon de Arrau.

Snarky Puppy founder, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy winner Michael League and cossover piano icon Bill Laurance take us to an imaginary place full of beauty, peace and energy. Musical escapism, world jazz 2.0 and an invitation to a place where we wish to be.

Der legendäre Musiker und Songwriter Paul Carrack, dessen »goldene Stimme« auf zahlreichen klassischen Welthits wie »How Long« (ACE), »Tempted« (Squeeze), »The Living Years«, »Over My Shoulder« (Mike and the Mechanics) zu hören ist, feiert seine fünf Jahrzehnte in der Branche und arbeitet auf seinem epischen neuen Album »Don't Wait Too Long« mit der mit einem GRAMMY Award ausgezeichneten SWR Big Band & Strings zusammen.

Many people consider it the best album New Order ever made, with its various changing moods and songs. Together with the album "Technique" it will be included in the "1001 albums you must have heard before you die" books.

"Standards Live" is a live jazz album released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1986. Originally released by ECM, it has been multiply re-issued. The album presents a performance of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, recorded on July 2, 1985 in Paris, at the Palais des Congrès Studios de la Grande Armée, the second of a two-night engagement at that venue.

Herbert von Karajan conducts this performance of Tchaikovsky's Six Symphonies by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Although Karajan recorded the last three symphonies many times, he did not turn to the first three until the end of the 1970s. No doubt the reason these early symphonies sound so fresh is because the Berlin orchestra was not over-familiar with them – this belied by the sheer refinement of the orchestral playing. Recorded at the Philharmonie between October 1975 and February 1979, Karajan's Berliner Philharmoniker cycle is presented on three SHM-SACD, mastered from the analogue recordings, transferred & edited in PCM, then converted to DSD.

A brilliant and unique marriage of classical chamber music and jazz, anchored by Spalding's honey-toned singing and bass playing, spiraling string arrangements, and top-notch musicianship make this one of the best jazz releases of 2010.

Donald Fagen was one of the two masterminds behind Steely Dan, the seminal jazz-pop band of the '70s. Fagen's solo work has been a continuation of the band's work of the early '80s - carefully constructed and arranged, intricately detailed pop songs that are more substantial than their stylish surface may indicate. His 1982 solo debut, "The Nightfly", was the best album he had made in years; it covered the same ground as the last two Steely Dan albums, yet surpassed it in terms of ambition and achievement. Originally produced by Steely Dan's co-founding member, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen's "Kamakiriad" is a brilliantly executed futuristic retro concept album which spins a unique Sci-Fi outlook on the world. The eight-song cycle re-creates a retro-futuristic world in which Fagen's '50s nostalgia meets high-tech millennialism. If you loved the studio-intensive blues-rock, tantalizing, crisp white funk grooves that made Steely Dan, and Fagen's first solo album so compelling, "Kamakiriad" will keep your pulse racing.

L'imboscata (Italian for "The ambush") is a studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by Mercury Records in 1996. After some more experimental albums and meditative songs, the album marked the return of Battiato to a rock sound and to a massive commercial success, mainly pushed by the success of the single "La cura".

Mondi Lontanissimi (Italian: "Very Distant Worlds") is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Italiana in 1985.

Gommalacca (Italian for "Shellac") is a studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, issued in 1998. The album was described as "vigorous and inspired […] with hard and distorted sounds and bold samples set in lavish arrangements."

For Lars Danielsson, a consummate craftsman of sound on both cello and bass, the power of music resides in melody. It is the heart from which everything else develops and his Liberetto ensemble has stayed true to this principle again on its third album. The word liberetto, which Danielsson coined for the name of the group, also serves well as a descriptor of his art, a reference both to Western music, the source of his compositions, and to their lyrical, vocal character. But also hidden in the band's name is the Latin adjective liber ("free"). That stands for improvisation, for how individuals can take lines and shapes and adapt them, but above all it refers to Danielsson's musical understanding which acknowledges no boundaries.