Following his exploration of Spain with the music of Federico Moreno Torroba (BIS-2725), Franz Halasz now takes us to Brazil with the complete works for solo guitar by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Pianist Johanna Summer will release her new jazz EP entitled “Upright” on April 18, 2025. This work was created during the recording of Malakoff Kowalski's album “Songs With Words” and comprises a seven-part jazz suite that combines Summer's own compositions with jazz standards and an elegy by Richard Wagner. The first single “Teardrop” has already been released and gives a foretaste of the forthcoming album.

Thelonious Monk, the iconic Jazz pianist and composer, was born October 10th, 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. In celebration of over 100 years of his music's influence on American culture, we've assembled this compilation of Chesky artists performing their favorite Monk songs.

On the occasion of the Record Store Day, Sam Smith will release the double album “BBC Proms At The Royal Albert Hall” with a recording of the impressive live concert from 2024.

Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It is the companion remix disc to the band’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral, and was released on May 29, 1995, in two editions, one denoted as Halo 10 (released in the United States), and the other as Halo 10 V2 (released in Japan, Australia, and the UK), each containing a different set of tracks.

50 years ago this month, Roberta Flack released her sophomore album, an LP which – despite failing to match the crazy commercial success of her debut, FIRST TAKE, with mainstream audiences – still packed a solid emotional punch and served to cement her superstar status on the R&B and jazz charts.

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer.

John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone.

The long-awaited new record was produced by James Ford (Fontaines D.C., Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur) and sees Black Country, New Road settled into a new shape in which vocal duties – and most of the song writing – is split between Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. “It created a real through line for the album, having three girls singing," says Ellery. "It's definitely very different to Ants From Up There, because of the female perspective - and the music we've made also compliments that."

"Ace Of Spades" - the title track of MOTÖRHEAD's 1980 iconic, game changing album isn’t just one of the greatest hard rock songs ever written - it has truly become a lifestyle anthem for several generations of rockers, metalheads, punks, bikers, athletes, rebels, outcasts, and freethinkers all around the world.

Here, four exceptional Grands Motets composed by Lully to the greatest glory of Louis XIV have been brought together: Plaude Laetare Gallia was performed in 1668 as a jubilant celebration of the birth of his first son, the Grand Dauphin; Benedictus is a piece of extraordinary architecture that transcends the sacred drama; Notus in Judea Deus, composed in 1685 shortly before Lully's death, is a true victory song celebrating the glory of God; finally, Domine Salvum fac Regem, an energetic "God save the King", was systematically sung in honour of the sovereign.

The Belgian vibraphonist Guy Cabay has played with Toots Thielemans, Philip Caherine or Raoul Faisant.

Surfin' Safari is the debut album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released October 1, 1962 on Capitol Records.

Recorded at the same sessions that resulted in the more commercial Big Bad Jug, this LP (whose contents have not yet been reissued on CD) is the better of the two thanks to the inclusion of four Billie Holiday-associated songs.