Van Halen Built at every stage around Eddie Van Halen's prodigious talent and wildly inventive guitar technique, Van Halen rewrote the rules for hard rock. They did this first in the early '80s with a celebratory, party-ready pop metal sound perfected by lead vocalist David Lee Roth's over-the-top performance style, and pivoted slowly to a milder, more accessible (and subsequently more commercially viable) approach, especially when Roth left the band shortly after the release of their era-defining hit album 1984 and was replaced by Sammy Hagar.

Carmina Burana, the staged cantata by Carl Orff, is a work unique in musical history, claims conductor Paavo Järvi: ‘The convergence of medieval texts with such daringly original orchestral colors creates a sound world that is both archaic and yet beyond time, in which chorus, orchestra and soloists vie in splendor.’

Morlot balances textures smartly throughout [Le Tombeau de Couperin] and paces each movement well, bringing out the rhythmic bounce of French Baroque music to which Ravel was also paying homage.

The seventh year of the successful series "Jazz thing Next Generation" is starting with an extraordinary piano trio.

After naming their first two albums, Weathering and The Big Picture respectively, the simplicity of the title for Last Train’s third record is striking.

Award winning Dutch violinist Liza Feschtman brings a passionate program of Johannes Brahms & Josef Suk.

Agathe Backer Grondahl is one of the most interesting figures of Norwegian Romanticism.

1976's THOROUGHBRED was Carole King's last album for Lou Adler's Ode Records imprint, and it's clearly a transitional release. Change was afoot in the musical air in 1976, and while there's no hints of punk or disco on THOROUGHBRED–which is a good thing–King is definitely moving away from the solo piano sound of her earlier solo albums. King's thumping, percussive piano playing is still all over the album, but guitars play a more prominent role than ever before. At times, the instrumental interplay resembles that of Fleetwood Mac, particularly Waddy Wachtel's Lindsey Buckingham-like solo on "Only Love Is Real." The songs themselves are in the eclectic style of 1973's all-over-the-map FANTASY, with the country-tinged "We All Have To Be Alone" and "Ambrosia" sitting comfortably between the slinky pop of "I'd Like To Know You Better" and the soulful "Still Here Thinking of You."

The Lebanese-American Karim Sulayman joins the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for this album of works by Reynaldo Hahn.

In the fall of ’95 I walked into the Bill Graham Management offices with a simple query: Can we organize a tour where I get to jam with my favorite guitarists every night? It seemed like it would be an easy thing to achieve, but it wasn’t.

Composed between 1865 and 1868, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem has become a repertoire staple for choirs around the world, amateur and professional alike, possibly because it relies so much more on the choir than it's soloists to convey the texts than other works.

Greenleaf Music is proud to announce the January 31, 2025 release of Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores, a wide-ranging, expansive new project celebrating the legacy of one of the great, original voices in contemporary jazz, Kenny Wheeler.

Perhaps this precious feeling, so beneficial to the music, also dominated throughout this second day of recording at Ferber studio in the depths of winter 2023.

The band have spent nine to ten months a year on the road over the last two decades traversing Europe, covering almost every inch, over twenty countries, sweeping through the islands and mainland of their home country Denmark and through the rocky terrains and bright lights of Sweden, Finland and Norway countryside and cities

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In their latest album, Safe Place, German jazz duo Roman and Julian Wasserfuhr craft an intimate refuge through music.