A new three-CD package, ‘Essential’ offers an overview of the Virgin Records-era of Sheffield synth-pop band The Human League.

The title pretty much says it all. These 10 new compositions and well-chosen covers play like a scrapbook of pianist/composer Brown’s favorite sounds. There’s the daredevil, highly technical ensemble swinging that sometimes seems like the signature of his alma mater, Berklee School of Music. There’s the propulsive bounce of the Fender Rhodes electric piano that will always feel like a trapdoor to the 1970s, that decade when Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea and a few others nailed it and made it a permanent part of the jazz soundscape.

Antoine Hervé (20 January 1959 in Paris) is a French composer and pianist. Hervé studied composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Between 1987 and 1989 he was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra. He has played with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chet Baker, Randy Brecker, Cab Calloway, Louis Sclavis, Martial Solal, Michel Portal, Carla Bley, Didier Lockwood and Daniel Humair. Next to musicals, soundtracks for movies and dance shows Hervé has composed a concert for trumpet and a piece for drums and orkest. During 1997 Hervé and Markus Stockhausen founded a quintet. He has his own jazz label, Philo.

Garden of the Arcane Delights - The John Peel Sessions is a compilation coupling the re-issue of the first and only EP by Australian band Dead Can Dance and two different sessions for the BBC Radio One John Peel show. It was released in November 2016 on record label 4AD with the Peel-supervised recordings allowed by arrangement with BBC Music.

Wonderful, summer has started again. Time to enjoy the biggest hits of the moment on the new Hitzone. With of course the national hits of Di-Rect “Soldier On”, Ilse DeLange “Changes”, Davina Michelle “Beat Me” and the second big hit of The Weeknd this year: “In Your Eyes”. Plus the summery sounds of Jonas Brothers, Rolf Sanchez complemented by the latest dance from Lucas & Steve, Martin Garrix, Lost Frequencies, Kygo and Disclosure.

One of the best trombone players in the Latin-jazz community of the 1990s, Juan Pablo Torres provided a crucial role in recordings by Paquito D'Rivera, Charles Azvanour and Gilberto Santa Rosa. In addition, the Cuban recorded at least two dozen.

Even in these special times, Hitzone only collects the greatest hits of the moment. With of course the biggest hit of 2020 so far, The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” and the special collaboration for this difficult period of Davina Michelle & Fast “17 Million People (live @ 538 in Ahoy)”. Plus the current hits of Racoon, Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Maan and the Jonas Brothers and the newcomers of Celeste, Benee ft. Gus Dapperton. Hitzone: always all hits.

Styx was one of the titans of the hugely popular AOR movement – along with Boston, Foreigner, Journey, and REO Speedwagon – embraced by the U.S. mainstream in the late '70s and early '80s. The end of the Chicago-based band's peak period coincided with one of the most ambitious and notorious projects of the time, the 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here…

Palle Mikkelborg is a fine trumpeter who is best-known stateside for his Aura suite, which Miles Davis recorded in 1984. Self-taught on trumpet, Mikkelborg started working professionally in 1960. He joined the Danish Radio Jazz Group in 1963 and led it during 1967-1972. Mikkelborg performed at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival in a quintet and worked through the years with such players as Thomas Clausen, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Terje Rypdal, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek, George Russell, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Karin Krog, and George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band. He has recorded as a leader for Debut, Metronome, Sonet, Storyville, and ECM.

Into The Infinite is the debut release by Ambient-Electronic composer and musician Chad Kettering. This awe inspiring musical journey unveils its emotional depth as the shades of a long lost exotic landscape and the culture it supported are brought to life. Through a refined collection of analog and digital instruments, acoustic elements, and a warmth of sound, this intricate composition is very much alive and present offering the listener an inspiring view into the infinite.