Paul Ji, winner of the Prodiges competition in 2019, is a 16-year old pianist, born in Chicago, USA to a Chinese family and raised in France since the age of five. This album, contains a selection of 16 romantic masterpieces for the piano.

Naples was famous throughout Europe in the 17th century for the variety of musical performances that took place during the course of the church year. Christmas was one of the feasts that was celebrated with particular splendour. On the present CD, the Ensemble Odyssee under the direction of Andrea Friggi introduces Nocturnes and Pastorals composed by Gaetano Veneziano (1656-1716) for the liturgy of Christmas services.

The musicians of the Tonkunstler Orchestra – and especially their concertmaster Kirill Maximov in soloist mode – want to tell you some fabulous stories. There can be few other orchestral pieces that capture the imagination as directly as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical tales from the «Thousand and One Nights». Violin concerto? Symphonic poem? Or suite? «Scheherazade», written in the summer of 1888, has a little of each, or even better: everything in one! The four movements have names like «The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship» and «Festival at Baghdad»; the musical bor- rowings come from Persia, India and the Caucasus. Emmanuel Tjeknavorian chose this work for his first ever CD production as conductor of a full symphony orchestra because he has an emo- tional connection to it. He explains why in his deeply personal message in the booklet. The young violinist, now increasingly making a name for himself as a conductor, has complemented «Scheherazade» with other showpieces of the Russian orchestral repertoire by Mikhail Glinka and Aleksandr Borodin.

Folk music legend Judy Collins hand-picked this selection of her most treasured recent recordings! Features a brand new, never before released cover of “White Bird,” the 1969 gem from San Francisco hippie rock group It’s A Beautiful Day, which will be released as a single on March 19 and supported with a publicity campaign! Also includes superb new versions of Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning,” The Byrds’ “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” and Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today!” Special guests include CSN’s Stephen Stills, Willie Nelson & Joan Baez!

Live performance by reunited and iconic members of the Winston-Salem scene.

Who Do We Think We Are is the seventh studio album by the British band Deep Purple, released in 1973. It was Deep Purple's last album with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover until Perfect Strangers came out in 1984…

Charlie Parker - Bird's Eyes: Last Unissued, Vol. 13 (1948, 1956) {Philology W 843.2 rel 1999}
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Jazz / Bop / Bebop / Big Band / Saxophone

Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the musical style called bop or bebop. Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. From 1935 to 1939, he played the Missouri nightclub scene with local jazz and blues bands. In 1945 he led his own group while performing with Dizzy Gillespie on the side. Together they invented bebop. In 1949, Parker made his European debut, giving his last performance several years later. He died a week later on March 12, 1955, in New York City.

Denis Dufour - Bocalises (2006) {Motus M306011} (INA–GRM)
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Experimental / Musique Concrète / Electroacoustic / Acousmatic

Denis Dufour. Born in Lyon in 1953, he took courses at the CNSM in Paris at Ivo Malec, Guy Reibel, and Pierre Schaeffer. He is the creator of numerous instrumental and electroacoustic works. He was a member of Ina-GRM until the year 2000. Creator, teacher, organizer of concerts and events, he founded and directed several instrumental ensembles: TM +, Les Temps Modernes, and in 2004 the ensemble Syntax in Perpignan. He is the main instigator of the Futura festival, and artistic director of Motus. He has been teaching acousmatic and instrumental composition for over 25 years.

Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson - Legends Of Acid Jazz Vol 2 (1968) {Prestige 00025218521024 rel 2006}
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Jazz / Bop / Soul Jazz / Organ / Saxophone

Two-fer CD reissue combines two 1968 sessions, both featuring Stitt and Patterson, that were recorded on consecutive days (September 23-24, 1968), although one was issued under Patterson's name and the other under Stitt's. The first six songs were issued as the Patterson LP Funk You!, on which Patterson leads a date that also has Sonny Stitt and Charles McPherson on saxes and Pat Martino on guitar. The other players get about as much space as Patterson, and as 1960s jazz with organ goes, this is pretty straight-ahead and boppish, rather than soul-jazz (as so much organ jazz from that decade was).

Ainigma from Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Upper Bavaria played a quite rough and wild kind of progressive rock dominated by Willi Klüter's keyboards. Their only LP, "Diluvium" from 1973, deals with the Flood and is a collectors' item now.
"Prejudice" starts with dreamlike introspective organ atmospheres then rapidly catch the essence of a jam session, with abundant improvised Hammond organs, heavy guitars. "All things are fading" is a moody, depressive but furiously rocking with damaged riffs and sad guitar solos. "Diluvium" is a standard heavy rock epic with melancholic guitar breaks, touching melodies, dynamic, captivating organ melodies…

Cecil Taylor: The Ensemble - Almeda (1996) {FMP CD 126 rel 2005}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Piano

Recorded live in Berlin at the Total Music Meeting in early November 1996, and released by FMP in 2005, the nearly 77-minute performance ritual Almeda easily stands among Cecil Taylor's finest large ensemble realizations, including Unit Structures (1966), Winged Serpent/Sliding Quadrants (1986), and The Owner of the River Bank, a collaboration with the Italian Instabile Orchestra which occurred in 2004. Almeda's forces are expansive and colorfully unfurled. Here the pianist, poet, and composer was anchored by his regular working unit of bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jackson Krall, with guest cellist Tristan Honsinger.