A new, twenty-track compilation entitled 'Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz in Belgium 1950-1970', released 7th April via Sdban/N.E.W.S. focuses on a twenty-year period of modern jazz in the little kingdom, and features the leading players from that era including guitarist Philip Catherine, saxophonist Jack Sels, multi-instrumentalist Jacques Pelzer and vibraphone player, percussionist and vocalist 'Fats' Sadi Lallemand. Pre-1950s, Belgian jazz lovers had been starved of jazz music when it was banned from public life, going underground during the German occupation of WWII. However, jazz would soon go through a radical change when US jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk developed a new style called bebop or modern jazz.

Originally released in 2004. Includes OBI and 36x36 cm poster with several photos. The album is scheduled to be released on December 6, 2024 by the band and will be exclusively distributed by Voice Music in Brazil.After almost a year of songwriting, arranging, pre-production, recording, mixing and mastering, Angras fifth full length studio album is finally ready. Temple Of Shadows is definitely the bands most mature, creative and daring effort to date. Its a refreshing record, even though the group has not given up embracing the melodic metal that has always been its trademark. Temple Of Shadows is a concept album. Its story was created by guitarist Rafael Bittencourt and tells the saga of The Shadow Hunter, an 11th century crusader soldier who questions the Catholic Church ideals. The series of events since his first questioning to the way it affects his whole life is narrated along 13 tracks that show the band in its prime form. Several heavy metal genres and sub-genres are portrayed in the album, masterly crafted by the talents of Edu Falaschi (vocals), Kiko Loureiro (guitars), Rafael Bittencourt (guitars), Felipe Andreoli (bass) and Aquiles Priester (drums).

U.K. is the self-titled debut album by the progressive rock supergroup U.K., released in May 1978 through E.G. Records and Polydor Records. It features John Wetton, Eddie Jobson, Bill Bruford, and Allan Holdsworth. "In the Dead of Night" and "Mental Medication" were both edited for single release. The album was well received by FM album rock radio and by the public during the summer of 1978. In 2015 Rolling Stone magazine ranked it as the 30th best progressive rock album of all time.

ACT II TOUR FESTIVAL BROADCAST, GERMANY 1993 In 1992, Prince and the New Power Generation released the 12 album, bearing only an unpronounceable symbol on the cover (later copyrighted asLove Symbol as its title. The symbol was explained as being a combination of the symbols for male and female. Warner Bros. wanted ‘7’ to be the first single, but Prince fought to release ‘My Name Is Prince’, as he believed its would appeal to the audience that had purchased his previous record. Prince got his way, but the single only reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 23 on the chart. The follow\-up, ‘Sexy MF’, charted at No. 66 on the Hot 100 and No. 76 on the chart. reached No. 7! The album, later referred to as Love Symbol, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and went on to sell 2.8 million copies worldwide.

Managed by the fledgling partnership of EMI A&R man Tim Rice and gifted young arranger Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tales of Justine were a teenage psychedelic trio led by pop wunderkind David Daltrey. Regulars on the London underground circuit of 1967-68, they played at such venues as Happening 44, the Electric Garden and Middle Earth as well as organising their own "psychedelicise suburbia" freak-out in their sleepy Potters Bar hometown. Signed by EMI in August 1967, the band issued a solitary single, 'Albert' b/w 'Monday Morning', during their eighteen-month sojourn with the label. Although it received little attention at the time, the B-side is now acknowledged as a Britpsych classic that has appeared on numerous genre anthologies, including Psychedelia at Abbey Road and the Mojo box set Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers. In addition to that single, Tales of Justine cut numerous high quality demos at Abbey Road that now gain their first-ever CD issue on Petals From A Sunflower, with half-a-dozen tracks being previously unissued in any format.

Double CD coming with a LP-Replica/Paper Sleeve. Limited to 500 copies. All the tracks are digitally remastered in 2024. Track 1-15 is a bonus track. Disc 2 is exclusively available at Suezan Studio web-shop, Disk Union, Me-Shop (Germany) and some more special retailers. Aufgenommen: 1988 bis 1990 im Voov Studio Berlin und Steinschlag Mauern. Der 1958 in Dortmund als Frank Martin Strauß geborene FM Einheit ist dem geneigten Hörer meist als prägendes Mitglied der Berliner Formation Einstürzende Neubauten und der Hamburger Punklegende Abwärts in Erinnerung. Daneben waren u.a. sein Auftritt im Kultfilm „Decoder“ und die Beteiligung am Geniale Dilletanten-Festival in Berlin legendär, seit den Neunzigerjahren kennt man „Mufti“ zudem durch mehrfach ausgezeichnete Arbeiten im Hörspiel- und Theatermusik-Bereich, oft gemeinsam Andreas Ammer, sowie Kooperationen u.a. mit Caspar Brötzmann oder der dänischen Vokalistin Gry.

Critically acclaimed Chicago band initially connected to the No Depression neo-country scene, later emerging as an experimental-pop powerhouse. Collection includes: 'A.M.' (1995); 'Being There' (1996); 'Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 1' (with Billy Bragg) (1998); 'Summerteeth' (1999); 'Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2' (with Billy Bragg) (2000); 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' (2002); 'A Ghost Is Born' (2004); 'Kicking Television: Live in Chicago' (2005); 'Sky Blue Sky' (2007); 'Wilco' (2009); 'The Whole Love' (2011).

Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American jazz rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980 by MCA Records. The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label. Gaucho marked a significant stylistic change for Steely Dan, introducing a more minimal, groove and atmosphere-based format.

In terms of hit singles and precise musical vision, it would have been difficult for anyone to have to follow-up the brilliant Spirits Having Flown album, but these industry veterans created a real gem in Living Eyes which seems to have gotten lost in the maze that is their deep catalog. The title track is almost up there with "Spirits Having Flown," which is significant praise, and the song "Paradise" follows suit, pretty and passionate. "Don't Fall in Love With Me" has all three Bee Gees brothers contributing to this ballad with their trademark highly creative hooks.

Ten Years After is the debut album by the English blues rock band Ten Years After. It features "Spoonful", a Howlin' Wolf song (written for him by Willie Dixon) that the British blues rock group Cream covered as well (on their albums Fresh Cream and Wheels of Fire). The album is also low on original material in comparison to the band's later works which were, in most cases, entirely composed of Alvin Lee's songs. It's one of the first blues rock albums released by the British artists.

Jonathan Bielby MBE is Organist Emeritus of Wakefield Cathedral, where he was Organist and Director of Music for forty years from 1970 to 2010. As a composer Jonathan Bielby has written mainly for organ and voices, and this album brings together a selection of his recent sacred choral compositions.

Domenico Scarlatti, one of the most fascinating composers of the Baroque era, was born in Naples on October 26, 1685 – the same year as J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. He was the sixth of ten children of the famous opera composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Domenico, who showed exceptional talent at an early age, began his musical journey under the guidance of his father. He became one of the most influential composers and harpsichordists of his time.

October 2024 marked the 80th anniversary of the death of composer Viktor Ullmann – an occasion to focus on his artistic legacy and his unshakeable belief in the power of art. As early as 1918, while stationed at the Italian front, Ullmann was intensively occupied with Rainer M. Rilke’s “Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke” (The Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke). This work accompanied him all the way to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he created an impressive melodrama from it in 1944.

The Jam's enduring, eternal popularity in the U.K. meant an ever-increasing number of archival releases that cropped up over the years, with Live Jam, a fine counterpart to the other official concert album, Dig the New Breed, turning up in 1993. Like that earlier effort, it draws together a slew of tracks from shows ranging from 1979 to 1982, including some cuts from the band's almost-farewell headlining bows at Wembley Arena. Quite happily, there's no track overlap at all with Dig the New Breed, making the two perfectly complementary recordings in ways. The real treat, thanks to the expanded space on CDs, is the inclusion of nine songs from two December 1979 shows in London, the best portrait of what an actual specific show must have been like.

AVID Jazz here presents four classic (and hard to find or expensive) Kenny Drew albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'Introducing Kenny Drew' (1953); 'This Is New' (1957); 'Talkin & Walkin' (1955) and 'Jazz Impressions of Rodgers & Hart - Pal Joey' (1957). Perhaps unfairly overlooked in a crowded field of great jazz pianists around during his time from Monk, Bud Powell, Horace Silver to Wynton Kelly, Kenny Drew finally got to record this his first album in 1953. Having established himself at last through playing with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Lester Young he and his fine quartet were finally on their way and touring through 1952 and 1953. All four albums are plus have been digitally re-mastered. Some are also currently hard to find or expensive, so Avid are pleased to be able to make them available once again.