Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach - Toronto, Massey Hall, 1953 (1996) is a live album that captures one of the most legendary performances in the history of jazz. The concert, recorded on May 15, 1953, at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada, is widely regarded as a historic gathering of some of the greatest names in jazz. The performance was part of a special concert featuring a stellar lineup of musicians who were pioneers of bebop, the innovative jazz movement that emerged in the 1940s.

Stark Reality 1969 (2003) is a reissue of an album by Stark Reality, a jazz band from the late 1960s known for their experimental fusion of jazz, funk, and soul, mixed with unique, often unconventional, elements of popular music. The album was originally recorded in 1969 but wasn't widely released at the time, making its later release in 2003 a notable event for music collectors and fans of adventurous jazz fusion.

Frozen Rivers (1992) is an album by Chris Irvine, a musician and composer known for blending smooth jazz, new age, and ambient music into his work. The album features a rich combination of instrumental pieces that evoke a sense of calm, introspection, and emotional depth, drawing listeners into atmospheric soundscapes that blend ambient textures with melodic jazz elements.

Firehouse Five Plus Two – At Disneyland (1992) is a live album by the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a jazz band composed of Disney animators and artists who played traditional Dixieland jazz. The group was formed in the 1940s and became quite popular for their performances, often infused with a sense of fun and nostalgia, capturing the spirit of early jazz.

Four Of A Kind - Four Of A Kind (2002)
Label: RCA | FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps | Time: 56:07 | 365 MB(+3%) | 132 MB(+3%)
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop, Fusion
Four of a Kind (2002) is an album by the smooth jazz quartet Four of a Kind, which features a collaboration of talented musicians. The group is known for creating instrumental jazz with an emphasis on melodic arrangements, improvisation, and fusion of contemporary jazz styles.

No Borders (1990) is an album by the Japanese jazz pianist and composer Keiko Matsui. It was released under the Blue Note label and is considered one of her early works that helped establish her signature style—a blend of smooth jazz, jazz fusion, and world music influences.

Keiko Matsui - A Gift of Life is an album released in 2001 by the Japanese jazz pianist and composer Keiko Matsui. The album reflects her ability to merge jazz, smooth jazz, and world music elements into a cohesive and emotive sound that has made her a standout in the genre.

Music history is full of “goosebump moments” – those instances when sounds get up right close to us, penetrating our most secret enclaves and striking a chord with something inside. Sometimes it’s a big, opulent orchestral sound or the energy of a pop concert with thousands of people. But most often, it’s actually the moments of extreme reduction, almost to an essence of the sound, that touch body and soul in such a way that leaves us still thinking about them weeks or months later. When musicians go into this sort of reduction, making themselves vulnerable in the most extreme concentration of artistic resources, the aura of the extraordinary shines through. One such moment, for example, comes in Bach’s famous St. Matthew Passion, shortly before Jesus cries out with the last of his strength: “My God, why have you forsaken me?!” And then an alto voice rises, “Ach, Golgatha”, revealing something like the core message of this Bach work and the theme: “this reaches my soul!”

Invernoir literally bring back to life the best '90s gothic doom with this stellar new album. Aimin' for Oblivion comprises seven tracks that will make dark metal hearts bleed with that irresistible balance between light and shadows. Invernoir's Aimin' for Oblivion is unmissable for fans of old-school Anathema, Katatonia, and My Dying Bride.

When Count Basie returned to Verve Records in 1962, Neal Hefti was contracted to write the tunes and arrangements, a revival of their partnership from the 1958 Roulette LP Basie Plays Hefti. While none of these selections is as famous as his songs like "Cute," "Little Pony," "Splanky," "Li'l Darlin'," and "Repetition," the substantial originality of this music is hard to deny, not to mention that the expert musicians playing his music bring these tracks fully to life in a livelier fashion than most laid-back Basie studio sessions. In fact, it has the feeling of a concert date that trumps the more clean, controlled environment of a session that was recorded on a three-track reel-to-reel. There's also plenty of room for exceptional solos from most of the participants, as Hefti is mindful of who is in the band and how each musician might sound when given his head…

Thanks to Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt for permission to use their performance. Bonnie Raitt appears courtesy of Capitol Records. The legendary 1990 solo acoustic performances in support of The Christic Institute are among the most emotional and revealing of Bruce’s career. The 2 night stand featured premieres of 6 new songs, stunning rearrangements of classics and guest appearances by Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne covering Bob Dylan in the encore.

Raw Material is a British band that released two albums in the ealy 70's that are now highly collectible. The group consist of your standard prog quartet plus frontman Mike Fletcher on wind instruments. A self-titled effort, the first Raw Material release (barely) saw the light of day in 1970, pretty early in progressive rock's development, but thanks to a chicken-livered label and complete-and- utter apathy from the days music press this was an album cruelly doomed to fail right from the start. However, whilst 'Raw Material' may have sunk without trace when first released, the same cannot be said for the album's 21st century CD reissue, which has happily re-ignited interest in the forgotten group. And they deserve it. Blending elements of psychedelia, organ-baked blues, jazz-tinged rock, folksy meanderings and lysergic- dipped pop, 'Raw Material' is indeed a fascinating set…

The acoustic guitar in "Kein Zurück" should be the first indication that Wolfsheim is maturing. It's a tad unusual for this synth pop notable, but this unexpected element fits in acceptably after the initial jolt. Another chance the German duo takes is slowing things down a notch. The first half of Casting Shadows hovers around 100 bpm. After the success of the dance tracks from Spectators, that may or may not be a good idea. Wolfsheim's fifth album shows signs of a band mellowing out but slightly losing its passion. Among the slower tracks is "Care for You," a leisurely excursion that accents Peter Heppner's distinguished vocals. "Find You're Gone" and "Wundervoll" (one of a couple tracks sung in German) are appropriate for the clubs and are memorable just not quite as strong or emotional. There isn't another "Once in a Lifetime," but there is plenty of romantic synth pop here nonetheless.

The Searchers - still with stalwart members John McNally and Frank Allen in their line-up - recently announced they would retire at the end of March 2019, bringing to an end an astonishing unbroken run of around sixty years for one of the most influential and enduring groups in British pop history. One of the more introspective acts to emerge from the Merseybeat group wars of the early Sixties, The Searchers' high vocal harmonies, jingle-jangle guitars and tales of male vulnerability saw them notch a trio of UK No. 1 singles and several popular EPs and albums, with debut LP "Meet The Searchers" spending an incredible ten months in the listings. But although their chart statistics were impressive, The Searchers' place in the rock history books owes at least as much to their seismic level of influence, with the likes of 'Needles And Pins' and the peerless 'When You Walk In The Room' providing The Byrds - and, by extension, the likes of Tom Petty, REM and a whole host of skinny-tied power poppers - with their musical template. Although the group made some fine records throughout their prodigious career, their peak period in terms of sales, influence and musical excellence occurred during a dazzling four-year mid-Sixties spell with the Pye label. The first-ever complete anthology of one of British pop's most pivotal catalogues, the 6-CD set When You Walk In The Room assembles all of the group's Pye recordings, with mono and stereo versions of their albums joined by studio outtakes, foreign language recordings and, on the sixth disc, a treasure trove of non-LP singles and EP tracks. Housed in a clambox design that includes a 36 page booklet with a new 6000 word essay on the band, When You Walk In The Room is a sumptuous tribute to an act who, for a glorious year or two, were arguably the country's only serious rivals to The Beatles. The Searchers are currently on an extensive farewell tour throughout the UK and then they will be retiring! Catch 'em live for the final time if you can and then purchase this amazing career retrospective.

Magnification is the nineteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 10 September 2001 by Eagle Records. It is their last album recorded with singer Jon Anderson in the band, and their only one recorded as a four-piece and without a keyboardist. At the end of their Masterworks Tour and the departure of keyboardist Igor Khoroshev in 2000, the band agreed to record a new studio album with added orchestral arrangements, something they had also done on their second album, Time and a Word (1970). The album was recorded and mixed using Pro Tools with producer Tim Weidner and orchestral arrangements by Larry Groupé who conducted the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Magnification received mixed reviews from music critics upon release and became one of the band's lowest selling albums, reaching number 71 on the UK Albums Chart and number 186 on the Billboard 200.