Although Beethoven composed sonatas “for piano and violin,” following Mozart’s example, he did not intend to give prominence to one instrument or another.

Young pianist Emmet Cohen has a reverence for the history of jazz and a deep abiding yearning to preserve the music of the masters and to this end, Cohen developed the concept of a Masters Legacy Series intended to be a collection of recordings and interviews with various living jazz icons who began their careers fifty or sixty-years-ago. Volume one celebrates and documents the music of Jimmy Cobb, arguably one of the finest drum masters of our time, and is the center piece in the inaugural installment of the project.

This CD was originally included in limited batches of Engines of Creation at no extra cost and features alternate versions of Borg Sex, Flavor Crystal 7 and Until We Say Goodbye, plus a bonus track Turkey Man. Check out Engines of Creation for more information about that release. For the release of The Complete Studio Recordings in 2014, it was renamed "Additional Creations and Bonus Tracks" and 12 other bonus tracks from Joe's previous releases were included. On Jan 14, 2020, this collection of 16 tracks was released as a standalone album.

On "Clairières", Grammy Award-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Myra Huang pay homage to Lili and Nadia Boulanger, two exceptional composers of the 20th century who have often been overlooked in favour of their male counterparts. At the heart of the album is Lili's song cycle "Clairières dans le ciel". Alongside are a selection of songs set to poetry by the sisters' contemporaries Verlaine, Maeterlinck, Jammes and Samain.

On his latest album 'True North' Lawson Rollins offers 12 new original compositions that showcase the guitarist at the peak of his compositional skills with his melodic and daring improvisational flair on full display. From the electronic infused intensity of 'With the Wind' to the plaintive bossa nova sway of the first single 'Bluewave Bossanova' to the delicate pulse of 'Yearning to Know' the album spans the range of emotions and moods that have come to characterize the expansive and unexpected musical journey Lawson has offered fans throughout his career.

Der magische Spiegel (‘The Magic Mirror’), a 1954 ballet by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), tells a pantomime tale of flirtation, cuckoldery, magical spells and perdition – but this is no puritanical morality play: using the limited resources of a chamber orchestra to surprisingly full-bodied effect, Flury conjures up a delightful sequence of dances – a generous number of waltzes, with a czardas, a bolero and more – that skip past in good-humoured succession. And behind its innocent title, the Little Ballet Music of thirty years earlier hides a buoyant dance-suite, scored with a feeling for colour that would have gone down well in Hollywood. This recording was made by the team – Paul Mann and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra – responsible for a ‘pulsating’ recording of Richard Flury’s one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie.

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
British psychedelic folkrock group Trees released two records in 1970. The debut (currently being reviewed) and slightly more stately yet stiff ‘On the Shore’. Both albums are hailed as favorites by listeners

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
The traditional oriented “Soldiers Three” opens this extraordinary wonderful psychedelic folk album, and it’s vocal arrangements for several voices and medieval like guitar interludes gives a strong first impression.

Essential: A masterpiece of Progressive Rock music
"Arguably the best Acid Folk/Folk Rock' album ever recorded, 1972's Swaddling Songs has gone on to be one of the most sought-after records in collecting history.

“Reissue of killer acid folk psych progressive mega rarity. One of the most sought after underground LPs from 1973.
Re-mastered in the UK by Gary Ramon at Third Eye Studios.”

The new album from New York singer, songwriter and producer Elliot Moss. Across eleven songs, Moss confronts the recent upheavals and adjustment periods in his life. A Change In Diet is a brave, inward-looking opus filled with sublimely simple textures, spartan beats, and poignant songwriting. Barricade, a song about the emotional stranglehold of obsessive relationships, features a steady drone that Moss likens to the sensation of falling, while its chorus suggests that boundaries are sometimes the only way to avoid feeling trapped. Silver and Gold and the album’s spiritual centerpiece Bodyintoshapes are powerful showcases of Moss’ newly incisive wordplay.

It is not wrong to call Dario Faini one of the most famous unknown figures in the global producer business. He is a permanent guest in the Italian charts, most recently he made sure that Mahmood's overhit 'Soldi' brought the Eurovision Song Contest to the proudly swollen Italian homeland. Now he steps as Dardust for the second time from the shadow of the recording studio into the bright light of the big stage

Dustin Lynch's fourth album is named after the Tennessee town in which he grew up in. 'It's all about me and growing up in my hometown', Lynch said in a release. 'Every song on this album points to something that happened to me or my close friends and family'.

Sons of Apollo return with their sophomore album 'MMXX', the follow-up to their acclaimed 2017 debut 'Psychotic Symphony', as well as their epic 2019 live album 'Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony'. With 'MMXX', Mike Portnoy (drums & vocals), Derek Sherinian (keyboards), Jeff Scott Soto (vocals), Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal (guitar & vocals) and Billy Sheehan (bass) are ready to take everything to a new level. "Stylistically, we have followed the same path as the debut," outlines Portnoy. "But we feel that it has come out stronger, simply because we know one another better. 'Psychotic Symphony' was the first time the five of us had worked together, so there was bound to be an air of experimentation happening.

Five years on from the release of their previous record, Austin's beloved art-rock heroes .And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead return with their tenth album - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories. Expansive yet concise, this album nods to the band's traditional touchstones - the feral scree of Sonic Youth, Rush's symphonic anthems, the textured bliss of My Bloody Valentine - while morphing effortlessly into newer forms. The synth-orchestral swell of curtain-raiser "Opening Crescendoes" recalls Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream, before "All Who Wander" descends from guitar-soaked high drama into simmering, murky psych.