Arik Strauss’s second piano trio album – In Spite of All – presents ten new compositions and two free improvisations.

I’ve never hidden the fact that I think the ’80s was the greatest decade for modern R&B. While we’re on the subject of the ’80s, another potential hit making side project burst on to the scene only to be overlooked in the grand scheme of things. Plush, may have seemed at the time like just another R&B band whose record company was content to release a single or two and call it a day.

Critically acclaimed composers, songwriters and producers, Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli have released their debut album, A Mighty Heart Beating Like A Drum, out now via SONY Music Masterworks.

Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality.

A prized live bootleg for years, this legendary concert from Christmas Eve 1975 is finally given the pedestal it deserves, delivered in fitting style, featuring an incredible new audio mix in stereo. This show, broadcast on BBC radio and television, took place about a month after the release of Queen's landmark "A Night At The Opera", with "Bohemian Rhapsody" dominating the number one slot on the singles chart in the UK during a nine-week run.

"I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!" was Joplin's first solo record after breaking off from her former group Big Brother and the Holding Company. The record features hits "Kozmic Blues", "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)", and "To Love Somebody".

"Passion World" is the fifth Concord album (and eleventh overall) from vocalist Kurt Elling, living up to its title on both counts. It is indeed his most "worldly" album to date, as Elling casts his net far and wide, from Brazil to Ireland, Germany to France, Scotland to Cuba to Iceland. Guests include the brilliant veteran trumpeter Cuban émigré Arturo Sandoval; the widely lauded young vocalist Sara Gazarek; German trumpet star Till Brönner; French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano; the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and the world-renowned WDR Big Band and Orchestra from Germany.