In a way, it's a shame that Luther Vandross' Songs, his 1994 album of other people's hits, became the biggest hit of his career, for it obscured one of his greatest talents: songwriting. The best soul singer of the '80s is back with Your Secret Love, his first album of original, non-Christmas songs since 1993's Never Let Me Go. He hasn't lost his knack for big, emotional melodies and for scenarios that find happiness tantalizingly close, but still out of reach.

Like velvet underwear, The Bottle Collector's Lounge is smooth. With songs like "King Louis" and "Esquire Lounge," The Dino Martinis remember their Las Vegan roots, but they also strike out with everything from jump blues to gospel. The CD's production quality is also quite astounding.

Mestre i deixeble s’uneixen per signar una peça única en la discografia jazzística catalana. Tete Montoliu al piano elèctric i Jordi Sabatés a l’acústic culminen un treball intens i controvertit alhora. El disc Vampyria, enregistrat el juliol de 1974, va ser escollit per la revista Jaç núm. 25 ( "Els 100 millors discos del jazz català" ) com el treball que encapçalava una llista valorativa de 100 referències del jazz dels Països Catalans. Vampyria és el resultat de combinar tradició i transgressió amb uns signes d’identitat pròpia absolutament irrefutables.

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Complete Orchestral Works
Das Neu-Eröffnete Orchestre - Jürgen Sonnentheil
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 266+287+292 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 897-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2002
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

…If you haven’t heard this music, let’s just say that Zelenka wrote some of the most enjoyable and colorful music of the Baroque era, and he is supremely well served by CPO’s engineers, conductor Sonnentheil, and his New-Eröffnete Orchestre.

Harmssen-Voss-Duo - Mother Nature, Father Harmony
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 154 MB | Full Artwork: 28 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: inakustik "Limited Compact Disc Reference Edition" # inak 863 CD | Country/Year: Germany 1986
Genre: Jazz | Style: Contemporary Jazz, Fusion

"…Obwohl es kaum eine dramatische Steigerung, kaum einen lauten, rhythmisch exaltierten Ausbruch gibt und die Musik meist mit gebremster Leidenschaft am Ohr entlangfließt, schmeichelt sie doch auch der Aufmerksamkeit: lyrischversonnene, schön klingende Duette, in Wahrheit jedoch meist begleitete Solostücke für das Saxophon. Im Spiel erkennt man zwei gute Musiker: den Gitarristen und Synthesizer-Spieler Harmssen und den Saxophonisten Jochen Voss, der einen klaren, festen Ton bläst. ~Die Zeit"