On November 13th, 2014 Winter & Winter celebrated the 60th birthday of the exceptional artist Ernst Reijseger with a special project. Reijseger, born in 1954 in the Netherlands, is one of the most important cellists of the contemporary music scene, perhaps best-known for his work with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.

Syrian-Armenian musical trailblazer Lena Chamamyan is considered one of the best singers of her generation. A spirit of oriental jazz runs through her music – a fusion of traditional eastern songs from the Arab world and Armenia with western styles.

Caetano Veloso's Abraçaço is the final album in the trilogy that began with Cê in 2006 and continued with Zii e Zie in 2010. These recordings aren't related conceptually, but musically. He collaborated with the same trio of younger players from the Carioca pop fringe – guitarist Pedro Sá (who co-produced the set with Veloso's son Moreno), drummer Marcelo Callado, and bassist Ricardo Dias. These songs are rangey, full of compelling sounds and unexpected dynamic and textural shifts. The word "abraçaço" is Portuguese for "big hug."

Emiliano Salvador never achieved the international success of other top Cuban jazzmen such as Paquito D'Rivera, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Arturo Sandoval and Chucho Valdes. In 1992, at age 41, Salvador died in his sleep of a heart attack. Valdes called him "the best pianist of his generation," and the words "Cuba's Jazz Legend" on the front of this CD's packaging are not mere hype. An accomplished drummer and percussionist, Salvador's piano playing could be intensely rhythmic and driving, and he was a diverse stylist overall, as likely to perform jazz versions of more traditional chachas, sambas, mambos, and danzons as he was to stretch out and burn on straight-ahead Latin jazz tunes.

The leader of this unique instrumental trio is the Swiss composer and pianist Thierry Lang, age 56. He has been playing piano since 5 and at 7 he decided to dedicate his life to music. When studying classic (up to 21) at 15 Thierry heard Bill Evans whose work became for Thierry a model of synthesis of jazz and classical music. He finally fell in love with jazz after he heard music of Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson.

The Doors supplied plenty of post-Independence Day fireworks on July 5, 1968 when the legendary quartet played the Hollywood Bowl, a concert that is considered to be the band s finest on film. For the first time, the film from the historic performance has been painstakingly restored using the original camera negatives and the audio has been remixed and mastered from original multi-tracks by the group s engineer Bruce Botnick. This new restoration offers a stunning visual upgrade from earlier versions and will give fans the closest experience to being there live alongside Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, who opined, You can hear it as if you were at the Hollywood Bowl, on stage with us. LIVE AT THE BOWL 68 includes three previously unreleased tracks from the performance. Technical issues with the recording of "Hello, I Love You," "The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat), " and "Spanish Caravan" prevented them from being released in the past. Now, through meticulous restoration of the audio, all three will be included, marking the first time the concert has been available in its entirety.

The music of Quadro Nueva's fifth recording, Mocca Flor, though tango-based, is delightfully eclectic. The set of originals by the band is dedicated to the group's love of coffee. The music includes melodies, harmonies, and rhythms that are inspired by Arabic and Jewish music, the Balkans and Latin America, along with a touch of klezmer. In addition to their usual instruments, such exotic devices as the gusle, bouzouki, sansula, psalter, udu, tarabuka, and the vibrandoneon (an Italian wind accordion) are utilized for atmosphere and color. The music is consistently colorful, melodic, unpredictable and catchy, a joy to hear.

Are you keen on experimental music which bears the mighty local spirit of the wedding but also an inventive curiosity toward exciting global sounds? If this is so, now is the moment to dash into the labyrinth of extraordinary and explosive fusion, spiced with an overdose of Balkan folk, jazz rock, Bulgarian, Romanian, Gypsy, and Turkish music!..

When Kane Brown's self-titled first album released December 2 last year, it became and remains US country's best-selling new artist debut of the past two and a half years. Kane Brown entered at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and Top 10 on the Billboard 200. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter's impressive first week showing was 2016's fourth best all-genre best new artist debut in tehe USA - preceded only by Zayn, Jordan Smith and Charlie Puth.

Mukta est un groupe de musique créé en 1994 par le contrebassiste et compositeur Simon Mary avec la sitariste Brigitte Menon, le trompettiste Geoffroy Tamisier, le batteur Jean Chevalier et le percussionniste Bob Coke sous le nom de Languages, puis nommé Mukta par Brigitte Menon en 1996. « Mukta », entre autres, signifie perle en sanskrit. Le groupe a été nommé plusieurs fois aux Victoires de la musique classique et du jazz. Mukta s'est produit dans le monde entier (Inde, Afrique du Sud, Maroc, Burundi, Angleterre, Grèce, Canada…) dans de nombreux festivals (Jazz Yatra Bombay, les Eurockéennes, les Transmusicales, Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Festival South Africa, Festival d'Eté de Québec…).

Over a squalling mess of improvised guitar and sax, a twisted, almost broken female vocal cries out to Exu, the gatekeeper of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. This is the ‘Afro-punk’ sound of Metá Metá - Vocalist Juçara Marçal, saxophonist Thiago França and guitarist Kiko Dinucci – a trio of Sao Paulo’s most sought after musicians, struggling to survive the 21st century sonic schizophrenia of their home city Sao Paulo. Metá Metá’s sophomore album and debut for Mais Um Discos MetaL MetaL launches itself from the ancient chants of the orixás into a dirty brew of psychedelic samba, distorted jazz and Afro-punk. The band are all followers of candomblé yet Thiago is eager to point out that they are not using the orixás to preach certain beliefs but to provide a framework within which they tell their stories.

If you've never heard anything by Right Said Fred apart from their worldwide mega-hit "I'm Too Sexy," then you are missing out on one of the best dance-pop bands of this generation. To base your opinion of the band on that one song is like judging the Beatles' entire catalog by repeated listenings to a song like "Yellow Submarine." Sure, it's fun and catchy, but there is so much more to the band than that one piece of pop fluff. This, their fourth album and first as a duo, is a huge step forward for the Freds and their best album yet by far. Richard Fairbrass went from being their vocalist to being a real force to be reckoned with. His voice is rich and full of self-assured power, and he can wrap it around a ballad ("I Know What Love Is," "Feel Like a Woman") or a dancefloor filler ("Love Song," "Bring Your Smile"). The normally cold electronic dance beats are transformed into human heartbeats by Fred Fairbrass' joyous acoustic guitar strums. Tracks like "Mojive," "You're My Mate," and "Lovers.com" leap out of the speakers with a renewed sense of confidence. "The Sun Changes Everything" is power pop with a dance beat and Beach Boys-esque harmonies.

The early and late show from April 10, 1970 of the Doors' final tour with Jim Morrison is presented here in three discs. An epic and incendiary booze-filled musical journey through the Doors' biggest hits, greatest tracks, inspired covers, and assorted spoken word gems, almost all previously unreleased, is the highlight for any superfan. The three discs capture their 1970 tours' legendary first stop at the Boston Arena on April 10, 1970 with complete recordings of both the early & late shows; CD 1 presents the early show including 'Roadhouse Blues' and mind-bending renditions of 'Alabama Song [Whisky Bar]', 'When The Music's Over', 'Light My Fire' and more plus CD's 2 + 3 which unleashes the sprawling second show featuring the highlights 'Break On Through', 'Back Door Man' and Morrison's spoken word riff through 'Adolf Hitler', presented in a fold-out digipak.

2009 release from the Brazilian vocalist. D'Improvviso recalls places and tastes connected to the Brazilian music of the past and in particular to the '60s. A genuine album touched by a singular Afro-Jazz sound, whose compositions show several aspects expressed by the different essences of the huge Brazilian music tradition. 14 tracks. Schema.

Andie Duquette has released her full-length country music debut. Available now, Here We Are celebrates a brand-new chapter in Duquette’s music career. After a successful run on Marc Dupré’s team in season one of La Voix, Duquette released the album Ton problème in 2015. “Wrong Wrong Wrong,” which was the debut single from Here We Are earned Duquette some instant country-cred and launched into the world of country music. Despite her undeniable influence of rock and pop, Here We Are is a straight up album of country music with an edge. Duquette uses her passion for other genres of music to give the album a fresh, bad-ass, and strong female sound. Even featuring her own country-fied version of the Joan Jett anthem “I Hate Myself For Loving You” proves that Duquette can hack it as a country girl.