"Throughout the night, Billie was in superior form to what had sometimes been the case in the last years of her life … there was an outgoing warmth, a palpable eagerness to reach and touch the audience.

Rock 'n' Roll Telephone is the 23rd studio album from legendary Scottish rockers Nazareth and follows their 2011 album, Big Dogz.

Navona Records presents VOICES OF EARTH AND AIR VOL. 4, a choral celebration of the human commonality we find within music.

Halina Czerny-Stefańska (31 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Polish pianist.

Steven Bernstein first saw the late, great New Orleans pianist Henry Butler play in 1984. "He was genius-level brilliant, man," he says, still marveling. "I couldn't believe there was a guy who could sound like the most ancient music and the most futuristic music at the same time." Fourteen years later, Bernstein took Hal Willner's recommendation and hired Butler to play in the touring band that played the score for Robert Altman's film Kansas City. In 2013, the two musicians formed the Hot 9, the name a tip of the fedora to Louis Armstrong's landmark Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions of the 1920s. They released the acclaimed Viper's Drag album the following year, and toured until Butler's untimely passing in 2018.

Freedy Johnston is one of those rare singer-songwriters who counts critics among his biggest fans and whose heroes consider him a peer. Not bad for a self-proclaimed geek in glasses who never left his room.

Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane (do not confuse with same title 1957 album). Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for the gorgeous "Soul Eyes" and a shattering 'Out of This World'." The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.

This release in Pentatone’s Remastered Classics series reveals a remastered recording by the Quartetto Italiano, originally recorded by Philips in January 1976. On this album, the Quartetto Italiano performs Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 10 D87, which comes from his middle period as well as his String Quartet No. 13 D804, also referred to as "Rosamunde" from the late period, a great masterpiece and one of the most outstanding quartets of the entire string quartet repertoire.

My Boy, the third solo record from New Zealand singer / songwriter Marlon Williams, announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice – in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting creature.

Jacques Duponchel (ca 1630 –1685), Franciscan organist and composer, was originally from Douai. His vocal works mainly devoted to the religious repertoire, alternate and combine the virtuosity of the Italian style with the skilful counterpoint of the Franco-Flemish School. Harmonia Sacra evokes an Office of First Vespers for the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi at the Basilica Santi XII Apostoli in 1665: an opportunity to hear some of the musical specificities of the Franciscan rite.

On May 17th, 2012, Lake Street Dive stood on a street corner in Boston, Massachusetts and performed a wonderfully syncopated, imaginative cover of the Jackson 5 classic “I Want You Back.” 10 years later, with tens of millions of streams, an acclaimed discography and an enduring worldwide fanbase to their credit, it’s safe to say things have changed considerably. In all, the powerhouse, multi-genre ensemble have issued seven celebrated studio LPs, one epic live album, two EP’s and a slew of much-loved singles.

The latest masterpiece is a celebration of family and heritage, taking inspiration from Zamrock, Zambia's fusion genre.

LA-based garage rock band The Paranoyds release their sophomore LP, Talk, Talk, Talk via Third Man Records.

With this new quintet, the Barcelona trumpeter Felix Rossy will offer an intimate and at the same time energetic concert that will transport the audience to a sound universe full of nuances.

Struggles are sloshed away by tidal waves of champagne. Resolutions are boldly proclaimed or whispered in one’s own heart. A ball drops, and we expect a whole new life to spring out. But nothing is transformed or transposed, because miracles don’t happen during the hung time between last year and this one. It’s just another New Year’s Eve.