Nina Simone (bürgerlich Eunice Kathleen Waymon; * 21. Februar 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA; † 21. April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Frankreich) war eine US-amerikanische Jazz- und Bluessängerin, Pianistin, Songschreiberin und Bürgerrechtsaktivistin.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard's debut on Deutsche Grammophon is the first recording of the mystical The Art of Fugue by a world-renowned pianist in 25 years.

This is the first piano solo album by Carl Henri Morissette (born 1992-7-24) from Torcy, Paris.

Woods have been in a state of slow but steady evolution since forming in 2004, growing from their roots as a noisy and experimental lo-fi folk project into increasingly refined and ambitious, genre-bending sounds as the years went on.

Bruce Marshall took up guitar in 1966 at age 12 when his father gave him his ¾ Kay acoustic. He grew up in a musical household, both parents and the 4 Marshall children were always singing, playing guitar and piano and their parents taught them vocal harmony at a young age.

Jeremy Stephens, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens and Kurt Stephenson, multi-talented musicians and singers for High Fidelity, could be considered bluegrass archaeologists who excavate rare gems of forgotten or overlooked bluegrass and old-time music and make them shine again for new audiences. This latest collaborative endeavor by the band brings forth gospel treasures that will move your feet and your soul.

One stage at a time, Captain Kaiser has conquered the punk scene while driving the van, celebrating life and making the walls drip with sweat.

GWK RECORDS presents four new sonatas by Stefan Heucke, each for a woodwind instrument and piano, which were created during the Corona lockdown in 2020 and immensely enrich the relatively narrow repertoire of the genre, in the first recording with internationally leading soloists and promising newcomers. With his Opus 114, Stefan Heucke (*1959; Germany/Italy) has composed a sonata cycle that captures the different characteristics of the four most prominent European woodwind instruments and, reinforced by highly demanding, complex and virtuoso piano parts, plays them off in a rousing way.

The Thrill band is one of those bands who is capable of playing the many different kinds of music that people want to hear and enjoy.

Maistre Jhan (also Jehan, Jan, Ihan) (c. 1485 – October 1538) was a French composer of the Renaissance, active for most of his career in Ferrara, Italy. An enigmatic figure, of whom little biographical information has yet emerged, he was one of the earliest composers of madrigals as well as a prominent musician at the Este court in the early 16th century.

The featured work on this album of compositions by Justin Dello Joio is the American composer's new piano concerto, "Oceans Apart", composed for keyboard titan, Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the artists who premiered the concerto in 2023. The program also includes chamber works performed by the New York Philharmonic's principal cellist, Carter Brey, with pianist Christopher O'Riley; and the American Brass Quintet, and organist Colin Fowler.

“Nzinga Mbande” is the new album by the African Imperial Wizard collective. It is the soundtrack of the armed liberation from the imperialistic oppression that our continent has endured for far too long.

The music is composed by jazz vocalist, Miriam Kibakaya, and is inspired by the Nordic jazz sound. Vocals function as lead instrument together with saxophone and violin, and are accompanied by piano, double bass and drums. The heart of the music, composed by Miriam Kibakaya, is sly and braying, but perhaps most of all narrative.

A wonderfully nuanced and diverse collection of music spanning many of Olivia’s own musical interests, this extraordinary recording explores the marriage of flamenco music and Latin jazz with Spanish folk traditions and classical music, creating a universal sound with no musical boundaries

Sweet Thursday is the self-titled debut, and only, album by the late 1960s British rock band Sweet Thursday. Its chance of success was cut short by the almost-immediate failure of the record label.