The Mambo craze swept through the US popular music culture during most of 1954 and into 1955, competing (surprising enough) with the emerging 'Swingin' Saddlemen' - Bill Haley, the endless "Annie" vocal group spin-offs, the widespread smash of the Chords "Sh-Boom" and a welter of cute, flower-bower ballads and novelties crooned by the likes of Eddie Fisher, Perry Como and Teresa Brewer. Mambo Americano offers us a comprehensive 63 song collection of Mambo inspired charts stretching from the sax blasting of Chuck Higgins to the cool harmonies of The Robins and Harptones, from Cal Tjader to Georgia Gibbs. A wacky Mambo voyage kicking off with Wynonie Harris' suggestive "All She Wants To Do Is Mambo" then weaving through a labyrinth of quirky jazz and bluesy interpretations ending with the close to authentic "Leeward Island Mambo" from Big Shell Steel Band Of Argentina.

Much of The-Dream’s underappreciated body of work has been about eliminating distinctions between rap and R&B. He was a trailblazer that brought hardcore rap sensibilities to an edgeless R&B era.

On April 20 2018, Universal Music released a 3-LP / 2-CD set of The Who’s stunning 1968 live performance at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East theatre in New York.The Who were in New York and nearing the end of a gruelling tour on April 4, 1968, the day that Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated. America was already a country divided; Anti-Vietnam demonstrations, civil rights disturbances and militant student activism. With this turmoil as a backdrop on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, 1968 The Who performed two incendiary live sets at Bill Graham’s legendary Fillmore East on the lower East Side of Manhattan.

"Add Stardust to your Coltrane collection to get a more complete picture of the genius that is John Coltrane."
- Audiophile Audition

"Jeff Goldblum’s debut album, a live-in-the-studio ersatz nightclub affair, is a sincere, classy … homage to the golden age of vocal jazz."

Angelina Jordan was born on January 10, 2006 and made it to auditions of Norway's Got Talent in 2014 and managed to get great popularity and worldwide press with a viral video.

This is a fascinating programme from Dejan Lazic who had some interesting detective work tracking down the score of the Cramer. His sonata is wonderful music that deserves to be heard, and Dejan is a superb advocate for Clementi & Cramer as well as Beethoven.

Yang has won numerous prizes in music competitions including the Stotsenberg International Classical Guitar Competition, the San Francisco International Guitar Competition and the Young Concert Artist International competition in the United States, and the Darwin International Guitar Competition in Australia. She was awarded first prize in the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award by the City of London's Worshipful Company of Musicians, and won the Dorothy Grinstead Prize for a recital at Fairfield Hall, Croydon.

Making his debut on Chandos, Sakari Oramo, who with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this year has championed new and rarely performed works, presents in surround sound the extravagant musical world of Florent Schmitt. The recording follows two exceptional Barbican performances with the same forces, a ‘sensuous and exotic’ Antoine et Cléopâtre, according to the Financial Times (2016), and the first performance for nearly a dozen years of Symphony No. 2 (2017).

Julie London (born Julie Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her contralto voice, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of "Cry Me a River", a song she introduced on her debut album Julie Is Her Name, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

Craig Campbell returns with his first collection of new tunes in five years, releasing his hotly-anticipated EP, SEE YOU TRY.

Not Too Far Away is the nineteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, and was released on 18 May 2018. Armatrading produced the album herself, arranged the strings and plays and programmed all instruments. The album peaked at no.30 in the UK, Armatrading's first studio album to reach the Top 30 since Hearts and Flowers in 1990.

Gary Numan is no stranger when it comes to live albums. Over the course of his illustrious career, he has already published several, but none has been as spectacular as his latest work "Savage: Live At Brixton Academy, UK".

Bitter-Sweet is the sixteenth studio album by the English singer Bryan Ferry, officially under the name of Bryan Ferry and His Orchestra. It was released on 30 November 2018 by BMG Rights Management.

The Pleiades are an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. One of the nearest such clusters to Earth, the Seven Sisters (as they're also known) comprise middle-aged, hot B-type stars which can be viewed by Earthlings in the night sky without a telescope. The nine brightest stars of the cluster are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology and their parents."Pleiades" is also one of the earliest existing Sun Ra compositions, first recorded on a home piano demo by 34-year-old Herman "Sonny" Blount in his sweltering South Side Chicago apartment in August 1948. Blount had moved to the Windy City in 1946 and began musical dues-paying that found him writing arrangements for sundowning big bands and wild R&B shouters, fronting small combos in dancehalls and dives, and making a local name for himself as an ambitious composer/arranger-for-hire. That vintage demo, recorded in solitude and redolent with sandpapery surface noise, opens this album.