BBE Music’s celebrated J Jazz compilation series reaches its fifth and final volume in early 2026, culminating in a track list that maintains the exceptionally high standard first set with volume one back in 2018.

Featuring 20+ groundbreaking artists from Rio’s resurgent music scene, intent on bringing an avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk.

Lynn Blakey - Dreams Are Lovers: A Retrospective is a 18-song compilation album released on May 29, 2026, by Yep Roc Records. The album serves as a comprehensive celebration of the late singer-songwriter Lynn Blakey, who passed away from cancer in February 2026. It captures her decades of influential work across the Athens, Georgia, and North Carolina indie-folk and power-pop scenes.

16 Hot n' Swingin' rot n' roll party shakers and quakers groovin' All Nite Long!!! Say what's up Mac? I hear you're having yourself a lil' party? Now you gonna have a swell time let me tell ya. You got the babes, the booze, delicious food, but a party ain't nothin' unless you got the tunes! Now listen up, and listen up good. For the big sound you need the big pieces. And for the hottest sounds around, I'm your man.

From soulful Sahara blues to mesmerizing mbira melodies from Zimbabwe, African Sojourn offers an expansive yet intimate journey across a continent rich with music and culture. Putumayo's latest African collection brings together singer-songwriters and troubadours from north to south, east to west, who, despite their diversity, share songs united by enchanting melodies, soulful rhythms and rich storytelling. Singing a wide array of languages and performing with local acoustic instruments such as the kora, balafón and mbira, these exceptional artists share stories of love, land, identity, and resilience that are rooted in local traditions yet open to the world.

"High On The Groove" is a spectacular, dazzlingly psychedelic time capsule that captures the absolute zenith of late-1960s and early-1970s Lounge, Mod-Jazz, Euro-Funk, and Exotica. Operating more as a high-concept studio orchestra rather than a traditional touring band, The Mood Mosaic delivers a sonic landscape drenched in cinematic glamour, swinging rhythms, and infectious mid-century optimism.

Audio critic Masamitsu Fukuda has carefully selected 10 tracks from the Venus Records catalogue and compiled them into a single album.

Audio critic Masamitsu Fukuda has carefully selected 10 tracks from the Venus Records catalogue and compiled them into a single album.

The third installment in this highly sought-after series for audiophiles, with selections by Yasuyuki Terashima. This series is a popular project that carefully selects tracks from Venus Records' vast catalog that possess both audiophile appeal and musicality.

Martha Argerich, a highly acclaimed classical pianist, has recorded and performed extensively with the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.

Through great classics and lesser-known but equally anticipated titles, five artists pay tribute to Austin-Texas singer/guitarist Calvin Russell. A rocking live performance, rootsy musicians, a delighted audience, it is with passion that this tribute retraces the legacy left by this great folk/rock/blues artist. A tribute to Mr. Calvin Russell!

The tribute album for Udo Lindenberg is being released for his 80th birthday. 24 Artists interpret his songs with their own versions, sometimes close to the original, sometimes surprisingly rethought, sometimes reduced, sometimes powerfully charged.

Freedom, rebellion, and defiance — The rock/psych rock revolution that tore through Japan in the early 1970s!

Jazz Special Selection by Carlo Cavalli ; Blue Train (Remastered). John Coltrane ; Dave Brubeck, The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Audio). Dave Brubeck.

Just as you were getting your head straight coming off the 21st Trip … Brown Acid dose # 22 drops, continuing to fry your mind in a revolving trap-door Twilight Zone alternate world of early hard rock… populated by real life characters so far out they can look like a cheesy wedding band but sound like Blue Cheer! Uncanny! This music comes at you from many angles. Teens in a garage colliding with booze, drugs and girls for the first time, lounge lizard hustlers with snazzy stage clothes and fuzz boxes… gnarly backwoods troublemakers meet blow dried glam rock wannabes here, seamlessly clobbering your head with sound rather than each other! An electric post-psychedelic bar brawl for your mind awaits, unfasten your seat belt, crank it up and fly!