Jon Balke’s unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist’s Warp album.

When Bon Scott died at the age of 33, many thought this was the end of AC/DC. The band rebounded by recruiting vocalist Brian Johnson (a Scott favorite) and releasing their best-selling album ever, BACK IN BLACK.

On this Telarc's release, the superstar Chinese pianist Lang Lang with Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov performed the Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto & the selection of 10 Scriabin's Etudes.

Swiss composer Jürg Frey and Dutch pianist/composer Reinier van Houdt are reunited on this triple CD, 'lieues d'ombres', after their successful collaboration on 'l'air, l'instant - deux pianos' (elsewhere 014), during which the two built a close rapport.

Korean singer Youn Sun Nah is one of the most brilliantly successful artists of our time in jazz and the music related to it. Four years have passed since her last highly successful opus, “Lento”, and now the extremely popular Korean, Parisbased vocal star is back, with a new album. It is a completely fresh project, recorded with a top New York band. Great intimacy, poetry and charm, pure-toned and emotional honesty - you can expect all of that from Youn Sun Nah.

Barcelona trumpeter/singer Andrea Motis has sounded and looked like a mainstream jazz star since her teens. She is now 21, and her major-label debut features a Spanish band led by her teacher and bassist/saxist Joan Chamorro, plus American guests including saxophonist Joel Frahm and accordionist Gil Goldstein.

Flag is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. The album was not well received, but it did provide a hit in Taylor's cover version of the Gerry Goffin/Carole King composition "Up on the Roof" (Taylor's final top 40 hit). "Rainy Day Man", which was originally featured on Taylor's self-titled debut album, was re-recorded. The signal flag that makes up the cover of the album is "O (Oscar)", standing for man overboard.

JT is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. It was originally released on June 22, 1977 via Columbia Records, making it his first album released for the label. The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States and was Taylor's highest-charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.

To those who are still wondering about the meaning of improvisation, Naked Truth give solid clues. Now well settled at ECM, trumpeter Avishai Cohen signs here an album driven by his senses, his inspiration and his free exchanges with his old compatriot accomplices the pianist Yonathan Avishai, the bassist Barak Mori and the drummer Ziv Ravitz.

On March 23, 2023, Girls in Airports will release their eighth album titled "how it is now". It is the band's first release since going from being a quintet to Quartet in 2020. The smaller ensemble allows more space for all four instrumentalists and creates a stronger sense of togetherness, with the band members playing from an inner force.

Herbie Mann was still primarily known as a bop or swing flutist on "Love and the Weather". The material here is a good example of Mann's early style, recorded shortly before he became fascinated with world music, Afro-Cuban and Latin sounds. At the time this album was released in 1956, the flute wasn't quite embraced as a jazz instrument but Mann helped change that with a sound of his own.

Vocalist, trumpeter and songwriter Bria Skonberg re-imagines it all on her new OKeh/Masterworks album, "With a Twist". Coming off a recent Juno Award for her first OKeh collection, Bria, Skonberg spins her cool and confident vocal style - and her sleek and timeless jazz chops - into a program that playfully nods to tradition while always looking ahead.

Mary Frances Penick, better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs. She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star. One of the first women to achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist, she was an acknowledged influence on Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton and was hailed as an "extraordinary country/pop singer" by The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer.

Metallica live at Montreal, Quebec, 2 February 1993.

Newly remastered version of Bad Company's third album. Includes bonus disc with alternative mixes, demos and outtakes. Features unreleased early mixes for "Honey Child" and "Simple Man", as well as an extended version of the title track. There s also the previously unreleased "Let There Be Love", an outtake from the recording sessions. In fact, the acoustic version of "Do Right By Your Woman", previously only available as the B-Side of the single release of "Run With The Pack", is the only song on the bonus disc that has ever been previously released.