Pianist Monty Alexander's "Ivory And Steel" group combines together bop-based jazz with Jamaican calypsoes and West Indian rhythms. On this quite enjoyable set, Alexander utilizes both Othello and Len "Boogsie" Sharpe on steel drums, either Marshall Wood or Bernard Montgomery on bass, drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith and the hand drums of Robert Thomas Jr. Alexander contributed four of the rhythmic originals which are joined by some Jamaican folk songs (including "Sly Mangoose"), Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and a couple of obscurities. The accessible results are often memorable.

Hawaiian singer-songwriter/producer Bruno Mars has contributed to huge hits by many other artists. He mined his own Gold with his chart-topping debut "Doo-Wops & Hooligans", which was up for seven Grammy Awards and won him Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for 'Just the Way You Are'. Although the album plays with a number of styles, going back-and-forth from pop to reggae and in between messing around with timeless Motown grooves, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" is a strong debut that could well make Mars a contender for Grammy's Best New Artist.

Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, created and led by Steve Babb and Fred Schendel. "Valkyrie" is their sixteenth studio album, the first concept album' since 2012's "Perilous". The story follows "a soldier’s struggle to return home from the horrors of war, to the girl who loves him and must ultimately find her way to him".

The third album from Mumford & Sons might come as a bit of a surprise for fans, but that's exactly what the band intended by shaking things up instrumentally, trading acoustic instruments for electric guitars, synthesizers and drums. Of note, there are no banjos on the album! The band members call this reinvented sound a "natural departure" that came about due to their reluctance to repeat the formula of their first two albums, as successful as it was.

The fifth full-length release for the Long Island rock band was a surprise digital release and was produced by Mike Sapone. "Science Fiction" received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 93, indicating "universal acclaim".

Dee Byrne is an artist swimming freely in a sea of creative possibilities. Her Entropi project established her reputation as a fearless explorer of the interface between composition and improvisation, structure and freedom, driven by a constant urge to create. To reconnect with the roots of that urge, she took a deep dive into her own process, using visual art as a medium to unlock fresh approaches to composition.

There is an evaporating quality to the music of Icelandic composer and conductor DanIel Bjarnason, with sounds that can start softly or loudly, serenely or fiercely, but ultimately dissipate into intangible air.

Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, soprano Emöke Baráth, and a cast of other top-notch singers perform works by Josef Mysliveček on the album Il Boemo. Award-winning Czech director Petr Václav gathered the artists for his 2022 feature film Il Boemo (The Bohemian), which revolves around the life of the once-famous, now almost forgotten Bohemian composer. The album releases the soundtrack to the film.

Finding fresh music that sounds original and unique is often a daunting task. For Anemoia, it's the band's identity. Made up of Aaron Lebos (guitar), Andres Ferret (bass), and Armando Lopez (drums), the trio put their trust in each other, allowing each member to push their limits and test things out, culminating in Anemoia's third album, A Muser!

Over the years, British-born, LA-based Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape. For his fifteenth recording as a leader, "Groovin'", he returns to some of his favorite tracks from the '60s and '70s, giving each of them his own interpretation. The album features The Young Rascals' Groovin', Stevie Wonder's Do I Do, Otis Redding's (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's Here, There and Everywhere and much more, augmented by an impressive array of special guests, including Vincent Ingala, Rick Braun, Charlotte White, Ricky Lawson, Ramon Yslas, David Dyson, Selina Albright and Stevo Theard.

"Sky Trails", the sixth full-length solo studio release for the singer-songwriter also known as founding members of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, continues fearless folk rock legend David Crosby’s unexpected late-period resurgence. In his eighth decade, Crosby is not only surviving, but thriving personally and creatively. This project contains new material co-written with friends Michael McDonald and Joni Mitchell and produced by his son, James Raymond.

The tenth studio album by French singer Patricia Kaas, released in November 2016 via WM France. Patricia says: "An album like I made in the good old times. With original songs, that represent who I am today. I am in my own way a popular artist and I am proud of it. I want to create a simple sound, 5 musicians and 1,2,3 we play. I like to listen to songs and pick new songs, share about things that touch me, create an album like I did it before, but then with a sound from now".

Iridescence is the variability in the colour of an object with a change in viewing angle—an optical quality that imparts a magical shimmering to the surface of a soap bubble and fills the feathers of a peacock and the wings of a butterfly with brilliant hues

The 20th studio album of the most successful German art & progressive rock band ELOY. It is also the 3rd album of a unique trilogy designed by band mastermind Frank Bornemann as a rock opera about the life and fate of the French national heroine and saint Joan of Arc.

Adam Spark, best known as the driving force behind anthemic ARIA Award and multiple APRA Award winning rock band Birds of Tokyo. His debut neo-classical album ‘Snow vs Mountain’ is a meditation on survival. It is music of hope, born out of dark times.