This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. This album, which was sadly to be Sam Cooke's last, found him exercising a hard-won creative freedom to fine effect. You can hear it most ...

This 1984 album came near the end of The Kinks tenure with the Arista label. Though the band had enjoyed some of the greatest commercial success of their career on Arista, WORD OF MOUTH sank with nary a trace upon ...

If James Brown is indeed the Godfather of Soul, then Marvin Gaye is surely soul music's counterpart to Ol' Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. (Gaye in fact began his career singing Sinatra/Nat Cole-type standards.) Like Sinatra, Gaye could inhabit a song, ...

Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic Orch.

Until the release of this DVD, one could have no idea that the Deep Purple Concerto for Group and Orchestra had been captured on video at its September 24, 1969, premiere. The film, running 52 minutes, opens with a short ...

Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1989, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Of course, alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley played with Miles Davis on several classic sessions, and his collaborations with Bill Evans on 1961's KNOW WHAT I MEAN and with Wes Montgomery ...

As a sort of follow-up to Art Pepper's matchup with Miles Davis's trio in the 1957 classic Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Pepper utilizes Davis's sidemen on this 1960 near-classic. In addition to pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers ...

Hiromi Uehara's version of jazz is unique without being willfully strange -- clearly deeply rooted in the straight-ahead jazz verities, she nevertheless writes with a distinctly postmodern sensibility, gleefully juxtaposing wildly disparate musical elements and infusing everything with a joyful ...

With IN THE FLESH, ex-Pink Floyd vocalist, bassist, and genius behind THE WALL Roger Waters releases a superbly recorded live album that covers his entire career. Acknowledging that his old band has performed DARK SIDE OF THE MOON many times, ...

Cascada: Natalie Horler (vocals); Manuel "Manian" Reuter, Yann "Yanou" Peifer.

Arguably his finest record, Robert Earl Keen's A Bigger Piece of Sky is a transitional album for him -- he begins to evolve out of the terrain of his organic small-town Texas songwriting comfort zone and to walk the knife's ...

Lionel Richie's talent for crafting picture-perfect pop songs cannot be understated. In fact, his remarkable success during the 1970s and '80s, as both the leader of the Commodores and a solo artist, often overshadows his reputation as a remarkably deft ...

What better way to celebrate Christmas than with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? This disc, a 2000 Telarc release, presents that glorious ensemble with the Orchestra at Temple Square conducted by Craig Jessop in a real holiday treat. This is truly ...

(SACD-HYBRID) Imagine yourself listening to a piano trio, alone in the middle of the night as you sip your favorite drink -- Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio offers just such a mood. Yamamoto is highly musical and his expressions natural, neither overly ...

This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. This ultracool saxman has some of the sexiest moves in smooth jazz and a dreadlock-based look that drives female genre fans wild. He's always focused on passionate, soprano-based ...

The second half of the album, taped at a March 1972 performance at Carnegie Hall, is a fine reminder of a time when the live Kinks really seemed to be enjoying themselves on stage. Ray Davies in particular seems to ...

(SACD-HYBRID) The Contents of this SACD now include six completely new tracks and a few replacements. In this, the fourth Audiophile Test SACD, the three basic concepts of Depth of Image, Timbre and Dynamics have been linked together as a basis for evalu

(SACD-HYBRID) Jacintha recorded her first album for Groove Note (GRV1001 Here's To Ben) in 1998. Her latest and sixth release, Jacintha - Jacintha Goes To Hollywood was released in mid-2007 and marks ten years with the Groove Note label, which we figured

With a second guitarist in the lineup and three albums of psychedelic garage madness under their belts, White Denim are taking a stab at classic rock with their fourth album, the simply titled D. Based on the spacy single "Drug," ...

Recording information: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College, IN (02/2009); Skywalker Sound (02/2009); Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College, IN (11/2009); Skywalker Sound (11/2009).

Track Listing: Too Much in Love to Care; Embraceable You; Weaver of Dreams; Crazy He Calls Me; You Turned the Tables on Me; How Long has This Been Going On?; Lazy Afternoon; Time After Time; A Time for Love, A; ...

Recording information: DZZ Studio 5, Moscow (06/2010).

Mythos' first LP starts with a rock-meets-classic interpretation of Georg-Friedrich Händel's "Feuerwerksmusik" with Stephan Kaske playing the melody on the flute. "Oriental Journey-Hero's Death" presents Middle Eastern percussion, acoustic guitar, and flute. Sitar and Mellotron sounds add a psychedelic mood ...

bass); Ry Cooder (guitar); Ken Scandlyn (guitar, harmonica); George Bohanon (trombone); Hence Powell (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, Wurlitzer piano); Jeff Alviani (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Jim Keltner, Phil Bloch (drums); Joachim Cooder (percussion, dumbek). This is a Super Audio CD ...