Electric Rendezvous is an album by Italian-American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist Al Di Meola released in 1982. It features Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía who also recorded Friday Night in San Francisco with Di Meola.

Издание включает два аудиодиска (40 классических треков Ray Charles), а также DVD‑видео с концертной записью фестиваля Jazz Festival d’Antibes 1961 - найденной спустя 50 лет, с легендарным выступлением Рея и The Raelettes.
Выпущено в Европе и Великобритании в 2014 году лейблом Metro Sound & Vision в сотрудничестве с Union Square Music.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years, leading his orchestra from 1923 until he died.
He is widely regarded as the most important jazz composer and bandleader, with some admirers even seeing him as America's greatest composer in any musical field, with a vast library of compositions, from pop songs to extended works. The sidemen in his band included many leading jazz soloists, and he influnced many younger performers, from Miles Davis and Charles Mingus to Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) was a jazz pianist and band leader, one of the big names in the history of the genre, and one of the USA's greatest popular composers.
He hailed from a middle-class family in Washington, DC, and learned piano both from lessons and from imitating the ragtime pianists in the community. After attaining modest success in DC as a pianist and jazz band leader, Duke sought the big time by taking his band to New York City, the center of the music world and the most glamorous scene of The Roaring Twenties. He first played in the Kentucky Club, then the Cotton Club, honing his songwriting chops and gathering more musicians around him until he was no longer leading a band but an orchestra. During the 1930s and 1940s, as big-band swing grew in popularity throughout the US and the world, Duke's jazz orchestra became renowned as one of the best.

Son orchestre big band est un des plus réputés de l'histoire du jazz, avec ceux de Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman comprenant des musiciens qui sont parfois considérés, tout autant que lui, comme des maîtres de cette musique et virtuoses de leurs instruments.

The release "Various - Jazz Sampler (1987) [MFSL]" refers to a compilation album, likely a promotional or audiophile release, produced by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) in 1987. MFSL is known for producing high-quality reissues of audiophile recordings. The "MFSL" designation indicates that this album was part of their audiophile series, often featuring remastered recordings and special packaging. The "sampler" aspect suggests it was intended to showcase a variety of jazz artists and tracks.

Melvin Howard Tormé - nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times.

Will Power is the eighth album by Joe Jackson. Released in 1987, it is his first experiment with classical music, continued in later albums including Night Music, Heaven and Hell, and Symphony No. 1.
The album peaked at #131 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Night-Lines is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1984, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached No. 4 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.
The album's cover is from the November 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games.

Originally released in May 1971, Weather Report was the debut album by the group of the same name. The album was reissued by Columbia Records in 1992. The album was digitally remastered by Vic Anesini in November 1991 at Sony Music Studios in New York City, and then released again under the Sony International label. The style of music on this album can be described as avant-garde jazz with electric instruments. It continues the style of Miles Davis album Bitches Brew (on which Zawinul and Shorter played) but in a more ambient setting.

Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Heavy Weather received a 5-star review from Down Beat magazine and went on to be voted jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication.
Featuring the jazz standard "Birdland", the album is one of the best-sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. This opening track was a significant commercial success, something not typical of instrumental music. The melody had been performed live by the band as part of "Dr Honoris Causa", which was from Joe Zawinul's eponymous solo album.