“City of Broken Dreams” is the ECM leader debut of the prodigiously gifted Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi. Much of the considerable charm of City of Broken Dreams is evidenced by the mastery of musical suggestion this trio commands. They make use of many different forms of music in their approach to jazz, if merely to use their colors, dynamics, and intonations to create something other. This a piano trio album that has plenty and gracefully relies on subtlety to express it.

While it may be tempting to simply call Dialectics a straight-ahead session, Kevin Sun's liner notes set the record straight: According to Sun, "neo-hard bop" is a more accurate term for this music. What's most important to note, however, is that the music is pretty irresistible, regardless of what you call it. Nowosad, Greene, Gardner, Bonness, and bassist Steve Kirby have a good thing going here. These men have real musical chemistry, not the fabricated camaraderie that comes with so many jazz releases today. While it will likely be difficult for Nowosad to keep this group going, here's to hoping that he does.

The Welsh-born singer Donna Lewis is one of those rare artists whose immense success on the pop radio charts disguises an exceptional and serious musicianship and breadth of repertoire. Lewis’ new album,Brand New Day, reveals the range of her artistry, and may surprise listeners who know her only for herpop hits “I Love You Always Forever,”“At The Beginning,” “I Could Be The One” and “Love Him.” Produced and arranged by Lewis’ longtime friend DavidTorn, the genre-busting composer and producer, Brand New Day is an intoxicating set of jazz-inflected covers and Lewis originals in which she is joined by the eminent progressive jazz musicians Ethan Iverson (piano), Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums).

Gloria Estefan's first U.S. Spanish-language album, Mi Tierra is one of her most satisfying, and a step above her English-language pop albums. Her voice is extremely well suited for the material, and the result is a breezy, sunny album with moments of melancholy and longing - in short, one of her most consistent albums to date. Additionally, some of the best-known and most well-respected Latin musicians were employed to further embellish the album.

Совместная работа американской джазовой певицы Эллы Фицджеральд, пианиста Андре Превина и контрабасиста Нильс-Хеннинг Эрстед Педерсена. Альбом стал пятьдесят вторым в творчестве певицы и последним посвящением творчеству братьев Джорджа и Айры Гершвинов.

Diana Ariadne Panton - канадская джазовая вокалистка, выпустила новый альбом "Red", который стал победителем Juno Award.

Французский пианист Николя Хорват, лауреат конкурса имени Скрябина, представил первый том проекта Glassworlds - полного собрания сольной фортепианной музыки Филипа Гласса.

The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, they continue the work begun on the recording 'City of Broken Dreams', with pensive, abstract ballads which shimmer with inner tension. Each of the players - Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi, US bassist Thomas Morgan, and Portuguese drummer João Lobo - has a strong sense for the dialectics of sound and silence. The repertoire is mostly from Guidi's pen, but also includes the standard 'I'm Through with Love', Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés' 'Quizás, quizás, quizás' (familiar to jazz listeners through, above all, Nat King Cole's version), and 'Baiiia' by João Lobo.

Live at the Olympia '96 is a live double album by British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded at the Olympia in Paris on 17 June 1996 during the Purpendicular tour and released in 1997.

The album is notable and I think it’s even better than their 1992 debut. It’s full of hardrockin’ anthems in the vein of TREAT, GOTTHARD, PRETTY MAIDS and PINK CREAM 69, so you understand what I am talking about. The guitars are ‘suffering’ under passionate riffing and the rhythm section is hammering where needed. The vocals are passionate and very clean but with a rockin’ timbre. The songwriting is immense with big couple parts and huge choruses, even with the absence of keyboards. There are a couple of ballads as it usually happens to mellow things down, but as a whole, the disc is energetic and avid. Fans of melodic Rock will find enough moments to cherish in this CD but friends of Hard Rock music shall devour this disc in ease too.

Killer new solo studio disc by long-standing guitar rock riffmaster Mike Onesko, the leader & frontman of the mighty Blindside Blues Band. Includes 10 tracks of awesome, powerful, hard-hitting, hi-energy, blues-based, retro-70s, heavy guitar rock riffage/mojo that is all about the R.O.C.K. and destroys everything in it's path. A full frontal heavy guitar rock assault that is on a Mission to Keep the Rock alive. From the intense, powerful opening heavy rocker The Destroyer to the dynamic thought provoking final track Child Of The Sky (an excellent musical tribute that is dedicated to the late, great Ronnie Montrose), every track hits hard with kick ass, brain-damaging, face-melting, storm troopin', six string weapons of mass destruction.