The Goons featuring Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland & others
Goon Again - The 40th Anniversary Cardboard Replica Show [ BBC Audio / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, the Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one night, with Andrew Secombe (Harry's son), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). |
Jon Balke
Siwan [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/May/2009 ] Magical music, trailing deep roots. The listener is at first struck by the power of Amina Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble - with soloists drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions,... |
Jon Balke, Siwan
Hafla [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Siwan, the transcultural, trans-idiomatic musical collective led by Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke, continues along its special path, with new music inspired by the creative spirit of Al-Andalus. |
Jon Hendricks
Four Classic Albums (A Good Git-Together / Fast Livin' Blues / High Flying / Sing Ellington) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Another two classics by the titanic trio and for good measure offer up a taste of the vocalese master Jon Hendricks out on his own on two extraordinary albums. Released in 1959, A Good Git Together features Jon Hendricks during the time of his... |
Jon Toogood
Last Of The Lonely Gods [ Warner Music / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Beloved New Zealand Music Hall of Fame inductee, Jon Toogood, has announced his debut solo album 'Last Of The Lonely Gods'. Jon Toogood has spent 30 years at the forefront of Aotearoa's music scene, writing, singing, performing, mentoring,... |
Jon Toogood
Last Of The Lonely Gods (LP) [ Warner Music / LP - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Beloved New Zealand Music Hall of Fame inductee, Jon Toogood, has announced his debut solo album 'Last Of The Lonely Gods'. Jon Toogood has spent 30 years at the forefront of Aotearoa's music scene, writing, singing, performing, mentoring,... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Stewart, Josephine Veasey, Gundula Janowitz, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2013 ] Highlights from Herbert von Karajan's mighty 'Ring' cycle. The disc includes extended highlights from the four 'Ring' operas and allows us to sample Karajan's choice of different singers for the same character in different operas - Fischer-Dieskau's... |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1985) Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Justino Diaz / Vienna State Opera Choir & Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deusche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] This famous film of the world's best-loved opera, directed by Herbert von karajan, features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time. - "overwhelming in its truthfulness to the tragic vision of Carmen", wrote the... |
Jon Balke
Book of Velocities [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] This Norwegian pianist's first-ever solo disc is a remarkable 'book' of 19 short pieces, grouped into four chapters and an epilogue, of music composed and improvised, exploring a whole vocabulary of ideas, techniques, rhythms, textures and sound-colours. |
Jon Balke
Discourses [ ECM / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] 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. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music... |
Jon Batiste
World Music Radio (LP) [ Verve / 2 LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] World Music Radio is the new musical transmission from multi-GRAMMY® and Oscar® winner Jon Batiste, following his historic and acclaimed hit record WE ARE. This concept album stars Batiste as interstellar traveling griot/DJ Billy Bob Bo Bob... |
Jon Hassell
Further Fictions [ Ndeya / 2 CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Further Fictions is a double CD anthology of the music on the vinyl editions, with a disc devoted to each album in hardbound book style packaging, and an extensive booklet containing sleevenotes and archival images. The first disc The Living City... |
Jon Hassell
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) [ Ndeya / CD - released 8/Jun/2018 ] pen·ti·men·to / noun Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its... |
Jon Hassell
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (LP) [ Ndeya / LP - released 8/Jun/2018 ] pen·ti·men·to / noun Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its... |
Jon Hassell
The Living City (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ndeya / 2 LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] The Living City captures the Jon Hassell Group in September 1989 performing as part of an audio-visual installation inside the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, with Brian Eno mixing the band live. Eno had designed an... |
Jon Hassell
Psychogeography (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ndeya / 2 LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Psychogeography (subtitled 'Zones Of Feeling') is a situationist re-thinking of the 1990 City: Works Of Fiction album, a carefully edited sequence of alternate takes, demos and studio jams put together by Jon Hassell in 2014 using Debordian... |
Jon Hassell
Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (LP) [ Ndeya / LP - released 24/Jul/2020 ] Jon Hassell pioneered the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside harmonies and traditional instruments from across Africa and Asia.... |
Jon Hassell
Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) [ Ndeya / CD - released 24/Jul/2020 ] Jon Hassell pioneered the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside harmonies and traditional instruments from across Africa and Asia.... |
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox [ Ndeya / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox (LP) [ Ndeya / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |