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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,... |
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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. |
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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). |
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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... |
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Jon Balke
Skrifum [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] From the very first note, Norway's Jon Balke proposes a new sonic dimension with Skrifum, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Warp (2016) and Discourses (2020), solo piano albums which also processed the acoustic environment in which the music... |
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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... |
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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... |
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JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 [ Bronze Rat Records / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] With Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion seem to have finally figured out what to do and how to do it when making a record: wail hard on the blues (or whatever mutated variant this is) and don't fuss over the buff... |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / R. STRAUSS / TCHAIKOVSKY /
Lorin Maazel conducts the Cleveland Orchestra Lucia Popp (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) Elena Obraztsova (mezzo) Martti Talvela (bass) / The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. Lorin Maazel [ Sony Classical / 15 CD Box Set - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Lorin Maazel burnished the Cleveland image and maintained the exalted standards set by Szell, who had elevated his ensemble to pre-eminence among the US "Big Five" orchestras. |
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PETER SCHICKELE [P.D.Q. BACH]
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: P.D.Q. Bach: Two Pianos Are Better Than One Peter Schickele, Jon Kimura Parker (pianos) / The New York Pick-Up Ensemble, Jorge Mester [ Telarc / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] Something unusual to make you laugh! |
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Tony Ashton & Jon Lord
First Of The Big Bands Live [ Gonzo / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] |
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Jon Hopkins
Music For Psychedelic Therapy (Double Gatefold LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 1/Apr/2022 ] Jon Hopkins' album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy includes the single "Sit Around The Fire", the album's closing track - a unique collaboration between Hopkins, producer and performer East Forest and legendary guru, the late Ram Dass whose iconic... |
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Jon Appleton & Don Cherry
Human Music (LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] A forward thinking collaboration between electronic music pioneer Jon Appleton and trumpet great Don Cherry, that explores the relationship between the humanity and the manufactured robotic future. Using the techniques associated with Musique... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Jon Hopkins
Immunity (2023 Remaster [ Domino / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Jon Hopkins' seminal fourth album, Immunity, a newly remastered version of the record is now available. A confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place, Immunity felt and... |
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Jon Hopkins
Piano Versions (Limited Blue LP) [ Domino / 12in - released 2/Jul/2021 ] |
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Jon Hopkins
Ritual [ Domino / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins' forthcoming new album RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant,... |
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Jon Hopkins
Ritual (LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2024 ] By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins' forthcoming new album RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant,... |
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Jon Spencer
Spencer Sings The Hits! [ In The Red / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness with twelve red-hot hits, each more powerful than the last! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead... |
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 (LP) [ Bronze Rat Records LP / LP - released 19/Jun/2015 ] With Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion seem to have finally figured out what to do and how to do it when making a record: wail hard on the blues (or whatever mutated variant this is) and don't fuss over the buff... |
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Various Artists / Jon Savage
Jon Savage's 1967 The Year Pop Divided [ Ace Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2017 ] Now typified as the year of flower power, 1967 was the year the 60s divided. During those 12 months, the revenues from LP sales in Britain finally overtook those from 45s. It's also the year when the British singles charts suddenly revealed a vacuum... |
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Various Artists / Jon Savage
Jon Savage's 1965-1968: High Sixties On 45 (LP) [ 2 LP - released 5/Jun/2019 ] A love letter to the 7″ single presented over 2 LPs by the writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991. Running chronologically from the 1965 tracks on... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
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Jon and Roy
Another Noon [ CD ] |
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Jon and Vangelis
The Best of Jon and Vangelis [ Polydor Records / CD - released 10/Mar/1985 ] Available as an import from Europe, this 1984 compilation contains a great selection of the best songs Vangelis created in collaboration with Yes singer, Jon Anderson. |
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Jon and Vangelis
The Friends of Mr Cairo [ Fontana / Polydor Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] Available from America as an import CD, this album features Yes vocalist, Jon Anderson with the keyboard master, Vangelis. This was their brilliant sophomore recording together. |
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Jon and Vangelis
Private Collection [ Polydor Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1985 ] This album is available as an import from Europe and features more excellent music from Jon and Vangelis, including "Italian Song" and the 22-minute "Horizon". |
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Jon Cleary
Occapella [ CD ] |
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Jon Hassell
Fourth World, Vol. 2: Dream Theory in Malaya [ EG Records / CD - released 1/Jul/1991 ] American imported disc. |
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Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Double Six / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] |
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Controversial Negro [ CD ] |
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WAGNER
Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 1967) Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Gundula Janowitz / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
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SCHUBERT
Jon Vickers - In Memoriam [Winterreise & Interview] Jon Vickers (tenor) with Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Vickers rose to international prominence in 1957 when he debuted with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. According to the Sunday Times, he "electrified the audience by the force and ringing brightness of his voice". |
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Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz
Put Yo Hood Up [ TVT / Shock Records / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] With guest MCs Ludacris, Too $hort, Big Kap, Youngbloodz, Eightball, etc. this testosterone-fueled collection is as infectious as it is powerful. |
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Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, Spice Girls
Pavarotti and friends-For the children of Liberia [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] It's Pavarotti again |