Charles Lloyd
Trios: Sacred Thread [ Blue Note / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
Charles Lloyd
Voice in the Night (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Recorded in May 1998, 'Voice in the Night' is rightly regarded as a jazz classic. |
Charles Lloyd / Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan
Trios: Chapel [ Blue Note / Verve Records / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
I Long To See You [ Bluenote / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] Charles Lloyd's second album for Blue Note features the ascetically passionate sax star and his rhythm section hosting Bill Frisell and his pedal-steel partner Greg Leisz on a programme of folk songs, three Lloyd originals, and guest appearances by... |
Charles Mingus
Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (7CD Box Set) [ Rhino / Warner / 7 CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] In 1973 Atlantic Records began its second period of recording with Mingus, which resulted in seven studio albums. The story of a new phase in Mingus' music - his last phase - begins with the recordings in this boxed set. Featuring all of his 1970s... |
Charles Mingus
Changes Two [ Atlantic / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] |
Charles Mingus
East Coasting (2014 Remaster LP) [ ADA / BMG / LP - released 13/Jan/2023 ] One of Charles Mingus' lesser-known band sessions, recorded in 1957, this lyrical set of five originals (plus the standard "Memories of You") features his usual sidemen of the period (trombonist Jimmy Knepper, trumpeter Clarence Shaw, Shafi Hadi on... |
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus - Jazz Profiles [ Columbia Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2008 ] This specially priced, digitally re-mastered CD in the excellent 'Jazz Profiles' series features high quality artwork, plus extensive liner notes on the artist and the music. |
Charles Mingus
Live at Montreux 1975 [ Rajon / DVD ] Charles Mingus was one of the all-time great jazz bass players but more than that he was also an innovative composer and a leader with clear vision of where he wanted his music to go. In 1975 he made his first appearance at the Montreux Jazz... |
Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Mingus's second Impulse! album, released in 1963, was another large-ensemble masterpiece featuring two of the bassist/bandleader's greatest compositions - "Celia" and "Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul" - plus a famous version of Duke Ellington's "Mood... |
Charles Mingus With Dannie Richmond & Hampton Hawes
Mingus Three (LP) [ PLGUK / Warner / 2 LP - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. "Mingus was something else, man," Miles Davis wrote in his own book. "A pure genius, I loved... |
FAURE
The Complete Barcarolles / Trois Romances sans paroles Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] Following a critically acclaimed recording of Fauré's Complete Nocturnes (AV2133), Charles Owen surveys the composer's Complete Barcarolles, uniquely coupled with Trois Romances sans paroles. |
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chamber Music (Incls Poeme Op 25 & Piano Trio in G minor) MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Chilingirian Quartet with Pascal Devoyon (piano), Philippe Graffin (violin) and Charles Neidich (clarinet) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Aug/2006 ] 'It is truly like hearing it for the first time, at least in this performance, which is far more than just technically superb' (American Record Guide) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Belle Helene (Complete operetta) Daniele Millet, Charles Burles, Jean-Christophe Benoit, Lamoureux Concert Orchestra, Marty [ EMI Classics France / 2 CD - released 23/Mar/2002 ] EMI Classics France presents complete operettas from its prestigious catalogue |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Mozart Album Danielle de Niese (soprano) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 13/Aug/2009 ] "a voice seductive enough to woo gods as well as mortals... there is nothing restrained about Ms. de Niese's warmly voluptuous and passionate singing" New York Times |
Mark De Clive Lowe, Shigeto, Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio [ Soul Bank / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and two decade-long bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe (MdCL), links up with influential drummer/producer/DJ, Shigeto and Brooklyn-based, Haitian-rooted, flautist/songwriter and Verve Records... |
Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Money Jungle (LP) [ WaxTime / LP - released 7/Jan/2013 ] 180g vinyl. |
Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach
Money Jungle [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ] Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Not in a mood to simply rework older compositions, the bulk of the album focused on music he wrote specifically for the session.... |
HENRY PURCELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow, with Norma Burrowes, James Bowman, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd [ EMI Classics For Pleasure / CD - released 24/Sep/1990 ] Purcell's odes for Queen Mary show him at his best. A glorious succession of overtures, choruses, arias and delicious ritornelli display astonishing imagination and ingenuity: whilst overtly celebratory, never far beneath the surface lies the sense... |