Dave Brubeck (piano) with Jon Hendricks and Michael Brecker
Young Lions & Old Tigers [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] Celebrating his 75th birthday, Dave Brubeck hosts three generations of modern jazzmen on his new release, Young Lions & Old Tigers. Three lush standards anchor a collage of nine Brubeck originals written especially for each honored soloist. |
Dino Saluzzi / Jon Christensen
Senderos [ CD ] |
Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This recording from the innovative & influential Jon Hassell is conceived as "a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction" and drifting "clouds made out of many motifs". |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Domino Records / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music, using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. |
Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Jon Christensen
Gefion (LP) [ ECM / LP ] 'Gefion' is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro's balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its specific... |
HANDEL
Messiah (orchestrated by Eugene Goossens and recorded in 1959) Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Jon Vickers, Giorgio Tozzi / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham [ RCA Victor Gold / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
MOZART / WAGNER / DONIZETTI / SPOHR
The Golden Age of Covent Garden Joan Sutherland (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Rafael Kubelik / with Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Pearl / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers in roles they never recorded commercially, at the very peak of their powers in 1957 and 1958. |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 1993) John Cheek, Jon Garrison, Jeffrey Johnson, Shirley Love, Melvin Lowery, Jane West, Wendy White, Arthur Woodley / Robert Craft [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "That we have such a direct link to Stravinsky's living thoughts and intentions in Robert Craft and such a powerful performance makes this recording as much a 'must have' as the composer's own." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
CHOPIN
The Best of Chopin John O'Conor-piano) Jon Kimura Parker (piano) Malcolm Frager (piano) Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] The Best of Chopin is a great new addition to this highly successful classical series featuring such critically-acclaimed Telarc artists as harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, pianists John O'Conor and Jon Kimura Parker. |
Jon Anderson
In the City of Angels [ Esoteric Recordings / CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
Jon Balke
Magnetic Works 1993-2001 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] |
Jon Balke
Nonsentration [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Jon Balke / Batagraf
Say and Play [ ECM / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] |
Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra
Diverted Travels [ ECM / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] |
Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra
Further [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra
Kyanos [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Jon Balke, Siwan
Nahnou Houm [ ECM / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Their ECM debut, released in 2009, won awards including the Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the album of the year prize of the German record critics. Now Siwan, the international collective led by Norwegian... |
TRADITIONAL
Pax Romana: Peaceful music from the age of Rome Jon Banks (hammered dulcimer, Lyre, Harp, Gittwen, Psalterium, pipe & drums) [ A Feast of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] The Romans loved music and used it both in peace and at war. This unique programme recreates the sounds that might have been heard in a Roman villa in fifth-or-sixth-century Europe, using a wide variety of instruments which were known at the time. A... |