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Recommended Album: PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS (Original Series Soundtrack | Themes by Bear McCreary)
Based on Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who’s just coming to terms with his newfound divine powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. With help from his…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING (Stella Bass and the Johnny Taylor Trio)
SILVER LINING FOUND February 3, 2024 can’t come soon enough — that’s the date of Irish vocalist Stella Bass’s album release. A collection of handpicked standards and original compositions that reflect the challenging times the world collectively faced in 2020. The jazz album with a lovely trio supporting Bass, Look For The Silver Lining is…
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Highly Recommended Album: WISH (Soundtrack)
DELUXE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK FROM WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS’ “WISH” AVAILABLE TODAY Alongside the wide release of the all-new film in theaters today, the Deluxe Soundtrack for Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Wish is available now on all streaming platforms. Featuring the voices of Ariana DeBose as Asha, Chris Pine as Magnifico, and Alan Tudyk as…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: ASTOR’S PLACE (Dimitri Landrain, piano; Jim Robertson, bass; Keith Balla, drums)
THIS WILL PUT YOU IN PIANO HEAVEN Astor’s Place is a gorgeously rendered album that reveals the genius of Dimitri Landrain. The acclaimed French composer and pianist based in New York City has traveled the world and found inspiration among his adventures. This album is a tribute to all those wonderful musical worlds he’s experienced….
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Highly Recommended Album: A CHORAL CHRISTMAS (VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra)
A wonderful album featuring many beloved Christmas carols of long ago and some not so long ago. Performed by VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra conducted by Barnaby Smith (Director and Countertenor of VOCES8), this gorgeous collection is majestic, beautiful, and timeless. The tracklist of A Choral Christmas features eight world premiere recordings: the album’s substantial…
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Highly Recommended Album: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (New Broadway Cast Recording)
IT’S MERRILY‘S TIME It’s here today! Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the digital version of the New Broadway Cast Recording of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, alongside the official music video for the title track – watch here. The physical CD is set for release on January 12, 2024 and available now for preorder here. The show is a big,…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: EL ARTE DEL BOLERO: VOLUME 2 (Miguel Zenón, sax, and Luis Perdomo, piano)
AH, PERFECTO I know when you hear “Latin Jazz” you think congas and dancing rhythms, but this beautifully produced and played album is — and I say this in a good way — cocktail jazz done as dreamy New Age on a breezy afternoon sipping a mojito. It’s not sappy Easy Listening Jazz, but a…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: A SHADE OF BLUE (Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio)
Veteran pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto debuts on prestigious Japanese label evosound with A Shade Of Blue, out on CD and vinyl now, and digitally on December 8, 2023. Famed for his light touch, exquisite musical sensitivity, and hard-swinging approach to the piano, master Yamamoto has enjoyed a long and storied career that has yielded over 50…
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Recommended Jazz Concert: KERSTEN STEVENS & CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE (“Queen Rising” City Winery NY)
Kersten Stevens, queen of the violin, launches her much anticipated fifth album Queen Rising, which includes the single “Release The Grace,” an ode to Luther Vandross. Be the first to see Kersten perform original songs and newly recorded tracks along with Christian McBride at City Winery – The Loft on November 27, 2023 at 7:30pm. Along…
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Highly Recommended Album: SUMPTUOUS PLANET (by David Shapiro; performed by The Crossing Choir)
SUMPTUOUS ALBUM On Friday, November 10, 2023, The Crossing, one of our greatest choirs, will release SUMPTUOUS PLANET, a virtuosic and spectacular concert-length work by composer David Shapiro based primarily on the writings of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (famous, in part, for his defense of atheism). Sumptuous Planet is an expression of belief about the nature of life and the joy we can find in understanding it, paradoxically told through a Christian Mass and…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: BEYOND ORBITS (Miho Hazama & M-Unit)
From composer and conductor Miho Hazama – Beyond Orbits is a vibrant new album celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her ensemble M-Unit. Beyond Orbits is testament to Miho’s boundless creativity and artistic vision and to the remarkable growth of her career in Japan, Europe and the US in recent years. It’s is an album born…
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Recommended Album: NIGHT AFTER NIGHT: MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN (James Newton Howard)
ALBUM FEATURES ALL-NEW RECORDINGS WITH SOLOISTS JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, HILARY HAHN, AND MAYA BEISER Night After Night: Music from the Movies of M. Night Shyamalan celebrates one of the richest collaborations between a contemporary film director and a composer – an all-new recording of music for M. Night Shyamalan’s most acclaimed films by the Emmy ®- and…
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Recommended Album: DEATH NOTE, THE MUSICAL (West End Cast Recording on Ghostlight Records)
GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the London Concept Album of Death Note, The Musical following performances at London’s Palladium and Lyric theatres. The date for the 17-track album will be announced soon at Ghostlight. With score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bonnie & Clyde), lyrics by Jack Murphy, book by Ivan Menchell, and orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Howland, the forthcoming…
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Album Recommendation: THE DEEPEST BREATH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Nainita Desai)
Lakeshore Records has released The Deepest Breath’”Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally with an original score by Emmy-winning composer Nainita Desai (The Reason I Jump). Desai captures the beauty, thrill and danger of the sport with music that weaves strings, keys and vocalizations into an enthralling mix. The film is streaming now on Netflix. Purchase or…
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Recommended Album: THE CREATOR (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer)
Hollywood Records has released The Creator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Hans Zimmer. The 12-track album is available now on digital platforms SPOTIFY & APPLE MUSIC. Gemma Chan as Maya in 20th Century Studios’ THE CREATOR. Photo by Oren Soffer. The Creator, from 20th Century Studios, New Regency, and Entertainment One, is an…
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Recommended Theatre and Album: THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE: THE MUSICAL (Original London Cast Album from Sony Masterworks Broadway)
Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the Original Cast Recording to The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical, available everywhere now. The musical is now in previews and opens on November 1 at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End. Henry and Clare’s relationship is like no other. And yet, it’s like all others. Clare is a talented…
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Streaming Classical: YUJA WANG, DUDAMEL & LA PHIL (Rachmaninoff’s Four Piano Concertos & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini)
Amazing Performances of Rachmaninoff’s Four Piano Concertos & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Recorded Live at Walt Disney Concert Hall with Yuja Wang are now available streaming for free The Los Angeles Philharmonic today released a free Sound/Stage series — a six-episode online cycle of Rachmaninoff 150, performed by Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel and…
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Recommended Jazz Album: MORE THAN YOU KNOW (Silva & Steini)
A SOOTHING YET UPLIFTING COLLECTION OF STANDARDS IS LOVELY — MORE THAN YOU KNOW Peaceful, lush, lovely, luminous, unhurried, timeless, and distinct, the debut album from Icelandic duo Silva & Steini, More Than You Know is proof of the pure magic in truly inspired song interpretation. Over the course of eight spellbinding tracks, Reykjavík-based musicians…
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Recommended Album: FYFTY (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Southern by the Grace of God indeed. On October 13, Geffen/UMe Recordings is set to release FYFTY, a 4CD/digital 50th anniversary box set that celebrates the enduring legacy of one of rock & roll’s most pre-eminent bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The career-spanning 50 tracks featured on FYFTY represent the best of the best music the band has offered up to its loyal,…
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Album Preview: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR THE MUSICAL (by Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes)
New Hamlisch and Holmes Musical “The Nutty Professor” Is Getting an Album TBIC Music Group announces the upcoming recording and release of the much-anticipated studio album for The Nutty Professor the Musical. The musical was composed by the late Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) with lyrics by Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood). It…
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