Marta Gomez - Cantos de Agua Dulce (SACD) - Pre...

A landmark 2004 album by Marta Gómez that established her as one of Latin America’s most poetic v...

A landmark 2004 album by Marta Gómez that established her as one of Latin America’s most poetic voices. The recording unites Colombian folk traditions with Latin American rhythms, Spanish flamenco, and jazz harmony across fourteen tracks—twelve of them original—that travel from the valleys of Colombia to the coasts of Peru and beyond. Centered on voice and guitar, the arrangements feature subtle touches of bass, percussion, flute, and accordion, revealing Gómez’s gift for lyrical storytelling...

Fourplay - Elixir (30th Anniversary Edition) (S...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist ...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist Bob James, guitarist Lee Ritenour, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Harvey Mason. The follow-up to the band’s gold-certified first two albums - 1991’s Fourplay and 1993’s Between The Sheets - 1995’s star-studded Elixir featured vocal cameos from Phil Collins (‘Why Can’t It Wait Till Morning’) together with Patti Austin and Peabo Bryson, who duetted on a fabulous remake of Roberta Flack and Donny H...

Ana Caram - Rio After Dark (SACD)

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s...

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s debut release for Chesky Records, a New York label renowned for its high-resolution audiophile recordings. Caram was mentored by the legendary bossa nova pioneer Antônio Carlos Jobim, who joined his protege on two of the album’s fifteen cuts, playing piano and singing background vocals on Caram’s versions of his classic songs ‘Meditation’ and ‘Anos Dourados (It Looks Like December).’ Another star...

Chuck Mangione - The Feeling’s Back (SACD)

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flu...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flugelhorn maestro Chuck Mangione - renowned for his trademark fedora hat and warm melodic lyricism - was still a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. The son of an Italian American greengrocer, Rochester-born Mangione played hardbop in a group with his piano-playing brother before going solo in the mid-1960s. In 1978, he joined a small list of chart-busting elite jazz instrumentalists when h...