"toshiie to Matsu"

Kevin Eubanks' first album with a string section is a triumph of good taste, both in the guitarist's gently swinging work and in GRP chief Dave Grusin's unobtrusive, intelligent, unsentimental string charts. Grusin's gorgeously recorded strings seem to seep into the texture, filling the spaces with just enough mortar. The backings alternate between an electric group – with Marcus Miller on bass and Grusin applying the Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound – and often just Ron Carter on acoustic bass (plus the strings, of course).

Hux combined Johnny Paycheck's two 1972 albums Someone to Give My Love To and Somebody Loves Me for this 2010 two-fer. Someone to Give My Love To followed Paycheck's commercial breakthrough She's All I Got so, unsurprisingly, producer Billy Sherrill made a natural decision to double-down on smoothness on this sequel, even letting the scales tip toward sunniness on occasion. It's a little odd to hear the haunted auteur of "(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill" sing the chirpy "Smile, Somebody Loves You," but peerless vocalist that he is, he never hesitates or stumbles, he simply sells the song.

Where Have I Known You Before is the fourth album by Jazz-Rock Fusion band Return to Forever. While the style of music has not changed much since the previous album, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, important changes have taken place in the band's sound and line-up. Both keyboardist Chick Corea and bassist Stanley Clarke have now found their own well known trademark sounds. Corea has started to use synthesizers (most notably the Moog Minimoog and ARP Odyssey synthesizers) and has developed his own distinctive sound and approach to them. Similarly, Clarke's bass playing now has the sound and feel which has cemented his position as one of the most world's most influential bass players.

Invitation to the Dance is the 2001 New Year's Eve Gala Concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. The annual concert is famous for having a varied program from year to year, and in 2001 conductor Daniel Barenboim treated the world to a fantastic program of musical "dance." From Bach to Sibelius, from classical to samba, this concert has it all! The BPO and Barenboim go all out for this one, and experiencing the DVD is the next best thing to being there!