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With its overt lyricism, strong themes and a sense of perpetual melodic invention, Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim’s new album quickly identifies itself as a classic-in-the-making. Themes of dedication run through Seim’s Helsinki Songs album, a set of tunes composed – for the most part – in the Finnish capital, and radiating tributes in many directions. Here are songs referencing Igor Stravinsky and Jimmy Webb, pieces dedicated to each of Seim’s gifted bandmates, and tunes that tip the hat, obliquely, to Ornette Coleman and Bill Evans. The quartet plays superbly throughout, with outstanding solos from leader Seim and pianist Kristjan Randalu. Helsinki Songs was recorded in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in January 2018 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

In The Softest Way is the debut album from multi-Grammy Award winning recording artist and songwriter, Carvin Winans. Winans launched his career with his brothers as part of the iconic group, The Winans. The Winans brothers released several Grammy Award-winning and gold-selling albums and endeared themselves to fans all over the world. Carvin established himself as a sought-after songwriter, penning hits for other artists including Whitney Houston, Regina Belle, Peabo Bryson, Vanessa Bell Armstrong and Winans Phase II.

Sliver and Gold is Backyard Babies‘ second album release since they ended their 5 year hiatus and released Four by Four in 2015. This was a strong come back for them and proved that the break had given them a new lease of life and they were solid and still very tight. They are now celebrating 30 years together as a band – no mean feat – and still very full of life!! Their 8th studio album bursts into action with Good Morning Midnight, the second single to be released, a punchy, sleazy, toe tapping riff that immediately has you moving! And they don’t let go, keeping momentum track after track. As always that tried and trusted Backyard Babies formula is very much present , it is unmistakably them, which is very much a compliment. Long time fans can still enjoy that classic feel which they have shaken up and brought forward to make it relevant to new audiences too.

This new album is delivered only 8 months after the previous album "Today Is Another Day". It was recorded entirely new in New York with a trio with Yoshi Waki (b) and John Davis (ds). The concept is a tribute album dedicated to Wayne Shorter, the great jazz saxophonist who passed away in March. After opening with "Dolce Vita" and "To S.," two new songs written by Yamanaka for this album, the album features a number of songs covering Shorter's career, including "Yes or No," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Footprints. The arrangements and performances, sometimes bold, sometimes delicate, are a must for all jazz fans, with the occasional addition of an organ. The album ends with two songs dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also passed away in March.

Frequency of Spirit was originally released in 2005, in the same month that the band's former record company Atenzia Records filed for bankruptcy. Now resurrected and fully remastered by Alan Douches (Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Mastodon), this seminal album is given new life. THE WAY is a band built around 3 dynamic individuals who have sold over 100,000 records, recorded for EMI, Sony and Atlantic records, and toured over 500 cities in 15 countries. Vocalist Russell Arcara (Prophet, Surgin), Keyboardist Charlie Calv (Angel, Shotgun Symphony) and guitarist Stephen DeAcutis (Corey Glover) may be some familiar names but what you are about to hear is nothing like you have heard from them before.

The year 1979 saw the death of one of the leading players in the ‘Baroque’ revolution, undoubtedly the most famous countertenor of the twentieth century. Alfred Deller had even achieved the supreme tour de force of convincing us that, three centuries earlier, Purcell had composed his songs for him! With him the public of the 1960s and 1970s discovered not only an absolutely inimitable timbre, but also the delights of a repertory that had been slumbering in libraries until then. Forty years after his death, thanks to the meticulous process of remastering harmonia mundi has carried out on the original tapes, Alfred Deller’s art seems more alive than ever!

In'terview was the 8th album by Gentle Giant, originally released in April 1976. Having toured non-stop with artists like Jethro Tull, Yes, Frank Zappa etc. the band had gone from stregnth to strength. By the time of their previous album, Free Hand, the bad had become a headliner in their own right.

Aside from the alluring title, which in terms of words alone, not music, recalls Jim Hendrix’s “Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” we have a straight-ahead, inspired session led by Toronto-born, NYC-based tenorist Grant Stewart and his usual contingent plus rising NYC-based trumpeter Bruce Harris, making this a classic quintet configuration.

They really should have changed the name to Van Hagar.

The British composer Robin Stevens (b. 1958) is a great talent who is being discovered by the global music community, due in part to the critical acclaim given to the two previous Divine Art albums of his music.