James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk The Watchers (2013) Flac

It all started when guitarist Erich Lehna and Davide Swarup met and played in Goa for the first time. The journey then went on with violinist Julien Moretto, flutist and percussionist Fatima Gozlan and Constantin Kayatma on electronics. Highly influenced by Indian music and spirituality, these 5 talented artists explore the path where the flower of life blossoms, where sounds become one, where souls find oneness.

Kaleidoscope is a solo keyboard recording. All tunes are arranged by Bob James. On this release Bob James uses a Yamaha CFIIIS piano with Midi system and The Disklavier. It is also a 2012 release…recorded in Tokyo Japan. There are twelve tracks with the eleventh being a medley.The medley includes Westchester Lady/Touchdown/Nautilus/Angela.

In 1966 two R & B bands local to Oldham (UK) merged to form a blues outfit The Blues Keepers. With sponsorship from a local businessman (also their manager) they rented an 18th century farmhouse where they practised extensively, gradually moving towards a progressive rock style then beginning to emerge. On turning professional the name Barclay James Harvest was adopted, and the line-up stabilised as John Lees (guitars, vocals), Les Holroyd (bass, rhythm guitar, vocals), Stuart "Wooly" Wolstenholme (keyboards, vocals) and Mel Pritchard (drums). After releasing their first single in April 1968, the band joined the legendary progressive Harvest label, quickly expanding their musical horizons, chiefly by experimenting with longer evolving song structures and orchestrations…

Roger Kellaway, Eddie Daniels - Duke at the Roadhouse (2013) {IPO Recordings IPOC1024}
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Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Chamber Jazz

Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe features clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway in concert performing a variety of songs by the great Duke Ellington. Also joining in on several songs is cellist James Holland. Recorded as a benefit concert for the New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding, the album is a swinging and highly entertaining set that showcases the sensitive group interplay between Daniels and Kellaway. While most of the songs here are standards, the approach is anything but, and tracks like "In a Sentimental Mood" and "Sophisticated Lady" have a languid, poetic, and harmonically sophisticated quality that speaks to the high level of craft on display here. Anyone who loves these musicians will want to seek out this superb album.

Omar Dykes, of Omar & the Howlers, pays tribute to blues icon Howlin' Wolf on Runnin' with the Wolf. All of the tracks on this disc were written by either Wolf or Willie Dixon except for the Omar original "Runnin' with the Wolf." Dykes stays close to the original versions of these songs, which most listeners have heard in some form or other: "The Red Rooster," "Back Door Man," "Smokestack Lightning," "Wang Dang Doodle," and "Killin' Floor." That doesn't mean these are straight covers. The passion in the performances is undeniable, but so is the fun these musicians are obviously having. Dykes has the perfect voice for this project and is complemented by Derek O'Brien on guitar, Ronnie James on bass, Ted Roddy on harp, and Wes Starr on drums along with Mark Kazanoff and Les Izmore on saxophones, Nick Connolly on organ, and Mike Buck on percussion.

Brad Wilson is an experienced Californian guitarist with several self-produced CDs to his name over the last ten years or so. This CD is his first for an ‘official’ label and he wrote all the material, reprising seven songs from his last independent CD “Blues Magic”…

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a re-mastered and expanded deluxe two-disc edition of the classic 1993 album by Barclay James Harvest, "Caught In The Light". The album was the band’s last album to be issued by Polydor Records in the UK and was a highlight of their later work.
Featuring excellent material such as ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’, ‘A Matter of Time’, ‘Knoydart’, ‘Back to Earth’ and ‘Ballad of Denshaw Mill’, this re-mastered edition also includes the full version of ‘Forever Yesterday’ (only released on the cassette edition of the album) and a bonus track of the rare German promotional edit of ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’.
Significantly, this expanded Deluxe edition features a bonus CD of unreleased live material recorded at the band’s 25th Anniversary concert at the Town & Country Club, London on 16th February 1992…

Raphael Imbert Project - Heavens - Amadeus & the Duke (2013) {Jazz Village JV 570011}
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Jazz / Classical / Contemporary Jazz / Saxophone / Bass Clarinet

This project creates an exciting new bridge between Western classical music and African-American music. With his band of virtuosos, Raphael Imbert weaves together the common themes in the worlds of Ellington and Mozart. Heavens is an immense modern jam session, drawing on eclectic multicultural sources: blues, chamber music, secular song, German lied, sacred music, stomp, gospel opera and more. Inspired by both written and oral traditions, driven by improvisation and a swinging momentum, the saxophonist reveals the genius of these two great Masters.