Michael Bublé It's a Beautiful Day

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

As great as the anticipation for a new studio album by Barbra Streisand was, so frowning at first the view on the concept. There is nothing new here, but just another CD of the brand "I'll just take some old songs and play them anew". Michael Bublé recently proved that this doesn't always go well with the boring "Meets Madison Square Garden". Now, the Streisand, also with nothing else in the Luggage as primarily Tunes of the Thirties and Forties. But take care: For many reasons "Love Is The Answer" means perhaps the most beautiful Streisand album of the last twenty years.

Reviewing Halliday’s previous recorded work with guitarist Corey Christianson, Billy Kerr remarked in “Saxophone Journal,” “His saxophone playing and his music are at the highest levels, great dark, fat sound, wonderful time and feel, as well as a clean, fast technique . . . I’m sure he could play any kind of music.”

Los Angeles-based saxophonist Bob Reynolds is a Grammy-winning member of the instrumental group Snarky Puppy, an award-winning composer, and a prolific recording artist with ten top-selling solo albums to his credit. Widely known for his work with both Snarky and John Mayer, he has been a featured soloist with instrumentalists like Larry Carlton, Chris Botti, and Jeff Lorber and worked with a host of pop artists including Michael Bublé, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, The 1975, and USHER.

2015 album from the acclaimed vocalist/pianist. Wallflower is a collection of songs from the late 60's to present day that inspired Krall in her early years. Produced by 16-time Grammy Award-winning producer David Foster, the album finds Krall breaking new ground with her interpretations of some of the greatest pop songs of all time. On Wallflower, Diana Krall showcases her considerable gifts as a vocalist in a bold and beautiful way. Krall sings a set of songs that include familiar popular classics like The Mamas and the Papas' 'California Dreaming' and the Eagles' 'Desperado,' favorite vintage songs by Krall's musical heroes Bob Dylan (he inspired the album's title track 'Wallflower') and Elton John ('Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word'). The album also features more recent gems like Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over' and a wonderful new composition from Paul McCartney ('If I Take You Home Tonight'). Wallflower: The Complete Sessions will introduce eight additional tracks including the first studio recording of Diana celebrating Joni Mitchell with her own rendition of A Case of You. It also finds Krall covering her fellow Canadian Neil Young on his legendary song, Heart of Gold, and features duets with Sarah McLachlan on Gordon Lightfoot s, If You Could Read My Mind as well as Nashville icon, Vince Gill, on the Fred Neil classic Everybody s Talkin.