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This is no ordinary jazz album. It’s not just that San Francisco vocalist Bill Kwan delves deeply into the songbook of one of the 20th century’s most popular female singers. Slated for release on April 16, 2021 No Ordinary Love: The Music of Sade captures an artist boldly redefining himself. Collaborating closely with a brilliant cast of New York players, he brings a confidently sensuous male sensibility to material defined by the Nigerian-born superstar, whose cool, understated style and regal persona has largely kept other artists from interpreting her songs.

Shorter samples, stronger tunes, a label change and a more concentrated emphasis on songwriting all characterizethe newest band project. Includes vocals by Alison Crockett (of King Britt) with a socio-polical theme running throughout all songs.

The life of a traveling blues musician isn't easy. The vocation is rife with loneliness, bad food, cheap hotels, and lack of sleep. Walter Trout is a survivor of that life (just barely). During the late 1960s and '70s, he worked the road with Big Mama Thorton, Joe Tex, and John Lee Hooker. In the 1980s, it was Canned Heat and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. He's led his own bands since 1990 and experienced cycles of triumph, tragedy, alcohol and narcotic addiction, and recovery from a near-fatal liver transplant that required two surgeries. Trout's dues are paid and then some. Ordinary Madness was produced by longtime collaborator Eric Corne and cut in analog at guitarist Robby Krieger's studio. Its many surprises reveal it to be unlike any other record in his large catalog.

Pod Pearson and Rich Memmott are two Sheffield-based multi instrumentalists, with a love of rock, classic pop, progressive, symphonic and hey, even a little jazz. In their Autumn years, finally committing their music to tape. 2016's "Extended Play" EP showcases their quirky magic, and the forthcoming album "The Soundtrack To An Ordinary Day" is out in February 2020. New music from old hands.

"Ordinary Moon" is a collection of inspired heart songs and field recordings from the forests of Manitoba, Canada. This is the first album by Yoyu, the new pseudonym of Ali Khan.