The Mystic Braves

An unimpeachable classic considered to be the pinnacle of Rastafarian inspired music. Master drummer Count Ossie's band, including the incomparable tenor saxophonist Cedric 'I'm' Brooks, recreate a Rasta grounation, or gathering, playing and chanting a sublime supplication, including Bible readings, in praise of Emperor Haile Selassie I.

Y&T Live at the Mystic is a double live CD recorded at the legendary Mystic Theatre in Petaluma, California. This 2-CD set includes 22 songs recorded over 2 nights in November of 2011. The amazing heat to the tracks showcases the power of the band as it currently sounds…

Indigo Seven, Frank Borell, Hypnotic, Airstream, Silent Voices, Richard van Arp, Vandaag and Chill Orchestra.

Trombonist and composer Jean-NicolasTrottier and the Montreal National Jazz Orchestra deliver the recording The Mystic Mind, a work that the ONJ commissioned and the Australians applauded in May 2016. Inspired by the Yannick virtuosos Rieu, Rafael Zaldivar and Sylvain Provost, as well as the great Vic Vogel to whom he dedicates it, Trottier has created a series of nine movements whose motives unfold at various altitudes, a bit like an idea, a word, a traveling image. in the billions of brain synapses. According to this metaphor, the intro, prelude to reflection, sets out themes that emotions transform and memory resumes. The sequel evokes a well-being linked to the stream of thought, "the secret of happiness," according to Trottier, which leads to reverie and even to the maze of fascination that the unknown brings. Before a clever final loop, the work evokes the different modes of memory and full awareness.

Among the many recorded versions of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring that appeared around the work's centennial year, several were of piano transcriptions, in most cases Stravinsky's own four-hand piano arrangement. The 5 Browns' live recording presents a five-pianos version by Jeffrey Shumway that shows the family of virtuoso pianists in various combinations, from the single note at the opening to all ten hands by the ballet's clangorous end. The group deserves kudos for performing this tour de force without scores, and for making it work without a conductor.

The final evening of their 2003 summer tour found the Allman Brothers planning a special night on the friendly turf of Raleigh, NC, wrapping up yet another road trip with invitations to Susan Tedeschi, Karl Denson, and truly serious jazzbo Branford Marsalis to join the group on-stage. It was all captured by the state-of-the-digital-arts folks at Instant Live, who burn CDs of the shows and make them available to concertgoers who still have a few extra green ones in their pockets by evening's end. On the sprawling three-CD set documenting these particular proceedings, there is indeed some fine music, although in his Allmans premiere appearance Marsalis doesn't fare as well as jam band-friendly Denson; the sax-blowing Marsalis brother (heard on "Dreams" and "Whipping Post") seems shoehorned between the guitars and strains a bit over the loud rock groove.