The New York Times (11 18 2016)

The widely acclaimed vocal ensemble New York Polyphony has on its previous recordings for BIS focused on Franco-Flemish polyphony (endBeginning, BIS1949), the English Renaissance (Times go by Turns, BIS2037) and Christmas (Sing thee Nowell, BIS2099). Each of these discs which have been highly praised by the critics, receiving no less than two Grammy Award nominations has also included contemporary works, resulting in striking resonances between music from across more than half a millennium.

The Lazarus Cast Album is the unique collection of material that includes the last three studio recordings of David Bowie's storied career ("No Plan", "Killing A Little Time", "When I Met You"), recorded with Donny McCaslin and his quartet, the same band that played on Bowie's final studio album . The songs were co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti.

There is no shortage of recordings of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but this one really is different. First of all, it is played on the viola, not on the violin – by David Aaron Carpenter. He has been described by the German newspaper Die Welt as “a new star at the forefront of violists”, by the Helsinki Times as playing “like a young god” and by Gramophone as a player of “superlative assurance and magnetic conviction".

Leyla McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly fresh, distinctive and contemporary.

Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer Michael Daves, whom the New York Times calls 'a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene,' celebrates the release of his double album Orchids and Violence.

This CD, with songs by Nancy's long-time friend, Tony Winner and Academy Award Nominee David Zippel, captures, more than any of Nancy's other CD's, the experience of Nancy live and in the studio in the heyday of her New York Cabaret career. It's like being there!