jo Staford

Lo’Jo are a group of France-based musicians, performing and recording a blend of world music with strong North African as well as French folk elements.
The band was founded in 1982 in Angers, France by singer/keyboardist Denis Pean and Richard Bourreau (violin/kora). These two have remained central to Lo’Jo throughout their history. For several years, with a rotating cast of members, they played events locally, working with acrobats, street theatre, mime, dancers and film as part of their overall presentation. They have subsequently maintained a communal lifestyle, based in Angers.

My brand-new album “Petrichor” is now LIVE worldwide! Thank you so much for all your great messages regarding my previous release “Rakasha”. Now with my latest work “Petrichor”, we’re switching gears a little. It’s a big record with strong themes and a whopping 22 track count. I usually sketch out each and every idea on the piano first before I dive into orchestrating. I really wanted the piano to be the backbone for all pieces so I could weave the orchestra around it and create the fragile yet powerful cinematic sound I was looking for. It’s my greatest pleasure to be able to share these pieces with you. As always, please do let me know what you think, I love hearing from you.

Happy Holiday is a 1955 Christmas album of Christmas songs and carols by Jo Stafford, accompanied by her husband Paul Weston and his orchestra. The entire family participated in the creation of this album; young Tim Weston is the small boy on the cover. Stafford is also joined by The Starlighters for vocal background, just as she was after her version of The Chesterfield Supper Club moved to Hollywood.

By Shihan Reiner Brauhardt 9.Dan Aikido

The Charleston" is a jazz composition that was written to accompany the Charleston dance. It was composed in 1923, with lyrics by Cecil Mack and music by James P. Johnson, who first introduced the stride piano method of playing.

Lateralize Records are immensely proud to announce the release of The Heart Wants, the much-anticipated first self-penned solo album by Jo Harrop. Written and recorded over the last year when the world came to a sudden standstill in the wake of the pandemic, The Heart Wants is an album about love and life, about losing and then finding oneself in the silence after the applause has faded away.

Starring Jo Stafford is a 1953 album by Jo Stafford, with Paul Weston and His Orchestra and accompaniment by The Starlighters and The Pied Pipers. In 1997, EMI issued it on a CD along with 1950's Autumn in New York.

As a child, in the capital of Madagascar, Anisha Jo often looks at the infinite sky, in the immensity of the firmament, where the stars twinkle.