Jamaican jazz piano great Monty Alexander brings his unmistakable rhythmic flair to this 2026 set, moving through jazz, Caribbean grooves and inspired interpretations. The 12-track program includes "Marcus Garvey," "Skamento," "Yellow Bird" and "What's Going On."

Chicago trio Twin Talk's new album title, Delights, is affably tongue-in-cheek, but it's not wrong. While the title Delights plays on listeners' expectations for a breezy set of delectable melodies, in actuality the group's tricky interplay consistently challenges that presumption. But Delights is no misnomer, as these 11 tracks never lose a sense of joy as they unfold into the prismatic, intuitive musical conversation that has marked this band's sound for more than a decade.

Chicago trio Twin Talk's new album title, Delights, is affably tongue-in-cheek, but it's not wrong. While the title Delights plays on listeners' expectations for a breezy set of delectable melodies, in actuality the group's tricky interplay consistently challenges that presumption. But Delights is no misnomer, as these 11 tracks never lose a sense of joy as they unfold into the prismatic, intuitive musical conversation that has marked this band's sound for more than a decade.

Four-time GRAMMY Award nominee and multi-platinum saxophone icon Boney James celebrates a remarkable milestone with A Simple Man, his 20th studio album. Featuring special guests Ledisi and Larry Carlton, the collection blends soulful melodies with the signature sound that has made James one of music's most enduring artists. This uplifting and deeply personal album finds James at the height of his craft, reflecting on what matters most.

Baile as Baile is a luminously distinct work that features bassist-composer-arranger Devra Hoff on acoustic double basses (sometime multi-tracked), and presents a longing lyricism and a centering (meditative, even) sonic embrace. The programmatic range is original compositions inspired by traditional music, and original arrangements of traditional songs. There are additional contributions on two tracks by friends Tara Jane O'Neil (autoharp) & Julia Holter (harmonium). Devra Hoff (she/her) has worked in a wide array of cultural contexts and musical settings. She has recorded & toured extensively over three decades on over one hundred recordings & thousands of shows with artists such as Julia Holter, Yoko Ono, Sharon Van Etten/Attachment Theory, Sean Ono Lennon, Nels Cline/Singers, Vijay Iyer, Cibo Matto, Mike Watt, Ches Smith, and many more. Devra's own records include Solo Bass (named by avant-pop icon Laurie Anderson as one of her top 5 favorite records of all time), Voices From the Empty Moor (Song of Anne Briggs), and Mendoza/Hoff Revels' punk/jazz debut Echolocation - chosen among "Best Jazz Albums of 2023" by both NPR and The New York Times. As Hoff writes in the liner notes of this work: "The music reflects a search for an elusive sense of home, for belonging that transcends place or scene, and the eventual realization that this 'home' must be found, or built, within oneself." Baile as Baile is a priceless gem.

Cosmolamps is drummer and composer Rintaro Mikami's second album, a meditative exploration of time, memory, and the fleeting beauty of everyday moments. Built around three variations on the title theme "Time," representing past, present, and future, the record unfolds with lyrical compositions and sensitive, exploratory ensemble playing. Mikami leads a tight-knit group through music that is both intimate and expansive, drawing on a decade of life in New York and a childhood shaped by the landscapes of southern Japan. The result is a quietly ambitious jazz record about how small, personal moments gather into something larger and shared.

From Grammy and Emmy Award-winning trumpeter, synthesist, and Academy Award-nominated film composer Mark Isham comes At the Carousel Club, a six-track album that brings together jazz improvisation, vintage analog electronics, and cinematic atmosphere into a single, deeply personal statement. The album began with Isham's towering collection of vintage analog synthesizers and modular instruments: a vast, interconnected system he used to generate massive electronic landscapes and evolving sonic textures. Those foundations became the architecture for live ensemble performance, recorded at the legendary Mad Hatter Studios with drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassist Kaveh Rastegar, guitarist Nels Cline, vocalist Ayo Awosika, and the Orchid String Quartet. At the center of it all is Isham's trumpet, lyrical, searching, and unmistakably human. Moving through each environment as an observer, a storyteller, and an improviser. The result is music that is electronic but organic, cinematic but intimate, structured yet alive with spontaneity. At the Carousel Club is a record for listeners who find themselves at the intersection of jazz, ambient, and contemporary classical music. For fans of Pat Metheny, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and Nils Frahm.

Creative Inspirations is the debut recording by Trio Imagination, an extraordinary collaboration that brings together pianist David Virelles, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Andrew Cyrille. It pairs Virelles - who is known for his all-encompassing approach to creativity that is deeply-rooted in the Cuban influences of his upbringing - with two towering figures of creative music, whose individual work have helped shape the evolution of modern jazz for more than six decades. Together, they create music that is spacious, lyrical, and uncompromisingly inventive, grounded in profound listening and collective imagination. The group evolved out of Trio 3, which featured saxophonist Oliver Lake alongside Cyrille and Workman. Following Lake's retirement, the remaining members invited Virelles to help continue the group's legacy. Recorded at the legendary Van Gelder Studio, the album captures three master improvisers in an intimate, deeply expressive dialogue that unfolds through shared intuition, revealing an ensemble whose interplay is marked by subtlety, trust, and fearless exploration.

Limited edition CD boxset containing 20 iconic original albums from the Jazz great in mini LP replica sleeves, presented in a rigid case lift off lid box with a 30 page booklet and discography. Includes the albums 'Round About Midnight Miles Ahead, Miles, Porgy And Bess, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come, Seven Steps to Heaven, Miles in Berlin, ESP, Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Filles de Kilimanjaro, in a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, a Tribute to Jack Johnson, on the Corner, We Want Miles, Star People and Decoy. Sony.

Green Shadows presents a portrait of British composer Richard Pantcheff, performed by the London Choral Sinfonia under Michael Waldron, joined by acclaimed violinist Jack Liebeck, narrator Alexander Armstrong, and a distinguished cast of soloists. Inspired by the musical and literary world of Ralph Vaughan Williams while remaining unmistakably individual in voice, Pantcheff's music combines rich lyricism, pastoral colour and emotional depth with a thoroughly contemporary perspective. The program ranges from the reflective title work Green Shadows Fall and the intimate A Prayer for the King's Majesty to the virtuosic Fantasia on Yorkshire Folk Tunes and the elegant Spring Suite for violin and string orchestra, both featuring Jack Liebeck, alongside the radiant Service of Holy Communion, chamber works for oboe, and the evocative narrated concert piece On Hearing the Oxford Bells at Eventide. Following three acclaimed recordings devoted to Pantcheff's music, Green Shadows offers a fresh perspective on one of Britain's most distinctive contemporary composers, performed by the ensemble hailed by Gramophone Magazine as "fast becoming the go-to champions for contemporary British choral music."

Nikki and Timothy Chooi are brothers, both Queen Elisabeth Competition laureates, and two of the most internationally active violinists of their generation. Double is their debut recording together: a program of works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Moszkowski, Leclair, Sarasate, and Dvorak for two violins and piano, one of the lesser-documented formations in the chamber music canon. Joined by pianist Eunice Kim, the album spans three centuries of repertoire written for this combination. Between them, the Chooi brothers have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw, and Suntory Hall, held the concertmaster chair at the Metropolitan Opera, and hold current positions with the Wiener Concert-Verein, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the University of Ottawa. The Chooi brothers are not conventional soloists in any sense - they learned music in the same room, and their work together reflects a shared musical vocabulary built over decades. Timothy performs the 1714 "Dolphin" Stradivarius, once played by Jascha Heifetz, while Nikki performs a 1713 Stradivarius - these two extraordinary instruments, made within a year of each other, lend the duo a unity of color rarely heard in recordings of this repertoire.

Now in a complete edition: the five Piano Concertos that represent twenty years of Beethoven's creative effort, and to crown the set, the Choral Fantasy, an early version of the Ode to Joy. On period instruments Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, rebalance the forces and timbres to restore all the daring that must surely have stunned the works' first audiences.

Chout - a savage farce - is one of Prokofiev's most unbridled, riotous orchestral pieces, crafted with mercurial inventiveness, it's abrasive rhythms and brilliant colours pervaded by a sarcastic, dark humour. At the head of the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Stanislav Kochanovsky here presents the rarely-recorded original full-length ballet. It's companion piece, the Classical Symphony, offers a piquant counterpoint: beneath it's ostensible Haydnesque elegance it exudes Prokofiev's irony and his quirky penchant for displacement.

Acclaimed for their expressive intensity and commitment, these performances of Beethoven's String Quartets from Cuarteto Casals reveal all the modernity, freedom and humanity of this absolute peak of the repertoire. This 7 CD complete edition collects all of the recordings made between 2017 and 2020. To quote Gramophone magazine: 'The Casals present a compelling yet familiar picture of Beethoven, generating tension and taking a forensic approach to detail in the manner of a modern police procedural. '