Chicago Hot (DMK 253), the first Delmark release from The Fat Babies, was chosen as a top ten album of 2012 by Howard Reich in the Chicago Tribune. 18th & Racine was recorded at the acoustically gifted Electrical Audio room B as the band swung through a smattering of hot 'n' sweet tunes that have been slaying crowds weekly at their Green Mill and Honky Tonk BBQ performances. The Fat Babies interpret classic styles of the '20s and '30s. Founded in 2010 by string bass player Beau Sample, it's members include Andy Schumm, cornet; John Otto, reeds; Dave Bock, trombone; Jake Sanders, banjo and guitar; Paul Asaro, piano; Alex Hall, drums.

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HOFMANN: Violin Concertos

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During the 18th century in Naples there were a huge number of excellent musicians. As a result, Neapolitan music reveals an exhaustive and surprising gold mine of new discoveries and small masterpieces. None of these sonatas have ever been recorded before. Flautist Renata Cataldi presents these works on an authentic transverse flute. She is joined by the ensemble Partenope Stravagante, cellist Leonardo Massa, and harpsichordist Debora Capitanio. Renata Cataldi studied at the "Licinio Refice" in Frosinone and "San Pietro a Majella" in Naples, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Bologna. She regularly concertizes as a soloist, in various chamber ensembles, and in orchestra, devoting herself to the modern, Renaissance, and Baroque transverse flute. With the transverse flute, she dedicates herself to the recovery and enhancement of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan musical heritage. She is also the author of essays and articles published for the State Archives of Rome and the Italian Society of Musicology.

This is the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the British-American war film, composed by six-time Grammy award-winning composer Thomas Newman. Newman has composed the music to Skyfall, Tolkien, Spectre, Finding Dory, The Shawshank Redemption, and WALL-E, amongst others.

The film was nominated for Nine Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Original Score, and winning three.

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REVIEW:

If usually a Thomas Newman score is quite balanced emotionally wise, “1917” sees the composer stretch his sound to both extremes, from ultra-quiet and ambient to aggressively tense. The result is an enjoyable hybrid that shows that just like Mendes and Deakins, Newman raised his personal stakes for this one.

– SoundtrackDreams.com (Mihnea Manduteanu)

Rising-star violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is joined by the eminent pianist-composer Huw Watkins in a diverse programme of works that were all influenced in different ways by the era in which they were composed. The works were conceived at four very different points in the composer's lives - Debussy, at the end of his life, Respighi in the first flush of fame, Elgar, although not old, enjoying his last creative period, and Sibelius in his prime composing prolifically. These four contrasting works were all composed as the Great War drew to a close, but none of them specifically attempts to conjure up images of the conflict, nor act as any kind of programmatic memorial to its victims. Rather, these works are all conceived as absolute music, albeit, in the case of the Elgar and Debussy sonatas, imbued with a melancholy regret that may have been a reflection of those tragic four years.

October 29, 1923 was a date steeped in history. In the middle of a year of political and economic crises, the age of public radio in Germany was ushered in with the first broadcast of the "Berliner Funkstunde" (Berlin Radio Hour) from the attic of an office building on Potsdamer Platz. Radio offered entirely new possibilities for the production and reception of music. The two compositions on this CD not only benefited from these developments but also played an active role in shaping them.

Eduard Künneke's five-movement Concerto grosso "Tänzerische Suite" op. 26 for jazz band and large orchestra corresponded to modern dances: the Overture is a Foxtrot, the Andante a Blues, the Intermezzo a Tango, the valse mélancolique a Boston Waltz, and the Finale a Foxtrot again. The suite was celebrated as a milestone in contemporary radio music and soon became part of the regular concert program.

Hanns Eisler's cantata "Tempo der Zeit" (Tempo of the Times) op. 16 for soloists, narrator, choir, winds, and percussion was written in 1929. The libretto was written by the popular lyricist Robert Gilbert, under the pseudonym of David Weber. With its pure wind ensemble and percussion, "Tempo der Zeit" captures the typical Songspiel sound of the time. The fact that Eisler used the "modern" medium of radio, of all things, to get his fundamental criticism of blind enthusiasm for technology across to the people is an ironical aspect of the work’s composition and reception history. This CD is part of the special programme focus on the topic "The Wild Sound of the Twenties".

Clarinetist under assumed name, with Berigan, Krupa + with 12 pg. Bk. 1934.

Goodman is joined by His Orchestra, feat. vocals by Helen Ward, also feat. Ray Hendricks & Toots Mondello.

And His Orchestra inc. 4 Lang-Worth sessions not avail. On LP.

W. vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, 22 cuts.

21 track collection features songs recorded at New York's Liederkranz Hall in 1941 by Woody Herman & Gene Krupa for the hall's trascription library. The 10 songs by Herman feature vocals by Woody, Muriel Lane & Steady Nelson. The 11 songs by Krupa feature vocals by Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge & Howard Dulany.

24 cuts from Circle #14 & #64 LP's w. His Orch.

Not only was Thornhill's distinctive instrumentation deeply influential on later bandleaders, but so were the trailblazing Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans arrangements you'll hear on these 17 tracks. Behold Snowfall; a Sunday Kind of Love; Rustle of Spring; the Things I Love; Early Autumn; Traumerie; Le Papillon, and more!

Violinist w. Jimmy Jones-piano, John Levy-bass.

And his orchestra inc. Thelma Carpenter, Lester Young, Jimmy Powell +.

W. His Orch. Inc. Lester Young, Harry Edison, Dicky Wells.

Vocalists w. Sammy Kaye incl.. Billy Williams, Arthur Wright, Nancy Norman & Sally Stewart / vocalists w. Les Elgart incl.. Terry Parker and the Tune Tellers.

From 1944, w. Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Clyde Hart, Charlie Drayton, and Denzil Best, 14+ cuts from February 8, 1944.

Bunk Johnson-tpt and his band, includes nine previously unreleased tracks.

23 cuts w. His Tympany Five.

43 tracks on 2 CDs recorded between 1945 and 1950 by the Legendary Blind Boys of Mississippi. This is the most comprehensive overview of the group ever released. The lead vocals are performed by the incomparable Archie Brownlee, whose vocal prowess was an inspiration to scores of R&B and Soul singers who grew up listening to him. These titles were recorded for America's premier Gospel labels Peacock Records, and some of the earlier tracks were recorded for the Coleman label owned by the Coleman Brothers, who also have a release on Acrobat this month. This series has been greeted with great acclaim by both Radio and Press around the world, and we are confident that this package will be no exception. It comes with comprehensive liner notes from expert, Opal Louis Nations and many rare and unseen illustrations.

The main idea behind this recording was to focus on the presentation of pieces composed by Hungarian and Polish artists in one particular year: 1948. We wanted to show here compositions of two major artists from each of those countries. Both Hungarian pieces featured on the album naturally continue the 'Hungarian sound,' characteristic of the interwar period, shaped by the output of Zoltán Kodály. Cast in four movements, the Serenade for String Orchestra by Endre Szervánszky (1911-1977) is an example of one of the outstanding compositions symptomatic of the generation of the master's successors. Let us quote the words of an excellent music critic, Marianne Pándi: 'This work combines all the qualities of the Hungarian music of that period: it is melodic, understandable, Hungarian in style, and rhythmic. It is a source of first-class entertainment.'

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15 cuts by this jazz trumpeter from 1949, w. different band members on cuts 1-11 and 12-15.

The heart of this man had warmed ten thousand, thousand nights for all the world - that's what Jelly Roll Morton said of "Big Eye" Louis. This CD features the clarinetist joined by Charlie Love, Johnny St. Cyr, Austin Young, Ernest Rogers, "Wooden Joe" Nichols, Albert Jiles and others.

They called her Lady Patachou and, in fifties’ Montmartre, her cabaret was a “must” where she used to gather all the great names whose songs she sang, from Georges Brassens and Guy Beart to Charles Aznavour and Leo Ferre. This anthology compiled by Dany Lallemand brings to light a selection of recordings made by Patachou as an icon of Parisian music-halls, a major figure combining the popular accents of Paris with the elegance of Montmartre. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX

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