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SIDE HUSTLE

HIGHNOTE

$16.63 Aug 23, 2024

From the moment he picks up his guitar, Thom Rotella's passion for music is palpable. Every phrase is crafted with intuitive care and precision that reflect a total commitment to his art. Each performance is an intimate journey into the expressive potential of jazz, where every chord tells a story and every solo speaks directly to the listener. Beyond his solo work, Rotella's collaborations with legendary artists and contributions to various projects cover an extraordinarily wide spectrum of music and entertainment heavy-hitters including Stanley Turrentine, Tommy Tedesco, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler and countless others. His compositions and his playing have been featured in high-profile television and film projects such as Family Guy, Ellen DeGeneres, Sex and the City, Criminal Minds and Altos (2015), underscoring his ability to craft memorable and communicative music. Thom Rotella continues to inspire and innovate, as evidenced on his HighNote Records debut recording, Side Hustle. With the remarkable organist Bobby Floyd and the propulsive drumming of Roy McCurdy, Rotella swings, smolders and sizzles through a set of imaginative original tunes and standards, with HighNote regulars Eric Alexander and Jeremy Pelt on hand to welcome him to the label.

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SIDE HUSTLE
HIGHNOTE Aug 2024
CD
$16.63

WOODY'S DELIGHT

HIGHNOTE

$16.49 Jan 31, 2012

Steve Turre demonstrates once again why he is one of the first call trombonists in the world on his fifth recording for HighNote Records, Woody's Delight. This record is an aptly named homage to his mentor and former boss, Woody Shaw. Steve offers an intensely interesting program featuring five of the finest trumpeters in jazz today Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney, Claudio Roditi, Freddie Hendrix and Chocolate Armenteros.

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WOODY'S DELIGHT
HIGHNOTE Jan 2012
CD
$16.49

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

ICA Classics

DVD

$26.99 Sep 25, 2012

The ICA Classics Legacy series presents a collection of historical performances by some of the world's greatest artists. These performances are released on DVD for the first time, incorporating rare archive footage that has been expertly and lovingly restored. 'Luckily for all of us, it wasn't enough for Leonard Bernstein to compose music and conduct orchestras. He felt equally compelled to talk about music - to try and explain what made it tick, what made it good, and what made it affect US in all the ways that music does. The other piece of good luck was that Leonard Bernstein and television came along at the same time. They were born for each other.' (Jamie Bernstein), the films on this DVD are taken from the 'Symphonic Twilight' series of TV programs made in the mid-Sixties that were the brainchild of Humphrey Burton, then the newly appointed Head of Music and Arts Programs for the BBC. In his booklet notes for this DVD, Burton reveals himself to have been instrumental in bringing Bernstein the conductor to the wider British public, who knew him foremost as the composer of West Side Story. In 1965 Burton persuaded Bernstein to conduct the LSO at the Royal Albert Hall and the resulting Mahler 8 was a spectacular occasion, broadcast to the nation. The following year, they put together these programs, filmed specifically for the new television audience. The works Bernstein chose to record are twentieth-century orchestral masterpieces, for which he is known to be a champion. His recordings of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony for CBS Records and Deutsche Grammophon were acclaimed by critics worldwide, and his interpretation of the Rite of Spring in 1959 elicited an enthusiastic 'Wow!' from Stravinsky himself! They are accompanied on this DVD by an in-depth interview, given here as a bonus and subtitled in French and German.

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
ICA Classics Sep 2012
DVD
$26.99

Swiss Nights, Vol. 3

SteepleChase

Vinyl

$45.99 Jan 01, 1900

This is the third and the last volume of the famed live recordings from Zurich Jazz Festival with an additional track with trumpeter Joe Newman as a guest player. “....this is another superb performance from Dexter Gordon who also takes the vocal on Jelly Jelly a 12 bar blues theme created by Billy Eckstine...if you enjoy fine Jazz Tenor playing or especially if you play Tenor Sax you must have this record.” (Jazz Journal) 180g Audiophile Vinyl

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Swiss Nights, Vol. 3
SteepleChase Jan 1900
Vinyl
$45.99

Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 in F Major, K. 247 - Beethoven:
Centaur Records Apr 2014
CD
$18.99

QUINTESSENCE: V2: S. VAUGHAN 1

Frémeaux

$32.99 Jun 01, 2014

“Run the risk of being perfect? Luckily, Sassy Sarah also knew – better than a good many others – how to bring her desire for respectability close to the precipice, and even, from time to time, give it a solid heave over the edge.” Alain GERBER Fremeaux & Associes’ « Quintessence » products have undergone an analogical and digital restoration process which is recognized throughout the world. Each 2 CD set edition includes liner notes in English as well as a guarantee. This 2 CD set presents a selection of the best recordings by Sarah Vaughan between 1950 and 1961.

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QUINTESSENCE: V2: S. VAUGHAN 1
Frémeaux Jun 2014
CD
$32.99

Sgambati Collection (Italian Romantics Series)

Brilliant Classics

$39.99 Oct 30, 2026

The most comprehensive set ever dedicated to the music of a neglected Italian Romantic, reissuing modern performances which have been recognised for their sensitivity and dynamism. As a one-time pupil of Franz Liszt, winning admiration from Richard Wagner at an early stage in his career, Giovanni Sgambati pursued a vocation outside the mainstream of 19th-century Italian music. Rather than opera, he was drawn above all to Germanic instrumental models of the concerto, quartet and symphony, prefiguring in this way the music of Martucci and Respighi as they sought to reclaim those models within an Italian tradition. Another of his successors, Alfredo Casella, paid warm tribute to him as a pioneer: 'The work of Sgambati, is of real importance in musical history it was he, at all events, who pointed the way which Italian composers are now treading in ever greater numbers, with growing confidence, and with increasing success.' Particularly notable in this set is the inclusion of the third and last of Sgambati's symphonies. The First and Second have attracted recordings elsewhere, but under the direction of Francesco Attardi, who has made modern editions of several Sgambati works, the Third is revealed as a powerful symphonic statement in five movements and three parts - in this regard, if in few others, resembling Mahler's Fifth, and taking marriage for it's programmatic theme. There is a nobility of utterance to the Third which makes a striking contrast with the blood and thunder of the G minor Piano Concerto, as well as with the intricately worked counterpoint of the Nonet for strings and the two Piano Quintets. Sgambati was agile in both mind and technique, adapting his idiom to his genres. Any listener hungry for out-of-the-way Romantic rarities will find rich rewards in this new, super-budget collection. In previous Fanfare magazine reviews, it was noted that 'Gaia Federica Caporiccio plays with a winsome freshness.' 'Caramiello's performance is more ruminative, less frenetic... this is highly recommended.' In reviewing the chamber music: 'I find Brilliant's newer recording much more to my liking.'

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Sgambati Collection (Italian Romantics Series)
Brilliant Classics Oct 2026
CD
$39.99

Lindblad: Stråkkvintett A-dur / String Quintet in A major -
Musica Sveciae Jan 1994
CD
$18.99

TRAETTA: IFIGENIA IN TAURIDE

APARTE

$29.49 Apr 17, 2026

Traetta's Ifigenia in Tauride draws us into the tragic heart of the House of Atreus. Orestes is consumed by guilt over the murder of his mother Clytemnestra, while Iphigenia bears the lasting scars of her near-sacrifice, planned by her own father Agamemnon. They are two tormented souls, profoundly alone, who find each other in a moment of overwhelming recognition. Traetta's music captures this tragic tension perfectly. Standing at the crossroads of Neapolitan bel canto and Gluck's dramatic reform, his vocal writing is never an empty display. Every line, every ornament, conveys raw, sincere emotion. Christophe Rousset leads the musicians of Les Talens Lyriques and a brilliant cast of soloists, with Rocio Perez delivering a deeply moving portrayal of Iphigenia, in this masterpiece by Traetta, recorded here for the first time.

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TRAETTA: IFIGENIA IN TAURIDE
APARTE Apr 2026
CD
$29.49

Mix & Match

Glass: Symphony No. 5 / Wachner, Trinity Wall Treet

ORANGE MOUNTAIN

$24.62 Oct 18, 2019

At 100 minutes long, Glass's Fifth Symphony is his magnum symphonic opus. The piece reflects a journey of human experiences through texts of the world's various 'Wisdom Traditions' (religions). Because of it's size, the piece is rarely performed. Conductor Julian Wachner played the symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in November 2016 and immediately resolved to make a new recording with the full resources of Trinity Wall Street in New York including NOVUS NY, Trinity Choir, Trinity Children's Choir, Downtown Voices and soloists Heather Buck, Katherine Pracht, Vale Rideout, Stephen Salters, and David Cushing. A bonus DVD features a concert video of the performance at Trinity Church in New York City, and an extended interview with Julian Wachner and Philip Glass.

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Glass: Symphony No. 5 / Wachner, Trinity Wall Treet
ORANGE MOUNTAIN Oct 2019
CD
$24.62

STREICHQUARTETT DIE JAHRESZEI
Wergo Sep 1991
CD
$20.99

Archlute Recital: Zimmerman, Christian - PICCININI, A. / GAL
Antes Edition Jul 1994
CD
$24.99

WORLD SINFONIA: HEART OF THE IMMIGRANTS

EARMUSIC

Vinyl

$41.49 Feb 10, 2023

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. World Sinfonia - Heart of the Immigrants (1993) is Al di Meola's second entry of his World Sinfonia project. The studio album, his 15th overall, is considered an energetic and vital tribute to Tango master Astor Piazzolla. Recorded on all-acoustic instrumentation, the music oozes the flavour and spirit of Argentina - not least because of the influence of Dino Saluzzi, who enriches this record with the wonderful sounds of his bandoneon. Songs such as 'Someday My Prince Will Come' shine with the lush instrumentation, occasionally backed by a string section or the soulful voice of Hernan Romero and make "World Sinfonia - Heart of the Immigrants" an Al di Meola album that should not be missing from the collections of any fan of Jazz infused with World Music and Tango.

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WORLD SINFONIA: HEART OF THE IMMIGRANTS
EARMUSIC Feb 2023
Vinyl
$41.49

FUEGO

CRISS CROSS

$20.21 Oct 04, 2011

Joe Cohn's second Criss Cross outing is a swinging affair. Joined by Dutch master pianist Peter Beets, and New York A-Listers, bassist John Webber and drummer Kenny Washington, the young guitar veteran (who is the son of the iconic tenor saxophonist-composer Al Cohn) addresses a strong program of first-rate, less traveled jazz and songbook standards, uncorking a string of inspired solos that blend Polish and vigor with a style that traverses a broad timeline of vocabulary on his instrument - he reaffirms his position as a major voice on today's playing field.

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FUEGO
CRISS CROSS Oct 2011
CD
$20.21

BRAZEN HEART LIVE AT JAZZ STANDARD - COMPLETE

GREEN LEAF MUSIC

$52.49 Dec 07, 2018

The Dave Douglas Quintet finishes their extensive Brazen Heart tour with a four night run at the Jazz Standard November 19-22, 2015. This 8-set recording features Jon Irabagon (saxophone), Matt Mitchell (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass) and Rudy Royston (drums). The group delivers a roller-coaster ride of complex harmonic and rhythmic structures, veering between fierce and soulful. Memorable versions of their entire repertoire, by a band at the height of it's powers. GRE-CD-1066, Disc 1: 01. Hawaiian Punch 02. Miracle Gro 03. Barbara Allen 04. Lone Wolf 05. Going Somewhere With You 06. There Is A Balm In Gilead 07. Law of Historical Memory GRE-CD-1066, Disc 2: 01. Ocean Spray 02. Time Travel 03. Pyrrhic Apology 04. Inure Phase 05. My Cares Are Down Below / The Pigeon And The Pie 06. Deep River GRE-CD-1062, Disc 1: 01. Hawaiian Punch 02. Little Feet 03. Wake Up Claire 04. Be Still My Soul 05. Brazen Heart 06. Whither Must I Wander? 07. Beware of Doug GRE-CD-1062, Disc 2: 01. Bridge to Nowhere 02. Variable Current 03. This Is My Father's World 04. One Morning 05. Middle March 06. God Be With You Till We Meet Again GRE-CD-1057, Disc 1: 01. Hawaiian Punch 02. Time Travel 03. Be Still My Soul 04. Brazen Heart 05. Whither Must I Wander 06. Lone Wolf GRE-CD-1057, Disc 2: 01. Garden State 02. Miracle Gro 03. Barbara Allen 04. Inure Phase 05. Little Feet GRE-CD-1067, Disc 1: 01. Law of Historical Memory 02. Ocean Spray 03. This Is My Father's World 04. Variable Current 05. My Cares Are Down Below / The Pigeon And The Pie 06. There Is A Balm In Gilead GRE-CD-1067, Disc 2: 01. Bridge To Nowhere 02. Deep River 03. Wake Up Claire 04. Going Somewhere Without You 05. God Be With You Till We Meet Again

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BRAZEN HEART LIVE AT JAZZ STANDARD - COMPLETE
GREEN LEAF MUSIC Dec 2018
CD
$52.49

SIGNORE SIGNORI SCUSATEMI

EUROARTS

SACD

$24.08 May 08, 2026

With his powerful voice and unmistakable stage presence, Anthony Clark Evans presents a dazzling panorama of the great 19th-century baritone repertoire on this recording. The program ranges from the passionate drama of Italian verismo to the elegance of French opera and the exalted sound world of Richard Wagner. Evans opens with Leoncavallo's famous Prologue from Pagliacci, a programmatic manifesto of verismo, and continues with Giordano's searing denunciation "Nemico della patria" from Andrea Chenier and Puccini's dark scene from Il Tabarro. Donizetti and Offenbach provide melodic refinement and brilliant color from the Italian and French traditions, while Thomas's drinking song from Hamlet adds charm and lightness. Particular highlights are the Wagner arias - the intimate "Song to the Evening Star" from Tannhauser and the great scene of the Dutchman - where Evans's voice reveals both lyrical depth and dramatic radiance. The program concludes with central Verdi roles, from Rigoletto to Il Trovatore and Luisa Miller, showcasing the full range of Italian bel canto drama.

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SIGNORE SIGNORI SCUSATEMI
EUROARTS May 2026
SACD
$24.08

Mix & Match

Octet Op. 17, Quintet, Allegro
Kontrapunkt Sep 1992
CD
$22.99

V1: INTEGRALE ROMANE

Frémeaux

$20.99 Jan 01, 2011

If Django Reinhardt’s “Gypsy Swing” legacy has a worldwide following today – with even mass audiences enjoying its renaissance – we shouldn’t overlook the years when the style went into decline after the death of Django, its Great Architect, in 1953. During years of oblivion, Django’s music was handed down (by ear!) in trailer-parks & caravans, played at gypsy-gatherings in Saint-Ouen, and swapped by collectors of rare records. But it’s no exaggeration to say that a few people managed to save the music from darkness by ensuring its practise amongst musicians from outside that small gypsy circle. And it’s equally unpretentious to say that Romane was one of the pioneering happy few in the course of this music’s revival. Today, Fremeaux & Associes celebrates Romane‘s importance with this first volume of a complete set of his recordings; entitled Swing for Ninine, it is devoted to... the Renaissance! Benjamin GOLDENSTEIN & Patrick FReMEAUX

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V1: INTEGRALE ROMANE
Frémeaux Jan 2011
CD
$20.99

Busch: Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 31 & Other Piano Works

CPO

$18.99 Apr 04, 2025

Usually, the music world commemorates the important birthdays or anniversaries of the deaths of it's celebrities. It is extremely rare for a work itself to be honoured with an anniversary celebration and presented accordingly. The present recording is one of these exceptions, because the featured work was first heard exactly one hundred years ago. On 19 December 1924, Fritz Busch conducted the premiere of his Piano Concerto Op. 31 at the Semperoper in Dresden, which had just been completed by his brother Adolf, the celebrated violinist and devoted composer. The soloist at the premiere was Rudolf Serkin, for whom his future father-in-law had written the work. At the time, critics praised the 'serious, well-constructed, melodious and at the same time rewarding composition', that now - garnished by a series of solo piano pieces - invites you to celebrate it's anniversary.

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Busch: Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 31 & Other Piano Works
CPO Apr 2025
CD
$18.99

ROMANZA

VERVE

$16.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 15% Sep 25, 2026

Andrea Bocelli -"Romanza (30th Anniversary)" Andrea Bocelli's Romanza is the album that made him a global star as his most commercially successful to date, and one of the best-selling albums of all time, with worldwide sales exceeding 19 million copies. Romanza celebrates it's 30th anniversary on CD with a never-before-seen photo from the period of the album's recording. The 16 songs include, "Time to Say Goodbye," Bocelli's spine-tingling #1 single with Sarah Brightman, and the global hit "Vivo per Lei (feat Giorgia)." The album also features a previously unreleased extended version of the classic, "Con te Partiro." Verve Label Group; Verve; Classical Crossover; Catalog.

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ROMANZA
VERVE Sep 2026
CD
~~$19.99~~ $16.99

CHARLES LIVE AT ZANZIBAR BLUE

RANDOM CHANCE

$16.49 Aug 27, 2002

Bassist Charles Fambrough presents a live album recorded at Zanzibar Blue, a jazz club in Philadelphia. It features original compositions by Fambrough, one vocal standard, and a 4/4-time funk rendering of "All Blue" by Miles Davis. Features pianist Bill O'Connell, trumpeter Sean Jones, saxophonist Joe Ford, drummers Lenny White and Wilby Fletcher, and percussionist Roland Guerrero.

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CHARLES LIVE AT ZANZIBAR BLUE
RANDOM CHANCE Aug 2002
CD
$16.49

Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Pappano, Jaho, Puente, Royal Opera House [Blu-ray]

Opus Arte

Blu-Ray

$39.99 Oct 26, 2018

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

Puccini’s Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly is given a ravishing production by The Royal Opera. Its alluring imagery of Japan from the 19th-century European Imagination heightens the intense clash of East and West. When the American naval officer Pinkerton seduces the young ‘Butterfly’ Cio-Cio-San, he seems to promise every happiness – but his cruel abandonment leads to her tragic self-sacrifice. Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera and renowned for his interpretations of Puccini, conducts an exceptionally fine cast with the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Powerful performances show why Madama Butterfly remains one of the all-time operatic favourites. ‘‘Always at his best in Puccini, Antonio Pappano conducts with passionate sincerity.’’ (The Guardian 5 Stars) ‘‘An opera that ranks among the very greatest of the 20th century.’’ (The Daily Telegraph 4 Stars) ‘‘Ermonela Jaho is the best Cio-Cio-San London has seen in years’’ (Independent 4 Stars)
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The Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho is one of the great singing actresses of our time. Hers is not a sumptuous soprano, but the colors she brings to her portrayal are astonishing. Her Flower Duet with Elizabeth DeShong's feisty, sympathetic Suzuki is quite beautifully sung. Pappano - arguably today's greatest Puccianian conductor - draws ardent playing from the orchestra, superbly detailed in its commentaries.

– Gramophone

Pappano is particularly alert to Puccini borrowing traditional Japanese melodies; at times he makes you hear this score, as well as the drama on stage, as a tug of war between East and West. It’s Sharpless and Suzuki who steal the show – a consul with a tender conscience from Scott Hendricks and Elizabeth DeShong as a maid who could melt the stoniest of hearts.

– BBC Music Magazine

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Pappano, Jaho, Puente, Royal Opera House [Blu-ray]
Opus Arte Oct 2018
Blu-Ray
$39.99

Hotel Metamorphosis

C Major Entertainment

Blu-Ray

$45.99 Oct 02, 2026

As an endless source of inspiration, Ovid's Metamorphoses have left a lasting mark on our culture for over two thousand years. Combining some of it's episodes with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Stage Director Barrie Kosky creates a pasticcio for our times, a fascinating new work of rich imagination and breathless narratives. With a leading cast of singers assembled by Cecilia Bartoli, and with the participation of actor Angela Winkler, Hotel Metamorphosis stands out as 'a panopticon of human emotions'. Vivaldi expert Gianluca Capuano conducts Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, presenting a unique variety of Vivaldi's arias, ensembles and choruses, music with a particularly powerful emotional charge. 'What a brilliant evening of theatre.' (BR Klassik) / 'Checking into this hotel guarantees a luxury stay.' (Kurier) / 'the musical Champions League.' (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

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Hotel Metamorphosis
C Major Entertainment Oct 2026
Blu-Ray
$45.99

Sinigaglia: Romanza e umoresca, Op. 16, Violin Concerto, Op.

Tactus

$21.99 May 04, 2018

Leone Sinigaglia is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered. He was a Jewish composer who was born in Turin on 14 August 1868 and died there on 16 May 1944 in front of the military force that had come to arrest him in the Ospedale Mauriziano, where he had sought shelter from the Nazi-Fascist persecution. During the period of his education in his native town, Sinigaglia often stayed in Milan, where he struck up important friendships with Antonio Bazzini (a violinist and composer who was professor of composition from 1873 and became director of the Conservatory of Milan from 1881 onwards), and with his pupils Alfredo Catalani and Giacomo Puccini. Bazzini urged him to travel to Europe to complete his training with the great names of the era, first of all Brahms, who, however, not accepting pupils but recognizing their value, diverted him to Eusebius Mandyczewski, a teacher of great fame and professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory. From these years in Vienna came the great masterpiece by Sinigaglia: the concert for violin and orchestra included in this prestigious live performance by the young world star Laura Marzadori, first violin of La Scala in Milan. The album includes two pieces for cello and orchestra performed by the refined soloist Fernando Caida Greco, and the delicate orchestral piece "Regenlied." Marco Zuccarini leads with great confidence the Citta di Ferrara Orchestra in this live concert organized by the "Comitato dei grandi Maestri".

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Sinigaglia: Romanza e umoresca, Op. 16, Violin Concerto, Op.
Tactus May 2018
CD
$21.99

FACETTEN
Bayer Jan 2012
CD
$20.99