Rodney Whitaker - Common GroundFamed bassist Rodney Whitaker brings together an all star unit of generational contemporaries, each a modern master and colleague of long standing, to interpret a sampling of tunes from composer Gregg Hill's pen, compositions that Whitaker found particularly inspiring. With trumpeter Terrell Stafford, saxophonist Tim Warfield, pianist Bruce Barth, and drummer Dana Hall, Whitaker guides the flow with a mammoth sound and harmonic acumen, as his partners

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the single graduate prize given at commencement exercises

and Roy Perkins (Mercury had excellent contacts in southern Louisiana)

which served as the title track for Ensemble Caprice and Ensemble Vocal-Arts Québec Mini Concerts Sante

From the intricate vocal fretwork of 'On Reflection' and the delicatemedieval flavor of 'Talybont' the Celtic-tinged rock of 'Time To Kill' and the jagged rhythms of 'Just The Same' all those diverse elements which made the band so strikingly original are skillfully blended and perfectly executed

Telemann/ Oggier/ Ensemble Fratres - Georg Philipp Telemann: Music for Flute

Jack Savoretti's Europiana serves as the follow-up his 2019 release

which contains no vocalizing but evokes it

the musician behind Music of Transparent Means (MOTM)

The Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich continue their journey through Tchaikovsky's symphonic works

Dean Torrence's The Teammates: Twenty Years Of Making Music 1965-1985 is a curated collection that traverses the decades of the various musical teams Torrence has captained

Actors: Elizabeth Hurley