Gary Versace - Inside OutsideNo New York area organist of the present day is more in demand than Gary Versace, who makes his Criss Cross debut with a quartet comprised of Criss Cross Label veterans: tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin, guitarist Adam Rogers, and drummer Clarence Penn. Versace guides his group of New York cutting edge players through a program of eight originals with strong melodies, challenging harmonic structures, and intoxicating grooves.

and this box offers the listener opportunity to explore the young composer's fascination with Gypsy themes (in the excerpts from the opera Aleko and Capriccio bohemien) as well as his lifelong preoccupation with death

and Malcolm Martineau

explores themes of beginning anew and trusting that incredible things are on the horizon if you deeply believe in them

The guitar has always been a magical instrument to me

Digitally remastered edition of this 1970 debut album from this young South London Blues-based band

French-Canadian bass-baritone Philippe Sly is already gaining international notoriety for his "beautiful

observe a particular preference for melodic lines reminiscent of the folk music that was practiced in the region

composed in 1943 at the age of twenty-two

During his lifetime

taverns and air

sometimes figurative

but was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize