Breakaway - Hold with Hope - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ryan Keberle & Catharsis their fifth album, The Hope I Hold, an album full of optimism in the face of political and cultural corruption. The album features lyrics drawn from Let America Be America Again, a virtuosic and poignant poem written by Langston Hughes in 1935 that Keberle felt compelled to incorporate into his new work. For this record, band veterans Jorge Roeder (bass) and Eric Doob (drums) anchor the ensemble, trombonist Keberle expands his palette to include vocals and keyboards, and Chilean vocalist Camila Meza expands her role to include her intriguing guitar playing. Saxophonist Scott Robinson joins the band for the first time, contributing his inspired playing to the Brazilian-inspired Catharsis sound. The CD also includes four tracks featuring a Keberle-Meza-Roeder trio, providing an album-within-the-album departure that adds a fits seamlessly within the albums aesthetic.

Footprint Records is proud to present the jazz duo Edin and Stegenius on their debut album No Thought of Leaving. With Caroline Stegenius' soft, cool voice and Martin Edin's innovative piano, they present a selection of standards from the jazz and pop scene. This is a high definition recording, recorded in DXD and is something for the audiophile as well as for music lovers all over the world. Caroline Stegenius has a lively communication capability that captures and touches audiences. Her nuanced voice and her ability to let the texts speak comes into it's own in the duo's defenseless arrangements. Caroline also writes her own compositions nourished by Swedish folk music and jazz. Martin Edin is a pianist and music researcher. He is a PhD student at Musikhögskolan i Örebro, with research aimed at piano improvisation in the 19th century. He also teaches conducting at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Snoop Dogg's 2019 album - where he addresses his relationship with Suge Knight - thanks himself, and always has a little fun. Album features the likes of YG, Mustard, Russ, Wiz Khalifa, Swizz Beatz, Slick Rick, Chris Brown, Jermaine Dupri and many others!