Irene Kral - Better Than Anything - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

22 tracks from 1976-77 from vocalist, backed up by pianist Loonis McGlohon, bassist Terry Lassiter & drummer Jim Lackey. Album Tracks 1. Watch What Happens 2. If Love Were All 3. Emily 4. Wheelers and Dealers 5. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? 6. Mad About the Boy 7. The Underdog 8. You Were There 9. A Child Is Born 10. The Shadow of Your Smile 11. A Time for Love 12. The Winds of Heaven 13. I'll Follow My Secret Heart/Someday I'll Find You/I'll See You Again 14. Small Day Tomorrow 15. Pieces of Dreams 16. Unlit Room 17. Summer Me, Winter Me 18. Love Came on Stealthy Fingers 19. A Room with a View 20. Nothing Like You 21. You Are There 22. I Like It Here

Two hard-to-find LPs by two treasured jazz singers. Sublime balladeer Irene Kral sings Mad at the World; Sometime Ago; Is It Over, Baby?, and more on her 1965 LP Wonderful Life. Anita fully recaptures her early glory on the 1978 LP There's Only One Ace in the Hole; Chicago; I Cried for You, and more! Album Tracks 1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 2. I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You 3. Old Folks 4. What Is This Thing Called Love? 5. Ace in the Hole 6. I Cover the Waterfront 7. Chicago (That Toddling Town) 8. I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me) 9. Mad at the World 10. Sometime Ago 11. Is It Over, Baby? 12. This Life We've Led 13. There Is No Right Way 14. I've Never Been Anything 15. Goin' to California 16. There Are Days (When I Don't Think of You at All) 17. Hold Your Head High 18. Nothing Like You (Has Ever Been Seen Before) 19. Here I Go Again 20. Wonderful Life

Pianist Miguel Ángel Acebo presents Scriabin Notebook, a new album released by IBS Classical, bridging the visionary world of Alexander Scriabin with contemporary Spanish musical creation. Recorded at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada, the album features works by Jesús Torres, José Manuel López López, José María Sánchez-Verdú, and Francisco Domínguez, alongside emblematic pieces by the Russian composer.The project traces an aesthetic and spiritual journey that connects Scriabin's mysticism with the sensitivity of four generations of Spanish composers. In this kaleidoscopic reading, Acebo explores fire, resonance, and contemplation as metaphors for sound and inner transformation. From the introspection of Laberinto de silencios to the spectral expansion of Lo fijo y lo volátil, through the sonic gardens of Sánchez-Verdú and Domínguez's new work Approaching Mysterium, the album forms a constellation of perspectives on Scriabin's legacy, understood as a living myth art as a path to revelation.Recorded at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Granada) and released by IBS Classical in November 2025, Scriabin Notebook stands as a landmark of contemporary piano creation-a meeting point between identity, exploration, and transcendence.