Ryan Cassata - Greetings From Echo Park - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Japanese paper sleeve pressing. This double album was originally a promotional record, with only 500 issued in Japan in 1985. The first disc (pressed at 45RPM) featured mainly remixes from Around The World In A Day, while the second (33RPM) offered similar from Purple Rain and 1999. Thirty-four years later it got a wider on 2019's Record Store Day (14, 000 copies were issued).

Kehlani - Blue Water Road - 13x Platinum, 2x GRAMMY Award-nominated, singer & songwriter Kehlanihas announced her highly anticipated third albumblue water road. Inchblue water roadis a destination in my mind,InchKehlaniexplains. InchI'm giving everyone access. It's an emotional journey, a sexual journey, and a spiritual journey. To me, the album is like a glass house. It's light, transparent, and the sun is shining right through it.Inch

Originations surely places Cohan in the first rank of contemporary jazz composers. -Chicago Tribune. Dynamically synthesizing classical compositional elements and improvisation, with Middle Eastern and other World music influences, pianist/composer Ryan Cohan's Originations builds on his five critically acclaimed recordings from the last two decades. Born from a trip to Jordan where he discovered his paternal family homeland, the experience catalyzed Cohan to seek out his Palestinian roots for the first time. His reawakened Arab lineage together with his Jewish upbringing was transformative as he contemplated the rich beauty and profound cultural complexities from a musical perspective. Scored for his long-standing Chicago sextet plus string quartet, Originations is a natural progression for him as a musical storyteller as such motifs were a central catalyst in his lauded earlier recordings. Featuring John Wojciechowski, Geof Bradfield, Tito Carrillo, James Cammack, and Michael Raynor, along with percussionist Omar Musfi and the KAIA String Quartet. InchVery intelligent writing. Void of predictability from beginning to end & hellip;Inch & ndash; Jae Sinnett, WHRV