This is a compilation of Leonard Bernstein's music for the theater drawn from a variety of sources, mostly cast albums. To wit, there are two songs from the [more]

Similar to 2000's Hoagy Carmichael-based Stardust, Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein finds pianist Bill Charlap continuing his exploration of great [more]

Includes Symphonies: No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21; No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (Overture to the Ballet); No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36; No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. [more]

Also, Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite (Complete); Copland: El Salón México; Bernstein: 3 Dances from Fancy [more]

Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings is an 86-track, four-disc box set that covers Aretha Franklin's Atlantic career, spanning from 1967's {"I Never Loved [more]

Leonard Bernstein conducts his own score on this studio recording, which features opera singers Kiri Te Kanawa and {José Carreras}. The singers [more]

When the producers of the film West Side Story heard a sampling of what the Stan Kenton Orchestra had done to their score, they were disappointed that they had not thought to ask the [more]

This CD contains 24 selections, so one cannot complain about its brevity, but it would have been preferable to have Sarah Vaughan's Roulette albums reissued in full (a few have been) [more]

Bernstein: Candide Overture; Sondheim: A Little Night Music; Pacific Overtures Suite; Gershwin: [more]

It was always a major goal of Stan Kenton's to lead a concert jazz orchestra as opposed to a swinging dance band. He wanted to perform for audiences that sat [more]

To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title [more]

The pairing of premier era-gone-by pianist/crooner Michael Feinstein and the legendary Maynard Ferguson Big Band is such a rousing success that [more]

Although Rhino's four-disc box set, Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones, was released to coincide with Quincy Jones' autobiography, and that's what gives [more]

One of jazz's most important big band leaders, Stan Kenton always had ambitious goals. In the late 1930s when he was playing piano as a sideman in Los Angeles [more]

The third of three volumes of double CDs put out by the Stan Kenton-oriented Tantara label is the most exciting of the trio. The first disc features the 1962 Kenton Mellophonium [more]

When the first version of this impressive box set was originally released in 1991 (as Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett), it put the capstone upon [more]

While this two-CD set does cover a lot of the material Maynard Ferguson recorded between the mid-'50s and late '90s, it suffers from a chronological imbalance that [more]

The modern Celtic music revival shuddered in the wake of Michael Flatley's overbearing Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which peppered the [more]

Steven Bernstein sure likes to explore a theme. Following up 2008's Diaspora Suite, the fourth in his "Diaspora" series, the prolific Bernstein now [more]

Pianist Martin Sasse is a talented bop-based player and his trio with bassist Henning Gailing and drummer Hendrik Smock is excellent. However, on this set their [more]