New Music CDs

The recording of John Adams's Grawemeyer Award-winning album was made with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis in 2016. The piece features Adams's usual 'intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness,' says the Boston Globe, and 'mingles virtuoso show with soul.'

Featuring the Classic Quartet, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, and recorded at the end of a two-week run at Birdland, the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected. Unknown until 2004 and unheard until now.

New 2018 album! Ethereal soul-pop 'n' phantasmagoric R&B from the Los Angeles composer, for fans of Janelle Monae and Hiatus Kaiyote. Includes "Mother Maybe". "The classically trained Bonet plays nearly every instrument on this shapeshifting R&B marvel." - NPR Music

Two-time Tony Award and Grammy Award winner Patti LuPone returns to her roots with her new double-disc live album. Recorded in concert in her hometown of Northport, Long Island, at the John W. Engeman Theatre, Ms. LuPone takes you behind the curtain on her life-long love affair with Broadway and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today.

After working together during Amp's Radiohead remix project, Amp Live and Del the Funky Homosapien, these back-when friends from Oakland embark on sixteen tracks filling an electronic melting pot. Their chemistry bids to elevate hip-hop through a portal to the progressive, futuristic, and fun.

Kamasi Washington's sophomore album not only fulfills its overarching ambition, but illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real and imagined, citizen and culture, self and self, as well as self and other, and does so through the lens of a mature but never jaded revolutionary consciousness.

Country icon Willie Nelson and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis take to the stage of New York City's Lincoln Center for an evening that pays homage to the legacy of Ray Charles. The duo cleverly sequences the songs to tell a story of a love affair from beginning to end. Also appearing as a special guest is fellow Grammy Award-winning vocalist Norah Jones.

Danish artist Agnes Obel, whose music has gone platinum in France and Belgium and won five Danish Music Awards, shows the breadth of her musical knowledge on her latest compilation that includes three new tracks.

The third album from Chvrches includes the track My Enemy, featuring the National's Matt Berninger, as well as Graffiti; Forever; and Wonderland.

Alice Merton's hit single has already captured an immense amount of attention with millions of global plays on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Music, late night TV Debut on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. In addition, has recently topped the US & Canadian Alternative radio charts with two consecutive weeks at number one in the US and eight consecutive weeks at number one in Canada.

Buffett's best batch of songs after Son of a Son of a Sailor in 1978, according to Allmusic. The title single, "One Particular Harbour," is a fan favorite, and is sometimes considered part of "The Big 8" that Buffett has played at almost all of his concerts.

Composer Rahim Alhaj's crucial artistic appeal to each of us: make a positive difference, in whatever way we can, towards a better world. As an Iraqi immigrant to the United States, Rahim Alhaj uses his musical talents to spread hope and peace. Alhaj joins Iranian santur Sourena Sefati and Palestinian-American percussionist Issa Malluf in a sonic statement of friendship, understanding, and an acknowledgement of humanity's oneness as we all try to live in peace under the same sky.

From Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to Bobby Bare and Johnny Cash, this collection takes a look at one of the most popular styles in country music.

Returning from Haiti with sounds, melodies, moods and stories of distant times, upon which Melissa built the musical backbone the album. A re-interpretation, sometimes from scraps, sometimes from a few phrases in a book, from traditional tunes to vaudou anthems, sewn together like a patchwork of intersecting identities.

Eight-time Grammy Award-winning musician and reggae icon Ziggy Marley releases his seventh full-length solo studio album. This passionate and indelible collection of music encourages people to stand together in activism through love.

With their fifth album, Save Me, San Francisco, Train has channeled their early days, revisiting the roots rock sound that has made the band such a tour de force. The band is united stronger than ever before. Along with the single Hey, Soul Sister, this deluxe edition includes six additional audio tracks.

The stoner metal band's first studio album since Dopesmoker in 2003, this album finds the American power trio producing an immersive six-song collection. Released to coincide with 2018's unofficial pot holiday (4/20), this delivers the goods via tracks like 'Giza Butler', 'Marijuanaut's Theme', and 'Antarcticans Thawed'.

Country-rock visionary Shooter Jennings releases a brand new album, which was named as one of Rolling Stone Country's 30 Most Anticipated Albums for 2018. Includes the single Fast Horses & Good Hideouts.

Lykke Li releases her long-awaited fourth album, which is also the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2014 album I Never Learn. Her new album includes the singles Deep End and Hard Rain.

Superorganism is a sprawling, multi-limbed collection of international musicians and pop culture junkies. They mine golden moments of pop's past, emitting infectious supernatural fun, producing kaleidoscopic riots of sound and visuals.

Prine's first collection of new material since 2005's Grammy-winning Fair and Square. Rather than going out on a limb, Prine cultivated the themes that have brought international acclaim since the 1970s. The songs are new, although some had waited to be finished for decades, like a co-write with Phil Spector called God Only Knows. The musical arrangements may be simpler than on past efforts, yet his unique ability to distill complex emotions into everyday language remains intact.

The Turbans are an international musical collective bringing together exciting traditional near-eastern and eastern European styles and original compositions to create a modern and energetic performance with reverence for its roots.

Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams team together with the singular set of talents that comprise the Marvels: Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on steel, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums. The collective inspiration and provocation, in the most positive sense of that word, courses through every song, every note.

Malphino is a mysterious band from an imagined tropical island of the same name that plays cumbia and a heady mix of exotic sounds. Malphino is a gathering of nationalities whose members hail from Japan, Malaysia, Colombia, France, UK and the Philippines. This central idea of multiculturalism is the foundation.

Years solidifies the point: Sarah Shook and The Disarmers have moved from getting people's attention to commanding it. The bands' new album-with it's sharpened songwriting, unique perspective, deepened sound and roll-up-your-sleeves attitude-will grab you by the collar and put a defiant finger to your chest. It is resolute, blunt, and unflinching.

Performed by Irish soprano Máire Flavin, together with the phenomenal RTE National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Oliver Gooch, this disc combines playful numbers with luscious cradle songs to gently send listeners off to sleep.

Latin Grammy winning 123 Andres takes listeners on an imaginary trip to South America with his newest album release. The soothing Andean sounds and the delicately composed songs drift listeners of any age to a dream world. These new and traditional songs sung mostly in Spanish and featuring a variety of instruments, provide the perfect companion for naptime, bedtime, and gentle playtime.

The Bumbles are the nation's premier band that produces high-quality music made just for kids. The songs are catchy and well produced, and teach kids important lessons from manners to safety. Parents as well as kids just love the the Bumbles.

Mo Phillips's fifth album for families is an ode to dreams, both day and night. The music and themes roll and undulate through dreamy snapshots of the lovely land of the subconscious. A ukulele album, it comes with an attending ukulele songbook of all the songs with lyrics and chord changes, and amazing illustrations by Portland artist, Lynsee Sardell.

Randy raps and sings his way through songs and parodies about noses, mitten-shaped states, beach antipathy, doo-wop kings, food costumes, sugar traps, Mars missions, and more in pieces penned by him and others!

Furry alligator puppies, runaway socks, musical skeletons, and flying ships are just a few of the wonders listeners will encounter in Sara Lovell's fanciful world of songs for children and families.