Various Artists - Some Like It PluckedOn Some Like It Plucked harpsichordist, organist, and conductor Patrick Ayrton successfully combines jazz and 20th century piano pieces in arrangements for harpsichord. Ayrton's ensemble Les Inventions and violinist Thomas Gould join in for the piece de resistance of this album: Joseph Horovitz' 1965 Jazz Harpsichord Concerto. In this highly entertaining concerto, Horovitz ingeniously crosses Vivaldian sonata and concerto forms with Gershwinian

Michel Duchaussoy - Les Pensees de Pascal

The band was formed after recording the Elvis Presley tribute album by Swing Cats A Special Tribute to Elvis in July 1999 to which the future bandmates all contributed

"I was so happy when we got the original guys back together again to record what I consider to be one of the best AOR tracks ever" enthused Mann

piano music and numerous choral works (oratorios

making Paul the first artist from the West to issue an album exclusively for that market

But this musical ceremony is also a family business: the latter two

Starring Nigel Smith

Clark Terry as well as the Bee Gees

and with full access to the band's extensive tape archive

is the oldest cultural establishment in the city of Leipzig

punk sees them join one of the hottest independent label rosters in the UK right now

Trumpeter & flugel-hornist Allen Beeson makes his recording debut with First Time Out - an impressive