Kurt Weill's Street SceneKurt Weill wrote Street Scene shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany to the United States. When he discovered the vitality of the American musical scene, his focus became to reconcile the Broadway "musical" with European traditional opera, jazzy and North American tunes with an almost Puccinian like lyricism. In his mind, opera had to embrace and reclaim it's own theatricality : thus he wrote his Street Scene, meant to be a truly American opera, half way

Gonna Live It Up Tonight - Larry Davis & Dixie

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1968

radio syndicators and various internet music programmers

When Kamilla Schatz plays the violin

For The Good Ones' new album

played to the empty concert hall of de Doelen

Florence or Rome

superbly architected

The Lyman Woodard Organization's 'Saturday Night Special' is rightly heralded as a jazz fusion classic

and radical insurgents-sometimes art does in fact imitate life

"Wait For Me" and "Cuttin' Capers" albums not otherwise featured on singles

Simon Bartholomew and the obscure but brilliant Ohm take a turn at a more Jazz-Funk groove