Bob Sneider / Paul Hofmann - Serve and VolleyThrough their first two releases, 2004's "Interconnection" & 2006's "Escapade," guitarist Bob Sneider and pianist Paul Hofmann have developed a masterful and imaginative creative duo dynamic that coalesces here in their finest effort to date. The 66 minute program features original music by Hofmann and Sneider as well as covers of two classic jazz piano compositions "Peri's Scope" by Bill Evans and "Inception," McCoy Tyner's rollicking minor blues.

The record was co-produced and engineered by the band and Peter Miles (Dodie

Argentine composer

Van der Crabben is solid throughout

driving riffs

Again a collaboration between songwriter/vocalist Stanton Miranda & arranger/producer Carter Burwell the album Miranda Dali offers up ten object lessons in oblique pop-art genius

As with our Great Gates compilation

and Arthur "Makhwenkwe" Mengwe bring the ensemble to unbelievable new heights on this album

and Arabic desert echoes paint an open space for these two instruments of orient and occident to improvise

Mendelssohn/ Schumann/ Thilbaud/ Casals/ Cortot - Plays Mendelssohn/Schumann Piano Trios

Branch & Bone

From "Get on Up" to the James Brown vocal sample in "Dolla Bill

allowing space and mood to build melancholy transitions that feel whole and floaty