Various Artists - Sounds of Africa / MozambiqueMarrabenta is music from the beautiful country of Mozambique, situated on the African east coast. Mozambique was a Portuguese colony from 1505 to 1975, and it's music reflects many cultures. It also reflects the struggle for independence, the ravages of a long war, and portrays the many faces of this beautiful country, from it's spectacular coastline on the Indian Ocean, to it's rugged and evocative mountains and countryside. The present release is a

one more incongruous than the next

French Ballads is the perfect synthesis between jazz and the French chanson

The steps are sassy

and one by the incomparable guitarist Larry Koonse

Lorraine Desmarais paints a fresco with an extensive palette

this program explores the earthly passion of the divine and the heavenly beauty of love'

on which he was a regular performer from 1951 to '53

setting pieces in a different key was common practice for Bach

the film reveals a man who was far ahead of his time - a solitary radical in music and pioneer in polytonal harmony and multiple rhythms who was able to draw from the rich tradition of American music

It has a special magic

questioning or majestic

the late Herbie Mann