Editor Pick: Music

John Mayall's new 'A Special Life' is the venerable blues master at the top of his 80-year game.

Jessie Mueller and Carole King are a pair of aces.

This is an outfit with an orchestral sound second to none.

Jimbo Mathus has strong Southern roots and combines blues, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues to create great Southern rock.

Five unedited interviews on eight discs; a goldmine for Beatles and John Lennon fans.

This collection will be a must for Joe Satriani's many fans and forother fans of instrumental guitar music.

This historic 1970 stand is a must for any fan of electric Miles Davis.

Howard Smith's personable recordings of interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono bring the couple into the listener's living room.

It is a joy to hear and see Vega sing her hits.

In his own day Henry Mancini recorded more than 90 albums, including eight that went gold – but none, as far as I know, literally pink. Now you can have it all.