Music Genres

Here's my list of the top songs by this former 'American Idol' star and country music sensation.

Written only nine years apart, these two concerti express very different aspects of Romanticism, and Widmann, who in 2013 was named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards, brings a powerful enthusiasm to them that's evident throughout.

'Swingando' brings all of the emotions, energy and dynamics of growing up in Rio and keeping deeply in touch with the Latin culture.

This vast narrative collage comprises an artful group biography and an account of an unprecedented phenomenon that has never recurred, and seems unlikely, in today's splintered culture, ever to do so.

Elektra Kurtis combines jazz with other ethnic forms. Her mission is to integrate in a natural way these musical traditions and styles as related throughout her life.

Not quite old, not quite modern, Cote makes ‘Cryptoseismology’ a journey rather than just a series of songs.

For weeks I’ve been listening to the new 'A Decade of Dio: 1983-1993' box set from Rhino Entertainment and regretting time lost. As opposed to the usual “greatest hits” collection approach to a box set with interspersed unreleased alternate takes, 'Decade' is simply the first six albums from Ronnie James Dio’s solo career, remastered and repackaged with some amazing new artwork from longtime Dio cover artist, Marc Sasso.

‘Introversions’ features 13 songs listeners can interpret in many ways.

Blending a myriad of sounds and instruments both acoustic and electronic, this musical journey promises a spectrum of sonic delight that’s sure to appeal to music lovers everywhere.

With material taken from the end of the 1940s all the way up through 1952, 'Unheard Bird' finds Charlie Parker fitting his sound into such variations as fronting a big band, leading a quintet, floating effortlessly above a Latin jazz orchestra and playing alongside such jazz luminaries as Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, and Dizzy Gillespie.