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Tito Puente and His Orchestra: Dance Mania (1958)

Commentary"Dance Mania" is the best-known and best-selling album by Tito Puente, an American timbales player and Latin m...
Classical/Contemporary

Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Takahashi, 1978)

Overview"The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" is a piano composition composed in 1975 by Frederic Rzewski, a Polis...
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Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (2006)

Overview"Back to Black" is the second album by Amy Winehouse, an English singer-songwriter known for her contralto vocal...
Others

Bernard Herrmann: Music from the Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers (1969)

Overview"Music from the Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers" is a compilation album featuring a collection of Alfred Hitchco...
Jazz

Jaco Pastorius: Invitation (1982)

Commentary"Invitation" is a 1983 album by Jaco Pastorius, an American jazz bass player/composer/arranger known for his i...
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Les Baxter: The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter (1996/1951–1960)

Commentary"The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" is a compilation album of the works by Les Baxter, an American composer and a...
Classical/Contemporary

Bizet: Carmen (Karajan, 1982, 1983)

CommentaryThe complete version of the opera in four acts "Carmen" composed by Georges Bizet, a 19th century French compo...
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Air: Moon Safari (1998)

Overview"Moon Safari" is the debut album by Air, a French electronic pop duo formed by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dun...
Jazz

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957/2005)

Overview"Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" is a live recording by Thelonious Monk Quartet wit...
Classical/Contemporary

Schubert: 4 Impromptus D899 & D935 (Pires, 1996, 1997)

CommentaryThe album that contains a series of eight impromptus for solo piano composed in his last days, around 1827, by...