Released in February 2014, it was Vega's first album of new material in seven years. The album features contributions from Larry Campbell and Tony Levin (bassist from King Crimson and for Peter Gabriel). Although Vega's music had been sampled by various artists in the past, the album contains Vega's first own attempt at sampling with the track "Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain" including interpolations from 50 Cent's 2005 song "Candy Shop".

Mathis James Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with blues as well as non-blues audiences.

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Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters--Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer--are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. --Roni Sarig

Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest in his field. Tatum grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he began playing piano professionally and had his own radio program, rebroadcast nationwide, while still in his teens.

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.

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American jazz bop composer and pianist. Born 27 September 1924 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. Died 31 July 1966 (of pneumonia) in New York City, New York, USA (aged 41).

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.

转自 Bobby Mcferrin出生于1950年3月11日，纽约。他的父母亲都是古典音乐歌唱家。在他6岁那年开始学习音乐理论，那时他刚和家里人搬家到了洛杉矶。钢琴是在他上中学的时候的主修乐器，后来在大学里继续学习（加里福利亚大学）。作为一个钢琴家，当时他随着ICE FOLLIES,TOP 40等流行乐队和舞蹈乐队巡回演出。 1977年，他决定做一名爵士歌手，当时他在一个来自NEW ORLEANS的乐队里演唱，后来去了三藩市，在那里他的好运气来了。他碰到了一位喜剧演员bILL COSbY。COSbY帮助MCFERIIN得到在一次很重要的爵士音乐节上表演的机会。表演后的两年，1982年MCFERRIN录制了自己第一个爵士专辑。 1983年Mcferrin开始演唱cappella(无伴奏)。这种演唱方法运用在他在1988年创作的一首有名的歌曲中“DON'T WORRY, bE HAPPY”在这首歌曲里面，所有的声部的演唱都是他亲自演绎的。他可以分别录制曲子中不同声部到不同的音轨上，然后再将所有声部结合起来。

From the Choirgirl Hotel (stylized in lowercase) is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Tori Amos, released on May 5, 1998.

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007.

Label: Columbia – CK 33795 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1990 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock Original album released August 25, 1975. Rear art says: 'Record manufactured in Japan by CBS' - as this was initially manufactured in Japan for the US. This edition states alongside the barcode 'Now Made in the USA'. No manufacturer is listed on the disc.

Keith Jarrett于一九七一年灌录此张双LP专辑时，正是其脱离Charles Lloyd四重奏，与Charlie Haden、Paul Motian等人自组乐团，并参与Miles Davis多项fusion录音的阶段。本于先前之历练，Keith Jarrett于这张专辑中再度展露出其统摄各种音乐元素的超绝能力，在专辑十一首原创曲目中，举凡满溢拉丁风情的“Common Mama"；杂柔蓝调、古典带有浪漫抒情风格的“Expectations"、“The Magician In You"；掺染灵魂爵士以及摇滚热力的“Take Me Back"等均是明证。但这样地将各曲分门别类究其实也只能说是种为求方便的不负责书写策略。更精确点说（或更笼统点说），每首曲子虽或有所偏，但在所有像是Blues、Gospel、Classical、Rock、Avant-Garde等音乐质素均能为其炮制出不拘一格之生命力的情况下，我们亦更能窥见Keith Jarrett阳春百雪无所不擅的早期音乐源流以及其整体演奏概念。 参与录音的乐手除了Charlie Haden、Paul Motian等大师级乐手外，尚包括有著名前卫萨克斯风手Dewey Redman、吉他手Sam T. Brown、打击乐手Airto Moreira，Keith Jarrett本人更是钢琴、风琴、铃鼓、萨克斯风齐出；此外，亦视乐曲不同而添加了铜管、弦乐编制，整体阵容之坚强、乐手间即兴对答之精彩，堪称是Keith Jarrett个人早期最具企图心的一份历史录音，其音乐历程的一个重要脚注！