Mike Melito - To Swing Is The ThingTwenty eight years ago, in March 1994, Mike Melito's fellow Rochesterian, Chuck Mangione, presented a traveling festival in upstate New York. He hired Roy McCurdy to play with Nat Adderley with whom McCurdy had played on 7 leaders, plus another 19 with Cannonball Adderley, between 1966 and 1979 in a band that included pianist Don Menza and Rochester guitar stalwart Bob Sneider. He assigned Melito to the other act, James Moody, in a unit including then

Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy

at the heart of the NCC's repertoire is the under-rated library of sacred and secular music by Dutch composers

she became fêted as one of the finest pianists and improvisers of her time

each consisting of between three and seven movements

Bonus here is the incredible packaging featuring an 64-page booklet

Farmers by Nature - Love & Ghosts

where mud spontaneously shapes grotesque figures crossed by rusty pipes and smokestacks

the process was reversed as the viola took over the middle ground previously occupied by the keyboard

The lyrical themes

and Actress at the Grand Bell Awards (Korea's Oscar equivalent)

This second release from versatile cellist Mayke Rademakers on Challenge Classics features a well-thought-out selection of Spanish and Latin American works based on flamenco and tango music

the memories unleashed launch him into a deadly game of cat and mouse against a massive worldwide conspiracy