Brett Naucke - Mirror EnsembleBrett Naucke's new LP Mirror Ensemble created with Windy City mainstays Natalie Chami (TALsounds) and Whitney Johnson (Matchess) is Naucke at his compositional and conceptual best. Marking a major departure from his earlier, fully synth based output, Mirror Ensemble is a synthesizer record, an orchestral record, even a soundtrack. Naucke used scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's foundational 1975 film The Mirror as a signpost for mood and atmosphere, where

sophisticated pop and jazz with an intensity and passion rarely matched

The fruitful collaboration between the two musicians led to a series of chamber music works in which the trumpet is used on an equal footing with the violin

In the process of writing songs and themes for dozens of movies

Clyde McPhatter - The Very Best Of Clyde McPhatter 1953-62 - This collection provides a worthy showcase for his distinctive talents

plus selected recordings through to 1955 with his own groups and with bands and small groups led by Charlie Parker

It's French heritage is a big factor in giving the music that developed in Louisiana in the wake of Elvis Presley's success it's own peculiar flavor

and this collection

and a significant proportion of those for which he was nominated

and this great-value 50-track 2-CD collection focuses on a series of six sessions he recorded during 1949 for the Savoy

Jeri Southern and Sarah Vaughan

and a highly evocative insight into a fascinating strand of the music during a significant musical decade

toast of this year's Olivier Awards and all-round Sheffield legend Richard Hawley on this