Various Artists - The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Records Story 1 (Various Artists)Seated behind a primitive mixing board in a tiny Quonset hut at 64 Flicker Street, just a stones' throw from the Illinois Central railroad tracks, Pastor Juan D. Shipp crackles over the AM airwaves with an electrifying array of the latest and greatest in gospel quartet sounds. With an audience that spans the width and breadth of the Bluff City, from truck cabs to taxi stands, from Mid Town to Orange Mound, from the Peabody Hotel to Payne's Barbecue,

All Composers here were born in Ukraine

Farmers by Nature/ Gerald Cleaver / Willia Parker - Out of This Worlds Distortions

The Goldberg Variations

and introspection-Madi Diaz cycles through the full spectrum of emotions on History Of A Feeling

the composer is often tempted - as in his works PHI and PI - to calculate and construct with com-plex extra-musical categories

including the titles from his album for the Prestige label "Earl Coleman Returns" and his performances with the Sonny Rollins Quartet for the Rollins' album "Tour de Force"

and gospel music to tell stories about love

That is how concise the description of this collection can be and at the same time

see the world

Shannon Mercer - Trobairitz: Poems of Women Troubadours

These musicians serve a dual role: they expertly accompany the arias that Anna sings and they also represent the concept of human interaction and a shared collective experience which has been missing during these times

Gaita on "Starcrossed" performed by Fernando Vázquez Regueira