Fusion CDs

Natalia Mann is an ensemble and orchestral harpist – and a soloist of contemporary classical repertoire. Her performances also include Pacific music, Jazz, and music of Turkish inspiration. Pasif.ist is her debut on Rattle with her first recording under her name. An ex-pat Wellingtonian, she n...

What is cool? At its very essence, cool is all about what’s happening next. In popular culture, what’s happening next is a kaleidoscope encompassing past, present and future: that which is about to happen may be cool, and that which happened in the distant past may also be cool. This timeless qualit...

He’s arguably the greatest living drummer in the music, member of the original Charles Lloyd Quartet, anchor of Miles Davis’s greatest fusion ensembles of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and for more than a quarter-century a linchpin of the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio. For almost this entire time, he...

Radio Music Society features an exciting new repertoire of funk, hip-hop, and rock elements fused into songs that are free from genre. "I'm confident that this music will touch people," she says of Chamber Music Society. "We all want to hear sincerity and originality in music, and anyone can recogni...

A longtime contributor to Flying Lotus’ projects, Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat has music in his DNA. His dad was a drummer in The Temptations, at 15, he scored a hit in Germany as part of the short-lived boy band No Curfew. At 16, he toured Japan with soul man Leon Ware and joined thrash legends Su...

Nigel Kennedy's 1989 recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons remains one of the bestselling classical discs of all time. However, today Kennedy devotes the greater part of his energy to his own particular blend of jazz-crossover music, which he explores further on his new album, The Four Elements. Th...

**Track listing:** 1. Giant Steps 2. Cousin Mary 3. Naima 4. Like Sonny 5. My Shining Hour 6. My Favorite Things 7. Central Park West 8. Summertime 9. Mr. Syms 10. Equinox 11. Body And Soul