Grammy-winning composer/pianist Arturo O’Farrill makes his Blue Note debut with a vibrant album presenting two suites he conceived in collaboration w/ the Malpaso Dance Company: "Despedida" is a meditation on farewells, and "Dreaming in Lions" was inspired by Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. With the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble featuring his sons, Adam and Zack, Vince Cherico, Carlos Maldonado, Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan, Jose´ Rodriguez Platiau, Rafi Malkiel, Alejandro Aviles, &

Contains 18 songs that were written by the band between 1977 and 1980, but were never recorded, with re-recordings of "Like the Way I Know," "Ride the Wild" and "It's a Hectic World" and the Dave Clark Five's "Glad All Over."

It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo de Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. This is their debut album that contains fourteen songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular films. The source material is highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. The music is folksy, sweet, sincere and harmonically effervescent-Simon & Garfunkel with New