City Noir / Saxophone Concerto Digital FLAC Album exclusive

City Noir / Saxophone Concerto Digital FLAC Album exclusiveJohn Adams's City Noir (2009), inspired by LA "noir" films of the 1940s and '50s, and the debut recording of his 2012 Saxophone Concerto are performed here by the St. Louis Symphony led by David Robertson, featuring saxophonist Timothy McAllister. "Dense, brash and exuberant," says the New York Times, "these two stellar works by John Adams are love letters to the confidence of the 1950s and a time when some of the greatest feats of virtuosity were

"There are many brilliant and perfectly finished young jazz pianists around

” which Gendel interprets as an instrumental

and Quartet

a masterpiece

autobiographical vignettes

the Carolina Chocolate Drops follow their Grammy-winning album Genuine Negro Jig with a record of original compositions

They “may take their cues from 1920s string- and jug-band music

a sixty-year-old nylon-string guitar—accompanied by his singing or chanting rhythmically

Grammy-winning album's silver anniversary

Jacob Garchik (trombone)

"Completely gorgeous in so many ways

features 13 tracks written and recorded collaboratively by the band—Dan Auerbach