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Based in Auckland, Alan Brown (keyboards) has been involved in the local jazz scene since 1991. He received the 1997 Jazz Album of the Year award for No Free Lunch... More
Chanelle Davis; a diamond in the rough - and after a few years of polishing, the brilliance of her musical talent is really beginning to shine. At 25, she has... More
Frank has had a vast career that has taken him around the world. He is recognised in the international Jazz community as an icon and fantastic player. More
Klezmer Rebs capture the true klezmer spirit with songs of joy, sorrow and rebellion. More
In the early fifties musical life in New Zealand was captivated by a young singer, Mina Foley, who was, according to the headlines of the time "A sellout everywhere". More
Norman Meehan began playing piano (reluctantly) at the age of seven but soon came to like it. More
Six dunedin based musicians bring together their own set of influences and experiences, resulting in their own brand of jazz-fusion. More
All three members of The Darlings have long and celebrated histories in New Zealand music. More
Frank has had a vast career that has taken him around the world. He is recognised in the international Jazz community as an icon and fantastic player. More
Releases
A Job with the Circus shows Nigel's technique and mastery of the guitar. More
About That Time is an organ trio collaboration with Dixon Nacey (guitar), and Josh Sorenson (drums). More
"Warwick Blair's highly evolved compositions are the perfect soundtrack to modern rail transport. They're minimalist, strangely eerie, and induce a trance-like state fit for supersonic exploration … NASA would be... More
Now in their 10th year, the Wellington-based Klezmer Rebs ethnic/European world music band have released their
latest CD Anarchia Total, recorded (mostly) live on one of the last days of...
From 2005, a collection of original tracks written over the last 30 years from Rude Sunde and the Maritime Crew. This is the crew's fourth CD and is a fine... More
This disc, with fine performances from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Concord Brass and the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, explores orchestral and chamber music by David Farquhar, one of New... More
Bach meets jazz. More
Alan Brown is an established jazz pianist and currently a member of Nathan Haines' Dream Band, working regularly with artists such as Caitlin Smith. More
Beyondsemble has excited audiences with its enormous vitality and range. merging Celtic, Eastern European and Gypsy with Latin and tango rhythms as well as improvising in jazz, swing and rock. More
Release Date: Monday, 6 August, 2001 More
As read by Peter Vere-Jones. More
Buddhist Rain is the new album from Rattle Records, showcasing a collaboration between two NZ creative
powerhouses: poet and writer Bill Manhire and jazz musician Norman Meehan.
New Zealand jazz bassist Olivier Holland presents Duets, showcasing his skills as performer, composer and arranger in a classy set of instrumental duets with seven standout musicians. More
Ecstasy is an album inspired by the mystical love poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi. More
A live concert recorded at The Harbourlights Theatre, Lyttleton on the 23rd of June 1994. More
This live album from 1992, recorded at Auckland's Empire Tavern sees Hattie team up with the Peter Wood Trio, including Frank Gibson Jnr on drums and Andy Brown on bass. More
A selection of authentic Maori songs and chants. More
This is Roger Manins' debut album, released on Ode in New Zealand and Jazzgroove in Australia, featuring Manins with his Hip Flask band. More
Raetihi born Johnny Devlin was a New Zealand rock 'n roll legend in the late 50s, heavily inspired by the Elvis Presley phenomenon. More
Accompanied by three Japanese musicians Koyu Suzuki, Taro and Mitsuru Ogata, the sound of Ben Kemp and Uminari fuses modern Japanese music and sweet harmonies with Kemp's lyrical Aotearoa born... More
All songs composed by the late Reverend Suliveta Kurene. More
This was a recording almost ahead of its time - Recorded at the Auckland Town Hall on the 7th August 1950, it was transmitted by phone to the Astor Recording... More
Just Add Shmaltz is the debut album from Klezmer Rebs, completed in late 2008 after recording sessions in Porirua and Featherston. More
Kia Ora was originally recorded in 1997. More
The album was recorded in March 2009 as part of the University of Auckland's Monday Night Jazz Series. More
This album has been re-issued in time and serves as a fitting collection to commemorate ANZAC day. More
RELEASED 2005: Elite Recordings are proud to release the Dukes debut album Lil' Sunshine. More
Celebrated soprano Mina Foley and tenor Michael Tarawhiti McGifford combine their considerable voices on this fifteen track release from the Ode music catalogue. More
The follow up to his 2002 release, The Bells, Modigliani sees pianist Norman Meehan's new quartet touch on jazz, rock and drum'n bass. More
This album was recorded at Mascot Recording Studios. All songs composed and produced by Suliveta Kurene. More
Two icons of NZ Jazz feature in this classic, award-winning recording re-issued for the first time on CD. More
During the 70's and 80's many overseas jazz acts visited our shores and Frank along with Andy Brown, Murray McNabb and Phil Broadhurst were recruited as the core rhythm sections... More
"It has been a great incentive and privilege for me to compose music for a performer who so intuitively realised the sounds my manuscript notes were trying to formulate."
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The Frank Gibson Quartet's 2003 album was a finalist for Jazz Record of the Year at the 2004 Tui's. More
Nigel Gavin and Richard Adams combine to release, Recent Works, the product of a period of a week spent at Roundhead Studios in Auckland. More
The Yandall Sisters with their album Return To Paradise. More
Off the Back of the Sinatra Tribute Tour at Sky City comes the new album from Ray Woolf with a full swingin' big band. More
Finalist for Best Jazz Record at the 2005 New Zealand Music Awards, pianist Dan Papirany is joined by Pete McGregor on bass and Owen Kneebone on drums. More
These are songs that make you feel, make you think, and are the heart of this new studio album, Since Yesterday. More
Grant P Chilcott's fourth album was recorded with the New Zealand Symphony Strings, performed with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra and sung in exotic countries around the world. More
Released through Ode Records in 2006. More
Soiree Musicale couples much loved miniatures by Kreisler, Debussy, Dvorak and Faure with favourites such as It Ain't Necessarily So by George Gershwin and John Williams Theme from Shindler's List,... More
Treasured performances of such classics as Ave Maria, How Great Thou Art and The Lord's Prayer are included in this eighteen track compilation. More
From 1993 comes this album of New Zealand folk songs from Auckland folk scene veteran Rudy Sunde - including 6 Sunde originals and 8 from the NZ tradition, describing various... More
Soundtracks & Inventions is a double cd featuring Portuguese percussion virtuoso, Pedro Carneiro. More
Blair's latest work Stars, in performance version, is a 24 hour work for Indian female singer and electronic music backing with or without, from 1 to 6 screens, video projection... More
In 2005 Ode Records combined both 1985's State House Kid and 1986's This Sporting Life and released them as one CD. More
This album, inspired by the poetry of E.E. Cummings, composed by New Zealand pianist Norman Meehan, breaks new territory for Norman and his collaborators. More
New Zealand Born Singer/Songwriter - Craig Mckenzie
offers up his debut Album –"Surrender". A collection of songs about life , love and the supernatural. Stylistically the tracks reflect a pop/rock...
Taupo is the latest release from New Zealand jazz legend Brian Smith. More
In 1992 the then known New Zealand National Youth Choir released their debut recording, this beautiful collection of familiar pieces under the title Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa... More
The Best Of Suliveta Kurene Volume 1 More
The Best Of Suliveta Kurene Volume 2 More
A bunch of brand new songs that will make you laugh and cry, and sing in your sleep. This is The Cicada Sessions, the debut album of The Darlings. More
Voted the "Best Folk Album of the Year" (1990-91) at the New Zealand Music Industry Awards. More
Dedicated to the memory of Jeff Bradley's late father Gilbert, The Delta Swing showcases Jeff's versatility and style with the clarinet. More
Compiled in 1991 this CD features sixteen operatic performances with renowned orchestras and conducters the world over. More
From 1998, this album features over twenty tunes of standards and originals. More
In the midst of her journey with The Late Night Plays, Whirimako delves
deeper into her soul and broadens her musical palette for a global audience.
This collection of Maori Songs showcases his talent fantastically. They were a mainstay in his live performances and are very well known. More
Through the Clouds is the second album release from the Nairobi Trio, recorded in 1993. More
Thrum is yet another groundbreaking CD from guitar legend Nigel Gavin. More
In true a capella style, The Orlando Singers interpret classic folk songs with choral arrangements by Neil Colquhoun. More
Originally released twenty years ago, Lynne's albums for children, We Want Everybody Happy and Happiness Is... are now re-mastered and put onto one CD. More
Eleven original compositions from this talented duo. More
