On this day in music history:

Chant d’amour by Cecilia Bartoli (1996)

Soul Be It by Deborah Coleman (2002)

Desert Suite by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2021)

Chant d’amour

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released October 15, 1996.

Track list: Chant D’amour; Ouvre Ton Coeur; Adieux De L’hotesse Arabe; Tarentelle; La Coccinelle; Les Filles De Cadix; Hai Luli!; Havanaise; Les Filles De Cadix; La Mort d’Ophelie; Zaide; Chanson Francaise; Chanson Espagnole; Chanson Italienne; Chanson Hebraique; Vocalise-Etude (En Forme De Habanera); Kaddisch; L’Enigme Eternelle; Tripatos.

 

Soul Be It

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released October 15, 2002.

Track list: Brick; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Don’t Lie to Me; I’m a Woman; You’re with Me; I Believe; The Dream; Goodbye Misery.

Desert Suite

Album by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer,

released October 15, 2021.

Track list: Saguaro Sunrise; On the Great Colorado; The Gentle Night Surrounds Us; Mesa Grande; Through an Eagles Eye; Cave of the Wind; Wide Open Spaces; Rare the Snow Falls; Wild Horses Run Free; Through the Winding Canyon; Saguaro Sunset.

On this day in music history:

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac (1979)

Rossini: La Cenerentola by Cecilia Bartoli (1993)

Acceptance by Sherry Finzer (2018)

The Fire Within by Jennifer Thomas (2018)

 

Tusk

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released October 12, 1979.

Track list: Over & Over; The Ledge; Think About Me; Save Me a Place; Sara; What Makes You Think You’re the One; Storms; That’s All for Everyone; Not That Funny; Sisters of the Moon; Angel; That’s Enough for Me; Brown Eyes; Never Make Me Cry; I Know I’m Not Wrong; Honey Hi; Beautiful Child; Walk a Thin Line; Tusk; Never Forget.

 

Rossini: La Cenerentola

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released October 12, 1993.

Track list: La Cenerentola: Sinfonia - Teatro Comunale Bologna/Chailly; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: No, no, no: non v’e - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Una volta c’era un re - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Un tantin di carita - Michele Pertusi; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: O figlie amabili - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Date lor mezzo scudo - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Miei rampolli femminini - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Sappiate che fra poco - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Tutto e deserto - William Matteuzzi; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Una volta c’era... Un soave non so che - Cecilia Bartoli/Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Non so che dir - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Scegli la sposa... Come un’ape - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Allegrissimamente - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Signore, una parola - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Si, tutto cangera - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: La del ciel nell’arcano profondo - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Ma bravo, bravo, bravo - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Ora sono da voi - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Conciossiacosacche - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Noi Don Magnifico - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Zitto, zitto: piano, piano - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Principino, dove siete? - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Venga, inoltri, avanzi il pie’ - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Ah! se velata ancor - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Signor... Altezza, e in tavola - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Mi par che quei birbanti - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Sia qualunque delle figlie - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ah! questa bella incognita - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Si, ritrovarla io giuro - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ma dunque io son un ex - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Un segreto d’importanza - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Una volta c’era un re - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ma ve l’avevo detto - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Temporale. Storm music. Musique d’orage. Gewittermusik - Teatro Comunale Bologna/Chailly; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Scusate, amici - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Siete voi? - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ah, signor, s’e ver che in petto - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Dunque noi siam burlate? - Gloria Banditelli; La Cenerentola: Finale II: Della Fortuna instabile - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale II: Non piu mesta - Cecilia Bartoli.

Acceptance

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 12, 2018.

Track list: Ode to John (Adagio for Strings); Awakening Breath; The Moment of Acceptance; Reflection; The Beauty Lies Within; In the Light of Darkness; Love Wins; Reflections; Never Far; Breathe.

 

The Fire Within

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released October 12, 2018.

Track list: The Fire Within (feat. The Rogue Pianist); Awakening; Girl in the Mirror; Rise of the Phoenix; Ascension; Soaring (feat. Eurielle); Because of You; Believer; Time; Glorious.

On this day in music history:

Crystal Ball by Styx (1976)

There Is Always One More Time by B.B. King (1991)

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002 by 2002 (2002)

Someone Like Me by Sherry Finzer (2011)

Sol Novo by Olivia Belli (2021)

Warming by the Devil’s Fire / documentary (2003)

Crystal Ball

Album by Styx,

released October 1, 1976.

Track list: Put Me on; Mademoiselle; Jennifer; Crystal Ball; Shooz; This Old Man; Clair de Lune/Ballerina.

There Is Always One More Time

Album by B.B. King,

released October 1, 1991.

Track list: I’m Moving On; Back In L.A.; The Blues Come Over Me; Fool Me Once; The Lowdown; Mean And Evil; Something Up My Sleeve; Roll, Roll, Roll; There Is Always One More Time.

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002

Album by 2002,

released October 1, 2002.

Track list: City of Peace; Lovers’ Bridge; Summer of 300 Years; Lady of the Moon; The Sea at Night; Stella Maris; Kindred Spirit; To Touch the Sky; The Calling; The Ocean Dreams; Full Circle.

Someone Like Me

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 1, 2011.

Track list: Moves Like Jagger; Firework; Payphone; Someone Like You; Marry Me; Give Your Heart a Break; Call Me Maybe; Breathe; Raise Your Glass; Only Girl; What Makes You Beautiful; Someone Like You (Bonus Track).

Sol Novo

Album by Olivia Belli,

released October 1, 2021.

Track list: Two Seas; Island I; Open Air; Bora; Grain Moon; Island II; Bilico; Fingers, Be Rain; Grembo; Visions to Come; Bleak; As I Was; The Light Endures.

Warming by the Devil’s Fire

Documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett.

Part 4 of the documentary series The Blues.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Released in the United States on October 1, 2003.

Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.

On this day in music history:

Have a Nice Day by Bon Jovi (2005)

Christmas Joy by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2011)

Nádúr by Clannad (2013)

Power, Soul, Rock N’ Roll - Live In Germany by Lee Aaron (2019)

The Space Between Breaths by Sherry Finzer & Will Clipman (2019)

Yesterwynde by Nightwish (2024)

Have a Nice Day

Album by Bon Jovi,

released September 20, 2005.

Track list: Have a Nice Day; I Want to Be Loved; Welcome to Wherever You Are; Who Says You Can’t Go Home; Last Man Standing; Bells of Freedom; Wildflower; Last Cigarette; I Am; Complicated; Novocaine; Story of My Life; Who Says You Can’t Go Home.

 

Christmas Joy

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released September 20, 2011.

Track list: Walking in the Air; Still Still Still (While Shepherds Watch); Silent Night (Down the Aisle); Jingle Bells; Gliding on a Sleigh; Christmas Wedding; O Come O Come Emmanuel; Flight of the Snowbird; The Holly and the Ivy; Christmas Joy; Away in a Manger.

 

Nádúr

Album by Clannad,

released September 20, 2013.

Track list: Vellum; Rhapsody Na Gcrann; Transatlantic; Turas DH Mhsa Chon Na Galldachd; Brave Enough; The Fishing Blues; L MH Ar L MH; Tobar An Tsaoil; The Song in Your Heart; A Quiet Town; Hymn (To Her Love); Setanta; Cit Na Gcumann.

 

Power, Soul, Rock N’ Roll - Live In Germany

Album by Lee Aaron,

released September 20, 2019.

Track list: Mistreated; Tomboy; Rock Candy; Metal Queen; Fire and Gasoline; Powerline; I’m a Woman; Some Girls Do; Sex with Love; Barely Holdin on; Whatcha Do to My Body; Diamond Baby; Hot to Be Rocked; American High - Bonus Features: Music Videos; Diamond Baby - Bonus Features: Music Videos; I’m a Woman - Bonus Features: Music Videos.

 

The Space Between Breaths

Album by Sherry Finzer & Will Clipman,

released September 20, 2019.

Track list: Evening At Angkor Wat; Cliff Dwellers; Kilauea Rain; Penumbra; The Space Between Breaths; Enchanted Forest; Black Swan; Valley Of Lights; Timbuktu & You; Child’s Play.

 

Yesterwynde

Album by Nightwish,

released September 20, 2024.

Track list: Yesterwynde; An Ocean of Strange Islands; The Antikythera Mechanism; The Day of; Perfume of the Timeless; Sway; The Children of 'Ata; Something Whispered Follow Me; Spider Silk; Hiraeth; The Weave; Lanternlight.

September in music history:

Woman Blues! by Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson (1961)

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong (1967)

To Know You Is to Love You by B.B. King (1973)

Sanctuary by Sherry Finzer (2009)

Woman Blues!

Album by Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson,

released in September, 1961.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Christmas Without Santa Claus; A Big One; Let’s Ride Tonight; What Is This Thing They’re Talking About; I’m A Red Hot Mama; Grow Old Together; Beautiful World; I Got Men All Over This Town; That Man; Thursday Girl.

 

What a Wonderful World

Album by Louis Armstrong,

released September 1, 1967.

Track list: What a Wonderful World; Cabaret; The Home Fire; Dream a Little Dream of Me; Give Me Your Kisses; Sunshine of Love; Hello Brother; There Must Be a Way; Fantastic, That’s You; I Guess I’ll Get the Papers and Go Home; Hellzapoppin’.

To Know You Is to Love You

Album by B.B. King,

released in September, 1973.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: I Like To Live The Love; Respect Yourself; Who Are You; Love; I Can’t Leave; To Know You Is To Love You; Oh To Me; Thank You For Loving The Blues.

Sanctuary

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released September 1, 2009.

Track list: Awakenings; Celestial Voyage; Mystic Haze; Ethereal Journey; Fortitude; Peaceful Drift.

On this day in music history:

Passionworks by Heart (1983)

Solace by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer (2021)

Passionworks

Album by Heart,

released August 20, 1983.

Track list: How Can I Refuse; Blue Guitar; Johnny Moon; Sleep Alone; Together Now; Allies; (Beat By) Jealousy; Heavy Heart; Love Mistake; Language of Love; Ambush.

Solace

Album by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer,

released August 20, 2021.

Track list: Solace; Fireflies; Paradise Fell From Your Eyes; They Turned Into Starry Skies; Calling Through Mountains; Catharsis; Requiem; Elegy; On a Pillow of White Flowers.

On this day in music history:

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi (1986)

Traveler by Sherry Finzer & Peter Sheridan (2017)

Slippery When Wet

Album by Bon Jovi,

released August 18, 1986.

Track list: Let It Rock; You Give Love a Bad Name; Livin’ on a Prayer; Social Disease; Wanted Dead or Alive; Raise Your Hands; Without Love; I’d Die for You; Never Say Goodbye; Wild in the Streets.

Traveler

Album by Sherry Finzer & Peter Sheridan,

released August 18, 2017.

Track list: Leaving Earth; Spiritual Crossing; Nocturnal Dance; Reverence; Hunt On The Plains; Joy.

On this day in music history - B.B. King, Sherry Finzer and Mark Holland, Sue Foley:

B.B. King: Into the Night (2004)

Queen Bee: The Antone’s Collection by Sue Foley (2009)

Flute Flight by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2015)

B.B. King: Into the Night

Documentary directed by John Landis, Jeff Okun.

Released in Spain on June 30, 2004.

Featured on the DVD for the movie Into the Night (1985), directed by John Landis.

Cast: B.B. King, John Landis, Ira Newborn, Forrest J. Ackerman, Domingo Ambriz, Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Goldblum, Beruce Gramian, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hadi Sadjadi, Michael Zand.

Queen Bee: The Antone’s Collection

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 30, 2009.

Track list: Queen Bee; Cuban Getaway; Gone Blind; Off the Hook; Ruby Duby Du; Give Me Time; Truckin’ Little Woman; Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is; Big City Blues; Howlin’ for My Darlin’; As Long As I Have You; If You Gotta Go; Give It to Me; Walk in the Sun; The Wind; Love Sick Child; Lightning Boogie; Positively 4th Street; I Feel So Good; Guitar Rhumba.

Flute Flight

Album by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

released June 30, 2015.

Track list: Looking Through; Seasons of the Heart; Echo of Desire; Always a Dream; Illumination; From Afar; Luna’s Dance; Sea of Stars; The Way; Reflection; Planetary Drift; Nature’s Spirit; Into the Light.

On this day in music history - Bryan Adams, Majestica, 10000 Maniacs:

Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams (1985)

Love Among the Ruins by 10,000 Maniacs (1997)

In The Midst of Stars by Majestica / aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty (2016)

Summer of ‘69

Song by Bryan Adams.

Released June 17, 1985.

Love Among the Ruins

Album by 10,000 Maniacs.

Released June 17, 1997.

Track list: Rainy Day; Love Among the Ruins; Even with My Eyes Closed; Girl on a Train; Green Children; A Room for Everything; More Than This; Big Star; You Won't Find; All That Never Happens; Shining Light; Across the Fields.

 

In The Midst of Stars

Album by Majestica / a.k.a. Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty.

Released June 17, 2016.

Track list: In the Midst of Stars; Carousel; In Bloom; Close of Day; Lone Mountain; View from the Summit; How Does It Feel; Aurora Australis.

On this day in music history - Livin' on Love, Strength & Serenity:

Livin’ on Love by Deborah Coleman (2001)

Strength & Serenity - Flute & Piano by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2020)

Livin’ on Love

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released May 22, 2001.

Track list: Livin’ On Love; You’re With Me; Light Of Day; Memory Lane; Crazy; Bending Like A Willow Tree; Happy When You’re Unhappy; Don’t Talk In My Sleep; Heaven’s Got The Blues; Torn In Two; Deserted Highway.

Strength & Serenity - Flute & Piano

Album by Greg Maroney and Sherry Finzer,

released May 22, 2020.

Track list: Sleeping Fields; Plum Trees; Softly Rise; Gossamer Dream; Greeting the Spirit; Diaphanous Dawn; Golden Serenity; Ever Elusive; Distant Glow.

On this day in music history - Meat Loaf, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Cecilia Bartoli:

Midnight at the Lost and Found by Meat Loaf (1983)

Flowers Of Fire by Kathy Raimey (2001)

600 Years in a Moment by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2013)

Sound Currents by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019)

Casta Diva by Cecilia Bartoli (2024)

Midnight at the Lost and Found

Album by Meat Loaf,

released May 17, 1983.

Track list: Razor’s Edge; Midnight at the Lost and Found; Wolf at Your Door; Keep Driving; The Promised Land; You Can Never Be Too Sure About the Girl; Priscilla; Don’t You Look at Me Like That; If You Really Want to; Fallen Angel.

 

Flowers Of Fire

Album by Kathy Raimey,

released May 17, 2001.

Track list: Flowers of Fire; Reverie; Questions to the Sea; Farewell to Lee; Shimmer Float.

600 Years in a Moment

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released May 17, 2013.

Track list: 600 Years; Naked Love; The Journey; Earthbound; Gliding; Tango on Wednesday; Running on Joy; Ancient Albatross; The Lost Ballerina; Antarctica; Captured Freedom; Forgivness.

Sound Currents

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released May 17, 2019.

Track list: A Sound Traveler’s Dream; Following The Current; Canyon Echoes; Star Trails; Timeless Flow; Night Tides; Midnight Mystique; This Side of Silence; Theta Waves.

Casta Diva

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released May 17, 2024.

Track list: “Casta Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Nacqui All’affanno E Al Pianto” - “Non Più Mesta; “Cari Giorni” (Romanza Der Ines); Una Parola.Chiedi All’aura; “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); “Si, Fino All’ore Estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Prendi: L’anel Ti Dono [Edit]; No Mia Vita, Mio Tesoro; O Rendetemi la Speme; Ira Del Ciel; Vaga Luna Che Inargenti; La Danza; No. 12, Voi Che Sapete; Il Cor VI Dono; Se Mai Senti Spirarti Sul Volto; Come Nave in Mezzo All’onde; Di’ Cor Mio; Ma Quando Tornerai.

On this day in music history:

Ten Days in November by Sue Foley (1998)

Couldn’t Have Said It Better by Meat Loaf (2003)

Live Texas Trio by Carolyn Wonderland (2015)

The Undercurrent by Sherry Finzer (2023)

 

Ten Days in November

Album by Sue Foley,

released April 21, 1998.

Track list: Highwayside; Baltimore Skyline; Long Way to Go; The Waiting Game; Give My Love to You; She Don't Belong to You; Through the Night; Winds of Change; The Forest; Promised Land; New Roads.

 

Couldn’t Have Said It Better

Album by Meat Loaf,

released April 21, 2003.

Track list: I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself; Did I Say That; Why Isn't That Enough; Love You Out Loud; Man of Steel; Testify; Tear Me Down; You're Right, I Was Wrong; Because of You; Do It; Forever Young.

 

Live Texas Trio

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released April 21, 2015.

Track list: Palace of the King (Live); At the Crossroads (Live); Come Together (Live); Only God Knows When (Live); Samson and Delilah (Live); Money in the Game (Live); Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live); Walk on (Live); Heart (Live); Cumbia Raza (Live); When I Go Away (Live); Let's Go Get Stoned (Live).

 

The Undercurrent

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released April 21, 2023.

Track list: Introspective; Hidden Emotions; Undercurrent; A Whole New World.

On this day in music history - Trialogue, by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016)

White Stones by Secret Garden (1997)

Say You Will by Fleetwood Mac (2003)

Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin by Michele McLaughlin (2006)

Trialogue by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016)

 

White Stones

Album by Secret Garden,

released April 15, 1997.

Track list: Steps; Poeme; Hymn to Hope; Moving; First Day of Spring; Passacaglia; Reflection; Windancer; Appassionata; Escape; Sanctuary; Celebration; Home; Illumination.

Say You Will

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released April 15, 2003.

Track list: What's the World Coming To; Murrow Turning over in His Grave; Illume (9-11); Thrown Down; Miranda; Red Rover; Say You Will; Peacekeeper; Come; Smile at You; Running Through the Garden; Silver Girl; Steal Your Heart Away; Bleed to Love Her; Everybody Finds Out; Destiny Rules; Say Goodbye; Goodbye Baby.

Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin

Album by Michele McLaughlin,

released April 15, 2006.

Track list: I Love You (2005); The Beginning of Forever (2004); Without You (2003); The Greatest Gift (2002); Elysium (2001); Russian Music Box (2000); Coming Home (2005); Surrender (2004); Just Because (2003); A Fresh Start (2002); An Evening With Friends (2001); Not Without Flaw (2000); What You Mean To Me (2005); Enraptured (2004); A Tale of Courage (2003); Learning to Grieve (2002); The Fairies Dance (2001); The Lonely Ballerina (2005); Sunday Morning (2004); Swept Away (2003).

Trialogue

Album by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman,

released April 15, 2016.

Track list: Cote D'Ivoire; Mending Fences; Midnight in Marrakech; Confused; Dark Horse; Top Down; Alger Street; Woodland Lake; Thanks For Asking; Wolf Haven.