This is quite an intriguing set. It’s four extended instrumental pieces, all built around classical music.

The latest disc from California Guitar Trio is the first from them with no cover tracks.

Lucky Leif and the Longships was the follow up to Robert Calvert’s Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters. 

This is an album I purchased based on its somewhat controversial cover, featuring a “crucified” astronaut floating in space looking down on Earth.  

A lot progressive rock purists are very specific about what types of sounds can be merged with rock to produce music called “progressive rock.” 

During their short career Captain Beyond only released three albums.

There have been a number of albums I purchased over the years based solely on album covers.  

This album definitely has a classic progressive rock sound, but it’s a modern take on that element.

By the time this CD was released, Tony Carey was only well known for his stint in Rainbow. His work in that band was considered by most as the best keyboard showing for Rainbow.  

2010 has seen the release of some of the best music in recent memory. 

This is an interesting combination of styles that really keeps grounded in progressive folk, but contains elements such as psychedelic and romantic music.

At times this feels more like nu-metal, but more often than not it’s kind of a modern progressive rock.

It would be easy to just classify this disc as strange atmospheric music.

It’s a safe bet that prog purists will hate this EP. I still think it fits into progressive rock.

Chase is band hailing from the Chicago-land area that consists of Chase Carter (guitar, vocal), Fred Matthews (drums), and Vince Buonassi (bass – from the band Vonassi). 

With both Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood onboard, comparisons to Yes are obvious. T

The easy explanation of Circa: would be to call them a Yes spin-off band since both Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye have been in that band.

Guitarist virtuoso and general music extraordinaire Clark Colborn, (aka “Clark Plays Guitar”) is back after a long delay between albums.

Clark Colborn is one of the world’s best kept secrets, or at least that’s what anyone who is familiar with him will say.

This disc might not be the most obvious choice for progressive rock inclusion.

These guys have quite an interesting sound. At times they have ties to jazz, but overall they are more of a progressive rock act.

I’m sure there are those who will quibble with this disc being put into the progressive rock heading.

Billy Cobham is usually referred to as contemporary jazz or jazz/fusion artist, but he also crossed over into prog territory and it appears it has not left him after all these years. 

As far as I'm concerned this is one of the greatest instrumental rock albums ever made.

Cobweb Strange (Wade Summerlin, Derek Rinehart and Keith Rinehart) dish out an intriguingly dark album with solid helpings of both metal and prog styles. For ordering info, email the band atcobwebstrange@hotmail.com . Tell them that you read about it here.

Prog rock with both modern and old school variants is overall the tone and sound of this album.

With Gary Moore on guitar and Don Airey on keyboards and an outfit doing a fiery form of fusion, how can you go wrong? The truth is, you can’t. This is an exceptional album right up there with Al Di Meola. It didn’t really get the respect it deserved in its day, but looking back this was something special.

I like The Coloursound. I reviewed their last disc and this single is the follow up.

Here’s an intriguing album. It does a nice job of sitting between modern metal and progressive rock.

Not only is Billy Connally a great modern virtuoso guitarist, but he also does his own backing tracks - and does them very well. 

I like Copernicus. He’s certainly not for everyone, but his type of art turned music is cool.

You either like Copernicus or you don’t. It’s that simple.

As always, some people will “get” Copernicus and some won’t.

There are definitely some parental advisories with some of this.

This is perhaps the weirdest and most extreme of Copernicus’ albums.

There are four different versions of this album. In general, they are the same, musically. The difference is, Copernicus vocals which are delivered in different languages. This one is in English. The music, it should be mentioned is more fusion like here. That’s because Copernicus has a different band on this set than on most of his discs. It’s a cool album no matter what language you hear it in.

This is the French version of Copernicus’ most jazz oriented album.

This album is a fairly unique one in Copernicus’ catalog.

This is the Spanish version of the Immediate Eternity 2 album by Copernicus.

Being new to Corvus Stone, all I can say is they're a breath of fresh air to me.

In a little under eighty minutes, Corvus Stone covers an extraordinary amount of ground on their newest album.

Cosmograf is the brainchild of Robin Armstrong, a very talented British musician, writer and producer whose influences are rooted in the classic prog songbook especially Pink Floyd.

Cosmograf is the musical project of Robin Armstrong, a multi-talented composer, producer and musician based in southern England.

Mario Cottarelli’s latest disc finds him performing some classic Italian progressive rock.

This disc is a wonderful set that combines jazz, folk and classical music along with other sounds into something that, while not a perfect fit, certainly seems to belong under the heading “progressive rock.”

“Flame of Truth” by Cozmic Box fits into the realm of progressive rock and is quite a strong disc. However, it’s not perfect.

There are a lot of musical concepts and leanings expressed on this awesome album.

The Roger Dean cover certainly makes a listener expect some old-school progressive rock. In many ways this lives up to that promise, but it goes further than that.

This is quite a cool release.

There are certainly people who would consider this heavy metal.

This CD is fully instrumental and for the most part is Crovella’s interpretations of Soft Machine music. Much of this is nearly RIO in nature.

I’ve included this album in the progressive rock section of Music Street Journal, and frankly, I’d stick by that decision no matter what.

A theatrical disc, this is a rock opera.

I’m including this under progressive rock because it’s from Cuneiform Records.

This new live album from Curved Air is quite strong. In a lot of ways much of this reminds me of a proggier Jefferson Airplane.

Curved Air is really a cool band.