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John Butcher, Rhodri Davies – Drunk on Dreams (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:15 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cejero
A long and profound relationship between two radical improvisors has transformed into a multiverse of sound in three pieces.
On a curious day in Paris, John Butcher fell into his saxophone and ventured deep into its farthest corners. At the same time Rhodri Davies and his harp slowly merged into an otherwise unknown creature. As always John and Rhodri were adventurously exploring their respective instruments, and in its own singular fashion ‘Drunk on Dreams’ shows that ferocity and delicacy, odd individual outbreaks and deep connections doesn’t have to be opposites.
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John Browning – John Browning : Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 (1969/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:58 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
The American pianist, John Browning was born to musical parents. Having studied piano from age 5, he appeared as a soloist with the Denver Symphony at 10. In 1945 his family moved to Los Angeles. He spent two years at Occidental College there. He began his studies at Juilliard in 1950. He won the Leventritt Competition in New York City in 1955, and made his professional orchestral debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1956.
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John Brancy, Peter Dugan – The Journey Home – Live from the Kennedy Center (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:25 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, the concert, which sold-out at the time, explores timeless themes of longing, loss, love, and the search for peace in the wake of catastrophe. Musical selections range from Schubert’s Der Wanderer, to Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, as well as popular tunes and art songs by composers and poets who died in the war. The concert is performed by Grammy Award winning baritone, John Brancy, and pianist (and host of NPR’s From the Top), Peter Dugan in a 2018 live performance from the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. The concert was presented by Vocal Arts DC and the General Delegation of Flanders to the United States. Brancy and Dugan will also release a single and music video from their performance of, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” from the album.
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John Beasley – MONK’estra, Vol. 2 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:20 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
The brainchild of bandleader, arranger, and pianist John Beasley, MONK’estra is a project which creatively reimagines the music of the legendary Thelonious Monk. The present release is the second album in this series and brings Monk classics such as Light Blue and Played Twice into a 21st-century soundworld, making for a unique and invigorating jazz experience.
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John Beasley – MONK’estra, Vol. 1 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:16 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
Thelonious Monk is a Mount Rushmore figure in the creation of modern jazz. As the centennial of his birth rapidly approaches, Beasley—pianist, conductor and arranger—has grappled with the complex composer’s legacy with his versatile big band riffing on the wit and unmistakable architecture of the Monk songbook with irrepressible energy and swinging abandon on MONK’estra, Volume 1.
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John Beasley – MONK’estra Plays John Beasley (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:23 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
The music of Thelonious Monk has provided a rich fount of inspiration for generations of jazz musicians, its daunting wit and impish intricacies offering endless fodder for exploration and interpretation. Over the course of two albums, bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley has reimagined Monk’s iconic compositions through the vehicle of his inventive, versatile MONK’estra –- a big band able to deftly navigate the legend’s angular eccentricities with a staggering variety of perspectives from boisterous swing to raucous funk to Afro-Cuban explosiveness.
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John Beasley – Letter to Herbie (2008/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:41 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD
Acclaimed jazz keyboardist and Grammy-nominee John Beasley pays tribute to the great Herbie Hancock in Letter to Herbie. On this 10-song album listeners can hear Beasley’s two original songs, Three Finger Snap and Here and Now. Overall, Letter to Herbie is a powerful way for Beasley to say thank you to one of his musical heros.
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John Barry – Great Movie Sounds of John Barry (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:29 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
“Great Movie Sounds Of John Barry” featuring the music from James Bond films and one with selections from other key Barry-scored movies including The Knack…And How To Get It, Born Free, The Ipcress File and Seance On A Wet Afternoon.
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John Barrowman – A Fabulous Christmas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:24 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
After his long-held dream to release a Christmas album, John is thrilled to share his love of the festive season with his debut album “A Fabulous Christmas”. The album, released on 6th December 2019, features upbeat festive favourites including ‘Sleigh Ride’, ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’, ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’, plus Christmas classics ‘Silent Night’, ‘When a Child is Born’ and ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. John will also be joined by some famous faces on brand-new duet tracks, to be revealed soon. This new Christmas album breathes new life into festive favorites, with added John Barrowman flair and his trademark sense of humour – ‘A Fabulous Christmas’ offers us a real festive treat.
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John Andrews & The Yawns – Bad Posture (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:29 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Woodsist
Throughout years of travelling, John Andrews has documented his life with his home recordings. His first record, Bit By The Fang, found him living in the amish country of Lancaster, PA. On his latest record, Bad Posture, he waves farewell to Pennsylvania and greets the wooded hills of Barrington, NH. These songs were written slowly and quietly throughout the winter, usually late at night next to the wood stove. It was recorded in Andrews’ barn with the doors ajar, welcoming the springtime inviting the outside noises in. You can hear the crickets chirping and the occasional truck driving by. The songs themselves lend their hand like slow backwoods Beatles demos covered in a thin blanket of tape hiss. Andrews’ band, The Yawns, has been crystallized with staples from the New England freak scene: Rachel Neveu and Lukas Goudreault (MMOSS / Soft Eyes) and Joey Schneider. The album was mixed with headphones at the foot of Emma Critchett’s grave, who lived in the Yawns’ house during the 1800s. The record is an ode to her and all who have lived there. It paints a picture of living in the ”freecountry” on the precipice of a rapidly changing political climate.
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John Anderson – Years (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:55 minutes | 366 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
John Anderson was struggling with the issue that is every musician’s nightmare: in the midst of a serious illness that had forced him off the road, his hearing disappeared. Singing and playing his guitar, the way the “Seminole Wind” singer had been doing as a profession for more than 40 years, seemed like a thing of the past.
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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson – John Adams: Scheherazade.2 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:36 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Nonesuch Records releases the debut recording of American composer John Adams’ Scheherazade.2, a new dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra. The recording features David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony and virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz, for whom the piece was written. The piece was informed both by the Rimsky-Korsakov piece “Scheherazade,” from which it draws its name, as well as the “Arabian Nights” collection of folk stories.
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John Abercrombie Quartet – Up And Coming (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 889 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Guitarist John Abercrombie – who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 – returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group’s 2013 album, the Financial Times said: “The emphasis is on subtle intrigue, flowing lyricism and the interplay between the leader’s warm, cleanly articulated guitar and Copland’s piano… with bassist Gress and drummer Baron equally supple and sinewy companions.” The same virtues of lyrical melody and harmonic/rhythmic subtlety are apparent with the new Up and Coming, though with even more emphasis on the enduring values of song. Abercrombie’s liquid phrasing and glowing tone – enabled by the thumb technique he has honed since eschewing a plectrum in recent years – animate his five originals and the pair by Copland, as well as a take on the Miles Davis classic “Nardis” done in the spirit of Bill Evans. Up and Coming has a twilight atmosphere, with melodic flow the guiding light.
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John Abercrombie Quartet – 39 Steps (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Nine original improvised works as well as a reworking of Ernie Burnett and George Norton’s Melancholy Baby, 39 Steps features guitarist John Abercrombie, pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Joey Baron. This is Abercrombie’s first recording since the 80’s to feature a pianist, though Copland and Abercrombie have been playing together for nearly 40 years.
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John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, Gene Jackson – Structures (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:02 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chesky Records
Structures is a relaxed album of jazz standards and original compositions from this formidable trio, all captured with Chesky’s world-renowned minimalist recording techniques. “These world-class improvisers create a vibe of calm thoughtfulness, subtlety and delicate interaction on Structures,” according to the album’s liner notes. Abercrombie’s first Chesky release came in 2003 with Three Guitars, a highly acclaimed album that saw him going acoustic with Larry Coryell and Brazilian phenomenon Badi Assad. Jackson, meanwhile, made his Chesky debut backing Valerie Joyce on her New York Blue CD in 2005.
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