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Joshua Redman – RoundAgain (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. A mere glance at Round Again’s line-up is capable of arousing a sense of collective hysteria among jazz fans. The original members of the saxophonist’s first quartet haven’t recorded together since MoodWing was released in 1994. “We would have done it ten years if it were up to me”, explains Mehldau, “Josh, Christian and Brian are all my heroes. It’s like playing with The Avengers!” It’s a worthy comparison seeing as these four really are considered superheroes in today’s jazzosphere. In almost a quarter of a century, their aura and playing has developed in an exponential way to the point that the quartet has achieved an irrevocable spiritual chemistry. In this brand-new offering (three compositions by Redman, two by Mehldau, and one each for McBride and Blade), they immediately show off a bond which allows them to perform extraordinary and colossal swing. Under the hood of this sparkling, perplexing yet vintage Rolls Royce of a record, RoundAgain is a meaningful four-way conversation. From beginning (Undertow) to end (Your Part to Play), mutual respect is at the heart of their drive and direction; even Redman’s verbose saxophone never steals the spotlight. Let’s just hope that we won’t have to wait another 26 years before they do it all again… – Marc Zisman
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Joshua Redman – Come What May (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians: the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Previous releases were Beyond (2000) and Passage of Time (2001). The Quartet, which has toured internationally over the last several years, recorded seven Redman tunes for Come What May.
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Joshua Ranz – J.S. Bach: 3 Cello Suites (Arr. J. Ranz for Bass Clarinet) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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THREE CELLO SUITES from clarinetist Joshua Ranz and Navona Records is a truly groundbreaking take on Bach’s legendary works; In this album, for the first time ever, listeners may enjoy three unabridged cello suites by Bach arranged for the bass clarinet. Ranz selected Suites 1, 4, and 2 for this recording because, together, they form a cohesive and dynamic whole. Ranz holds the chair of principal clarinet for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and has played on such blockbuster soundtracks as Toy Story 3 and 4, and Star Wars episodes VII and IX. He can be heard prominently featured in La La Land, Catch Me If You Can, and An American Pickle. Ranz lends a fresh voice to Bach’s profoundly-beautiful music in THREE CELLO SUITES.
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Joshua Radin – Acoustic from Sunset Sound (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Love and the complications surrounding it have long proven to be Joshua Radin’s songwriting forte. Though he never intended to be a live performer, there was little choice when the first song he ever wrote, “Winter,” was featured on an episode of “Scrubs.” The resulting fervor around the song soon led to a record deal, and over the last decade, Radin has toured the world countless times, sold hundreds of thousands of records and topped the iTunes charts, earned raves from Rolling Stone to The Guardian, performed on “The Tonight Show,” “Conan,” and more, played Ellen DeGeneres’ wedding at her personal request, and had his songs featured in more than 150 different films, commercials, and TV shows.
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Joshua Jacobson – Good Little Thing (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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The 1920s brought forth a parade of amazing musical talent to Atlanta’s thriving African American community. Decatur Street and surrounding neighborhoods churned with activity around the clock as people migrated from the agricultural counties seeking jobs and a better life. The Decatur 81 theatre surrounded by a popular pool hall and barber shop served as a showcase for touring acts as well as street corner musicians who would later become legendary figures in blues history.
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Joshua Hopkins, Jake Heggie – Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Hopkins, Jake Heggie - Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Five years ago, Joshua Hopkins’s life changed forever when his sister Nathalie, along with two other women, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in a spree that is now considered one of the worst cases of domestic violence in Canadian history. In his grief, Hopkins conceived of this song cycle. Co-commissioned by HGO with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, with music by Jake Heggie set to poetry by Margaret Atwood, this powerful new work, directed by James Niebuhr, is Hopkins’s way of honoring his sister’s memory and speaking out against domestic violence.
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Joshua Homme, Michael Shuman, And Troy Van Leeuwen – In The Fade (Original Soundtrack Album) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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In the Fade is the new film by German director Fatih Akın (Soul Kitchen) with Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds). Katja’s life falls apart when her husband and son die in a bomb attack. After mourning and injustice, the time for revenge will come.
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Joshua Davis – The Way Back Home (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Davis—veteran touring musician and lead singer of Steppin’ In It—took a turn to the mainstream with his top three performance on Season 8 of The Voice. The Way Back Home is his first studio effort since his television appearance. This release sees Davis at a new stage of artistic growth with finely tuned vocal chops and sophisticated songwriting.
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Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley – Joy in Bewilderment (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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This features an array of exceptional musicians who perform a broad series of jazz-related musical textures. The album stretches from solo piano and string quartet to 13-piece, three drummer ensembles, with special guests including Chris Potter and the Amika String Quartet, amongst others.
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Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields – For the Love of Brahms (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields – For the Love of Brahms (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:22 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Heartland American violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis have known each other for many years and have often performed together. This release, spearheaded by Bell in his post as music director of the venerable Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, is a bit unwieldy, but has moments that make it worth the time and money of Bell fans especially. The three works, loosely linked by the concept described in the title, have their background abundantly described by Isserlis in the booklet. The Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op. 102, is conducted by Bell from the violin. There are moments that show his star quality, contrasting nicely with the detailed, concentrated approach of Isserlis, and the relatively small size of the Academy probably approximates the way Brahms imagined the work. There are smoother versions of this curiously restrained, deliberate work, however. In the slow movement of the Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, Isserlis takes an orchestral cello line as a solo for no very good reason. The album finishes strongly, however, with the original 1854 version of the Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8, which Brahms reworked in 1889 but did not, as Isserlis points out, discard (and he discarded plenty of other music). It’s a passionate, tumultuous work of Brahms’ youth, and Isserlis and Bell come together with pianist Jeremy Denk to make the best possible case for it. Sample the “Scherzo” with its daring rhythmic shift to waltz, and hear Bell’s way with the expressive violin parts of the outer movements, and you’ll come to understand Brahms’ ambivalent attitude toward this early work. The 1854 version of the work is less often recorded than the 1889 reworking, and a fine, stirring performance of it is reason enough to pay the admission price here. ~AllMusic Review by James Manheim
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Joshua Bell – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 – Mélodie – Danse russe from Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Act III) (2005/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

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Joshua Bell – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 – Mélodie – Danse russe from Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Act III) (2005/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 51:27 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical
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Acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell is joined by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for this must-have recording. Captured live, this exciting album is the concerto as the composer wrote it, without cuts or alterations to the score. It also includes Tchaikovsky’s Meditation and Danse russe from Swan Lake. This is a definitive reading in which Bell breathes new life to this rich classic with his masterful virtuosity.

No matter how many other recordings you possess or may have heard, Bell’s Tchaikovsky Concerto is a must. – Classics Today
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Joshua Bell – Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 / Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Bell – Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 / Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:43 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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While Max Bruch’s First Concerto was recorded, re-recorded and over-recorded to the nth degree, we can’t say the same of Bruch’s very elegant Scottish Fantasy Enter Joshua Bell, the new artistic director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, both playing the violin and heading up an ensemble to offer us both the Concerto – which he had recorded about thirty years ago with Marriner – and the Fantasy, a discographic first for him. This Fantasy, written in 1880 after the Second Concerto, was Sarasate but first performed by Joachim. The composer weaves it together from an infinitely elegant tissue of themes, and melodic impressions of Scotland, real or imagined. Joshua Bell, of Scottish descent himself, swims like a wild salmon through the clear waters of lochs and highland torrents, while the orchestra, clearly rapt, offers him a beautiful foil.
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Joshua Bell – At Home with Music (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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“At Home With Music” is a glimpse inside the home of one of the world’s greatest violinists. Enjoy your own private concert from Joshua Bell, featuring vocalist Larisa Martínez and music by Chopin, Gershwin, Bach and more.
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Bessie Smith – Backwater Blues (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Josh White had a long and varied career, beginning as a session guitarist in the 1920s, then had his own run of stellar blues 78s for Paramount and Columbia in the 1930s, becoming a cabaret bluesman in New York in the 1940s, only to be blacklisted as the McCarthy era dawned, which led to his association with Jac Holzman’s fledgling Elektra label in 1955. White recorded seven well-conceived LPs for Holzman between 1955 and 1962, and they restarted his career once again. The Elektra Years collects some of the highlights of that run in a two-disc set, including “You Don’t Know My Mind” (a remake of a Virginia Liston 78 from 1923), “Silicosis Blues” (which White first recorded back in 1936), “Jim Crow Train,” “Jelly Jelly” (complete with the sound of White gargling vodka at the onset), the jailhouse gospel of “Trouble,” and “Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed,” which White first tracked in 1934 and was more or less his signature song. The collection ends with a striking 1933 version of “Lay Some Flowers On My Grave,” which White recorded in 1933 for ARC Records when he was only 19 years old. Many hardcore Delta blues aficionados found White’s version of the blues to be a little too refined to be authentic, and these days he is seldom placed in the company of his rediscovered contemporaries like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Bukka White, or Skip James, which is a shame. It’s true that White had much more of a political and cultural agenda than any of those players, and if he pandered at times to stereotypical notions, it was always in the interest of educating his audiences. In addition, White was an astounding acoustic guitarist, and his laser-guided guitar runs were always tonally perfect. As a guitarist alone, he is due for a reassessment, and these Elektra recordings from Rhino Handmade are the perfect place to start, since he was never recorded in a more favorable sonic setting.
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Josh Turner – I Serve A Savior (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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With his deep bass voice Josh Turner has steered his latest album towards the world of gospel. I Serve A Savior is a record that this country baritone has wanted to make for a long time, and you can hear it in the music! Passionately invested in the material, Turner revisits great country classics like I Saw The Light by Hank Williams or I Pray My Way Out Of Trouble by Loretta Lynn. With Sonya Isaacs helping with the harmonies, he sets out on a true pilgrimage, where lyricism, joy and spiritual awakening await at every turn. His hypnotising and slightly nasal voice is delightful on Amazing Grace, and the total devotion he brings to I Serve A Savior is enough to make you believe that he has experienced some sort of mystic vision. But the album’s high point has to be Without Him. An acoustic serenade covered in country sounds that speaks of the greatness of Jesus and celebrates him in song. The album is almost a family affair, as his wife and three children sing a pure-hearted rendition of The River (Of Happiness). The song is a blessing that he bestows on his nearest and dearest. I Serve A Saviorbrings Turner back to his roots: after all, as a young man he had founded a gospel group named Thankful Hearts, not to mention his connections to Nashville. – Anna Coluthe
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