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John Williams – Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]
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John Williams – Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:28 minutes | 3,10 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Walt Disney Records
Originally released alongside the movie in 2002 by Sony Classical, the original motion picture soundtrack to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones’ 13-track score from legendary composer John Williams has been remastered to maximize the recording’s dynamic range.
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John Williams – Star Wars: A New Hope (1977/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:05 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Walt Disney Records
John Williams’ score for “Star Wars” was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12, 15 and 16, 1977. The score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Williams himself conducting. The score was orchestrated by Williams’s frequent associate Herbert W. Spencer, who also orchestrated The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The score was recorded by engineer Eric Tomlinson and edited by Kenneth Wannberg, and the scoring sessions were produced by Star Wars director George Lucas and supervised by Lionel Newman, head of 20th Century Fox’s music department.
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John Williams – Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:37 minutes | 774 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Records
On June 12, 1981, America met Indiana Jones when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg brought Raiders of the Lost Ark to theaters. If George Lucas were to say that he could make terrific entertainment out of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, at this point I’d be inclined to believe him – this point being just a few hours after seeing his Raiders of the Lost Ark. And if he wanted to bring along Steven Spielberg to direct, I’d believe him even more.
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John Turville – Head First (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:26 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
John Turville has put together a quintet that spans generations for this lively, self-assured release, with saxophonist Julian Arguelles, a mainstay of British jazz for over 30 years, joining younger musicians like drummer James Maddren and Robbie Robson on trumpet. Dave Whitford is on bass.
Turville sits at the centre of the record. The music is varied, reflecting Turville’s eclectic influences. The eleven tracks comprise three latin numbers, some meditative piano and some energetic ensemble playing, all infused with Turville’s sensitive piano playing.
He admits being inspired by John Taylor, who played on a couple of Arguelles’ recordings and to whom the CD is dedicated. Taylor’s influence is perhaps most evident on Ennerdale, on which Robson seems to evoke Taylor’s long time collaborator, Kenny Wheeler, too.
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John The Revelator – ’50 & Beyond’ – Volume 1 & Volume 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:37 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © John The Revelator
Back in 1970 the Dutch blues band John The Revelator won the prestigious Loosdrecht Jazz Concours. Record label Decca immediately offered them a recording contract, which resulted in the release of the legendary album “Wild Blues”. Now, approaching the 50th anniversary the band toying with the idea of releasing a box set to celebrate this special occasion. For the new album were invited the original Wild Blues guys from 1970: Charles van den Heuvel (piano), Fred Huissen (drums), Charles van der Steeg (tenor saxophone) and co-founder Jos de Wilde (slide). Even after all those years it felt like they never left the band. Most of the tracks were recorded live in one take, just like the good old “Wild Blues” days. The results can be heard on the new double album “50 & Beyond”.
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John Taylor – Angel Of The Presence (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:24 minutes | 958 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cam Jazz
John Taylor has several strings to his bow: he can play with a certain nonchalance or feverishly throw his notes in a hurry. The introspective pianist of “Insight” or “Rosslyn” – to quote recent records – is more talkative than usual. Vaguely Asian, a composition by Steve Swallow previously recorded by Taylor as a solo, loses some of its abstraction. The drums of Martin France order, channel, bring another light to the piece, a powerful and energetic drummer pushing the pianist into action. With Palle Danielsson to complete it, the rhythm section makes an act of presence. A round and attentive double bass, a sonorous and imposing drums put themselves at the service of the piano, answer and develop its sentences, ready at any time for dialogue, for exchange. The pianist can thus sing louder or indulge in a sensitive and delicate chatter, this somewhat ethereal aspect of his music found in Dry Stone, Fable and Intro to No Particular Song by Kenny Wheeler, three ballads from a recommended album.
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John Surman, Nelson Ayres, Rob Waring – Invisible Threads (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Like every great instrument blower, John Surman has a sound you’ll recognize from the first breath. A sound which is as much fed by the culture of his British motherland (local folklore is one of the components of his music) as by the culture from other countries. The saxophonist and clarinetist has crossed paths with pianist Nelson Ayres—well-known by the fans of Brazilian jazz for his work with Airto Moreira and Milton Nascimento—during a tour in South America. And it’s in Oslo that he met the American vibraphonist Rob Waring, an expat in Scandinavia… With Invisible Threads, the three men gathered to perform a programme mostly composed of Surman’s original pieces, recorded in Oslo in July 2017, under the artistic supervision of Mr. ECM, Manfred Eicher. This program is like an ode to melodies that transcend dialects. Once again, John Surman unfolds very singular and beautiful narrations, parcels of internal joys that are almost melancholic, at the heart of which the improvisations are drunk like divine elixirs. This jazz is of course different. And as the saxophonist has been a resident at ECM for decades, he’s also one of the components of the sound of the label from Munich, now more than ever.
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Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds – Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:03 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Dacapo
Vagn Holmboe’s three chamber symphonies span the period when the Danish com poser immersed himself in symphonic works; they are a fine demonstration of his preoccupation with the processes of nature and the idea of musical metamorphosis. Lapland Chamber Orchestra and its conductor John Storgårds focus on Vagn Holmboe’s clear musical expression in three major works that have never previously been recorded.
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John Stein – Watershed (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:00 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound
Recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2019, it features John’s compositions, jazz classics by Jim Hall, Joe Henderson, Pat Martino, and a timeless gem by Henry Mancini. The exceptional band of musicians is fully committed, achieving stylistic variety, deep grooves, and authentic feeling on all the tunes.
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John Stein – Serendipity (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound
Like many serious musicians, John Stein was trying to find a way to reach his audience following the Covid-19 breakout. He had just released Watershed, a career- defining recording to mark his planned retirement from Berklee College of Music, where he was an acclaimed educator. Of course, as with live music in general, the tour in support of Watershed was scrapped. Prior to the pandemic, Whaling City Sound’s Neal Weiss had asked Stein to bring a trio for an outdoor September show he had booked in New Bedford. But when hell broke loose, Neal moved the show inside, to the New Bedford Art Museum, and made plans to broadcast it virtually, as well as record the audio and video. “Thanks to Neal’s ability to see other possibilities,” recalls Stein, “it would be the only public concert I played the entire year.”
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John Smith – Hummingbird (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:31 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Commoner Records
John Smith is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist from Devon, England. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and sold-out concert halls. He is a genuine folksinger, an inquisitive truth-seeker, devoted song interpreter, and enchanting writer. A contributor and collaborator, John quickly and effortlessly earns the esteem of his comrades and heroes. He has opened for folk greats including John Martyn, Davy Graham and John Renbourn, who called John Smith the future of folk music. On the contemporary side, he has also opened for Iron and Wine, Tinariwen, and Ben Howard. He has guested with artists such as Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Glen Hansard and Rodney Crowell. He has played guitar for artists such as David Gray, Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry and Joan Baez. John described his reason for making Hummingbird ” Ever since my teenage epiphany at the altar of Folk Music, hearing Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn for the first time, I have been a devotee. The six strings of my guitar have granted me access to a sacred space between things, the unconscious interweaving sensations that allow us that gentle buzz on hearing a good folk song. It was with this in mind that I returned to Sam Lakeman s Somerset studio in March of 2018, two years since recording my previous album Headlong in that same place, to commit six of my favourite folk songs to tape, alongside one cover version and three original songs. The tracks quickly took on their own shape in Sam s able hands. I invited several good friends to join me in this process: Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls.
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John Scofield – Swallow Tales (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:51 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in a day in New York in March 2019 – “old school” style as Scofield says, while acknowledging that more than forty years of preparation led up to it. John was a 20-year-old student at Berklee when he first met and played with the bassist, and they have continued ever since. “I love these songs”, says Scofield of the selection of Swallow compositions explored here – a broad range including classics such as “Hullo Bolinas”, “Eiderdown”, “Falling Grace” and “Radio”, as well as lesser-known works. The rapport between Scofield and Swallow is evident in every moment. John: “Sometimes when we play it’s like one big guitar, the bass part and my part together.” Behind the drum kit, Bill Stewart, a close associate of Scofield’s since the early 90s, is alert to all the implications of the interaction. “What Bill does is more than ‘playing the drums,’” Scofield says. “He’s a melodic voice in the music, while also swinging really hard.”
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John Scofield – Combo 66 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:34 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
At 66 years old, Sco remains fascinating. With about fifty albums as either the lead artist or under a shared credit, the guitarist from Ohio always finds interesting stories to tell. This time he uses a four piece including his old friend and drummer Bill Stewart (with whom he’s been playing since 1992!), bassist Vincente Archer (a member of Robert Glasper’s trio), and organist and pianist (keyboard) Gerald Clayton. “Guitar and keyboard are not always the easiest mix. Because of its percussive nature, the piano is relatively similar to the guitar. But Gerald has a beautiful touch and though he is quite modern, his style reminds me of Hank Jones or Tommy Flanagan, and that really is a beautiful legato sound that works well with the guitar.”
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John Schneider – Recycling Grace (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:16 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Maven Entertainment
After releasing an astonishing 72 songs in 2018 and the southern rock inspired Redneck Rebel earlier this year, John Schneider returns with some of the most personal recordings of his career with the new inspirational album, Recycling Grace (Maven Entertainment). Produced by Schneider, Larry Hall and Alicia Allain, Recycling Grace was recorded in Nashville and Franklin, TN, with additional recording and mixing by Bob Bullock. Schneider also enlisted stunning guest vocals from Christian Davis, Cody McCarver, Jacob Lyda and J Edwards.
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John Sangster – Jazz Music Series 5: Ripper (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:42 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Move Records
The fifth and final volume in John Sangster’s jazz series of Suites that he wrote for a lively little orchestra featuring some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians.
“Anyone lucky enough to have made music with John Sangster will likely refer to him as a creative genius. He certainly was that in my view and much more. His compositions, his humour and general attitude towards life were inspirational. This collection demonstrates all these qualities to be sure. It is a collectors item and one which will give great listening pleasure for a very long time.” Tony Gould (who played piano throughout this 5-album series)
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