Phillip Dornbuschs Projektor – Reflex – Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 86 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:05 minutes | 432 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Double Moon Records
The Covid-19 crisis is not currently dealing with culture in a very careful way. For the second time, an emergency stop, which makes not a few of those affected even doubt their raison d’etre. The eternal discussion of relevance deals precisely with those who have classified themselves in the pigeonhole “Jazz”. On the other hand, Phillip Dornbusch’s recipe is as simple as it is obvious: to make the world a little bit better. “I want to raise awareness of certain problems with my music,” the 26-year-old tenor saxophonist explained his chosen path. “For example, I wrote ‘Mourning’ when the ship “Sea Watch 3” was detained with many refugees onboard in Italy in July 2019. That moved me a lot, and the piece emerged from these feelings. When we play it live, I imagine the audience dealing with the story. And so I want to do my part to help things move in a different direction.”
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Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Iain Sutherland – Favourite Orchestral Classics (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:31 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM RECORDINGS is pleased to announce a celebration of Favourite Orchestral Classics by Iain Sutherland and the Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Recorded in Munich in 1988 and Hanover in 1992, these glorious recordings bear the unmistakable stamp of the Scottish maestro’s reputation for emotion, colour and drama.
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Philipp Gropper’s Philm – Live at Bimhuis (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:09 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Jazz, Modern Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WhyPlayJazz
“Live At Bimhuis” is Philipp Gropper and Philm’s astounding interim statement on the way to new musical heights, a statement of unexpected density, exceptional use of dynamics, sustained emphasis on and sensibility to the details. Done with directness, purity and presence.
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Philippe Petrucciani, Nathalie Blanc – Remember Petrucciani (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:05 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Jazz Village
His brother, Philippe, and singer Nathalie Blanc bring us this very special album as a tribute to Michel Petrucciani. Philippe often accompanied Michel on guitar. Michel saw his compositions as songs and dreamed of putting words to them. This is a musical portrait of a highly accomplished artist and highlights his gifts as a vocalist who could juggle with words and make them swing. He was an ace on six strings, having grown up listening to Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery.
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Phantasm – Locke: For Lovers of Consort Music (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:07 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records
Phantasm adds to its critically-acclaimed repertory of English viol consort music with the first recording in what will be a series exploring the music of Matthew Locke.
A turbulent musical personality, Locke has much to endear him to ‘lovers of consort music’; his ceaseless and obsessive quest for variety ensures music of maximum breadth and diversity. Director Laurence Dreyfus has created an intriguing programme that showcases Locke’s rule-bending approach featuring music that is in turn quirky and humorous, lyrical and sweet.
Most excitingly, this release reunites the partnership of Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, whose last album together, Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears, won both a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année. Locke’s part-writing, and the oftentimes orchestral dimension of his approach, are both highlighted by the opulent realization of the continuo part, devised here with supreme inventive powers by Kenny.
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Phil Broadhurst Quintet – Positif (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:09 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rattle
Positif is Phil’s fourth album featuring this particular line-up of excellent musicians, but it is the ensemble’s first “live” recording. Several of the tunes had been performed as concert material, but all were either written or arranged after the release of Phil’s 2016 Jazz Album of the Year release, Panacea.
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