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Pulsar Trio – Caethes Traum (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:50:48 minutes | 927 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © T 3 records
Seit 2007 ist das Pulsar Trio aktiv. In der ungewöhnlichen Besetzung mit Klavier, Schlagzeug und Sitar spielen sie Instrumentalmusik, die um die indische Sitar kreist. 2012 spielten sie ihr Debütalbum “Erpelparka-Suite” ein. Nun haben sie bei t3 Records “Caethes Traum” veröffentlicht.
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Mulatu Astatke – Sketches Of Ethiopia (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:29 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © Jazz Village
Sketches of Ethiopia is Mulatu Astatke latest fusion of Western and Africa rhythms. A powerful and creative album that matches everything he has done in the last decade. Rich and flourishing with superb musical contributions that enhances the session viability. A wonderful blend of jazz and world themes flows through tracks including “Surma,” “Gambella,” and “Azmari.” One of the most exciting albums from one of the most revered musicians on the global scene today.
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Metallica – Live at Webster Hall, NY (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 1:39:38 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Metal
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Fans are used to seeing Metallica rock massive stadiums, but last night (Sept. 27), the metal legends played an intimate club gig at New York’s Webster Hall for about 1,500 lucky fans, and we were fortunate to among those in attendance. This is complete show recorded live at Webster Hall in New York, NY on September 27, 2016.
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Meta Meta – MM3 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Digital Booklet | © Jazz Village
Based in São Paulo, Metá Metá have played a key role in the city’s thriving experimental music scene, mixing samba and Afro-Brazilian candomblé with jazz and rock. Now they have added north African influences, inspired by visits to Morocco, in an album that constantly changes style and pace – often in the same song. Opener Três Amigos sets the mood, starting as an atmospheric piece with an Arabic edge and relaxed vocals by Juçara Marçal, before switching to a furious blitz of sound by saxophonist Thiago França and guitarist Kiko Dinucci, who played a key role in an extraordinary recent album from Elza Soares. Elsewhere, the songs vary from the cheerful and breezy Toque Certeiro (featuring scat vocals from Marçal that have the easy charm of Joyce Moreno) to passages that sound like an angry Brazilian post-punk thrash, influenced by their country’s political crisis.
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Meredith Monk – On Behalf Of Nature (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:00:53 minutes | 1,1 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © ECM
For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored non-verbal vocal sound that lay beneath and beyond language. This exploration has led her to create an art that “sings, dances and meditates on timeless forces.” Voices and instruments have equal weight: sometimes each is heard alone; sometimes they are blended to form a new, mysterious sound; sometimes they are combined to create intricate, layered, yet transparent sonic landscapes.
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Martha Reeves – The Rest Of My Life {Expanded Edition} (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:06:43 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © Arista/Legacy
“The Rest Of My Life” is the 1976 album by legendary soul diva Martha Reeves which was expanded and includes 7 Bonus Tracks with 2 Tracks are Un-Released Gems. Re-Mastered from the original master tapes by Sean Brennan, at Battery Studio’s. Produced by Bert DeCoteaux, General Johnson, Tony Camillo, and Tony Silvester. Tony Silvester, General Johnson, Tony Camillo, and Bert DeCoteaux – working independently resulted in Martha’s best post-Motown release to date. The material and arrangements suit her voice and style and the release is more of what you expect from the Detroit diva. Included is Martha’s original version of Gwen Guthrie and Pat Grant’s “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter,” a song later popularized by Angela Bofill. Reeves’ version of Gamble & Huff’s “Now That We Found Love” is one of the better cuts; Martha sings it with as much conviction as the O’Jays, who first waxed it. “Thank You” is an uptempo romp produced by General Johnson, who has Reeves reaching for notes like her former producers at Motown did which became very reminiscent of her classic Jimmy Mack. Plus, you can count on Martha to pour every ounce of emotion into a ballad, and this album has some excellent slower songs, including the title track. “The Rest Of My Life” is regarded as one of Martha Reeves’ best albums ever, including the releases with The Vandellas.
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Marquise Knox – Here I Am (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 00:55:12 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © APO Records
Teenage guitar prodigy Marquise Knox has won the approval of B.B. King, Henry Townsend, and Robert Lockwood Jr. On his second album, Knox delivers a searing set of blues that brings to mind masters such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
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Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life – Nihil Novi (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:17 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Digital booklet | © Blue Note
Since making his debut as a leader with 2001’s At Last, Marcus Strickland has established a reputation as a composer of remarkable depth and breadth. On Nihil Novi, his first Blue Note offering, Strickland showcases a new band – trumpeter Keyon Harrold, keyboardists Mitch Henry and Masayuki Hirano, bassist Kyle Miles, and drummer Charles Haynes. His new tunes offer an even greater array of styles, harmonic textures, and dynamics, and reveal his preoccupation with hip-hop beatmaking. (This isn’t a jazz/hip-hop fusion record.) Nihil Novi was expertly and empathetically produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, who also guests on bass. Strickland also brings in some old friends and allies, including Robert Glasper, Chris Dave, Pino Palladino, and Chris Bruce. (more…)
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Kevin Stewart – Never Look Back (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:59:43 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Tonegold Records
American keyboardist Kevin Stewart is a superb contemporary jazz instrumentalist and composer who can perform a range of styles – including jazz, blues, and R&B – with equal dexterity, and his new album, Never Look Back, is a good example of his remarkable facility.
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Manuel Rocheman – Misterio (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:42:41 minutes | 968 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Digital Booklet | © Bonsaï Music
Manuel Rocheman has always distinguished by an obvious virtuosity and a sense of harmony that make him a refined pianist particularly at ease in the trio. Between 1990 and 2000, the old (unique) student of Martial Solal has signed many albums, all just in trio, with different rhythm sections. One of the most notable presented with bassist George Mraz and drummer Al Foster. Rocheman seems particularly at ease in this configuration where precise speech of his ideas and his scrupulous attention to harmonic pathways, may deploy the urge … To Misterio, the conversation did this time with Mathias Allamane on bass and Matthew Chazarenc on drums, both partners totally in tune with what the jazz virtuosity always justified.
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Jim Black Trio – The Constant (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:38 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Intakt Records
Jim Black has been an influential figure in progressive jazz since the nineties. For this, his Intakt Records debut, he performs with pianist Elias Stemeseder and bassist Thomas Morgan. Linernotes by Hank Shteamer read, “The Constant, a suitelike collection of 10 new pieces, is a meditation on song- a celebration of plain-spoken melody but also an interrogation of the fragility of musical order.”
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Jerry Bergonzi – Spotlight On Standards (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:03:19 minutes | 1,3 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Savant
There’s an old saying that a great jazz musician never plays a song the same way once. That could certainly be said of Jerry Bergonzi. He is an intellectual artist of uncompromising integrity and a bold, original composer. On Jerry’s new Savant recording he returns to the organ-tenor trio format after a long hiatus from it. From the opening track, Cy Coleman’s “Witchcraft” with its hypnotic organ vamp and “bewitching” chord substitutions Jerry gives to the first 8 bars, you know this isn’t going to be your parents’ organ-tenor gig. Bergonzi and his discmates, Renato Chicco on organ and Andrea Michelutti on drums, take these standards down new harmonic paths and use them as a launching pad for fertile and impressive improvisation. The playing is always intense and distinctive, fresh and spontaneous.
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The Manhattans – It Feels So Good {Expanded Version} (1977/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 01:02:53 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Columbia/Legacy
Another addition to the Manhattans’ bulging cache of mellow sounds. Gerald Alston, Winnie Lovett, Ernest Bivens and Kenny Kelly made a career of recording romance, heartache and make-out tunes. The popular “We Never Danced to a Love Song” fits in well with their other ballads, as does the majestic “It Just Can’t Stay this Way” and “Let’s Start All Over Again.” They hit the charts with the somewhat contrived “I Kinda Miss You,” and the title track, the eloquent “It Feels So Good to Be Loved So Bad” is classic – the harmony is tight and they add a little doo wop for good measure. You can’t go wrong with any Manhattan album; they give their fans what they want, and never do they offend or alienate them by recording and releasing something out of character. ~~Review by Andrew Hamilton
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The Manhattans – With These Hands {Expanded Version} (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 00:55:32 minutes | 1,2 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Columbia/Legacy
Life after Carnival Records finds the Manhattans recording for the Deluxe label, where they cut some charmers. George “Smitty” Smith had polished his God-given, captivating, crying tenor into an instrument that ranked with the greats. With These Hands is the closest the Manhattans came to recording an album of standards or pop material. The album’s ten songs consist of five standards and five cold-blooded originals. You can’t help but feel the aching pain in “It’s Gonna Take a Lot to Bring Me Back,” a minor R&B hit that had major potential; the slow weeper oozes soul. “Give Him Up” displays the quintet’s lovely uptempo harmony; the shuffler unfortunately got lost as a B-side. The tear jerking “If My Heart Could Speak” is a slow, tenderly sung ballad and one of their best. Winnie Lovett, Kenny Kelly, Ernest Bivens and Richard Taylor provides splendid backing to Smitty’s lead on “People Get Ready,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Georgia on My Mind,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and the title track, all ably arranged by Chico O’Farrill. ~~Review by Andrew Hamilton
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The Tierney Sutton Band – The Sting Variations (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 66:48 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | Front Cover | © BFM Jazz
Recorded: May 1 & 2, 2015, Sear Sound Studios, NYC
One of the strengths of vocalist Tierney Sutton and her long time team of Christian Jacob/p, Kevin Axt-Trey Henry/b and Ray Brinker/dr is that they know how to select themes for their projects. Sutton and company have successfully created homages to Sinatra, Joni Mitchell and even the American Folk Book. This time around, she focuses on the pen of Gordon Matthew Thomas Summer, aka “Sting”, with material from The Police and solo career joining together through the puree of Sutton’s deliver.
“(Sutton is) a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level.”– The New York Times (more…)
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