Kalaha – Nord Havn (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:04 minutes | 493 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Nu Jazz, Surf Rock, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © April Records & Music Co.
Since 2013, Danish quartet Kalaha’s multi-award-winning sound has been characterised by a melting pot of worldwide musical cultures including Brazilian Samba, Anatolian rock, African highlife, desert blues and contemporary western electronic music, resulting in acclaim from critics and vinyl connoisseurs alike. Their sixth album ‘Nordhavn’ is set to release on January 26th on April Records. The record follows on from their 2022 release ‘Tutku’, a collaboration with the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and vocalist Hilal Kaya celebrating the sound of Turkish music in the 70’s. The band’s new album marks a conscious return to their early sound of an instrumental quartet.
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John Etheridge – Blue Spirits (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 576 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dyad Records
After 20 years as a working unit John Etheridge and his Blue Spirits trio have appropriately released a live album that captures the band’s brilliance in the area of blues inflected jazz. Guitarist John Etheridge hardly needs introduction having worked as a solo artist and bandleader and in lengthy associations with some of the greatest names of 20th century music – Stephane Grappelli, Soft Machine, John Williams, Nigel Kennedy, Andy Summers – which give some idea of his range – over 53 years as a working musician. The music here subtly reveals all these influences, brought to bear in an organ trio setting.
With Etheridge is Pete Whittaker, the most reactive and sensitive organist, a strong soloist with great groove and on drums, George Double, a man with just the right feel for this music. Together they make a very special sound, quite distinct from other organ trios, by turns aggressive and tender, swinging and rocking.
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James Strauss – James Strauss Plays Mozart (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:07 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Ltda.
James Strauss (b. November 29, 1974 Recife, Pernambuco) is a Brazilian flautist and musicologist.
Strauss began taking violin lessons from his father when he was four years old, but switched to the flute a few years later. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with Pierre-Yves Artaud, Maurice Pruvot, and Lazslo Hadadi. Concurrently he studied Flute with Jean-Pierre Rampal. His career as a flute soloist started in 1991 with his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the 23rd Music Festival in Campos do Jordão, conducted by Júlio Medaglia.
In 1999, he moved to Finland, and began looking for Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky’s legendary “Flute Concerto”, of which Rampal had seen a page in the 1960s in the Soviet Union. He eventually found three pieces of the original composition (one in St. Petersburg, one in Finland, one in Klin) and reconstructed from them the Concertstück for Flute, TH 247, now catalogued as a posthumous work by Tchaikovsky. From 2017 to 2020 James Strauss publishes the albums Mozart Discoveries, Latin Connections, Venezuelan Elegy, produced by Danilo Alvarez.
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JACK Quartet – Jason Eckardt: Passage (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:31 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © KAIROS
We’re the JACK Quartet, a string quartet that champions music by 20th- and 21st-century composers.
We curate and perform programs that include a variety of musical styles by established and emerging artists. With each program, we aspire to create transformative experiences. The music we play asks audiences to listen with their whole beings. With close listening, music has the power to broaden perspectives.
Since our founding in 2005, we have been introducing audiences world-wide to a range of experimental chamber music. We perform everywhere from classical music halls to art galleries to bars. We commission new music and collaborate with composers to bring it to life. We commit to helping dismantle outmoded classical music pipelines for composers through our JACK Studio program, which includes residencies, commissions, readings, and recordings. We’re the Quartet in Residence at The New School in New York City, and we teach at music festivals, conservatories, and universities.
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Hiruy Tirfe – 10,000 Hours (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:47 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TIRFE RECORDS
The sound collage that opens saxophonist Hiruy Tirfe’s debut album, 10,000 Hours, features a host of influential voices. Prominent among them, naturally, is author Malcolm Gladwell, whose oft-quoted theory about the time required to gain expertise gives the album its title. But it also includes former Sixer Allen Iverson, via an excerpt of his legendary “practice” rant; Questlove discussing sacrifice; Will Smith on his “ridiculous, sickening work ethic”; and Barack and Michelle Obama lecturing students on hard work.
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Friends and Neighbors – Circles (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:43 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Clean Feed
Scandinavian powerhouse Friends & Neighbors make an auspicious return with Circles, their sixth full-length release, brimming – as you might expect from an outfit borrowing its moniker from a lesser-known Ornette Coleman classic – with dexterous, hard-edged improvisations, unapologetically taking influence from the fearless New Thing movement of the 1960s and early 70s.
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Enrico Pieranunzi, Enzo Pietropaoli & Francesco Petreni – Suite for Siena (Live 1991) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:10 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abeat
A live recording that made history! Made for Siena Jazz in 1991 and published in 1992 in a very limited edition. Today the original record has an inestimable value on the collectors’ market. It is a vibrant and superb recording, of immense artistic quality, which we are pleased to present to the public again after a fine remastering operation and new graphics. An album not to be missed starring one of the most acclaimed international jazz pianists and composers on the contemporary scene.
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David Liebman & Jeff Williams – In Duo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 477 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
“In this extraordinary album, we witness the combination of the spontaneous creative impulses and actions of the two artists with aesthetic enthusiasm. Sound vibrations, which usually shine and disappear for a short time during the live performance, are like the handsome corpses of the jazz cemetery, but this recording is like a sacred treasure saved from rotting and destruction; it is waiting to be discovered once again.” – Dark Blue Notes
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David Hazeltine – Ballads and Blues Volume I (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:32 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
It has come to my attention that over 40 + years of recording, fans very much appreciate the way that I arrange and perform ballads. I think my love for ballad playing goes back to my early years as a music student and how much I learned about harmony studying the solo piano recordings of the late great Bill Evans. He has a melancholy joyfulness in his approach to ballads and that sound has never left my ear.
At the sametime, playing the Blues has always come naturally to me perhaps because I understand the feeling so profoundly. So I had the idea to combine these two aspects of my musical character, and do an EP of Ballads and Blues, and with a nod to the late great McCoy Tyner, call it Ballads & Blues.
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Bubble Bones – Go Back to the Mojo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:00 minutes | 580 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bubble Bones
Bubble Bones tienen una amplia trayectoria en el circuito de R’n’R y se han ganado una reputación gracias a sus incendiarios shows y a su obsesión por tótems de distintas eras como Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, Radio Birdman, Grateful Dead y Hawkind. En este tiempo han compartido escenario con Howlin Rain, Soulbreaker Company, The Sheepdogs y han sido la banda de Dan Bern. La actual formación de Bubble Bones es Simón Gumbo (voz y guitarra), Alfonso Adánez (batería) y Victor Rionegro (bajo). Su álbum ‘Go Back to the Mojo’ (Fast Comet, 2023) es una nueva y revitalizante colección de canciones, precedida por el single que le da título.
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The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman – Music for St Katherine of Alexandria: 15th-Century English Music (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:17 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
A poignant, poetic evocation of the conjectural life and death of Saint Katherine: there is a natural sympathy between The Binchois Consort’s programme and the accompanying illustrations of alabaster from the fifteenth and twenty-first centuries.
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