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Sean Fyfe – Late Night (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:00 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
Sean Fyfe is a New York based Canadian pianist. He began playing piano at age 5, and was immersed in jazz at age 14 in high school. He has completed performance degrees in piano at McGill University, and Manhattan School of Music, and brings a style to the piano heavily influenced by Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and McCoy Tyner. He has worked with some of Canada’s finest musicians, including Andre White, Dave Laing, Kevin Dean, Tony Genge, Sean Drabitt, Al McLean and Sam Kirmayer.
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Sophie Agnel, John Edwards, Steve Noble – Aqisseq (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:53 minutes | 181 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ONJ Records
Sophie Agnel is unrivalled when it comes to transcending the piano: she exploits its potential to the full. Together with her two accomplices John Edwards and Steve Noble, – cornerstones of the U.K.’s free scene as individuals and an exceptional rhythm section – since 2011 the ONJ-National Jazz Orchestra’s pianist Sophie Agnel has been exploring the traditional jazz trio format in a way that is immensely inventive and constantly virtuoso.
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21st Century Consort – Eugene O’Brien: Algebra of Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:38 minutes | 911 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings
Composer Eugene O’Brien teams up with Washington D.C. based ensemble The 21st Century Consort, led by conductor Christopher Kendall, for an album of two of his ensemble compositions, Algebra of Night and Elegy to the Spanish Republic. The two pieces both take inspiration from a constellation of sources related to iconic places. Algebra of Nightfor voice and piano quartet sets poetry by six poets who lived in Manhattan at some point and whose work was shaped by the experience of that multi-layered metropolis. Elegy to the Spanish Republic for nine instruments is a “musical addition” to Robert Motherwell’s powerful series of paintings in response to the Spanish Civil War. In both, O’Brien displays his deft, subtle intuition for how to write music that emerges from a pre-existing context while retaining the integrity of both the music and the extra-musical source of inspiration.
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Richie Beirach & Gregor Huebner – Live at Birdland New York (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:17:43 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
When it comes to jazz musicians improving with age, pianist Richie Beirach is a perfect example. With the release of “Live at Birdland New York” in May 2017, the pianist and composer celebrates his 70th birthday, demonstrating that he’s still at the top of his game. His congenial partner of two decades, the Stuttgart-born, New York-based violinist Gregor Huebner reaches half-a-century on the exact same day as Beirach. This double birthday tribute to two talented artists features highlights recorded in August 2012 during their annual live residence at the illustrious Birdland in New York, joined by a powerful lineup of trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist George Mraz and drummer Billy Hart.
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Richie Beirach – Inborn (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:49:28 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzline
“Inborn” by Richie Beirach are recordings of historical significance for the world of jazz and a must-have for all connoisseursof music. Featuring Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, John Scofield, George Mraz, and Adam Nussbaum!. All tracks were recorded at the legendary Clinton Recording Studios in New York, where many of the great Bill Evans trio and some of the later Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner records were realised.
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Richard Whiteman – Very Well and Good (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:42 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
Richard Whiteman is a multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada. One of the busiest pianists on the Toronto scene, Whiteman has long been sought out by many of the finest names in jazz, including Don Thompson, Reg Schwager, Jane Bunnett, Norm Villleneuve, Ed Bickert and Al Henderson. Richard has recorded ten CDs as a bandleader and has established himself as one of Canada’s finest musicians in a performing role and as a mentor and teacher to younger musicians.
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Richard Whiteman – Old Prose (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:46 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
Toronto native Richard Whiteman is an extremely versatile player, fluent in styles ranging from the stride masters of the twenties, through Bud Powell and Bill Evans, to modern giants like Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock. As a leader, he has released five CDs (with a sixth on the way), and has received raves from as far away as Japan, where his “GROOVEYARD” disc was rated one of the Top 500 Jazz Piano Trio records of all time.
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Richard Galliano – New Jazz Musette (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:25:28 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ponderosa
Already 30 years that his first album as a band leader, «Spleen», was released with the “New Musette” Quartet. Already 30 years that he restored the image of a so called old fashioned instrument, bound to play for Saturday nights ballrooms. Already 30 years that he is navigating in all kinds of musical styles, flirting with salsa, merging with tango, without losing his soul, deeply anchored in his French-Italian roots.
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Randy Ingram – The Wandering (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Pianist-composer Randy Ingram has put himself in a position to reveal more about his musical identity by scaling down to record The Wandering, a sophisticated, personal and enlightening duo album with bassist Drew Gress.
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Ralph Towner – My Foolish Heart (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:26 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
After critically-lauded projects with trumpeter Paolo Fresu (Chiaroscuro) and with fellow guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan (Travel Guide), Ralph Towner returns to solo guitar for My Foolish Heart. Whether on classical guitar or 12-string guitar Towner’s touch is immediately identifiable. Solo music is an important thread through his rich discography and this new album – recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in February 2016 and produced by Manfred Eicher – follows in the great tradition of Diary, Solo Concert, Ana, Anthem, and Time Line. It features finely-honed new compositions as well as a pair of tunes (“Shard” and “Rewind”) from the songbook of Oregon, a dedication to the late Paul Bley (“Blue As In Bley”) and a single standard – Victor Young’s “My Foolish Heart” which Towner first came to love in Bill Evans’s interpretation.
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Raffaele Genovese Trio – Anamnesi (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:57 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alfa Music
Dove conduce il viaggio mentale nel passato musicale di Raffaele Genovese, il trentenne pianista siciliano che ci propone in trio la sua personale anamnesi? L’ascolto di questo nuovo album può lasciare spazio a diverse considerazioni in merito, ma sarebbe fuorviante pensare solo alla personale genealogia di influenze che hanno prodotto il suo linguaggio, perchè ciò che ci viene proposto è il frutto maturo di un percorso nel quale, a soli trent’anni, questa nuova realtà del jazz italiano dimostra di aver già metabolizzato un ampio spettro di riferimenti. Il trio che presenta ha le caratteristiche della mobilità, del dinamismo interno, con il basso che, ancor più del pianoforte, crea i collegamenti e la regia, mentre il piano e la batteria si muovono in completa sintonia (e a volte anche sincronia), con un gioco di rimandi continui da cui si origina un interplay creativo che rappresenta il vero cuore della musica. La pregevole coerenza interna della musica, ottenuta senza soffocare la libertà individuale, nasce anche dalla logica compositiva in cui prevale la brevità dei brani, talvolta quasi aforistici e portatori di idee che si riverberano nella creazione del momento, dove, a volte, si segue la strada della variazione estemporizzata se non, persino, dello sviluppo della composizione stessa all’interno della performance. Un album meditato e sorretto da un’energia interiore che come un fiume carsico sparisce e riappare tra le pieghe della musica.
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Robert Kaddouch – High Line (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:11 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records
Here is a constellation of compositions that pierces the sky and seems to tell the two musicians that this moment belongs only to them. We can feel in the high notes of French pianist Robert Kaddouch and the deep bass of American Gary Peacock the High Line on which Robert has built its harmonic structure: an unstable equilibrium where musicians, like tightrope walkers, increasingly move away from their comfort zone towards a point where only the fall becomes possible, or a spark of genius climbing even higher towards a new High Line.
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Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass – Tribute (1981/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:13 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Award-winning Trombonist-arranger-composer Rob McConnell and his Boss Brass big band was a fixture on the Canadian jazz scene. The group was composed of Canada’s premiere jazz musicians, and many of their over two dozen albums have become collectors’ items for big band enthusiasts world-wide. Tribute was the second of three albums released by MPS.
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Tyler Duncan & Erika Switzer – A Left Coast (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:48 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical, Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
“A Left Coast” is baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer’s tribute to British Columbia and its music. Seven composers with birthdates ranging from 1908 to 1985 are featured on the disk. BC is a young country as far as western classical music is concerned though, of course, it has rich artistic traditions stretching far back into the mists of the north west.
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Pat Metheny – Dream Box (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:05 minutes | 717 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Recordings
20-time Grammy winner Pat Metheny returns with his most personal record to date ‘Dream Box’ in 2023. ‘Dream Box is an unusual recording for me’, says Pat. ‘A compilation of tracks recorded across a few years. While on tour this past year (2022), I discovered a forgotten folder on my drive. I often make quick recordings of things; a new tune, a new (or old) guitar, a standard tune, or just to try something out. I have a folder where I stash these things, truthfully, usually never to be heard again. The only time I listen to my own stuff is while on the road. I often say I live on output, with little or no time for input. That changes on tour, where suddenly there seems to be more free hours in the day, albeit on a bus or in some far-flung hotel room. Occasionally, those moments offer a chance to rummage around in the files to see if anything interesting may lie there. This past year was a particularly busy travel year for me, with about 160 performances worldwide. In the course of all that travel, I found myself returning to that discovered folder again and again. From those listening sessions, I was surprised to find this program emerging as a coherent whole. I found that I had unintentionally gotten to a destination I had not planned for, and I am excited to share what I found there. These nine tracks were my favorites and added up to something unique for me. I never played anything more than once. These are really moments in time, and in fact, I have almost no memory of having recorded most of them. They just kind of showed up’.
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