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Zbigniew Seifert – Man of the Light (1977/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:42 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Arguably the greatest violinist in modern jazz, Zbignew Seifert was a musician’s musician, a player who is still talked about with a sense of awe. By the time of his death in 1979 at the age of 32, he had an international following and was playing with the jazz world’s elite. This 1976 recording features some of the genre’s premiere musicians, including American drummer Billy Hart, considered in the same ranks as such innovators as Elvin Jones and Tony Williams. Bassist Cecil McBee’s credentials include work with Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett. Both Hart and McBee had also played with pianist McCoy Tyner, to whom this album and the title song Man of the Light are dedicated.
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Azar Lawrence – Shadow Dancing (1985/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:38 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Light In The Attic Records
Saxophonist Azar Lawrence (born 1952) needs little introduction, as a young musical prodigy he was lovingly tutored by his mother, who taught music and led their church choir. At age 5, he played violin in the Los Angeles Junior Symphony, then viola, but his ears were turned to the saxophone at age 13. Azar spent his teen years immersed in jazz at the home of his best friend, none other than the late Reggie Golson, son of the great composer/arranger/saxophonist, Bennie Golson. From then on it was jazz, jazz and more jazz!
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Azar Lawrence – Bridge Into The New Age (1974/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:45 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
By the time Azar Lawrence released Bridge Into the New Age in 1974—his first recording as a bandleader—he had already built himself an enviable reputation as a saxophone player alongside the likes of McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. Lawrence’s vigorous and emotionally multifaceted playing shines on this album which was a truly forward-looking release in the mid-1970s, presented here as a remastered hi-res release to be enjoyed anew.
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Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 001 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 29:43 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz is Dead
The concept behind Jazz Is Dead 001 is to pair contemporary producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad with a series of revered jazz musicians, in a bid to create fresh tracks that employ the same original vintage recording equipment the ensemble cast used back in the ’60s and ’70s. The task is a natural fit for the duo: the Los Angeles-based Younge has a reputation for coating his music with a gritty retro patina—his personal discography includes Something About April, a soundtrack to a non-existent ’60s blaxploitation flick—and as a member of A Tribe Called Quest, Shaheed Muhammad became renowned for the way the group skillfully repurposed deep jazz loops into golden era hip-hop tracks.
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Alphonze Mouzon – The Essence Of Mystery (1973/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:35 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Following stints playing with Weather Report, McCoy Tyner and Wayne Shorter, drummer Alphonse Mouzon released this acclaimed debut album as leader in 1973. Long out of print, The Essence Of Mystery includes nine original songs performed by Mouzon and his band, consisting of Buddy Terry and Sonny Fortune on saxophones, Larry Willis on piano and bassists Buster Williams and Wilbur Bascomb Jr.
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Alice Coltrane – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:13 minutes | 689 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Luaka Bop
Entitled “World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda”, the release is the first installment in a planned series of spiritual music from around the globe; curated, compiled and distributed by Luaka Bop label.
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Alice Coltrane – Kirtan: Turiya Sings (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:35 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alice Coltrane
‘Kirtan: Turiya Sings’ features Alice Coltrane at peak spirituality and is presented in this arrangement for the first time in any format. ‘Turyia Sings’ was originally released in 1982 on cassette as a collection of devotional songs including vocals, organ, strings, and synthesizers available only at Alice’s Sai Anantam Ashram. ‘Kirtan: Turiya Sings’ features a sparser arrangement of organ and chanting, produced by Ravi Coltrane. This is intentional, devotional music created with the purpose of connecting to a higher power. The pared back arrangements on this release are enchantingly haunting and encourage the listener to reach a meditative headspace so as to channel connectiveness to a greater spirit. The perfect introduction to Alice Coltrane for listeners interested in music for mediation and personal wellness.
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Alexey Leon – Influenciado (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:40 minutes | 595 MB | Genre: World, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © One World Records
Alexey León is a Cuban-Russian saxophonist, flutist and composer. He was born in Manzanillo, Cuba and raised in Moscow, Russia. León won the prestigious Cuban Award “JoJazz 1st Prize” in 2017 and has three outstanding solo releases behind him: Cuba meets Russia (2015), Cuban Connection (2018) and Okudzhava For My Mother (2020). Influenciado is Alexey León’s fourth album.
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Adrien Chicot – Playing In The Dark (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:01 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gaya Music Production
After a debut album entitled “All In“, Adrien Chicot comes back with an enthusiastic second album “Playing in the Dark“, realized with the same rhythmic: Sylvain Romano on bass and Jean-Pierre Arnaud on drums, two accomplices with whom a perfect complicity is obvious.
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Adrien Chicot – City Walk (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:20 minutes | 699 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gaya Music Production
On “City Walk”, recorded by Philippe Gaillot and Lucas Debieve Studio Recall in June 2018, Adrien Chicot assumes all compositions and arrangements. With his two friends Sylvain Romano and Jean-Pierre Arnaud, he strives to explore all dimensions of music. Rich harmonic climates welcome the melodies that happily unfold over the pieces. The pregnant pulsatile dimension is carried by an attentive and reactive rhythm section, always in total collusion with the leader. The trio turns as one man!
Bop and hard-bop have no secrets for the pianist but he constantly renews his inspiration. An outstanding rhythmist, he directs his remarks towards poetic and sensitive countries. His fertile imagination gives him pianistic changes of scenery that make him find the territories of some of his elders (Monk, Ellington Corea, McCoy Tyner …).
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Aaron Goldberg – At the Edge of the World (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:03 minutes | 464 MBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
For the past two decades pianist Aaron Goldberg has crisscrossed the globe, spreading his music and absorbing local knowledge along the way. True to the jazz mentality, he learned to embrace serendipity as an artistic muse. Five years ago this month, in an historic chateau at the exact geographic center of France, Goldberg was reunited with an early influence. Soon a new project began to take shape. Goldberg’s latest recording, At The Edge of The World, documents this recent collaboration with drummer and percussionist Leon Parker, a brilliant innovator and performer, in a new trio along with the gifted bassist Matt Penman.
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Blue Note 75th Anniversary 75CD [FLAC 24-192] | 112G
In celebration of Blue Note Records’ 75th Anniversary, Astell&Kern has partnered with the legendary record label to offer an exclusive, limited edition box set. Available now for a limited time, the Astell&Kern Blue Note 75th Anniversary Box Set: Limited Edition features 75 of Blue Note’s most essential albums, newly remastered from analog to the hi-res MQS digital format (24bit/192kHz). Five Blue Note albums make their exclusive hi-res audio debuts with this release: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ Mosaic, Tina Brooks’ True Blue, Don Cherry’sComplete Communion, Andrew Hill’s Point Of Departure, and Bobby Hutcherson’s Components.The lavish collection includes the Blue Note branded Astell&Kern AK240 high-resolution portable audio player, a special book filled with original album art (front and back cover) for the 75 titles, as well as Richard Havers’ new book, Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression. For more information about the collection and how to order, visit https://www.astellnkern.com/product/product_detail.jsp?productNo=8
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The Awakening – Brand New Feeling (Remastered) (1976/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:28 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Black Jazz Records
The Chicago-based jazz sextet known as The Awakening was in the front line of the second tier of jazz combos active in the first half of the 1970s, amongst the Revolutionary Ensemble and the low-profile bands of, respectively, Sunny Murray, Hadley Caliman, Hampton Hawes, Billy Harper, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Fred Anderson. Who inhabited the top tier? Certainly the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and groups led by heavyweights Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Elvin Jones, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett and Phil Woods.
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John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:48 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
What if John Coltrane’s Atlantic period was really his most exciting? After his great years under the Prestige and Blue Note banners, and before his fulminating recordings for Impulse!, the saxophonist would work for Ahmet Ertegun’s firm between 1959 and 1961. There, he would record four essential records which are held by some to be the quintessence of Coltrane’s art: Giant Steps (his first album made up exclusively of his own compositions) in 1960, Coltrane Jazz (his first collaboration with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones), My Favorite Things and Ol Coltrane(with Eric Dolphy), all three released in 1961. Although he was no longer signed with Atlantic, he would nevertheless release The Avant-Garde (where he was co-leader with Don Cherry), Coltrane Plays The Blues and Coltrane’s Sound. Nine numbers from this golden age have been selected for Trane: The Atlantic Collection. Remastered and available in Hi-Res 24-bit quality, for sure they represent 46 minutes of total genius, but it is difficult and frustrating to find oneself limited to this short selection, when the rest of albums count among the most essential pages in the history of jazz. With these records, the uniqueness of Coltrane finally breaks out into broad daylight. His style, which was unique at the time – technically and harmonically – literally moulded the canons of bop and proposed a totally different road to that being taken at the time by Miles Davis with Kind Of Blue, his angular brick of modal jazz. Upon its release, a large part of the jazzosphere was more than shocked by the complexity of the creations of Coltrane and his collaborators. Today, all the music presented in Trane: The Atlantic Collection has naturally passed into the pages of history. And re-listening to it, in the fine style in which it’s presented here, is an essential service that should be provided free to all on the NHS… (more…)
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John Coltrane – Ballads (1962/2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:08 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital Booklet | © Impulse Records
A breathtaking album by the single most influential saxophone player (and perhaps jazz artist) in history. Featuring his stellar quartet of McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison, BALLADS finds Coltrane at his most pensive and lyrical. The result is one of the great jazz albums of the 20th Century. Absolutely essential. (more…)
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