Ben Williams – State Of Art (2011/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
‘By definition the bass player is a pivotal figure in jazz, a steward of tonality as well as tempo. Determining a good one can require close listening: that quality reveals itself in the cohesion of the band as well as in the handling of line and phrase. All of this was accounted for in Mr. Williams’s set, which also involved a pair of harmonically sound original compositions and a balance of tradition and novelty.’ -Nate Chinen, New York Times State Of Art is a result of Williams’ first prize in the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition for double-bass. The album marks Williams’ first album as a leader, however it is not the bassist’s first time working with the Concord Jazz family.
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Ben L’Oncle Soul – Under My Skin (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Soul, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
Actually, he is called Benjamin Duterde and is France’s most successful ‘Retro Soul’ star. His role models include Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye. His songs swinging between classic Motown and current influences have earned him chart success and critical acclaim, his title ‘Petite sœur’ even became a TV jingle of a well-known chocolate bar.
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Ben Harper, The Innocent Criminals – Live From Mars (2001/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:17:44 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin
Seeing Ben live is an amazing experience, which for the first time has been captured in this double album set. This collection includes all of Ben’s greatest songs, along with his versions of such classics as Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing,” plus many more.
Throughout the ’90s, Ben Harper’s blend of blues, funk, soul and folk quietly earned him a hardcore following of diehard fans over the span of four studio albums. For Live From Mars, Harper and his tight three-piece band the Innocent Criminals cull performances from a variety of concerts, featuring interesting arrangements and odd nuances applied to his best-known songs, along with an eclectic array of covers.
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Beady Belle – Dedication (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:39 minutes | 528 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzland Recordings
With Dedication, Beady Belle has drawn together all the threads of inspiration at the core of who she is and has woven a brand new tapestry that is vibrant, organic, energetic, cool, emotional, intimate, and unequivocally funky. Soul and R&B have always been close to Beady Belle’s heart, and with Dedication, she is fully immersed in these twin worlds.
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Bad Sounds – Get Better (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:20 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Insanity Records
The debut full length album from the addictive indie-hip-poppers Bad Sounds, woozy and summery jams that are so infectious and will have you nodding along. Fans of Superfood, Gengahr, Ten Tonnes and Cage The Elephant will be into this.
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Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – GarciaLive Volume 18: November 2nd, 1974 Keystone Berkeley (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:08:51 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
GarciaLive Volume 18: November 2nd, 1974 Keystone Berkeley presents the complete & previously uncirculated two-set Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders performance originally recorded to 1/4” analog reels by Betty Cantor Jackson.
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Otis Redding – The Complete Studio Albums Collection (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:24:27 minutes | 5,88 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
Otis Redding had a brief, but towering career that would shape all of Soul for decades thereafter. Now you can have Redding’s entire discography, offered for the first time here in stunning Super HiRez files! All six of Otis’s living works, and his four terrific posthumous studio albums are contained here.
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Oliver Lake & William Parker – To Roy (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:19 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
The album „To Roy“ dedicated to trumpeter Roy Campbell, who died in 2014, is the first collaboration between saxophonist Oliver Lake and double bass player William Parker – two important pioneers of contemporary jazz, two great musicians of the USA and two masters of composition and improvisation.
Read moreYellow Days – Is Everything Okay In Your World? (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Yellow Days arrived on the scene with his debut EP, Harmless Melodies, last November and it was a delight. Produced in his bedroom, it mixed slacker rock, funk-infused beats with husky, Paolo Nutini-esque vocals. His debut LP, Is Everything Okay in Your World? arrives on the back of a soldout debut tour and it’s fantastic. An authentic neo-soul, jazz-influenced record that keeps all the best things from the EP, but with a confident panache.
Read moreYoun Sun Nah – Immersion (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:18 minutes | 502 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arts Music
Jazz sensation for fifteen years, the South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah, already a gold record in France is known for its exploration of an ever exclusive repertoire: from her original covers of standard rock, folk or song to his compositions with pop accents. Directed by Clément Ducol (Camille, Melody Gardot, Christophe), this new opus features covers (Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Marvin Gaye, Michel Legrand …) and original compositions where acoustic and electric sonorities mix with minimal electro and string arrangements subtle. Faithful to herself and her voice, Youn Sun Nah puts her mark and a unique flavor on each of the thirteen songs of this new album.
Read moreYoun Sun Nah – Waking World (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:12 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arts Music
Today, the award-winning South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has shared “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” the second single from her forthcoming album Waking World that will be released on January 28, 2022 via Arts Music, a division of Warner Music Group.
For the first time in her career, Youn Sun Nah wrote all of the songs that comprise her forthcoming collection. For Youn Sun Nah writing was a way to find light in dark times, a way to continue her growth as an artist, and the result is 11 haunting compositions that make up her eleventh studio album.
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Zulema – Ms. Z (Remastered) (1973/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:22 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sussex Records
Hope and Charity in 1971 shortly after a label switch to Sussex Records. Bailey and Hilliard would occasionally sing backing vocals on Zulema’s albums, though. Her self-titled solo album included the song “American Fruit, African Roots” and a cover of “If This World Were Mine.” Zulema started touring as opening act for major stars like Bill Withers. She appeared on a bill with Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Earth, Wind and Fire and Sly Stone at the Push Expo in Chicago, a concert which became a motion picture called Save the Children. The movie’s soundtrack was released on Motown Records and included Zulema’s single mother anthem, “This Child of Mine”.
Read moreAzar 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!
Read moreHardkandy – Pure Fantasy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:34 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wah Wah 45s
After a 14-year hiatus, Hardkandy are back with their fourth studio album, Pure Fantasy. Crafted over two years, the album has been something of a labour of love for the main writer and producer, Tim Bidwell, based on the underlying concept: what would I have done back then, if I’d known what I know now?
Read moreAndy Frasco and the U.N. – Happy Bastards (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:22 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2016 Ruf Records GmbH
You can’t miss Andy Frasco. The electric-shock hair. The megawatt charisma. The golden lungs, magic fingers and party-starting songs. When this twenty-something Californian bandleader takes to the stage with The U.N., you’ll get an adrenalin-shot of pure escapism. “We want people to be happy,” explains Andy of his musical mission statement. “To smile at their faults, love life for what it is, and follow the beat of your own drum.”
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