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Charles Lloyd – Manhattan Stories (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:25:52 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | ©
Manhattan Stories is a trip back in time, a journey to a long gone and long-missed era. It’s a window into the great Charles Lloyd’s art at a period of transition. The shows presented on this beautifully packaged two-disc set—one recorded at the infamous Slugs’ Saloon in the summer of 1965, the other recorded at Judson Hall in September of the same year—took place shortly after Lloyd left the employ of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley and before he became a cross-over sensation and hero to hippies, moving a million units of Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey (Atlantic, 1966).
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Charles Lloyd – 8: Kindred Spirits – Live From The Lobero (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:48 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
The legendary saxophonist, composer, and jazz mystic Charles Lloyd celebrated his 80th birthday on March 15, 2018, at his hometown venue, Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre, with an unprecedented grouping of musical friends including guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland, with special guests organist Booker T. Jones and bassist Don Was joining the ensemble midway. His new album 8: Kindred Spirits, Live From the Lobero documents both the sights and sounds of that extraordinary concert, and arrives in a signed and hand numbered limited-edition deluxe box set that includes 3-LPs, 2-CDs, and a DVD of the full performance, along with a 96-page hardcover book and 2 photo prints that commemorate the first 8 decades of Lloyd’s remarkable journey.
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Charles Lloyd & The Marvels – I Long To See You (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:34 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Blue Note releases I Long To See You, the profound new album from Charles Lloyd & The Marvels. The album finds the iconic saxophonist and recent NEA Jazz Master in the company of a new band featuring guitarist Bill Frisell and pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz, along with his longtime quartet members bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The album also includes two remarkable guest vocal appearances by Willie Nelson and Norah Jones. All together they have created a sumptuous collection of 10 songs that range from traditional hymns to anti-war folk protests to re-envisioned Lloyd originals from his earlier recordings.
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Charles Lloyd with Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan – Trios: Chapel (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:52 minutes | 728 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a musical free spirit and visionary, unique in the international music scene for more than six decades and still in full possession of his creative powers at the age of 84. As productive as ever, Lloyd released a live album in 2020 with “8: Kindred Spirits”, which was included in numerous album leaderboards of the year, recorded on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2018.
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Arrows Into Infinity chronicles the arc of an improvisers still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music. Charles Lloyds story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz history.
Lloyd grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and had early contact both to masters of an increasingly sophisticated jazz tradition and the raw voices of the blues. Booker Little was a childhood friend, Phineas Newborn a mentor. In his teens Lloyd hit the road with Howlin Wolf. He befriended Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins in a period when blueprints for musical freedom were redrawn, and replaced Eric Dolphy in Chico Hamiltons band, soon building a reputation as an exceptional saxophonist and a composer of strikingly original melodies.
His own groups drew together some of the most exciting players of the day, and his late 60s quartet with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette made an impact at many levels, playing opposite Hendrix and Janis Joplin at the Fillmore Auditorium, touring Europes festivals to great acclaim, making a now-legendary foray into the Soviet Union, and selling a million copies of their Forest Flower album, a massive FM radio hit.
Then Charles Lloyd retreated from the limelight, preferring to play his flute in the mountain forests of Big Sur. For almost two decades sightings of him in jazz contexts were rare. A tentative return to public service was made in the company of pianist Michel Petrucciani; the 1989 ECM recording Fish Out Of Water, with Bobo Stenson, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen signaled a new beginning. Since then Lloyd has led a succession of outstanding bands including the recent quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland and the Sangam trio with Harland and Zakir Hussain. These musicians contribute their thoughts about Charles Lloyds work to this remarkable documentary as do Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Robbie Robertson, Jack DeJohnette, Don Was, John Densmore, Jim Keltner, Geri Allen, Larry Grenadier, Alicia Hall Moran, Stanley Crouch, Manfred Eicher, Michael Cuscuna, Arthur Monroe and Ayuko Babu.
Arrows Into Infinity is available in DVD and Blu-ray formats. Running time 113 minutes. Subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Italian.
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Ray Charles – Yes Indeed!! (1958/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:20 | 737 MB | Genre: R&B
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | @ Rhino Atlantic
For the First Time – Digitally Released As High Resolution Downloads 192kHz/24bit Classic Jazz Titles from the Archives of Warner Bros Records, Reprise, Atlantic Records, and Rhino Records.
Yes Indeed! is a scintillating selection of hits that shaped the landscape of jazz, R&B, blues and rock. This revealing statement highlights all of Charles’ musical talents, from his stunning vocal range to his bluesy piano execution. As a singer and keyboardist, Charles is in top form. Standouts include the title track, which Charles pays tribute to big band innovator, Sy Oliver.
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Dave Douglas, Ian Chang, Rafiq Bhatia, James Brandon Lewis – GIFTS (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music
“How often do we step back and realize what a gift it is to have this music in our life?” asks acclaimed trumpeter, composer and Greenleaf Music founder Dave Douglas. On Gifts, his newest Greenleaf project, Douglas harnesses that feeling of simple wonder with a new book of pieces and four intriguing takes on Strayhorn songs, premiering a new quartet with poll-sweeping tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and two members of the Oscar-nominated post-rock trio Son Lux: guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. The sound is harmonically spacious, with no bass, but a full, sonically adventurous guitar palette from Bhatia that frames the group’s trumpet-tenor melodic concept in fresh and unexpected ways.
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Dwight Trible – Mothership (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:00 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Spiritual Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records
Dwight Trible is a rarity. Few singing careers involve performing with the legendary likes of Pharaoh Sanders, Kenny Garrett and Charles Lloyd, whilst also producing and innovating music with today’s hippest artists, ranging from J Dilla to Kamasi Washington. His upcoming album, ‘Mothership’, is thus a true masterpiece. Trible’s voice, unrivalled in its passion and depth, is set against a background of spiritual riffs brought about by LA’s top jazz musicians, with Kamasi on saxophone no less. As arguably the world’s greatest living jazz vocalist, Dwight Trible is a legend in waiting – and it’s time he was heard.
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One For All & George Coleman – Big George (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:16 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions
Acclaimed sextet One for All makes its much-anticipated return with BIG GEORGE, its first release in seven years and its 17th. The album reunites Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, Steve Davis, David Hazeltine, John Webber, and Joe Farnsworth, who are joined on three tracks by a very special guest saxophonist, their mentor and hero, NEA Jazz Master George Coleman.
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Michel Petrucciani – Solo in Denmark (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:35 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storyville Records
Michel was one of the most popular pianists in the 1990’s due to his extraordinary technique, his astounding musical outlook and extremely dynamic playing style. His music is simply timeless and magical, seemingly coming straight from his soul. As he is often quoted: “I’m not playing to your head, but to your soul. When I play, I’m like a bird flying over the landscape, and I can land anywhere.”
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Michel Petrucciani – Colors (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:36:54 minutes | 561 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Disques Dreyfus
This is a superb retrospective, despite his very considerable physical disabilities, of one of the very greatest piano jazz masters in the late twentieth century. There are ten studio and eight live recordings captured during a period of high productivity between 1994 and 1997. All the tunes are composed by the pianist who we hear in solo, duo, trio and sextet modes. The French musician was born on 28th December 1962 at Orange, in the south of the country. He suffered from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, an inherited disease, from birth which causes brittle bones and sometimes, as in his case, a shortness of stature. Despite all, after being influenced by Duke Ellington in his early years he began his public musical career aged only thirteen. He worked out of Paris as a young adult before moving briefly to California in the early eighties, where he made three significant recordings with saxophonist Charles Lloyd, subsequently spending his latter days in New York. During his career he delivered thirty two albums as a leader and many others as a sideman. Despite his incapacity he was very much a ladies man with five significant relationships during his lifetime, producing one son who sadly inherited his condition. He died on 6th January 1999 in New York City aged 36 and was buried at the Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, one grave away from Fredric Chopin.
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Trygve Seim – Helsinki Songs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
For these Helsinki Songs, Trygve Seim has taken on pianist Kristian Randalu, double-bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Markku Ounaskari. Together, they have cooked up the Norwegian saxophonist’s eighth album for ECM, one which puts the accent on lyricism. From the off, the fluidity of Sol’s Song sets the tone for this warm, contemplative, sincere and melodic record that never falls into complacency. Helsinki Songs provide an ever-increasing feeling of wellbeing. Following in the footsteps of Charles Lloyd, Seim’s playing tends towards a musical poetry of rare beauty. This is more proof, were it needed, of the talent of this 47-year old musician, who is still sadly under-appreciated… – Clotilde Maréchal
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The Beach Boys – M.I.U. Album (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:26 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records
Released in 1978, this Beach Boys album is named for the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa where it was recorded, a move that caused great turmoil within the band. Neither Dennis nor Carl Wilson approved of the decision, prompted by Mike Love’s adherence to Transcendental Meditation. As a result, only Love, Al Jardine and Brian Wilson were involved in any major way. The single Come Go With Me, re-released off a compilation in 1981, broke into the top 20 the second time around.
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Tomasz Stańko New York Quartet – December Avenue (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:20 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue.
Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages spirited improvisation to flower around his characteristically melancholic and soulful themes, and all players are presented to best advantage. New band member Reuben Rogers – originally from the Virgin Islands and perhaps best-known for his work with Charles Lloyd – is a splendid addition to the team, establishing a profound understanding with Cuban-born pianist David Virelles and Detroit drummer Gerald Cleaver.
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