Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart In San Francisco (1962/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart In San Francisco (1962/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:18 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Columbia

I Left My Heart in San Francisco is revered vocalist Tony Bennett’s 1962 album. The record peaked at number 5 on the Billboard pop charts and is one of Bennett’s best selling albums. The record features the popular title track, along with “Smile”, “Love for Sale”, “The Best Is Yet to Come” and more! (more…)

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Till Bronner – The Good Life (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Till Brönner – The Good Life (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 60:04 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Front cover | © Masterworks

The Good Life is the debut album on Sony Masterworks from renowned jazz trumpeter, Till Brönner, Germany’s best known and best-selling jazz artist. The album is conceived for relaxed moments and draws inspiration form the great American jazz songbook, including new arrangements of works made famous by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and many more. Along with his masterful trumpet playing, The Good Life also features Brönner singing on eight of the tracks and includes two original songs written by the 2-time Grammy nominee. Featuring an all-star band John Clayton/bass, Anthony Wilson/guitar, Larry Goldings/piano and Jeff Hamilton/drums The Good Life is an intimate, pared-down, back-to-basics tour de force and testimony to the unique power of jazz to amplify and enrich the most beautiful and poignant moments of our lives. (more…)

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Scott Walker – The Collection 1967-1970 (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Scott Walker – The Collection 1967-1970 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 193:02 minutes | 3,88 GB
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz.com | Front covers

Scott Walker is an American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path which has taken him from 1960s pop icon to 21st century experimental musician. Originally coming to fame in the mid-1960s singing orchestral pop ballads as the frontman of The Walker Brothers, Walker went on to a solo career, with a series of acclaimed albums, balancing a light entertainment/MOR ballad approach with increasing artistic innovations in arrangement and writing perspective. This Hi-Res collection features his five albums: Scott, 2, 3, 4 and ‘Til the Band Comes In. (more…)

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Stefano Battaglia Trio – In The Morning: Music Of Alec Wilder (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stefano Battaglia Trio – In The Morning: Music Of Alec Wilder (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:34 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ ECM Records GmbH
Recorded: April 28, 2014 at Teatro Vittoria, Torino

On his sixth album for ECM the Italian pianist and his trio reflect on the work of American composer Alec Wilder (1907 – 1980). “I first came into a more direct contact with Alec Wilder’s music in the early 90s, when I was performing his Sonata for Oboe and Piano and his Sonata for Horn and Piano”, Battaglia remembers. “I had already known some of his popular songs like ‘While We’re Young’, Blackberry Winter’ and ‘Moon and Sand’ through the intense versions Keith Jarrett has recorded. But after working on Wilder’s chamber music I wanted to develop a deeper connection with his intriguing musical universe, and I’ve discovered an immense hidden treasure.”

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Sam Cooke – Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Sam Cooke
Title: Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Genre: Soul, R&B, Gospel
Label: © ABKCO Records | Universal Music
Release Date: 2013
Recorded: March 1, 1951–November 16, 1964, Various recording locations.
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 1:23:17
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 5995 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 192 kHz / 4624 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 192 kHz / 4240 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#3: English LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit

#107 on the “List of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”

High Fidelity Pure Audio is the exciting new range of physical HD audio products from Universal Music Group which uses Bluray technology to deliver the ultimate listening experience to the user. High Fidelity Pure Audio discs are playable through all Blu -ray devices including Blu-ray Players and games consoles, allowing the consumer to experience the sound as it was intended by the artist. No compression, no compromise. A download voucher is also included in-pack which gives the consumer a digital download of the album in MP3 format at a standard resolution ensuring they can also access their music on the move, on devices which don’t support HD audio. Universal Music Group is committed to offering high quality audio to the discerning consumer and has selected a wide range of repertoire showcasing some of the most iconic talent the music world has ever seen. (more…)

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Terri Lyne Carrington – The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Terri Lyne Carrington – The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 1:05:29 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Concord Records

After receiving worldwide praise and a GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album for her 2011 disc, The Mosaic Project, drummer extraordinaire Terri Lyne Carrington releases its hotly anticipated follow-up, The Mosaic Project: Love And Soul. Like its predecessor, The Mosaic Project: Love And Soul presents Carrington leading a rotating cast of superb female instrumentalists and vocalists that includes Oleta Adams, Natalie Cole, Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Chanté Moore, Valerie Simpson, Nancy Wilson, Jaguar Wright and Lizz Wright, as well as saxophonist Tia Fuller, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen; bassists Meshell Ndegoecello and Linda Oh; and keyboardists Geri Allen, Patrice Rushen and Rachel Z. (more…)

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Various Artists – Best of 2023 Reissues (FLAC Songs) [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Various Artists - Best of 2023 Reissues (FLAC Songs) [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

Various Artists – Best of 2023 Reissues (FLAC Songs) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:31:59 minutes | 5,56 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Gregory Porter – Christmas Wish (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gregory Porter – Christmas Wish (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:22 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France

Gregory Porter, with his customary class, elegance and sophistication, presents his new holiday album ‘Christmas Wish’ – a cool yule selection of festive favourites as well as brand new songs written by the singer himself. Backed by his long-time band, produced by repeat collaborator Troy Miller in New York and London, with orchestral contributions recorded at Abbey Road, and featuring powerhouse guest vocalist, double Grammy-winning sensation Samara Joy, Gregory Porter’s seventh studio album is a loving tribute to his favourite time of year – and to great songwriters, singers and interpreters including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Dinah Washington. Across its dozen tracks, ‘Christmas Wish’ encompasses the saintly and the secular, the funky and the fun, the Great American Songbook and the best of Motown.

With ‘Christmas Wish’, Gregory Porter has given us a whole new soundtrack to this most wonderful time of year.

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Liane Foly – Crooneuse (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Liane Foly – Crooneuse (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Chanson
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SMART

Un timbre de voix puissant et reconnaissable entre mille, un don précieux pour écrire et interpréter des chansons profondément tendres, une joie de vivre à l’épreuve des drames ; ajoutez à cela des millions de disques vendus et on pourrait presque ainsi résumer 30 ans de musique de Liane Foly, une des artistes les plus aimées du public français, une des plus audacieuses aussi de par ses choix de carrière.

La carrière de Liane s’est dessinée dans la douceur d’une famille aimante et atypique, qui a toujours encouragé ses rêves. Entre le grand bazar de Perrache que tenait son père – paradis sur terre pour n’importe quel gosse un peu imaginatif – et les virées musicales en famille, Liane trouve sa voie sans heurts. A la maison, on écoute Franck Sinatra, Barry White et Ella Fitzgerald. Elle regarde avec dévotion les émissions des Carpentier, mais son coeur ne balance pas, il est déjà tout entier dévolu au jazz.

Personnalité lumineuse, enthousiaste mais exigeante et bosseuse, la jeune femme combine une détermination infaillible et une générosité authentique. Ses deux qualités ainsi qu’une voix vraiment particulière, chaude et racée, lui ouvrent bientôt toutes les portes. André Manoukian, puis Fabrice Nataf croient eux aussi en sa bonne étoile et surtout en son talent. Elle rencontrera tous ses héros, Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand, Michel Petrucciani, mais aussi Robert Hossein, Claude Lelouch, Barbara, Claude Nougaro dont elle assure les premières parties, et Mister Barry White himself. Liane n’aurait pas su être autre chose que chanteuse. Elle aime trop la musique – et les gens.

“ Crooneuse ”, son 9e album studio, marque son retour à la chanson. Le talent et l’énergie sont intacts et se sont juste teintés d’un léger voile de mélancolie, que Liane qualifie pudiquement de sérénité. Elle a choisi de reprendre onze titres qu’elle aime tout particulièrement, dans un répertoire éclectique qui va du rock à la variété, mais en les interprétant avec une teinte volontairement jazz, tout en swing et élégance, le tout impeccablement servi par un big band. L’album ravira les fans de l’artiste, les amateurs de jazz et de chanson française.

Avec son sens inné de la formule et un peu de malice, Liane s’est autoproclamée crooneuse et vous savez quoi, plus que tout autre, ce titre lui va comme un gant.

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Curtis Stigers, The Danish Radio Big Band – One More For The Road (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Curtis Stigers, The Danish Radio Big Band – One More For The Road (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:31 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Just in case the title One More for the Road didn’t suggest Sinatra, Curtis Stigers underscores his debt to the Chairman of the Board by patterning the artwork for this 2017 collaboration with the Danish Radio Big Band after 1966’s Sinatra at The Sands. In fact, One More for the Road is something of a salute to that 1966 record, containing eight songs from that double album and adhering to the snazzy swing of late-period Frank. Stigers even channels that sensibility into “Summer Wind,” a gentle breeze of a single, and that’s one of the distinguishing factors of One More for the Road. Another distinguishing factor is the cheerful blare of the Dutch Radio Big Band, who are big and brassy without overwhelming the singer. For his part, Stigers doesn’t mimic Sinatra, appropriating just a bit of swagger — and, sometimes, the arrangements — but plays with his phrasing and alternates between crisp enunciation and elongated notes. This is enough to make One More for the Road something a bit different than a straight-up tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes because it shows how Stigers can hold his presence on-stage while sharing the spotlight with his idol.

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black midi – Cavalcade (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

black midi – Cavalcade (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 476 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rough Trade

black midi’s new album Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early achievements.

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