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Leslie Pintchik – So Glad To Be Here (2004)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:52 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,05 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,22 GB
Not standard piano trio, this group features unique percussion with lyrical bass and piano arrangements of originals and standards. Pianist Leslie Pintchik and bassist Scott Hardy have a musical partnership that spans two decades, and together they have built a library of rich original material. On So Glad to Be Here, Leslie and Scott are joined by percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, whose highly unusual kit (which includes hand drums, bells, cymbals, etc.) adds a dramatic array of colors to the music. The Music-Warmth, humor and mystery flavor this mix of original compositions and jazz standards, in a recording that features rich group interplay and lean textures.
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Leslie Pintchik – Quartets (2007)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:29 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,17 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,2 GB
In the follow-up to her debut trio recording, “So Glad To Be Here”, pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik returns on her second SACD “Quartets” with two different quartets. The powerful band-mates from her debut album return – Scott Hardy on bass and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion. Added to the mix on the new release are the superb – and deservedly acclaimed – saxophonist Steve Wilson, as well as the exceptional drummer Mark Dodge. The project, which once again features Pintchik’s strong original compositions, as well as three unusual arrangements of well-known standards, packs a rich array of feeling into 56 minutes. All the extraordinary color and nuances of the two different quartets are captured beautifully using Sony’s Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology. “Quartets” is released as a multichannel Hybrid SACD, featuring a 5.0 surround sound mix, along with the standard stereo mix.
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Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (1964) [Analogue Productions 2010]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 51:01 minutes | Scans included | 2,13 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 0.98 GB
Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan’s compositions are forward-thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe Henderson, who at 26 was just beginning to play dates with Blue Note after getting out of the military. Henderson makes a major contribution to the album, especially on “Totem Pole,” where his solos showed off his singular style, threatening to upstage Morgan, who is also fairly impressive here. Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins are all in good form throughout the album as well, and the group works together seamlessly to create an album that crackles with energy while maintaining a stylish flow.
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Lee Morgan – Lee-Way (1960) [APO Remaster 2008]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:29 minutes | Some Scans included | 1,58 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Some Scans included | 748 MB
This date was one of trumpeter Lee Morgan’s more obscure Blue Note sessions, but fortunately, it has been reissued on SACD. Matched with altoist Jackie McLean, pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, Morgan interprets two of Cal Massey’s compositions, McLean’s “Midtown Blues” and his own blues “The Lion and the Wolf.” The music is essentially hard bop with a strong dose of soul; the very distinctive styles of the principals are the main reasons to acquire this enjoyable music.
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Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:57 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
The debut album Black Acid Soul from Lady Blackbird is one of the standouts for 2021. It’s instant and within a minute you are hooked. Rough Trade Shops loves this album. Think Nina Simone, Hot Buttered Soul-era Isaac Hayes, Billie Holiday and Chaka Khan. Gilles Peterson called her “the Grace Jones of Jazz”.
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Lady Antebellum – Ocean (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:39 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMLG Records
Ocean represents something of a re-centering for Lady Antebellum. Arriving in November 2019, a few months after the conclusion of their brief Our Kind of Vegas residency, Ocean finds the trio recording with a new label, and a new producer, Dann Huff, who has been on a hot country streak since helming some of Taylor Swift’s Red in 2012. The group may have departed Capitol Nashville for Big Machine, but Ocean sounds like the group returning to the kind of warm, soft-focus country-pop that established them as hitmakers ten years earlier. Lady Antebellum don’t deny they’re a decade older anywhere on Ocean. The album is filled with songs about enduring love, both romantic and familial. It’s telling that “What I’m Leaving For” — a ballad about the heartache of leaving a loving home — was among the songs that teased the album: its unabashed sentiment is the keystone of Ocean, plus the trio’s revival of their close-knit soft-rock harmonies. Compared to the subdued glitz of Heart Break, their modern-minded 2017 collaboration with busbee, Ocean feels reserved and cautious, but it also feels soothing and welcoming. The whole thing rolls so smoothly, it’s easy not to realize that the lightly grooving “Pictures” is a song of heartbreak, but that’s the intent of Lady Antebellum with their seventh album: They mean to offer comfort, and that’s precisely what Ocean delivers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Lady Antebellum – Live: In The Round (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 18:37 minutes | 220 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMLG Records
Just a few months after releasing their latest album ‘Ocean’, Lady Antebellum have released a new five-track EP that strips down some of those album tracks.
The ‘Live: In the Round EP’ sees the trio – made up of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood – re-create five of the songs from their recent album release ‘Ocean’ in one take at Nashville’s Skyways Studios.
Speaking about the opportunity, Kelley said that the group loved being able to strip away parts of the songs and bring a much more intimate feel to them, while also saying how refreshing it was to go down that route in the studio once more.
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Lady Antebellum – Heart Break (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:50 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records Nashville
Heart Break is the seventh studio album by American country pop trio Lady Antebellum. The album serves as the “spiritual follow-up” to 2010’s Need You Now and is their first release since 2014’s 747, with its three-year gap being the longest between two albums by the group to date. The album was written and recorded primarily in Florida and California, due to the group feeling creatively stifled in Nashville.
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Lady A – What A Song Can Do (Chapter One) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:52 minutes | 322 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMLG Records
Lady A are wasting no time in releasing their next studio project. The trio announced their What a Song Can Do (Chapter One) album on Wednesday morning (June 9).
The seven-song album is set for release on June 25 and features their current single “Like a Lady,” plus six more co-written by one or more members of the band. Thomas Rhett and Ryan Hurd are two more artists with co-writing credits, helping with “Things He Handed Down” and “What a Song Can Do,” respectively.
Dann Huff returns to produce the album. He previously produced Lady A’s last full studio album, Ocean, released in 2019. This album, a press release notes, represents their new, refined vision. Themes of romance, self-examination and sage advice are said to populate the seven songs.
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Lady A – On This Winter’s Night (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:14 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMLG Records
Lady A are returning to their 2012 Christmas project On This Winter’s Night, and adding four new tracks to the album for this holiday season.
“When I think back to that original [album], we didn’t have children yet,” the group’s Dave Haywood told a group of reporters, including Sounds Like Nashville. “We wrote [‘Christmas Through Your Eyes’] with just the three of us, which was really the way we started as a band, so that was a special moment and something that only could have happened at this point in time in our lives and our careers.”
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Lady – Lady (1976/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:01 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Black Chrome
Lady hailed from Hannover, Niedersachsen formed in 1974 by ex-Jane keyboard player Werner Nadolny. Their single “Without you” and “On the Road” gain minor success back on 1976 the year they release their self-titled album featuring pomp-rock not that different from the parent group with a progressive touch in some parts. Strong songwriting and outstanding melodies compose this rarity. At the end of 1976, Grossmann and Zaake quit and were replaced by Matthias Jabs (later with Scorpions) and Rob Perotti. The band was active till 1982. If you are in vein of bands like Dull Knife, Fargo, Harrison, Panka & Nadolny, Jane, The JP’s, Lady Jane and Scorpions check these guys…
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Ladies Of Soul – Live At The Ziggodome 2015 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:52:44 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Demp Music
A Dutch R&B/pop group that performs original songs as well as covers of R&B/soul hits, Ladies of Soul were formed by Trijntje Oosterhuis, Candy Dulfer, Glennis Grace, Berget Lewis, and Edsilia Rombley, who have known each other since childhood. They first got together for a series of Whitney Houston tribute concerts after the R&B diva’s death in 2012. The shows were so successful that the quintet organized an arena show for Valentine’s Day 2014, which sold out, resulting in a second sold-out show scheduled for the day before. Their resulting album, Live at the Ziggo Dome 2014, hit number two on the Dutch album chart, and the following year Live at the Ziggo Dome 2015 peaked at number three. The Ladies performed in Belgium later in 2015, with another Ziggo Dome concert planned for 2016.
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Lacuna, Tom Hamilton Jr. & Holly Bowling – Lacuna (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:57 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Royal Potato Family
Lacuna is the debut album by guitarist Tom Hamilton and pianist Holly Bowling. The duo, who also perform together in the acclaimed rock band Ghost Light, captured the music in one stream-of-consciousness, completely-improvised recording session at Hamilton’s studio The Ballroom in Philadelphia. Exploring the outer limits of creating music in the moment through a series of ambient excursions, Hamilton and Bowling showcase their powerful musical connection.
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Lacuna Coil – Live From The Apocalypse (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:38 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Century Media
LACUNA COIL’s new live album, Live from the Apocalypse, is the fruit of an unprecedented time. Unlike previous live efforts—’Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul)’ (2008), ‘Shallow Live: Acoustic at Criminal Records’ (2010), and ‘The 119 Show – Live in London’ (2018)—the Italians, under the yoke of the pandemic, cleverly devised a way for their devoted fanbase to hear and see them on stage by organizing a special live stream event performing their latest album, ‘Black Anima’, in September 2020.
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Laci Kaye Booth – Laci Kaye Booth (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:34 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMLG Records
Nashville newcomer Laci Kaye Booth will release her self-titled debut collection. With her deeply personal and heartfelt lyrics, Booth’s debut collection shows all the facets of herself as she blends her raw and velvet-like sound with the echoes of her Country influences. The Texas native has already made a name for herself and grown a dedicated fanbase as a season favorite competing on Season 17 of American Idol and after placing in the Top 5, Booth took the leap and moved to Nashville to fully immerse herself in writing and Country music. Her unique “dreamy Country” sound is exactly what drew multiple record labels around town to the young artist likening her to the Lana Del Rey of Country. However, after meeting with Scott Borchetta and Jimmy Harnen of Big Machine Label Group, she knew she found her label home with them, 19 Recordings and her producer Dann Huff. Through word of mouth in the Nashville songwriting community she quickly proved herself and became a sought after artist to work with. With the release of this collection, she will soon be an identifiable voice in Country music – one that makes you turn the volume all the way up, because you’ve simply never heard anything like her before. Laci will be touring and releasing a song to country radio in the Fall of 2021.
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