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The Bad Plus – It’s Hard (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 13, 2016 · Comments off

The Bad Plus’ new album, It’s Hard, the group’s 12th studio album, and contains only covers. There’s no particular overarching aesthetic to the selection. It encompasses alternative rock from the ’00s (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio); hits of the ’80s (Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Gabriel, Crowded House); a piece from free-jazz hero Ornette Coleman and one from a spiritual descendant of saxophone-blowing and melody-shaping, Bill McHenry; and some other unlikely idiosyncrasies (Barry Manilow). Neither is there a formula for approaching these songs. Some seem like acts of reinvention, disassembly and re-engineering (Kraftwerk sans motorik beat); others amplify the existing energy the best a mischievous acoustic piano trio can (Johnny Cash as a shuffle after too many drinks). Somewhat naive, maybe, impishly tweaked, likely. (more…)

John Coltrane – Dakar (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 28, 2016 · Comments off

Dakar was one of the early albums from Prestige on which John Coltrane played. While not the lead musician on the recording, Prestige marketed the album as such due to Coltrane’s rapidly-rising fame as a soloist.

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Tigran Hamasyan – Luys I Luso (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 23, 2015 · Comments off

Pianist Tigran Hamasyan’s Luys I Luso (“Light from the Light”) is an extraordinary exploration of Armenian sacred music, hymns and sharakans (Armenia’s liturgical songs) as well as chants, all arranged for voices and piano. This music of the 5th to 19th centuries is given new and dramatic expression through Hamasyan’s improvisational imagination and committed performances from Armenia’s leading choir, the Yerevan State Chamber Choir. Hamasayan has long been deeply interested in Armenian sacred music, increasingly drawn to its “incredibly beautiful melodies”. (more…)

Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) Blu-ray 1080i AVC LPCM 2.0

Music Videos By admin · August 3, 2015 · Comments off

Title: Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz
Release Date: 1997/2015
Genre: Documentary, Jazz
Director: Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell
Artist: Bob Belden, Art Blakey, Ron Carter, John Coltrane, Bob Cranshaw, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnson, Taj Mahal, Gil Mell, Thelonious Monk, Francis Paudras, Bud Powell, André Previn, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Carlos Santana, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Bertrand Tavernier, Cassandra Wilson…

Production/Label: EuroArts Music International GmbH
Duration: 01:30:47
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 25463 kbps / 1920*1080i (digitally remastered from SD source) / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish
Size: 20.75 GB

The artists list on this Blu-ray reads like a Who’s Who of the best international jazz musicians of all times. It features Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins – musicians whose names have become synonymous with the great Jazz Age in the 1950s and 60s. With Carlos Santana, Cassandra Wilson and André Previn and jazz experts like Joachim Ernst Berendt and Bertrand Tavernier, the list of interviewees and artists on this Blu-ray becomes encyclopaedic. But how many people have heard of Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, to whom we owe the recorded memory of our Jazz legends? These two Jewish Germans emigrated from Nazi Germany to New York in 1939 and promoted Jazz Music, which at the time had received little serious attention from mainstream America. Without money or connections and speaking little English, the two men began to record practically unknown musicians, following their own taste and judgement, and thus establishing the legendary Blue Note label. “Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz” tells the story of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, of a friendship in exile and of uncompromising artistic excellence. Told by the musicians, by friends, associates and fans of the Blue Note recordings from all walks of life, the film recreates an era of American cultural history. Directed by German filmmaker Julian Benedikt (“Play your own thing”, available on EuroArts 2055748), it was the most successful movie about jazz ever to hit the worldwide cinemas. This testimony to the passion and vision of two men, interspersed with concert recordings and rarely seen archival footage, swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous – a great music film! (more…)

The Sound of Jazz (2015) Blu-ray 1080i MPEG-2 DD 2.0

Music Videos By admin · June 15, 2015 · Comments off

Title: The Sound of Jazz
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Cool, Dixieland, Folk Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop, Vocal Jazz, West Coast Jazz
Director: Jack Smight
Artist: [1-10] The Sound Of Jazz (1957): Henry “Red” Allen, Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Giuffre; Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster, Lester Young; [11-14] Jazz From Studio 61 (1959): Ahmad Jamal Trio, Ben Webster-Buck Clayton Quintet; [15-17] Jamin’ The Blues (1944): Lester Young, Harry Sweet Edison, Illinois Jacquet, Among Others; [18] Stage Entrance Tv Show (1952): Charlie Parket, Dizzy Gillespie; [19-22] The Sound Of Miles Davis (1959): Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, The Gil Evans Orchestra

Production/Label: Think Visual
Duration: 02:44:11
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-2
Audio codec: AC-3
Video: MPEG-2 21999 kbps / 1920*1080i / 25 fps / 16:9
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

This Blu-ray disc compiles some of the finest classic jazz performances ever filmed. The Sound of Jazz was a 1957 CBS TV show which reunited some of the genre’s greatest stars for a one-hour performance that was presented as performed, with no editing. It was a true live-TV experience which produced some of the most moving jazz scenes ever filmed, among them the final meeting of Billie Holiday and Lester Young. The show also produced a studio album by the same title, which is added in its entirety as a bonus on this package. CBS would repeat its success in 1959 with yet another show, this time featuring Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal and Ben Webster on different sets. Davis is heard both in a quintet format (with John Coltrane on tenor sax) and with the Gil Evans orchestra. Also included here are Gjon Mili’s classic 1944 short film Jammin’ The Blues, one of the very rare movies showcasing Lester Young, and the only existing footage of Charlie Parker on live TV.

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Justin Kauflin – Dedication (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 2, 2015 · Comments off

Justin Kauflin – Dedication (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 01:00:44 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Qwest Records
Recorded: July 2014 at EastWest Studios, Hollywood, CA

Justin Kauflin is all the rage now. His precocious talent was discovered when he was just 2—yes 2—years old. When he was just 15 he performed with the Jae Sinnett trio and appeared on the Trio’s extraordinary 2010 record, Theatre. But it was a year later that he was propelled into a rarefied realm. Placing 4th in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition he came to the attention of critics and important music aficionados including Clark Terry. The 2013 film Keep On Keeping On is just one of the interesting documentations of the raw talent of Mr. Kauflin. The other, more recent document is the 2014 album Dedication produced by Quincy Jones, another admirer of the pianist. Naturally this would come with the special Q touch. But none of the production values would matter in the least bit if it were not for the exquisite nature of Justin Kauflin’s playing, so wise beyond his years and so wonderfully articulate that it is bordering on genius.

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Sonny Rollins 24 Bit Vinyl Pack

Vinyl Rips By admin · May 21, 2014 · Comments off

Sonny Rollins 24 Bit Vinyl Pack

Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard-Bop, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Source: vinyl
Codec: FLAC
Bitrate: ~ 2,900 kbps
Bit Depth: 24
Sample Rate: 96 kHz

1956 Tenor Madness – Prestige PRLP 7047 (US) (Reissue 2013)
1957 Way Out West – Contemporary Records Fantasy S7530, 1988 (US)
1959 Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders – RTB 2221136
1962 What’s New? – Pure Pleasure N2PY-2267 180g (US)
1962 The Bridge – RCA Living Stereo LSP 2727-45 180g (US)
1963 Sonny Meets Hawk – RCA Living Stereo LSP 2712 200g (US)
1966 East Broadway Run Down – Impulse AS9121 180g (US)
1973 Horn Culture – Milestone M-9051 (US)
1978 Pure Gold Jazz – RCA ANL1-2809 (US)

Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonists of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York City on September 7, 1930, he had an older brother who played violin. At age nine he took up piano lessons but discontinued them, took up the alto saxophone in high school, and switched to tenor after high school, doing local engagements. In 1948 he recorded with vocalist Babs Gonzales, then Bud Powell and Fats Navarro, and his first composition, “Audubon,” was recorded by J.J. Johnson. Soon thereafter, Rollins made the rounds quickly with groups led by Tadd Dameron, Chicago drummer Ike Day, and Miles Davis in 1951, followed by his own recordings with Kenny Drew, Kenny Dorham, and Thelonious Monk.

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Bob Mover & Walter Davis Jr. – The Salerno Concert (Live) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 14, 2024 · Comments off

Reel To Real returns with more top notch live archival music from Bob Mover and Walter Davis Jr. Recorded in Salerno, the recording beautifully captures the short-lived duo association between two musical legends deserving greater attention.

Be-bop pianist Walter Davis Jr. was a protege of Bud Powell and Thelonious  Monk and a veteran of groups led by Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Max Roach,  Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean and others. He also recorded as a leader for Blue Note in 1959.

Bob Mover resides in New York where he teaches and plays. He has played with The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and Esperanza Spalding. Mover and Davis were long-time friends, first forging their musical partnership in 1987  touring together in Europe where they played festivals and concerts in France,  Switzerland, Holland, and Italy where this album was recorded. They also toured the U.S. and at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1989 until Davis’ untimely death in 1990.

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ØyvindLAND – Nonett (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 24, 2023 · Comments off

Øyvind Mathisen, only 26 years old, is a Norwegian trumpet player and composer from Oslo, recently graduated from the prestigious jazz-academy in Trondheim. The ensemble ØyvindLAND started up in 2017 and has developed its sound throughout their student years in Trondheim, along with Mathisen parallelly developing his compositional language. For three years now ØyvindLAND has been playing concerts all over Norway. After this period of playing live gigs the next natural step is unfolding now, as the band is releasing their album.

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Nick Sanders & Logan Strosahl – Janus (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 25, 2023 · Comments off

In ancient Roman mythology, Janus was the god of time, passageways, beginnings and endings. With his two diametrically opposed faces, he looked simultaneously backwards and forwards in time. Janus is thus an ideal title for the new duo recording by pianist Nick Sanders and saxophonist Logan Strosahl, which mines centuries of compositions to create music entirely of the present moment. The pair also share a unique chemistry, honed over nearly a decade of working together, that echoes Janus in its suggestion of two voices sharing one mind.

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Lorenzo Naccarato – Nova Rupta (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 14, 2023 · Comments off

Lorenzo Naccarato is back, with his trio. His second opus, “Nova Rupta”, is worthy of the promises that had been raised by the first, in 2016. Better, the whole has matured. In cohesion. Without giving up an iota of what was already his power of seduction. Namely, it immediately devastates the listener. Take him on a dreamlike journey. An enchanted world – and enchanting. A music in movement. Kinetic, or kinematic.

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Johnny Griffin – The Congregation (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 28, 2023 · Comments off

Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Johnny Griffin was one of the most exciting tenor-saxophonists to emerge during the 1950s. His warm and passionate tone was distinctive (becoming an influence on Rahsaan Roland Kirk), he could play chorus after chorus of inventive and fresh ideas, and he was unbeatable in a saxophone battle. The Congregation is a superb outing full of heat, fire and intensity, with time out for thoughtful ballads. Teamed with pianist Sonny Clark in a quartet, Griffin is quite exuberant on the lengthy sanctified title cut which is reminiscent of the jubilant Horace Silver tune “The Preacher.” He tears into “It’s You Or No One” and puts plenty of honest feeling into the other songs which are taken at a more moderate pace. Johnny Griffin, like the very best jazz musicians, meant every note that he played and his solos were full of constant surprises, making his best recordings timeless. The Congregation is one of his finest albums.
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