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The Doors – Morrison Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:04 minutes | 2,45 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Elektra
MORRISON HOTEL: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 2CD/1LP includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, plus a bonus disc of unreleased studio outtakes, and the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl.
For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than an hour of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for Morrison Hotel. These 19 outtakes transport listeners into the studio with Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek for an unprecedented perspective on the making of the album.
Among the treasure trove of unreleased outtakes are also rough versions of Morrison Hotel tracks “Peace Frog” and “Blue Sunday,” as well as The Doors rarity “I Will Never Be Untrue.” The collection also captures some incredible session outtakes of the band jamming on cover versions of the Motown classic “Money (That’s What I Want)” and B.B. King’s “Rock Me.”
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The Doobie Brothers – The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1983 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 06:53:35 minutes | 15,55 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
Includes 10 newly remastered classic albums from The Doobie Brothers, including:
The Doobie Brothers
Toulouse Street
The Captain And Me
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
Stampede
Takin’ It To The Streets
Livin’ On The Fault Line
Minute By Minute
One Step Closer
Farewell Tour
This expansive box set from Rhino features all nine of the Doobie Brothers’ studio albums from their original 1970s Warner Bros. run plus their 1983 Farewell Tour live album. Beginning with their 1971 self-titled debut, when the band was fronted by founding singer/guitarist Tom Johnston, through 1980’s Michael McDonald-led One Step Closer, it covers their two major eras as they slowly shifted from boogie rock bar band into the soulful soft rock giants of their later years. Hits like “China Grove,” “Black Water,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” and “What a Fool Believes” are all here as well as their first live album, which mostly features their late-period lineup with the addition of a couple of special Johnston appearances that serve as an end cap to their career. Although the Doobies would reunite again in the late ’80s, their original Warner Bros. years remain their best-known period. ~~ AllMusic Review by Timothy Monger
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Joanna Connor – 4801 South Indiana Avenue (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:56 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © KTBA Records – Joanna Connor
Chicago-based slide guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter, Joanna Connor, best known as one of the reigning Queens of blues rock guitar, releases her 14th album on Joe Bonamassa’s new independent record label Keeping The Blues Alive. The new album, the follow up to her critically acclaimed studio album “Rise,” was produced by Joe Bonamassa in Nashville. Joanna and Joe and the rest of the musicians on the album dug deeply and conjured up an authentic, alive and kicking set of Chicago Blues.
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The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet – Live (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:01 minutes | 1008 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
A jazz event… and a packet of crisps, please! The energy exuded by the group bounces off the walls and magnifies their imaginative enthusiasm to new heights. Apparently the original tape wasn’t in the best condition, so what we have here is a fine piece of archival reconstruction, though the slightly forward tone remains to ensure that we get to hear all of the instruments clearly. A nice chance to hear Carr and Rendell let off the leash.
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The Count Basie Orchestra – High Voltage (1970/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:39 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
“High Voltage” (subtitled “Basic Basie Vol. 2”) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the MPS label.
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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Hearty And Hellish: A Live Nightclub Performance (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:36 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
The Clancy Brothers are a family of singing Irish expatriates who have been important figures in re-popularizing their native music in North America and are still among the most internationally renowned Irish folk bands.
“Everything you’d expect from a Clancy Brothers live performance, with high-energy renditions of their classic tunes, Hearty and Hellish is a vibrant reminder of the level of charisma that was the staple of their performances. Recorded over three nights in the early ’60s at the Gate of Horn in Chicago, the Clancys plow through crowd favorites such as the rambunctious ‘Courtin’ in the Kitchen,’ ‘Johnny McEldoo,’ ‘Mountain Dew,’ and ‘The Rising of the Moon.’ Humorous satires of the British in ‘God Bless England’ and ‘Mr. Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay’ are introduced with classic Clancy stage banter that certainly adds an extra element of intimacy to the listening experience.
“Closing out the set with the driving anti-war statement of ‘Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye,’ this is the Clancy Brothers in their most natural element and makes for a fine example of their power as live performers.”
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Tomas Ornberg – Tomas Ornberg’s Blue Five (1982/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 45:40 minutes | 1,8 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 45:40 minutes | 859 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Genre: Jazz
What they have done through the years could be considered a tribute to the Chicago Jazz era and, in many ways, a recreation of the music of Clarence Williams. Both Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet are, of course, also among the important musicians who have inspired this band. No other band has so consistently made the Classic Jazz from this time – 1920 to 1930 – so alive and really revived it in such an authentic and positive way!
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The Black Keys – Attack & Release (Remastered) (2008/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:11 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The Black Keys’ fifth full-length LP, Attack & Release, follows their 2006 critically acclaimed Nonesuch debut Magic Potion, which the Chicago Tribune proclaimed, “a gritty, wild, minimalist masterpiece.” Produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Gorillaz, The Grey Album), Attack & Release was recorded at engineer Paul Hamann’s illustrious Suma Studio outside Cleveland, Ohio. Initial collaboration began when Danger Mouse (a. k.a. Brian Burton) approached the band to write songs for an album he was developing with the late R&B legend Ike Turner. As the band began composing tracks for Turner early last year, though, they quickly realized they were actually laying the groundwork for a new album of their own.
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Tom Hambridge – BLU JA VU (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:02 minutes | 344 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Quarto Valley Records
Thomas Jay Hambridge (born December 20, 1960) is an American rock, country, and blues, producer, songwriter, musician and vocalist. Hambridge has received two Grammy Awards, an ASCAP award, seven Grammy nominations, seven Boston Music Awards, and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. In December 2015, Hambridge was given the key to his hometown of Buffalo, New York with Mayor Byron Brown declaring December 28 “Tom Hambridge Day.”Hambridge’s songs have been recorded by several notable artists and have been featured in movie productions, commercials and television programs. He has been referred to as “The White Willie Dixon” by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi’s “Secret Weapon”
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Thomas Adès – Colette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:30 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records
Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. His compositions include two operas, Powder Her Face (Cheltenham Festival/Almeida Theatre, London, 1995), and The Tempest (Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 2004). Other orchestral works include Asyla (CBSO, 1997), Tevot (Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall, 2007), Polaris (New World Symphony, Miami 2011), Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (Berliner Festspiele and London Proms, 2005), In Seven Days (Piano concerto with moving image – LA Philharmonic and RFH London 2008), and Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (London Proms, 2013).
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Maddie Vogler – While We Have Time (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:33 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Origin Records
Maddie Vogler is an in-demand musician, composer, and educator in the Chicagoland area and is a Luminarts Jazz Fellow with the Luminarts Cultural Foundation.
Maddie previously received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with Tito Carrillo and Chip McNeill. She currently performs with a variety of groups on saxophones and woodwinds, and she teaches music production and jazz at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL.
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Brandon Patrick George – Twofold (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:28 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © In A Circle Records
Grammy®-nominated flutist Brandon Patrick George has been praised as “elegant” by The New York Times, as a “virtuoso” by The Washington Post, and as a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. On September 15, 2023, In a Circle Records will release George’s second solo album, Twofold, which explores musical dialogues that transcend space, time, and identity. The recording features music by C.P.E. Bach, Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Saad Haddad, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Toru Takemitsu, and is being released digitally in stereo as well as in full Dolby Atmos spatial audio, available via Apple Music.
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Steve Goodman – Live ’69 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:13 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Before Steve Goodman landed a record deal in 1971, and a few years before his classic “City Of New Orleans” became a modern folk standard, he was already a seasoned live performer throughout his hometown of Chicago and surrounding areas. His brilliant songwriting and musicianship, coupled with his engaging on-stage personality and distinctive performance style, made him a favorite of anyone who caught a live show.
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Tatsuya Nakamura – Locus (2023 Remastered Version) (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:46 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Music
Japan has produced some exceptionally talented jazz drummers and among them is Tatsuya Nakamura, who joins the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series with his album ‘Locus’ from 1984, a session covering several bases, from heavy percussive samba to meditative avant-ambient. This is the album’s first ever reissue, although a track from ‘Locus’, ‘1⁄4 Samba’, was included on J Jazz vol. 3.
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Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado – Change My Game (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:15 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ruf Records GmbH
Despite the title, Thorbjørn Risager — supported by his band the Black Tornado — doesn’t change his game on this 2017 album. He remains faithful to Southern soul and Chicago blues. Playing the songs with conviction if not invention, Risager revels in convention: as fun as the soft rock detour “Hard Time” is, he’s best when he’s following a familiar path, sinking into simmering soul and R&B. Sometimes the tempo kicks up — “Hold My Lover Tight” is propulsive, as is “Maybe It’s Alright” — but Change My Game usually keeps things low-key and that’s its appeal: never showy, the album is steeped in tradition but prefers to keep things lively and fun. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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