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Coleman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins And Confreres (1958) [Analogue Productions 2012]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 34:47 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,4 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 410 MB
This unique 1958 recording is a collaboration between Coleman Hawkins and the Oscar Peterson Trio. Hawkins’s voluminous, supple tenor sax sound, which had a great influence on the styles of musicians ranging from Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins up to Joe Lovano, is best heard on Honey Flower. The album features Ben Webster on tenor sax, Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, George Duvivier on double bass and drummers Alvin Stoller and Mickey Sheen.
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Cava Menzies, Nick Phillips – Moment to Moment (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:00 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nick Phillips Music
“Moment to Moment comes close to the supernatural nature of music…Heavy with the bronzed glow of [Nick Phillips’] horn and the dense beauty of [Cava] Menzies’ sinewy harmonics informed by a palette of spectacular colours, the music gathers like a great bank of gorgeously fluffy and rippling cumulonimbus clouds sheltering in an endless sky.”
—Jazz da Gama
“…entrancing…The music is quiet but never light; it’s filled with emotion and with harmonic interest, but its overall impact is soothing and comforting at a deeply visceral level. It’s hard to explain how exceptionally beautiful this album is. Strongly recommended to all jazz collections.”
—CD HotList
” …Phillips and Menzies let the music breathe, contrasting every sound they make with silence, showing that they are both masters of restraint…[they] play so well during their quartet set with bassist Jeff Chambers and drummer Jaz Sawyer that it is surprising to realize that neither one is a fulltime musician “
—Jazz Inside Magazine
“…floating, gorgeous album of ballads.”
—Louisville Music News
Phil Woods with Strings – The Thrill Is Gone (2003) [Japan 2014]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:23 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 2,19 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,08 GB
“Phil Woods with Strings?” you may ask with a bit of apprehension. An album with strings, which is inevitably heavily arranged, is always a risky proposition for a jazz musician whose art depends above all on spontaneous improvisation. But Phil Woods, arguably the best alto sax player alive today, has done it many times in his 55-year career. What distinguishes this album is the core group: Wood’s regular quartet featuring the young and brilliant pianist Bill Charlap. Also, they decided to go with a string quintet (two violins, two violas and one cello) instead of a larger string section. This probably worked to make the ensemble agile and more spontaneous. The first violinist even takes a few solos! Seven standard gems are sandwiched by two original compositions by Woods: “And When We’re Young” and “Solitude,” the latter of which is not to be confused with the more famous Duke Ellington tune. Frequent collaborator Bryin Lynch does not play his horn here but contributed a few arrangements. All in all, this is a charming album filled with many tender moments and nice sound. Woods’ playing is inspired and varied arrangements keep the program interesting. Bill Charlap helps his boss with a few beautiful solos as well.
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Candido Camero – The Master (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:03 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records
Candido Camero was born on April 22nd, 1921 in Barrio Cerro, Havana, Cuba. Candido has become an important star in the jazz world, as well as the Afro Cuban genre, performing and recording with Machito’s Afro Cubans, Billie Holiday, Billy Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton and recently with Tony Bennett. The list goes on and on. He has transformed the conga drum into an international instrument used in all genres of music.
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Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9 – Manifesto of Henryisms (Community Music, Vol. 3) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:46 minutes | 836 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Royal Potato Family
Steven Bernstein first saw the late, great New Orleans pianist Henry Butler play in 1984. “He was genius-level brilliant, man,” he says, still marveling. “I couldn’t believe there was a guy who could sound like the most ancient music and the most futuristic music at the same time.” Fourteen years later, Bernstein took Hal Willner’s recommendation and hired Butler to play in the touring band that played the score for Robert Altman’s film Kansas City. In 2013, the two musicians formed the Hot 9, the name a tip of the fedora to Louis Armstrong’s landmark Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions of the 1920s. They released the acclaimed Viper’s Drag album the following year, and toured until Butler’s untimely passing in 2018.
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Coleman Hawkins – Desafinado: Coleman Hawkins Plays Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:39 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Impulse!
That Coleman Hawkins jumped on the jazz/bossa nova bandwagon craze initiated by Stan Getz in 1962 was a bit of a surprise to his fans, but that he was comfortable in the idiom should not be off-putting. Able to adapt to any style over his lengthy career, the legendary tenor saxophonist chose classic standards adapted to Brazilian rhythms, music from masters like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, and a Manny Albam original. Producer Bob Thiele and music director Albam were strong in their resolve directing Hawkins to do this project, and the results are fairly predictable, especially considering that every single track is played in midtempo. The difference is the deployment of two guitarists in Barry Galbraith (lead) and Howard Collins (rhythm) split into separate stereo channels, with bassist Major Holley and no full kit drummer, although Eddie Locke with a minimal and stripped-down setup, Willie Rodriguez, and even Tommy Flanagan play small Latin percussion instruments.
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Max Roach, Sam Rivers – Now’s The Time (Live (Remastered)) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:13 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta Music – Concert Archives
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992
In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, he founded the percussion ensemble M’Boom. He made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement.
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Jasper Blom – ZILT (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:09 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Just Listen Records
ZILT originated in a whiskey bar on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. Here tenor saxophonist Jasper Blom and trumpeter Ian Cleaver, teacher and student respectively, dedicated themselves every week to compositions by Misha Mengelberg, and by Duke Ellington: jazz legends from different eras and with a similarly open and playful character. ZILT interweaves their compositions through improvising. At this concert, ZILT will present a new album on Just Listen Records.
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Polly Gibbons – Is It Me (2017)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 4,79 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 1,25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Digital booklet | Genre: Jazz | © 2xHD
Multi-talented, critically acclaimed British jazz/blues singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons who earned a prestigious BBC Jazz Award Nomination in 2006, has been a staple of the UK Jazz Scene since the mid-2000s. Following sold-out tours in the U.K. opening for George Benson and Gladys Knight, including two acclaimed performances at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons offers us a new, 12-track collection which fully embraces the inspiring, expansive array of American jazz, soul and blues.
Polly’s especially excited by the buoyant seven-piece horn section, which enhances both her R&B and big band swing vibes. The piano and most of the arranging are shared by long time-collaborator James Pearson (whom she performs with regularly at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s Club in London, where he is musical director), and Tamir Hendelman, the Israeli born, L.A. based jazz pianist to the stars, including Barbra Streisand and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.
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Bill Ware – Somethin’ Old Somethin’ New (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:27:48 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wadaumean Productions
Bill Ware III born William Anthony Ware III (b. January 28, 1959, East Orange, New Jersey) is an American jazz vibraphonist.
Ware played bass and piano early in his career, playing at the Harlem Jazzmobile. After spending several years playing Latin jazz, he formed his own Latin Jazz group, AM Sleep. He joined the Jazz Passengers in 1987, and in 1990 put together a group of sidemen as the Club Bird All-Stars, who accompanied him on a tour of Japan.[1] Alongside this, he played with Groove Collective and Steely Dan in the first half of the 1990s. Later in the decade he teamed up with fellow former Jazz Passengers, Brad Jones and E. J. Rodriguez, in the ensemble Vibes. His 2001 tribute to Duke Ellington was recorded with Marc Ribot on guitar. Deborah Harry guested on his 2002 effort Four. In the mid-2000s, Ware did several projects blending jazz with Western classical musicas well as 5 film scores (with fellow Jazz Passengers bandmate Roy Nathanson).
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Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson & Gary Bartz – Bird at 100 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions
August 29, 2020 will mark the centennial of one of jazz’s most iconic figures, Charlie Parker. The celebration gets off to a jubilantly swinging start with an alto saxophone summit bringing together three of modern jazz’s most acclaimed voices: Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson and Gary Bartz. Along with a superb rhythm section, the three distinctive altoists pay tribute to Parker’s legacy in the most apt fashion for this ground-breaking pioneer: by carrying his innovations forward in their own utterly singular styles.
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Vincent Peirani, Emile Parisien – Belle Époque (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:26 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
France’s new jazz stars join forces in a multifaceted chamber-jazz duo paying tribute to the grand jazz and folk music history of their home country and transporting it into here and now.
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Various Artists – The World Jazz South America (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:51:09 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orange Juice Records Vintage
Orange Juice Records Vintage presented a new compilation The World Jazz South America which was released on July 17 2020
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Various Artists – The Pink Panther and Friends (2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 928 MB
Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Digital Booklet | © Fonè Records/Audiophile Productions
Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci; Recorded in stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters
6 New renditions of the historic theme signed by Henry Mancini, performed for Fonè by: Fausto Mesolella, Enzo Pietropaoli, Eleonora Bianchini, Riccardo Zegna and Giampaolo Casati, Peo Alfonsi and Salvatore Malore, Scott Halmiton’s trio with Paolo Birro and Alfred Kramer.
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Various Artists – Jazz Night All Light Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:53:00 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orange Juice Records Vintage
The ultimate collection of audiophile recordings perfectly suited for a relaxing evening at home. Whether you’re entertaining company over a candlelit dinner or simply kicking off your shoes with a glass of wine after a long day, this compilation finds the perfect balance of intrigue, tranquility, and sonic brilliance. Sit back, relax, and let some of the greatest names in Jazz put you at ease
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