Tara Jane O’Neil – Tara Jane O’Neil (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Tara Jane O’Neil – Tara Jane O’Neil (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:03 minutes | 362 MB | Genre: Adult Alternative, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gnomonsong

Tara Jane O’Neil describes her eighth solo album as a singer/songwriter endeavor. At the invitation and design of Mark Greenberg (The Coctails), she recorded, mostly live, half of the record at Wilco’s Loft Studio in Chicago with a band that included James Elkington, Gerald Dowd, Nick Macri, and Greenberg himself. The other half was made in O’Neil’s home studio in California with Devin Hoff, Wilder Zoby, Walt McClements and string supervisor Jim James. The album also features the voices of Chris Cohen, Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs and Joan Shelley. O’Neil herself plays guitar, bass and percussion. A founding member of Rodan, The Sonora Pine, amongst other ensembles, O’Neil has also collaborated on recordings and stages with Papa M, Michael Hurley, Little Wings, Marisa Anderson, Catherine Irwin, Mirah, Mount Eerie, and many, many others. She’s performed at clubs, galleries, and DIY spaces around the world and venues such as the Centre de Pompdou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and All Tomorrow’s Parties, while also starring in the cult classic film Half-Cocked. Her visual art work has been shown in cities including London, Tokyo and Portland and has been published in three monographs.

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Terrace Martin – Dinner Party (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Terrace Martin – Dinner Party (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:03 minutes | 269 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sounds of Crenshaw – EMPIRE

A supergroup including some of the most creative minds in jazz, has come together for a perfect soundtrack to lay back and smoke to. Kamasi Washington, 9th Wonder, Terrace Martin, and Robert Glasper have come through with their debut album as a supergroup, Dinner Party. Bringing elements of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and funk into the fold, this project has been two years in the making. Chicago singer Phoelix comes through with some vocals on several tracks across the project.

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Tony Bennett – Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Tony Bennett – Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:19 mins | Scans included | 3,36 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,07 GB
Featuring duets with notable vocalists. | Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound

Tony Bennett’s latter-day albums tend to have themes, and this one has two, as indicated by its double-barreled title: It is both a duets album and a blues album. The duet partners include ten singers who range from his recent touring partners Diana Krall and k.d. lang to fellow veterans Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Kay Starr, and younger, but still mature pop stars Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and Billy Joel.

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Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette – The Ambiguity Manifesto (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette – The Ambiguity Manifesto (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:56 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Firehouse 12 Records

The Ambiguity Manifesto, the latest album from composer, cornetist and bandleader Taylor Ho Bynum. The music is designed to blur the lines between composition and improvisation, between individual and ensemble, between genres, timbres, and instrumentations; it celebrates the beauty and necessity of the unknown and the indefinable, the enigmatic and the subversive.

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Teddy Wilson – Limehouse Blues (Remastered) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teddy Wilson – Limehouse Blues (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:22 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FL Distribution

Teddy Wilson was one of the swing era’s finest pianists, a follower of Earl Hines’ distinctive “trumpetstyle” piano playing. Wilson forged his own unique approach from Hines’ influence, as well as from the styles of Art Tatum and Fats Waller. He was a truly orchestral pianist who engaged the complete range of his instrument, and he did it all in a slightly restrained, wholly dignified manner at the keyboard.

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Tad Robinson – Real Street (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tad Robinson – Real Street (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:35 minutes | 959 MB | Genre: Blues, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Severn Records

For the recording of Real Street, singer/harmonica player Tad Robinson traveled to the birthplace of Southern soul: Memphis, Tennessee. There he teamed up with Memphis music legends, organist, Charles Hodges; bassist, Leroy Hodges; and the drummer, Howard Grimes, collectively known as the Hi Rhythm Section at Scott Bomar’s, Electraphonic Recording. The results are ten glorious tracks of blues-infused and passionate soul music. Throughout six originals and four reimagined covers, Robinson’s singing has never been so focused and fluent in the language of the blues and his subtle harmonica playing adds just the right spice to the mix.

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Cat Squirrel – Blues What Am (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Cat Squirrel – Blues What Am (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 796 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dixiefrog

Behind the name Cat Squirrel lies a group of Iberian blues ‘pistolleros’ fronted by a pure English blues legend: none other than the immense Mike Vernon. Creator of the Blue Horizon label in the 60s, discoverer/producer/collaborator (take your pick) of some major projects like John Mayall’s legendary Bluesbreakers album, Fleetwood Mac’s very first album or David Bowie’s first recordings, our man has a CV as long as the meanders of the Thames. In short, he knows the blues, and not just a little! And listening to the album ‘Blues What Am’ confirms this beyond any doubt.

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Tampa Red – Slide Guitar Blues (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Tampa Red – Slide Guitar Blues (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:01 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge, January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.

He is best remembered as a blues guitarist who had a distinctive single-string slide style. His songwriting and his bottleneck technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk and Muddy Waters, and many others, including Elmore James and Mose Allison. In a career spanning over 30 years, he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum songs. His best-known recordings include “Anna Lou Blues”, “Black Angel Blues”, “Crying Won’t Help You”, “It Hurts Me Too”, and “Love Her with a Feeling”.

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Various Artists – Hi-Res Masters 1973 [24Bit-FLAC] [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Various Artists - Hi-Res Masters 1973 [24Bit-FLAC] [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

The Doobie Brothers – The Captain and Me (1973-03-02)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:29:35 minutes | 7,24 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Various Artists – Hi-Res Masters 2003 [24Bit-FLAC] [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Various Artists - Hi-Res Masters 2003 [24Bit-FLAC] [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

Muse – Absolution (2003-09-21)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:07:25 minutes | 4,22 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternative & Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Ethan Philion – Gnosis (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ethan Philion – Gnosis (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:20 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside

Following up his debut album Meditations on Mingus (“Ingenious wrinkles along with dazzling and deeply realized performances from all” — Neil Tesser, Jazziz), bassist Ethan Philion pivots from a larger 10-piece unit to a spry, economical quartet on his brilliant sophomore release Gnosis. The spirit of Charles Mingus is present, most clearly in the quartet’s treatment of “What Love” (Mingus’ epic deconstruction of the Cole Porter standard “What Is This Thing Called Love”). But the focus on this new outing is original music, played with drive and ceaseless invention by alto saxophonist Greg Ward, trumpeter Russ Johnson and drummer Dana Hall joining the leader on bass.

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Taj Mahal – The Hidden Treasures Of Taj Mahal 1969-1973 (2012/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Taj Mahal – The Hidden Treasures Of Taj Mahal 1969-1973 (2012/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Harlem folkie wonder-cum-Chicago Blues badass Taj Mahal gets the legend treatment for his 70th birthday: Columbia has decided to honor the singer/songwriter/storytellers back pages with a hidden treasures release. Its a long, sweaty affair. Underlying it all, and no matter the kind of music hes playing, when Mahal sings he comes on like the black Bob Dylan: unmannered, guttural, loose but bold, toying with beginnings and endings of lines, at once interpretive of the masters but unlike anything heard before. If you prefer your Soul music with some gristle, and maybe fried in some -Bacon Fat,î then these rarities from early-era Taj is just the ticket.

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Al Grey & Billy Mitchell – Al Grey & Billy Mitchell – Studio Recordings (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Al Grey & Billy Mitchell – Al Grey & Billy Mitchell – Studio Recordings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:29 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fresh Sound Records

Al Grey and Billy Mitchell’s musical paths first crossed in various bands led by prominent jazz leaders. After pursuing separate musical endeavors, fate brought them back together in the exciting Count Basie organization during the late 1950s, where they became key members of the band. Their time with Basie lasted until the late 1960 when they decided to chart their own course and co-lead an impressive sextet.

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Tori Kelly – A Tori Kelly Christmas (Deluxe) (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Tori Kelly – A Tori Kelly Christmas (Deluxe) (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:36 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Schoolboy Records – Capitol Records

Jon Batiste has teamed up with Tori Kelly for a new duet titled “Sing.” Over a moving and joyful production, the two offer an ode to their profession, laying down verses about how they sing to soothe the woes of life.

The soulful tune starts with a slow tempo that picks up right around the chorus. As the tempo changes, the song picks up this groove that makes you want to get up and dance.

Batiste shared in an Instagram post, “I just love this lady—she is one of the best singers in the world. This song is healing and I bet it’ll make your heart SING!!”

With the release of “Sing,” Batiste announced the deluxe edition of his latest album, WE ARE, which will arrive on October 15. This new version adds six new tracks featuring appearances from some music friends, including BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Chief Romeo, Big Freedia and Kelly.

The original album arrived earlier this spring and featured the breakthrough single, “I Need You.”

Back in July, Jon Batiste partnered with Spotify to launch their Live At Electric Lady EP series with Electric Lady Studios. The Spotify exclusive eight-song EP included new renditions of his WE ARE songs and his twist on classics.

Kelly has been keeping a relatively low profile as far as music goes this year. She will reprise her role as Meena, the singing elephant, in Sing 2.

In 2020, she released two projects: her Solitude EP and the holiday-themed album, A Tori Kelly Christmas.

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Tony Malaby Cello Trio – Warblepeck (2008/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Tony Malaby Cello Trio – Warblepeck (2008/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:35 minutes | 1003 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Songlines

A playful excursion into the possibilities of sound influenced by the visual arts … a fascinating electro-acoustic effort and Malaby’s most personal and adventurous recording to date. Tony Malaby made a name for himself as one of the most versatile jazz musicians working in New York City. In his Cello Trio he engages with two like-minded sonic explorers, omnidextrous New York drummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck and genre-hopping Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, to create this collection of highly integrated, multi-faceted avant-jazz. The music’s richness also has a lot to do with Malaby’s interest in painting, photography and film, and the way he draws on these art forms to think graphically and texturally, visualizing new musical structures through juxtaposing images, colours and forms.

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