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Freddie King – Let’s Hide Away and Dance with Freddie King (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:40 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager
Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King is a 1961 instrumental album by blues guitarist and singer Freddie King (at the time spelled “Freddy”). Released on King Records, the album contained a number of influential songs and two hit singles, “Hide Away” and “San-Ho-Zay”. The former reached number five on the Billboard Hot R&B chart and number 29 on the broader Hot 100 chart, while the latter reached numbers four and 47. The album, itself influential, has been critically well received.
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Freddie King – Freddie King Is A Blues Master (Mono) (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:29 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
1969 album from a certified blues master. Well, actually, we didn’t ask to see his certificate of mastery, but we respect Freddie King enough to know that he wouldn’t release an album entitled Freddie King is a Blues Master if he couldn’t back it up that kind of bold claim. Also, in case this piece happens to be your introduction to the album in question, allow us to assure you that we’ve heard it, and there’s definitely no case of false advertising in play with this album.
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Freddie De Tommaso – Passione (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 952 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Decca Classics is thrilled to add Freddie De Tommaso to their history of illustrious tenors on the label: Del Monaco, Bergonzi, Di Stefano, Pavarotti, Calleja. The most exciting lyrico spinto tenor to emerge in over a decade. Marking 2021 as the ‘Year of the Tenor’, with four milestone centenaries: the births of Mario Lanza (31 January), Franco Corelli (8 April), Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July) and of the death of the father of all modern tenors, Enrico Caruso (2 August). ‘Passione’ celebrates the songs they made famous and explores the musical landscape of his father’s family from Italy’s deep south.
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Freda Payne – Come Back To Me Love (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music
Come Back to Me Love sees soul singer Freda Payne return to her roots as a traditional jazz singer to perform classic jazz and big-band songs. With arrangements from Grammy award-winning composer Bill Cuniffe, this is a elegant and dazzling return to form.
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Fred Thomas – J.S. Bach: Three Or One – Transcriptions by Fred Thomas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:17 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
On “Three Or One”, Bach appears in transfigured light. Fred Thomas’ ECM New Series debut presents organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias – 24 pieces in all – transcribed for trio and solo piano by the British pianist himself. Throughout, Bach’s idiom is thoughtfully explored by three innovative players – a process Thomas describes as “quietly joyful” – and the trio pieces, primarily drawn from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, acquire a fresh character in the hands of Thomas, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva and cellist Lucy Railton.
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Fred Pasqua – Moon River (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:25 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Through the careful and delicate music of his first album “Moon River”, Fred Pasqua demonstrates his attachment to the pieces that accompanied his life as an artist. Surrounded by musicians with whom he has already shared musical adventures, the drummer develops a very personal, sensitive and nuanced music whose aesthetic is similar to a light and delicate poetry in line with the image of Laeticia Bourgeois’s photo.
The discreet media exposure of Fred Pasqua hides a very active musical career. Indeed, the drummer multiplies meetings and collaborations on the French territory and well beyond. Present with Yoann Loustalot, in the trio Aerophone, associated with Elina Duni in his quintet Aksham, member of the quartet Lucky Dog, he also works with guitarists Romain Pilon and Simon Martineau, with Walter Smith III and Ben Wendel, Seamus Blake without forget French pianists and keyboardists Tony Paeleman and Pierre de Bethmann and many other musicians including Louis Winsberg, Emmanuel Beix, Benita Michel, Santi Debriano, Kirk Lightsey …
Like its leader, “Moon River” puts more on the expression of the collective than on that of egos. For the recording Fred Pasqua varied the orchestrations. Seven titles are recorded in a quartet, with guitarist Nelson Veras, trumpet player Yoann Loustalot and bassist Yoni Zelnik at his side. Fred Pasqua also invites Laurent Coq (piano), Jean-Luc Di Fraya (vocals), Adrien Sanchez (saxophone) and Robin Nicaise (saxophone) for other pieces engraved solo, trio, quartet without guitar, quintet or sextet.
In suppleness and nuance, the sun drums and the felted guitar dispense expressive rhythms and luminous harmonies. The poetic and sometimes lyrical lines of the bugle draw delicate tracery that crosses the soft, discreet but solid curves of the double bass.
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Fred Pallem & le Sacre du Tympan – L’Odyssée (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:41 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRAIN FANTOME
Plutôt courageux de donner un titre comme L’Odyssée à son album. Mais Fred Pallem a toujours été un véritable aventurier du jazz contemporain, empêchant le genre de tourner en rond… Et son périple 2018 n’est qu’un nouveau trip osé et dense articulé autour de rythmes costauds et d’arrangements délicieux. Ici, Pallem, épaulé par son indéboulonnable Sacre du Tympan, construit des pièces à tiroirs, souvent très funky et très cinématographiques. Rien de surprenant quand on pense à Soul Cinema !, son album de 2017 autour de la Blaxploitation, et son hommage aux BO de François de Roubaix publié l’année précédente, deux disques qui déteignent sur cette Odyssée. Ici, on déambule comme on regarderait un vrai faux film mi-thriller, mi-comédie dramatique, avec une légère saveur vintage (70’s surtout). Les arrangements sont millimétrés, les compositions blindées de clins d’œil et les interventions des solistes toujours originales. – Max Dembo
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Fred Neil – 38 MacDougal (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 26:50 minutes | 320 MB | Genre: Folk, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delmore Recording Society
Mastertone Studios, NYC, 1965…Amidst mounting friction with producer Paul Rothchild, Fred Neil walks out on the unfinished sessions for what was to be his debut album, “Bleecker & MacDougal”. Fearing he wouldn’t return to the studio, his friend and guitar player, Peter Childs, invited him down to the Greenwich Village apartment he shared with John Sebastian, at 38 MacDougal. According to Childs, “the best chance to get Freddie back wouldn’t be to try to persuade him verbally, but to get him over to the apartment for a bit of music-making”. What transpired on that afternoon was a legendary singer-songwriter and his long-time accompanist making music for the pure joy of it, a one-of-a-kind private performance, captured on Ampex reel to reel, and stored for over fifty years!
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Fred Nardin Trio – Opening (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © jazz family
Fred Nardin, the winner of the Prix Django Reinhardt 2016 of the French musician of the year, is a composer, musician, performer and an authentic Jazzman. His last album «Opening» features personal compositions and arrangements, was recorded with Leon Parker, a drummer with whom he has been playing for six years, as well as with Or Bareket, a promising bass player from New York. The terific playing of this Trio, their complicity, musicality and creativity make this album a marvel which ought to be on any jazz lover’s shelf and will certainly lead to more successful enjoyable and vibrant albums together. A true sense of swing, groove, bop, with the elegance of the very few.
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Fred Nardin Trio – Look Ahead (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:33 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The rising star of French Jazz is back with his unique trio (Or Bareket and Leon Parker) Award Django Reinhardt Jazz Academy in 2016 and artist named Victoires de la Musique Jazz in 2018, pianist Fred Nardin spotted among others within the Amazing Keystone Big Band and alongside Cécile Mc Lorin Salvant, is one of the great revelations of French Jazz in recent years. His new trio album, with Or Bareket and Leon Parker is proof that a high quality Jazz can reach a wide audience: from simple amateurs to the greatest connoisseurs.
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Fred Lee & The Restless – Sleepwalking in Daylight (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:50 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lovely Records
Lövely has announced the signing of Fred Lee & The Restless with plans to release his debut album “Sleepwalking in Daylight” on June 11.
The first single from the album titled “Who Do You Want to Be?” is out today along with a music video.
Fredrik Lindkvist, mostly knowns as the former singer and frontman of Swedish hardcore band Totalt Jävla Mörker, has signed to Lövely records. Under the artist name Fred Lee, he will release his solo debut album “Sleepwalking in Daylight” in summer 2021. Embracing a completely different sound and style of songwriting, Fredrik’s solo project sounds like nothing he’s done before. Traditional storytelling, bittersweet vocal melodies, and clean guitar licks add up to a colorful and exciting take on folk-rock.
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Fred Katz – Fred Katz And His Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:54:54 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Frederick Katz (February 25, 1919 – September 7, 2013) was an American cellist and composer. He was among the earliest jazz musicians to establish the cello as a viable improvising solo instrument. Katz has been described in CODA magazine as “the first real jazz cellist.”
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Fred Hersch Trio – Live In Europe (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:56 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Palmetto+
An acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and educator, Fred Hersch is a supremely gifted soloist with a sophisticated, yet unself-conscious approach to playing standards and his own original compositions. As a teacher, he counts both Brad Mehldau and the Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson as former students. As a player, his nuanced style, influenced by such giants as Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson, has garnered him multiple Grammy nominations, and made him a benchmark for modern jazz. Openly gay and diagnosed HIV-positive at age 30, Hersch is a vocal proponent for gay rights and AIDS research and education.
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Fred Hersch & Jay Clayton – Beautiful Love (Remastered) (1995/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:13 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Jay Clayton has been a leader in applying avant-garde, creative modern techniques to the art of jazz vocal. She has been successful in this commendable objective ever since her first album as a solist in 1980, where a 25-year-old Jane Ira Bloom was a major partner. Although working with a play list of classic standards, except for Wayne Shorter’s jazz standard “Footprints,” Clayton has by no means set aside her modern jazz vocal leanings. Joined by Fred Hersch a pianist with like perspectives, they work in tandem to present this familiar music in an offbeat non-familiar way. This is not to say that lovely melody lines are lost among cacophonies of grunts, groans, and other extra terrestrial events. The lyrical lines are there, but the tempo, the phrasing, the emphasis has been rearranged so the light of these tunes is refracted through a prism rather than through a window of ordinary glass. Full fledged avant-garde comes, as one would expect, on Shorter’s “Footprints,” where Clayton engages in wordless vocalizing reminiscent of the vocal part in Hector Villa-Lobas “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5,” with Hersch doing a marvelous job replacing the cellos as the voice accompaniment. This is seven minutes of remarkable virtuosity. “Regular” standards, such as “Blame It on My Youth,” are treated with respect as Clayton plays little games with the melody line and chordal structure and inserts wordless vocalizing here and there. “Beautiful Love” is introduced slowly by Clayton a cappella before moving into a medium lilting tempo. Not much here ever gets beyond that pace. This album is thoughtful and is for those who want to hear the full measure of a song, with nothing skipped, casually dismissed, or unknowingly overlooked.
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Fred Hersch – Open Book (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:45 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Palmetto+
Less noisy than Keith Jarrett and less famous than Brad Mehldau (who was his pupil, after all), Fred Hersch is a “jazz” pianist who is all the same very precious: a musician whose every album holds gems of improvisation, and moments of grace. His works have become all the more intense of the the last few years, as they have found themselves shoved into the spotlight of the life of a committed artist. In 2008, this life was almost brought to a premature end. Having contracted AIDS, Hersch spent two months in a coma from which he emerged miraculously. There followed long weeks in which he re-learned the piano, and then, years later, he wrote a piece, My Coma Dreams, on the porous border between dream and reality. Several other albums followed. Playing solo, in a trio, in a duet… this album, brought out in September 2017, is a totally solo work. This is his eleventh solo work, that mixes his own music with works by others (Whisper Not by Benny Golson, Eronel by Monk, Zingaro by Antonip Carlos Jobim and even, more surprising, And So It Goes by Billy Joel!). Those who know Fred Hersch are hardly surprised by the intelligence of his jazz. Nor by his faculty for turning so many phrases of such beauty. Those who don’t can take a look in this Open Book, and get their herschian education started as soon as possible…
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