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Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim – Getz/Gilberto (1964/2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]
LPCM 2.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 & Dolby TrueHD 2.0 | 24bit / 96kHz | Time – 00:33:40 minutes | 3,66 GB
Originally released in March of 1964, this legendary collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao Gilbertocame at the end of the bossa nova craze Getz had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba. In fact, Getz had to push for the release of Getz/Gilberto as his record company didn’t want to compete with their own hit. The album ended up spending 96 weeks on the charts and won four Grammy Awards. Getz/Gilberto remains one of those rare cases in popular music where commercial success matches the artistic merit.
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Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto Track Listing:
1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. Doralice
3. P’ra Muchucar Meu Coracao
4. Desafinado
5. Corcovado
6. So Dance Samba
7. O Grande Amor
8. Vivio Sonhando
Various Artists – A Felicidade! (Bossa Nova Around The World) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:42:26 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a “different beat” that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovative syncopation of traditional samba from a single rhythmic division. The “bossa nova beat” is characteristic of a samba style and not of an autonomous genre The bossa nova wave became popular around the world; this increased popularity helped to renew samba and contributed to the modernization of Brazilian music in general.
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Maucha Adnet – Songs I Learned From Jobim (1997) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:08 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,52 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,38 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 634 MB
Jobim himself described Adnet’s voice as “deep, rich and mysterious” not just because of the alliteration. Adnet’s beautiful instrument gets the perfect setting from these musicians and arrangements: not only is the estimable Trio da Paz on this recording (Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta, Duduka Da Fonseca), but there are wonderful performances from trombonist Jay Ashby, flugellers Claudio Roditi and Randy Brecker, and pianist Hugo Fattoruso, whose spare, lyrical style evokes The Man himself. Songs I Learned From Jobim contains a full range of moods, fine musicianship and excellent material. It’s also a must-hear for Jobim completists, since it offers such unexpected and delightful insights into his musical self.
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Resavoir – Resavoir (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:46 minutes | 325 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Soul Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem
Resavoir – the collaborative project led by Chicago producer/composer Will Miller – presents their second self-titled album. The new ‘Resavoir’ is a subtly radiant symphony interweaving modern-day soul-jazz with bedroom beats, synth serenades and twilight sonatas. It represents Miller’s most assured and refined work to date.
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Stan Getz – Moments In Time (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD128, 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 01:04:57 minutes | 5.15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD
Recorded live at Keystone Korner. San Francisco, May 11-16, 1976
Recorded the same week as Getz/Gilberto ’76, Resonance Records’ companion album, 2016’s Moments in Time, captures saxophonist Stan Getz performing live at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner in May 1976. To celebrate the release of Getz’s reunion album with Brazilian singer/guitarist João Gilberto, 1976’s The Best of Two Worlds, the saxophonist booked a week of shows at the Keystone backed by his quartet and featuring Gilberto. Whereas Getz/Gilberto ’76 showcases the Gilberto performances, Moments in Time finds Getz appearing alone with his band, featuring pianist Joanne Brackeen, drummer Billy Hart, and bassist Clint Houston. Despite the wealth and fame he accumulated from his initial 1960s bossa nova albums, Getz remained a creatively restless, forward-thinking artist over the coming years. His band here, arguably one of his best of the period, also bore this forward-looking vision out with performances that straddled the line between lyrical intimacy and aggressive, extroverted improvisation. One can also see where Getz’s taste was at the time based on his song choices, pulling together standards like “Summer Night” with more harmonically layered pieces like Wayne Shorter’s languid and sultry “Infant Eyes” and the funky Kenny Wheeler composition “The Cry of the Wild Goose.” As with Getz/Gilberto ’76, Moments in Time is a thoughtfully curated package featuring not only some of Getz’s best live performances of the period, but also liner notes from producer Zev Feldman, Keystone Korner club owner Todd Barkan, and others, as well as interviews with bandmembers Hart and Brackeen.
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Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba (1962/2011)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 00:33:32 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Verve Music
Recorded: Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington D.C., February 13, 1962
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original analog master tapes to vinyl and PCM. The DSD was sourced from the PCM. George listened to all of the different A/D converters he had before he chose which to use, and he felt the George Massenburg GML 20 bit A/D produced the best and most synergistic sound for the project.
The words “bossa nova” are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But North Americans might not have ever known the bright sound of bossa nova had it not been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961 Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was thriving. The style was the invention of singer Joao Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim – an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and “cool” surface of West Coast jazz. Byrd brought back records for Getz to hear, they planned a session, and the result was Jazz Samba – the first album of true bossa nova music by jazz artists and the one that broke the bossa nova wave in 1960s America.
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Stan Getz – Getz At The Gate – Live at the Village Gate – Nov. 26, 1961 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:19:13 minutes | 5,91 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Verve Records have released a live album, recorded on November 26th 1961 at New York’s famous jazz club, Village Gate. On stage are Stan Getz and his new quartet comprising of pianist Steve Kuhn, double bass player John Neves and drummer Roy Haynes. Although the recordings were set aside after that night and had ended up in the record company’s archives, 58 years later, they have now re-emerged with flawless sound. Getz at the Gate understandably arouses much interest as the saxophonist’s artistic direction throughout the entirety of the 2 hours 20-minute concert is one that he did not pursue thereafter.
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Stan Getz – Big Band Bossa Nova (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:42 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Stan Getz almost single-handedly brought the bossa nova sound to the United States and helped create an international craze thanks to a series of albums he made in the early 1960s. On these albums, Getz teamed up with Brazilian bossa nova musicians and composers, masters of the craft like Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and Gilberto’s wife, vocalist Astrud who would become world famous thanks to The Girl From Ipanema. This album, the second in the series, predates that song and was unusual for a bossa nova album of the time in that it was entirely instrumental, nonetheless very successful. Conductor Gary McFarland deserves a great deal of the credit for that success due to his magnificent big band arrangements.
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Luiz Henrique – A Bossa Moderna De Luiz Henrique (1964/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:05 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Luiz Henrique Rosa was born on November 25, 1938, in the city of Tubarão, in the south of the state of Santa Catarina. Firstborn son of the couple Raulino and Alice Rosa, he later gained seven other sisters. As a child, he lived in Lages and São José, where he met his inseparable companion throughout his life: the guitar.
At the age of 11 he came with his family to Florianópolis, a place he adopted from the beginning and honored until the last songs. “It was love at first sight,” he used to say, as the writer, journalist and friend of Luiz Henrique, Raul Caldas Filho, reports. It is said here that Luiz Henrique was the first to call himself “manezinho da Ilha” with pride.
Until then, the denomination given to the natives was considered pejorative. Music, from the beginning, was his main form of expression. But not the only one. Luiz Henrique also had a great vocation for drawing.
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Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:27 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Northern Spy
‘Picnic in the Dark’ is the enchanting new album from Renata Zeiguer, her second full length release for Northern Spy. The album follows Zeiguer through a dreamworld of magical realism as she navigates her memories and seeks to confront inherited dysfunctional patterns head-on. As Zeiguer reconciles her childhood and her adult lives with careful compassion, ‘Picnic in the Dark’ reveals itself as an album not only of transformation, but of healing and self-actualization.
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Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:32 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
Sunset in the Blue is an orchestral celebration of her jazz roots. She is reunited with the multi-Grammy award winning production team of her platinum-selling album My One and Only Thrill: Producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), arranger and composer Vince Mendoza ((Björk, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello) and the legendary engineer Al Schmitt (Frank Sinatra, Joao Gilberto, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney).
An underlying theme of determination to create and evolve her craft has always been present in Melody Gardot’s work but never more so than during the production of Sunset in the Blue, despite all obstacles she has assembled a stunning new body of collaborations in this most challenging of times.
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Luiz Bonfá with Lalo Schifrin & Oscar Castro Neves – Composer of Black Orpheus Plays and Sings Bossa Nova (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:20 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Jazz, Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Brazilian guitarist and composer Luiz Bonfa became world famous for his contributions to the soundtrack of the 1959 film Black Orpheus. He was one of the originators of the bossa nova sound and one of the greatest masters of Brazilian music popular of the 20th century. Even Elvis Presley recorded one of his songs! Luiz Bonfa Plays And Sings Bossa Nova, a classic of the genre from 1962, is notable for its romantic orchestrations by Lalo Schifrin, but there are also stripped down, acoustic numbers that showcase Bonfa’s musical virtuosity and subtlety. Also features fellow bossa nova pioneer Oscar Castro-Neves on guitar and keyboards and vocalist Maria Helena Toledo on several songs.
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Leo Sidran – Cool School (The Music of Michael Franks) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 49:48 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Spain
In the song “The Cool School,” Michael Franks asks, “Am I dinosaur? Yeah you bet. I grew up listening to Mose and Chet […] me I attended the Cool School.” In a few short lines he describes what many jazz fans today are feeling: he’s an insider, his influences are hip and classic, a member of a small club, the kind of club that is both impossible to join and to which everyone can belong.
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Chico Pinheiro, Romero Lubambo – Two Brothers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:32 minutes | 2,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
The art of Brazilian guitar playing has almost become a musical genre unto itself. The gorgeous music written by composers like Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto echoes differently on six strings. Guitarists Romero Lubambo and Chico Pinheiro have spent their lives absorbing and refracting Brazilian music through the lens of the guitar. On their new recording, Two Brothers, the pair meets for a groundbreaking duo album of their favorite pieces, showing their true mastery of both the Brazilian and Jazz guitar styles.
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Robin Mansanti – Nuit Américaine (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 758 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Diggers Factory
Le terme “Nuit américaine” qui nous rappelle de toute évidence la lettre d’amour au cinéma signée en 1973 par François Truffaut, désigne une technique cinématographique permettant de tourner en plein jour des scènes d’extérieur censées se dérouler la nuit. Un procédé qui n’est pas sans évoquer les couleurs et la ligne directrice de cet album.
Lorsque j’ai rencontré Robin Mansanti, j’ai découvert un artiste sensible et déterminé, animé d’un amour de la musique qui ne connaît pas de limite. Il n’a pas fallu longtemps avant que nous évoquions Chet Baker. Il connaît tout à son sujet, les dates, les photos, les films et bien évidemment les enregistrements… Sa passion est touchante, généreuse et communicative.
C’est le musicien, avec le Brésilien João Gilberto, qu’il écoutait gamin et qui fit naître chez lui l’envie de chanter et de devenir trompettiste. Son phrasé, ses solos constituent son alphabet.
Lorsque l’idée de ce premier album est née, jamais il ne fut question d’éluder cette passion, elle est dans l ‘ADN de Robin.