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Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal – Miles Smiles | Wayne Shines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:57 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal
Captured in concert on September 14, 2019, under the direction and arrangements of Jean-Nicolas Trottier, theOrchestre National de Jazz de Montréal paid tribute to the legendary quintet formed by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, as well as to the sublime moments that these virtuosos were able to create between 1965 and 1968, particularly engraved on the mythical albums that are ESP, Miles Smiles and Nefertiti. At the head of this quintet, invigorated by the drums of the very young Williams, Davis and his collaborators gradually broke away from established formats to create a new music, exciting in its coherence and freedom.
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Morgan Guerin – Tales Of The Facade (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid
“A jazz artist to watch” (NPR) and “a virtuoso in the truest sense of the word” (JazzTimes), Morgan Guerin spent nearly a year crafting his multi-dimensional Tales Of The Facade, layering instruments and sounds track upon track. And while an impressive amount of the album is performed solely by Guerin, he also enlisted stellar collaborators, including Georgia Anne Muldrow, Melanie Charles, Cisco Swank, Zacchae’us Paul, J Hoard, and Kokayi.
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Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:26:21 minutes | 991 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Young
Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. “Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.” The album features Washington’s daughter—who wrote the melody to “Asha The First” during some of her first experimentations on the piano—as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more. The album also features “The Garden Path,” a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut, on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Kamasi Washington is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader born and raised in Los Angeles. His three bodies of work to date—The Epic; Harmony of Difference, an EP originally commissioned for the 2017 Whitney Biennial; and Heaven and Earth—are among the most acclaimed of this century. As Told To G/D Thyself, his short film companion to Heaven and Earth, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to widespread acclaim. In 2020, Washington scored the Michelle Obama documentary Becoming, earning Emmy and Grammy nominations for his work. Also in 2020, Washington co-founded the supergroup Dinner Party with long-time friends and collaborators Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder—their EP Dinner Party (Dessert) was subsequently nominated for a Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album. In 2021, he contributed a cover of Metallica’s “My Friend of Misery” to the band’s Metallica Blacklist covers project. Washington has toured the world over and collaborated and shared stages with Kendrick Lamar, Florence + the Machine, Herbie Hancock and many more.
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Adam Forkelid – Turning Point (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophone Records
Following the 2021 release ‘1st Movement’, hailed by Swedish National Radio as one of the best of the year, Adam Forkelid’s latest upcoming work, ‘Turning Point’, offers a contemporary Nordic mirror into the journey of life. The music represents a sonic exploration of life’s inevitable changes that make up each of our personal stories. Written across a month and recorded in a single day, the record showcases a poignant fusion of the piano and guitar – a collaborative interplay central to the record’s identity. His expansive palette of influence includes flavors borrowed from classical composers Satie and Chopin, Brazilian and Cuban rhythms, to Bill Frisell and Chick Corea. Blending the acoustic jazz idiom with hints of electricity and a distinctive Nordic touch infuses the album with soulful, albeit energetic allure self-described as ‘New Nordic Jazz’. From the stark melancholic textures synonymous with the Nordic sound to euphoric highs, Forkelid’s compositions are grounded in jazz’s rich history of songwriting. Marrying lyrical, memorable melodies with deep grooves and high-octane virtuosic improvisations, the composer feels the role of his music is to ‘to move people and give them something relatable, not being specifically forward looking or retrospective, but just to be here and now’.
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Gustave Reichert – Mars (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:05 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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After a first album, Take Off, released in 2018 by Jazz Family, the guitarist offers a new trio opus.
Gustave Reichert is a polyinstrumentalist composer with a rich universe, sometimes dreamlike and sometimes rock, a man of the stage whose nonchalant charisma rubs shoulders with raw energy, and takes the spectators on an epic and sensitive journey. Gustave’s passion for certain blowers, among whom we could cite John Coltrane, Lester Young, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson or the contemporary Walter Smith, is perceptible in his playing, where the guitar sound becomes breathy and rounded.
In “Mars”, the guitarist offers a new singular epic, and intoxicates us with his dense and sometimes saturated sounds which evoke a thousand images, like Hans Zimmer’s suite for the film Interstellar. This is no coincidence since music for images has always attracted the jazzman, who has already composed for the cinema. The trio formed with drummer Pierre Alain Tocannier and double bassist Lucas Fattorini gives substance to the fine and sensitive writing of Gustave Reichert, which carries us away and transports us, disturbingly, from one energy to another.
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David Schumacher – Smoke In The Sky (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:29 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
An accomplished versatile virtuoso baritone saxophone player, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene for more than forty years. His big, bold baritone first came to international attention during the eighties, spending much of those years touring the world with Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra. Schumacher garnered further notice following that with nearly two decades as a member of the orchestra of Harry Connick, Jr. In the 90’s he also toured with T.S. Monk’s Monk on Monk band and the Tom Harrell Octet, as well as freelance work with many others in New York and on the road.
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Roxana Amed – ONTOLOGY (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:26:15 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Argentine vocalist Roxana Amed further expands her globally cross-pollinated sound on 2021’s poetically expressive Ontology. A native of Buenos Aires, Amed has lived in Miami since relocating to the United States in 2013. Even prior to her move, she had already built a vibrant discography blending South American musical traditions with pop, rock, and harmonically nuanced post-bop jazz. With Ontology, she pushes her stylistically diverse approach to an even higher level, performing her own lyrical original songs alongside compositions by Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, and Alberto Ginastera. Helping her achieve her lush, deeply engaging sound is her ensemble featuring saxophonist Mark Small, pianist Martin Bejerano, bassist Edward Perez, and drummer Ludwig Alfonso. Also adding flavor are a handful of guest collaborators, including guitarists Tim Jago and Aaron Lebos, drummer Rodolfo Zuniga, and bassists Lowell Ringel and Carlo De Rosa. There’s a sculptural quality to much of Amed’s music that’s especially evident on tracks like “Peaceful,” which she sings in languorous harmony with saxophonist Small. Even when she’s singing largely on her own with minimal rubato accompaniment, as on her chamber jazz rendition of Shorter’s impressionistic “Virgo,” Amed’s voice is transfixing, like a classical cellist in meditative rapture. It’s an artful sound, bringing to mind the work of British singer Norma Winstone as well as the equally progressive recordings of guitarist Pat Metheny. While Amed sings in both English and Spanish, she often takes a more instrumental approach, eschewing lyrics on the vibrant bop-meets-tango “Milonga Por La Auscencia” and diving headlong into the propulsive Latin jazz rhythms of Ginestera’s “Danza del Viejo Boyero.” Listening to Ontology is a deeply textured, almost metaphysical experience as Amed deftly pulls together the distinct creative and cultural threads that make up the colorful weft of her artistic identity.
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Amy Gadiaga – All Black Everything (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 25:39 minutes | 297 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Re freshed
Born to parents of Senegalese, Gambian, and Malian descent, and hailing from the outskirts of Paris, the multitalented Gadiaga has been making waves in the UK music industry since she moved to London aged 18.
With a fresh and unique style that bridges the old school jazz tradition of musicians such as Betty Carter and Wayne Shorter with the raw, rootsy modern sound of artists such as D’Angelo, Stevie Wonder and Twinkie Clark, Gadiaga’s breadth of ambition and revitalising approach have brought early critical acclaim and ardent fans.
Having performed at prestigious festivals, We Out Here, Cheltenham Jazz Festival and London Jazz Festival, Gadiaga has received previous radio support from Jazz FM, interviews on BBC radio and handpicked by Jamz Supernova as ‘one to watch’.
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Melissa Aldana – Echoes Of The Inner Prophet (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:53 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Melissa Aldana’s 2nd Blue Note album Echoes Of The Inner Prophet is a musical voyage to explore the depth of the spiritual journey. Co-produced by Aldana and Lage Lund, the album features the tenor saxophonist with Lund on guitar, Fabian Almazan on piano, Pablo Menares on bass, and Kush Abadey on drums. The 8-track set of original compositions includes 6 new pieces by Aldana that seek profound truths through introspection, intuition, and self-reflection including the opening title track which is dedicated to Wayne Shorter.
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Quatuor Ébène – ‘Round Midnight (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:43 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The members of Quatuor Ébène went round the world with the complete Beethoven quartets, now they go ‘Round Midnight. This album offers a creatively conceived programme, bringing together major figures from different streams of 20th music: Arnold Schönberg, Henri Dutilleux and four masters of jazz and popular idioms – Thelonius Monk, Cole Porter, Henry Mancini and Victor Young.
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Pat Senatore, Dado Moroni & Roberto Gatto – Groovin’ in Rome (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:49 minutes | 691 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fresh Sound Records
I grew up in Newark, New Jersey where such great artists as James Moody, Sarah Vaughan, Walter Davis Jr., Hank Mobley were my neighbors and Wayne Shorter was my dear friend. Wayne and I went to grammar school and Arts High School together. I was very influenced by Wayne in every way and knew at young age that he was a genius. But I could not tolerate the cold winters, so I decided to move to Los Angeles. It was 1960. In 1961, I received a call from Jules Chaikin, a young contractor that I worked for, who knew my playing and asked if I wanted to go on the road with Stan Kenton. I was overwhelmed since this was one of the bands I dreamed of playing with. Nine months later we ended the tour at Capitol Records. I recorded three albums with the band, including “Adventures in Jazz” which won a Grammy for Stan and “Adventures in Blues” which Stan said was my album since it featured the bass walking predominantly through the whole album.
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Ganavya – like the sky I’ve been too quiet (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:44 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Native Rebel Recordings
Ambient, Folk, Fusion, Jazz… South-Asian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ganavya releases her new studio album “Like the sky I’ve been too quiet” on Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings. The album features contributions from artists including Kofi Flexxx, Floating Points, Carlos Niño, Leafcutter John and Mercury-nominated bassist Tom Herbert.
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Johannes Enders, Renato Chicco, Jorge Rossy – Micro Organisms (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:09 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Enja Records
A new work joins the impressive discography of one of Germany’s most distinguished jazz musicians. Together with Italian organist Renato Chicco and first-call drummer Jorge Rossy, Johannes Enders presents his trio MicroOrganisms, whose latest live LP was recorded in Graz in 2022 and released on his own label ‘Ammerton’. Powerful, dynamic, lyrical and upbeat, the best jazz through and through in organ trio format!
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Caravan (Original Jazz Classics Series / Remastered) (1963/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:23 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Originally released in 1963, “Caravan” was Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and Reggie Workman (bass). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on 192/24 hi res digital.
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Hank Mobley – A Caddy For Daddy (2009)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:45 minutes | 1,64 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Analogue Productions – CBNJ 84230 SA
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Hank Mobley was a perfect artist for Blue Note in the 1960s. On this LP, which is a straight reissue of the 1965 session, Mobley is joined by trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Bob Cranshaw & drummer Billy Higgins (a typically remarkable Blue Note lineup) for the infectious title cut, 3 other lesser-known but superior originals, plus Wayne Shorter’s “Venus Di Mildew.”
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Hank Mobley was a perfect artist for Blue Note in the 1960s. A distinctive but not dominant soloist, Mobley was also a very talented writer whose compositions avoided the predictable yet could often be quite melodic & soulful; his tricky originals consistently inspired the young all-stars in Blue Note’s stable.