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Deep Forest – Comparsa (1998) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 49:57 minutes | Scans included | 2,02 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 0,97 GB
The duo’s third album, Comparsa, continues the world music potpourri Deep Forest are known for, though there is a pronounced focus on Latin and Caribbean grooves provided by musicians from Cuba, Belize, Mexico, and Madagascar, among other places. Although the nationalities present are truly global, the actual sound of Deep Forest hasn’t changed that much, centering mostly on lush new age music with just a bit more of an edge than is usual, plus several tracks with whispered or restrained vocals. For fans of the debut album, Comparsa is a noteworthy, though hardly necessary, acquisition.
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Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:44 minutes | Scans included | 771 MB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 909 MB
US underground sensations’ fourth studio album is truly a major work, blending subtle intelligent songwriting, amazing production, boundless creativity, and thoughtful rock. This is their best offering to date – dreamy and lovelorn in places, but also epic, gritty and twisted in others.
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Dean Martin – This Time I’m Swingin’! (1960) [MFSL 2013]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 34:12 minutes | Scans included | 1,02 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 683 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2135
Dean Martin finally got access to conductor/arranger Nelson Riddle for an album project, and the result was an easy swinging collection with appealing horn charts and a series of comfortable readings of recent and vintage standards. Especially notable were the two songs borrowed from My Fair Lady, “On the Street Where You Live” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” which Martin and Riddle re-imagined as straight-forward love songs; “You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Loves You” (which Martin would try again in a more contemporary arrangement four years later for one of his biggest hits); and a solo version of “Just in Time,” which the singer had recently done with Judy Holliday in the film version of the musical Bells Are Ringing. This Time I’m Swingin’! was a good, confident set by an artist who had figured out how to make competent albums without expending a lot of effort, which was a key to his charm.
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Deodato – Prelude & Deodato 2 (1972/1973) [Reissue 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 67:46 minutes | Basic Scans included | 2,97 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 67:12 | Basic Scans incl. | 1,34 GB
2LP on 1SACD Reissue 2017 | Features Stereo and Multichannel surround sound | Label: Vocalion # CDSML 8532 | Genre: Jazz
Produced by Creed Taylor and Rudy Van Gelder, ace arranger Deodato’s huge-selling 1972 debut solo album Prelude – which is here reissued back to back with Deodato 2 on an enhanced CD which features the rare quadrophonic mixes previously only available on 8 track – remains one of if not the key release in the CTI catalogue which unforgettably stirs into life with the stately Schifrin-esque jazz rock reworking of ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ which scored a 45 hit in both Europe and the US. Previously an arranger for Luiz Bonfa, Marcos Valle and Astrud Gilberto, surrounded here by a veritable ‘A’ list of session players including Hubert Laws, Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Billy Cobham, Prelude which comes bathed in the warm glow of the Fender Rhodes arrived as Deodato’s platinum coated international calling card by virtue of its phenomenal success.
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Milt Jackson – Wizard Of The Vibes (1952/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 24:46 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CM BLUE NOTE (A92)
“Wizard of the Vibes” was recorded in several sessions between 1948 and 1952, and is a compilation of performances by vibraphonist Milt Jackson. It features performances of his playing with The Thelonious Monk Quintet and The Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson.
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Milt Jackson – Opus De Jazz (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:00 minutes | 341 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed “Bags”, was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with hard bop and post-bop players.
A very expressive player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm. He was particularly fond of the twelve-bar blues at slow tempos. He preferred to set his vibraphone’s oscillator to a low 3.3 revolutions per second (as opposed to Lionel Hampton’s speed of 10 revolutions per second) for a more subtle tremolo. On occasion, Jackson also sang and played piano.
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Miles Davis – You’re Under Arrest (1985/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
A partner album to the previous Miles release Decoy, this album, released in 1985, is also produced by Miles and loaded with the synths of Robert Irving. This LP has some surprising new looks at pop tunes by Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper and also features the return of John McLaughlin on guitar, and a guest performance from Sting. This is the final installment of the prolific and brilliant collaboration between Miles and Columbia Records. Also featured on this album are Al Foster and Darryl Jones.
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Miles Davis – What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:03 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
This double LP release features one of Miles Davis’ final great bands: John Scofield on guitar, Bill “The Other Bill Evans” Evans on saxophones, flute and electric piano, Darryl Jones on bass, Al Foster on drums, and percussionist Mino Cinelu. Miles was back in amazing form (“incandescent and iridescent as ever,” critic Greg Tate noted), when he mounted the stage at the Theatre St-Denis during the Festival International De Jazz De Montreal in July 1983, and this revelatory performance has been lovingly mixed and mastered for its first ever release on vinyl.
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Miles Davis – We Want Miles (1982/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:46 minutes | 3,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
We Want Miles is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, produced by Teo Macero and released by Columbia Records in 1982. The album combines recordings from the first live appearances by Davis in more than five years, at Boston’s Kix Club, on June 27, 1981. Other tracks were recorded at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, on July 5, and a specially prepared stage at Nishi-Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan, October 4 of that year.
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Miles Davis – The Man With The Horn (1981/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:25 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
The Man With The Horn was the first album Miles Davis recorded after his prolonged retirement in the second half of the 1970s. It was his first studio album since the already distant Get Up With It (Columbia Records, 1974). It marked the beginning of his second and last recording period and, logically, it was experienced as a great event.
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Miles Davis – That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:30:48 minutes | 4,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Miles Davis – That’s What Happened 1982 – 1985: “The Bootleg Series Vol. 7” sheds new light on an underappreciated period of the musician’s restless, career-spanning search for sublime and transcendent sounds
The 3-CD set includes two discs of previously unreleased studio material – from the Star People, Decoy and You’re Under Arrest sessions – and a third disc of Miles Davis Live in Montreal on July 7, 1983; the collection comes in a slipcase with mini sleeves for each album and a booklet with liner notes by Marcus J. Moore and revealing new interviews with Miles’ fellow ’80s players, including Vince Wilburn, Jr. (drummer and bandmate), John Scofield (electric guitarist), Darryl Jones (bassist), Marcus Miller (bassist) and Mike Stern (guitarist).
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Miles Davis – Star People (1983/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:36 minutes | 2,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Star People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis and issued by Columbia Records. It is the second studio recording released after the trumpeter’s six-year hiatus, the first to feature electric guitarist John Scofield (who was recommended by saxophonist Bill Evans), and the last to be produced by long-standing producer Teo Macero. Bassist Marcus Miller (who would go on to produce future Davis sessions) plays on five of the tracks. Electric guitarist Mike Stern features on most of the pieces, and drummer Al Foster and percussionist Mino Cinelu round out the rhythm section. Davis played trumpet and Oberheim synthesizer simultaneously (without using overdubs), and also on separately recorded interludes for the over-18-minute-long blues “Star People”.
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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (Includes Pitch Corrected Tracks) (1959/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:19 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HDTT
This will be the best sounding digital reissue of Kind of Blue in your collection. There. I said it. No waffling around. This reissue is stunningly good. If you don’t run and get it NOW, you will kick yourself for not having done so sooner once you finally hear it.
Transferred directly from an excellent tape in pure DSD256, with no PCM processing, Bob Witrak has created a transfer that is more transparent, more resolving, and more natural sounding than any I have in my rather extended collection of over a dozen different issues. Bob is something of a technical savant when it comes to pulling information off of a reel-to-reel tape. And here he accomplished something very special from a very good tape to which he had access. (No, not the master tape.)
Update 09-11-2022: Bob has given us some more insight to the provenance of this tape. Now posted on his website, he says: “Transferred from a 15ips 2-track tape”. There was no retail release of all five tracks on 15ips tape, as far as I know, so this sounds he had access to a safety master or a production master for manufacturing.
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Miles Davis – Decoy (1984/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:24 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Here again are the boys from Chicago who brought Miles back with The Man With The Horn. Robert Irving III on keyboards took over the role that Miles had assumed with a true sense of harmony and only a rudimentary mastery of synthetic sounds and movements. Irving shared the responsibilities of directing with the trumpet player’s nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., but Al Foster continued to lead the tempo. John Scofield drew the funk of bassist Darryl Jones in the direction of chromatic abstraction. The two tracks that he cowrote with Miles are fragments of solos, “That’s What Happened” reprising the beginning of his solo on “Speak” (Star People). On another note, the participation of Branford Marsalis in the September 1983 sessions convinced Bill Evans to leave the band. This rather short album was extended with two recordings from the 1983 Montreal Festival. In spite of this, Decoy offered a good balance between the dominant funk that subsequently took over and the jazz tradition, reflected by Scofield’s angularities, Marsalis’ freedom of tone, and the breadth of Miles’ playing that had recovered its full power.
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Miles Davis – Big Fun (2022 Remaster) (1974/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:22:29 minutes | 6,26 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Released in April 1974, Big Fun filled in a few of the gaps with tracks recorded between 1969 and 1972. Standout performances from November 1969, recorded on the heels of the Bitches Brew sessions, reveal how early Miles began to incorporate Indian instruments—sitar, tabla—into his music: “Great Expectations/Orange Lady,” “The Little Blue Frog” (Miles’s muted trumpet adding a delicate, retro touch), and the soulful and deeply lyrical “Yaphet” were wonderful rescues.
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