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John Coltrane – Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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John Coltrane - Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Newly remastered by Paul Blakemore featuring 37 tracks: Coltrane’s breakout year, when his mature sound first grabbed ears and his own recordings began to sell consistently, was 1958. This release chronicles the exciting story session by session, featuring all 37 tracks Coltrane recorded as a leader or co-leader for the independent Prestige Records label in those twelve months. This collection captures him in creative high gear—developing the signature improvisational style that journalist Ira Gitler famously dubbed “sheets of sound.”

The timely release marks the 70th year since the founding of Prestige and comes just after the 60th anniversary of these recordings.
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John Coltrane – Coltrane (First Trane) (1957/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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John Coltrane - Coltrane (First Trane) (1957/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

As a result of his exposure as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige Records owner and producer Bob Weinstock offered Coltrane a recording contract. Dated April 9, 1957, it stipulated three albums per year at $300 per album. Coltrane had previously recorded as a sideman, and had co-led a session with Paul Quinichette released in 1959 as Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette, but never as sole bandleader.
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John Coltrane – Black Pearls (1964/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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This album was recorded in the late 1950s but not released until 1964 to capitalize on John Coltrane’s ever-increasing fame and success. Essentially an improvised extended jam session with Donald Byrd on trumpet, Red Garland on piano and drummer Art Taylor, this epitomizes Coltrane’s trademark “sheets of sound”.
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John Coltrane – Black Pearls (1964/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Black Pearls was originally recorded when John Coltrane was under Prestige, after leaving the label they released these 1958 recordings in August of 1964. The album features the bluesy tune “Sweet Sapphire Blues” composed by producer Bob Weinstock in the studio.
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John Clark – Faces (1981/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Another gem from the ECM catalogue. Brooklyn-born jazz horn player John Clark hasn’t made many records as a bandleader, but has been hugely prolific and has recorded and performed with Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Chick Corea, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Leonard Bernstein, among many others. He’s still a faculty member at Manhattan School of Music.
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John Beasley – MONK’estra Plays John Beasley (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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John Beasley - MONK’estra Plays John Beasley (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The music of Thelonious Monk has provided a rich fount of inspiration for generations of jazz musicians, its daunting wit and impish intricacies offering endless fodder for exploration and interpretation. Over the course of two albums, bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley has reimagined Monk’s iconic compositions through the vehicle of his inventive, versatile MONK’estra –- a big band able to deftly navigate the legend’s angular eccentricities with a staggering variety of perspectives from boisterous swing to raucous funk to Afro-Cuban explosiveness.
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John Abercrombie Quartet – Up And Coming (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Guitarist John Abercrombie – who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 – returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group’s 2013 album, the Financial Times said: “The emphasis is on subtle intrigue, flowing lyricism and the interplay between the leader’s warm, cleanly articulated guitar and Copland’s piano… with bassist Gress and drummer Baron equally supple and sinewy companions.” The same virtues of lyrical melody and harmonic/rhythmic subtlety are apparent with the new Up and Coming, though with even more emphasis on the enduring values of song. Abercrombie’s liquid phrasing and glowing tone – enabled by the thumb technique he has honed since eschewing a plectrum in recent years – animate his five originals and the pair by Copland, as well as a take on the Miles Davis classic “Nardis” done in the spirit of Bill Evans. Up and Coming has a twilight atmosphere, with melodic flow the guiding light.
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Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Following up his 2018 collaboration with Van Morrison, You’re Driving Me Crazy, Joey DeFrancesco returns to his own work with his quartet on 2019’s spiritually inspired In the Key of the Universe. Produced by DeFrancesco and his wife, Gloria, the album finds the organist tapping into the hypnotic, deeply soulful metaphysical jazz that artists like Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk further explored in the wake of spiritual jazz pioneer John Coltrane’s death in 1967. In fact, DeFrancesco showcases Sanders here on three tracks. Joining them are several longtime associates including legendary drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Troy Roberts, and percussionist Sammy Figueroa. At the core of the album is a heartfelt rendition of Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan” off his classic 1969 album Karma, on which drummer Hart also appeared. Sanders also adds his flowing, emotive saxophone to the expansive, minor-toned title track, and the dusky afterglow grooves of “And So It Is.” The latter also finds DeFrancesco playing trumpet, something he does several times on the album, evoking the burnished warmth and lyricism of mid-’60s Miles Davis. The tracks without Sanders are equally compelling, as DeFrancesco and his band dig into Middle Eastern-tinged blues on “Vibrations in Blue,” dive deep into the flowing bop modality of “Awake and Blissed,” and luxuriate in the sparkling soul balladry of “A Path Through the Noise.” While DeFrancesco has always played with an earthy soulfulness, on In the Key of the Universe he elevates that soulfulness to a divine musical plane. ~ Matt Collar
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Joel Lyssarides – Stay Now (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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With his ACT debut, Swedish piano rising-star Joel Lyssarides and his trio celebrate the magic of the moment. With great sensitivity and expressiveness and a vocabulary that draws equally from European classical music, jazz from both sides of the Atlantic and great songwriting, with all its depth and accessibility.
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Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas – Scandal (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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“Scandal” marks the first time that trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano have recorded a full studio album of material together, revealing a passionately adventurous band for whom no territory is off-limits. As on their live debut recording, Sound Prints features pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Joey Baron. The super group heads off into swinging, heartfelt and sophisticated new territory inspired by saxophonist giant Wayne Shorter. Two of Shorter’s pieces receive special treatment. A truly fantastic and original group playing new originals and music by Shorter.
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Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas – Other Worlds (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Other Worlds, the new studio album from saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas’s Sound Prints quintet was recorded following a week at New York’s Village Vanguard in January 2020. Their third full length release, this further nod to jazz visionary Wayne Shorter features boisterous and playful originals as well as a couple of beautiful ballads. The rhythm section features the powerful multi-generational lineup of pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Joey Baron, who continue to provide a fluid and firm footing for the two horn players. The album artwork features a unique illustrated cover by cartoonist Dave Chisholm.
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Joe Farrell – Moon Germs (1973/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Recorded in 1972 and released in 1973 with Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, and Jack DeJohnette, Joe Farrell’s Moon Germs was a foray into the electric side of jazz. On the opener, “Great George,” Farrell leads off with the hint of a melody before careening into legato streams of thought along striated intervallic paths. DeJohnette is like a machine gun, quadruple-timing the band as Clarke moves against the grain in a series of fours and eights, and Hancock’s attempts to keep the entire thing anchored are almost for naught. On the title track there is more of a funk backdrop, but the complex, angular runs and insane harmonic reaches Farrell attempts on his soprano, crack, falter, and ultimately turn into something else; the sheer busy-ness of the track is dazzling. “Bass Folk Song” by Clarke, is the only thing on the record that actively engages melody rather than harmonic structures. Farrell uses his flute and Hancock strides into the same kind of territory he explored with Miles Davis, chopping up chordal phrases into single lines and feeding them wholesale to the running pair of frontmen–in this case Clarke and Farrell. DeJohnette uses a Latin backdrop to hang his drumming on and pursues a circular, hypnotic groove on the cymbals and toms. It’s a gorgeous piece of music and utilizes an aspect of space within the melodic frame that the rest of these firebrand tunes do not. This is sci-fi Farrell at his creative best. –AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
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Joe Beck, Ali Ryerson – Django (Remastered) (2001/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Joe Beck, Ali Ryerson - Django (Remastered) (2001/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Joe Beck and Ali Ryerson have been working as a team for more than four years, playing concerts and other gigs under the name Duo. This is their second album, and, with the name Django, one would assume it is in honor of guitarist Django Reinhardt. Instead, the set is dedicated to the members of the Modern Jazz Quartet, who pioneered chamber jazz, the style that dominates this session with flautist Ryerson. John Lewis’ “Django” is one of the tunes on the agenda that they play within the chamber style. Ryerson’s passion for Brazilian music is documented on her six albums for Concord Jazz. She gets to show her mastery of this tempo on “Carioca Blue” and “O Barquinho.” Jazz veteran Joe Beck, one of the first to mix jazz and rock guitar, uses an alto guitar which he invented. It provides a strong harmonically mellow and rhythmic cushion upon which Ryerson carries the melody line with her expressive, buoyant flute. Their mutual comfort is evident on such tunes as the medley “Come Together”/”Alone Together” and expresses itself on a haunting rendition of “Tenderly.” If anything, this album is epitomized by some striking improvising. The two generally take one chorus, stating the melody, and then let their collective imagination take over. That they play together rather than separately when they extemporize makes this album distinctive. And they do it successfully whether the tune be one by Miles Davis or Johnny Mercer. With just the two instruments, their inventive way of collaborating makes sure that the listener’s attention will not drift away. Recommended. – Dave Nathan
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Ron Carter – Bitter Head (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,500 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music’s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons. In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy.

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John McLaughlin – The Montreux Years (Live) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Unlike saxophonists or pianists, jazz guitarists are hardly legions. But when they get noticed, they often become a genre on their own. John McLaughlin falls squarely into this category. To the point that the English guitarist born in 1942 is one of the most important figures in jazz fusion. Sparkling in Miles Davis’ first electric band in the late 60s (he is at the heart of In A Silent Way, the trumpeter’s revolutionary album), McLaughlin will become a superstar in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a revered formation offering a daring cocktail combining jazz, rock and Indian music. Whether he works with Miles, Santana, Tony Williams or Jaco Pastorius, John McLaughlin has always deployed this incredible combination of virtuosity mixed with mysticism and especially taste. Alternating acoustic and electric projects, tirelessly pursuing his experimentation and inscribing his art in a personal spiritual quest, he has always made each of his concerts moments of rare communion with his audience. The Montreux Years is the perfect proof of this! Released in March 2022, this album brings together eight tracks (selected by the master himself) recorded at the prestigious Swiss festival between 1978 and 2016. Over almost four decades, McLaughlin has conducted the Mahavishnu Orchestra (with Bill Evans, Mitchell Foreman, Jonas Hellborg and Danny Gottlieb), as well as with Paco de Lucia, but also in the bands One Truth (with Stu Goldberg, L. Shankar, Tom Stevens and Sonship Theus), Heart Of Things (with Gary Thomas, Jim Beard, Matt Garrison and Dennis Chambers), Free Spirits (with Joey De Francesco and Dennis Chambers) and 4th Dimension (with with Gary Husband, Étienne M’bappé and Ranjit Barot). The ideal setting to taste the art of a musician who has never stopped putting his incandescent virtuosity at the service of his music.
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