Chuck Mangione – Main Squeeze (1976/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:49 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Main Squeeze is the twelfth studio album by jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. This album was only briefly released on CD and quickly discontinued, making it a rare find. It features one of Chuck Mangione’s most popular songs, “Main Squeeze”.
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Chuck Mangione – Feels So Good (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:51 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Feels So Good is a 1977 jazz album released by Chuck Mangione. It contains his hit single, the title song “Feels So Good”, which in an edited form reached No. 4 on the U.S. charts. The song also reached the top of the Billboard adult contemporary chart. It was also frequently referenced on the animated television comedy King of the Hill, on which Mangione had a recurring voice role as himself.
The album Feels So Good peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart in 1978, behind the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
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Chuck Mangione – Children Of Sanchez (1978/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:06 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Children of Sanchez is the sixteenth overall album by jazz artist Chuck Mangione. It is also the soundtrack to the 1978 film The Children of Sanchez. Chuck Mangione won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the title song, “Children of Sanchez”. The title track is sung by Don Potter.
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Chuck Loeb – Unspoken (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:44 minutes | 653 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Hitmaker is back! With over 30 top ten smooth jazz radio hits to his credit, including an incredible 20 #1s, Chuck Loeb is truly an icon and pioneer of the smooth jazz genre. As lead guitarist and producer of the super-groups Fourplay and Jazz Funk Soul as well as leader of his own all-star touring ensemble, Chuck performs in front of hundreds of thousands of fans every year and his popularity continues to grow. “Unspoken” features guest appearances by smooth jazz superstars Brian Culberston, Jeff Lorber, Everette Harp and Eric Marienthal, plus the great Will Lee (of David Letterman fame). In Addition, the album features vocals by Carmen Cuesta (Mr. Loeb), whose sensuous vocals have resulted in her own growing fan base.
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Chuck Leavell – Chuck Gets Big (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:01 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: Rock
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Swiss guitarist Christoph Denoth is considered one of the foremost guitarists of the younger generation, much praised for his rich sound and musical expression. For this new recording from Abbey Road he joins the London Symphony Orchestra under Jesús López Cobos to perform three much loved works for guitar and orchestra – Rodridgo’s much loved Concierto de Aranjuez, the Nocturnos de Andalucía by Lorenza Palomo, and a new orchestral arrangement by Denoth of Joaquín Malats Serenata Española.
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Chuck Jackson – Goin’ Back To Chuck Jackson (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:02 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
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Yet another nice Chuck Jackson album that didn’t generate anywhere near the reaction it merited. Jackson was prevented in the ’60s from being in the spotlight by a glut of great performers, and also because he landed most of his hits in the early ’60s and wasn’t really in the mainstream at the peak of soul’s commercial onslaught.
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CHUCK HOWARD – Columbia & Monument Singles (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:55 minutes | 381 MB | Genre: Country
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The father in the country & western Chuck Howard dynasty, this guitar picker was a musician’s musician type, the kind of guy whose licks are played on a thousand records but nobody knows who he is. One of his most famous credits is on the often overlooked country album by Ringo Starr, Beaucoups of Blues. In fact, Howard was one of the main reasons this record happened at all. Howard first entered the extremely private world of the Beatles when he traveled to London with frequent playing partner Pete Drake. The latter player went to London at the bequest of George Harrison, who was hard at work on his epic All Things Must Pass album and wanted some of Drake’s expertise. In the meantime, Howard became good friends with Ringo Starr and was the man who convinced him to spend an extended stay in the United States in order to record the country project. The finished record included four of Howard’s songs, as well as extensive contributions from songwriter, picker, and peanut farmer Sorrells Pickard.
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Chuck Higgins – Is a … Ph.D (1979/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:40 minutes | 213 MB | Genre: Rock
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Charles Williams Higgins (April 17, 1924 – September 14, 1999) was an American saxophonist.
Higgins relocated from his birthplace of Gary, Indiana to Los Angeles in his teens, where he played trumpet and went to school at the Los Angeles Conservatory. Later switching to saxophone, he penned the single “Pachuko Hop” (1952), which became popular among American Latinos on the West Coast. The “Pachuko Hop” single’s B-side, “Motorhead Baby”, was the inspiration for the nickname of musician Motorhead Sherwood, who played with Frank Zappa. The song “Pachuko Hop” is also referenced in the lyrics to the songs “Jelly Roll Gum Drop” on Zappa’s album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968) and “Debra Kadabra” by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart on their collaborative album Bongo Fury (1975). Zappa listed Chuck Higgins as a reference in his influence list accompanying his album Freak Out! (1966). The 1955 single, “Wetback Hop”, became the subject of controversy because of the use of the derogatory term for Mexicans in the title. It was an attempt to associate the listener with the earlier success of “Pachuko Hop”, which refers to Mexican zoot suiters of the 1940s. The song appears on the 1996 Rocket Sixty-Nine release Jump Shot!.
Chuck Berry – Toronto Rock ‘N’ Roll Revival 1969 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:23 minutes | 741 MB | Genre: Rock
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The complete Concert. Mastered from the Analog Tapes: There was no shortage of historic rock music festivals in 1969, from highs of Woodstock to the crashing lows of Altamont. Meanwhile, interest was steadily building on another front. A full-fledged 1950s rock and roll revival was brewing, and the idiom’s pioneers were experiencing a renaissance. No longer viewed as over-the-hill relics, they stood as vital sources of real rock and roll. Combining the two contrasting demographics at one event was a rare sight to behold, but the Toronto Rock’n’Roll Revival 1969, held that September 13 at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium, represented that unlikely hybrid. That afternoon the Father Of Rock & Roll returned to lead the apostles of rock into the next decade. After decades of inferior releases, for the first time, this historical concert is presented in its entirety. Includes, School Days, Carol, Memphis, Nadine and 10 more. Packaging: CD 6 Panel Wallet
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Chuck Berry – Chuck (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:55 minutes | 427 MB | Genre: Rock
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Three months after putting on his pine suit, Chuck Berry sent us this final message, direct from heaven. This was no act of base self-interest from Berry’s estate: the pioneer of rock’n’roll announced the publication of Chuck himself on his 90th birthday: 18 October 2016. The first record from the man since his Rock It of 1979, it was recorded near St Louis with his family and friends including his children Charles Berry Jr. on the guitar and Ingrid Berry on the harmonica, as well as bassist Jimmy Marsala, the pianist Robert Lohr and the drummer Keith Robinson. Dedicated to Themetta Berry, his 68 year old wife, he handles 8 of the 10 songs by himself and invites some famous guests including Gary Clark Jr., Nathaniel Rateliff and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine. Chuck has, above all, the merit of a very raw, and very modern sound. No overproduction here: instead, a simple approach (never simplistic) which suits Chuck Berry’s style wonderfully. One also has to concede that his voice – even if it is the voice of a man of 90 summers – has a real grain to it, and an affecting swagger. With Chuck, Chuck Berry bows out with style and humour.
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Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers – Border-Free (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:37 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Border-Free is a companion piece and a doubling-down on Chucho Valdés’ magnificent Chucho’s Steps album from 2010. Valdés has retained most of his Afro-Cuban Messengers (although the drummer and bassist are new, the percussionist, vocalist/bata player and trumpeter return), pays tribute once again to family members and key historical musicians and cultures, and reprises the previous album’s virtuosic hopping and condensing of genres.
But where Chucho’s Steps included a dedication to Chucho’s son, Julian, Border-Free includes tributes to his grandmother (“Caridad Amaro,” which concludes with an excerpt from a Rachmaninoff concerto she liked); his mother (“Pilar,” which interpolates compositions from Bach and Miles Davis that she favored); and his famous, recently departed father, Bebo Valdés (“Bebo,” which, despite the small ensemble, evokes Bebo’s Sabor de Cuba Orchestra from the ’50s).
While Chucho’s Steps featured an overt tribute to the Marsalis family, Border-Free actually brings saxophonist Branford Marsalis onboard for three songs, an inspired addition that bears fruit within the ’50s Cuban ambiance of the Bebo homage and the Afro-Arabic gnawa music of “Abdel.” As its title implies, Border-Free also ups the ante in terms of genre hopping and swapping. Along with the aforementioned forays into Euro-classical, Arab, old-style Cuban and postbop stylings, the centerpiece of the record is the 12-minute “Afro-Comanche,” featuring percussion and chants and dedicated to the mixed heritage Cuban offspring of the Comanches who were deported to the island in the 19th century.
But above all, Border-Free, like Chucho’s Steps, is carried forth on the crests of Valdes’ piano. The notes pour out like a force of nature, conjuring the nightclub and the conservatory, bop and clave, concerto and danzón via heart, hands and soul. The opening number, “Congadanza,” is the musical equivalent of a waterfall kicking up a rainbow in its mist. At 71, he’s found another gear these past two records. –Britt Robson, JazzTimes
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Chucho Valdes – Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:41 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin
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Cuban music legend, Jesus “Chucho” Valdes is fiery hot and still impacting the jazz world with his diverse musical elements. Riding the new wave in Latin jazz fostered by the pianist’s critically acclaimed 3/4le Bele en la Habana on Blue Note in 1998, Valdes reserved enough energy to excite his fans with an exquisite blend of technique and soul on Live. The CD, an infectious, collection of cubop grooves and rhythms, further develops the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz collective Chucho has been pulsating for the past 25 years as musical director of Irakere, the award-winning band he co-founded to play both music styles. “Tumbao,” and “Blues a Puerto Rico,” feature a variety of moods, melodies, syncopation and the signature solos of Chucho’s formidable piano. Along with the extra fire of his rhythm section, Live broadens Valdes’ Afro-Cuban perspective and the influences brimming in Carribean and Latin American life. ~ Paula Edelstein
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Chucho Valdes – Jazz Batá 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:05 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Latin Jazz, Jazz
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‘Jazz Batá 2′, Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés’ first album for Mack Avenue Records, marks a new peak of creativity for the artist, even as it revisits the small-group concept of his 1972 album ‘Jazz Batá’.
That album upon release was originally considered experimental at the time, but the trio project – featuring no drum set and two virtuosi who would subsequently be charter members of Irakere: Carlos del Puerto (bass) and Oscar Valdés (batâ: the sacred, hourglass shaped drums of the Yoruba religion in Cuba) – would now be considered contemporary.
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Chubby Jackson – Chubby Takes Over (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:04 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Chubby Jackson, the bassist and head cheerleader for the first two Woody Herman Herds, always loved big bands. He led a few short-time orchestras but none caught on for long. In 1958 he recorded a big-band album for Everest that is reissued on this CD. The orchestra includes some Herman alumni plus a few studio musicians. Although there are many worthy solos throughout the set (including a Don Lamond drum feature on “Loch Lamond” and spots for Bob Brookmeyer and Al Cohn), most are brief and the emphasis is on the shouting ensembles. The music is fine but conservative for 1958 and the band did not stay together beyond this and a similar Woody Herman recording project. ~ Scott Yanow
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Chubby Checker – Dancin’ Party: The Chubby Checker Collection (1960-1966) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:32 minutes | 809 MB | Genre: R&B
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Chubby Checker, proved to be the single most successful component of the Cameo Parkway artist roster. Beyond “The Twist” and “Let’s Twist Again,” he scored numerous successes, most of which were keyed to dance moves and good times. He recorded numerous dance floor fillers and secured impressive chart successes. Twenty-one of Checker’s recordings are featured on Dancin’ Party: The Chubby Checker Collection: 1960 – 1966. This definitive collection highlights seventeen Top 40 hits of which twelve entered the Top 20; seven charted in the Top 10 with two ultimately reaching the #1 spot.
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