Pat Metheny – Watercolors (1977/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:01 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
“Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here” the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared. “Metheny’s compositions are perfect vehicles for his guitar, which blends smoothly with the breathtaking ensemble work.” The recording is the first of Pat’s albums to feature Lyle Mays, an important partner for the work ahead: “You can hear them reaching toward the sound that would burst forth a year later on the Pat Metheny Group album”, Down Beat would later note. And with Danny Gottlieb on drums, three quarters of the Metheny Group is present here. The personnel of Watercolors is completed by Eberhard Weber, with whom Metheny had already collaborated creatively in Gary Burton’s band.
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Pasquale Grasso – Solo Standards (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:57 minutes | 868 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh
This collection of standards spanning various jazz sub-eras is a superlative performance. The only reason that I did not give it 5 stars is because Grasso drives with his foot to the floor the whole time. It is brilliant playing but fatiguing. At moments I was worried he might even be trying to impress us.
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Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Progressive Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Willowtip Records
The Signal Heard Throughout Space will be the full-length debut for drummer Dan Silver, and the band’s first release with keyboardist Sean Gallagher. On the new album, PARIUS deftly combines the cohesive songwriting of bands like Mastodon and Opeth with the eccentricities of bands like Mr. Bungle and The Mars Volta. Produced with the illustrious and Grammy-nominated Jamie King, the record is a bona fide 60-minute rock opera more than twice as lengthy as 2018’s The Eldritch Realm.
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Pat Metheny – New Chautauqua (Remastered) (1979/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:44 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Metheny alone and, mostly, acoustic, playing folk-flavoured compositions. Pat viewed this as “an autobiographical album. It’s got a lot to do with the American Midwest. It’s very open and spacious.”
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Hazell Dean – Searchin’ (40th Anniversary Mixes) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 20:01 minutes | 239 MB | Genre: Disco, Pop, Dance
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasia Records UK
Hazell Dean (née Poole; born 27 October 1952) is an English dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top-ten hits in the United Kingdom “Searchin’ (I Gotta Find a Man)”, “Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)” and “Who’s Leaving Who”. She has also worked as a songwriter and producer.
Read morePat Collins – Time Well Spent (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:59 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
A unique new jazz trio recording by bassist Pat Collins, featuring Tom Scczesniak (accordion) and Reg Schwager (guitar). The program of 10 tracks features 6 new compositions (4 by Collins, 2 by Szczesniak, and 2 by Schwager) plus 1 song each by Paul Simon and Michel Legrand.
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