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First time on a Blu-Ray format. This classic jazz film was a 1957 CBS TV show which reunited some of the genre s greatest stars for a one-hour performance that was presented with no editing. Includes a final meeting of Billie Holiday and Lester Young. Also included are follow-up shows featuring Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal and Ben Webster on different sets. An extra bonus is the 1944 short, Jammin the Blues showcasing Lester Young plus the only TV clip of Charlie Parker known to exist.
Blu-Ray DVD plus CD of The Sound of Jazz album
01. Open All Night / Blues
02. The Count Blues
03. Wild Man Blues
04. Rosetta
05. Dickie s Dream
06. Blue Monk
07. I Left My Baby
08. Fine And Mellow
09. The Train And The River
10. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
11. Darn That Dream
12. Ahmad s Blues
13. Chelsea Bridge
14. Duke s Place
15. The Midnight Symphony
16. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
17. Jammin The Blues
18. Hot House
19. So What
20. The Duke
21. Blues For Pablo
22. New Rhumba
Imagine an enchanted audience in front of an enormous stage in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thousands of fans screaming just for her: the one and only Tarja. Having their cameras and cell phones ready to film what will become one hell of a performance, Tarja finally appears, dressed fully in black and with the most beautiful smile on her face; she is in full bloom. Let the show begin. Filmed at Stadium Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 27th, 2011 during Tarja’s “What Lies Beneath World Tour 2011”, “Luna Park Ride” was previously only included in a very limited edition of her Top 5 live production “Act I”. For the first time available on stand-alone audio and video, the fan filmed material is topped with 14 (!) bonus live performances and offers the full package including previously unseen photos. Ranging from Tarja classics like “I Walk Alone” to “Until My Last Breath”, the high quality audio mixed by Tim Palmer (U2, Pearl Jam, Robert Plant) and fan video recordings also feature Nightwish rarities such as “Stargazers” or the electrifying medley of “Where Were You Last Night”, Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is A Place On Earth” and Bon Jovi’s classic “Livin’ On A Prayer”.
Tracklist
Dark Star
My Little Phoenix
The Crying Moon
I Walk Alone
Falling Awake
Signos (Soda Stereo cover)
Little Lies
Underneath
Stargazers
Ciaran’s Well
In For A Kill
Where Were You Last Night – Heaven Is A Place On Earth – Livin’ On A Prayer
Die Alive
Until My Last Breath
Wishmaster
Bonus Material CD, DVD, Digital and Blu-ray only
In For a Kill – Masters of Rock / Czech Republic 2010. Featuring Philarmonic Bohuslava Martinû Zlin and choir
I Walk Alone – Masters of Rock / Czech Republic 2010. Featuring Philarmonic Bohuslava Martinû Zlin and choir
The Archive of Lost Dreams / Czech Republic 2010. Featuring Philarmonic Bohuslava Martinû Zlin and choir
Crimson Deep – Masters of Rock / Czech Republic 2010. Featuring Philarmonic Bohuslava Martinû Zlin and choir
I Feel Immortal – Summerbreeze / Germany 2011
The Siren – Summerbreeze / Germany 2011
Until my Last Breath – Summerbreeze / Germany 2011
500 Letters – Yekaterinburg / Russia 2014
Damned & Divine – Yekaterinburg / Russia 2014
Neverlight – Yekaterinburg / Russia 2014
Anteroom of Death – Wacken / Germany 2014 featuring Van Canto
Never Enough – Summerbreeze / Germany 2014
Die Alive – Summerbreeze / Germany 2014
Victim of Ritual – Summerbreeze / Germany 2014
Title: Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Director: Brett Morgen
Artist: Don Cobain, Jenny Cobain, Kim Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Tracey Marander, Krist Novoselic, Wendy O’Connor, Lori Barbero, Chad Channing, Frances Bean Cobain, Lori Goldston, Dave Grohl, Buzz Osborne, Pat Smear
Cobain – Montage of Heck invites you to experience Kurt’s life, art and mind through his own unique lens, bringing you as close to the generation-defining icon as it’s possible to get. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the first fully-authorized portrait of the famed rock music icon. Director Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, and never-before-seen home movies with animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest confidantes. Following Kurt from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings emerges. While Cobain craved the spotlight even as he rejected the trappings of fame, his epic arc depicts a man who stayed true to his earliest punk rock convictions, always identifying with the “outsider” and ensuring the music came first. Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he is. (more…)
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Sticker on front cover says 24 bit / 96kHz but all audio tracks are 24 bit / 192 kHz.
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Title: Empyrean Isles / Maiden Voyage
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal, Piano Jazz
Label: © Blue Note Records/Universal Music Enterprises
Release Date: Empyrean Isles – 1964 (BLP 4175/BST 84175); Maiden Voyage – 1965 (BLP 4195/BST 84195)/2015
Recorded: Empyrean Isles – June 17, 1964; Maiden Voyage – March 17, 1965; Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Mastered: tracks 1-4: Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; tracks 6-10: Robert Vosgien at Capitol Mastering; tracks 11-15: Alan Yashida
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 02:04:48
Size: 22.6 GB
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 192 kHz / 6475 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 192 kHz / 5881 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Jazz icon Herbie Hancock’s solo career blossomed on Blue Note Records in the mid-to-late ’60s with classic albums including Maiden Voyage and Empyrean Isles. Throughout his career, Hancock has always pushed musical boundaries, exploring a wide variety of jazz idioms while bringing his flair and innovation to every single setting. His Blue Note albums of the 1960’s ranged all the way from post bop to Latin jazz, to straight ahead and free form.
Empyrean Isles, recorded when Hancock was 24 and a new member of the Miles Davis Quintet, features the pianist pushing the envelope of hard bop, creating fresh, new music in the process. In a quartet setting with Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, Hancock shows that he was familiar with both avant-garde jazz and groovin’ R&B. His four compositions include the original and most exciting version of “Cantaloupe Island” and the swingingly unpredictable “One Finger Snap.”Empyrean Isles brims with the power and adventure of the best of ’60s jazz while gracefully crossing over into uncharted territory in signature Hancock fashion.
However, 1965’s Maiden Voyage is arguably the best in the bunch. Every single cut on the exquisite 5-track offering from the haunting title track to the gentle, swinging “Dolphin Dance” has found its way into the standard jazz repertoire. Hancock and company – Ron Carter (bass), George Coleman (tenor saxophone), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) and Anthony Williams (drums) – fashioned a modern jazz milestone here with extraordinary compositions, interplay and solos and in 1999 Maiden Voyagewas recognized as such when it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. (more…)
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Billie Holiday – Music For Torching (1955/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:47 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © The Verve Music Group
Recorded: 23 & 25 August 1955
Music for Torching is a 1955 studio album by jazz vocalist Billie Holiday. The record features covers of “It Had to Be You”, “A Fine Romance”, “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Come Rain or Come Shine”.
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Ben Webster – Gentle Ben (1972/2011)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:56:18 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: acousticsounds.com | © Ensayo
Recorded: November 28, 1972, in Barcelona, Spain
This recording was made 10 months before Ben Webster’s death in 1972. Webster, who had left the United States in 1965 to settle in Europe – first in Copenhagen and then in Amsterdam – was visiting fellow musician and friend Tete Montoliu in Barcelona. Webster and pianist Montoliu went back a ways, having played together regularly in Webster’s Copenhagen days. In fact, Montoliu cited Webster and Don Byas as his two chief musical influences. Webster and Montoliu understood each other deeply, and their comfort with on another is palpable in this recording. Their accompaniment of one another is seamless. On board with these two is Montoliu’s regular working trio-mates, Eric Peter on bass and Peer Wyboris on drums.
“Ah, that unique, highly individual sound of Ben Webster’s sax, and nearly an hour’s worth of it – in top-flight SACD sonics yet! The original session dates from November of 1972 in Barcelona, Spain, and Ben is front and center throughout – his every note and breath standing out in 3D.” –John Henry, Audiophile Audition, September 2011
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Name: James Taylor: Musicares Person Of The Year Tribute
Released: 2006
Genre: Soft Rock, Blues-Rock, Jazz-Rock, Country
Artist: Luis Conte (percussion), Walter Flower (trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards), Steve Gadd (drums), Larry Goldings (piano, organ, synth), Jimmy Johnson (bass), Michael Landan (guitar), David Lasley (vocals ), Louis Marini. Jr. (sax, flute, clarinet), Kate Markowitz (vocals), Arnold McCuller (vocals), Andrea Zonn (violin, vocals)
Released: Rhino / Warner Music
Duration: 1:28:15
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video Codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: VC-1 18423 kbps / 1920 * 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16: 9 / Advanced Profile 3
# 1 Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4676 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English
Size: 16.10 GB
Disc rebuilt from HD DVD! Disc Menu is not available. Switching chapter is the player control buttons!
The annual MusiCares Person of the Year tribute dinner and silent auction take place during Grammy week. Each year the dinner honors a recording artist who has made a significant contribution to the world of music and has demonstrated extraordinary humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. The event generates financial support for MusiCares and draws attention to the important work of the organization. The MusiCares Foundation was proud to honor James Taylor as the 2006 Person of the Year. Best known as the quintessential singer-songwriter, James has maintained an unparalleled commitment to music and various philanthropic efforts—from environmental to humanitarian—throughout his career.
This HD DVD captures the superstar tributes to James Taylor with spectacular performances by The Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, Sting, Keith Urban, Bruce Springsteen, along with songs by Taylor himself. Net proceeds from the sale and distribution of this HD DVD will benefit MusiCares and its programs to provide a critical safety net of assistance to music people in times of crisis. (more…)
DTS Blu-ray Music Demo Disc 16 2013 1080i Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1
Reference quality 5.1/7.1 Dolby TrueHD Music Demo Disc (compatible with normal Dolby Digital, too)
Great for testing your surround system, with this demo you really see how good your system can be! Even low budget systems sounds good with these tracks!
BDMV and Certificate folders for burning on BD-25,or for playing with for example Arcsoft Total Media Theatre or other BD PC players. VLC Player also plays individual tracks in BDMV/STREAM folder.
Without any copy or regional protection. With Title Menu and Auto-Loop function for In-store demo. Cover and Disc Label for printing included.
Oh, and the video is of course in Full HD 1080 uncompressed quality!
Includes some of the greatest 5.1 sounding live performances and 7.1 video clips:
Title: Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Director: Brett Morgen
Artist: Don Cobain, Jenny Cobain, Kim Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Tracey Marander, Krist Novoselic, Wendy O’Connor, Lori Barbero, Chad Channing, Frances Bean Cobain, Lori Goldston, Dave Grohl, Buzz Osborne, Pat Smear
Production/Label: Universal Music
Duration: 02:12:20
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 25631 kbps / 1920*1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2483 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Size: 37.58 GB
Cobain – Montage of Heck invites you to experience Kurt’s life, art and mind through his own unique lens, bringing you as close to the generation-defining icon as it’s possible to get. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the first fully-authorized portrait of the famed rock music icon. Director Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, and never-before-seen home movies with animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest confidantes. Following Kurt from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings emerges. While Cobain craved the spotlight even as he rejected the trappings of fame, his epic arc depicts a man who stayed true to his earliest punk rock convictions, always identifying with the “outsider” and ensuring the music came first. Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he is.
Bonus:
• Don Cobain Interview
• Brett Morgan Interview (more…)
Triana – Sombra y luz (1979)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | FLAC tracks | Artwork | 843 Mb
Fonomusic (Serie Gong) – 5046617651 (Spain Reissue, 180 gram, 2014) | Prog Rock
Tracklist
A1 Una Historia 5:06
A2 Quiero Contarte 5:00
A3 Sombra Y Luz 7:40
B1 Hasta Volver 10:40
B2 Tiempo Sin Saber 5:21
B3 Vuelta A La Sombra Y La Luz 5:20
Credits
Artwork, Design – Máximo Moreno
Drums, Percussion, Voice – Juan José Palacios*
Electric Bass – Manolo Rosa
Electric Guitar – Antonio Pérez* (tracks: A1, B2, B3), Enrique Carmona* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3), Pepe Roca
Guitar [Spanish], Voice – Eduardo Rodríguez R.*
Keyboards, Vocals – Jesús De La Rosa
Vocals – Eduardo Rodríguez R.* (tracks: B2)
Vocals, Backing Vocals – Miguel Angel Iglesias (tracks: A3)
Voice – Enrique Carmona* (tracks: B1), Pepe Roca (tracks: A2)
Written-By – J. de la Rosa* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3)
Triana – Hijos del Agobio (1977)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | FLAC tracks | Artwork | 760 Mb
Fonomusic – 5046617631 (Reissue, Rem., 2014, Spain) | Prog Rock
Tracklist:
Side A
“Hijos del agobio” – 5:18
“Rumor” – 3:20
“Sentimiento de amor” – 5:32
“Recuerdos de Triana” – 2:50
Side B
“¡Ya está bien!” – 3:12
“Necesito” – 4:04
“Sr. Troncoso” – 3:38
“Del crepúsculo lento nacerá el rocío” – 5:50
Jesús de la Rosa Luque – voz , teclados y guitarra en “Sr. Troncoso”
J. J. Palacios “Tele” – batería , percusión y moog en “Recuerdos de Triana”
Eduardo Rodríguez R – guitarra , voz en “Del crepúsculo lento nacerá el rocío”, voces en “Sr. Troncoso” e “Hijos del agobio”
Antonio García de Diego – guitarra eléctrica
Manolo Rosa – bajo eléctrico y guitarra española en “Del crepúsculo…”
Enrique Carmona – introducción guitarra en “Del crepúsculo…”
Triana – Hijos del Agobio (1977)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | FLAC tracks | Artwork | 757 Mb
Movieplay – 17.0907/9 (Original Spain, 1977) | Prog Rock
Tracklist:
Side A
“Hijos del agobio” – 5:18
“Rumor” – 3:20
“Sentimiento de amor” – 5:32
“Recuerdos de Triana” – 2:50
Side B
“¡Ya está bien!” – 3:12
“Necesito” – 4:04
“Sr. Troncoso” – 3:38
“Del crepúsculo lento nacerá el rocío” – 5:50
Jesús de la Rosa Luque – voz , teclados y guitarra en “Sr. Troncoso”
J. J. Palacios “Tele” – batería , percusión y moog en “Recuerdos de Triana”
Eduardo Rodríguez R – guitarra , voz en “Del crepúsculo lento nacerá el rocío”, voces en “Sr. Troncoso” e “Hijos del agobio”
Antonio García de Diego – guitarra eléctrica
Manolo Rosa – bajo eléctrico y guitarra española en “Del crepúsculo…”
Enrique Carmona – introducción guitarra en “Del crepúsculo…”
Triana – Triana (El Patio) (1975)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | FLAC tracks | Artwork | 860 Mb
Movieplay – 17.0678/7 {Original SPAIN}| Prog Rock, Rock Andaluz
Tracklist
A1 Abre La Puerta 9:48
A2 Luminosa Mañana 4:00
A3 Recuerdos De Una Noche 4:40
B1 Sé De Un Lugar 7:08
B2 Diálogo 4:27
B3 En El Lago 6:32
B4 Todo Es De Color 2:04
Credits
Acoustic Guitar [Guitarra Flamenca] – Eduardo Rodriguez
Artwork – Máximo Moreno
Bass Guitar – Manolo Rosa
Drums, Percussion – Juan José Palacios
Electric Guitar – Antonio Perez
Keyboards, Vocals – Jesús De La Rosa
The Dregs – Unsung Heroes
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 813mb
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Label: Arista/AL 9548 | Release: 1981 | Genre: Progressive-Fusion
In the early ’80s the blight of commercialitis had severely degraded the quality of progressive music being created. There are still many gems from that era. Unsung Heroes isn’t necessarily one of them yet a fine, and imperfect album all the same. The Dregs dropped the “Dixie” from their name in an attempt to reach a broader audience. I wonder how many of you out there haven’t checked this band out because of the “Dixie”? This was the first of two albums in that direction and under “The Dregs” band name, which was what we all around here referred to them as anyway. It unfortunately didn’t work as well as they’d hoped and after the second album as “The Dregs”, everyone moved on to other projects. (The original violinist Alan Sloane moved on after Unsung Heroes. )
Cruise Control kicks off the album and is probably the worst piece on the album, not to say it’s actually a bad piece of music, it’s just that the live versions are far superior. And as the song was mostly a vehicle for improvisation, it was just sad to see it reduced to this way too short piece for the sake of trying to get some airplay. Fer shame, fer shame. The older version on the album Freefall beats this version but also pales in comparison to any live version I’ve experienced.
Divided We Stand sees them back in finer form. This is what the Dregs were all about. It’s just progressive fusion, jazzy/rocky/a little bluegrassy/complexy, well, you’ll just have to hear it to appreciate it (dancing about architecture and what not.).
I’ll Just Pick has even a stronger bluegrass flavor to it. Trust me, this is bluegrass even a die hard prog zombie pod person could like. I know, I was one when I went nutzo for the Dregs.
Day 444 is a nice slow long piece dedicated to the release of the American embassy hostages from Iran. Post Rock fans should really dig this.
Rock and Roll Park another attempt at an instrumental AOR friendly hit. But dang it, just way too progressive to be successful. We’re talking 1981 here. Ok maybe it was just the title trying to sound AOR friendly rather than the music.
Attila the Hun is hard to really classify. High energy prog? Speed prog? Complexo prog? A fun little musical ride, for sure, Mr. Morse can really play rings around every guitarist out there, seriously.
Kat Food not to be confused as a cover for Crimson’s Cat Food, this one’s actually a much better song. A little funky/bluesy, I suppose. Killer complex musicianship again.
In Go for Baroque, the Dregs really did go for an excellent piece in the classical style, really not anything like the classical style pieces they did in the past, it could just about get a classical snob to appreciate prog.
Had to get the CD as a Japanese import. (I’m greatful for all the great import prog available only from Japan!) Really glad to have it back in my collection available to play after a hiatus due to the whole LP Cassette CD transitioning thing.
Review by Slartibartfast, progarchives.com
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The Dregs – Industry Standard
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 793mb
Mastered At Sterling Sound By George Marino
Label: Arista/AL AL 9588 | Release: 1982 | Genre: Progressive-Fusion
4.5 stars for this one, really. Almost a masterpiece, but definitely a classic. Some fans might be put off with the vocals of Patrick Simmons(Doobie Brothers) or Alex Ligertwood(Brian Auger/Santana), but if you like them like I do, you’re in for a treat. Not much to add here other than it’s very similar to their masterpiece _What If_(check my review) with a few vocal tracks. Apparently they were looking for a more commercial audience(probably the record label). Nothing really commercial here other than _Turn It Up_, but there’s enough instrumental chops to save it from the dumpster. Great song! _Industry Standard_ is the 2nd album one should purchase along with DREGS OF THE EARTH. Either one would be a great for your collection.
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