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Spike Wilner Trio – Contrafactus (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
This album was recorded in one afternoon and everything was a single take. We were ready! It seems that we’ve been rehearsing for this record for the last thirty years. Be ready! To be ready is the mark of a true Jazz Musician – ready for anything and to simply not-think, react! If someone hurls a baseball at your head, are you going to sit there and consider your options or are you just going to automatically duck? Well, that baseball being hurled at your head is the kind of jazz I like to play. My teacher, the great Harry Whitaker, was all about not-being- prepared and yet, of course, being ready – like a master! What does this mean? Well, the bandstand and the tunes are sacred stomping grounds – free for the dragons to fly about as they please. If you’re not a dragon, well, then you’re simply being pummeled with baseballs to the head, and it hurts! Dragons live free in the environment, joyful and child-like while the dunderheads get smacked around and don’t even realize it most of the time. So, I’ve been smacked around for years.
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Space – Embrace the Space (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 247 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Relative Pitch Records
Space is the trio of Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund based in Stockholm, Sweden.This is their second album. Their music is totally improvised and has a strong connection to the traditions of free jazz and European contemporary music.
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Soul Jazz Records Presents – Soul Jazz Records presents STUDIO ONE DOWN BEAT SPECIAL (Expanded Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Soul Jazz Records
Soul Jazz Records’ Down Beat Special is a rollercoaster ride of greatest hits handpicked from the mighty vaults of what is undoubtedly Jamaica’s finest record label and reggae music’s pioneering powerhouse.
Originally released as a one-off pressed, limited edition (and long deleted) 7″ box set, this reissue has been completely remastered and expanded to include 18 super rare and killer tracks from the Studio One empire.
Featuring the Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Lone Ranger and many more, the album offers rare and classic tracks throughout. Newly commissioned sleevenotes by Noel Hawks (History of the Jamaican Recording Industry) provide historical and musical analysis of each track, label scans and much more to complement this fantastic collection.
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Shelly Manne – At The Black Hawk, Vol. 1 (Remastered 2024) (1960/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Recorded live at the Black Hawk, San Francisco in September 1959, “At The Blackhawk, Vol 1” is the first of 4 volumes released in 1960. Featuring six cuts, Manne (drums), is joined by Joe Gordon (trumpet), Richie Kamuca (tenor sax), Victor Feldman (piano) and Monty Budwig (bass). This new edition features remastered hi-res audio from the original tapes.
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Scott Stapp – Higher Power (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:12 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Napalm Records Handels GmbH
Single Blurb “What I deserve”: Scott Stapp follows hard-hitting first single “Higher Power” with mid-tempo anthem “What I Deserve” which smolders with the delicate yet blistering guitar work of Yiannis Papadopoulos and observations about the mutual sentiment but inherent duality within relationships. Stapp’s upcoming album Higher Power (2024) follows 2019’s The Space Between The Shadows, which debuted at #3 on the US Current Rock Albums chart, the US Current Hard Music Albums chart, and the UK Official Rock and Metal Chart
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Rachel Kolly d’Alba, Christian Chamorel – Brahms Violon Sonatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:35 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens Calliope Records
Rachel Kolly, with her 1732 Stradivarius, brings an exceptional sound dimension to the sonatas, in perfect harmony with Christian Chamorel’s piano. The duo, known for their refined interpretation and artistic complicity, marks an important milestone in their musical journey with this emblematic recording.
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Peter Garrett – The True North (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:51 minutes | 721 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Entertainment
Peter Garrett has spent a lifetime exploring the beaten and unbeaten tracks that run through this country and its people. In March 2024 he will release a new solo album called The True North. It’s a deeply personal reflection on his singular journey, drawing inspiration and sustenance from the living colours of Australia’s natural environment and the sights and sounds of modern Oz. Recorded with his band The Alter Egos (which includes Martin Rotsey from the Oils on guitar) and produced by Tony Buchen (Smashing Pumpkins, Montaigne, G-Flip, Tim Finn). It will be Peter’s second solo release, following 2016’s ‘A Version Of Now’ which made the top 3 on the ARIA chart. The core band involved in making the album was Martin Rotsey (Midnight Oil) on guitar with Heather Shannon (The Jezabels) on piano and keys, Evan Mannell on drums and Rowan Lane on bass. Freya Schack-Arnott on cello and Ollie Thorpe on pedal steel joined in too as did two of Peter’s daughters, May and Grace who sang on some of the key tracks.
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Paula Sides & Sergey Rybin – La voix humaine (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:41 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © VOCES8 Records
Soprano Paula Sides and pianist Sergey Rybin have teamed up for this vibrant new recording of works by the French 20th Century composer Francis Poulenc. The centrepiece of the album is Poulenc’s short solo opera La voix humaine (“The human voice”), based on the play of the same name by his friend Jean Cocteau.
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One For All & George Coleman – Big George (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:16 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions
Acclaimed sextet One for All makes its much-anticipated return with BIG GEORGE, its first release in seven years and its 17th. The album reunites Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, Steve Davis, David Hazeltine, John Webber, and Joe Farnsworth, who are joined on three tracks by a very special guest saxophonist, their mentor and hero, NEA Jazz Master George Coleman.
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