Badbadnotgood – Talk Memory (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:15 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings
BadBadNotGood return with their highly anticipated new album, Talk Memory, a psychedelic jazz record that explores balance and harmony through musical improvisation. Collaborators include legendary composer Arthur Verocai and contemporary icons such as Terrace Martin, Karriem Riggins and Laraaji.
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Willie Nelson – That’s Life (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:44 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Honoring the enduring inspiration of Frank Sinatra, That’s Life is Willie Nelson s second album of classics made famous by The Chairman Of The Board. Willie’s first ode to Frank, 2018’s My Way, earned Willie the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Solo Album, and That’s Life finds Nelson (who has penned a few standards himself) inhabiting 11 more of the most treasured songs in the Great American Songbook including the title track, “Luck Be A Lady,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” and “I Won’t Dance” (a duet featuring Diana Krall). Produced by Buddy Cannon and Matt Rollings, That’s Life was recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood–where Frank Sinatra, created a string of album masterpieces–with additional recording at Pedernales Studios in Austin, Texas. Willie delivers 11 new studio performances, coming alive in a musical landscape animated by lush string and vibrant horn arrangements on an album mixed by recording industry legend Al Schmitt (who’s recorded and mixed more than 150 gold and platinum albums and won more Grammy Awards than any other engineer or mixer). The album cover features a brand new painting of Willie and his iconic guitar, Trigger, standing in the glow of a twilight streetlamp, evoking classic Sinatra album covers of yore.
Read moreOscar Peterson – Motions & Emotions (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:31 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Recorded in 1969, Motions & Emotions from Oscar Peterson is a bit of a departure from what the famed pianist was doing back in those days. Featuring lush orchestral arrangements by Claus Ogerman, known for his work with Frank Sinatra and more recently, Diana Krall, the album shows off Peterson and his trio members Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar and Bobby Durham on drums performing a wide range of cover songs, from the Beatles to Bacharach, Bobby Gentry to bossa nova.
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Xiomara Laugart – Tears and Rumba (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:54 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records
For singers, recording a collection of classic tunes can be viewed as a rite of passage. These classics after all have helped define a generation. Jazz vocalists face this when they interpret the songs of Cole Porter and George Gershwin, along with many others that make up the great American Song Book. Cuban music has a significant canon as well. Songs which are not just memorable to Cubans, but well known favorites that resonate throughout Latin America.
On her new record, her third for Chesky Records, Xiomara Laugart steps up to the plate with her own distinctive style to interpret some Cuban classics from the golden era of the 1920s.“
People are familiar with Cuban rhythms, but they don’t know the songs or the composers,” said Laugart, who came to New York City in 1998 from Havana. “That’s what I wanted to do, introduce these songs to a new generation.”
Lagrimas y Rumba is a fine introduction to the singer-songwriter’s driven trova style from the city of Santiago and features works by two extremely influential composers of that era, Maria Teresa Vera and Miguel Matamoros. Laugart grew up listening and singing these tunes with her father, who encouraged her to sing starting at the age of five. “We heard these songs on the radio and everybody listened to the radio then,” she said of her Havana childhood.
As the title of the record suggests, the songs that Laugart interprets so elegantly range from the moody trova style standards like Vera’s “Ausencia” to the danceable son montuno of Matamoros’ “La Mujer de Antonio.” The heart wrenching lyrics of “Ausencia” speak about a love that will never be. Mixed with Yunior Terry’s stirring acoustic bass, they will have you sobbing in your mojito. But not to worry, Laugart, who has been influenced by Chaka Khan as much as by Vera and Matamoros, will have everyone packing the dance floor in a New York minute with her swinging versions of “La Mujer de Antonio” and “Nadie Se Salva de la Rumba,” made popular again during the 1980s by Celia Cruz.
Laugart excels at navigating shifts in style and mood thanks to a quintet of excellent musicians who are part of a new generation from Cuba that continues to flow into New York City. Terry provides the anchor giving the small band a big sound. Throughout the record, the melodies by guitarist Roman Lajara and flautist Javier Porta create a layer of sound joining Terry in creating the perfect intimate setting for Laugart’s nuanced phrasing. The Venezuelan Luis Quintero is the veteran of the group having played with everyone from Eddie Palmieri to Diana Krall. Gerardo Contino provided backup vocals and one of the youngsters of the group, Axel Tosca Laugart, the singer’s son, was responsible for the new arrangements.
Laugart’s fans from her days leading the Grammy nominated band Yerba Buena, the raucous ensemble that experimented with all kinds of urban Latin America rhythms, might be surprised by her approach here, but this is roots music. This is Xiomara Laugart unplugged. The closer you listen, the more you’ll appreciate the nuances. Her subtle phrasing weaves around the melodies and highly poetic lyrics. The country flavor of Lajara’s guitar is intensely expressive with the rustic sound of Quintero’s percussion and the culture that it all comes from. Lagrimas y Rumba will have them crying and dancing all night long, well into the morning at clubs like Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana where Xiomara performs regularly. That too is a serious rite of passage, one that she has already overcome and this album is her next. —Alfredo Alvarado
Youn Sun Nah – Lento (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:52 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Often compared to Diana Krall and Norah Jones, award-winning Korean singer Youn Sun Nah displays her unique qualities on Lento as she blends different cultural and musical sources in a respectful yet unconventional manner. Besides jazz and related styles, she draws on chanson, pop and folk music. In addition to original compositions by her and her band members, there is a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song (Hurt) and Ghost Riders in the Sky, a classic country song made famous by Johnny Cash. And, for the first time, Nah explores European classical music: Alexander Scriabin’s 5 Preludes, Op. 16 was a source of inspiration for the album’s title and it also sets up an intimate, atmospheric and harmonious musical world.
Read moreAnthony Wilson Trio – Savivity (2005)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 54:29 minutes | 2,1 + 2,02 GB | Genre:Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | © Groove Note Records
Recorded by Michael C. Ross at Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA
Cover art and liner notes included
DSD file created by Gus Skinas from the SACD cutting master.
Following up on his previous recording Our Gang, Groove Note is proud to announce the release of Anthony Wilson’sSavivity. This album features a similar mix of originals and covers and with performances that cover the bluesy up-tempo groove of “Fleur D’Ennui” through the introspection of “God Bless The Child.” Since the release of Our Gang in 2001, Anthony has been working almost non-stop as the featured guitarist with Diana Krall’s Quartet.
Anthony Wilson Trio – Our Gang (2001)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 59:13 minutes | 2,3 + 2,13 GB | Genre:Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | © Groove Note Records
Recorded by Michael C. Ross at Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA December 7 & 8, 2000
Cover art and liner notes included
DSD file created by Gus Skinas from the SACD cutting master.
“…on a sonic level with xrcds.” — John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
The Anthony Wilson Trio recorded this magnificent jazz guitar session featuring guitar, Hammond B-3 organ and drums. Wilson, the talented Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist and key player in the Diana Krall Quartet covers classics such as Kenny Burrell’s “Chitlins Con Carne” as well as some original compositions (Road Trip) through to an unforgettable instrumental cover version of The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” from Abbey Road as well as superb performances of “Prelude To A Kiss” (Billy Stayhorn).
Read moreAnthony Wilson Nonet – Power Of Nine (2006)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:10:54 minutes | 2,8 + 2,52 GB | Genre:Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | © Groove Note Records
Recorded by Michael C. Ross at Sunset Sound, Hollywood CA, on January 16-18, 2006
Cover art and liner notes included
DSD file created by Gus Skinas from the SACD cutting master.
A new album by Anthony Wilson featuring the super-talented and top selling jazz vocalist Diana Krall with whom Anthony has been recording and touring for the last three to four years. Krall appears on the track “Looking Back” on vocals. The material includes a mix of Wilson originals and some jazz standards. The album is produced by Joe Harley and recorded by Michael Ross in Studio 2 of Sunset Sound in Hollywood (the quite legendary recording studio for Led Zeppelin 2 and 4 and almost every Doors album, Janis Joplin’s Pearl, and more).
Alan Broadbent Trio – Like Minds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:34 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Savant
Alan Broadbent is one of New Zealand’s favourite musical sons and perhaps the most well-known and multi-talented of them all, on ‘Like Minds’, he takes a seat on the piano bench for his third Savant recording with his trio featuring the great bassist Harvie S and the colourful drumming of Billy Mintz.
Read moreAnthony Wilson – The Plan of Paris (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:05 minutes | 663 MB | Genre: Jazz, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Goat Hill Recordings
“The Plan of Paris” can be interpreted as a book of individual short stories with detailed, very specific cinematic set pieces conceived as narratives, an intimate, fluid hybrid of jazz, folk and blues. His longtime main ensemble – Wilson on guitar and vocals accompanied by Blue Note recording artist Gerald Clayton on piano and keyboards, bassist David Piltch and Jay Bellerose on drums and percussion – helps bring the tales to life with these musical settings much as, say, Jonny Greenwood’s score does in Power of the Dog.
Read moreAlvin Queen Trio – Night Train to Copenhagen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:25 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stunt Records
The Alvin Queen Trio’s new album “Night Train To Copenhagen” featuring new renditions of songs from the classic Oscar Peterson records “Night Train” and “We Get Requests” will officially be released by Stunt Records.
Read moreAlan Broadbent Trio – Trio in Motion (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Savant
The Alan Broadbent Trio’s previous Savant release, New York Notes (SCD 2166), received rave reviews in the international press. The Guardian (UK) wrote, “The bubbling stream of notes is both unpredictable and inevitable, and following its twists and turns is a joy.” Couleurs Jazz (France) proclaimed, “Behold! A precious gem of a jazz recording.” “Trio in Motion” finds Broadbent, Billy Mintz and Harvie S reunited in the pianist’s New York apartment-studio recording music that is spontaneous, surprising, possessing a sly humor and emotionally involving. Broadbent received two Grammy awards and has collaborated with Natalie Cole (Unforgettable), Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Diana Krall and Paul McCartney. Each tune on the setlist is imbued with a warm intimacy and the refreshing, slightly piquant glow of intensity which warms both the listener’s heart and mind.
Read moreAlan Broadbent Trio – New York Notes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:40 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Savant
Justly famous for his gorgeous compositions and arrangements for a long list of singers including Natalie Cole, Diana Krall and Paul McCartney, Alan Broadbent is also a pianist’s pianist: possessed of fierce technique; exquisitely emotional, when the moment calls for it; and as hard-swinging as they come.
Read moreAlan Broadbent – Hot Club (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:16 minutes | 669 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NorthStar Music Publishing Ltd
The Alan Broadbent Trio’s previous Savant release, New York Notes, received rave reviews in the international press. The Guardian (UK) wrote, “The bubbling stream of notes is both unpredictable and inevitable, and following it’s twists and turns is a joy.” Couleurs Jazz (France) proclaimed, “Behold! A precious gem of a jazz recording.” “Trio in Motion” finds Broadbent, Billy Mintz and Harvie S reunited in the pianist’s New York apartment-studio recording music that is spontaneous, surprising, possessing a sly humor and emotionally involving. Broadbent received two Grammy awards and has collaborated with Natalie Cole (Unforgettable), Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Diana Krall and Paul McCartney. Each tune on the setlist is imbued with a warm intimacy and the refreshing, slightly piquant glow of intensity which warms both the listener’s heart and mind.
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