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Tomasz Stańko – Suspended Night (2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:01 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM Records
Suspended Nights is an album by Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, recorded together with musicians from the Tomasz Stańko Quartet.
It was recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo in July 2003. The Album was filled with compositions by Tomasz Stańka, and two recordings were joint compositions of the quartet. The CD was released in May 2004 by ECM Records (ECM 1868).
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Michel Legrand – Legrand Jazz (1958/2017)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:44:46 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,8 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Impex Records / Columbia – IMP8315, Sony Music Entertainment – 88985373572
Academy and Grammy Award-winning composer/arranger Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Summer of ’42, The Thomas Crown Affair) was not a household name in America in 1958, but he was renowned among musicians and a life-long fanatic of American jazz and its players. Legrand Jazz is the result of Legrand traveling to America and using his Columbia Records contract to enlist label mates (and soon to be legends) Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Sheldon Powell, Teo Macero, Milt Hinton, Jimmy Cleveland, and others to record his fantastical reimagining of 11 jazz standards. Not merely content to lay down another Parisian hard-bop play-along, the 27 year old worked against type and expectations at every turn, creating a moody, idiosyncratic landscape for unusual call-and-response chase solos, washes of harp and vibes, and sultry horn canvases. Davis, Coltrane and the others manage to fall in with the diverse, mellow flow of Legrand’s arrangements while keeping their unique musical voices.
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Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Remastered) (1981/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:53 minutes | 922 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls is a collaborative album by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, released in 1981. The title makes reference to Wichita, Kansas and Wichita Falls, Texas. The title tune is just under 21 minutes.
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Miles Davis – Jazz At The Plaza (1973) [Reissue 2001]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 40:26 minutes | Scans included | 1,67 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,63 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 982 MB
Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded in 1958 and released in 1973 by Columbia Records. Duke Ellington was recorded at the same event and released as the second volume (Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II).
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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:44 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Sixty years after the release of Miles Davis’ masterpiece, explanations for its everlasting allure and mysterious beauty remain elusive. Over the years—in books, magazines and documentary films—a parade of Miles’ contemporaries have struggled to explain this 1959 album, often cited as the best-selling jazz album in history. Recorded in long, whole takes over only two sessions 51 days apart, at Columbia Records’ famed 30th Street Studios, Kind of Blue is a landmark in the evolution of jazz as the first modal classic—where the improvising is based on scales rather than the dense clusters of chord changes that powered bebop. This stylish, beloved cornerstone of any jazz collection, with its relaxed tempi, rich colors and sleek silences, also possesses a timeless simplicity that continues to sound familiar and inviting.
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Funky Dl – February’s Seba Lounge (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:07 minutes | 316 MB | Genre: Easy Listening, Lounge
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Washington Classics
February’s Seba Lounge is the beautiful mood setting album, perfect for late nights, rainy days, serene walks or straight chill sessions. This Nujabes tribute reflects the peaceful vibe encapsulated by the music of the late Japanese producer.
Having lost Nujabes in 2010, this release is met again with a bitter sweet essence due to the the sad passing of Chris Wilson in January 2022.
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Barry Elmes – Night Flight (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:04 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
Barry Elmes is a drummer and composer who, over the years, has made notable contributions to the Canadian jazz scene. On the release Night Flight, he pays tribute to several iconic composers such as Charles Mingus, Cedar Walton, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Hank Mobley each of whom had made a deep musical impression on Elmes. He showcases this through his creative voice, using their compositions as the framework.
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Michel Donato – Michel Donato et ses amis Québécois (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:47 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Effendi Records
Contrary to what the title of his previous recordings on Effendi (Michel Donato et ses amis européens, vol. Effendi (Michel Donato and his European friends, vol. 1 and 2, FND050 and FND072, released in 2004 and 2014), the inescapable Montreal double bassist does not only have friends across the Atlantic.
On album, released in time for his eightieth birthday, he is back with some local friends. with a few local friends. And not just any friends!
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Michel Petrucciani – Solo in Denmark (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:35 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storyville Records
Michel was one of the most popular pianists in the 1990’s due to his extraordinary technique, his astounding musical outlook and extremely dynamic playing style. His music is simply timeless and magical, seemingly coming straight from his soul. As he is often quoted: “I’m not playing to your head, but to your soul. When I play, I’m like a bird flying over the landscape, and I can land anywhere.”
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Rouge – Vermeilles (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:04 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Label Bleu
If we were to venture to sketch out a small typology of piano / double bass / drums trios that have appeared lately in the very composite contemporary jazz landscape, we would quickly find ourselves in the presence of two large families essentially basing their differences on a more or less direct, erudite and concerned relationship to the tradition and the particular history of this orchestral formula that has become since the turn of the 70s one of the most archetypal of (post-)modern jazz.
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Mark Murphy – The Singing M! (Remastered) (1956/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:14 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Of course, when we talk about great male jazz singers, most of us think of the classic names: Billy Eckstine, Ray Charles, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Johnny Hartman and many would add Frank Sinatra, who could swing better than most, if he wanted. So what a coincidence that all these names can be found in our extensive jazz catalog!
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David Hazeltine – Ballads and Blues Volume I (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:32 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
It has come to my attention that over 40 + years of recording, fans very much appreciate the way that I arrange and perform ballads. I think my love for ballad playing goes back to my early years as a music student and how much I learned about harmony studying the solo piano recordings of the late great Bill Evans. He has a melancholy joyfulness in his approach to ballads and that sound has never left my ear.
At the sametime, playing the Blues has always come naturally to me perhaps because I understand the feeling so profoundly. So I had the idea to combine these two aspects of my musical character, and do an EP of Ballads and Blues, and with a nod to the late great McCoy Tyner, call it Ballads & Blues.
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Holst Sinfonietta & Klaus Simon – Steve Reich: Eight Lines, City Life & Other Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Steve Reich is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost exponents of minimalism, arguably the most significant stylistic trend in late 20th-century music. This chronological survey shows how Reich’s innate curiosity has taken his work far beyond such musical boundaries. One of the first fruits of Reich’s creative quest is Music for Two of More Pianos in which the influence of Morton Feldman and jazz pianist Bill Evans can be heard.
The rhythmic and flamboyant Eight Lines comes from the true heyday of minimalism, while Vermont and New York Counterpoint both explore webs of phased patterns created by multi-tracked instruments. City Life is a dramatic set of impressions of New York, vividly weaving sampled speech and street sounds into a work with symphonic depth of range and expression.
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Eddie Higgins Trio – If Dreams Come True (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:12 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
Eddie Higgins has played with many jazz greats, including Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans, and has established his name on the scene as a brilliant jazz pianist. In the second edition of the title “If Dreams Come True” he inspires in a trio with Jay Leonhart on bass and Joe Ascione on drums.
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Lady Blackbird – Black Acid Soul (Deluxe) (2021/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:25:23 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Vocalist Marley Munroe (aka Lady Blackbird) evokes the maverick style of singer Nina Simone on her potent 2021 debut Black Acid Soul. Produced by Chris Seefried, Black Acid Soul is Munroe’s first full-length album following a handful of singles and several years of studio work and live performing. Much like Simone, Munroe is blessed with a throaty, highly resonant voice that’s well-suited to carrying a jazz standard, but which also fits nicely on dusky R&B ballads. Working with guitarist Seefried and an intimate ensemble of collaborators, including pianist Deron Johnson, bassist Jon Flaugher, and drummer Jimmy Paxson, Munroe finds a spellbinding balance between acoustic jazz and live small group soul. She underlines the Simone connection from the start, opening with a burnished take of the legendary singer’s classic “Blackbird,” conjuring a menacing, earthy sensuality that perfectly sets the tone for what is to come. Part of what made Simone’s classic work of the ’60s and ’70s so intriguing was her ability to take a song from any genre and make it her own. Munroe has the same gift and displays it throughout, diving into an organ-tinged take on Reuben Bell’s 1967 track “It’s Not That Easy” and transforming Bill Evans’ languid 1958 composition “Peace Piece” into a dreamily intoxicating tone poem called “Fix It.” She even reworks the James Gang’s 1969 “Collage” into a far-eyed modal number that draws equally from John Coltrane and the psychedelic band Love. While Lady Blackbird’s distinct influences and love of Simone certainly drives much of Black Acid Soul, there’s an immediacy and warmth to the album that feels all her own.
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