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Sam Cooke – Sam Cooke (1958/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 25, 2023 · Comments off

Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke (1958/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Considered to be a pioneer and one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the “King of Soul” for his distinctive vocals, notable contributions to the genre and high significance in popular music.
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Rheta Hughes with Tennyson Stephens – Introducing an Electrifying New Star (1965/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 19, 2023 · Comments off

During the ’60s, Columbia Records was putting out albums of relatively unknown female singers and announced the featured artists as “electrifying” to the buying public. They did it with Aretha Franklin when, in 1962, they released their second album, “The Electrifying”. And they did it again in October 1965 when they released another LP which, to my greatest dismay and utter surprise, didn’t succeed in bringing fame and glory to its protagonist. This LP went by the title “Introducing an Electrifying New Star”. The new star was Rheta Hughes, born as Henrietta Hughes in Dallas. Her first LP on Columbia (# CS-9185), presented her as the star she still had to become … but unfortunately never became. This album was to be her one and only LP for Columbia, and it didn’t suffice to earn her a place in Gary Marmorstein’s massive 600-page history of Columbia Records.

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Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (2009/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 16, 2023 · Comments off

Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 are major landmarks in American culture. Charles demonstrated that great songs with signature performances work in all genres. “I Can’t Stop Loving You” was a standard in country, soul and R&B, as he proved. Modern Sounds also brought America together during the Sixties’ civil rights movement. Charles became one of the first recording artists to have ownership and complete control of the masters. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been listed among the greatest albums of all time, along with the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, Springsteen, Hendrix and the Beach Boys.

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Rachelle Garniez – Gone to Glory (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 15, 2023 · Comments off

Gone to Glory chronicles Rachelle Garniez’ interpretation of songs written or made famous by a variety of dearly beloved artists, all recently departed. With the depth of her talent and breadth of her interests, Garniez’ vocal approach eloquently transfigures pop and rock, jazz and soul – from David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and Glen Campbell to Motörhead, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Sharon Jones, and Mose Allison. With her masterful fluidity in full effect, she embodies the characters and inhabits the worlds. Garniez simultaneously loses herself and finds a way to make the songs her own. Regarding her singular style, The New Yorker has written, “Garniez wanders through the genres of country, jazz, and pop, leaving behind nothing but sweet wreckage.” Indeed, with her latest album, Rachelle locates a certain saving sweetness among the ruins, gathering glory from the gone.

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Roberta Flack – Quiet Fire (50th Anniversary Edition; 2021 Remaster) (1971/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 3, 2023 · Comments off

Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, and The Hit Factory in New York City. The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape, and its single “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” charted at number 76 on the Hot 100.

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Roberta Flack – First Take (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1969/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 3, 2023 · Comments off

Earlier this year, Roberta Flack joined an illustrious circle of honorees as a 2020 recipient of the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Now the 1969 debut album that set the singer-pianist’s 50-year professional career in motion — First Take — is available again for a limited time.

First Take: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, released today (July 24, Rhino), comes packaged as a two-CD, one LP remastered set. The vinyl LP replicates the original Atlantic Records eight-track album — produced by Joel Dorn — which features “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”

Flack’s first No. 1 pop and adult contemporary single topped those charts after Clint Eastwood tapped the song to appear in his 1971 film directorial debut, Play Misty for Me. The song later won Flack the first of two consecutive Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. She won the category again the following year for “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” whose imaginative cover by the Fugees became a huge hit for the hip-hop group in 1996.
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The first of the deluxe edition’s two CDs sports the original eight tracks plus three bonus cuts: single edits of the aforementioned hit and the Les McCann/Eddie Harris jazz classic “Compared to What” plus the song “Trade Winds.” However, the 12 previously unreleased demo recordings comprising the second CD further foretell the success to come.

Opening with a live version of Flack performing the Frank Sinatra standard “All the Way,” the CD spotlights a dauntless newcomer switching effortlessly as well between folk (“Frankie and Johnny“), jazz (“Afro Blue”), R&B (“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”) and pop (“To Sir With Love”).

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Roberta Flack – First Take (1969/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 3, 2023 · Comments off

First Take is Roberta Flack’s debut album and was released in 1969. The track “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” became a #1 hit in the US after being featured in Clint Eastwood’s film Play Misty for Me in 1971. After the song hit #1, the album also went to #1 on the U.S. album chart.

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Ural Thomas & The Pain – Dancing Dimensions (2022/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 1, 2023 · Comments off

Walking through the residential heart of Portland’s Mississippi district you’ll find a charming wooden house under the overcast Oregon sky. This local landmark is the home of soul legend Ural Thomas, built by hand with found materials decades ago. The basement is overflowing with musical equipment. When you walk down into the room you may see Portland’s Soul Brother Number One at the table chuckling, telling stories and jokes, and espousing his personal humanist philosophy obtained from 82 years of unfathomable experiences. He’s often joined by either his generations of biological posterity or the adopted family that is his band, The Pain. You may also find this infinitely magnetic personality ripping through a cover song at full volume or working out a new original with his loved ones.

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Norah Jones – Feels Like Home (2004/2012) DSF DSD64

SACD / DSD By admin · July 30, 2023 · Comments off

Part of Analogue Productions’ reissue of the Norah Jones’ solo catalog, featuring the individual albums Come Away With Me, Feels Like Home, Not Too Late, The Fall and Little Broken Hearts. Each album is also featured in exclusive LP and SACD box sets that include Norah’s Covers album!

Norah Jones took the world (and the Grammys) by storm with her debut album Come Away With Me. Now, she’s back for one of the most-anticipated follow-ups in recent memory. On Feels Like Home, Jones again teams with producer Arif Mardin, engineer Jay Newland and her close-knit touring band. And her pop, jazz, and country-tinged sound has never been richer.

On Feels Like Home, Jones has written several new songs, gathered a few more from her bandmates and also covered Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan and Duke Ellington. Jones plays piano, Wurlitzer electric piano and pump organ and features her stripped-down core group of guitar, background vocals, bass and drums. We needn’t describe Jones’ singing. Everyone recognizes it by now. The arrangements aren’t quite as mellow as Come Away With Me, but the music still centers on country, pop and jazz colors.

“I’m glad that people liked the last album,” Jones said. “It was where I was at the time, musically. This is where I am now. That’s what a recording is for me, like a snapshot. We had so much fun making this record.”

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Nils Landgren Funk Unit with Ray Parker Jr. – Unbreakable (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 26, 2023 · Comments off

“Unbreakable” is the 11th studio release from Swedish band the Nils Landgren Funk Unit. The brainchild of trombonist Nils Landgren, this record features legends such as Ray Parker Jr., Randy Brecker, and Tim Hagans, making for an undeniably funky listen. The album was recorded in November 2016 in the legendary Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, also the recording site for artists like ABBA, Scorpions, Elvis Costello and Esbjörn Svensson.

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Norah Jones – Feels Like Home (2004/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 15, 2023 · Comments off

Feels Like Home is the sophomore follow-up to Norah Jones’ chart-topping, multi-Platinum, GRAMMY Award-winning debut, Come Away with Me. Producer Arif Mardin and Norah Jones followed the same formula producing a renowned counter-part to her breakthrough album. Feels Like Home features guest collaborators, Garth Hudson, Dolly Parton and Levon Helm. Led by the intimate hit single, “Sunrise” the album topped the Billboard charts. This effortless blend of jazz, soul and country music is supported by Jones’ enthralling vocals and inspired piano playing.

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Natalie Cole – Inseparable (1975/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 13, 2023 · Comments off

Inseparable is the debut studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on May 11, 1975, by Capitol Records. The album became her first gold-certified album and spawned the number-one R&B hits “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “Inseparable”. The hit album and its singles earned Cole two Grammy Awards for “Best New Artist” and “Best Female R&B Vocal Performance”.

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Narada Michael Walden – IMMORTALITY (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 13, 2023 · Comments off

Multi-platinum Grammy and Emmy winning hitmaker Narada Michael Walden, who has produced multi-million-selling smashes for superstars Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and many others, releases his new, dynamic solo album ‘Immortality’, a progressive music masterpiece that recalls his early days as the drummer for the groundbreaking jazz-rock fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Michel Legrand – Legrand “Live” Jazz (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 5, 2023 · Comments off

Michel Legran feat. Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Herbie Mann, Jimmy Cleveland.

Michel Legrand is a three times Academy Award-winning French composer, conductor and pianist who composed over 200 film and television scores as well as recorded over a hundred albums of jazz, popular and classical music. Legrand collaborated with legendary Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, Phil Woods, Ray Charles, Claude Nougaro, Perry Como, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Jessye Norman, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Bassey, Nana Mouskouri etc.

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Marisha Wallace – TOMORROW (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

Inspired by the likes of the late, great Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald, Marisha Wallace’s voice will pull you from your seat to your feet. Marisha infuses jazz, gospel and R&B styles with a healthy dose of soul music that will leave you feeling inspired and uplifted.

The record, packed full of uplifting covers as well as four brand new, original tracks is released in hopes of helping the world move forward from such a negative time – there are moments in the album intended to comfort & to cry to but also so many tracks to feel uplifted and inspired by as the world bands together, looking for a better ‘tomorrow’.

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