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The Miles Davis Quintet – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Mono Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Prestige Records, the selection presents the quintet’s marathon sessions for the iconic jazz label, recorded between 1955–56, which resulted in classic albums such as Cookin’, Relaxin’, Workin’, and Steamin’.

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The Down Beat Poll Winners in Europe – Open Space (1969/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 31, 2023 · Comments off

Jazz giants from six European countries coalesce to play wide-open music. One of Norway’s greatest jazz singers, Karin Krog has worked and recorded with Jan Garbarek and Clare Fischer. English multi-saxophonist John Surman and Krog have jointly won two Norwegian Grammys. Surman has played with Mike Westbrook’s Orchestra and John McLaughlin, as well as recorded a slew of records on the prestigious ECM label. Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff was simply Germany’s most valuable jazz export and a major innovator on the instrument. Belgium pianist Francy Boland arranged for Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie, and co-led one of the great big bands of the 60’s. Danish bassist Niels H. O. Pederson received an American Grammy with the Oscar Peterson trio, played with Dexter Gordon and toured with Bill Evans. Swiss drummer Daniel Humair made his name in Paris, playing with musicians ranging from Jim Hall to Anthony Braxton. Maiden Voyage features Krog and the two horns; on Triple Play the pianist and bass take the solos. Rainy Day has Krog and Pederson in duo. Winter Song features Mangelsdorff’s buttery sound melting the snow and Surman’s heated baritone sax solo. There’s a freewheeling Nature Boy and a quirky Hello Thursday. Open Space leaves lots of room for free play; Ryoan-Ji is a Zen-like meditation on the possibilities of sound. A tantalizing album signifying that great jazz is universal.

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Tete Montoliu Trio – Catalonian Rhapsody (1992) [Japan 2017] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · October 31, 2023 · Comments off

This wonderful studio date by the talented Catalonian blind pianist Tete Montoliu was recorded in his native Barcelona in March of 1992, but until now it had been only available on a long out of print CD issued in Japan by the Alfa Jazz label shortly after being recorded. The renowned VENUS label presents it back again for everyone to enjoy. Tete is backed by New Orleans drummer Idris Muhammad, and Netherlands born bassist Hein Van de Geyn, and the program features a selection of Catalan traditional songs, plus two versions of songs by the remarkable Joan Manuel Serrat (“Words of Love”, which Tete recorded on several other occasions, and the more seldom heard “My Street”), and one Montoliu original, “I Don’t Smoke Anymore”.

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Miles Davis – Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 (1973/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 31, 2023 · Comments off

The album features the famed sextet that recorded Kind of Blue six months later. The concert was recorded in 1958 but not released in full until 1973. The last three songs would reappear (in reverse order) in 1974, on 1958 Miles, but on Jazz at the Plaza all the tracks are of much better sound quality. The musicians did not know they were being recorded at the time. The event was a party thrown by Columbia to celebrate the healthy state of their jazz division. Indeed, it was not meant to be a record session: “it was a party. We taped it because we wanted to remember it, in case it never happened again.” Pianist Bill Evans later stated the musicians who were still alive at the time of release were offered payment at the 1958 scale.

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Michel Legrand & Miles Davis – Legrand Jazz & Ascenseur Pour L`Echafaud (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 31, 2023 · Comments off

Michel Legrand & Miles Davis – Legrand Jazz & Ascenseur Pour L`Echafaud (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:48 minutes | 704 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This 2009 CD contains French composer and pianist Michel Legrand ‘s album Legrand Jazz (1958) in it’s entirety, featuring his first recorded collaboration with Miles Davis. As a bonus, the trumpeter’s complete original suite for the soundtrack to the French film Ascenseur pour l´échafaud has been added. Other collaborators include John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Herbie Mann, Hank Jones and Paul Chambers. 21 tracks. Essential Jazz Classics.

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The Dave Pike Set – Noisy Silence – Gentle Noise (1969/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 27, 2023 · Comments off

American vibraphonist Dave Pike gained fame from his work throughout the 60’s with popular jazz flutist Herbie Mann, recording 11 albums with Mann’s groups, also recorded with legendary pianists Bill Evans and Paul Bley. On moving to Europe, the Dave Pike Set became an instant success through the combination of Pike’s vibes play and German Volker Kriegel’s electric, acoustic, guitar and sitar play. Kriegel’s compositions helped create the quartet’s unique sound, encompassing jazz, funk, psychedelia, avant-garde, and ethno.

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Teddy Wilson Trio – Revisiting The Goodman Years (1982/2017) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · October 26, 2023 · Comments off

Teddy Wilson bears the proud title of jazz musician pure and simple and that is why the music in this record is of such high standard. By the time he joined Benny Goodman (at age 23 in 1935) Wilson had mastered aesthetic perfection and has allowed pure music to speak for him ever since.

“‘whatever elegance means, Teddy Wilson is it!” these words by Benny Goodman and the Jazz text books that have typecast his individuality with words like ‘urbane’ ‘polished’, ‘poised’ or ‘impeccable’ designate his royal place in the hierarchy of great jazz pianists. Teddy Wilson’s originality has surmounted every trend, both as soloist and as a catalyst for all the greatest musicians of this era. Wilson is elegant, he is never bland. His subtlety never neglects intensity. And his sense of poise never interferes with his sound of surprise. Teddy Wilson – like very few others in jazz – is most of all, a pure musician.

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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Bach Mirror (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 22, 2023 · Comments off

On the album “Bach Mirror” the French pianist Thomas Enhco and marimba player Vassilena Serafimova give well-known and less well-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach an innovative sound. Pieces such as the Prelude No. 2 from the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Air from the orchestral suite No. 3 sound new and fresh in the unusual instrumentation of piano and marimba. With their sound painting arrangements, Thomas Enhco and Vassilena Serafimova expose Bach’s harmonic-melodic work structures and enable the audience to gain new perspectives on the architecture of his unique compositions.

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Thomas Clausen – Back2Basics (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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

This recording was made during the pandemic period, when Copenhagen Radio Jazz and the Ben Webster Foundation opened MillFactory Studios for a series of small concerts – without a live audience, but with unbridled enthusiasm. “We recorded on the large Steinway D, which has enormously long bass strings and so much fullness in the high register that you don’t have to play many notes. You can feel every sound. The music was recorded as if it were a real concert, with the songs in the order I planned and the order in which they are presented on the album

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Tony Coe & John Horler – Dancing in the Dark (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 14, 2023 · Comments off

Piano and clarinet duo albums are few and far between within the jazz canon. In the case of Dancing in the Dark, versatile horn player Tony Coe chose to stick to the clarinet as his saxophone case was too heavy, or so that’s how pianist John Horler recounts it. Our performance in question takes place at St Michael’s Church, Appleby in 2007 as part of the annual Appleby Jazz Festival. The setting is warm and intimate as is the church acoustic, a perfect backdrop for the varied repertoire of standards and original compositions performed. Coe and Horler dance their way through Bill Evans’ ‘Person I Knew’ and Cole Porter’s ‘Night and Day’ as well as Horler’s own ‘Piece for Poppy’, dedicated to his partner Wendy, and Coe’s contrafact to “Autumn Leaves”, titled ‘Some Other Autumn’. Both players push and pull the well-known melodies to suit the moment yet maintain complete synergy with one another, with Horler’s Bill Tatum-esque chord voicings and meandering lyrical interludes giving platform to Coe’s resounding, cadenza-like improvisations.

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Tom van der Geld – Out Patients (1980/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 9, 2023 · Comments off

Vibraphonist-composer Tom van der Geld’s ECM initiation came by way of the JAPO sister label when, in 1976, the self-titled Children At Play introduced listeners to an album of uncompromising originality. Recorded in 1973, the same year of van der Geld’s permanent relocation to Germany (where the band’s reedman, Roger Jannotta, and drummer, Bill Elgart, would also find new homes), it’s a formative release not only for being Children At Play’s first, but also for sharing its uniquely sunlit sound with the world at large. Tropical and sweet, the album is a sparkling endeavor that favors the lived reality of jazz over its descriptive pitfalls. Patience (1978) was van der Geld’s first dip into ECM proper and stands out for its bright geography. This time, however, the tectonic plates shift more abstractly below with the heat of friction. The freedom of this sophomore effort offers plenty of room for the listener to find a story. On its heels came Path (1979), the phenomenal trio album with Jannotta and guitarist Bill Connors. Hewn in pastels rather than oils, it’s a decidedly softer and sometimes-haunting affair.

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Tom Harrell – Infinity (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 9, 2023 · Comments off

Tom Harrell is a master at making his trumpet sound pure, clear and graceful in a manner like no one else. When he plays, he projects an intense feeling of well-being and engages in inspired and lively improvisations. On his latest record, Harrell has invited Mark Turner on the saxophone (another incredible sound), Charles Altura on electric and acoustic guitar, Ben Street on bass, and Johnathan Blake on drums. Along with this wonderful band, the trumpet player reminds us that he is not only one of the most touching soloists of his generation, but also a famous composer and a precise band leader, collaborative and always listening to his companions. At 72 years old, Harrell teaches us a lesson in jazz perfection. The harmonic and melodic whole he creates on the record should not come as a surprise for anyone aware of Harrell’s background. Band member with Woody Herman, Horace Silver and Phil Woods, sidemen with George Russell, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Haden, Tom Harrell has recorded more than thirty albums since the end of the 1970’s. – Max Dembo

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Tobias Lindstad Collective – Kismet (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 6, 2023 · Comments off

Tobias Lindstad Collective - Kismet (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

There seem to be few subjects that do not interest my friend Tobias Lindstad. He is well-versed in literature, art, and philosophy, he throws himself into debates with an open mind and has kept his fascination for the mysteries of the universe. Above all, he displays a nearly all-encompassing appetite for good music in the most diverse genres. He never stops finding inspiration in classical and modern chamber music, in cool jazz and free-form improvisation, in avantgarde rock, in folk music, and in subtle pop melodies; really, he finds inspiration in all kinds of beautiful, strange, challenging and/or alluring music. However, his curious and open attitude as a listener does not lead to musical restlessness or lack of focus in his own compositional process, but rather to exploration and immersion. He holds on to his chosen musical ideas as if they were ships on a long sea voyage, always wondering where they will lead him next, and which new musical worlds he will discover along the way. And since patience is just as important a part of his personality as curiosity, Tobias Lindstad’s musical voyages of discovery usually continue for a very long time, nearly 30 years in some instances. This record is the culmination – so far – of this process of exploration.
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Triosence – Giulia (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 6, 2023 · Comments off

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The new faces of German Jazz: This is how the German magazine stern referred to triosence, the trio formed in 1999 by Bernhard Schüler (piano), Omar Rodriguez Calvo (bass) and Tobias Schulte (drums).

Since their debut album, “First Enchantment”, released in 2002, triosence has been praised by the music press all around the world. The trio has been acclaimed as one of the most successful jazz imports and as “the piano trio that changed our impression of the ‘stiff German jazz’.” ¹

triosence has performed all over the world, with tours in Germany, the United States, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, France, Spain, Norway, The Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, Romania, Albania and many more.
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Sylvie Courvoisier – Searching for the Disappeared Hour (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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

Even though they’re often neighbors in the rhythm section, piano and guitar are not typically a good fit for jazz duets. Some of that has to do with the difference between an electrically amplified instrument and a percussive acoustic one, and some with the fact that the close voicings pianists favor are difficult on guitar, while the open voicings guitarists love don’t easily translate to piano.

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