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Biréli Lagrène – Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:14 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dreyfus Jazz
Louis Gasté et Line Renaud avaient une profonde admiration pour Django Reinhardt dont on célèbre les 70 ans de la disparition cette année. Guitariste de renommée internationale, Biréli Lagrène aborde le répertoire de l’auteur-compositeur français Louis Gasté avec une aisance folle, comme si toute cette musique avait été composée pour lui. Le guitariste virtuose et le célèbre auteur-compositeur ont en point commun une passion pour Django Reinhardt. Ce disque est l’occasion de revisiter en mode jazz manouche des classiques tels que Ma cabane au Canada, Rose de mai ou le mondialement célèbre Feelings (repris par Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nina, Simone, Shirley Bassey, The Offspring…).
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The Jazzcats – Come Fly with Me (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:58 minutes | 372 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jotun Records
THE JAZZCATS take you back to the time when the Savoy Ballroom was at its peak with dance, laughter, and people toasting into the wee hours. Some of Sweden’s foremost young jazz musicians have come together in one band to carry on the tradition of jazz.
The Jazzcats sounds like a big band but in a smaller and more intimate format with a unique ”horn section,” consisting of trombone, clarinet, and violin. The repertoire includes instrumental jazz from the golden era of swing and contains songs written by composers such as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, and Count Basie as well as vocal hits made famous by Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. The upcoming album is a lovely mix of old musical songs, lindy hop hits and famous big band songs, which will instantly put you in a good mood!
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Teddi King – Now in Vogue 1955 (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Teddi King (September 18, 1929 – November 18, 1977) was an American jazz and pop vocalist. Born Theodora King in Boston, Massachusetts on September 18, 1929, she won a singing competition hosted by Dinah Shore at Boston’s Tributary Theatre, later beginning work in a touring revue involved with “cheering up the military in the lull between the Second World War and the Korean conflict.” Improving her vocal and piano technique during this time, she first recorded with Nat Pierce in 1949, later recording with the Beryl Booker trio and with several other small groups from 1954-1955 (recordings which were available on three albums for Storyville). She then toured with George Shearing for two years beginning in the summer of 1952, and for a time was managed by the famed George Wein. King later began performing for a time in Las Vegas.
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Tony Bennett – MTV Unplugged (1994) [Reissue 1999]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:10 minutes | Scans included | 1,96 GB
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This CD won Grammy Awards in 1995 for Album of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. Recorded live with Tony Bennett’s long-standing accompanists Ralph Sharon on piano, Doug Richeson on bass, and Clayton Cameron on drums, the set includes more than 20 songs, many of them standards Bennett has sung for years, such as “Old Devil Moon”, “I Wanna Be Around”, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, “All of You”, and “Body and Soul”. Guest artists k.d. lang and Elvis Costello appear on, respectively, “Moonglow” and “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”. It’s a joyful romp for Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.
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Tony Bennett – The Movie Song Album (1966/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:30 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his “all time favorite record”.
Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, “Samba de Orfeu” and “The Gentle Rain”. The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song.
Bennett’s recording of “The Shadow of Your Smile” won Mandel and Paul Francis Webster the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966, and Bennett performed the song at the 38th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
By the mid-1960s, retreating from the rock & roll onslaught, that old-time staple of the pre-rock days, the big romantic ballad, had been relegated to Hollywood, where it turned up in the opening and closing credits of movies. Like other classic pop singers, Tony Bennett had sought it out there, and with this album, coincident with his first (and last) acting role in The Oscar, he devoted himself exclusively to movie themes, everything from “The Trolley Song” (Meet Me In St. Louis) to “Days Of Wine And Roses.” Some of the tunes were not first-rate, but in “The Shadow Of Your Smile” and “The Second Time Around” (previously recorded by Frank Sinatra), Bennett found material worthy of him, and even when he was faced with minor material, be sang movingly. –William Ruhlmann
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Tony Bennett – His Greatest Hits Of The ’50s (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:07 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.
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Tom Waits – Closing Time (Remastered) (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
The 1973 album that introduced a young singer-songwriter to the world at large is a far cry from the wonderfully twisted sonic landscape that would define “Swordfishtrombones” a decade later. The Waits of “Closing Time” was a barroom balladeer too, but one who fit neatly into the early-’70s folk-rock, singer-songwriter paradigm (“Closing Time’s opener “Ol’ ’55,” in fact, was covered by the Eagles on their first album). The arrangements here are straightforward, piano-based affairs that present the songs with a minimum of fuss.
Waits’s voice isn’t the deep, gravelly instrument that would bellow its way through RAIN DOGS, but a smoky, measured one, devoid of artifice. Accordingly, the song structures are simpler, and the best (“Martha,” “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”) attain a timeless feel. For all his relative conventionality on this debut, though, Waits is still closer in spirit to the great American songwriters of the ’40s than any ’70s California rocker. Listeners looking for the eccentric, carnivalesque atmosphere that typifies Waits’s work from the ’80s and ’90s will be surprised by the relative straightforwardness of “Closing Time”, yet the album announces an important talent.
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Tom Waits – Closing Time (Remastered) (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
The 1973 album that introduced a young singer-songwriter to the world at large is a far cry from the wonderfully twisted sonic landscape that would define “Swordfishtrombones” a decade later. The Waits of “Closing Time” was a barroom balladeer too, but one who fit neatly into the early-’70s folk-rock, singer-songwriter paradigm (“Closing Time’s opener “Ol’ ’55,” in fact, was covered by the Eagles on their first album). The arrangements here are straightforward, piano-based affairs that present the songs with a minimum of fuss.
Waits’s voice isn’t the deep, gravelly instrument that would bellow its way through RAIN DOGS, but a smoky, measured one, devoid of artifice. Accordingly, the song structures are simpler, and the best (“Martha,” “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”) attain a timeless feel. For all his relative conventionality on this debut, though, Waits is still closer in spirit to the great American songwriters of the ’40s than any ’70s California rocker. Listeners looking for the eccentric, carnivalesque atmosphere that typifies Waits’s work from the ’80s and ’90s will be surprised by the relative straightforwardness of “Closing Time”, yet the album announces an important talent.
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The Pied Pipers – It’s Only A Paper Moon (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:25 minutes | 511 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta
The Pied Pipers is an American popular singing group originally formed in the late 1930s. They had several chart hits through the 1940s, both under their own name and in association with Tommy Dorsey and with Frank Sinatra.
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Spandau Ballet – True (1983) [Remastered Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 35:56 minutes | Scans included | 1,45 GB
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Spandau Ballet is an English band formed in London in the late 1970s. Initially inspired by, and an integral part of, the New Romantic movement, they were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, achieving ten Top Ten singles and four Top Ten albums in the UK between 1980 and 1990.
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Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin’ (2008) [APO Remaster 2012]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:19 minutes | Scans included | 1,7 GB
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Shelby Lynne has followed her own sometimes reckless, always adventuresome muse throughout her career. Just a Little Lovin’ is her personal homage to the late, legendary Dusty Springfield. Nine of its ten cuts are inextricably linked to the late British vocalist whose sway Lynne came under years ago, but a chance conversation with Barry Manilow — of all people — led to the making of this record. Lynne doesn’t attempt to sound like Springfield. She uses her own phrasing and rhythmic sensibility.
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U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:11 minutes | 260 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
This follows up the release of “Lemon” as a remastered single on July 21, 2023. That single featured four mixes of the title track, including the “Morales BYC Version Dub” (06:35), and the “Bad Yard Club Mix” (10:14). The “Bad Yard Club Edit” on the “Stay” EP is an edited of the longer mix found on the “Lemon” single.
The cover being used for the “Stay” EP is the alternate cover used for the second CD release in territories where two versions of the single were issued on CD. The singles have never been released with this cover art in North America.
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Seth MacFarlane – In Full Swing (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Republic – Verve – Fuzzy
Grammy-nominated artist Seth MacFarlane’s love affair with standards continues with his fourth album, In Full Swing, set for release on September 15 on Verve Label Group / Republic Records.
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