Harry James

Harry James – Off The Record (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:13 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Potions Music NYC

Chicago drummer and pianist Harry James Brenner Jr, returns to the Tascam 4 Track with an aggressive third LP, “Off The Record”. Staying in his intimate and sentimental bag, Off The Record continues to provide warm and welcoming environments that perpetuate ghostly memories and familiar sounding strangers gliding through time and space.

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Harry James & His Music Makers – Flash Harry (1965/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:14 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

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Harry James & His Music Makers – King Porter Stomp (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 745 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

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Harry James – Big John Special (1982/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:39 minutes | 740 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records

HEP Records presents a collection of works from Harry James and his band entitled Big John Special!

HEP Records was founded in 1974 by its present owner Alastair Robertson, whose aim was to issue albums of well known jazz musicians and bands of the mid 1940’s drawn from radio acetates and transcriptions.

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Harry James – Harried (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:42 minutes | 594 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Potions Music NYC

Just a year after the release of his solo debut, Harry James Brenner Jr. is back with his sophomore effort, Harried. Blending elements of jazz, hip-hop, ambient, and R&B, Brenner’s latest work is a natural progression of the style and themes established on 2021’s Buy the Numbers, adding fresh dimension to his sound while affirming his steadfast personal vision.

Harried bears the same core approach as its predecessor — succinct, self-recorded themes built on overlaid lines and intricate rhythms — but its 14 tracks reflect a marked evolution in Brenner’s craft and methods. Notably, the album finds his role shifting from sole performer to arranger and collaborator: where Buy the Numbers saw Brenner handle all instrumentation

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Harry James – All or Nothing (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:11 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta Music

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

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Harry James & His Big Band – The Harry James Sessions 1976 & 1979 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:34:00 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Sheffield Lab

Sheffield Lab Recordings is pleased to present the reissue of a historic recording: The Harry James Sessions. Consisting of three albums originally recorded direct-to-disc by Sheffield in 1976 and 1979, and now spectacularly re-mastered by Seth Winner from analog disc originals, this program of music from the height of the swing era is a vital representation of one of the great big bands of the 20th century. To hear this music recorded by Sheffield from the perspective of a single stereo microphone, is to hear this magnificent band as dancers heard it in front of the bandstand, with the impact and energy that we don’t associate with historic recordings of another era. Pretty thrilling stuff! This amazing 2 disc set includes ALL the music from the Original LP albums: THE KING JAMES VERSION, COMIN’ FROM A GOOD PLACE and STILL HARRY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. (more…)