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Artist: Gerald Wilson Big Band
Album: Gerald Wilson: Deep Dive!
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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01. Viva Tirado (Remastered 2000)
02. Blues For Yna Yna (Remastered 2000)
03. Jeri (Remastered 2000)
04. Moody Blue (Remastered 2000)
05. Straight Up And Down (Remastered 2000)
06. The Wailer (Remastered 2000)
07. You Better Believe It (Remastered 2000)
08. Yvette (Remastered 2000)
09. Moment Of Truth (Remastered 2000)
10. Patterns (Remastered 2000)
11. Teri (Remastered 2000)
12. Nancy Jo (Remastered 2000)
13. Milestones (Remastered 2000)
14. Latino (Remastered 2000)
15. Josefina (Remastered 2000)
16. Emerge (Remastered 2000)
17. So What (Remastered 2000)
18. Caprichos (Remastered 2000)
19. Paco (Remastered 2000)
20. Aram (Remastered 2000)
21. 'Round Midnight (Remastered 2000)
22. Eric (Remastered 2000)
23. Ricardo (Remastered 2000)
24. Musette (Remastered 2000)
25. Lighthouse Blues (Remastered 2000)
26. El Viti (Remastered 2000)
27. Perdido (Remastered 2000)
28. Freddie Freeloader (Remastered 2000)
29. I Concentrate On You (Remastered 2000)
30. The Golden Sword (Remastered 2000)
31. Carlos (Remastered 2000)
32. Chanson Du Feu Follet (Song Of The Mad Fire) (Remastered 2000)
33. The Feather (From "Teatihuacan Suite") (Remastered 2000)
34. The Serpent (From "Teatihuacan Suite") (Remastered 2000)
35. Paper Man (Live At Maty's On The Hill, Los Angeles, CA / 1967 / Remastered 2000)
36. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Live At Maty's On The Hill, Los Angeles, CA / 1967 / Remastered 2000)
37. The It's Where It's At (Live At Maty's On The Hill, Los Angeles, CA / 1967 / Remastered 2000)
38. Misty (Live At Maty's On The Hill, Los Angeles, CA / 1967 / Remastered 2000)
39. Everywhere (Remastered 2000)
40. Out Of This World (Remastered 2000)
41. Pretty Polly (Remastered 2000)
42. Do I Love You (Remastered 2000)
43. Del Olivar (Remastered 2000)
44. Mini Waltz (Remastered 2000)
45. Down Here On The Ground (Remastered 2000)
46. Equinox (Remastered 2000)
47. Pisces (Remastered 2000)
48. Scorpio Rising (Remastered 2000)
49. You, Me And Now (Remastered 2000)
50. Bluesnee (Remastered 2000)
51. Viva Tirado (Live At Maty's On The Hill, Los Angeles, CA / 1967 / Remastered 2000)

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Kitty Kallen - Here, Kitty, Kitty...This Is Kitty Kallen! [Remastered] (2021) Vocal Jazz
USA
01:12:53
MP3- 320 kbps
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01. But Beautiful! 02:57
02. Star Eyes 02:26
03. It's Been A Long, Long Time 03:26
04. Little Things Mean A Lot 03:01
05. It Could Happen To You 03:00
06. I'm Beginning To See the Light 03:16
07. If Someone Had Told Me 02:53
08. Let Me Love You 02:58
09. When They Ask About You 03:04
10 - In The Chapel In The Moonlight 02:55
11. Just Between Friends 02:41
12. I'm Old Fashioned 03:09
13. I'll Walk Alone 02:45
14. Misty 02:45
15. It Amazes Me 04:04
16. My Coloring Book 03:22
17. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old 03:06
18. I'll Buy That Dream 03:24
19. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) 02:58
20. I'd Never Forgive Myself 02:41
21. Besame Mucho 03:02
22. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 03:35
23. Because You're Mine 02:39
24. If I Give My Heart To You 02:46

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Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Jorge Rossy - Uma Elmo (2021)
Contemporary Jazz
ECM Records
Denmark
01:01:46
MP3- 320 kbps
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01. Reconstructing A Dream 09:17
02. To Stanko 04:33
03. Beautiful Day 05:03
04. Morning Song 06:55
05. Housework 11:05
06. Music For Black Pigeons 07:54
07. Sound Flower 05:55
08. Slaraffenland 03:52
09. Morning Song (Var.) 07:07

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Artist: Dusty Springfield
Title: Simply... Dusty
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Mercury UK
Genre: Jazz-Pop
Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,log,m3u,scans)
Total Time: 79:07 + 75:23 + 78:50 + 79:02
Total Size: 1.90 GB



As part of a Universal Earbook series that was launched in 2006, Dusty Springfield's 2000 box set Simply Dusty was reissued in a new format. It still contained the four CDs and 98 tracks of the original set, but this time it was packaged within a nearly LP-sized hardback coffee table book. If you have the original box, it's certainly an indulgence, as you're basically paying quite a bit (about $100) for larger-sized artwork and more durable, handsome packaging; even if you don't have the original box, it's a bit of an indulgence, considering how high the price is. Viewed simply for its music and visual appeal, however, it's quite good (and one of the better of the first batch of titles in the Earbook line), the many photos and illustrations of record sleeves benefiting from having been blown-up to a much larger size. The music is for the most part quite good as well, containing all the familiar hits and many high-quality LP tracks, B-sides, and unissued-at-the-time items that -- though they're mostly available elsewhere (a 1966 BBC cover of the folk standard "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" being a notable exception) -- are quite satisfying and not all that easy to track down in other formats. "For the most part" is a crucial qualifier here: the decline in the quality of the material is sharp in the last half of the set, becoming especially precipitous on disc four, though that CD does include her 1987 comeback hit with the Pet Shop Boys, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" To be harsh, if the set's intention was to be a survey of Springfield's most significant work, you could cut most of disc four out with barely any loss at all, its primary purpose being to make the anthology a career-spanning one rather than a selective best-of. Still, for the serious Dusty fan, this makes for a nice display on the mantle piece (in addition to containing much classic music), with detailed track-by-track notes included in the book.

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CD1
1. Blossom Dearie
2. Ragtime Selection (I Love A Piano - Pretty Baby - When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama)
3. (Seven Little Girls) Sitting on the Back Seat
4. Far Away Places
5. Island of Dreams
6. Say I Won't be There
7. No Sad Songs For Me
8. I Only Want To Be With You
9. Once Upon a Time
10. Stay Awhile
11. Will You Love me Tomorrow?
12. Wishin' And Hopin'
13. I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself
14. All Cried Out
15. Losing You
16. Summer is Over
17. I Will Always Want You
18. Your Hurtin' Kinda Love
19. I Wanna Make You Happy
20. In The Middle of Nowhere
21. Baby Don't You Know
22. Some of Your Lovin'
23. Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)?
24. Doodlin'
25. I've Been Wrong Before
26. Little by Little
27. If it Hadn't Been For You
28. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
29. Every Ounce of Strength

CD2
1. Goin' Back
2. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
3. All I See Is You
4. Go Ahead On
5. I'll Try Anything
6. Give Me Time
7. The Look Of Love
8. What's It Gonna Be?
9. Chained To A Memory
10. Welcome Home
11. Broken Blossoms
12. If You Go Away
13. Where Am I Going?
14. It's Over
15. Magic Garden
16. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
17. I Will Come To You
18. Sweet Lover No More
19. Another Night
20. I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You
21. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
22. Son Of A Preacher Man
23. The Windmills Of Your Mind
24. No Easy Way Down
25. Am I The Same Girl

CD3
1. Let Me Get In Your Way
2. A Brand New Me
3. The Star Of My Show
4. Someone Who Cares
5. Live Here With You
6. Make It With You
7. You've Got A Friend
8. Morning Please Don't Come
9. How Can I Be Sure
10. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
11. Mixed Up Girl
12. Crumbs Off The Table
13. Yesterday When I Was Young
14. See All Her Faces
15. Easy Evil
16. Of All The Things
17. Learn To Say Goodbye
18. Sea And Sky
19. In The Winter
20. Home To Myself
21. Exclusively For Me
22. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love
23. Turn Me Around
24. Love Me By Name
25. Hollywood Movie Girls

CD4
1. That's The Kind of Love I Got For You
2. Closet Man
3. I Just Fall in Love Again
4. I Wish That Love Would Last
5. (But It's a) Nice Dream
6. I Don't Think we Could Ever be Friends
7. Blind Sheep
8. Losing You
9. You'll be Loving Me
10. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
11. Nothing Has Been Proved
12. In Private
13. Daydreaming
14. Something in Your Eyes
15. Go Easy on Me
16. I Can't Help The Way I Don't Feel
17. Wherever Would I Be?
18. Quiet Please There's a Lady on Stage (live)
19. Someone to Watch Over Me

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Artist: Frank Sinatra
Album: Japan TV 1962 - 1991 (live)
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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01. Too Marvellous For Words (live)
02. Imagination (live)
03. Moonlight In Vermont (live)
04. Day In Day Out (live)
05. Without A Song (live)
06. The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young) (live)
07. I've Got You Under My Skin (live)
08. I Get A Kick Out Of You (live)
09. At Long Last Love (live)
10. My Funny Valentine (live)
11. In The Still Of The Night (live)
12. Embraceable You (live)
13. Night and Day (live)
14. April In Paris (live)
15. The Lady Is A Tramp (live)
16. Monologue (live)
17. All The Way (live)
18. Chicago (live)
19. I Could Have Danced All Night (live)
20. New York, New York (live)
21. Come Fly With Me (live)

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Artist: John Coltrane
Album: Simply ... Coltrane!
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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CD 1
01. Pristine
02. Tippin'
03. El toro valiante
04. Midriff
05. Ain't life grand?
06. The outer world
07. Late Date
08. Aisha
09. Dahomey Dance
10. Olé

CD 2
01. Afro Blue
02. Blue Train
03. Greensleeves
04. In a sentimental mood
05. Body and soul
06. Mexican Hyride: I love you
07. Cinderella: Do I love you?
08. Love me tonight: Lover
09. Mississippi: It's easy to remember
10. Face the music: Soft light and sweet music
11. Belle of Yukon: Like someone in love
12. The Merry Widow: Vilja

CD 3
01. Keep 'em flying: You don't know what love Is
02. Nancy
03. Trane's Slow Blues
04. Soul Eyes
05. Mating call
06. Out of nowhere (Number one) [Live]
07. Improvisation (Live)
08. Woody and you (Live)
09. What's new & Autumn in New York (Live)
10. Rifftide (Live)
11. Out of nowhere (Number two) [Live]
12. Seven lively arts: Ev'ry time we say goodbye (Live)

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George Adams & Don Pullen Quartet - Live at Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (1983)
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The second album taken from a strong performance by the George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet, this set features three compositions by pianist Pullen (including his catchy "Big Alice") and tenorman Adams' "City Gates." The music swings in its own way while being quite unpredictable, intense and sometimes avant-garde. There is nothing sleepy or routine about the chance-taking (and frequently exciting) music.

Recorded August 19, 1983 at the Village Vanguard, New York City.-

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01 - Saturday Night In The Cosmos
02 - City Gates
03 - The Great Escape
04 - Big Alice

*1986 Soul Note | 121144-2


Personnel
Don Pullen – piano
George Adams – tenor saxophone, flute
Cameron Brown – double bass
Dannie Richmond – drums

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George Adams & Don Pullen Quartet - Live at Village Vanguard (1983)
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Recorded in August 1983, hard on the heels of the Timeless album City Gates, Live at the Village Vanguard finds four extraordinary musicians at the peak of their careers. George Adams (only featured on tenor saxophone here, though his flute playing and singing were essential elements of his live performance) is in superb form throughout, from the hard-swinging bop of "Intentions" to the sensuous balladry of "Solitude," and his pianist and long-term playing partner, Don Pullen (the two men formed the nucleus of Charles Mingus' great 1970s quintet, heard at its best on the two classic Changes albums), provides ample evidence of the prodigious technique that allowed him to move effortlessly from crisp bop stylings to free-form freakout without skipping a beat.

And, talking of skipping a beat, was there a finer rhythm section working in the 1980s than bassist Cameron Brown and ex-Mingus mainstay Dannie Richmond on drums? True, the Vanguard piano needs a bit of tuning work, and the recording of Richmond's snares and toms may be a little too close and boxy, but as a document of how one of the great working units of modern jazz sounded live in one of the music's mythical venues, Live at the Village Vanguard needs some beating.

Recorded August 19, 1983 at the Village Vanguard, New York City.-

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01 - The Necessary Blues
02 - Solitude
03 - Intensions
04 - Diane

*1985 Soul Note | 121094-2


Personnel
Don Pullen – piano
George Adams – tenor saxophone
Cameron Brown – double bass
Dannie Richmond – drums

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Grant Green - The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark (1961-1962) [2CD]
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THE COMPLETE QUARTETS WITH SONNY CLARK includes the albums NIGERIA, GOODEN'S CORNER and OLEO as well as 3 additional tracks. This two-disc set gathers together the cuts for three Blue Note sessions teaming Grant Green with Sonny Clark. The first, NIGERIA, was originally release posthumously in 1980 and features Green's only collaboration with drummer Art Blakey. GOODEN'S CORNER and OLEO were both only released in Japan in 1979 and 1980, respectively. The latter two sessions featured Louis Hayes on drums along with Sam Jones, the bassist for all three albums. Luckily these sessions have been carefully restored and release for all to hear. The focus of all three session is mainly on standards. In the hands of Green and Clark, however, these familiar tunes become something else entirely. The force of their strong musical personalities is so consuming that works like Gerswin's "It Ain't Necessarily So," here taken as a grungy shuffle, take on a whole new light. Likewise, the Kern-Hammerstein classic "The Song Is You" and Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love" are both as fresh and exciting as the day they were written. Disc two features Henry Mancini's "Moon River" reshaped into a delightful bounce and Green's shockingly unusual read of Sonny Rollins' "Oleo." Also found here are some Green originals including the dynamic "Hip Funk."

Mosaic released a four-disc box set titled The Complete Blue Note With Sonny Clark in 1991, rounding up everything that the guitarist and pianist recorded together between 1961 and 1962. Blue Note's 1997 version of the set, The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark, trims Mosaic's collection by two discs, offering only the quartet sessions (the Ike Quebec sessions, Born to Be Blue and Blue and Sentimental, are available on individual discs). In some ways, this actually results in a more unified set, since it puts Green and Clark directly in the spotlight, with no saxophone to complete for solos, but it doesn't really matter if the music is presented as this double-disc set, the four-disc box, or the individual albums – this is superb music, showcasing the guitarist and pianist at their very best. All of the sessions are straight-ahead bop but the music has a gentle, relaxed vibe that makes it warm, intimate, and accessible. Grant and Clark's mastery is subtle – the music is so enjoyable, you may not notice the deftness of their improvisation and technique – but that invests the music with the grace, style, and emotion that distinguishes The Complete Quartets. Small group hard bop rarely comes any better than this.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 23, 1961 and January 13 & 31, 1962. Includes liner notes by Ben Sidran, Michael Cuscuna and Bob Porter.-

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CD 1
01. Airegin
02. It Ain't Necessarily So
03. I Concentrate On You
04. The Things We Did Last Summer
05. The Song Is You
06. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
07. Airegin [alt. take]
08. On Green Dolphin Street
09. Shadrack
10. What Is This Thing Called Love

CD 2
01. Moon River
02. Gooden's Corner
03. Two For One
04. Oleo
05. Little Girl Blue
06. Tune Up
07. Hip Funk
08. My Favorite Things
09. Oleo [alt. take]

*1961-62, 1997 Blue Note / Capitol | CDP 7243 8 57194 2 4


Personnel:
Grant Green (guitar)
Sonny Clark (piano)
Sam Jones (bass)
Art Blakey; Louis Hayes (drums).

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Quality-Lossless
Release-1984-2000 Remaster
File Size- 293 MB
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: Flac


Album: Diamond Life
Artist: Sade

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01 Smooth Operator - Sade (5:01)
02 Your Love Is King - Sade (3:41)
03 Hang on to Your Love - Sade (5:55)
04 Frankie's First Affair - Sade (4:40)
05 When Am I Going to Make a Living - Sade (3:28)
06 Cherry Pie - Sade (6:21)
07 Sally - Sade (5:24)
08 I Will Be Your Friend - Sade (4:45)
09 Why Can't We Live Together? - Sade (5:28)

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Thelonious Monk - Paris 1969 (2013)
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A lost treasure from the legendary Thelonious Monk – a live date recorded in Paris at the end of the 60s – late in Monk's life, and every bit as wonderful as his famous 60s studio work with his quartet! Of that group, only Charlie Rouse remains on tenor sax – but Rouse is more than enough to make things great, and the interplay between his tenor and Monk's piano is completely sublime – full of angular movements, underscored with plenty of soul – and given support from Nate Hygelund on bass and either Paris Wright or Philly Joe Jones on drums. There's a rough edge to the music that's really great – that sharper, more sinister vibe that Monk could have in a live setting – and titles include "Light Blue", "Bright Mississippi", "I Mean You", "Ruby My Dear", "I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams", "Crepuscule With Nellie", and "Nutty".

Special package comes with a bonus DVD of the performance!

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01 - I Mean You
02 - Ruby My Dear
03 - Straight, No Chaser
04 - Bright Mississippi
05 - Light Blue
06 - Epistrophy
07 - Don't Blame Me
08 - I Love You Sweetheart Of All My Dreams
09 - Crepuscule With Nellie
10 - Bright Mississippi (Reprise)
11 - Nutty
12 - Blue Monk

*2013 Blue Note / Laser Swing Pro. | B001882000


Personnel:
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Nate Hygelund - bass
Paris Wright - drums
with special guest
Philly Joe Jones - drums

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Jackie McLean - Strange Blues (1957)
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The last of the Jackie McLean Prestige sessions, this LP has material from two different sets, but fortunately, the music is on a higher level than one might expect of "leftovers." "Strange Blues" is from a marathon quartet set that McLean had with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Arthur Phipps, and drummer Art Taylor, as is a rendition of "What's New" that is an alternate version to the one included on Makin' the Changes. In addition, "Disciples Love Affair" and "Millie's Pad" match McLean with the tuba of Ray Draper (who contributed both songs), trumpeter Webster Young, pianist John Meyers, bassist Bill Salter, and drummer Larry Ritchie, while the incomplete "Not So Strange Blues" is all McLean on an explosive blues with the rhythm section. A generally strong set chiefly recommended to Jackie McLean completists.

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01 - Strange Blues
02 - Millie's Pad
03 - What's New
04 - Disciples Love Affair
05 - Not So Strange Blues

*1957, 1989 Prestige/ Fantasy / OJC | OJCCD-354-2


Personnel:
Jackie McLean - alto saxophone
Webster Young - trumpet
Ray Draper - tuba
Gil Coggins, Jon Mayer, Mal Waldron - piano
Paul Chambers, Art Phipps, Bill Salter - bass
Louis Hayes, Art Taylor, Larry Ritchie - drums

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Elvin Jones & Masabumi Kikuchi - Hollow Out (1972)
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Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi joins drummer Elvin Jones in a really great trio date – one that draws extra power from the mighty bass of Gene Perla, whose soulful tones help push the music along strongly! The Jones/Perla combination is always great, but it seems to take on a whole new level of sensitivity in the presence of Kikuchi – showing more sense of space to allow Masabumi's piano some great placement in the date, yet without any of the "hollowed out" modes you might guess from the title. Perla can be bold one minute, very subtle the next – and his presence is always appreciated on the record, making us wish he'd recorded more with Kikuchi over the years. Titles include "Apple", "Ginkai", "Little Abi", "Bell", and "Hollow Out".

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01 - Apple
02 - Ginkai
03 - Little Abi
04 - Bell
05 - Hollow Out

*1972, 2015 Philips / Unversal Japan | UCCJ-9209 {2015 Japan We Remember Poo Complete Series}


Personnel:
Masabumi Kikuchi - piano
Gene Perla - bass
Elvin Jones - drums

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Quality-Lossless
Release-1985
File Size- 366 MB
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: Flac


Album: Promise
Artist: Sade

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01 Is It A Crime - Sade (6:23)
02 The Sweetest Taboo - Sade (4:39)
03 War Of The Heart - Sade (6:49)
04 You're Not The Man - Sade (5:12)
05 Jezebel - Sade (5:31)
06 Mr. Wrong - Sade (2:53)
07 Punch Drunk - Sade (5:27)
08 Never As Good As The First Time - Sade (5:02)
09 Fear - Sade (4:12)
10 Tar Baby - Sade (4:00)
11 Maureen - Sade (4:20)

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Elvin Jones - Mr. Jones (1972)
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A overlooked gem in Elvin Jones' Blue Note career – and an album that's virtually the blueprint for the Stone Alliance sound forged later in the decade by bassist Gene Perla and reedman Steve Grossman! Both players are working to full effect on this smoking little set – mixing some of the more spiritual modes of other group members with their own sharper-edged, funky-leaning styles – all held together perfectly by both Jones' tight work on drums, and his expansive musical vision! Other players are great too – and include Pepper Adams on baritone sax, David Liebman on flute and tenor, and Jan Hammer on acoustic piano – an instrument he handles with surprising subtlety and soul. Many cuts have a hard, choppy groove – and titles include a remake of "Gee Gee", plus "One's Native Place", "Mr Jones", and "What's Up – That's It".

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01 - One's Native Place
02 - GEE GEE
03 - Mr. Jones
04 - What's Up - That's It
05 - Soultrane
06 - New Breed

*1972, 2013 Blue Note | TOCJ-50551


Personnel:
Elvin Jones - drums
Dave Liebman - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Steve Grossman - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Jan Hammer - piano, electric piano
Gene Perla - bass, electric bass
Carlos "Patato" Valdes - congas
Frank Ippolito - percussion
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Thad Jones - flugelhorn
Albert Duffy - timpani

Performer = Various Artists

Year = 2014

Genre = Jazz/Jazz Funk

Format = Opus ~128

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Street Sounds Presents Jazz Funk Classics Vol. 1 (CD 1)

Brass Construction - Movin'
Deodato - Whistle bump
Donald Byrd - Love has come around
George Duke - Brazilian love affair
Herbie Hancock - I thought it was you
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions (& The Cosmic Echoes)
Ned Doheny - To prove my love
Rodney Franklin - The groove
Ronnie Laws - Always there (& Pressure)
Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)


Street Sounds Presents Jazz Funk Classics Vol. 1 (CD 2)

Al Di Meola - Roller Jubilee
Aquarian Dream - You're a star
Bob James - Westchester lady
Charles Earland - Let the music play
Earth, Wind & Fire - Runnin
Eddie Henderson - Prance on
Mass Production - Cosmic lust
MFSB - Mysteries of the world
Webster Lewis - El bobo
Wilbert Longmire - Black is the color


Street Sounds Presents Jazz Funk Classics Vol. 1 (CD 3)

Bobbi Humphrey - Harlem River drive
Chico Hamilton - Strut
George Benson - Breezin' (& Al Jarreau)
Grover Washington Jr. - Mister magic
Kleer - Open your mind
Maze - Before I let go (ft Frankie Beverly)
Roy Ayers - Love will bring us back together again
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
The Crusaders - Keep that same old feeling
Wilton Fielder - Inherit the wind (ft Bobby Womack)

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Artist: Various
Album: Man With a Horn: Jazz Trumpeters
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps
Preview: https://amzn.to/3saSsw8

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01. Miles Davis - Carnival Time
02. Louis Armstrong - When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Live)
03. Freddie Hubbard - Monodrama
04. Dizzy Gillespie - Our Love Is Here to Stay
05. Chet Baker - Soultrane
06. Nat Adderley - Gospelette
07. The Art Farmer Quartet - Petite Belle
08. Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor
09. Ted Curson - Ted's Tempo
10. Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants - God Bless the Child
11. Don Cherry - Surrender Rose
12. Roy Eldridge Sextet - The Heat's On
13. Maynard Ferguson - Meet a Cheetah
14. Wallace Roney - Memoria E Fado
15. Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Swedish All Stars - 'Scuse These Bloos (Alt. Take)
16. Rick Braun - China Blue
17. Nicholas Payton - Toys In Babeland (Live)
18. Don Ellis - Loneliness (Live at Montreux)
19. Cat Anderson - Muskrat Ramble
20. Mel Lewis, Thad Jones, UMO - Groove Merchant
21. Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk - Evidence
22. Russell Gunn - 74 Miles Away
23. Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Morning Train
24. The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra - All of Me (Live at the Village Vanguard)
25. Paul Barbarin & His New Orleans Jazz Band - Bourbon Street Parade
26. Woody Shaw - Sweet Love of Mine (Live at the Jazz Forum, NYC, Feb. 25, 1982)

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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Blues For Tee (1974)
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Three Blind Mice Blu-spec CD reissue series. Limited paper sleeve edition. Blues For Tee is the second of the three albums that came out of the legendary Christmas sessions at the Misty, a Tokyo jazz club, which took place on December 1974. The Three Blind Mice producer Takeshi "Tee" Fujii wanted to record Yamamoto before he left for the U.S. to study at Berklee School of Music, and almost all of the performances were so good that he decided to release three LPs instead of one that was originally planned.

Following the first and probably most well-known LP Live at the Misty, this second release features Yamamoto's strong affinity to the blues, showcasing two of his original blues: "Blues For Tee" dedicated to Fujii and "Speed Ball Blues." This is a great, swinging piano trio album and a must-have item for fans of Tsuyoshi Yamamoto!

Recorded live at Misty, Tokyo on December 25, 1974.-

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1. Blues For Tee
2. I'm Glad There Is You
3. Speed Ball Blues
4. Broadway

*1974, 2014 Three Blind Mice Japan / Think! Records | THCD-316 / LP TBM-41 {2014 Japan Three Blind Mice Mini LP Blu-spec Remaster}


Personnel:
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (piano)
Akira Daiyoshi (bass)
Toshio Osumi (drums)

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Artist: Chet Baker
Album: Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen To You
Year: 2021
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Format/Quality: .flac 24-bit/192kHz

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01. Do It The Hard Way
02. I'm Old Fashioned
03. You're Driving Me Crazy
04. It Could Happen To You
05. My Heart Stood Still
06. The More I See You
07. Everything Happens To Me
08. Dancing On The Ceiling
09. How Long Has This Been Going On?
10. Old Devil Moon

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Genre: Chillout, Lounge, Downtempo, Nu Jazz
Label: IBIZA PARTY SQUAD
Year of publication: 2021
Audio codec: MP3
Rip Type: tracks
Audio bitrate: 320 kbps
Length: 02:01:41

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01. Van - My Sunrise (Original Mix) (09:09)
02. Dharma Frequency - Binaural Ambient (Original Mix) (04:00)
03. Spoq - Grand Temps (Original Mix) (02:19)
04. Outwave Project - Passion Night (Original Mix) (04:50)
05. Johannes Huppertz - Bitter Symphonie (Original Mix) (04:35)
06. Pier-O - Love Jazz (For the Weekend) (04:17)
07. Sami Sivananda - Pure Relaxation (Original Mix) (04:20)
08. Chris J - Emotion (Original Mix) (05:20)
09. Five Seasons - La Fleur (Original Mix) (05:41)
10. Mo\'jardo - Forgive Me (Original Mix) (04:25)
11. Chillson, Marc Hartman - It\'s Alright (Original Mix) (04:42)
12. Peter Pearson - Eternally Yours (Original Mix) (06:11)
13. Jasmon - Silent Heat (Original Mix) (04:42)
14. Svendaq - After Midnight (Original Mix) (06:46)
15. Marga Sol - Crystal Light (Dreamy Mix) (05:48)
16. Stargazer - MC Maunder (Original Mix) (03:40)
17. CaPa - People & Places (Original Mix) (03:53)
18. Velvet Dreamer, Five Seasons - Your Game My Love (Five Seasons Remix) (04:52)
19. Dreamhunter - Cold Weather (Original Mix) (02:44)
20. Mission Brown - Finding Truth (Original Mix) (04:58)
21. Steen Thøttrup, Lunamila - Something to Say (Edit) (03:12)
22. Vyacheslav Sketch - First (Original Mix) (04:14)
23. Music Of The Earth - The Beauty of Nature (Dubnology Sience) (04:03)
24. Finland & Aaskoven - Fontanelle (Original Mix) (06:19)
25. FIN PROJECT - Rising Thoughts (Original Mix) (06:30)

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Miles Davis - On The Corner (1972)
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Miles just shrugged and told them it wasn't personal, but they could take it that way if they wanted to, and he blew on his trumpet. Here are killer groove riffs that barely hold on as bleating trumpet and soprano sax lines (courtesy of Dave Liebman on track one) interact with John McLaughlin's distortion-box frenzy. Michael Henderson's bass keeps the basic so basic it hypnotizes; keyboards slowly enter the picture, a pair of them handled by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, as well as Ivory Williams' synthesizer.

Finally, Colin Walcott jumps in with an electric sitar and there are no less than five drummers -- three kits (Al Foster, Billy Hart, and Jack DeJohnette), a tabla player, and Mtume. It's a four-tune suite, "On the Corner" is, but the separations hardly matter, just the shifts in groove that alter the time/space continuum. After 20 minutes, the set feels over and a form of Miles' strange lyricism returns in "Black Satin." Though a tabla kicks the tune off, there's a recognizable eight-note melody that runs throughout. Carlos Garnett and Bennie Maupin replace Liebman, Dave Creamer replaces McLaughlin, and the groove rides a bit easier -- except for those hand bells shimmering in the background off the beat just enough to make the squares crazy.

The respite is short-lived, however. Davis and band move the music way over to the funk side of the street -- though the street funkers thought these cats were too weird with their stranded time signatures and modal fugues that begin and end nowhere and live for the way the riff breaks down into emptiness. "One and One" begins the new tale, so jazz breaks down and gets polished off and resurrected as a far blacker, deeper-than-blue character in the form of "Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X," where guitars and horns careen off Henderson's cracking bass and Foster's skittering hi-hats. It may sound weird even today, but On the Corner is the most street record ever recorded by a jazz musician. And it still kicks.

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01. On The Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin' Of One Thing And Doin' Another / Vote For Miles (a)
02. Black Satin (c)
03. One And One (b)
04. Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (b)

*2000 Columbia / Legacy | CK 63980


Personnel:

June 1, 1972 (a)
Miles Davis (tpt); Dave Liebman (ss);
John McLaughlin (el-g); Chick Corea (el-p);
Herbie Hancock (el-p);
Harold I. Williams (org, synth);
Collin Walcott (el-sitar);
Michael Henderson (el-b);
Jack DeJohnette (d); Billy Hart (d);
Al Foster (d); Badal Roy (tabla)

June 6, 1972 (b)/July 7, 1972 (c)
Miles Davis (tpt);
Carlos Garnett (ss on track 2, ts on track 4);
Bennie Maupin (bcl on track 2);
David Creamer (el-g on tracks 2, 3, 4);
Herbie Hancock (el-p, synth);
Chick Corea (el-p); Harold I.
Williams (org, synth);
Collin Walcott (el-sitar on tracks 3, 4);
Khalil Balakrishna (el-sitar on track 2);
Michael Henderson (el-b);
Jack DeJohnette (d); Billy Hart (d);
Al Foster (d); Badal Roy (tabla, handclaps)

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Miles Davis - Water Babies (1976)
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A much different album than you might expect from the cover – hardly the funky 70s set implied by the Big Fun-styled cover – and instead a lost slice of work from his groundbreaking late 60s years! The set was recorded in 1967, but unissued until Miles late 70s time away from the studio – hence the cover, which attempts to contemporanize the record – and the music is very much in the dark moods and sharp tones of Filles De Kilimanjaro, and features a somewhat similar group!

The core quintet of Wayne Shorter on tenor, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums handles the first half of the set – but the group's then expanded to include Chick Corea on electric piano along with Herbie on keys – and Ron Carter steps out so that Dave Holland can bring some more modern tones to the bass. Tracks are all somewhat long, and titles include "Capricorn", "Water Babies", "Sweet Pea", and "Two Faced".

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01 - Water Babies
02 - Capricorn
03 - Sweet Pea
04 - Two Faced
05 - Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process
06 - Splash (bonus track)

*1976 / 2002 Columbia CK 86557


Personnel:
On tracks 1-3
Miles Davis (trumpet)
Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone)
Herbie Hancock (piano)
Ron Carter (bass)
Tony Williams (drums)

Recorded Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, June 7,13 and 23, 1967.-

On tracks 4-6
Miles Davis (trumpet)
Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone)
Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock (electric piano)
Dave Holland (bass)
Tony Williams (drums)

Recorded Columbia Studio B, NYC, November 11-12, 1968, recording engineer Stan Tonkel.

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Artist: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
Album: Tone Poem
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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01. Peace
02. Ramblin'
03. Anthem
04. Dismal Swamp
05. Tone Poem
06. Monk's Mood
07. Ay Amor (Live)
08. Lady Gabor
09. Prayer

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John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (1965)
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KULU SE MAMA is a somewhat neglected LP recorded by John Coltrane in 1965 during a key transitional stage in his career. Two of the album's three lengthy tracks ("Vigil" and "Welcome") feature the legendary saxophonist with his classic quartet (including bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones, and pianist McCoy Tyner).

And these pieces have the open, exploratory, modal feel familiar to fans of Coltrane's A LOVE SUPREME period.

"Kulu Se Mama" itself features an expanded line-up that includes saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, drummer Frank Butler, bassist and bass clarinetist Donald Garrett, and percussionist/singer Juno Lewis (who wrote the piece), with an African feel that includes layered polyrhythms and chanted vocals.

This LP, re-released in 2000 and whose contents have been reissued in different sets on CD, features John Coltrane in two different settings. "Vigil" and the spiritual ballad "Welcome" showcase tenor saxophonist Coltrane with his classic quartet (pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones) in June 1965.

Dating from October 14, 1965, it adds tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, Donald Garrett on bass clarinet and second bass, second drummer Frank Butler, and percussionist-vocalist Juno Lewis to the quartet and is a bit of an oddity. Lewis' chanting and colorful percussion make this a unique if not essential entry in Coltrane's discography.

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1. Kulu Se Mama (Juno Se Mama)
2. Vigil
3. Welcome

*2009 Verve / Impulse! | 0602517920347


Personnel:
John Coltrane (tenor saxophone, jingle bells, percussion)
Frank Butler (vocals, drums, percussion)
Juno Lewis (vocals, hand drums, conch shell, percussion)
Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone, kalimba, percussion)
Donald Rafael Garrett (bass clarinet, bass, percussion)
McCoy Tyner (piano)
Jimmy Garrison (bass)
Elvin Jones (drums).

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John Coltrane - Ascension (1965)
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The album ASCENSION played a profoundly important role in John Coltrane's final period. Recorded in June 1965, almost exactly two years before his death, this session marks Coltrane's final stepping off point into free jazz. The album also marks a division for Coltrane's fans, as there are some that applaud his final escape from jazz tradition while others simply couldn't follow him into the great unknown.

One way or another, ASCENSION refuses to be ignored. A stunning list of colleagues joins the legendary saxophonist on his final quest. Besides his famed regular quartet, avant-garde saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp, extra bassist Art Davis, and even trumpet star Freddie Hubbard, among others, produce an intense sonic assault. If you're sensitive to dissonant noise and uncontrolled barrages of sound, ASCENSION will offer you no comfort. However, the unbridled emotional onslaught that Coltrane unleashes here dwarfs any other artist's entire output. Love it or hate it, this is one disc that's sure to stay on your mind long after its din has faded.

Ascension is the single recording that placed John Coltrane firmly into the avant-garde. Whereas, prior to 1965, Coltrane could be heard playing in an avant vein with stretched-out solos, atonality, and a seemingly free design to the beat, Ascension throws most rules right out the window with complete freedom from the groove and strikingly abrasive sheets of horn interplay. Recorded with three tenors (Trane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp), two altos (Marion Brown, John Tchicai), two trumpet players (Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson), two bassists (Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison), the lone McCoy Tyner on piano, and Elvin Jones on the drums, this large group is both relentless and soulful simultaneously. While there are segments where the ensemble plays discordant and abrasive skronks, these are usually segues into intriguing blues-based solos from each member.

The comparison that is immediately realized is Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz of five years previous. However, it should be known that Ascension certainly carries its own weight, and in a strange sense makes Coleman's foray a passive adventure – mostly due to an updated sonic quality (à la Bob Thiele) and also Trane's greater sense of passionate spiritualism. Timed at around 40 minutes, this can be a difficult listen at first, but with a patient ear and an appreciation for the finer things in life, the reward is a greater understanding of the personal path that the artist was on at that particular time in his development.

Coltrane was always on an unceasing mission for personal expansion through the mouthpiece of his horn, but by the time of this recording he had begun to reach the level of "elder statesman" and to find other voices (Shepp, Sanders, and Marion Brown) to propel and expand his sounds and emotions. Therefore, Ascension reflects more of an event rather than just a jazz record and should be sought out by either experienced jazz appreciators or other open-minded listeners, but not by unsuspecting bystanders.

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01. Ascension (Edition ll)
02. Ascension (Edition l)

*2009 Impulse! / Verve / UMG | 0602517920248


Personnel:
John Coltrane (tenor saxophone)
John Tchicai, Marion Brown (alto saxophone)
Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone)
Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson (trumpet)
McCoy Tyner (piano)
Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison (bass)
Elvin Jones (drums).

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Abbey Lincoln - Through The Years (1956-2007) [3CD BoxSet] (2009)
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Anyone who has followed Abbey Lincoln’s career with any regularity understands that she has followed a fiercely individual path and has paid the cost for those choices. Through the Years is a cross-licensed, three-disc retrospective expertly compiled and assembled by the artist and her longtime producer, Jean-Philippe Allard. Covering more than 50 years in her storied career, it establishes from the outset that Lincoln was always a true jazz singer and unique stylist. Though it contains no unreleased material, it does offer the first true picture of he range of expression. Her accompanists include former husband Max Roach, Benny Carter, Kenny Dorham, Charlie Haden, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly, Benny Golson, J.J. Johnson, Art Farmer, Stan Getz, and Hank Jones, to name scant few.

Disc one commences with “This Can’t Be Love” from 1956; one of the best-known tunes off her debut album, arranged and conducted by Golson. But the story begins to change immediately with "I Must Have That Man" with her fronting the Riverside Jazz All-Stars in 1957. Tracks from It’s Magic, Abbey Is Blue, and Straight Ahead are here, and the story moves ahead chronologically and aesthetically all the way to 1984. But there are also big breaks stylistically, with her primal performance on “Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace” from We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite in 1960 and the amazing “Lonesome Lover” from It’s Time: Max Roach and His Orchestra and Choir in 1962, which is where her story takes its first recording break. It picks up in 1973 with "Africa" from People in Me. It breaks again until 1980, with “Throw It Away” off the beautiful Painted Lady, and continues through appearances with Cedar Walton and Sun Ra. There is another break in the narrative between discs one and two, commencing again in 1990 with the issue of the brilliant The World Is Falling Down on Verve when she began her association with Allard and recorded regularly. This disc contains a dozen tracks all recorded between 1990 and 1992. Disc three commences in 1995 and goes straight through to 2007. The latter two discs reflect the periods when Lincoln finally assumed her rightful status as a true jazz icon; individual track performances from standards to self-written tunes and folk songs are all done in her inimitable style and are well-known to fans. This set is gorgeously compiled and sequenced. As a listen, Through the Years is literally astonishing in its breadth and depth. It establishes her commitment to artistic freedom, and her fierce dedication to discipline, song, and performance. The box features liners by Gary Giddins, and great photographs, as well as stellar sound quality.

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Disc 1:
01. This Can't Be Love
02. Don't Explain
03. I Must Have That Man
04. Little Niles
05. Let Up
06. Come Sunday
07. Triptych : Prayer / Protest / Peace
08. Left Alone
09. Lonesome Lover
10. Africa
11. Throw It Away
12. The Maestro
13. The River

Disc 2:
01. The World is Falling Down
02. You Must Believe In Spring and Love
03. First Song
04. Bird Alone
05. I'm In Love
06. A Time For Love
07. Jungle Queen
08. A Child is Born
09. You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
10. I Should Care
11. Through the Years
12. When I'm Called Home

Disc 3:
01. Avec Le Temps
02. Mr. Tambourine Man
03. Love Has Gone Away
04. And It's Supposed To Be Love
05. Should've Been
06. Nature Boy
07. Windmills of Your Mind
08. Skylark
09. It's Me, O' Lord (Standin' In the Need of Prayer)
10. Blue Monk
11. The Music is the Magic
12. Down Here Below

*1957-2007, 2009 Verve / UM | 532 096-1


Personnel:
Larry Campbell, Pat Metheny (guitar); Maxine Roach (viola); Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet); Jackie McLean, Steve Coleman (alto saxophone); Clifford Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz , Stanley Turrentine, Benny Golson, Bob Berg, Julien Lourau (tenor saxophone); Clark Terry, Kenny Dorham, Roy Hargrove, Art Farmer, Tommy Turrentine, Booker Little (trumpet); Julien Priester, J.J. Johnson (trombone); Hank Jones , Hilton Ruiz, James Weidman , Kenny Barron, Alain Jean-Marie, Mal Waldron, Marc Cary, Rodney Kendrick, Wynton Kelly, Bheki Mseleku, Cedar Walton (piano); Bobby Hutcherson (marimba); Michael Bowie, Paul Chambers, Scott Colley, Art Davis, Ray Drummond, Charlie Haden, Sam Jones, Christian McBride, David Williams (bass); Freddie Waits, Grady Tate, Mark Johnson , Al Foster, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, Victor Lewis, Shawn Pelton, Billy Higgins (drums); James Mtume, Jerry Gonzalez, Babatunde Olatunji (percussion).

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Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Piano Duets (2020) [2CD]
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Many of the most beautiful recordings in Ella Fitzgerald's catalog were her duets with pianists. The freedom afforded by this simple configuration resulted in some of her most sensitive, affecting and heartfelt work. This collection assembles every recording Ella made in the piano duo format - for the Decca, Verve and Pablo labels. It includes 1950's Ella Sings Gershwin, 1954's Songs In A Mellow Mood and 1956's Let No Man Write My Epitaph, all in one package for the first time.

The double album includes detailed liner notes by the respected author and music critic Will Friedwald, who writes: “Fitzgerald was so great at everything — especially scatting and swinging — that it tended to overshadow her ballad singing. Yet, as any one of the 43 tracks on this collection makes clear, Ella Fitzgerald was a nonpareil singer of love songs, a balladeer par excellence.

The double album includes detailed liner notes by the respected author and music critic Will Friedwald, who writes: “Fitzgerald was so great at everything — especially scatting and swinging — that it tended to overshadow her ballad singing. Yet, as any one of the 43 tracks on this collection makes clear, Ella Fitzgerald was a nonpareil singer of love songs, a balladeer par excellence.

“Like her closest colleagues, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Billie Holiday, Fitzgerald could get deep into not just the words but the inner meaning of a song and bring out the profound truths that the lyricist had in mind all along.”

The Complete Piano Duets sequences each track in its chronological recording order. It takes the listener to her early sessions with pianist Ellis Larkins (‘Someone To Watch Over Me,’ ‘But Not For Me’ and ‘I’ve Got a Crush On You’), then, with Paul Smith, to Cole Porter’s ‘Miss Otis Regrets’ and the gritty 1960 crime drama Let No Man Write My Epitaph (‘Black Coffee,’ ‘Angel Eyes,’ ‘I Cried For You’).

The peerless vocalist teams with Tommy Flanagan at a 1964 French gig for ‘Somewhere In The Night’ and we hear 1975 duets with Oscar Peterson from the “third act” of her career (‘Mean to Me,’ ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?,’ ‘April In Paris’).

Fitzgerald first worked with Larkins for her 1950 album, Ella Sings Gershwin, which did so well that they reunited for another voice-and-piano album, Songs In A Mellow Mood, in 1954, featuring a selection of Great American Songbook standards. The singer would occasionally return to the intimate format , including piano duets on 1956’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book and 1957’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book.

The 1960 LP Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man Write My Epitaph included songs from the film in which she appeared in as a pianist-singer, and became her third full album with only piano accompaniment, this time played by Paul Smith. The rendition of ‘Somewhere In The Night’ with Flanagan was recoerded live on the French Riviera and later issued on the 1964 live set Ella at Juan-Les-Pins. Fitzgerald’s final major combination with a piano player was Ella and Oscar, a 1975 release with her longtime collaborator Oscar Peterson.

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CD 1
01. Looking For A Boy
02. My One And Only
03. How Long Has This Been Going On?
04. I've Got A Crush On You
05. But Not For Me
06. Soon
07. Someone To Watch Over Me
08. Maybe
09. I'm Glad There Is You
10. Baby, What Else Can I Do
11. What Is There To Say?
12. Makin' Whoopee!
13. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
14. People Will Say We're In Love
15. Please Be Kind
16. Imagination
17. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
18. You Leave Me Breathless
19. Nice Work If You Can Get It
20. Stardust
21. Miss Otis Regrets
22. Lush Life

CD 2
01. My Melancholy Baby
02. Angel Eyes
03. Black Coffee
04. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
05. I Cried For You
06. Misty
07. Who's Sorry Now?
08. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
09. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
10. Then You've Never Been Blue
11. September Song
12. Reach For Tomorrow
13. One For My Baby
14. Somewhere In The Night
15. Mean To Me
16. How Long Has This Been Going On?
17. When Your Lover Has Gone
18. More Than You Know
19. There's A Lull In My Life
20. How Long Has This Been Going On? (Take 5 Alternate)
21. More Than You Know (Take 1 Alternate)

*2020 Set, Verve B0031519-02

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Artist: Pat Metheny
Album: Road to the Sun
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Format/Quality: .flac 24-Bit/96.0 kHz

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01. Four Paths of Light, Pt. 1
02. Four Paths of Light, Pt. 2
03. Four Paths of Light, Pt. 3
04. Four Paths of Light, Pt. 4
05. Road to the Sun, Pt. 1
06. Road to the Sun, Pt. 2
07. Road to the Sun, Pt. 3
08. Road to the Sun, Pt. 4
09. Road to the Sun, Pt. 5
10. Road to the Sun, Pt. 6
11. Fur Alina (arr. by Pat Metheny for 42-string guitar)

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Quality-Lossless
Release-2017
Duration-03:03:11
File Size- 1100 MB
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: FLAC

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Album: The Singles
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald

Disc 1
Tracklist:
01 I Wished On The Moon - Ella Fitzgerald (3:08)
02 Baby - Ella Fitzgerald (2:43)
03 I Need - Ella Fitzgerald (2:41)
04 Who's Afraid - Ella Fitzgerald (2:50)
05 I'm Glad There Is You - Ella Fitzgerald (3:09)
06 Baby What Else Can I Do - Ella Fitzgerald (3:49)
07 What Is There To Say - Ella Fitzgerald (3:22)
08 Makin' Whoopee - Ella Fitzgerald (3:05)
09 Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Ella Fitzgerald (2:56)
10 People Will Say were In Love - Ella Fitzgerald (3:11)
11 Please Be Kind - Ella Fitzgerald (3:34)
12 Imagination - Ella Fitzgerald (2:37)
13 My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald (2:36)
14 You Leave Me Breathless - Ella Fitzgerald (3:07)
15 Nice Work If You Can Get It - Ella Fitzgerald (2:39)
16 Stardust - Ella Fitzgerald (4:02)
17 Lullaby Of Broadway - Ella Fitzgerald (2:52)
18 Later - Ella Fitzgerald (2:33)
19 Thanks For The Memory - Ella Fitzgerald (2:30)
20 It Might As Well Be Spring - Ella Fitzgerald (2:43)

Disc 2
Tracklist:
01 You'll Never Know - Ella Fitzgerald (3:10)
02 I Can't Get Started - Ella Fitzgerald (3:07)
03 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - Ella Fitzgerald (2:18)
04 That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald (2:32)
05 Old Devil Moon - Ella Fitzgerald (3:00)
06 Lover Come Back To Me - Ella Fitzgerald (2:01)
07 Hard Hearted Hannah - Ella Fitzgerald (3:01)
08 Pete Kelly's Blues - Ella Fitzgerald (2:27)
09 Ella Hums The Blues - Ella Fitzgerald (5:13)
10 Soldier Boy - Ella Fitzgerald (2:59)
11 A Satisfied Mind - Ella Fitzgerald (2:35)
12 My One And Only Love - Ella Fitzgerald (3:19)
13 The Impatient Years - Ella Fitzgerald (2:50)
14 But Not Like Mine - Ella Fitzgerald (3:00)
15 The Tender Trap - Ella Fitzgerald (3:00)
16 Stay There - Ella Fitzgerald (2:35)
17 The Sun Forgot To Shine This Morning - Ella Fitzgerald (3:17)
18 Too Young For The Blues - Ella Fitzgerald (3:17)
19 It's Only A Man - Ella Fitzgerald (3:28)
20 Beale Street Blues - Ella Fitzgerald (2:28)

Disc 3
Tracklist:
01 The End Of A Beautiful Friendship - Ella Fitzgerald (2:38)
02 The Silent Treatment - Ella Fitzgerald (2:51)
03 Hear My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald (2:19)
04 Hotta Chocolatta - Ella Fitzgerald (3:08)
05 A-Tisket-A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald (2:20)
06 Teach Me How To Cry - Ella Fitzgerald (2:59)
07 Swingin' Shepeard Blues - Ella Fitzgerald (2:41)
08 Your Red Wagon - Ella Fitzgerald (2:56)
09 Travelin' Light - Ella Fitzgerald (3:12)
10 Oh What A Night For Love - Ella Fitzgerald (2:25)
11 Dreams Are Made For Children - Ella Fitzgerald (2:38)
12 But Not For Me - Ella Fitzgerald (2:06)
13 The Christmas Song - Ella Fitzgerald (3:19)
14 The Secret Of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald (2:47)
15 Christmas Medley - Ella Fitzgerald (3:36)
16 Ich Fuhle Mich Crazy - Ella Fitzgerald (3:08)
17 Mr Paganini - Ella Fitzgerald (3:47)
18 Call Me Darling - Ella Fitzgerald (2:35)
19 Bill BaileyWon't You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald (3:25)
20 Ol Man Mose - Ella Fitzgerald (3:54)
21 Desfinado - Ella Fitzgerald (2:12)
22 Stardust Bossa Nova - Ella Fitzgerald (2:33)

...( Info )...

Artist: Louis Armstrong
Album: Louis Armstrong: Live at the Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles (2021 Remaster)
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

...( TrackList )...

01. I love Jazz
02. High Society Calypso
03. Ole Miss Rag
04. Blue Moon
05. Blues
06. Sweet Georgia Brown
07. Tenderly
08. Mack the Knife
09. You'll never walk alone
10. Baby, It Is cold outside
11. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
12. Mahogany Hall Stomp
13. C'est si bon
14. La Vie en rose
15. All of me
16. St. Louis Blues
17. Rockin' Chair