2020 Jazz

VA - Kaleidoscope: New Spirits Known and Unknown (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 23, 2024
VA - Kaleidoscope: New Spirits Known and Unknown (2020)

VA - Kaleidoscope: New Spirits Known and Unknown (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 796 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 312 Mb | Covers included | 02:00:45
Soul Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Fusion | Label: Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ new album ‘Kaleidoscope – New Spirits Known and Unknown’ brings together many of the ground-breaking artists involved in the new jazz scene that has developed in the UK over the last few years. Featured artists include Matthew Halsall, Yazmin Lacey, Ill Considered, Tenderlonious, Theon Cross, Emma-Jean Thackray and many, many more in this ground-breaking release.
Benjamin Koppel, Kenny Werner, Scott Colley & Jack DeJohnette - The Art of the Quartet (2020)

Benjamin Koppel, Kenny Werner, Scott Colley & Jack DeJohnette - The Art of the Quartet (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 694 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 289 Mb | 02:05:56
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Cowbell Music, Unit Records

American top pianist Kenny Werner and Scandinavian star saxophonist Benjamin Koppel have become musical brothers through 15 years of ongoing frequent musical collaboration. Their duo album WALDEN was highly acclaimed, as has their long line of other releases, including COALITION with Lionel Loueke and FREEBOP with David Liebman.

Avishai Cohen & Big Vicious - Big Vicious (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 27, 2022
Avishai Cohen & Big Vicious - Big Vicious (2020)

Avishai Cohen & Big Vicious - Big Vicious (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 291 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 123 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:50:29
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: ECM Records

Charismatic trumpeter Avishai Cohen launched his exuberant, home-grown band Big Vicious six years ago, after relocating from the US to his native Israel, rounding up players to shape the music from the ground up, and co-authoring much of its newest material together with them. The group is an association of old friends. “We’re all coming from jazz, but some of us left it earlier”, Avishai says, summing up the stylistic reach of his cohorts. “Everyone’s bringing in their backgrounds, and that becomes part of the sound of the band.” Textures from electronica, ambient music and psychedelia are part of the blend, so too grooves and beats from rock, pop, trip-hop and more. A wide-open approach to cover versions – from Massive Attack to Beethoven - is also integral to the Vicious vision. Recorded in Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in August 2019 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Big Vicious’s debut album is issued as the band gears up for extensive international touring.
Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Folk Songs: The Bela Bartók Field Recordings (2020)

Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Folk Songs: The Bela Bartók Field Recordings (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 268 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 Mb | 01:04:14
Jazz, World, Classical | Label: Sunnyside Records

Artists’ greatest inspiration often comes from sources that once surrounded them in their native communities. Pianist Lucian Ban, violist Mat Maneri and woodwind master John Surman come from different backgrounds but are connected by their focus on improvised music along with their appreciation of folkloric and classical styles.
David Liebman, Randy Brecker, Marc Copland, Drew Gress & Joey Baron - Quint5t (2020)

David Liebman, Randy Brecker, Marc Copland, Drew Gress & Joey Baron - Quint5t (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 330 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | 01:00:25
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Creative | Label: Innervoice Jazz

David Liebman, Marc Copland, Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress and Joey Baron are well known contemporary jazz masters–each a player, composer, and bandleader in his own right. Grounded in the jazz tradition, they are also committed to stretching the boundaries of the possible. These musicians have years of experience touring and recording together– Baron and Copland in Gary Peacock's trio; Gress and Baron in Copland's trio; NEA Master David Liebman and Copland in duo, quartets, and quintets; Drew Gress in Ralph Alessi's ECM groups; and Alessi in Copland's quartet. All the members contribute tunes to the band's repertoire.

Nils Petter Molvær & Mino Cinelu - SulaMadiana (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 4, 2023
Nils Petter Molvær & Mino Cinelu - SulaMadiana (2020)

Nils Petter Molvær & Mino Cinelu - SulaMadiana (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 262 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 110 Mb | 00:46:48
Contemporary Jazz, Ethnic Fusion | Label: Modern Recordings

The French/Martinique percussionist Mino Cinelu and the Norwegian trumpet-player Nils Petter Molvaer got together for an outstanding piece of music.They were reflecting their roots: Sula is the island from which Molvær stems, Madiana is a synonym for Martinique, where Cinelu’s father comes from. “SulaMadiana” combines all which is perceived as trusted, familiar, and achieved, with a notion of sounds beyond the horizon: glittering, shimmering, and always promising.

Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 7, 2023
Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (2020)

Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 178 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 Mb | 00:44:19
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Ambient | Label: M.O.D. Reloaded

Mode for Titan proves that the bass is a melodic and ambient force in its own right. Writing on — and exclusively for — the bass, Josh Werner explores new dimensions of composition and improvisation, effortlessly moving through varying sonic textures, all without a conventional rhythm section. Producer Bill Laswell helps steer seasoned composer and performer (and abstract painter) Werner through novel instrumental territory, including the sitar bass, seven-string bass and fretless bass. The wide array of influences on Mode for Titan reflects Werner's vast experience and diverse skill set, yet the music maintains an introspective focus and understated minimalist beauty. Laswell's production endows this sonic journey with a vast sense of space, painted in an array of colors as boundless as the producer's own palette.

Focusyear Band - Open Arms (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 5, 2023
Focusyear Band - Open Arms (2020)

Focusyear Band - Open Arms (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 418 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | 01:10:24
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Neuklang

Unique in Europe: Under the artistic direction of the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, six and nine jazz musicians, who were selected by a specialist jury for the Focusyear in the Jazzcampus Basel from applications submitted worldwide, meet to spend a whole year together with the Focusyear with a scholarship to devote the band intensively to the music.

Åse Kleveland & The Salmon Smokers - På Frihjul (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 20, 2022
Åse Kleveland & The Salmon Smokers - På Frihjul (2020)

Åse Kleveland & The Salmon Smokers - På Frihjul (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 226 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 91 Mb | 00:39:39
Vocal Jazz | Label: Grappa

Ase Kleveland releases her first album in almost 45 years. Ase Kleveland and The Salmon Smokers played for the first time at the big tribute concert for Leonard Choen in 2017, where they together rocked a packed Oslo Spektrum with a spectacular version of Choen's "First We Take Manhattan". The concert and the television recording left viewers with thoughts about what an artist we lost when Ase chose a career in cultural bureaucracy and politics.

Henri Texier - Chance (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 12, 2023
Henri Texier - Chance (2020)

Henri Texier - Chance (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 352 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:54:04
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop | Label: Label Bleu

Henri Texier, double bass player, multi-instrumentalist traces his path, record after record since 1967. The more the years pass, the more the importance and the originality of Henri Texier impose themselves on all the musicians, fellow travelers, or not. A wonderful combination of a great tradition of double bass and a modernism that has never been frightened of anything. Time passing seems to have no hold on his game: round, powerful and above all animated by an extraordinary awareness of rhythm. A high-flying cast and a sequence of scenes and landscapes that give the listener the certainty of a global scenario.