Aretha [2019 Expanded Edition]

Aretha Franklin - Aretha (Expanded Edition) (1980/2019)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at April 19, 2019
Aretha Franklin - Aretha (Expanded Edition) (1980/2019)

Aretha Franklin - Aretha (Expanded Edition) (1980/2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 394 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 MB | 00:58:36
Soul, RnB, Vocal Jazz | Label: Arista/Legacy

Aretha is the debut album by Aretha Franklin released on Arista Records in 1980. Franklin's first Arista single release, "United Together", reached #3 on the Soul chart and crossed over to #56 on Billboard's Hot 100. The album itself peaked at #47 and spent 30 weeks on Billboard's main album chart, eventually selling close to 350,000 copies. It is currently out of print. This was the second album with this title to be released by the artist, and the first ever for Arista, after a 13-year tenure with Atlantic Records. Other Franklin albums titled "Aretha" were also released in 1986 and 1961. The disc's opening track "Come To Me" appeared again on her 1989 album "Through The Storm".

Aretha Franklin - Get It Right (Expanded Edition) (1983/2019)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at April 19, 2019
Aretha Franklin - Get It Right (Expanded Edition) (1983/2019)

Aretha Franklin - Get It Right (Expanded Edition) (1983/2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 386 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 MB | 00:54:59
Soul, RnB, Vocal Jazz | Label: Arista/Legacy

Luther Vandross scored a popular success with Jump to It, but this follow-up is less impressive and proved less successful. Vandross wrote most of the material, including the number one R&B title track and the R&B Top Ten hit "Every Girl (Wants My Guy)," although he also has Franklin tackle the Temptations hit "I Wish It Would Rain," in a painfully overwrought production. With this record, what had seemed to be an artist/producer marriage made in heaven hit the rocks.

Liza Minnelli - New Feelin' (Expanded Edition) (1970/2019)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at June 8, 2019
Liza Minnelli - New Feelin' (Expanded Edition) (1970/2019)

Liza Minnelli - New Feelin' (Expanded Edition) (1970/2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 257 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 MB | 00:39:02
Pop, Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: A&M Records

In 1970, A&M Records, the label for which Liza Minnelli (who turned 24 years old on March 12) recorded, had an unusual problem with her. Clearly, she was a fast-rising star, but she couldn't sell any records. Nightclubs and concert halls were eager for her appearances; she was an Oscar-nominated movie actress with her pick of roles; and she already had won a Tony Award, though she was now too big for Broadway. Yet, A&M had failed to chart either of her albums or any of her singles for the label, just as Capitol Records before it had charted only with her 1964 debut album Liza! Liza! The problem, of course, was rock.
VA - The Big Chill: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) (Remastered) (1983/2004)

VA - The Big Chill: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) (Remastered) (1983/2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 711 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 268 MB
1:57:31 | Stage & Screen, Soul, Funk, Pop, R&B, Rock | Label: Hip-O Select

This movie made Motown hot again and spawned two best-selling soundtrack albums, both of which you'll find on disc one. Disc two, meanwhile, adds another 19 tracks of classic '60s rock and soul for the ultimate baby-boom flashback! Includes I Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye; Good Lovin' Rascals; Tell Him Exciters; When a Man Loves a Woman Percy Sledge; My Girl Temptations; We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet Blues Magoos; What Becomes of the Brokenhearted Jimmy Ruffin, and more. 38 classic tunes!
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis - Big Band Holidays II (2019)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis - Big Band Holidays II (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 411 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 152 Mb | Scans - 119 Mb | 01:06:20
Jazz, Big Band, Swing, Xmas | Label: Blue Engine Records

Swing into the holiday spirit with BIG BAND HOLIDAYS II, the sequel to the critically acclaimed 2015 release from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Featuring original arrangements of holiday classics selected from Big Band Holiday concerts spanning from 2015 to 2018, nine-time GRAMMY Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO are joined by an all-star assortment of guest vocalists, including Veronica Swift, Denzal Sinclaire, Catherine Russell, Audrey Shakir, and the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin.

Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water (Limited Edition) (2019)  Music

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 16, 2019
Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water (Limited Edition) (2019)

Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water (Limited Edition) (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 569 MB | Cover | 87 minutes | MP3 320Kbps | 201 MB
Pop | Label: BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd

For people who witnessed Avril Lavigne’s entrance into the music world with 2002’s Let Go, it might be surprising to hear that Avril Lavigne, in 2019, listens to jazz and soul music all day every day: Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few. Those interests have spilled over into the 34-year-old musician’s latest record, Head Above Water. “I get a little jazzy on the album,” she tells EW. “I needed to evolve musically and not do the same pop-rock thing over and over again.”

VA - Jon Savage’s 1968 The Year the World Burned (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 17, 2019
VA - Jon Savage’s 1968 The Year the World Burned (2019)

VA - Jon Savage’s 1968 The Year the World Burned (2019)
FLAC tracks +cue+log+scans | 2:24:20 | 665 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock, Soul, Funk / Label: Ace Records

50 years ago, America was in turmoil. An ever-increasing public awareness of both the vast brutality and absolute futility of the Vietnam War stretched itself like a cinematic backdrop across all that was happening on home soil, with peace protests turning to riots, and riots to assassinations. In Europe, France was forever changed by nationwide general strikes and the May Paris student riots. The UK was in social conflict, playing uncomfortable host to Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech whilst younger generations campaigned for greater moral enlightenment. The bubble of hope had been burst worldwide and change was coming at a disturbing cost.

Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 22, 2024
Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}

Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 512 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 257 Mb
Full Scans | 01:09:04 | RAR 5% Recovery
Vocal Pop / Vocal Jazz / American Popular Song / Standards
Sony Music Japan International Inc. #SICP 3258

Tony Bennett’s first album of celebrity duets (2006's Duets: An American Classic) featured an impressive cast of superstars answering the call from the dean of pop vocalists, but the arrangements were overly safe – virtually all of them ballads with soft strings or brassy finger-snappers. Duets II follows the first by five years and features, surprisingly, a cast just as star-laden, but also arrangements that are much more dynamic, and suitable for each song and its participants. (Marion Evans, a veteran whose career goes back nearly as far as Bennett's, handles the charts for a few of the best here.)
Yola - Walk Through Fire (Deluxe Edition) (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Yola - Walk Through Fire (Deluxe Edition) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 47:34 minutes | 598 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

British rising star Yola’s debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, is produced by The Black Keys’ eight-time Grammy Award winner Dan Auerbach. Yola has blazed her own trail with an unshakable passion for the soul and country music she loves. Walk Through Fire is a contemporary twist on a traditional sonic tapestry of orchestral strings, fiddle, steel and shimmering tremolo guitars, it provides the perfect soundtrack to Yola’s arresting vocals, which first came to the attention of Auerbach after a friend sent him a video of Yola performing in Nashville. Yola’s video (directed by Reid Long) for her debut song ‘Ride Out In The Country’ is the first taste of the forthcoming record. Dan Auerbach stated, “The moment I met Yola I was impressed.

Karen Souza - Essentials II (2014) {Japanese Edition}  Music

Posted by popsakov at May 19, 2019
Karen Souza - Essentials II (2014) {Japanese Edition}

Karen Souza - Essentials II (2014) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 350 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 155 Mb
Full Scans | RAR 5% Recovery
Vocal Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening | Music Brokers / JVC Victor #MVP-61707

By now, It's pretty safe to say that Karen Souza is the great new voice of today's Jazz. After the success of her previous albums "Essentials" and "Hotel Souza", Karen presents now "Essentials II", a carefully selected collection of hit songs from all eras; in exquisite Jazz versions where her unique voice draws us into her intimate and sensual world. This time, the album's production has been helmed by legendary producer and entrepreneur Richard Gottehrer, famous for his work (and guiding the careers) with artists such as Blondie, The Go-Go's, Dr. Feelgood, Richard Hell and The Bongos to name just a few. Recorded at the The Orchard Studios in NYC, 'Essentials II' will allow you to hear Karen's voice like never before.