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Karen Souza - Essentials (2013) {Japanese Edition} Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 5, 2024

Karen Souza - Essentials (2013) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 386 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 154 Mb
Full Scans | 00:50:46 | RAR 5% Recovery
Vocal Jazz, Smooth Jazz | Music Brokers / JVC Victor #MVP-61696

After beginning as a vocalist for numerous house music producers, Karen Souza participated in the successful series Jazz and 80’s and its successors. Now, Karen has launched her solo career with Essentials, a summary of her career as a jazz singer, where her unique and seductive voice draws you in. This album brings us recreations of classics such as Every Breath You Take (The Police), Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (Culture Club), Creep (Radiohead) and Tainted Love (Soft Cell), which have become classics over the past few years. Essentials is a different album, where jazz appears at its most elegant, thanks to Karen´s amazing voice.

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Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Don't Explain (2011) [Limited Edition] Music

Posted by gribovar at June 28, 2019

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Don't Explain (2011) [Limited Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 389 MB | Covers - 451 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Provogue (PRD 7385 2), 2012

Fans of guitar master Joe Bonamassa will be delighted that 2011 was such a prolific year in his career. First came the fine, rootsy Dust Bowl, then 2, the second chapter in his Black Country Communion project's catalog. Don't Explain, a collection of soul, blues, and jazz-oriented covers in collaboration with vocal firebrand Beth Hart marks his third entry in 2011. This set of blues and soul is a logical extension of her vocal contribution to "No Love on the Street" from Dust Bowl. Opening is a thoroughly raucous contemporary blues reading of Ray Charles' "Sinner's Prayer," followed by a quirky version of Tom Waits' "Chocolate Jesus," and an unusual cover of contemporary jazz-pop singer/songwriter Melody Gardot's "You Heart Is as Black as Night"…

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Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - A Golden Classics Edition (1997) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 17, 2022

A Golden Classics Edition Review by William Ruhlmann
In essence, Collectables Records' Gary Puckett & the Union Gap compilation A Golden Classics Edition is a two-fer CD combining the group's first two albums, named after its first two singles, Woman, Woman and Young Girl. But the addition at the end of the disc of the next five singles – "Lady Willpower," "Over You," "Don't Give in to Him," "This Girl Is a Woman Now," and "Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance" – makes this a more thorough best-of for the group, at a generous 76-minute running time. Gary Puckett & the Union Gap was very much a singles act; the first six of those seven singles, all of which reached the Top 15 and four of which went gold, are all most people know the band for. The full contents of the first two albums suggest that that is all the group should be known for, too. The albums are clearly afterthoughts thrown together to generate some LP sales tied into the hit singles.

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Nina Simone - A Very Rare Evening (1979/2013) {Japan Edition, Remastered} Music

Posted by Domestos at Nov. 12, 2019

Nina Simone - A Very Rare Evening (1979/2013) {Japan Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 165.81 Mb | 36:24 | Cover
Vocal Jazz | Label: SHOUT! Productions - SHOUT-229

Acouple of years ago I paid a princely sum for a rather unusual CD reissue (manufactured in New Jersey but created for the Japanese market, complete with Japanese liner notes) of the aptly titled Rare Evening. Then, as now, I considered it money extremely well spent. Though the Simone catalog overflows with live recordings, this 1969 German concert outranks all others.

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Lonnie Smith - Think! (Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series) (1968/2019) [24bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 10, 2020

This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (Remastered) (2009/2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 5, 2019

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (Remastered) (2009/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 74:06 minutes | 1.46 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 are major landmarks in American culture. Charles demonstrated that great songs with signature performances work in all genres. “I Can’t Stop Loving You” was a standard in country, soul and R&B, as he proved. Modern Sounds also brought America together during the Sixties’ civil rights movement. Charles became one of the first recording artists to have ownership and complete control of the masters. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been listed among the greatest albums of all time, along with the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, Springsteen, Hendrix and the Beach Boys.

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Stanley Turrentine - Return Of The Prodigal Son [Recorded 1967] (2008) Music

Posted by gribovar at April 5, 2019

Stanley Turrentine is generally pegged as a soul-jazz man but also has proven quite adept in several other styles of modern jazz, as heard on this diverse compilation of tunes from three initially unreleased Blue Note dates with a larger ensemble. While hitting up a handful of the pop tunes of the day, Turrentine shows he is interested in and capable of tackling more modern compositions, with the vibrant and exciting assistance of pianist McCoy Tyner, also not a slouch when soul-jazz is placed in front of him. That Turrentine plays a most enjoyable fluid, tuneful, and tonic tenor saxophone has never been questioned, but what he adds in value as a leader on these tracks further cements his estimable reputation…

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Elvis Presley - Elvis: The New Sessions (2015) Music

Posted by BlondStyle at July 17, 2020

Here is another CD from the same producer and musicians behind "Elvis: The New Recordings," which debuted in January 2015 on the 80th anniversary of Presley's birth, and quickly won worldwide praise from fans and music critics alike. Many people asked for another overdub CD and this is it: "ELVIS: THE NEW SESSIONS" (2016). Each of these fantastic songs will sound FRESH AND NEW to you - as if Elvis just recorded them today, and feature brilliant musical settings. These 20 tracks represent some of The King's best studio work, from a time frame when he was in good health and good voice (1957-1962). Some of the songs are classics, while others may be unfamiliar to you. The producer has been careful to preserve the intimacy, simplicity and authenticity of Elvis's vocal performances through expert remastering.

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