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Bill Dixon - November 1981 (Digitally Remastered) (1982/2010)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 11, 2020
Bill Dixon - November 1981 (Digitally Remastered) (1982/2010)

Bill Dixon - November 1981 (Digitally Remastered) (1982/2010)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 472 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:19:15
Jazz, Free Improvisation | Label: Soul Note, Black Saint Records

November 1981 is double album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon consisting of one disc recorded live in Zurich and another in a studio in Milan in November 1981 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

Archie Shepp - Lady Bird (Japan Edition) (1978/1989)  Music

Posted by Domestos at May 3, 2019
Archie Shepp - Lady Bird (Japan Edition) (1978/1989)

Archie Shepp - Lady Bird (Japan Edition) (1978/1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 212.03 Mb | 42:07 | Covers
Hard Bop | Label: Denon/Nippon Columbia - DC-8546

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist. Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano, clarinet, and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone. He occasionally plays soprano saxophone and piano. He studied drama at Goddard College from 1955 to 1959. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. Shepp's first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet, was released on Savoy Records in 1962 and featured a composition by Ornette Coleman. Along with John Tchicai and Don Cherry, he was a member of the New York Contemporary Five. John Coltrane's admiration led to recordings for Impulse! Records, the first of which was Four for Trane in 1964, an album of mainly Coltrane compositions on which he was joined by trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Reggie Workman and alto player John Tchicai.

Archie Shepp - Emotions (1963/2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Nov. 25, 2023
Archie Shepp - Emotions (1963/2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Archie Shepp - Emotions (2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 41:24 minutes | 2,33 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96kHz | Time - 41:24 minutes | 872 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Saxophonist Archie Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, His tenor sax solos were searing, harsh, and unrelenting, played with a vivid intensity while he was viewed as perhaps the most articulate and disturbing member of the free generation. On this album he performs with the avant-garde jazz ensemble The New York Contemporary Five, "a group which, despite its short lease on life, has considerable historical significance", laying "the cornerstone of what might be called the mainstream of free jazz".

Fusk - The Jig Is Up (2018) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at April 27, 2018
Fusk - The Jig Is Up (2018) [Official Digital Download]

Fusk - The Jig Is Up (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 54:50 minutes | 590 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

FUSK is 100% contemporary jazz, catapulted forward by the creative ingenuity of the band members; these are players who have something to say! The music is intensive, joyous. It grabs you, as it expands out of its musical roots and takes off and into the open air. Kasper Tom Christiansen is no purist; instead, he tastefully mixes genres, as much at home with the techniques required in contemporary new music as with the improvisational surprises of free jazz.
Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano - No Place To Fall (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano - No Place To Fall (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 48:53 minutes | 570 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

“At a certain point, there is only good and ‘gooder’” — Bill Dixon

Robin Kenyatta - Until (1968) [Japanese Edition 2013] (Repost)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 6, 2024
Robin Kenyatta - Until (1968) [Japanese Edition 2013] (Repost)

Robin Kenyatta - Until (1968) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 222 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 84 MB | Covers - 123 MB
Genre: Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27317)

Recorded and released after a two-year stint in Europe, Until marks alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta's American debut as a leader, after sideman tenures with Sonny Stitt, Bill Dixon, and Archie Shepp. For anyone (of the few) who followed the rather obscure reedman's career, this set - originally released on the Atlantic jazz subsidiary Vortex and produced by Joel Dorn - is indicative of the restless nature of Kenyatta's career on his own records: he was not only interested in, but attempted to play, the entire range of jazz. For starters, there are three different units scattered across the album. The opener, "Until," written by Barry Miles, is a tender, straight-ahead ballad that showcasesKenyatta's alto accompanied by pianist Fred Simmons, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Horace Arnold…

Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at July 13, 2018
Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)

Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 00:52:23 | 120.33 Mb | Cover
Avant-Garde Jazz | Country: Norway | Label: Clean Feed

Frode Gjerstad’s name can be legendary in Norway and all the European continent, due to the fact that he was practically the only one to contrast himself, from the beginning, to the saxophone style which defined the Scandinavian approach to jazz for 40 years, the one defined by Jan Garbarek, but his trio with Jon Rune Strom and Paal Nilssen-Love is relatively new on the scene. It started in 2011 and there’s only another recording with trombonist Steve Swell as special guest, “At Constellation”, from 2015. Of course, there were some previous cumplicities between these musicians: Nilssen-Love was a member of Gjerstad’s Circulasione Totale Orchestra since 1992 and the alto saxophonist and clarinetist played with Swell in several occasions, mostly when visiting the United States.

Frode Gjerstad Trio & Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at March 18, 2018
Frode Gjerstad Trio & Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)

Frode Gjerstad Trio & Steve Swell - Bop Stop (2018)
Jazz | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 320 MB
Label: Clean Feed | Tracks: 04 | Time: 52:21 min

Frode Gjerstad’s name can be legendary in Norway and all the European continent, due to the fact that he was practically the only one to contrast himself, from the beginning, to the saxophone style which defined the Scandinavian approach to jazz for 40 years, the one defined by Jan Garbarek, but his trio with Jon Rune Strom and Paal Nilssen-Love is relatively new on the scene.
Archie Shepp/The New York Contemporary Five - s/t (1972) {1991 Storyville}

Archie Shepp/The New York Contemporary Five - s/t (1972) {1991 Storyville}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 446 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 159 mb
Genre: jazz

Archie Shepp/The New York Contemporary Five is a self-titled album by Archie Shepp and The New York Contemporary Five, originally released in 1972. The 1972 album was also originally released in 1963 from 1964 recordings, released under the name The New York Contemporary Five. This reissue was released in 1991 by Storyville.
Archie Shepp & The New York Contemporary Five (1964/2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Archie Shepp and The New York Contemporary Five (1964/2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 42:15 minutes | 1,93 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 42:15 minutes | 825 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This historically significant album by the New York Contemporary Five was lead by tenor saxophone player Archi Shepp and included four other equally talented free jazz musicians to create an album that highlights the virtuosic nature of jazz music. Although a short-lived group, this album is quite historic for many contemporary jazz musicians.