Brass Roland

The first few seconds of crowd noise on the debut release from legendary jazzfunk keyboardist George Duke's label might lead the listener to believe it's a live recording. But it's just a clever interpolation. Duke fashioned "The Black Messiah" as a cool, soulful, brass-tinged meditation on the musical splendor of his mentor Cannonball Adderley, and so bookends the tune with original sounds from a date the keyboardist did with the sax icon in the early '70s – complete with an authentic Adderley prattle to the audience about his young cohort.

Bjork - Voltaic (2009) [2CD+2DVD Special Limited Edition] {Polydor}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 782 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 286 Mb
DVD9+DVD5 -> 10.0 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | LPCM, 2 ch / DTS, 6 ch / Dolby AC3, 6 ch | ~ 2h 40m | ISO Images
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© 2009 Polydor / Wellhart / One Little Indian | 1797269
Rock / Experimental Rock / Electronic / Alternative / Indie Rock

Leave it to Björk to make a concert release that can be treated as part of her regular body of work rather than a side note. While Björk fans have occasionally complained about the amount of repackaging of her albums, Voltaic reaffirms just how important the live aspect is to her music, and provides a couple of different perspectives on it as well. Volta sparked a particularly inspired and lavish tour that, arguably, ended up being bigger than the actual album was, but tapped into the most dramatic, primal, and elegant aspects of Björk's art overall.

Various Artists - Thriller Jazz (2006)
compilation of tracks from 1963-76
EAC | FLAC tracks +CUE +LOG +600 dpi Full Scans = 351 Mb | RAR 3% | RS
Genre: Jazz | Label: Verve Records | Catalog Number: 06024 9837439

…Take a gander at the track list: from Basie doing the theme from M-Squad and Lalo Schifrin's original Dirty Harry theme to the James Taylor Quartet's acid jazz reading of the Starsky and Hutch theme, the strange, spacy reading of Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft" by the Alfred Hauser Orchestra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. wailing on "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" for the Baretta TV show, this set is all killer, no filler and highly recommended. For the most part, these are indeed jazz versions of these tunes, but there are no extended improvisations or academic strategies employed to cool them off. If anything, the joy most of these performers take in interpreting this material loosens them up considerably.