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The Jazz Explorers - Standard Exposure (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 5, 2023

The Jazz Explorers - Standard Exposure (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:04 minutes | 940 MB
Mainstream Jazz | Label: amm, Official Digital Download

Born 20. jan. 1966 in Copenhagn, Denmark. Søren Lee (Born January 20, 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Jazz guitarist and composer. He started playing guitar at age of 10, took guitar lessons for about two years with a private teacher and began his professional career at 15. He performed with his own band in smaller places around Copenhagen. At 16 he started playing with the funk band “Tonight” that Achieved big success around Denmark played around 4 gigs a week in two years.

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Noah Haidu - Standards II (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 11, 2024

Noah Haidu - Standards II (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 60:36 minutes | 1,19 GB
Mainstream Jazz | Label: Sunnyside Records, Official Digital Download

Pianist Noah Haidu sees a certain irony in his current recorded output. “I love composing but improvisation has always been my greatest passion. When I started releasing music in 2011 I relied on my songwriting to make a unique artistic statement, but I’ve come full circle and realized that finding my own voice on a simple, unadorned standard is a rare and necessary endeavor.” Haidu embraced that endeavor on his 2023 release Standards, and on Standards II, due out April 12, 2024 on Sunnyside Records. The new album is a breathtaking masterpiece featuring Haidu with two of the music’s most esteemed players, Buster Williams on bass and Billy Hart on drums.

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Fania All Stars - Delicate And Jumpy (1976/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 10, 2023

Fania All Stars - Delicate And Jumpy (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 37:39 minutes | 1,3 GB
Funk, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz | Label: Craft Recordings, Official Digital Download

Good crossover album from Fania All-Stars featuring the track "Picadillo" - tough, tough Nu Yorican latin-jazz-funk-soul tune!

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Harry Allen & Martin Sasse - Live At Bird's Eye (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 21, 2022

Harry Allen & Martin Sasse - Live At Bird's Eye (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:33 minutes | 579 MB
Mainstream Jazz | Label: JazzJazz, Official Digital Download

A very special "summit meeting": U.S. saxophonist Harry Allen meets Cologne pianist Martin Sasse at Basel's "Bird's Eye."

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Alex Kautz - Where We Begin (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 5, 2024

Alex Kautz - Where We Begin (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 48:46 minutes | 1 GB
Mainstream Jazz, Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova | Label: Sunnyside Records, Official Digital Download

As drummer Alex Kautz sees it, there are two parts to his musical brain: the Brazilian side, developed while growing up in São Paolo, and the jazz side, which came later, opening his ears to a wide world of musical possibilities. Those two approaches developed separately for Kautz and were initially fueled by different inspirations. Upon moving to New York City in 2007, though, he found a musical community that encouraged both, soon pushing him to new heights. “New York makes you find your uniqueness as a musician,” Kautz explains. “You really need to find a voice to fit. There are so many people playing so well and so many artists with their own ideas.

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Fania All Stars - Spanish Fever (1978/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 17, 2023

Fania All Stars - Spanish Fever (1978/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:47 minutes | 1,48 GB
Salsa, Latin Jazz | Label: Craft Recordings, Official Digital Download

"This is not straight-up salsa, or any of the Latin music varieties one typically associates with Fania. This is salsa-flavored disco. The Fania touches elevate the material above standard-fare 70's club tracks, but the Washington Heights fire is no where to be found. Still, any of these tracks would add a little spice to a vintage disco set."

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Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa - Inner Voices (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 27, 2024

Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa - Inner Voices (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 53:40 minutes | 1 GB
Contemporary Jazz, Chamber Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Latin Jazz | Label: ACT Music, Official Digital Download

Pianist Jan Lundgren from Ystad in Sweden and guitarist Yamandu Costa, from Brazil’s southernmost province Rio Grande del Sur might seem an unlikely pairing, and the combination of guitar and piano is well known to be fraught with difficulty. But the collaborative affinity of this duo, the chemistry which they have found through playing together, first in a handful of concerts, and now on this fine album, are something truly exceptional.

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BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 17, 2023

BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 45:42 minutes | 570 MB
Alternative Rock, Experimental Rock, World | Label: Glitterbeat Records, Official Digital Download

BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a groundbreaking new album.

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Janacek & Dvorak - Sinfonietta & Symphony From The New World - Anima Eterna Brugge (2015) {Alpha 206 Official Digital Download} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Feb. 5, 2017

Janacek & Dvorak - Sinfonietta & Symphony From The New World - Anima Eterna Brugge (2015) {Alpha 206 Official Digital Download}
FLAC (tracks) - 44kHz/16 bit - Official Digital Download (qobuz.com) -> 360 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 200 Mb | Artwork (pdf+jpg) | 5% repair rar
© 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music | Alpha 206
Classical / Romantic / Orchestral / Symphony

Two glorious Czech masterpieces are presented on this 2014 release from Alpha, performed on period instruments by the exceptional Anima Eterna Brugge, directed by Jos van Immerseel. Considering that Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World" was completed in 1893, and Leos Janácek's Sinfonietta dates from 1926, and the period instruments movement mostly has been concerned with Baroque and Classical era works, original instrumentation might strike some listeners as odd. Yet performances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries called for instruments that differ substantially in construction and tone quality from modern models, and the variety of timbres was much greater with handmade instruments than the homogenized sounds of today's mass-produced woodwinds and brass.

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George Jackson & Ensemble InterContemporain - Steve Reich: Reich/Richter (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 10, 2022

George Jackson & Ensemble InterContemporain - Steve Reich: Reich/Richter (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 36:39 minutes | 400 MB
Classical | Label: Nonesuch Records, Official Digital Download

Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich’s Reich/Richter, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson, on June 10, 2022, with the vinyl due August 5. The composition was originally written to be performed with German visual artist Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz’s film Moving Picture (946-3).

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