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Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin (1964) {2006 DSD Japan Mini LP Edition, SICP-1214}
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© 2006 Sony Music Japan / Columbia | SICP 1214 | DSD | HQD High Quality Disc
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

Miles in Berlin is an album recorded on September 25, 1964 by the Miles Davis Quintet at the Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, Germany. Finally this classic set by the Second Quintet is widely available in the US. Berlin isn't quite as clean as Funny Valentine and Four and More, the trumpet is clearly overloading the input level here and there, you can hear the distortion. But don't let that put you off. this is another incredible performance by The Mile Davis Quintet. Reissue Producer: Michael Cuscuna and Bob Belden. Mastered by Mark Wilder.

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain (1960) {2006 DSD Japan Mini LP Edition, SICP-1207}
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© 2006 Sony Music Japan / Columbia | SICP 1207 | DSD | HQD High Quality Disc
Jazz / Cool / Modal Music / Trumpet

Along with Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, and Round About Midnight, Sketches of Spain is one of Miles Davis' most enduring and innovative achievements. Recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 – after Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley had left the band – Davis teamed with Canadian arranger Gil Evans for the third time. Davis brought Evans the album's signature piece, "Concierto de Aranjuez," after hearing a classical version of it at bassist Joe Mondragon's house. Evans was as taken with it as Davis was, and set about to create an entire album of material around it. The result is a masterpiece of modern art.

Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight (1956) {2001 Japan DSD Mastersound, SRCS 9725}
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© 2001 Sony Music Japan / Columbia | SRCS 9725 | DSD Mastering
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Given that Round About Midnight was Miles Davis' debut Columbia recording, it was both a beginning and an ending. Certainly the beginning of his recording career with the label that issued most if not all of his important recordings; and the recording debut of an exciting new band that had within its ranks Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, pianist Red Garland, and an all but unknown tenor player named John Coltrane. The title track was chosen because of its unique rendition with a muted trumpet, debuted at the Newport Jazz Festival the summer before to a thunderous reception.

Miles Davis - Miles Ahead (1957) {2000 SME Master Sound DSD Japan SRCS 9703}
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© 2000 SME Records / Sony Music Japan | SRCS 9703 | DSD
Jazz / Cool / Experimental Big Band / Modern Creative / Trumpet

This album is perhaps most significant for the process it set in motion – the collaboration between Gil Evans and Miles Davis that would produce Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain, two of Davis' best albums. That said, this album is a miracle in itself, the result of a big gamble on the part of Columbia Records, who put together Evans and Davis, who hadn't worked together since recording the critically admired but commercially unsuccessful sides that would later be issued as The Birth of the Cool.

Miles Davis - 1958 Miles (1958) {DSD Sony Japan 2001, SRCS 9744}
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© 2001 Columbia / Sony Japan | SRCS 9744 | Master Sound | DSD Mastering
Jazz / Modal Music / Hard Bop / Trumpet

Some of the greatest Miles Davis material ever recorded – and not really ever officially issued as an album until this collection! The recordings are from the magical year of 1958, a time when Miles was working in the Kind Of Blue mode – on the album of the same name, one of his all-time standout classics. The work on this set is in a very similar spirit – recorded by a sextet that includes the rhythm section of Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, and a young Bill Evans, who brings a magically modal feel to the album that really gives it an edge. Added to that are the saxophones of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, blowing together in two ends of the soul spectrum, really stretching the color palette from Miles' usual work.

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (1958) {2009 Analogue Productions DSD Remaster}
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© 2009 Blue Note / Analogue Productions / EMI | CBNJ 84003 SA
Jazz / Hard Bop

Art Blakey's most successful album gave us Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" and Benny Golson's "Along Came Betty" and "Blues March," tunes so powerful that Blakey played them almost every night for the next 30 years. This beautifully performed and recorded session made the Jazz Messengers a jazz institution and put Golson, Timmons and Morgan to the forefront of jazz.

Jean-Marc Luisada - Schubert (2014) {Sony Music Japan DSD}
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© 2014 Sony Music Japan | 88843054212
Classical / Romantic / Piano

French only. C'est le fameux portrait présumé de Schubert, adolescent timide qui semble fuir l'intrusion du peintre assis en face de lui, qui nous invite à l'écoute du dernier album du pianiste Jean-Marc Luisada qui se fait trop rare au disque. Avec des musiciens parfaitement soudés, il nous offre une version particulièrement joyeuse et amicale du Quintette en la majeur, cette Truite que l'on partage dans le plaisir d'une Schubertiade. Comme tout est ici vivant, ensoleillé ; c'est à peine si un voile de mélancolie vient ombrer l'andante à variations. La majeur, la bémol majeur, la mineur, Luisada virevolte avec gourmandise et malice autour de cette note qui se décline sous trois habits différents, un peu comme un peintre (ou un cuisinier) restant dans un camaïeu de couleurs et de goûts.

Ron Wood - 1234 (1981) {2006 Japan Mini LP DSD Remaster}
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© 2006 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | MHCP-1026
Rock / Hard Rock / Blues Rock

Digitally remastered reissue of Ron Wood's album originally released in 1981. DSD remastered in 2006. Includes a special cardboard sleeve case. Every aspect of this Rolling Stone's solo album screams of superstar indulgence, from its bizarre cover shot – look, there's Ron riding a camel under some jets – to co-producer Andy Johns' fawningly surreal back cover exhortation to "don't let anybody tape it because the label needs the money." There's no chance of such an occurrence: three studios are credited – and every track boasts a different lineup.

Brian Eno - Before And After Science (1977) {2004 Virgin DSD Remaster}
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© 2004 Virgin Records / Astralwerks | 7243 5 77292 2 2
Experimental Rock / Avant-Garde / Art Rock / Ambient

Before and After Science is really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (1959) {2003 DSD Remastered SACD Hybrid}
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Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 369 Mb | 5% repair rar | DSD Mastering
© 2003 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | 064935 9
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

Referring to "Kind of Blue" as the best jazz album of all time might actually be doing it a disservice. Jazz is one of those complex artforms which many people shy away from, afraid that they will not be able to understand it. So extoling its virtues might frighten people even more. But "Kind of Blue" is simply beautiful music. When listening to it, you forget everything you might feel about jazz, whether good or bad, and can only listen to it, amazed and excited. Miles Davis has created something so powerful yet full of simple, memorable melodies. Every note takes you further into that state where you simply hush up, tell whoever you are with to shut up, and listen. It is certainly not the type of music I would put on when friends come over for a chat. But it is an album which I can listen to, over and over and over again. Definitely something for MUSIC fans.