Jazz

Modern Jazz Quartet - Milestones of a Legend (2016) [10CD Box Set]

Modern Jazz Quartet - Milestones of a Legend (2016)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
The Intense Media, 600313 | ~ 3732 or 1756 Mb | Artwork(png) -> 74 Mb
Cool Jazz, Bop

This box is a musical treat for all jazz fans, as no less than 20 original albums by the Modern Jazz Quartet are released here on ten CDs…

VA - The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 (1996)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 16, 2022
VA - The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 (1996)

VA - The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 (1996)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 463 MB
1:17:23 | Soul-Jazz, Space-Age, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Universal Sound / Black Jazz Records

When Los Angeles-born, Oakland-based pianist-turned-producer Gene Russell co-founded Black Jazz in 1971, the 39-year-old journeyman was just two years removed from a small-trio release on Decca that landed squarely in the lighthearted, pop-friendly, ‘Up-Up And Away’ and ‘Born Free’-covering world of cocktail-bar jazz. But with the turn-of-the-seventies emergence of revolutionary developments from electric Miles to the spiritual directions of Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane – and all sorts of funky mutations in Russell’s soul-jazz wheelhouse, to boot – the tight-knit collection of artists he assembled took full advantage of all the possibilities that lay ahead for jazz in the young decade.

VA - Jazz Appreciation (2022)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at April 19, 2022
VA - Jazz Appreciation (2022)

VA - Jazz Appreciation (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 269 MB | Cover | 49:10 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 113 MB
Jazz | Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.

Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) is a music festival held every April in the United States, in honor of jazz as an early American art form. JAM was created in 2001 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. It became a national extension of the original Jazz Awareness Month created by the Louisiana Jazz Federation in New Orleans in 1980.
VA - The Rough Guide to the Roots of Jazz (Reborn And Remastered) (2021)

VA - The Rough Guide to the Roots of Jazz (Reborn And Remastered) (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 223 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 Mb | 01:16:23
Traditional Jazz | Label: World Music Network

From humble origins in New Orleans to its journey upriver to Chicago, this Rough Guide charts the 1920s “golden age” of jazz with classic tracks by legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & Jelly Roll Morton as well as many other pioneering artists.
Big Band of Brothers - A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band (2019)

Big Band of Brothers - A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:02:56 | 453 Mb
Jazz, Big Band | Label: New West Records

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Allman Brothers debut album, New West Records is proud to present, Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band. This record is a true collection of big band jazz interpretations of Allman Brothers classics. The record features guest vocals by Marc Broussard and Ruthie Foster. Big Band of Brothers also features Jack Pearson on guitar, who has performed as a guest of the Allman Brothers Band on numerous occasions, and actually joined as a member of the band in 1997. Together with Dickey Betts, he completed the band's archetypal guitar duo for nearly 3 years. Wycliffe Gordon (of Jazz at Lincoln Center fame) is also featured as a soloist. Gordon is consistently ranked among leading trombone players in the Downbeat critics poll.
Nancy Wilson - The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions (1996)

Nancy Wilson - The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 130 Mb | Scans included
Label: Capitol Jazz | # CDP 7243 8 53921 2 2 | Time: 00:47:06
Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop, Soul-Jazz

Nancy Wilson's not the first name in bluesy jazz (check out Dinah Washington and Joe Williams for that), but she usually can enliven the form with her sophisticated and sultry style. That's made clear on her rendition of "Stormy Monday Blues," where she eschews blues clichés in favor of a husky airiness, at once referencing a lowdown mood and infusing it with a sense of buoyancy. This split is nicely essayed on Capitol's Blues and Jazz Sessions, as half the tracks ooze with Wilson's cocktail blues tone and the other find the jazz-pop chanteuse in a summery and swinging mood. Ranging from the big band blues of "I've Got Your Number" to the lilting bossa nova "Wave," Wilson handles all the varying dynamics and musical settings with aplomb. Featuring cuts from her '60s prime with the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Oliver Nelson, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and a host of top sidemen, this best-of disc offers a fine, off-the-beaten-path overview of Wilson's Capitol heyday.

V.A. - Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 2 [Recorded 1958-1961] (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at May 22, 2018
V.A. - Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 2 [Recorded 1958-1961] (2000)

V.A. - Jazz & Cinema Vol. 2 [Recorded 1958-1961] (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 274 MB | Covers - 41 MB
Genre: Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (013 044-2)

This compilation in the Verve Jazz in Paris reissue series gathers three separate recording sessions originally issued on various French EP discs. The first four tracks were recorded for the movie Les Tricheurs, with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, and Gus Johnson backing various horn soloists. The title track is a blues, composed on the spot, featuring Stan Getz and Roy Eldridge; the trumpeter easily wins the solo battle as Getz is a bit sloppy with several reed squeaks during his chance. Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, and Eldridge each are individually featured performing originals with the rhythm section, with Gillespie taking top honors for his driving bop tune "Mic's Jump"…
The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble (Wolfgang Dauner's United 2) - Second Generation (2012)

The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble (Wolfgang Dauner's United 2) - Second Generation (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 439 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 151 Mb
Full Scans ~ 110 Mb | 01:02:53 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock | Connector Records #59900-2

Wolfgang Dauner has now been highly active on the scene for more than fifty years. Dauner hired top young musicians to be around him for the current upgrade to United 2.0. The second United generation, like the first one, is eagerly researching the crossing points between jazz, rock, funk and world music. Featuring some of the finest avant-garde jazz players from Germany and beyond the Ensemble began life in 1975. Pianist Wolfgang Dauner, initially recruiting musicians from his home base of Stuttgart (then a hotbed of avant-garde jazz), put together a rotating cast of musicians, and shared writing and arranging duties with guitarist Volker Kriegel. They recorded the first album under the United Jazz+Rock Ensemble name, Live im Schützenhaus, in 1977, to be released on the group's then founded Mood Records label. The album was a hit, eventually becoming the best-selling German jazz record of all times, and the Ensemble was awarded the "Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 1978" for artist of the year, followed by another 14 albums plus a variety of international collaborations.

Astrud Gilberto - Verve Jazz Masters 9 (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 28, 2022
Astrud Gilberto - Verve Jazz Masters 9 (1993)

Astrud Gilberto - Verve Jazz Masters 9 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 276 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb | Time: 00:50:00
Bossa Nova, Brazilian Jazz, Vocal Pop | Label: Verve | # 519 824-2

Astrud Gilberto's entry in the nicely appointed Verve Jazz Masters compilation series shows exactly why the Brazilian singer is deserving of such an accolade. In her '60s heyday, Gilberto was often derided by jazz purists for her vibrato-less "desafinado" (deliberately slightly off-pitch) singing style and deadpan, childlike voice. But the diminutive bossa nova star has since been a huge influence on dozens of jazz and pop singers. VERVE JAZZ MASTERS is less of a greatest hits package than it is a smartly balanced retrospective of many of Gilberto's best performances. Her biggest hits, "Call Me" and "Summer Samba," are not included, and her signature tune, "The Girl From Ipanema," is only represented by a live take from a 1964 Carnegie Hall concert. The collection places equal emphasis on Gilberto's bossa nova-style interpretations of jazz standards and on her signature Portuguese-language sambas.

Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conceptions Of Jazz Box (2008/2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 7, 2021
Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conceptions Of Jazz Box (2008/2017)

Bugge Wesseltoft - New Conceptions Of Jazz Box (2008/2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,24 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 616 Mb | Covers included | 00:43:25
Nu Jazz, Electronic, Deep House | Label: Jazzland Recordings

While the Norwegian jazz scene has been pursuing its own course for decades, the period of 1996-1997 represented a significant watershed, a milestone where an entirely new kind of music emerged, linked to jazz but distanced considerably—some might say completely, but they'd be mistaken—from its roots in the American tradition. Three seminal and groundbreaking albums were released within a year of each other: trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (ECM, 1997); noise improv group Supersilent's 1- 3 (Rune Grammofon, 1997); and, beating the others by a year, keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft's aptly titled New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland, 1996). All three explored the integration of electronics, disparate cultural references, programming, turntables and—especially in the case of Supersilent, the most avant-garde of the three— noise, to create aural landscapes that were innovative, otherworldly and refreshingly new.