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Leon's Creation - This Is The Beginning (1970/2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 12, 2022
Leon's Creation - This Is The Beginning (1970/2018)

Leon's Creation - This Is The Beginning (1970/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:36:22 | 242 Mb
Soul, Funk | Label: Acid Jazz Records

San Fransisco late 1960, two of the biggest groups to emerge from this scene were Santana and Sly and The Family Stone. For a while they were two of the biggest acts in the US and scores of local bands tried to follow in their footsteps. They were hard acts to follow and very few got to the stage of making a 45, never mind a whole LP.

Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 3, 2022
Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)

Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 171 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 113 Mb | Scans included
Label: Warner Bros. Records | # 3165-2 | Time: 00:32:25
Blues, Ragtime, Guitar Jazz, Folk Jazz, Standards

From the opening track, "Champagne Charlie," to the dazzling finale, "T.B. Blues," Leon Redbone presents an introspective collection of blues and big band melodies in timeless fashion, a rare feat because of its release date in 1978. The record was highly acclaimed and regarded as the purest of jazz and classic blues by a remarkable legend and icon in this musical form. Most of the record, like the amiable "Sweet Sue (Just You)" and memorable "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)," is filled with the best that blues and ragtime has to offer. The music itself is quite light and jolly during the more uplifting moments, with others such as "I Hate a Man Like You" very depressing and sorrowful. The band backing up Redbone is delightful, filled with jubilant horns, oboes, and trumpets. "T.B. Blues" closes out this record as a charming look back into the world of blues via pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. Two melodies written and composed by giant Jelly Roll Morton are featured here, with fresh and stunning new arrangements by Leon Redbone and company, "If Someone Would Only Love Me" and "I Hate a Man Like You".
Léon Berben - Van Noordt: Tabulatuurboeck van Psalmen en Fantasyen (2023)

Léon Berben - Van Noordt: Tabulatuurboeck van Psalmen en Fantasyen (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 669 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 358 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:35:42
Classical | Label: Ramée, Outhere Music

Very little is known about the life of Anthoni van Noordt. Following in the tradition of Jan Piertszoon Sweelinck, he was organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam from 1664. After the death of Dirck Sweelinck in 1652, the van Noordt family became Amsterdam's most important musical family. The van Hagerbeer organ in the Pieterskerk in Leiden, a large 17th-century Dutch city organ with a wide variety of stops, is particularly well suited for the performance of van Noordt's music. The organ still has many of the characteristics of a traditional Renaissance organ, but the earlier preference for strongly contrasting timbres has given way to greater homogeneity, generally tending towards a somewhat darker sound. Also new is the striving for solemnity and weight, expressed above all in the disposition of a 24' in the Hauptwerk and a Trompete 16' in the Pedal

Big Leon Brooks - Let's Go To Town (1982) [Reissue 1994]  Music

Posted by gribovar at July 21, 2023
Big Leon Brooks - Let's Go To Town (1982) [Reissue 1994]

Big Leon Brooks - Let's Go To Town (1982) [Reissue 1994]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 295 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 126 MB | Covers - 13 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Earwig Music (CD4931)

There is such joy and power to the music heard on this CD that it is difficult to believe that Big Leon Brooks passed away before the record was released. This is a reissue of an LP from the B.O.B. label and it features Brooks at his best. One of the top blues harmonica players based in Chicago in the '50s, Brooks had drug problems and quit the music business altogether in 1957. Nineteen years later quite by accident he returned to playing blues and he was busy for a few years before heart problems caused him to scale back before his death. On Let's Go to Town his gruff vocals are effective and the backup musicians (which are usually guitarist Louis Myers, bassist Bob Stroger and drummer Odie Payne, Jr.) are perfect for this mixture of blues and jump tunes, and the set has plenty of variety in the blues idiom. This is a perfect last testament for Big Leon Brooks, a great if underrated bluesman.
Léon Berben - Antonio De Cabezón: Tientos, diferencias y glosadas (2018)

Léon Berben - Antonio De Cabezón: Tientos, diferencias y glosadas (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Covers included | 01:18:43 | 511 Mb
Classical | Label: Aeolus

Virtuoso keyboard music of the early 16th century: Léon Berben plays works by Antonio de Cabezón on one of the oldest organs in the world, the Gothic organ of St.Andreas in Soest-Ostönnen.

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970) [DCC, GZS-1049]  Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 19, 2020
Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970) [DCC, GZS-1049]

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1993 | DCC, GZS-1049 | ~ 358 or 139 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 50 Mb
Southern Rock

Leon Russell never quite hit all the right notes the way he did on his eponymous debut. He never again seemed as convincing in his grasp of Americana music and themes, never again seemed as individual, and never again did his limited, slurred bluesy voice seem as ingratiating…

Léon Berben - Matthias Weckmann: Complete Organ Works (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 11, 2021
Léon Berben - Matthias Weckmann: Complete Organ Works (2020)

Léon Berben - Matthias Weckmann: Complete Organ Works (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 746 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 371 Mb | Covers included | 02:30:51
Classical | Label: Aeolus Music

For the first time Matthias Weckmann's complete organ works have now been recorded on instruments from the early 17th century and thus on truly appropriate organs. The choice of the Stellwagen organ in the Jakobikirche in Lübeck and the Scherer organ in the Stephanuskirche in Tangermünde make this recording a real highlight - of course as Super Audio CDs in stereo and surround sound…
Leon Berben - Joan Cabanilles: Tientos, Pasacalles y Gallardas (2008)

Leon Berben - Joan Cabanilles: Tientos, Pasacalles y Gallardas (2008)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:18:00 | 456 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Aeolus | Catalog: 10671

Joan Cabanilles worked for most of his life in Valencia, whose magnficent cathedral was a reminder of that trading city's glorious past. Organist Léon Berben plays an organ not in that cathedral, but an instrument in Basque country from the middle of the eighteenth century. It's a magnificent choice, and this collection of Cabanilles organ pieces would be worth the money for the graphic design alone. Check the booklet cover reproduction of the screaming faces painted on some of the organ pipes, for a start. Annotator Miguel Bernal Ripoll, whose words appear in English, French, Spanish, and German, writes that "Cabanilles appears like a Janus-headed deity with one face turned toward the past and the other definitely towards the future.

Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)  Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 22, 2022
Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)

Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 157 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 80 Mb
Label: Warner Bros. | # 2971-2 | Time: 00:34:57 | Scans ~ 94 Mb
Blues, Ragtime, Guitar Jazz, Folk Jazz, Standarts

Leon Redbone followed up his debut long-player On the Track (1975) with Double Time (1977), an equally enchanting, if not somewhat eclectic blend, of jazz, folk, blues and pop standards – all in Redbone's undeniably distinct throaty baritone. While the tunes may be familiar, these renderings are steeped in the artist's unique sensibilities. The results are uniformly ingenious and commence with a New Orleans ragtime flavored interpretation of Blind Boy Blake's dirty "Diddy Wa Diddie" blues. Augmenting Redbone's acoustic guitar is an extended cast of session stalwarts and a host of other musical notables – such as Milt Hinton (bass), Jonathan Dorn (tuba), Vic Dickenson (trombone) and Jo Jones (drums). Don McLean (banjo) sits in, supplying his criminally underutilized instrumental versatility on the endearing revamp of Jimmie Rodgers' "Mississippi Delta Blues." The decidedly demented reading of "Sheik of Araby" is nothing short of inspired insanity. Redbone incorporates a Screamin' Jay Hawkins-esque persona belting out a variety of hoots, snorts, howls and hob-gobbles set behind a hot-steppin' fret board flurry à la Django Reinhardt.

Leon Redbone - From Branch To Branch (1981)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 26, 2023
Leon Redbone - From Branch To Branch (1981)

Leon Redbone - From Branch To Branch (1981)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 179 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 96 Mb | Scans included
Label: Emerald City, ATCO | # 38136-2 | Time: 00:34:26
Blues, Ragtime, Guitar Jazz, Folk Jazz, Standards

From Branch to Branch is the fourth studio album by Leon Redbone, released in 1981. It was his first on Atlantic Records and peaked at No. 152 on the Billboard 200 chart.