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Tyler Morris Band - Next In Line (2018) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 14, 2018

Tyler Morris Band - Next In Line (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, front cover | 274 MB
Label: Vizztone Records ‎– 0634457856721 | Tracks: 10 | Time: 40:30 min
Blues Rock

Tyler’s new album Next In Line will be released in February 2018 through the VizzTone label group and Redeye Worldwide distribution. For this album, Tyler worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Paul Nelson (Johnny Winter) and incorporated guest appearances by Joe Louis Walker and the Uptown Horns.

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Bobby Watson - From The East Side (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at March 16, 2018

Saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator Bobby Watson is an adroit jazz performer with an aggressive, fluid style influenced by his early years with drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Watson's playing is steeped in the roadhouse blues tradition of his native city. He got his formal education at the University of Miami, where his fellow students included Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Bruce Hornsby. After graduating in 1975, he moved to New York City, where he made his solo debut with 1977's E.T.A., followed two years later by All Because of You.

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Bongwool Lee - My Singing Fingers (2018) Music

Posted by gribovar at May 25, 2018

Bongwool Lee - My Singing Fingers (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 262 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Front cover
Genre: Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Origin Records

From Seoul, Korea, New York-based jazz pianist and composer Bongwool Lee was exposed to music from an early age and was quickly considered a musical prodigy, winning Korea's acclaimed Samik Competition at 7. Her focus later shifted from Classical to the world of Jazz upon hearing Oscar Peterson on the radio. Earning her Master's at the Manhattan School of Music in 2012, Bongwool has since found herself at the forefront of NYC's Jazz scene. Her debut recording's title, "My Singing Fingers," represents Lee's releasing of her lifetime study of advanced music theory, allowing the melodies and harmonies to flow directly from her head and heart through her fingers. With her newfound musical friends - bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Kendrick Scott - Bongwool offers nine very personal compositions in a rich sonic package that heralds a bright musical future.

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V.A. - Testament Van De Seventies 1970-1979 (10CD Box Set, 2008) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at July 6, 2018

V.A. - Testament Van De Seventies 1970-1979 (10CD Box Set, 2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image + .cue, log) | Run Time: 12:15:57 | 4,72 Gb
Genre: Pop Rock, Disco, Soul, New Wave, Soft Rock | Label: USM, BR Music

Superlatives are inadequate for the box record company Universal Music recently released. Two hundred hits on ten CDs, hundreds of hits and a lot of TV and news clips on five DVDs and then another book as reference book. It can not be on. The disadvantage of the Testament of the Seventies is that for a hundred euros a hefty investment. The advantage that you are now ready to be a hit with your Seventies Collection.

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Lola Kirke - Heart Head West (2018) Music

Posted by aasana at Aug. 11, 2018

Lola Kirke - Heart Head West (2018)
Alternative, Singer & Songwriter | 00:37:07 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 235 MB
Label: Downtown Records

For the native New Yorker, the west may seem as foreign a land as some faraway country. Heading out west for the first time often carries its own mythology: a promise of bucolic transformation and reflection, where the industrial soul of the city dweller might find clarity amongst the badlands. It’s a fabled promise that Lola Kirke seems to seek through sound: On her debut full-length Heart Head West, the Manhattan-raised singer/songwriter borrows from the rural vestiges of Americana to trail her own answers on love, loss and longing.

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Matthew Whitaker - Connections (2021) Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 26, 2021

“Connections is really about this idea of community, of musicians and family and everyone really, coming back together after being separated for so long,” Whitaker says. “It’s about how grateful I am for the connections we have with each other musically and spiritually as well. More than my other albums, this one has music that was created in the studio, improv moments that happened live. A few of these songs I wrote during the pandemic so I’m happy we were able to record those, and I’m excited. This is more expansive than anything else I’ve done!”

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Konrad Paszkudzki Trio - Isn't Romantic - Richard Rodgers Song Book (2017) [Reissue 2020] Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 21, 2021

Konrad Paszkudzki Trio - Isn't Romantic - Richard Rodgers Song Book (2017) [Reissue 2020]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 318 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 127 MB | Covers - 30 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Venus Records (VHCD-78334)

Established in Miami, on life support in L.A., then finally burnished in New York City, the Konrad Paszkudzki Trio's aesthetic can be summed up in three words: mood, sizzle and swing. Their sound is classic yet timeless in its mode of expression, captivating ardent lovers of the jazz idiom and Tin Pan Alley tradition alike.
The focus is on standards - tunes collectively known as The Great American Song Book. Without imposing trite gimmicks or relying on overt displays of flash and technical wizardry, the trio stays true to the original musical and lyrical content of the material, with an emphasis on melodic elegance and swinging verve. The influence of Nelson Riddle, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner and Ahmad Jamal can be felt and heard, but is never blatantly mimicked…

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Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime (2007) Music

Posted by Designol at April 8, 2024

Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and her first for Blue Note Records. It was released on July 17, 2007. Beauty & Crime won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on February 11, 2008. On Beauty & Crime, Suzanne Vega's Blue Note Records debut, the Manhattan native uses New York City as the backdrop for a collection of eleven new songs that juxtapose acoustic guitar-driven melodies with coolly synthesized beats; intensely personal lyrics with compelling, short story-like narratives; images of today's scarred cityscape with memories of Vega's old Upper West Side 'hood and Lower East Side haunts. The past commingles with the present, the public with the private, familiar sounds with the utterly new, just like the city itself. Making her first new studio album in six years, Vega says, "I feel like I really stretched my limits. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone–to sing in keys I wouldn't have sung in before, to work with different textures, to be unafraid of doing what ever sounded good to me. I wanted to make a modern classic."

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Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane (2005) 4CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at May 5, 2024

4 CD Set, 32 tracks, 36-page booklet. Documentation in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Ice and fire they were: a two-horned paradox. Offstage, one was quiet, pensive, self-critical to a fault, practising obsessively. The other was cocksure, demanding; running with friends rather than running scales. But on the bandstand and on record, they reversed roles. John Coltrane, with saxophone in hand, became the unbridled one: long-winded, garrulous. When Miles Davis raised his trumpet, he played the sensitive introvert, blowing brief, hushed tones, exuding vulnerability. Their names now command reverence, and rarely induce less than eulogy. The music they created together during an almost five-year union still resonates, entrances, influences and sells, sells, sells.

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Evie Sands - Women In Prison (1998) Music

Posted by Domestos at June 11, 2019

Evie Sands - Women In Prison (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 257.34 Mb + 185.45 Mb (Scans) | 46:40
Country Rock, Blues Rock | Label: Train Wreck Records - TW009

EVIE SANDS is a legend in her own time: emotive blue-eyed soul singer, naturally funky guitarist, indelibly compelling performer, close-the-door sultry songwriter, meticulous professional, intuitive and perceptive producer, bountiful band mate, and a musician’s musician. Amongst pop aficionados she is a bona-fide treasure. No less than Dusty Springfield cited her as a favorite singer. She was widely seen on TV,including American Bandstand, Hullabaloo, Shindig, The Tonight Show, Where The Action Is, Hollywood A Go-Go, Everly Brothers, Glen Campbell, and Johnny Cash shows. In the United Kingdom she is revered as a Northern Soul icon (“Billy Sunshine” and “Picture Me Gone”) whose pulsating vinyl records are sought after and cherished.

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