Scott Sonnon Rmax 5 Classics With Bonus 2013

Gary Burton - Who Is Gary Burton? (1962) {RCA Victor–Essential Jazz Classics EJC55627 rel 2013} (bonus tracks)
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 478 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 187 Mb
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© 1960-62, 2013 RCA Victor / Essential Jazz Classics | EJC 55627
Jazz / Bop / Post Bop / Vibes

This edition pesents the complete Gary Burton LP Who Is Gary Burton? (RCA Victor LSP-2665), appearing here for the first time ever on CD. It showcases Burton in a septet format accompanied by such stars as Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Tommy Flanagan, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello. The only five quintet tracks from Joe Morello's LP It's About Time, recorded the previous year and also featuring Burton and Woods, have been added here as a bonus. Also are include the complete original LP Subtle Swing (Sesac PM3901/3902), featuring Burton in a quintet format with the leader of the album, guitarist Hank Garland.

Bill Evans - Empathy + Pike's Peak (1962) {Essetial Jazz Classics EJC55565 rel 2013}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 425 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 184 Mb
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© 1962, 2013 Verve / Epic / Essetial Jazz Classics | EJC55565
Jazz / Hard Bop / Piano

This release presents the complete Bill Evans trio album Empathy (Verve LPV6-8497). The LP marks the pianist’s first of only two collaborations with drummer Shelly Manne (the second, A Simple Matter of Conviction, was taped in 1966). Also it is included vibes player Dave Pike’s complete quartet LP Pike’s Peak (Epic LA16025), recorded during the same period and extensively featuring Bill Evans. Both LPs present Evans in unusual contexts, and he would never again record the majority of the songs featured here. As a final bonus, a second version of Gordon Jenkins’ “Goodbye”, taken from a quartet session by Evans with Cannonball Adderley.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bossa Nova U.S.A. (1962) {Essential Jazz Classics EJC55578 rel 2013}
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© 1962, 2013 Columbia / Essential Jazz Classics | EJC55578
Jazz / Cool / West Coast Jazz / Bossa Nova Jazz / Piano

With the popularization of bossa nova in the early '60s, practically every recording artist had to have at least one bossa nova album. This effort by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is better than most due to the high quality of the compositions, of which the title cut is best-known. The date's two standards ("This Can't Be Love" and "Trolley Song") also fare well on this upbeat session.

David Bowie - The Next Day (2013) {Blu-spec CD2 Japan Edition with bonus track}
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© 2013 ISO Records / Columbia Japan | SICP 30127
Rock / Pop Rock / Experimental Rock

First album from David Bowie in 10 years. This deluxe edition contains 18 songs total, including a Japanese edition bonus track "God Bless The Girl" and three bonus tracks. Japanese edition exclusively features the high-fidelity Blu-spec CD2 format (compatible with standard CD players). Comes with lyrics and a description. Digipak. Blu-spec CD2 is the next generation Compact Disc that employs the Phase Transition Mastering, the technology developed for mastering of Blu-ray discs, to further perfect the acclaimed characteristics of Blu-spec CD. Fully compatible with standard CD players, Blu-spec CD2 completely alters the experience of music.

UK three CD set containing a trio of original albums by the Soul poet and activist: Real Eyes, Reflections and Moving Target. Each disc comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve and all three are housed in an attractive slipcase.

Five albums from Joe Satriani – picked seemingly at random but not unappealingly – are collected on this budget-priced 2013 box set. The albums here – Surfing with the Alien, Engines of Creation, Strange Beautiful Music, Is There Love in Space?, Super Colossal – arguably showcase Satriani at his best, even if they don't focus on any particular time…

Bettye Crutcher - Long As You Love Me (1974) {Stax Records CDSXD141 rel 2013} (with bonus tracks)
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© 1974, 2013 Stax Records / Ace Records / Concord | CDSXD 141
R&B / Soul / Jazz / Modern Soul

Bettye Crutcher was not the first female song writer at Stax – Carla Thomas and Deanie Parker, for example, beat her to that particular punch – but she may well be the most commercially successful of all the Memphis label’s female tunesmiths, if only for her participation in the composition of Johnnie Taylor’s ‘Who’s Making Love’, one of the company’s biggest hits. Bettye’s “Long As You Love Me” album is one of the best-kept secrets in the entire Stax catalogue.

Sonny Stitt Quartet with Don Patterson - Low Flame + Feelin's (1962) {Essential Jazz Classics EJC55616 rel 2013}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 460 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 190 Mb
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© 1962, 2013 Roost / Jazzland / Essential Jazz Classics | EJC55616 | 24bit remaster
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone / Organ

This release presents two complete original albums showcasing Sonny Stitt in a quartet setting with organist Don Patterson: Low Flame (Jazzland JLP971; 1962) and Feelin's (Roost LPS2247; 1962). On the two LPs, the group is completed by Paul Weeden on guitar and Billy James on drums. While Stitt and Patterson cut plenty of albums together, the sessions included here mark the entire recorded output by this exact quartet.