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VA - Sunday at the Riverside - The Best Time Jazz Piano (Remastered) (2017/2024)

VA - Sunday at the Riverside - The Best Time Jazz Piano (Remastered) (2017/2024)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 3.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.7 GB
12:39:09 | Jazz | Label: The Intense Media / Fermata

The piano trio in Jazz - it does not get more essential than this. On these ten CDs fifteen excellent alliances of piano, bass, and drums present prime examples of what has often been called Jazz' "chamber music". A perfect and poignant introduction to the genre, this collection of nineteen original albums also serves as a beautiful reminder of just how diverse this instrumental combination could be made to sound in the late 50s and early 60s. Just listen to the way a standard like Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love" is interpreted by Bill Evans with his trio of Scott La Faro on bass and Paul Motian on drums or by Barry Harris, who also played with Miles Davis back in his hometown of Detroit, when accompanied by Joe Benjamin and Elvin Jones. Or how differently "Caravan" sounds when played by Thelonious Monk on his tribute to Duke Ellington or by the eminent Kenny Drew. Take away the bio- and discographic details and all musicological mumbo jumbo and the music will speak for itself, always deeply touching and emotionally sublime, perfectly suited for a Sunday at the riverside - or any other weekday or location for that matter.

Gerald Finley, Julius Drake - Samuel Barber: Songs (2007)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 7, 2019
Gerald Finley, Julius Drake - Samuel Barber: Songs (2007)

Gerald Finley, Julius Drake - Samuel Barber: Songs (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67528 | Time: 01:02:14

Baritone Gerald Finley's generous selection of Barber's songs includes two of his most familiar cycles, 11 individual songs, and Dover Beach, for baritone and string quartet. The songs all come from Barber's early period and range from "There is nae Lark," written when he was 17, to the Hermit Songs of 1953. Finley doesn't have a huge voice, but he can deliver plenty of power when required, and he has an appealing warmth and ease. His delivery is refreshingly free and unmannered, and it is ideally suited to the directness of Barber's songs. He shows wonderful sensitivity to the texts and makes even the most overdone songs, such as "The Daisies," sound convincing and newly imagined. The Hermit Songs are sung almost exclusively by women, perhaps because of the tradition that Barber established when he gave the premiere performance accompanying Leontyne Price, whose recording remains a gold standard. The texts, mostly written by Medieval Irish monks, largely reflect a male perspective, and Finley's fine performance ought to give courage to more men to take up the cycle.
VA - Ultimate Classics: The Essential Masterpieces (2006) (5 CD Box Set)

VA - Ultimate Classics: The Essential Masterpieces (2006) (5 CD Box Set)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | 5 CDs, 05:57:16 min | Covers included | 1,66 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Decca

Decca's Ultimate Classics is a five-CD box set that presents the best-known pieces of classical music in a straightforward, no-frills program. Most of the selections are quite famous, taken from larger works by such great masters as Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and many others, so beginners and casual listeners are sure to find many of the most familiar melodies here. The information provided with the set consists only of tracklistings and identification of performers, so there is no material on the background of the music, the composers' lives, or the original albums these recordings appeared on.

John Coltrane - Live in Paris (1973) [Reissue 2006]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Nov. 9, 2024
John Coltrane - Live in Paris (1973) [Reissue 2006]

John Coltrane - Live in Paris (1973) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 312 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Passport/Just Jazz (CD-1055)

Charly's live John Coltrane recordings from '61, '63, and '65 reveal just how much the tenor and soprano saxophonist's playing changed in the first half of the decade: a sonic shift from aggressive tonality to unfettered exploration. While the 1965 disc, Live In Paris, does find Coltrane covering familiar song territory with "Naima," "Impressions," and "Afro Blue," it also shows him dismissing solo structure in favor of volcanic flights. The record features the saxophonist's classic quartet of pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones, and bassist Jimmy Garrison recorded at the Antibes festival and the Selel Pleyel in Paris; these concerts were not only part of Coltrane's last European tour, but would also mark the beginning of the end for the group (Tyner and Jones, traditionalists at heart, would soon depart in the face of their boss' increasing need for freedom, being replaced by Alice Coltrane and Rahsied Ali respectively)…

Paula Harris - Speakeasy (2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at June 1, 2019
Paula Harris - Speakeasy (2019)

Paula Harris - Speakeasy (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 514 MB | Tracks: 16 | 76:13 min
Style: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues | Label: Blu Gruv Music

Paula Harris made quite a statement when it came to her 2012 debut, Turning On The Naughty, with its rambunctious and bawdy blues presentation. It was a prime display of what had garnered her a third-place showing at the International Blues Challenge. It has been a few years, but Paula is back with her new disc and it is a completely different direction from that first release. Speakeasy is a very easy-listening acoustic jazzy blues style that her voice is suited to without a doubt. This is the kind of lounge-like feel you would expect from the likes of a Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughn. It’s music that you want to turn on in a dark room lit only by the glow of the fireplace and snuggled up to your significant other.

Make: Action: Movement, Light, and Sound with Arduino and Raspberry Pi (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at July 16, 2019
Make: Action: Movement, Light, and Sound with Arduino and Raspberry Pi (Repost)

Simon Monk, "Make: Action: Movement, Light, and Sound with Arduino and Raspberry Pi"
English | ISBN: 1457187795 | 2016 | PDF/EPUB/MOBI | 360 pages | 140 MB/140 MB/244 MB

Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations [Repost]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ChrisRedfield at Nov. 28, 2017
Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations [Repost]

Peter Monk - Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations
Published: 2003-06-19 | ISBN: 0198508883 | PDF | 464 pages | 7.31 MB

The Tao of the Side Hustle: A Buddhist Martial Arts Approach to Your New Business  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Nov. 15, 2022
The Tao of the Side Hustle: A Buddhist Martial Arts Approach to Your New Business

The Tao of the Side Hustle: A Buddhist Martial Arts Approach to Your New Business by Don Hyun Kiolbassa
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637741960 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.13 MB

Your pay isn't keeping up with the cost of living. Student debt weighs you down. Job opportunities just aren't there, and you feel like you're falling farther and farther behind.

People and Computers XVI - Memorable Yet Invisible: Proceedings of HCI 2002  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Feb. 21, 2019
People and Computers XVI - Memorable Yet Invisible: Proceedings of HCI 2002

People and Computers XVI - Memorable Yet Invisible: Proceedings of HCI 2002 By Andrew F. Monk (auth.), Xristine Faulkner BA PGCE, PGDip, MSc, Janet Finlay BA, Ms, Dphil, Françoise Détienne (eds.)
2002 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 1852336595 | PDF | 16 MB
Tim Ray with Terri Lyne Carrington & John Patitucci - Excursions and Adventures (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tim Ray with Terri Lyne Carrington & John Patitucci - Excursions and Adventures (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 65:56 minutes | 1.43 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

For a lot of jazz fans, the interest in this album will lie more with the side players than the leader, and fair enough. Tim Ray is a talented and accomplished pianist, but because much of his career has been spent playing behind pop artists—Lyle Lovett, most notably, but also Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt and Jane Siberry—his name is less likely to ring bells than the names of drummer Teri Lynne Carrington or bassist John Patitucci. And to be honest, listening to Carrington and Patitucci mix it up on tracks like the angular, funky “Messiaen’s Gumbo” is one of this album’s greater pleasures.