Trio Alberto Reforms (2000)

Steve Kuhn Trio - Quiereme Mucho (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 11, 2024
Steve Kuhn Trio - Quiereme Mucho (2000)

Steve Kuhn Trio - Quiereme Mucho (2000)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 291 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 102 MB | Covers - 49 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Venus Records (TKCV-35520)

Veteran pianist Steve Kuhn and his trio (with bassist David Finck and drummer Al Foster) dig into six Spanish and Mexican melodies with Quiereme Mucho, turning them into straight-ahead jazz. Latin rhythms are largely absent from a set that includes "Andalucia" ("The Breeze and I"), an up-tempo "Besame Mucho" and "Time Was" ("Duerme"). The music in general is boppish and full of wit, with Kuhn often quoting other unexpected songs along the way. Finck and Foster have their brief spots but this is largely Steve Kuhn's show. The music may have been largely de-Latinized but the result is one of Kuhn's most swinging recordings.

Pat Metheny - Trio 99 → 00 (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 22, 2021
Pat Metheny - Trio 99 → 00 (2000)

Pat Metheny - Trio 99 → 00 (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 383 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 161 MB | Covers (8 MB) included
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros. Records (9 47632-2)

Mixing up his pitches just to keep his fans off balance as always, Metheny returns to the strict jazz-guitar trio format for the first time in a decade, in league with a couple of combative, unintimidated partners. At the age of 45, Metheny leaves no doubt that he has become a masterful jazz player, thoroughly at home with even the most convoluted bebop licks ("What Do You Want?") yet still as open as ever to ideas outside the narrow mainstream, as illustrated in the country-western-tinged phrasing on "The Sun in Montreal." Bassist Larry Grenadier propels his own voice prominently into the texture, even when walking the fours, and drummer Bill Stewart does not hesitate to go against the grain of Metheny's ideas…

Jacques Loussier Trio - Plays Debussy (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 30, 2021
Jacques Loussier Trio - Plays Debussy (2000)

Jacques Loussier Trio - Plays Debussy (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 216 MB | Covers - 26 MB
Genre: Jazz, Classical | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Telarc (CD-83511)

When Jacques Loussier gave the music of Johann Sebastian Bach the jazz treatment (as others, notably the Modern Jazz Quartet, had before him), it worked really well. The tumbling flow of Bach's contrapuntal lines, the square rhythms that just beg to be played with a swing feel - everything about Bach that makes his music the farthest thing from jazz seems to make jazz adaptations inevitable. The French composer Claude Debussy is a less obvious choice, and on this album you see why. Debussy was a much more impressionistic composer, and his music doesn't have either the rhythmic vitality or the sense of driving tonal logic that fuels the music of Bach. That makes it harder to fit his compositions into a jazz context. That Loussier succeeds as much as he does is a compliment to his sensitivity as a pianist and to his trio's ability to work with him intuitively…

Anouar Brahem - Astrakan Cafe (2000) {ECM 1718}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 2, 2023
Anouar Brahem - Astrakan Cafe (2000) {ECM 1718}

Anouar Brahem - Astrakan Cafe (2000) {ECM 1718}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 345MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 238MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Ethnic Fusion

Innovative Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem presents this highly-acclaimed album of typically Middle Eastern music, recorded in 1999 with a trio that had been his first priority for several years. The improvisational exchanges between Brahem, clarinettist Barbaros Erköse and percussionist Lassad Hosni are exceptionally fluid and the atmospheres they create here are by turns mysterious, hypnotic and dramatic.

Enrico Pieranunzi Trio - Infant Eyes (2000) {Challenge Jazz}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 9, 2021
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio - Infant Eyes (2000) {Challenge Jazz}

Enrico Pieranunzi Trio - Infant Eyes (2000) {Challenge Jazz}
EAC 1.0b1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 354MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 134MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

The first of these is an album dedicated to 11 compositions by the American tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Inspired by John Coltrane, Shorter made the news in the 1960s through his association with the Jazz Messengers, after which he worked intensively with the Miles Davis Quintet for many years, replenishing Davis’s band book with his own compositions. From 1971 to 1986 Shorter was on the move with the successful jazz rock group Weather Report, and since then he has been active with his own groups. The Pieranunzi Trio plays Wayne Shorter with an eye for the finishing touch and a feeling for style.
Al Haig - Al Haig Trio and Sextets (2000) {Period--Fantasy OJCCD-1929-2 rec 1949, 1954}

Al Haig - Al Haig Trio and Sextets (2000) {Period–Fantasy OJCCD-1929-2 rec 1949, 1954}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 139 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 112 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 10 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1949-54, 2000 Period Records / fantasy | OJCCD-1929-2
Jazz / Bop / Piano

By 1949, when the first of these tracks was recorded, Al Haig had made it clear that he was a major jazz artist. He was a favorite colleague of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, and Stan Getz. He was in demand by dozens of other leading players as their accompanist of preference. Many of his peers considered him second only to Bud Powell among bebop pianists.
David Hazeltine Trio - Senor Blues (2000) [Japan 2018] SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

David Hazeltine Trio - Senor Blues (2000) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:54 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,52 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,39 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 675 MB

Unlike many young musicians, pianist David Hazeltine paid extensive dues working and recording as a sideman before a productive flurry of dates of his own during the late '90s, as he neared his 40th birthday. This studio session for the Japanese label Venus, with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Louis Hayes, focuses exclusively on the works of Horace Silver.

Steve Kuhn Trio - Pavane For A Dead Princess (2006)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 12, 2024
Steve Kuhn Trio - Pavane For A Dead Princess (2006)

Steve Kuhn Trio - Pavane For A Dead Princess (2006)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 421 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 166 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Venus Records (TKCV-35361)

Gifted pianist Steve Kuhn has enjoyed a career revival since signing with Venus Records. Pavane For A Dead Princess - a daring jazz rendition of classical compositions - has become huge in Japan and is considered one of Kuhn's definitive works. Kuhn's soft and clever piano turns selections by Ravel, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Faure into exciting jazz. The treatment is so effective that one might not realize at first that these were originally classical pieces.
Alberto Veronesi, Orchestra Guido Cantelli of Milan - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (1998)

Alberto Veronesi, Orchestra Guido Cantelli of Milan - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 668 Mb | Total time: 74:42+69:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9613(2) | Recorded: 1997

By far the best opera based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, is Verdi's Falstaff. But the lazy, cowardly, greedy, overweight, alcohol-soaked, sexually predatory, and somehow (despite everything) endearing antihero is big enough for more than one opera. Salieri's Falstaff is much simpler and smaller in scale than Verdi's, less inventive and energetic. But this is a sophisticated, funny, brightly performed treatment of Falstaff's attempt to woo two married women with identical love notes.
Alberto Zedda, Monte Carlo Orchestra - Vincenzo Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda (1995)

Alberto Zedda, Monte Carlo Orchestra - Vincenzo Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 732 Mb | Total time: 47:59+42:49+72:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM3K 64539 | Recorded: 1986

Bellini’s penultimate opera was received unenthusiastically at its premiere in 1833, and has never attained the popularity of Norma. Early this century it disappeared completely until revived in 1935, as part of the centennial commemoration of the composer’s death. In recent years, its tragic heroine, the wife of a Milanese duke, falsely accused of infidelity and executed at her husband’s command, has been portrayed by such notable bel canto specialists as Joan Sutherland, Leyla Gencer and June Anderson. This dramatically vigorous and well-constructed work contains some of Bellini’s finest and most characteristic melodies, among them a ravishingly beautiful trio, ‘Angiol di pace’. Its neglect for so many years is difficult to comprehend.