Django Bates

Django Bates, Frankfurt Radio Big Band - Saluting Sgt. Pepper (2017) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Nov. 18, 2022

Django Bates, Frankfurt Radio Big Band - Saluting Sgt. Pepper (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 45:23 minutes | 571 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Since his emergence in the 1980s as the driving creative force behind UK big band Loose Tubes, Django Bates has been cheerfully subverting expectations, slaughtering scared cows and generally making a euphonious nuisance of himself, but he’s really gone and done it this time.

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Django Bates Beloved - The Study Of Touch (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Nov. 15, 2023

Django Bates' Belovèd - The Study Of Touch (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 56:24 minutes | 1,04 GMB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, "The Study of Touch". All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio.

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Django Bates - Tenacity (2020) Music

Posted by Domestos at Dec. 25, 2021

It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the All About Jazz article Django Bates: From Zero to Sixty in Five Days, Bates, bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun, along with other non-Norrbotteners, including guitarist Markus Pesonen, tubaist Daniel Herskedal and trombonist/vocalist Ashley Slater, made the lengthy trek to this small coastal town, located just 100 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle (and already experiencing 22 hours of daylight), to collaborate with Norrbotten for an appearance at the first edition of Luleå's New Music Festival. The objective was for Bates and his band mates to bring a brand new book of music to life, the pianist largely expanding arrangements of Belovèd's existing repertoire, but also including a commissioned new work from the festival.

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Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette, Django Bates - Live from the Philharmonie de Paris (2018) HDTV, 1080i] Music

Posted by v3122 at April 11, 2018

Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette, Django Bates - Live from the Philharmonie de Paris (2018)
TS: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 25fps | MPEG 2ch, 320kbps
Jazz | 01:44:37 | ~ 22.67 Gb

For more than 25 years, Anouar Brahem has taken his oud all over far off lands. A melodic impressionist and a for ever inspired improvisor, the Tunisian musician has above all toppled the barriers which separate genres…

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Django Bates - The Study of Touch (2017) {ECM 2534} Music

Posted by tiburon at March 19, 2018

Django Bates - The Study of Touch (2017) {ECM 2534}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3u | Full Scans 300dpi | 248MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 132MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, "The Study of Touch". All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio.

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Django Bates - Like Life (1998) Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 16, 2018

Django Bates, a colorful and often humorous British jazz musician who plays piano, keyboards, and Eb horn, won the prestigious Jazzpar Prize in 1997. This CD, which teams him on various tracks with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and a large band called Delightful Precipice, was recorded in Denmark when Bates was receiving the prize. With the exception of a witty remaking of "New York, New York," all of the selections are Bates originals, including such colorful titles as "The Loneliness of Being Right," "The Importance of Boiling Water," "Peculiar Terms or Physical Intimacy," and "Nights at the Circus." In addition to Bates, key soloists include Iain Ballamy on alto and soprano, tenor-saxophonist Tomas Franck, and guitarist Chico Lindvall. Well worth checking out.

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Django Bates - Saluting Sgt. Pepper (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at July 7, 2017

The totally irrepressible creativity and ever-unconventional spirit of Django Bates swings into a completely new and unpredicted sphere. In collaboration with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band and Eggs Laid By Tigers, Django has reimagined the seminal Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the most significant Rock album of all time. With his overpoweringly creative spirit, his anarchic sense of humour and his incredible level of musicality, approaching the arrangement process with a manifesto of 'Freedom, not Licence', Django's work is typically inventive and visionary. Holding on to the original structures and keys, he gracefully folds his own colours, rhythms and sound into the music, resulting in a thoroughly kaleidoscopic examination of this iconic album.

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Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 13, 2017

Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 76:53 minutes | 1.32 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Three brilliant improvisers join Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem in this album, recorded in New York in May 2017. For Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album, a trio recording with John Surman. Brahem meets Jack DeJohnette for the first time here, but Holland and DeJohnette have, of course, been frequent musical partners over the last half-century, beginning with ground-breaking work with Miles Davis: their collaborations are legendary. British pianist Django Bates also rises superbly to the challenge of Brahem’s compositions. And Anouar in turn is inspired to some of his most outgoing playing.

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Julian Argüelles - Let it Be Told (2015) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 7, 2018

Julian Argüelles - Let it Be Told (2015)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 357.37 Mb | 56:46 | Cover
Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Big Band | Country: Austria | Label: Basho Records

Julian Argüelles, the saxophonist and composer who emerged on the Loose Tubes wave in the 1980s, now has an international reputation for both his playing and his powerful writing, but this tribute to South Africa’s world-jazz impact highlights his gifts as an arranger. Argüelles appears here with his drummer brother Steve, and with pianist Django Bates – all of them having worked with late lamented South African exiles including Chris McGregor and Dudu Pukwana. Those influences course through this effervescent set, on which the Argüelles siblings, Bates, and the soloists of the punchy Frankfurt Radio Bigband bring some timelessly thrilling music back to life. Pukwana’s pounding classic Mra Khali gets a pin-sharp ensemble treatment that doesn’t cramp its old joyousness; Miriam Makeba’s swaying Retreat Song gets imaginatively talkative muted-trombone variations from Peter Fell and a swerving accordion-like keys break from Bates; the arrangement of Abdullah Ibrahim’s The Wedding hides the melody in a slow rapture; and the band’s hard-hit riffing on Pukwana’s gleeful Come Again makes you jump gratefully out of your skin. It’s a delightful album.

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Marius Neset - Pinball (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 17, 2024

Marius Neset - Pinball (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 61:18 minutes | 1,17 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Marius Neset is one of the great new tenor sax players of our age, in the tradition of Michael Brecker and Jan Garbarek. On "Pinball", Norwegian saxophone virtuoso Marius Neset and his quintet present a shimmering kaleidoscope of forms of expression and influences that delight with compositional and instrumental complexity. The album, arguably his strongest artistic statement to date, acts as a dual showcase for his gifts as an improviser and composer. At the same time, Neset sounds more mature, soulful and melodic than ever before. The quintet is joined on various tracks by guest musicians on cello, violin, flute and tambourine.

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