The New York Times 28 March 2023

Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio - Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 9, 2024

Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio - Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 620 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 285 Mb | 02:04:25
Jazz, Hard Bop | Label: Resonance Records

Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings is the first official release of the complete previously unissued recordings from jazz guitar giant Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio at the famed Half Note jazz club in New York City in 1965 with drummer Jimmy Cobb and bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Herman Wright and Larry Ridley. Including over 2 hours from the original radio broadcasts with host Alan Grant, the deluxe 2-CD set is mastered by Matthew Lutthans. 2023 marks Wes Montgomery’s Centennial (born March 6, 1923), and this is Resonance’s 7th release of Wes Montgomery recordings in cooperation with the estate. Now Wes Montgomery fans can hear the rest of the music from the Half Note that was only broadcast on the radio nearly 60 years ago.

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Frank Zappa - Zappa ’80 Mudd Club/Munich '80 (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 11, 2023

Frank Zappa - Zappa ’80 Mudd Club/Munich '80 (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:43:50 | 1,05 Gb
Art Rock, Jazz Rock, Fusion | Label: Universal Music, Zappa Records

Zappa ’80: Mudd Club/Munich combines two historical performances from the spring/summer 1980 band. The first is from a set at FZ’s favorite NYC nightclub – the famous Mudd Club. Presented from a hi-res transfer of the original master tape. The second, from Olympiahalle in Munich, is the first ever live direct to digital stereo recording of Zappa. Mastering by Bernie Grundman, 2022.

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Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Britten - Harris (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 27, 2023

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Britten - Harris (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.5 GB
11:06:05 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.

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Baroness - Stone (Deluxe Edition) (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 14, 2023

Baroness - Stone (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 504 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 MB
1:18:19 | Sludge Metal, Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal | Label: Abraxan Hymns

The origins of 'Stone' go back to 2020. It is not a pandemic record, but the core of it was written during its darkest days. Anxiety, relief, and resolve are stitched deeply throughout. When the foursome was isolated in Pennsylvania and New York, turning stems of music into full-fledged songs felt insurmountable. Baroness toiled as the world roiled. Creativity fully flourished only when they escaped to an Airbnb in Barryville, a quaint hamlet on the New York/Pennsylvania border. The undulating 'Beneath the Rose', the energetic drive of 'Anodyne', the trad-metal burlof 'Last Word,' and the dynamic introspection of 'Shine' rushed out, as did the motorik of 'Choir' and the emotional heft of 'Magnolia'. Stone was a sort of catharsis, a turning of the page, a middle finger to the suffocating insincerity of expectation.

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Fania All Stars - Cross Over (1979/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 3, 2023

Fania All Stars - Cross Over (1979/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:46 minutes | 1,53 GB
Salsa, Latin Jazz | Label: Craft Recordings, Official Digital Download

The flagship act for Fania Records, the Fania All-Stars popularized New York salsa during the 1970s by organizing concerts at larger and larger venues (from the Red Garter in Greenwich Village all the way to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx) that spotlighted not only the label's but the salsa world's biggest stars – Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Johnny Pacheco, Rubén Blades, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Cheo Feliciano, Bobby Cruz, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez, and special guests like Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, and Eddie Palmieri.

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Eric Alexander Quartet - Sunday in New York (2015/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Jan. 14, 2024

[Eric Alexander Quartet - Sunday in New York (2015/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]/b]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:02:35 minutes | 1.42 GB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download
The album was recorded at Avatar Studio in New York on March 18, 2005. The four musicians are tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, pianist John Hicks, bassist John Webber, and drummer Joe Farnsworth. The material is standards, plus "Avotcja" by Hicks.

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Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio - Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (2023) [Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 9, 2024

Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio - Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 124:29 minutes | 2,07 GB
Jazz, Hard Bop | Label: Resonance Records, Official Digital Download

Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings is the first official release of the complete previously unissued recordings from jazz guitar giant Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio at the famed Half Note jazz club in New York City in 1965 with drummer Jimmy Cobb and bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Herman Wright and Larry Ridley. Including over 2 hours from the original radio broadcasts with host Alan Grant, the deluxe 2-CD set is mastered by Matthew Lutthans. 2023 marks Wes Montgomery’s Centennial (born March 6, 1923), and this is Resonance’s 7th release of Wes Montgomery recordings in cooperation with the estate. Now Wes Montgomery fans can hear the rest of the music from the Half Note that was only broadcast on the radio nearly 60 years ago.

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Kristen Stewart by Zoey Grossman for Porter Edit 6th May 2024 Girls

Posted by nrg at June 15, 2024

Kristen Stewart - Zoey Grossman Photoshoot 2024
10 jpg | up to 1200*1600 | 2.53 MB
American actress

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Fania All Stars - Cross Over (1979/2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 4, 2023

Fania All Stars - Cross Over (1979/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 MB
40:42 | Salsa, Guajira, Cha-Cha, Disco | Label: Craft Recordings

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Takács Quartet - Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 28, 2023

Takács Quartet - Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:53 minutes | 2,3 GB
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records, Official Digital Download

Dvořák’s mature string quartets are masterly, all brimming with life-enhancing music, and Op 106 is no exception. The Takács Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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