Zappa '75

Don Ellis - French Connection 1+2. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971, 1975) {2003 FilmScore}

Don Ellis - French Connection 1+2. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971, 1975) {2003 FilmScore}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 298 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 128 Mb | Artwork (web)
© 2003 Film Score / 20th Century Fox | FSM 04-06
Jazz / Soundtrack / Pop

Don Ellis was a hot item in 1971. He had done a few big band albums that sounded like Doc Severson plugged into Frank Zappa'a sound system, and was opening a lot of rock shows, back in the era when you could get rock and roll kids to listen to and appreciate jazz. So, Billy Friedkin makes French Connection, and gets Don to score it. Billy must have known he had a hit on his hands, and wanted a big name to put on the composer credit. Ellis does an entire, half hour score for the movie. Not a lot of this music made it into the film: evidently, Billy wanted to have a gritty film with lots of street noises, and, tastefully edited Don's score to bare bones. It works in the movie, but a lot of really good music never saw the light of day.
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 75:28 minutes | 1,64 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Black Clouds & Silver Linings" is Dream Theater's tenth studio album and was released in 2009. Their last album to feature drummer Mike Portnoy, it was produced by John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy and was mixed by Paul Northfield. The album's themes center around disturbing or difficult personal experiences of John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy.
Raymond Scott - The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951-1965 (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Raymond Scott - The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951-1965 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 80:40 minutes | 517 MB
Jazz, Swing, Electronic, Easy Listening | Label: Modern Harmonic, Official Digital Download

Tingling tartness of jingle perfection! In addition to being a pioneer of early electronic music, Raymond Scott generated hymns to hunger, odes to pudding and pilsner, and crafted carols for countless other products, elevating the form of advertisement to an art. If Zappa had written music for commercials, it's not hard to think his approach would have been similar! This first ever collection contains varied styles in both instrumentation and vocalization, previously unavailable electronic works, and more.