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Leo Wright - Blues Shout (1960) + Soul Talk (1963) {2013 Atlantic Japan 24-bit Remaster}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 22 May 2013 14:34:49 | Comments : 1

Leo Wright - Blues Shout (1960) + Soul Talk (1963) {2013 Atlantic Japan 24-bit Remaster}
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© 2013 Atlantic / WEA Japan / Rhino / Vortex | WPCR-27134 / WPCR-27230
Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone

“Leo Wright's Atlantic debut, Blues Shout, effectively summarizes his career as a sideman, embracing the expressionist sensibilities of longtime boss Dizzy Gillespie as well as the Latin inspirations of longtime bandmate Lalo Schifrin to create a fiercely modern and uncommonly impassioned sound all its own.”
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John Coltrane - The Heavyweight Champion. The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1995) [7CD BoxSet] {RE-UP}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 21 May 2013 16:09:22 | Comments : 1

John Coltrane - The Heavyweight Champion. The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1995) [7CD BoxSet] {Rhino}
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© 1995 Atlantic Recordings / Rhino | R2 71984
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Modal Music / Avant-Garde Jazz

“The Heavyweight Champion is a box set that lives up to its title. Collecting all of John Coltrane's Atlantic recordings, including a fair number of unreleased takes as well as an entire disc of alternate tracks and studio chatter, the seven-disc box set documents a pivotal moment in Coltrane's career, as he was moving from hard bop and sweet standards to a more daring, experimental style of playing influenced by the avant-garde. Much of the music is hard bop (Giant Steps) or lushly melodic (My Favorite Things), but the latter discs show the saxophonist coming to terms with the more experimental movements in jazz. The scope of this music is, quite simply, breathtaking -- not only was Coltrane developing at a rapid speed, but the resulting music encompasses nearly every element that made him a brilliant musician, and it is beautiful.”
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Sting - Nada Como El Sol (1988) [EP] {A&M Records} + Symphonicities (2010) {Deutsche Grammophon} [combined repost]

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 21 May 2013 14:06:08 | Comments : 2

Sting - Nada Como El Sol (1988) [EP] {A&M Records} + Symphonicities (2010) {Deutsche Grammophon}
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© 1988, 2010 A&M Records / Deutsche Grammophon / UMG | 393 295-2 / 274 2537
Rock / Contemporary Pop / Classical Crossover

“This album consists of five songs from Nothing Like the Sun re-recorded in Spanish and Portugese. This was a well-done project -- the translations are good and Sting manages the Spanish and Portuguese pronunciations well...huge fans will want to pick this up...”
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Frank Strozier - The Fantastic Frank Strozier (1959-60) {1997 Vee Jay 24-bit Remaster}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 19 May 2013 12:58:15 | Comments : 3

Frank Strozier - The Fantastic Frank Strozier (1959-60) {1997 Vee Jay 24-bit Remaster}
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© 1997 Vee Jay / Blue Moon | VJ-012
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

“Altoist Frank Strozier's first session as a leader has been reissued on this Vee Jay CD with the original six selections joined by five additional and previously unreleased performances, only one of which is actually an alternate take. The altoist's quintet consists of Miles Davis' rhythm section of the time (pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb), along with the late, great trumpeter Booker Little. The music, mostly comprised of Strozier originals, is advanced hard bop, and the music is both enjoyable and (due to Little's presence) somewhat historic.”
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Frank Zappa - FZ:OZ (2002) [2CD] + Trance-Fusion (2006) {ZFT} [combined repost]

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 19 May 2013 12:58:10 | Comments : 1

Frank Zappa - FZ:OZ (2002) [2CD] + Trance-Fusion (2006) {ZFT}
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© 2002, 2006 Vaulternative Records / The Zappa Family Trust / Zappa Records | VR 2002-1 / ZR 20002
Rock / Experimental Rock

“Official Release #70. This two-CD set represents almost all of Frank Zappa's concert on January 20, 1976, at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia... The only problem is that there was only one reel-to-reel machine to record the concert, necessitating missing portions of several songs to change tapes; these gaps were replaced by excerpts from a pitch-corrected bootleg from the same tour, with an obvious drop in sound quality but little loss in continuity. This particular band -- with tenor saxophonist Napoleon Murphy Brock, bassist Roy Estrada, drummer Terry Bozzio, and keyboardist Andre Lewis (in his only tour with Zappa) -- has only been represented sporadically on Zappa's earlier releases.”
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Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (1971) {2003 Columbia Remaster + Japan DSD Master Sound} [combined repost]

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 18 May 2013 18:16:08 | Comments : 3

Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (1971) {2003 Columbia Remaster + Japan DSD Master Sound Edition}
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© 2003 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music Japan | B0000CF2ZI / SICP 431~35
Jazz / Fusion / Jazz Funk / Trumpet

“THE COMPLETE JACK JOHNSON SESSIONS won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package. Of all the Miles Davis recordings, the 16 weeks of sessions that created a single, two-selection LP produced by Teo Macero called A Tribute to Jack Johnson have been the most apocryphal. While the album itself was a confounding obscurity upon release -- due to its closeness in proximity to the nearly simultaneous release of the vastly inferior yet infinitely more label-promoted Live at the Fillmore East -- its reputation as the first complete fusion of jazz and rock is cemented. It also garnered a place in the history books for guitarist John McLaughlin, the axis around whose raw, slash-and-burn playing the entire album turns.”
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Various Artists - 100 Best Of Blue Note (2011) [10CD BoxSet] {Blue Note} [repost]

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 18 May 2013 18:15:17 | Comments : 4

Various Artists - 100 Best Of Blue Note (2011) [10CD BoxSet] {Blue Note}
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© 2011 Blue Note / Capitol / EMI | 9053032
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Soul Jazz

“Luxury Blue Note collection on 10 CDs as selected by 2Sounds, spanning the history of the great Blue Note label. Packaging: Clamshell box, 10 CD, 12p booklet. I new this would be good,but I am so glad I stepped up and purchased this collection. My wife and I play through the list of CD's daily. Yes,the standards are there,but it's the players we are unfamiliar with that make this a great buy!”
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Genesis - Trespass (1970) {2013 Japan Mini LP SHM-CD Edition}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 17 May 2013 14:32:28 | Comments : 2

Genesis - Trespass (1970) {2013 Japan Mini LP SHM-CD Edition}
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© 2013 Charisma / Universal Music Japan | VJCP-98015
Rock / Art Rock / Prog Rock

“Cardboard sleeve (mini LP) reissue from Genesis features the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD players) and 2008 digital remastering. Genesis mini-LP SHM-CD reissue series consists of the following 5 titles: "Trespass," "Nursery Cryme," "Foxtrot," "Selling England By The Pound," and "THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY."”
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John Coltrane - The Impulse! Albums: Volume Five (2011) [5CD] {Verve Originals Series Remaster}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 17 May 2013 07:46:57 | Comments : 6

John Coltrane - The Impulse! Albums: Volume Five (2011) [5CD] {Verve Originals Series Remaster}
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© 2011 Impulse! / Verve / UMG
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Post-Bop / Saxophone

“The CD features John Coltrane at a concert in Sept. 1965 with his expanded sextet (which included pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders on tenor and Donald Garrett doubling on bass clarinet and bass). Coltrane experts know that 1965 was the year that his music became quite atonal and, with the addition of Sanders, often very violent. This music, therefore, is not for fans of Coltrane's earlier sheets of sound period or for those who prefer jazz as melodic background music.”
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The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet - 20th Anniversary Set (1976-92) [5CD BoxSet] {1995 Mosaic Remaster}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 16 May 2013 10:52:41 | Comments : 1

The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet - 20th Anniversary Set (1976-92) [5CD BoxSet] {1995 Mosaic Remaster}
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© 1995 Mosaic Records / PWE | MD5-139
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Saxophone

“Mosaic's limited-edition, five-disc box Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet 20th Anniversary Set is a treasure trove for hardcore fans of the alto saxophonist. All the material on this set is previously unreleased; Woods has been saving this material for 20 years and decided to license the tapes to Mosaic to celebrate his band's 20th anniversary. Much of this music is dynamic and exciting, and it will certainly be a welcome addition to the collection of any serious Woods fan.”
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Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail (2013) [CD+DVD] {Cooking Vinyl Deluxe Limited Edition}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 16 May 2013 08:35:23 | Comments : 3

Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail (2013) [CD+DVD] {Cooking Vinyl Deluxe Limited Edition}
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© 2013 BB / Cooking Vinyl | COOK CD580X
Rock / Alternative Folk / Alternative Rock / Urban Folk

“New 2013 album from the beloved UK bard & his first in 5 years! Produced by Joe Henry & housed in a limited edition 'bookpack' featuring a DVD with 10 filmclips + a 36-page booklet with exclusive photos & BB's words of wisdom. "January Song," the bluesy leadoff track from veteran English folkie Billy Bragg's first solo outing since 2008's Mr. Love and Justice, begins with the lyric "I'm so tightly wound in tension" and ends with "This is how the world ends," signaling a shift from the stalwart political activism of previous outings to a more internalized dialogue that suggests a subtle re-positioning of the magnifying glass.”
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Peter Brotzmann - Long Story Short [5CD BoxSet] (2013) {Trost}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 15 May 2013 13:18:34 | Comments : 2

Peter Brotzmann - Long Story Short [5CD BoxSet] (2013) {Trost}
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© 2013 Trost Records | TROST 112CD
Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz

“Limited Edition 5 disc box set with 24 page booklet of the 2011, Brötzmann curated, Music Unlimited Festival in Wels! Peter Brötzmann curated three days of great music by wonderful musicians from all over the world! Not a retrospective but a representation of the contemporary musical spheres that Brötzmann and his comrades are investigating today. This box documents in 18 performances Brötzmann‘s close ties to the Chicago scene, his inclination to work with Japanese artists, his cultivation of old and new friendships from New York, his faible for African musicians and collaborations with his European friends. The extensive compilation emphasizes the vitality and variety of Brötzmann's current work and documents a historical moment of the Unlimited-Festival.”
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Virginie Teychene - Bright And Sweet (2012) {Jazz Village Harmonia Mundi}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 15 May 2013 05:58:40 | Comments : 2

Virginie Teychene - Bright And Sweet (2012) {Jazz Village Harmonia Mundi}
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© 2012 Jazz Village / Harmonia Mundi | JV 570012
Jazz / Vocal Jazz

“This album confirms it, Virginie Teychené is a musician with a voice. She strolls through her imaginary museum dedicated to jazz singer-songwriters and brings her own light to each of its rooms. A grazing light in Familiar Dream, a bright light in Tight, the light of dawn in I'm Gonna Go Fishing and that of dusk in Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. The contributions of her co-musicians are intense due to their restraint; Gérard Maurin's weightless double-bass arrangements, Stéphane Bernard's chiaroscuro piano playing, Jean-Pierre Arnaud's dance-like drumming, and last but not least, Éric Le Lann's inspired trumpet playing, all make Bright and Sweet an exemplary jazz album, where all the miniatures that make it up are in fact merely beginnings.”
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Franz Schubert - Jonathan Nott & Bamberger Symphoniker - Symphonien 1-8, Dialog & Eplilog [6CD] (2011) {Tudor}

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 15 May 2013 00:50:15 | Comments : 1

Franz Schubert - Jonathan Nott & Bamberger Symphoniker - Symphonien 1-8, Dialog & Eplilog [6CD] (2011) {Tudor}
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© 2011 Tudor Recording | TUD301610
Classical / Orchestral / Romantic

“Starting in 2003, Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony pursued the ambitious project of recording Franz Schubert's symphonies Nos. 1-8, and the SACDs were individually released later that decade to considerable critical praise. This 2011 set of six SACDs brings together the four albums with the symphonies, plus two collections of modern compositions inspired by Schubert's music. Nott's conducting tends to be on the fast side in Schubert, and the Bamberg Symphony is sometimes a little uneven in sound quality. But by and large, they demonstrate a great understanding of Schubert's styles, both in his Classical and Romantic veins, and acquit themselves with enthusiasm and brilliance.”
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Marc Bolan & T.Rex - 3 Albums (1974-76) [3x2CD] {2002 Rhino Deluxe Edition} (combined repost)

Posted By : ruskaval | Date : 14 May 2013 08:56:57 | Comments : 2

Marc Bolan & T.Rex - 3 Albums (1974-76) [3x2CD] {2002 Rhino Deluxe Edition}
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© 2002 Demon / Edsel / Rhino | R2 73219 / MEDCD 718 / R2 73288
Rock / Glam Rock

“By 1974, the phenomenon known as T. Rextacy was on the wane. The group had always been Bolan's vehicle, but the departure of some original members, the addition of three backup vocalists, and the name change, to Marc Bolan And T. Rex, signaled a significant new direction for the band.
The sound of ZINC ALLOY shows the influence of American soul music, and demonstrates an overall evolution. Where the group's biggest hits were basically gritty, straightforward rock, the sound on ZINC is flashier, more orchestrated, and generally slicker. The prominent string section and heavy echo of the opener, "Venus Loon," recalls Phil Spector. Additionally, Bolan shares many of the vocal duties with his girlfriend, the American singer Gloria Jones. In the record's sometimes operatic settings, the pair occasionally sound like Meatloaf and Karla De Vito.		”
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