Freddie Hubbard – The Body & The Soul (1963) [Analogue Productions 2010]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:18 minutes | Scans included | 1,53 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 719 MB
The second of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s two Impulse albums features the 25-year old in three separate settings. He is heard along with a tenor-saxophonist backed by strings (“Skylark,” “I Got It Bad” and “Chocolate Shake” are all given beautiful treatments), with a 16-piece band and in a septet with Eric Dolphy and Wayne Shorter. This well-rounded and highly recommended showcase shows why Freddie Hubbard was considered the top trumpeter to emerge during the early ’60s.
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Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones (1963) [Analogue Productions 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:13 minutes | Scans included | 2,48 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,14 GB
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up on record with James Spaulding (who doubles on alto and flute) for the first time on this excellent set, with the assistance of pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Clifford Jarvis. The quintet performs four of the trumpeter’s originals (including “Lament for Booker” and the title cut) plus an advanced version of the standard “You’re My Everything.” John Coltrane’s modal music was starting to influence Hubbard’s conception and his own playing was pushing the modern mainstream ahead without really entering the avant-garde.
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Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra – Franz Schubert – Symphonies No. 8 & No. 9 (2006)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,59 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,20 GB | Artwork | 3% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-66374-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2006, 1955 & 1958
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School
Review by Blair Sanderson
The hybrid SACD format is ideal for reissuing RCA Red Seal’s early two- and three-channel stereo recordings, and Charles Münch’s vibrant recordings of Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished,” and the Symphony No. 9 in C major, “The Great,” especially benefit from this state-of-the-art technology. Recorded in 1955 and 1958, respectively, these performances with the phenomenal Boston Symphony Orchestra sound magnificent with the spacious separation and the close simulation of a real orchestral environment made possible by DSD and multichannel remastering. Beyond the superb audio quality, these recordings are fascinating documents of Münch’s elegant interpretations of Schubert. Known mostly as a conductor of the French Romantic repertoire, Münch was less closely associated with the Austro-Germanic symphonic literature, so his Schubert might seem a little outside the tradition, especially because of his lighter-than-air touch, elegant phrasing, fleet tempos, and utter avoidance of hysteria or bombast. The “Unfinished” is enjoyable for its refined dynamics and delicate sonorities, especially in the woodwinds; while “The Great” practically takes flight on its buoyant rhythms and seems quite propulsive in the Finale. This is the first time these performances have been paired in RCA’s Living Stereo series, and the affordable reissue price puts this terrific matchup well within reach of classical beginners and budget-conscious connoisseurs. ~allmusicguide
Frans Bruggen, Orchestra Of The XVIII Century – Beethoven: The Symphonies (2012) [5x SACD]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 357:31 minutes | Scans + PDF included | 18,2 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans + PDF included | 6,02 GB
It was some years after founding the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in 1981 that Frans Brüggen first turned his attention to the music of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies and endeavoured to perceive that special orchestral landscape, in order to transform it into musical sound, with the use of period instruments rediscovering historical tonal colours. Now, his quest undimmed, Brüggen has submerged himself once more into the glories of Beethoven’s orchestral music for a new cycle being issued in a sumptuous new hybrid SACD box set by Glossa. Likewise undimmed is the rapport he shares with his orchestra for one of classical music’s greatest challenges of realizing the intimate and the familiar in these symphonies, a challenge achieved here on record by way of concert performances.
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection (2001)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 64:34 minutes | Scans included | 4,24 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 66:23 mins | Scans | 1,29 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Rage Hard: A Sonic Collection is a greatest hits album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, released in 2004 by ZTT Records, exclusively to SA-CD. The album takes its name from a song title from the band’s Liverpool album. The track listing is a mixture of singles and album tracks. The band’s seven singles are accounted for here, in their album versions. Also featured are the four cover versions the band committed to album. This SACD pressing reproduced by legendary original Frankie Goes To Hollywood producer Trevor Horn.
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Francis Cabrel – Les Beaux Dégâts (2004)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:15 minutes | Scans included | 3,67 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 57:55 mins | Scans | 1,14 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
The tenth album from the French singer/songwriter whose music is a blend of contemporary folk, blues rock, French pop, smooth jazz, & even classical…
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Freddie Hubbard – The Hub of Hubbard (1970/2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz MHz | Time – 35:03 minutes | 1,38 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 35:03 minutes | 704 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: highresaudio.com | Front Cover | © MPS
In 1970 Freddie Hubbard’s career reached a crossroads. Ten years after the trumpeter had released his debut album “Open Sesame” he could already take stock in an impressive array of achievements: around a dozen albums under his own name for Blue Note and Atlantic, participation in ground-breaking free jazz albums by Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, the development of an original sound somewhere between hard bop, soul, and fusion. From there he broke out and into his popular phase with CTI Records. At the same time this MPS album loomed on the horizon as a milestone. Hubbard recorded the album at the MPS studios in Villingen, Germany during a break in his European tour, thus we get to experience a musician and his world-class quintet spontaneously interacting in an open setting. Those who are familiar with the many dreamy versions of the standard “Without a Song” will be thrilled with this 13-minute escapade spotlighting the band’s unbridled play. Hubbard’s dialogue with saxophonist Eddie Daniels and drummer Louis Hayes’ powerful impulse crown the piece. The energy and enthusiasm increases on “Just One of Those Things”, as the players unleash an incredible chain of hard-bopping staccato lines. Hubbard dedicates the playful “Blues For Duane” to his son; bassist Richard Davis grounds the piece in a light-hearted, earthy feel. Hubbard reveals his radiant melodic prowess as he interprets “The Things We Did Last Summer” in broadly swinging arcs, congenially supported by Roland Hanna’s piano harmonies. Davis has another shining moment as he brings the piece to an end with just the right pensive touch.
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Freeez – Gonna Get You (Expanded Edition) (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:55 minutes | 2,93 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
The first time on CD for the second album by British jazz-funk / electro group Freeez. Originally released in 1983, “Gonna Get You” was produced by electro musician and DJ Arthur Baker then known for his work with Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force and later to remix the like of New Order, Pet Shop Boys and Hurts. “Gonna Get You” includes one of the major dance successes of the whole first wave electro movement `I.O.U.’ – one of the first records ever to use digital sampling, `I.O.U.’ spent three weeks at #2 in the UK Charts and topped the US Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart. This deluxe expanded two-disc edition includes the original eight track album, a 13 minute album megamix and a bonus disc of remixes, edits and B-sides. Over 140 minutes of music in total!
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Fredrika Stahl – Demain (bande originale du film) (Version intégrale) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:40 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BOriginal
Swedish-born jazz and pop vocalist Fredrika Stahl’s career got going when she met producer Geef, which led to a meeting with pianist Tom McClung, who then formed a band around her and helped land her a major-label deal with the French arm of BMG, Vogue Records. Born in Stockholm on October 24, 1984, Stahl spent the majority of her preteen years in France, before returning to Sweden to finish schooling. Upon her graduation, Stahl found her way back to France, and met the people who would help make her a well-known name. Her debut album, A Fraction of You, was unveiled in the summer of 2006, and she followed the release with a number of performances, sharing stages with such artists as Erick Poirier, Ichiro Onoe, and Manuel Marches. Stahl released her second album, Tributaries, in 2008 on the Jive label.
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Fredrik Ullen – Sorabji – 100 Transcendental Studies, Nos. 84-100 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:57:24 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
By far the largest collection of concert etudes in the known repertoire, Kaikhosru Sorabji’s set of 100 Transcendental Studies, composed between 1940 and 1944, has a total duration of more than eight hours. On five previous discs, the Swedish pianist (and neuroscientist) Fredrik Ullen has introduced the first 83 etudes to a wider audience, the large majority of them appearing on disc for the first time. Now, 15 years after the release of the first volume comes the final installment, a 2-album set with the last 17 studies. In his own liner notes, Ullen describes the experience of learning and recording the collection: ‘From the F sharp minor of Study 1 to the F sharp minor chord concluding Study 100: traversing Sorabji’s Transcendental Studies has been somewhat like joining a comet following a long eccentric orbit through pianistic outer space, and finally returning back to mother earth.’
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Frederik Villmow Quartet – Live in Copenhagen (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:34 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AMP Music & Records
Frederik Villmow Quartet presenterer sin debutplate ‘Live in Copenhagen’ (AMP Music & Records) som de spilte inn på Jazzhus Montmartre tidligere i år. Programmet består av originalkomposisjoner og noen jazzklassikere.
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Frederik Köster & Die Verwandlung – Golden Age (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:31 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Traumton
Once again, The Metamorphosis lives up to its name. On their new album, the top-class quartet of award-winning musical personalities (a total of six jazz echoes, New German Jazz Award, WDR Jazz Award) once again accomplishes a stylistic and tonal change of direction. Especially in direct comparison to his Homeward Bound Suite released in 2018. The spectacular orchestral work was widely praised at the time, for example as “a successful interweaving of jazz and classical elements with emotional depth” (Jazz Podium). The Swiss magazine Jazz’n’More found: “The quartet stringently implements the orchestra’s timbres and Frederik Köster’s solos conclusively lay over rhythmic patterns And the Badische Zeitung positioned the band leader at “the top of German jazz. Köster’s trumpet, elegantly and stubbornly lined with occasional loop echoes, clearly stands out from icons like Miles Davis and Chet Baker.
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Frédérick Haas, Mira Glodeanu, Ausonia – J. S. Bach, Concertos pour violon et pour clavecin (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:59 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hitasura
Les Concertos de J.S Bach sont à placer parmi les perles les plus miraculeuses que nous a transmis le dix-huitème siècle. Vitalité, lyrisme, intensité mais légèreté, complexité mais fraîcheur, éloquence, couleurs… tout y est. Un bonheur inépuisable à partager avec le public. Depuis une vingtaine d’années, Ausonia, Frédérick Haas et Mira Glodeanu pratiquent les concertos de J.S Bach. Voici enfin leur enregistrement très attendu : le premier opus, enflammé et poignant de Hitasura Productions. “Je voudrais que chaque note soit transformée en émotion. En couleur. En geste. En mot, en élément de langage. Je voudrais que ne demeure aucune note qui soit seulement note, aucune note qui ne soit chargée de sens, de couleur, d émotion. Nous devons repenser tout ce que nous pensons. Oublier tout ce que nous savons, afin de faire naître une nouvelle vie des anciennes formes. Si vraiment nous les respectons et nous les aimons, elles vont apparaître renouvelées. Vivantes et éternelles. Réinventer nos façons de faire, toutes nos techniques de jeu, afin qu’au-delà des notes la musique apparaisse.” Frédérick Haas
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Frederic Rabold Crew – Funky Tango (1979/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:22 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
German trumpeter/composer Frederic Rabold is at home with the jazz idioms of Dixieland and swing, the modernisms of Gil Evans and the Avantegarde explorations of Gunter Hampel. Influenced by trumpet icons Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, and Booker Little, he has worked with Lester Bowie, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Tony Oxley. Ribold’s Crew was popular throughout the 70’s, and with the addition of American singer Lauren Newton, this edition of the crew was particularly successful.
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Frédéric Favarel – Fred & (New) Friends (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:11 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We See Music
With this album, you enter a world of jazz where aesthetes like to walk. Limpid to listen, the trio of Frédéric Favarel, augmented by Carine Bonnefoy on three tracks, unfolds a musical universe with very evansian interplay. Throughout the record, the original compositions and the standards rub shoulders with happiness and, in fact, it seems to flow naturally.
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