Duke Ellington – Berlin 1959 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duke Ellington – Berlin 1959 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:11 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storyville Records

What we have here is the welcome memento of Duke Ellington and his band’s 1959 European tour. Berlin’s Sportpalast is not a concert hall and during the cursed Nazi reign often was the site of speeches by Hitler and his fellow criminals, but the hall can be said to have been thoroughly purified by sounds of jazz by the time of this concert.

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Duke Ellington – Anatomy Of A Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture) (1959/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Duke Ellington – Anatomy Of A Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture) (1959/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:56 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

The 1959 courtroom crime drama “Anatomy of a Murder” was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

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Duke Ellington – Anatomy Of A Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture) (1959/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duke Ellington – Anatomy Of A Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture) (1959/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:56 minutes | 692 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

The 1959 courtroom crime drama “Anatomy of a Murder” was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Afro Bossa (1963/2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Afro Bossa (1963/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:33 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The experimental Afro Bossa features Duke Ellington pushing his talented group to their limits. The jazz master tosses around the forms he knows so well. Other players include Cat Anderson, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, and Cootie Williams. There is plenty of cornet, violin and plunger-muted trumpets.

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Duke Ellington – …And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duke Ellington – …And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:28 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh

When Billy Strayhorn died of cancer in 1967, Duke Ellington was devastated. His closest friend and arranger had left his life full of music and memories. As a tribute, Ellington and his orchestra almost immediately began recording a tribute to Strayhorn, using the late arranger’s own compositions.

The album features well-known and previously unrecorded Strayhorn tunes that showcase his range, versatility, and, above all, the quality that Ellington admired him most for: his sensitivity to all of the timbral, tonal, and color possibilities an orchestra could bring to a piece of music.

Full of informality and soulful verve, these recordings feel like they are an afterthought, an unwillingness to completely let go, a eulogy whose final words are questions, elegantly stated and met with only the echo of their last vibrations ringing in an empty room, full of wondering, longing, and helplessness, but above all the point of the questions themselves: “Is this enough?” or “Can there ever be enough to pay an adequate tribute to this man?”

They are interesting questions, because only five years later we would all be saying the same thing about Ellington. For a man who issued well over 300 albums, this set is among his most profoundly felt and very finest recorded moments.

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Duke Dumont – Duality (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Duke Dumont – Duality (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:04 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Dance
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI

Debut studio album by the British house DJ, featuring cuts with How to Dress Well, Say Lou Lou, Ry X, Zak Abel, and more. Duke Dumont is best known for his hit singles ‘Need U (100%)’ ‘I Got U’, ‘Ocean Drive’ and ‘Won’t Look Back’.

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Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Goetterdaemmerung (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Goetterdaemmerung (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:11:06 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

The Rhine is where Richard Wagner’s cycle of operas “Der Ring des Nibelungen” begins and ends – and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if Wagner’s plans for a festival would ultimately be realised in an entirely different part of Germany, the performance of a “Ring on the Rhine” will always remain something very special.

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Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:36:27 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

After moving into Valhalla, Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries with various women, who recruit the fallen heroes from all battlefields into a powerful private army. With this he arms himself against Alberich, from whom he has elicited the Ring promising power, and who now wants to take revenge. Alberich also has a son, with whose help he wants to destroy the gods. The Stormy force of the “Valkyrie”prelude testifies to the time pressure Wotan is under. Only a new, blameless Generation can establish a new world order. Wotan relies on the love of the twin couple Siegmund and Sieglinde. But Wotan’s wife Fricka demands Siegmund’s death, because as the patroness of marriage and family she cannot tolerate adultery and incest. Scale of a new order.

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Duilio Meucci & Marcello Nardis – Britten: Complete Music with Guitar & Voice (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Duilio Meucci & Marcello Nardis – Britten: Complete Music with Guitar & Voice (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:43 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

The guitar music of eminent 20th-century British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) comprises three works, all of them written with the great guitarist Julian Bream in mind. Two of these are sets of songs for high voice, for which Britten’s vocal model was of course the famous English tenor – and Britten’s long-time personal and professional partner – Peter Pears.

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Duilio Meucci – Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Chamber Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duilio Meucci – Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Chamber Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:28 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius

A monograph on the chamber music for guitar by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is not a new operation, nor is it particularly original: the numbers of works that the Maestro be-queathed to the six strings significantly occupy the entire last season of the Florentine composer’s life and work. It was evident in his perception that “chamber music would be the salvation of the classical guitar”. However, this disc is not born from a compiling ur-gency, from a need to combine a catalog and observe it with fetishism in its entirety, – after all, there are many chamber pieces missing from the entire corpus, not to mention the vocal chamber music and the music for two guitars, here only partially addressed. Rather, from the desire to contemplate in a different perspective some elements of a rich legacy that still today stimulates and fascinates the interpreters who approach it. The title “Appunti” (Notes) is anything but casual, as are the works chosen to represent it. In recounting this repertoire, my will – with the help of a homogeneous time span going from 1950 to the last days of the Maestro’s life – has been to highlight the possibilities of salvation that the guitar assumes through chamber music, with compositional skills that can still be defined as exemplary acts of bravura and happy inspiration, unsurpassed to this day. As on a notebook, the notes collected take shape, and become the argument for possibilities, then become thesis, evidence, and, eventually, memory.

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Dugong – The Big Other (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dugong – The Big Other (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:24 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Honolulu Records

The band has a very individual sound which draws inspiration from many genres of music, from Alternative Rock to Modern Jazz to Contemporary classical music. In their last album Dugong experimented with different kinds of musical structures other than the usual jazz approach of theme, improvisation and final melody. They also worked on the potential of linear counterpoint, drawing inspiration from Classical composers such as J. S. Bach and Frederic Chopin.

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Duff Ferguson – My Story Is The Same (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Duff Ferguson – My Story Is The Same (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:37 minutes | 326 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Single Recordings

Folk-pop crooner Duff Ferguson is a familiar face around the Los Angeles roots rock scene, having rode in crap tour vans, recorded alongside, jammed with, photographed, danced with the wives of and bought PBRs for most everybody in 20 years of California music. His new record made at 663 Sound by Ted Wulfers and Sun Studio by Todd Herfindal. Solo guitar and vox, no overdubs, no bs. Herf recordings made entirely on solar power!

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Duett – Horizons (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Duett – Horizons (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:20 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Electronic, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modal Recordings

Modal Recordings presents the debut LP from Duett. With influences ranging from synth-engulfed soundtracks of the 80s, to early electronica albums, staying cool in tropical climes. ‘Horizons’ is reminiscent of glorious, life-affirming 80s electronica, and invites us to turn up the heat.

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Duett – Borderline (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Duett – Borderline (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:14 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Electronic, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modal Recordings

“Borderline” is Duett’s second full length release, captained by UK based producer Ben Macklin and featuring some outright stellar vocals from Stewart Lockwood. Each song is a shining example of production perfection, crafted with light and often glamorous crystalline synthesizers.

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Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves – Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves – Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:20 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside

Tom Jobim and João Gilberto’s partnership provided one of the most incredible musical contributions to the musical world. In 1958, the first Bossa Nova album, Chega de Saudade, was recorded by Gilberto, featuring arrangements by Jobim. American Jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Byrd, Keter Betts and Herbie Mann, went to Brasil around that time and fell in love with Brazilian music. They brought several Bossa Nova albums to the United States. Charlie Byrd was the one who introduced Stan Getz to the music of Jobim and Gilberto. Bossa Nova was a great influence to American Jazz from then on.

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