Jungle – For Ever (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jungle – For Ever (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:59 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

“Our first album was this imagined world that we created for ourselves,” Josh Lloyd-Watson tells Apple Music. “It was lyrically vague and metaphorical. This album definitely deals with things that have actually happened to us.” There’s been rich content to mine for Lloyd-Watson and Jungle co-founder Tom McFarland since their 2013 emergence. The pair’s modern soul collective swiftly went from viral curiosity to legit chart heavyweights—then absentee stars with their follow-up taking four years to materialize. “We were so keen to write the second record,” McFarland says, “but we were completely unaware of that first period that needs to happen: You actually need something to write about. We didn’t have the experience. We had to go out and live. Touring is not really experience.”

(more…)

Read more

Junghwa Lee – Clara Schumann: Piano Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Junghwa Lee – Clara Schumann: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:12 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.

Wife of Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann was a great piano virtuoso. She also was a wonderful composer of piano works. Korean-born pianist Junghwa Lee brings these works to life with vital performances. Junghwa Lee performs actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, and has frequently appeared in concerto performances as a soloist including those with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Salina Symphony Orchestra, Hutchinson Symphony Orchestra and Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra among others. Lee has presented solo performances in Korea, Holland, France, Hungary, Romania, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, the United Kingdom and the United States, including appearances at the Arts Center Concert Series at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, Shenyang Music Cultural Exchange Exhibition Between China and Foreign Countries Festival in China, Beethoven 32 Sonatas Recital Series in Singapore, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center and her New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a winner of Artists International’s Special Presentation Award.

(more…)

Read more

Jung-A Lee – A Private Organ Recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jung-A Lee – A Private Organ Recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:10 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yarlung Records

Internationally recognized organist Jung-A Lee performs an intimate recital on the great Walt Disney Concert Hall organ as a gift to Simon Woods (the new CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) and as a token of appreciation in honor of the orchestra’s 100th Anniversary season. Jung-A’s infectious and delightful sense of humor infuses her musical performance and repertoire choices. Jung-A Lee has performed in Europe, North America, and Asia as organist, pianist and conductor. She currently serves as organist at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. In addition, she teaches at Biola University and Vanguard University. Lee is also the Artist-in-Residence for Pacific Chorale which is directed by Maestros John Alexander and Robert Istad. In 2009 she founded Music Mission International in order to promote organ music. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance from Boston University, and earned her Master of Music from Yale University with a full scholarship.

(more…)

Read more

June West – June West (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June West – June West (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:36 minutes | 463 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Broken Circles

June West is driving down a long, lonesome highway. She is setting beyond a mountain ridge. She is watching the moon hanging low on the crest. She lies her head on a river bed. She is both desert heat and glacial lake. June West’s musical tastes are as wide and open as the Montana sky under which she was born, ranging from American soul, rock and roll, and country to Worldwide pop influences. Her voice is smooth and soulful, radiating authenticity and goodness without holding back. Her premier full-length album is a personal legend about the complex ambiguities of a woman’s relationship to her identity, friends, lovers, and society. Like Jungian psychology, West sees these relationships as a mirror for the Self, harnessing reflection as a tool for self transformation. West looks at the world through a design lens, and she sees this album as a self-made ritual for intentionally experiencing and remembering stories of both deep loss and fulfillment.

(more…)

Read more

Sun Ra Arkestra – The Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Sun Ra Arkestra – The Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Harmonic

The voice of Afrofuturistic science non-fiction! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and varied musical legacies ever to be encountered. Capable of strong, fierce, and emotive vocalizations as well as intricate weavings, her voice transcends genre. This first ever collection affirming June Tyson’s unassailable gravity in Sun Ra’s realm features previously unissued cuts and features rare photos and extensive liner notes!

(more…)

Read more

June Stearns – River of Regret (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

June Stearns – River of Regret (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:22 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy

The family relocated to Franklin, Indiana, when she was a small child. The Stearns were a musical family and she learned guitar and was singing locally in her early teens. In 1957, on completing her education, she became a member of the WLW Cincinnati’sMidwestern Hayride, where she remained for two years. In 1960, she became a member of Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Gang. She played with them on the Grand Ole Opry and toured with Acuff as well as making solo appearances on the Louisiana Hayride. She remained with Acuff’s show until July 1965, when she was involved in the car crash that caused serious injuries to Acuff and several of his band members. She luckily escaped with a broken ankle but the incident unnerved her and she made no further tours with Acuff. She first recorded for Starday in 1963 but joined Columbia Records in 1967. In December 1967, she and Lefty Frizzell recorded ‘Have You Ever Been Untrue’ and ‘If You’ve Got The Money (I’ve Got the Time)’, which Columbia released as a single under the pseudonyms of Agnes And Orville. The following year, she enjoyed three Billboard country chart hits ‘Empty House’, ‘Where He Stops Nobody Knows’ and the biggest, a number 21, ‘Jackson Ain’t A Very Big Town’, a duet with Johnny Duncan. They recorded an album together and had further chart success, in 1969, with ‘Back To Back (We’re Strangers)’. She also had three further solo hits that year, the highest placement being a number 53 for ‘Walking The Midnight Road’. She moved to Decca Records, where she gained three Top 60 hits, in 1970/1, the last being ‘Your Kind Of Lovin’’, after which her name has been absent from the charts.

(more…)

Read more

June Christy – With The Kentones…Again! (Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June Christy – With The Kentones…Again! (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:25 minutes | 360 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

June Christy was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. This release features the well-recorded radio transcriptions (from 1946) all of singer June Christy’s regular solo recordings that she had only been with Stan Kenton’s Orchestra for about a year at the time. The identification of the backup personnel has been lost to history (despite the anonymous title of “the Kentones”), but Christy is the star of these performances anyway. June Christy had the ability to swing in any song she was given, and in this case, all of the selections were superior standards.

(more…)

Read more

June Christy – The Intimate Miss Christy (1963/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June Christy – The Intimate Miss Christy (1963/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:40 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

On June Christy’s excellent run of albums for Capitol Records the vocalist was most often backed by Pete Rugolo’s complex orchestral charts or by small, freewheeling jazz groups led by her husband, Bob Cooper. So “The Intimate Miss Christy” is a special treat for her fans as it finds the cool blonde singer backed only by Al Viola’s guitar and Don Bagley’s bass (though a flutist sits in on a few tracks). This guitar/bass-only approach was first popularized by Julie London and went on to be utilized by many other singers during this era. The backing not only suits the laid-back, cool jazz approach of June Christy perfectly, but it also means that the singer is never forced to strain too hard, as she sometimes did when working with the experimentally inclined Pete Rugolo. And while the vocalist usually put a dark emotional spin on her ballad readings, this album is definitely aimed more toward romantic entanglements than romantic regrets. The Intimate Miss Christy may be a fireside makeout album, but it’s one that merits repeated listens even when the embers die out.

(more…)

Read more

June Christy – Make Love To Me: The Small Group Recordings (2001/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June Christy – Make Love To Me: The Small Group Recordings (2001/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:44 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Though June Christy performed well in many different settings, she excelled when leading a small group or singing a sympathetic chart. Though in 1945 she was still a decade away from a dedicated solo career that saw her shine with Pete Rugolo’s advanced arrangements, Christy began recording laid-back transcription dates with small groups of Stan Kenton sidemen. The Jazz Factory’s collection of this material, “Complete Capitol Small Group Transcriptions”, trumps earlier collections like “The Uncollected June Christy with the Kentones” (1946) by offering 25 small-group titles from late 1945 and 1946, all recorded with a talented group of Kenton’s players including Bob Cooper, Kai Winding, Shelly Manne, and Ray Wetzel, plus guitarist Dave Barbour.

(more…)

Read more

June Christy – June’s Got Rhythm (1958/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June Christy – June’s Got Rhythm (1958/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Many of singer June Christy’s popular Capitol albums feature her cool-toned vocals backed by an orchestra. This recording is an exception. Christy excels on a jazz-oriented set with a nonet that includes trumpeter Ed Leddy, trombonist Frank Rosolino and her husband Bob Cooper (who arranged the set) on tenor and oboe. Christy accurately called this music “intimate swing.” Her versions of such songs as “I’m Glad There Is You,” “My One and Only Love,” “When Lights Are Low” and “Blue Moon” are tasteful, sincere and often quite memorable.

(more…)

Read more

June Christy – June Sings The Standards (2002/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

June Christy – June Sings The Standards (2002/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

June Christy was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. After her death, she was hailed as “one of the finest and most neglected singers of her time”. This solid collection may strike June Christy fans as a little ironic because rather than stock her albums with standards the way that most of her peers did, the West Coast jazz vocalist was known for unearthing new and obscure songs. It’s not that Christy neglected standards (in fact she recorded dozens of them over her 12-year run with Capitol Records), it’s just that one gets the feeling that when she sang something like “I’m Glad There Is You” it was because she had something fresh or unique to bring to it. And she does put her own personal and idiosyncratic stamp on 20 of the songs here while two tunes haven’t been recorded enough to become standards (the undeservedly obscure “Cry Like the Wind” and the swing-era novelty “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon”). So, when you add the song selection to the fact that this disc features the vocalist in orchestral, small-group jazz and big-band settings, the disc not only offers a much more complete portrait of the artist than the title suggests, but this is also one of the strongest entries in EMI’s Sings the Standards series.

(more…)

Read more

June Carter Cash – Appalachian Pride (Remastered) (1975/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

June Carter Cash – Appalachian Pride (Remastered) (1975/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 25:51 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Nashville Legacy

The entirety of the album’s original sequence is included on the retrospective Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash – Her Life in Music.

(more…)

Read more

Jun Fukamachi – Reimei: Jun Fukamachi Last Recording (2012/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jun Fukamachi – Reimei: Jun Fukamachi Last Recording (2012/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:30 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UNAMAS

Jun Fukamachi is a composer, arranger, pianist and synthesizer player living in Japan. Since his debut in 1971, he has produced numerous original albums and performed with his own bands. In the late ’70s, he invited New York based studio musicians such as Steve Gadd(ds), the Brecker Brothers and Mike Mainieri(vibe) to Japan and they held live performances together at various venues. His album “Jun Fukamachi & the New York All Stars/Live” was re-released in 2002. In 1989, he became a Professor of the Department Music at Senzoku Gakuen College and was charge of establishing Japan’s first course specializing in music synthesis. In 1996 he left the university and resumed his career as a musician. His recent live performances are mainly based on piano improvisation, exploring the possibilities of creating music of the Japanese origin for the world’s audience.

(more…)

Read more

Jumaane Smith – When You’re Smiling (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jumaane Smith – When You’re Smiling (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:33 minutes | 493 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zinn Music LLC

Jazz trumpeter and singer Jumaane Smith trained at the Juilliard School of Music 2001-2005 with Wynton Marsalis as his primary teacher. Jumaane’s credits include 5 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, performances at The White House, on the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah Show, Good Morning America and American Idol. Albums featuring Jumaane have sold more than 40 million copies. Jumaane has also collaborated with Quincy Jones, and Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin and many others. Since 2005 Jumaane has toured and recorded extensively with Michael Bublé and currently performs with Harry Connick Jr.’s band on the syndicated daytime TV show “Harry”. In 2013 Smith toured as guest soloist for Jackie Evancho’s, “Songs of the Silver Screen” world tour.

(more…)

Read more

Julius-Jeongwon Kim – Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Julius-Jeongwon Kim – Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:51 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Ltd.

Pianist Julius Jeongwon Kim has appeared as soloist with world-renowned orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Czech Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, in major concert venues worldwide. He has been invited to perform for the former Czech president Vaclav Klaus, former US president George W. Bush, and late former Polish president Lech Aleksander Kaczynski. In recent years, Julius premiered Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in Asia, a piece he subsequently recorded with Deutsche Grammophon.

(more…)

Read more
%d bloggers like this: