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Buddy Defranco – The Liveliest (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:34 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
This is a live recording of a 1980 concert at the Municipal Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Buddy De Franco, an American jazz clarinetist who has been active since the early 1950’s. The album features orthodox jazz music by Charlie Parker, Antonio Carlos Jobim, 60’s rock and roll numbers, and 30’s screen numbers. But the highlight of the album is the local jazz musicians who participated in this concert. The lineup includes Jorge Navarro (p), Jorge Lopez-Ruiz (b), Osvaldo Lopez (ds), Ricardo Lew (g), and many other important Argentine jazz artists who are well known to those who know them. Unlike their respective solo works, these musicians are only behind the scenes, but their outstanding performance skills can be heard through their renditions of orthodox jazz numbers.
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Bruckner Orchester Linz – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:03 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Many stereotypes and assumptions about Anton Bruckner’s personality and works require a critical review. The planned comprehensive complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies in 19 surviving versions #bruckner2024 aims to show why the Linz composer came from and what his music referred to – a reference without stereotypes and hasty conclusions, close to the musical text of the respective edition. The Bruckner exegete Markus Poschner explores the Symphony No. 8 with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in the second part of the series, in the version from 1890 (Ed. L. Nowak).
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Bruce Springsteen – 2023-02-01 Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:49 minutes | 3,18 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Live Bruce Springsteen
Decades from now, when historians and epidemiologists look back at the Covid era, they’ll probably have a hard time pinpointing the exact moment the pandemic came to an end in America and normal life resumed. Some will probably point to the day in August 2021 when the vaccination rate hit 70 percent, while others will spotlight April 2022, when airlines dropped their mask mandate, or even Joe Biden’s 60 Minutes interview a few months later when he bluntly declared the pandemic over despite protests from members of his own administration. Others still might say that moment is still to come.
From another perspective, though, there’s a strong case to be made that it happened on Feb. 1 at 8:01 p.m. EST, when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band walked onstage at Tampa, Florida’s Amalie Arena and kicked off their world tour with a thunderous rendition of “No Surrender” in front of 20,000 screaming, maskless fans.
This moment followed six painfully long years of E Street Band inactivity — including multiple tour delays due to Covid concerns — and a torrent of outrage over Springsteen’s decision to dramatically raise ticket prices this time around. “I know it was unpopular with some fans,” Springsteen told Rolling Stone late last year, in his only remarks to date on the controversy. “But if there’s any complaints on the way out, you can have your money back.”
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Bruce Springsteen – 02/05/23 Amway Center, Orlando, FL (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:40:11 minutes | 3,14 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Live Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen once said he intended to make an album with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector where he sang like Roy Orbison, a nifty summary of many, but not all, of his artistic ambitions and a key to his appeal. Unlike any other singer/songwriters saddled with the appellation of “the new Dylan” in the early ’70s, Springsteen never hid how he was raised on ’60s AM radio.
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Brandon Ross – Of Sight and Sound (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:30 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Collaborations between artists specializing in different mediums regularly bring out facets and revelations unknown to the participants theretofore. Utilizing sonic and visual elements to stimulate creation, guitarist, conceptualist Brandon Ross and his ensemble, PENDULUM, met Neo Symbolic Abstract painter Ford Crull to generate what Ross calls a sonic mandala on their new recording/multi-media piece, Of Sight and Sound.
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Brad Mehldau – Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:30 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The live solo album features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. Although other Beatles songs have long been staples of Mehldau’s solo and trio shows, he had not previously recorded any of the tunes on ‘Your Mother Should Know’. The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connection between The Beatles and pop songwriters who followed. The album was recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris.
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Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra – On the Air Vol. 1 (1974)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:59 minutes | 673 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
HEP Records presents this 1974 first volume of collected works from American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra, entitled On The Air.
Raeburn’s Orchestra, which was active c. 1944-1947, performed arrangements that were often comparable to those used by Woody Herman and the “progressive jazz” of Stan Kenton during the same period. The compositions arranged by George Handy were the most contemporary, utilizing dissonance somewhat in the manner of Igor Stravinsky. Johnny Richards joined in 1947, following Handy and stayed for a year writing 50 compositions.
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Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra – ‘On the Air’ Vol 2 (1974)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:27 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
HEP Records presents this 1974 second volume of collected works from American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra, entitled On The Air.
Raeburn’s Orchestra, which was active c. 1944-1947, performed arrangements that were often comparable to those used by Woody Herman and the “progressive jazz” of Stan Kenton during the same period. The compositions arranged by George Handy were the most contemporary, utilizing dissonance somewhat in the manner of Igor Stravinsky. Johnny Richards joined in 1947, following Handy and stayed for a year writing 50 compositions.
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Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra – Memphis in June (1980/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
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Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra – Memphis in June (1980/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:47 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
HEP Records presents this 1980 collection of works from American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra, entitled Memphis in June.
Raeburn’s Orchestra, which was active c. 1944-1947, performed arrangements that were often comparable to those used by Woody Herman and the “progressive jazz” of Stan Kenton during the same period. The compositions arranged by George Handy were the most contemporary, utilizing dissonance somewhat in the manner of Igor Stravinsky. Johnny Richards joined in 1947, following Handy and stayed for a year writing 50 compositions.
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![Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Opp. 37 & 58 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/09/n0fo5zl4cckta_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Opp. 37 & 58 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:56 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos
For 19th-century audiences Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. The simplicity of its opening piano statement gives way to an unprecedented dialogue in the central movement between a heartfelt piano and an austere unison string orchestra, before the infectious energy of the dramatic finale.
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Bill Summers, Summers Heat – Straight To The Bank (1978/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:27 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Digitally remastered edition of this 1978 classic album from the acclaimed percussionist Bill Summers. Summers came to San Francisco from Detroit. By the early ’70s, he had established himself as part of the competitive music scene and when Herbie Hancock was forming a group to play his new Jazz fusion sound, he chose Bill as his percussionist.
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Bill Summers, Summers Heat – On Sunshine (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:58 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Digitally remastered edition of this 1979 classic album from the acclaimed percussionist Bill Summers. Summers came to San Francisco from Detroit. By the early ’70s, he had established himself as part of the competitive music scene and when Herbie Hancock was forming a group to play his new Jazz fusion sound, he chose Bill as his percussionist.
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Bill Summers, Summers Heat – Cayenne (1977/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:49 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Digitally remastered edition of this 1977 classic album from the acclaimed percussionist Bill Summers. Summers came to San Francisco from Detroit. By the early ’70s, he had established himself as part of the competitive music scene and when Herbie Hancock was forming a group to play his new Jazz fusion sound, he chose Bill as his percussionist.
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Bill Summers – Feel The Heat (1977/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:18 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Digitally remastered edition of this 1977 album from the acclaimed percussionist Bill Summers. Summers came to San Francisco from Detroit. By the early ’70s, he had established himself as part of the competitive music scene and when Herbie Hancock was forming a group to play his new Jazz fusion sound, he chose Bill as his percussionist.
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Ben Kim – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:41 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
If in my previous recording of Mozart Concertos I tried to say something valid and truthful, albeit sincere, with this album I wanted to simply be.
For me, Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 24 and 25 are a testament to the beauty and imperfection of the human experience and about finding joy and meaning in the midst of pain and hardship.
Even though they are considered today to have pushed the boundaries of the genre, the premiere of the 24th concerto in 1876 left listeners puzzled and uneasy. It wasn’t an opera, yet it sounded like one. What was a piece of passionate lament doing in a solo concerto expected to dazzle more than move audiences? By the time he wrote the 25th, unapologetically symphonic in scope, Mozart had lost enough subscribers that he had to postpone his performance by an entire season. The concerto would not be performed again until nearly 150 years later by Arthur Schnabel.
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