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Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – Big Band Holidays (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 18, 2016 · Comments off

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – Big Band Holidays (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:36 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Blue Engine Records

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis holiday album featuring special guests, Cécile Mclorin Salvant, René Marie and Gregory Porter.

Put some swing in your holiday season with Big Band Holidays from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis! The first holiday album ever released by DownBeat Readers Poll’s Best Big Band of 2013 & 2014, Big Band Holidays features original big band arrangements of timeless favorites including Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, We Three Kings, and White Christmas. Nine-time GRAMMY Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO are joined by special guest vocalists Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, and René Marie on what’s sure to become a holiday classic. (more…)

Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry (1984/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 15, 2016 · Comments off

Twisted Sister’s third studio album, originally released in 1984, including the hits “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock”. It also features the power ballad “The Price”. According to RIAA certification, Stay Hungry gained multi-platinum status with U.S. sales of more than 3,000,000 copies. (more…)

Stefano Battaglia Trio – Songways (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 15, 2016 · Comments off

Songways is the highly anticipated follow-up to the trio’s acclaimed 2011 release. Esteemed Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia and his renowned trio presents a new selection of chants, hymns and dances, all written by Battaglia and inspired by descriptions of visionary places from art and literature – from Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Swift or Charles Fourier to Italo Calvino. This instant classic finds a new balance between archaic modal pre-tonal chants and dances, pure tonal songs and hymns and abstract textures. (more…)

John Barry – From Russia With Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1963/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 15, 2016 · Comments off

John Barry – From Russia With Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1963/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:52 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | @ Capitol Records

From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name. This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer. (more…)

Hooverphonic – In Wonderland (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 14, 2016 · Comments off

Belgian Pop/Ambient/Electronic group Hooverphonic release their latest album, In Wonderland. On this album you will hear multiple vocals, both male and female, with various timbres that give each song its own character. Yet another eclectic album from national pride Hooverphonic, with melancholy strings as common theme, that again succeeds in coming at us moody, innovative and creatively unfettered.

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Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges – Con-Soul And Sax (1965/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 7, 2016 · Comments off

One of the great tenor and organ dates cut for RCA in the 60’s by the team of Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis featuring performances recorded in 1965.

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Virginie Teychene – Bright And Sweet (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 7, 2016 · Comments off

A winner of the Prix du Jury and Prix du Public at the 2008 International Vocal Jazz Competition in Juan-les-Pins, Virginie Teychene is celebrated for her song interpretation, musicianship and skill at scat performance. On her new release Bright and Sweet, which features favorites of the likes of Abbey Lincoln, Mimi Perrin and Peggy Lee, Teychene lets her light shine. Whether she brings us the light of dawn (”I’m Gonna Go Fishing”) or dusk (”Goodbye Porkpie Hat”), it is, more than anything else, her trademark.

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The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame (1981/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 7, 2016 · Comments off

Freeze-Frame was The J. Geils Band’s 12th album, originally released in 1981. The record quickly became the group’s biggest seller, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and holding the spot for four consecutive weeks. Keyboardist/vocalist Seth Justman, with help from vocalist Peter Wolf, composed all of the titles on the album. Freeze-Frame features their number one hit song “Centerfold”, along with titles “Freeze Frame” and “Angel in Blue”. (more…)

The Band – The Last Waltz (1978/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 6, 2016 · Comments off

The Band – The Last Waltz (1978/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 134:05 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre:Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band are one of music’s most revered and influential acts. The legendary group created timeless, unforgettable roots-based music and made history with one of the greatest concert albums of all time, The Last Waltz. This enthralling collection features dozens of special guests including Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Muddy Water, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John and many, many more. The breathtaking thirty-track set features the memorable standouts “Ophelia,” “Up On Cripple Creek,” “The Weight,” “Forever Young,” “Caravan” and much more. Experience one of the greatest concert recordings of all time as a pristine hi-res download. (more…)

Stanley Clarke – School Days (1976/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 5, 2016 · Comments off

School Days is the jaw-dropping fourth studio album by GRAMMY Award-winning bassist Stanley Clarke. The album features guest musicians including John McLaughlin, George Duke, Milt Holland, Billy Cobham, Steve Gadd and more. It reached #2 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and features the standouts “Quiet Afternoon” and “The Dancer.” School Days highlights Clarke’s riveting compositional skills and irresistible technique. This definitive classic is a favorite among music lovers and bass players. (more…)

Soul Asylum – Change Of Fortune (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 5, 2016 · Comments off

Soul Asylum was formed in Minneapolis in 1983 mixing tuneful but unrestrained punk, hardcore, 1970s rock, country and self-effacing kitsch. One early review described their sound as follows: some unholy mix of Kiss and Hank Williams thrown under the wheels of a runaway train. All elements contributed to the band being credited with a grunge precursor title, a claim often recited in comparisons between pre-Nirvana Minneapolis and Seattle bands. “Change of Fortune” is Soul Asylum’s 11th full length studio album. (more…)

Palladians – The Devil’s Trill (Sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini) (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 4, 2016 · Comments off

The Devil’s Trill

Around 1700, Northern Europe was deluged with Italian violin music and players. Engraving made printed music cheaper, and economic collapse throughout the Italian peninsula made the more stable north look like the ‘Promised Land’. The stage was set for a musical invasion by a host of indigent virtuosi and stay-at-home composers, all of whose surnames seemingly end with the letter ‘i’.

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Merzbow, Gustafsson, Pandi, Moore – Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 3, 2016 · Comments off

Merzbow, Gustafsson, Pándi, Moore – Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 81:55 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: RareNoise | @ RareNoise Records

Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper is the second studio album by the trio of Japanese noise musician Merzbow, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi, and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. It features guest musician Thurston Moore, guitarist in Sonic Youth. The album was chosen as number 20 of 20 Best Avant Albums of 2015 by Rolling Stone. (more…)

Eugene Ysaye – Sonatas for solo violin – Alina Ibragimova (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 31, 2016 · Comments off

Eugene Ysaye – Sonatas for solo violin – Alina Ibragimova (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 67:43 minutes | 1.21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: hyperion-records | @ Hyperion Records
Recorded: May 2014, Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom

Ysaÿe’s Sonatas for solo violin were sketched out in a fevered twenty-four hours during the summer of 1923, a response to the question of why—in over two hundred years—no one had attempted to follow the path forged by Johann Sebastian Bach. Each of these six new Sonatas is dedicated to and customized around the playing style of a contemporary violinist, and as such they present formidable challenges. Russian virtuoso Alina Ibragimova, whose earlier recording of the Bach Sonatas was revelatory, turns out performances fully worthy of this distinguished ancestry.

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Richard Wagner – Das Rheingold – Symphonieorchester des bayerischen Rundfunks, Simon Rattle (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 31, 2016 · Comments off

Richard Wagner – Das Rheingold – Symphonieorchester des bayerischen Rundfunks, Simon Rattle (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:22:24 minutes | 1.36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source:Q0buz | @ BRmedia Service GmbH
Recorded: München, Herkulessaal, 24.-25.4.2015

The general consensus over the past few years among music critics and the public at large is that everything the conductor Sir Simon Rattle touches ‘turns to gold’. Everything with the exception of the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that is! The oft-repeated assertion here is that Rattle and Wagner do not go together, even though no good reasons have been furnished to support this. The third collaboration between Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, together with a team of the very best Wagner singers, now conclusively proves the opposite. This concert performance of ‘Das Rheingold’, the first opera in Wagner’s mighty tetralogy ‘The Ring of the Nibelung’, was performed live in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz on April 24 and 25, 2015, and has now been brought out by BR KLASSIK on two CDs only a few months after the event.

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