Kenny Wayne Shepherd – The Traveler (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kenny Wayne Shepherd – The Traveler (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:14 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

The Traveler, an album of experience and profound resonance by the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. Recorded in Los Angeles, while the band was on a break from their uncompromising tour schedule that left them road-tested and ready to rock, The Traveler showcases some world-class musicians: vocalist Noah Hunt, drummer Chris “Whipper” Layton (formerly of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble), bassist Kevin McCormick, and keyboardists Jimmy McGorman and Joe Krown. The album features ten songs including eight new originals co-written by KWS and some of Nashville’s most in-demand songwriters, plus incendiary covers of Buffalo Springfield’s “Mr. Soul” and Joe Walsh’s “Turn to Stone.”

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Straight To You: Live (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Straight To You: Live (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:25 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band will be releasing their first ever live concert video in 10 years this winter. ‘Straight To You: Live’ will be released on 27th November via Provogue. Their only other live output, the ’Live! In Chicago’ album was released a decade ago and got itself a Grammy nomination along the way, but this time around for 2020, you get to watch the band in its full glory as well as listen. In the last 10 years the multi-platinum selling Shepherd has gone from strength to strength, winning countless awards, releasing four studio albums and touring the world over several times – from Brazil to Europe, India to Canada and US to Australia and beyond. The band were only weeks into ‘The Traveler World Tour’ when the Covid-19 pandemic broke, and the world came to a standstill. The show took place at the famous Leverkusen Jazzstage for the iconic German TV show, Rockpalast on 25th November 2019. The seven-piece band took the stage and immediately launched into their most-recent hit-single ‘Woman Like You,’ with the honey-soaked powerhouse voice of Noah Hunt blasting “I ain’t looking for a one time girl” backed by the fiery fretwork of Shepherd. Taken from ‘The Traveler,’ it’s the first of four songs from the latest studio album, “‘Woman Like You’ is the perfect opening song for the show,“ Shepherd says. “You come out swinging, it sets the mood for the entire show. It’s like, we’re there to rock, and we mean business.”

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Kenny Rogers – You Can’t Make Old Friends (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kenny Rogers – You Can’t Make Old Friends (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:40 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

You Can’t Make Old Friends is the twenty-seventh studio album from American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It is Rogers’ first album of original material since 2006. Its title track, a duet with Dolly Parton, peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart in December 2013, becoming Rogers’ first single released in six years.

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Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (1978/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (1978/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:06 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Nashville

Chart History/Awards
– Reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums.
– Reached #12 on the Billboard 200.
– “She Believes In Me” reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Singles.
– “The Gambler” won Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.

The Gambler is Kenny Rogers’ seminal classic. Selling over thirty-five million copies worldwide, the album is one of Rogers’ most popular releases and established him as one of the most successful artists of the 70s and 80s. Rogers’ interpretation of the title track became his signature tune. The Gambler also features the hit “She Believes In Me.” “The Gambler” would earn Rogers a GRAMMY® for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

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Kenny Rogers – Once Again It’s Christmas (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kenny Rogers – Once Again It’s Christmas (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:10 minutes | 464 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

Featuring Alison Krauss, Jennifer Nettles, Home Free Jim Brickman, Winfield’s Locket alongside the country legend for his first country album in 17 years.

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Kenny Rogers – Christmas (2000/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Rogers – Christmas (2000/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:33 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Country, Pop Rock, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CMCapNash (N91)

Recorded at his commercial peak, Rogers’ Christmas features both contemporary material (“Kentucky Homemade,” “Kids”) and more traditional fare (“White Christmas,” “O Holy Night”); while recommended for fans, casual listeners are advised to seek out other country holiday LPs instead.

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Kenny Larkin – Azimuth (Expanded Edition) (1994/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kenny Larkin – Azimuth (Expanded Edition) (1994/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:48 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Electronic, Techno
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Above Board Projects

A staggering collection Detroit techno-soul music, beamed directly into your consciousness from 1994. Kenny Larkin should need no introduction to those whose ears are trained in the ways of the motor city and her musical sons and daughters. He is one of a handful of artists from the city whose original and unique sonic output has helped shape and advance techno as an art form and as a serious musical movement across the world and it’s galaxies beyond, a formidable DJ and producer whose music continues to push the envelope today. ‘Azimuth’ gives us what would be Larkin’s first full length offering, and across 11 tracks of blistering hi-tech machine funk, ambient, soul drenched rhythms and futurist club music he deftly crafted a classic. This is the album you hold in your hands now, here in 2021. Originally released on Warp Records, ‘Azimuth’ is back here in it’s expanded form of a 2 x LP and bonus 10″ reissue. A record that effortlessly sounds like it came to earth yesterday while being 25 years old, a true Detroit classic that still makes waves across the planet today. File under – ‘Essential’.

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Kenny Garrett – Sounds from the Ancestors (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kenny Garrett – Sounds from the Ancestors (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:40 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Since launching his solo career in the mid-’80s, Detroit saxophonist Kenny Garrett has been one of mainstream jazz’s brightest lights. With a discography that both richly honors notions of traditional jazz while pushing it to incorporate a wide range of disparate, global influences, Garrett’s approach has long been that of a man who knows the rulebook inside and out and is more than willing to discard it. That has led to a number of exciting and invigorating albums that push at the edges of the genre’s possibilities while resolutely staying firmly within the tradition. At least until recently. With a few of the cuts on his last studio album, 2016’s Do Your Dance!, Garrett began incorporating a sonic palette more often associated with smooth jazz: funk, Latin, and hip-hop beats undergirding melody-forward compositions that, while certainly pleasant, were perhaps not as challenging as some of the rest of his material. It certainly fit the theme of the album, and, for a player as diverse in his influences as Garrett, it wasn’t even all that surprising. The smoothness continues a few years later on Sounds from the Ancestors, but instead of a more holistically fused approach, Garrett seems to be compartmentalizing tracks as “funky ones” and “jazzy ones” and the results are a little jarring and occasionally disappointing. Putatively constructed to honor the musical legacy of his hometown of Detroit, it’s easy to see why Garrett wanted a more soulful, funky approach to be used on some of these tracks, and in at least one instance -the opening cut “It’s Time To Come Home” blends Coltrane-esque spirituality with Afro-Cuban grooves-he’s able to combine his phenomenal sax prowess with an undeniably propulsive (and seductively danceable) rhythm. Even on several of the album’s more R&B-forward numbers like “When the Days Were Different,” Garrett will throw in quotes from jazz standards here and there. However, for the most part, Ancestors snaps the listener’s neck between glassy, turgid fuzak (“Hargrove” in particular) and fiery, riveting post-bop (“Soldiers of the Fields / Soldats des Champs” is a wildly successful exploratory jam, full of energy, adventure, and improvisation). By the time the album closes with the original (and far more sprawling) run through “It’s Time To Come Home,” one wishes Garrett would have made this a double-disc set with the atmospheres more clearly defined, since, as it is, Ancestors is-despite the high quality of the musicianship and compositions here-a bit too diverse to yield a consistently rewarding listening experience. – Jason Ferguson

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Kenny G – New Standards (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kenny G – New Standards (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:29 minutes | 667 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

His first new album in 6 years, New Standards, features 11 original compositions inspired by the jazz ballads of the `50s and `60s. These new `standards’ capture the sophistication, style and romance of this amazing time period in jazz and combine it with Kenny G’s signature sound.

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Kenny G – Brazilian Nights (Deluxe Edition) (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kenny G – Brazilian Nights (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:11 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Kenny G has had one of the most eclectic and dominant careers the music business has ever seen. He’s maintained a high level of creative excellence through decades of unprecedented commercial success by never allowing himself to stay in one place too long. That reputation for musical curiosity stays well intact on his fourteenth studio album Brazilian Nights.

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Kenny Dorham – Whistle Stop (1961/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Dorham – Whistle Stop (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:32 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Whistle Stop is a jazz studio album by Kenny Dorham, featuring performances by acclaimed musicians Hank Mobley, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. It was recorded in January 1961 at Van Gelder Studio, in Englewood Cliffs, and was originally released on Blue Note Records as BST 84063 and BLP 4063. “In 1975”, Blumenthal states in the CD liner notes, “five British critics picked Whistle Stop as one of 200 albums that belonged in a basic library of jazz recorded after World War II”.

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Kenny Dorham – Una Mas (1963/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Dorham – Una Mas (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:29 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s Una Mas was one of 1963’s best records. With its melding of hard-bop, bossa nova, and the blues, Una Mas is a prime example of the memorable vamps that Blue Note favored at the time, finding ultimate success later that year with Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder.

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Kenny Dorham – Una Mas, One More Time (Remastered, Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1963/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kenny Dorham – Una Mas, One More Time (Remastered, Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1963/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:48 minutes | 369 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

When one thinks of great talent scouts in jazz, the name of Kenny Dorham is often overlooked. However, many top young players benefited from playing in his groups, and for proof one need look no further than the lineup on this 1963 CD reissue: tenor-saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Butch Warren, and (before either player joined Miles Davis) pianist Herbie Hancock and drummer Tony Williams. Together the quintet performs three of the trumpeter’s originals (“Una Mas” is the most famous) along with the standard ballad “If Ever I Would Leave You.” Even if the playing time (under 37 minutes) is a bit brief, the explorative yet swinging music lives up to its potential. ~ Scott Yanow

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Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata (1964/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:10 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

It seems strange and somewhat tragic that this was trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s last full album as a leader for he was only 40 at the time and still in his prime. Dorham contributed three of the four selections to the session (Joe Henderson’s catchy “Mamacita” also receives its debut), and his very underrated abilities as a writer, trumpeter, and talent scout are very much in evidence. This modern hard bop quintet set with Henderson on tenor, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath served as a strong (if premature) ending to Dorham’s impressive career as a solo artist. –Scott Yanow, AllMusic

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Kenny Dorham – The Complete ‘Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia (1956/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Kenny Dorham – The Complete ‘Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:02:58 minutes | 4,74 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

During the spring and summer of 1956, trumpeter Kenny Dorham recorded two studio albums with his Jazz Prophets, a small hard bop band involving tenor saxophonist J.R. Monterose and a rhythm section of pianist Dick Katz, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Arthur Edgehill. On May 31 of that year, Dorham’s group performed live at the Café Bohemia with Bobby Timmons at the piano and guitarist Kenny Burrell sitting in on all but the first of four sets. Originally engineered by Rudy Van Gelder and remastered by him in 2001, Blue Note’s 2002 double-disc “Complete” Dorham Café Bohemia edition combines every usable track taped during this exceptionally fine evening of live jazz. The word “understated” has sometimes been used to describe the music played by Dorham’s band on this night in 1956; this is only appropriate if Dorham is compared with intense individuals like Fats Navarro or Dizzy Gillespie. Dorham’s jazz was perhaps more intimate and accessible precisely because his horn had an earthier tone, almost like that of a cornet. Sometimes compared with Ted Curson, Richard Williams or Freddie Hubbard, Dorham sounded a lot like the profoundly gifted and vastly underappreciated Johnny Coles, particularly during ballads like “Autumn in New York” and “Round Midnight.” There are also intimations of Miles Davis, Nat Adderley and even young Don Cherry. This music is designed for relaxing and grooving out. It will greatly assist anyone who is traveling by night or trying to make it through to the end of another day. –AllMusic

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