Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Joshua Weilerstein – Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op. 73a & Op. 83a (Arr. by Rudolf Barshai) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Joshua Weilerstein – Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op. 73a & Op. 83a (Arr. by Rudolf Barshai) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:32 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fuga Libera

Founded nearly eighty years ago, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne enjoys an enviable reputation and has welcomed the greatest artists as its guests, from Clara Haskil and Alfred Cortot to Murray Perahia and Martha Argerich, from Paul Hindemith to Günter Wand. Despite its long history, the orchestra has had only six musical directors, including Armin Jordan from 1973 to 1985. The young American conductor Joshua Weilerstein succeeded Christian Zacharias in 2015. In addition to his conducting skills and his interest in rare repertory, he has also brought a love of musical outreach. His very popular podcast, “Sticky Notes”, discusses music in an accessible way.
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Joshua Trinidad, Jacob Young, Ståle Liavik Solberg – In November (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Trinidad, Jacob Young, Ståle Liavik Solberg – In November (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:03 minutes | 426 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RareNoiseRecords

Denver-based trumpeter-composer Joshua Trinidad makes a strikingly original statement on his RareNoise Records debut, In November. Recorded in Giske, Norway, this highly evocative trio outing features the adventurous Norwegian guitarist-composer and ECM recording artist Jacob Young and drummer Stale Liavik Solberg, a central figure on Oslo’s improvising music scene. Brimming with deep and winding lyricism, Trinidad’s elegiac seventh album as a leader is a compelling mix of bold long tones on trumpet, atmospheric guitaristry, fluid melodic invention and daring group improv, all delivered with rare authority by the three intrepid improvisers. From the minor key rubato opener “Beside” to the melancholy soundscape “Bell (Hymn)” to a darkly entrancing “The Attic” and the stirring title track, Trinidad and his empathetic crew of deep listeners show respect toward space and silence on these spellbinding noirish numbers.
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Joshua Stewart – Rossini: Zelmira (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Joshua Stewart – Rossini: Zelmira (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:54:42 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

Zelmira was the last opera Rossini wrote for Naples, knowing it would also be his calling card to Vienna where he had been assured performances. Keen to reconcile the alleged incompatibility between ‘Italian’ melody and ‘German’ harmony, Rossini employed exciting and daring harmonies and a raft of dazzling orchestral effects in this tragedy in which a daughter saves her father, the king, and her son, from usurpers to the throne. The opera was acclaimed wherever it was heard, and this recording presents the revised and triumphant Paris version.
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Joshua Speers – Human Now (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Joshua Speers – Human Now (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 15:41 minutes | 167 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

Josh Speers is your quintessential All-American hero. A blue-collar rock songwriter, a motorcyclist, a lover of baseball, an extremely well-read guy. One of four brothers from Delaware, Josh moved out to Los Angeles in 2018 to take a real shot at a music career, where he wound up finding kindred spirits in the likes of songwriter Tommy English (Kacey Musgraves) and producer Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Cold War Kids), who largely wrote and produced Human Now with Speers, as well as Jon Castelli (Khalid, Summer Walker x Drake) who mixed several songs on the EP. The result is an inspired search for honesty, full of driving ’80s guitar riffs, steady drums and perfectly described by Speers as the lovechild of Bruce Springsteen and Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Joshua Redman, Brooklyn Rider – Sun on Sand (with Scott Colley & Satoshi Takeishi) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Joshua Redman, Brooklyn Rider – Sun on Sand (with Scott Colley & Satoshi Takeishi) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:19 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

With Walking Shadows in 2013, Joshua Redman submerged his saxophone in a beautiful orchestral arrangement by the composer Patrick Zimmerli. Six years later, we find the two men together again on Sun on Sand, a dense suite in which each movement is, according to their author Zimmerli, an “expression of light”. Redman is accompanied by the Brooklyn Rider Ensemble, bassist Scott Colley and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. Together, they blur the boundaries between jazz and contemporary music thanks to an unusual combination of pieces by George Russell, Milton Babbitt, Michael Nyman and even Frank Zappa. The light found here comes in all kinds of tones. Going from chiaroscuro to bright sunlight, Joshua Redman and Patrick Zimmerli’s record is like a colour chart made up of very original shades. In 2019, orchestral jazz is far from being an over-crowded genre, so this excellent project deserves some attention. – Max Dembo
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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau – Nearness (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau – Nearness (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records releases saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau’s Nearness, the longtime friends’ and collaborators’ first duo album, on September 9, 2016. Nearness, a selection of duets recorded live during their recent European tour, is available for pre-order now at iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store, where an instant download of the album track “Ornithology” is included with purchase. You can hear the track and find out where the duo will be performing together this fall below; for all the latest tour details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Brad Mehldau first came to prominence as a member Joshua Redman’s quartet in the 1990s before becoming a bandleader himself. The pair first reunited in 2010 when Redman was featured on Mehldau’s album Highway Rider. In 2013, Mehldau was featured as a performer and producer on Redman’s Walking Shadows.
“It’s like one of those friendships where you don’t see someone for a long stretch and then you fall right back where you left off,” Mehldau told the Ottawa Citizen when he and Redman performed at the city’s jazz festival in 2011. According to the Citizen’s Peter Hum, these two friends are “among the most potent and influential jazz instrumentalists of their generation, and what Mehldau calls ‘picking up’ is in fact world-class improvising before rapt audiences.”

Each artist has recorded extensively for Nonesuch, with a wide variety of collaborators. Brad Mehldau’s label debut was the 2004 solo disc Live in Tokyo and includes six records with his trio: House on Hill, Day Is Done, Brad Mehldau Trio Live, Ode, Where Do You Start, and Blues and Ballads. His collaborative records on the label include Love Sublime, Highway Rider, Metheny Mehldau, Metheny Mehldau Quartet, Modern Music, and Mehliana: Taming the Dragon. Mehldau’s additional solo albums on Nonesuch include Live in Marciac and last year’s 8-LP/4-CD 10 Years Solo Live, which the New York Times says “contains some of the most impressive pianism he has captured on record.”

Joshua Redman’s first album on Nonesuch was the Grammy-nominated Momentum, released in 2005. His other releases on the label include Back East, Compass, and Trios Live, all of which explore the trio format; MoodSwing, originally released in 1994 with Redman’s own band, including Mehldau, and re-released by Nonesuch in 2009; Walking Shadows, his first recording to include an orchestral ensemble, from 2013; and The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, his 2015 collaboration with the acclaimed trio, which the New York Times called “a knockout” and NPR called “a roaring and beautiful summit meeting.” In 2004, he was a founder of the SFJAZZ Collective, an eight-piece, multi-generational ensemble of accomplished musicians. Since 2009, Redman has been performing with a new collaborative group called James Farm, whose members also include pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland. The group has two releases on Nonesuch; their self-titled album from 2011, and City Folk, released in 2014.
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Joshua Redman – Trios Live (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Joshua Redman – Trios Live (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records releases saxophonist Joshua Redman’s 2014 recording Trios Live. The album was recorded at New York City’s Jazz Standard and Washington, DC’s Blues Alley during stands with two different trios—Redman and drummer Gregory Hutchinson with bassist Matt Penman (Jazz Standard) and Redman and Hutchinson with bassist Reuben Rogers (Blues Alley). Trios Live features four original tunes by Redman and interpretations of three additional songs.
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Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus – The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus – The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:17 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

In 2011, The Bad Plus invited saxophonist Joshua Redman to join them for a week of enthusiastically received performances at the Blue Note in New York City. They then played a handful of dates before heading into the studio in 2014 to record their debut album, The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, which Nonesuch releases on May 26, 2015 (June 8 outside of North America). Seven of the nine tracks on The Bad Plus Joshua Redman are new compositions by the quartet members who include saxophonist Joshua Redman and The Bad Plus bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King. The other two songs on the album, “Dirty Blonde” and “Silence Is the Question,” are new arrangements of Bad Plus favorites.
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Joshua Redman – Still Dreaming (feat. Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman – Still Dreaming (feat. Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Transmission and legacy are at the heart of jazz. Even in the more radical moments, or even the revolutionary ones, jazz musicians have always, one way or another, paid tribute to their elders. With Still Dreaming, Joshua Redman only confirms that. With trumpet player Ron Miles, bass player Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, the saxophonist drives a quartet which pays homage to Old and New Dreams, a band carried between 1975 and 1987 by his late father, the saxophonist Dewey Redman. A formation then composed of double bass player Charlie Haden, trumpet player Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell, all former bodyguards of Ornette Coleman… But if this story about transmission and legacy is at the heart of the music of Joshua Redman and his friends, everything here is all invention and creation. These four don’t intend to take us to the museum! Even when they reinterpret compositions such as Charlie Haden’s Playing or Ornette Coleman’s Comme il faut and The Rest, their approach isn’t some kind of basic sanctification. On the contrary! We are here in the presence of four virtuoso, each being among the best in their area. As for Redman, he has rarely played that well. He’s often economic in his play. His breath, never wordy, is the one of almost mystical incantations that Colley’s and Blade’s rhythms make even more majestic. And then there is Brian Blade, this drummer performing with feathers in his hands. He’s an impressive colorist who radiates on everything he touches… In short, this is a masterful disc for sophisticated ears.  – Marc Zisman
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Joshua Redman – RoundAgain (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman – RoundAgain (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:42 minutes | 937 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. A mere glance at Round Again’s line-up is capable of arousing a sense of collective hysteria among jazz fans. The original members of the saxophonist’s first quartet haven’t recorded together since MoodWing was released in 1994. “We would have done it ten years if it were up to me”, explains Mehldau, “Josh, Christian and Brian are all my heroes. It’s like playing with The Avengers!” It’s a worthy comparison seeing as these four really are considered superheroes in today’s jazzosphere. In almost a quarter of a century, their aura and playing has developed in an exponential way to the point that the quartet has achieved an irrevocable spiritual chemistry. In this brand-new offering (three compositions by Redman, two by Mehldau, and one each for McBride and Blade), they immediately show off a bond which allows them to perform extraordinary and colossal swing. Under the hood of this sparkling, perplexing yet vintage Rolls Royce of a record, RoundAgain is a meaningful four-way conversation. From beginning (Undertow) to end (Your Part to Play), mutual respect is at the heart of their drive and direction; even Redman’s verbose saxophone never steals the spotlight. Let’s just hope that we won’t have to wait another 26 years before they do it all again… – Marc Zisman
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Joshua Redman – Come What May (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Redman – Come What May (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:10 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch

This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians: the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Previous releases were Beyond (2000) and Passage of Time (2001). The Quartet, which has toured internationally over the last several years, recorded seven Redman tunes for Come What May.
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Joshua Ranz – J.S. Bach: 3 Cello Suites (Arr. J. Ranz for Bass Clarinet) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Joshua Ranz – J.S. Bach: 3 Cello Suites (Arr. J. Ranz for Bass Clarinet) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:03 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

THREE CELLO SUITES from clarinetist Joshua Ranz and Navona Records is a truly groundbreaking take on Bach’s legendary works; In this album, for the first time ever, listeners may enjoy three unabridged cello suites by Bach arranged for the bass clarinet. Ranz selected Suites 1, 4, and 2 for this recording because, together, they form a cohesive and dynamic whole. Ranz holds the chair of principal clarinet for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and has played on such blockbuster soundtracks as Toy Story 3 and 4, and Star Wars episodes VII and IX. He can be heard prominently featured in La La Land, Catch Me If You Can, and An American Pickle. Ranz lends a fresh voice to Bach’s profoundly-beautiful music in THREE CELLO SUITES.
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Joshua Radin – Acoustic from Sunset Sound (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Joshua Radin – Acoustic from Sunset Sound (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 18:36 minutes | 195 MB | Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nettwerk Music Group

Love and the complications surrounding it have long proven to be Joshua Radin’s songwriting forte. Though he never intended to be a live performer, there was little choice when the first song he ever wrote, “Winter,” was featured on an episode of “Scrubs.” The resulting fervor around the song soon led to a record deal, and over the last decade, Radin has toured the world countless times, sold hundreds of thousands of records and topped the iTunes charts, earned raves from Rolling Stone to The Guardian, performed on “The Tonight Show,” “Conan,” and more, played Ellen DeGeneres’ wedding at her personal request, and had his songs featured in more than 150 different films, commercials, and TV shows.
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Joshua Jacobson – Good Little Thing (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Joshua Jacobson – Good Little Thing (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:23 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fatmouth Records

The 1920s brought forth a parade of amazing musical talent to Atlanta’s thriving African American community. Decatur Street and surrounding neighborhoods churned with activity around the clock as people migrated from the agricultural counties seeking jobs and a better life. The Decatur 81 theatre surrounded by a popular pool hall and barber shop served as a showcase for touring acts as well as street corner musicians who would later become legendary figures in blues history.
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Joshua Hopkins, Jake Heggie – Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joshua Hopkins, Jake Heggie – Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:22 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone

Five years ago, Joshua Hopkins’s life changed forever when his sister Nathalie, along with two other women, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in a spree that is now considered one of the worst cases of domestic violence in Canadian history. In his grief, Hopkins conceived of this song cycle. Co-commissioned by HGO with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, with music by Jake Heggie set to poetry by Margaret Atwood, this powerful new work, directed by James Niebuhr, is Hopkins’s way of honoring his sister’s memory and speaking out against domestic violence.
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