Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:22:46 minutes | 5,24 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino
Remastered from the original 1969 recordings: Grateful Dead will continue their ambitious reissue series to commemorate the 50-year anniversary for each of their albums with Aoxomoxoa this June. Like all the albums in this ongoing series, Aoxomoxoa will be released approximately 50 years after its anniversary date as a two-album deluxe edition that includes the original album with newly remastered sound, plus a bonus disc of unreleased live recordings.
Grateful Dead audiovisual archivist Dave Lemieux says: “In 1969, for their third album, the Grateful Dead eschewed outside producers and created Aoxomoxoa themselves, beginning a run of self-produced albums that would continue until 1977. Scrapping the first sessions, which were recorded to eight-track tape, the Dead now had 16 tracks with which to experiment their psychedelic sound, with an album that included entirely Robert Hunter-penned lyrics for the first time.”
An enigmatic classic, Aoxomoxoa is messy and murky, mysterious and majestic – a perfect time capsule that is still stubbornly resplendent a half century after it first appeared. The album introduced favorites like “St. Stephen” and “Mountains On The Moon,” as well as “China Cat Sunflower” – a song that would continue to remain in the band’s repertoire.
The deluxe edition’s bonus disc features unreleased live performances captured over several nights in January 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom. Recorded several months before the release of Aoxomoxoa, the live tracks include early versions of two tracks from the album – “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” and “Doin’ That Rag.” The disc also includes the final live performance of “Clementine,” a song the band began performing in 1968 but was never released on a studio album. The band also played several songs from its second album, Anthem of the Sun (1968). Highlights include a dynamic romp through “New Potato Caboose” and an electrifying “Alligator>Caution” jam that captures Pigpen at his primal best.
When these shows were recorded, the band members were: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Tom Constanten, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann.
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Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:35 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
Remastered from the original 1969 recordings: Grateful Dead will continue their ambitious reissue series to commemorate the 50-year anniversary for each of their albums with Aoxomoxoa this June. Like all the albums in this ongoing series, Aoxomoxoa will be released approximately 50 years after its anniversary date as a two-album deluxe edition that includes the original album with newly remastered sound, plus a bonus disc of unreleased live recordings.
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Grateful Dead – American Beauty: The Angel’s Share (Remastered Demos) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:02 minutes | 841 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino
The Grateful Dead have released Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share, a collection of candid studio outtakes from the recording of their seminal 1970 Americana album.
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Grateful Dead – American Beauty: The Angel’s Share (Remastered) (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:35 minutes | 3,17 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino
The musical distillers that recently uncorked Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share have finished another batch of unreleased session recordings by the Grateful Dead. This time, the heavenly sonic elixir will toast the 50th anniversary of American Beauty with over two hours of unreleased studio outtakes, demos, and alternate mixes.
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Grateful Dead – American Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:04:30 minutes | 3,90 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino
The crown jewel of the Dead’s studio output! The album’s original 10 tracks include many of the Dead’s best-known, most-loved, and most popular songs both on record and in concert for the next 25 years. An album that includes Box Of Rain, Friend Of The Devil, Sugar Magnolia, Candyman, Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Attics Of My Life,and Truckin’ looks more like a greatest-hits compilation than a second album of 1970, and yet American Beauty demonstrates a band unable to slow down in terms of the quality of its writing, recording, and performing.
This three-CD set includes the original album with newly remastered audio, plus an unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser.
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Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:31 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino
“American Beauty” is the timeless masterpiece by the Grateful Dead. Their sixth studio album is one of their strongest efforts to date. Following the success of Workingman’s Dead, the band continues with their effortless blend of folk rock. The work develops with intricate melodies and includes the standouts “Box of Rain,” “Friend of The Devil” and “Truckin’.” American Beauty is included on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” and is an undeniable classic.
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Grant Stewart Trio – Roll On (2017/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 49:21 minutes | 956 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
Hot on the heels of his vinyl release for Cellar Live in 2015, New York saxophonist Grant Stewart returns with his trio for Roll On. Stewart’s lyrical tenor is at the forefront of a 9-song set that includes music from bebop masters like Elmo Hope and Fats Navarro, as well as beautifully arranged interpretations of standard material. The album is a steady burn from the first beat to the last.
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Grant Lee Phillips – Widdershins (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:43 minutes | 453 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
“I’m drawing on the urgency of the moment,” reflects Grant-Lee Phillips. “The things that eat away in the late hours” That urgency inspired the headlong rush of Widdershins available February 23 via Yep Roc in which Grant-Lee Phillips invests the insight, nuance, and wit that has distinguished his songcraft over the past three decades in a riveting dissection of today’s fraught social landscape. Beneath the moment’s tumultuous veneer, Phillips uncovers resonances spanning centuries ‘patterns echoing from the present day to the distant past. Its twelve tracks were cut largely live in the studio with the sharp trio of Phillips (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Jerry Roe (drums), and Lex Price (bass) serving as messengers. Says Phillips, ‘This moment is explosive, volatile, and heightened. It’s important to me that the music reflect that… By turns sardonic, provocative, and illuminating, Widdershins (produced by Phillips and mixed by Tucker Martine) delivers its poetic truths through Phillips’s peerless melodic sensibilities, carefully balancing intensity and vulnerability. A now seasoned songwriter and performer, with more than two decades’ experience first as front man of the acclaimed Grant Lee Buffalo then as an accomplished solo artist, Phillips awakens comfort and hope by shining light into darker corners. ‘I hope to express my faith in people, my faith in the good ideas we’re capable of, and that regardless of what opposition we face, the fact that we can surmount these things,’ he concludes. ‘We can stare them down, laugh at them, belittle them, and drive the darkness back into a hole.’
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Grant Haua – Awa Blues (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:21 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dixiefrog
Here we are in the deepest south. Not in the USA, but much further down. In New Zealand namely, these two islands near Australia,and in the Antarctic it is then also not far. This is so far from everything that the people there are probably a little freer than elsewhere and simply do not perceive certain customs of the rest of the world. Take Grant Haua, for example. He plays guitar, but unlike what you usually hear. He plays like a disgruntled percussionist who clambers around frantically on the strings. Or like the banjo player of a Bluegrass group. He is a virtuoso, a quite extraordinary one at that. This at the same time crackling and fast guitar playing can be heard first in Awa Blues, his album released by the French label Dixiefrog. Then comes his voice. This voice of a man who has probably sung very often at night in bars, when he was already a bit intoxicated after several drinks donated. It is a loud, seemingly robust voice, but behind which soul and feeling hide. Grant Haua rarely plays a blues in the truest sense of the word, as it is in the album title. Depending on his current mood, he prefers to serve it as a mixture of rock, folk and pop, which he always spices up with sounds from the southern countries. With acoustic guitars, organ and a bit of harmonica these songs will be the familiar companions in the summer morning breeze and connoisseurs will think of the Americans Greg Brown or Tony Joe White.
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Grant Green – Street Of Dreams (1964/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:35 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Originally released as Blue Note BLP 4253 (mono) and BST 84253 (stereo)
“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.
Street Of Dreams is Grant Green’s 1964 classic. It features fellow virtuosos Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Young and Elvin Jones. The album explores the exhilarating standards “I Wish You Love,” “Lazy Afternoon,” “Street Of Dreams” and “Somewhere In The Night.” Street Of Dreams features the band’s uncanny chemistry and delicate nuances. Absolutely essential.
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Grant Green – Idle Moments (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Originally released as Blue Note BLP 4154 (mono) and BST 84154 (stereo)
“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.
Idle Moments contains some of Grant Green’s most sublime playing, and the title track is full of elegant expressiveness that is thoroughly enjoyable.
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Grant Green – I Want To Hold Your Hand (1965/2103)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:26 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Originally released as Blue Note BLP 4202 (mono) and BST 84202 (stereo)
“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.
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Grant Green – Green Street (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:15 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Guitarist Grant Green was one of the busiest musicians in jazz between 1961 and 1965, not only leading his own Blue Note sessions but playing as a sideman on many Blue Note recordings made during this period. Green Street, one of six (!) albums he recorded as leader in 1961, remains one of the finest of his prolific Blue Note output. Supported by just Ben Tucker’s bass and Dave Bailey’s drums, Green seems inspired by the absence of piano. His harmonic and interpretive imagination is in high gear on this unique masterpiece in his discography.
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Grant Green – Green: Funk in France – Paris to Antibes (Live – Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:58:05 minutes | 7,63 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD Fusion
In partnership with the French National Audiovisual Institute (Ina), Funk in France – Paris to Antibes (1969-1970) is the first official, previously unissued live recordings of legendary guitarist Grant Green in over a decade.
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Grant Green – Grantstand (1962/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:55 minutes | 781 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Grantstand is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label in 1962. The CD reissue released in 1987 features one bonus track from the same session.
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