Chris Potter feat. Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci & Brian Blade – Eagle’s Point (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:42 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Chris Potter announces the upcoming release of his new album, ‘Eagle’s Point’. Featuring a modern day supergroup of supergroups including Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade, the new record will be released on Edition Records in Spring 2024. It promises to be an electrifying testament to modern jazz, uniting four unparalleled luminaries within the genre, performing eight original compositions written by Chris especially for the recording session. The planets finally aligned; despite never having the time to perform together, this supergroup seized the opportunity in late 2022 and assembled to record this landmark album. Each musician, a dominant force in their own right, contributes to every track with humility and mutual respect. The musicianship is nothing short of exceptional, with everyone bringing something different to the table; Brad Mehldau’s virtuosic performances on the piano dance and have an unmatched eloquence, John Patitucci’s bass lines weave intricate tapestries, and Brian Blade’s percussive finesse lays the rhythmic foundation for this dream team. Chris’ new compositions showcase his exceptional skill as a writer, crafting melodies which augment and reflect the talents of those in the group. In this setting, Potter’s musical narratives flourish, marked by moments of virtuosic interplay, infectious grooves, and those quintessential Potter-esque melodies. Each track reverberates with their collective genius, a confluence of unparalleled talent, virtuosic brilliance, and artistic expression of the highest calibre.
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Wolfgang Muthspiel, Marc Johnson, Brian Blade – Real Book Stories (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:45 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication
On the cover of this album you can see a picture of New York taken in Hoboken, New Jersey where we recorded these tracks. To me it represents the beauty of a familiar place seen from a different perspective. I come from a small town in Austria called Judenburg. If my family when I moved to the next bigger city, Graz, it felt like the navel of the world. Graz is considered provincial for the Viennese. Playing in Vienna for the first time seemed the ultimate proof of success until I moved to Boston to study. From Boston, New York seemed like a separate planet, unreachable and frightening. When I finally moved to New York City, I settled in the “village,” considered by many to be the center of jazz. So over the years I’ve moved from the outside to the center and, among other things, I’ve noticed that the center looks very different when you’re in it. It loses all the qualities commonly attributed to it and takes on others. While New York City used to stand for things like speed, pulse, metropolis, today it stands for friends, football in the park, our apartment and the early bird special at a Japanese restaurant. In a way, that’s how I approach the music on this album. I look at standards from an outsider’s perspective. I grew up listening to Mozart, not Ellington, and I was making music long before I discovered jazz. I like being a foreigner, I speak a language other than my mother tongue. I like accents. This is my first Jazz Standards album. I’ve always played them, but rarely in my concerts or on my albums. This recording feels to me like a conversation about standards. A conversation with two of my favorite musicians about music I love.
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Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – Dance of the Elders (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders – the group’s follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a “quietly impressive album”. Here Wolfgang’s successful stride continues, with his unique compositional signature on the one hand and the particularly vibrant interchanges with his trio colleagues on the other. The guitarist’s writing and approach to jazz is heavily folk-induced but equally inspired by classical music – both aspects are presented clearly throughout the album. Brian’s floating percussive injections and Scott’s nimble counterpoint on bass complement Wolfgang’s acoustic and electric playing in fluid interplay over intricate polyrhythms and adventurous harmonic landscapes.
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Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band – Kings Highway (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:12 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stoner Hill Records and Press
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band is releasing their first studio recording since the 2017’s Body And Shadow. KINGS HIGHWAY, the bands seventh record, unites drummer Brian Blade with pianist Jon Cowherd, bassist Christopher Thomas, saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Kings Highway features two cuts that have been the centerpiece of many of the bands live performances (the title track Kings Highway and Migration). The Fellowship create a sound of its own genre, encompassing jazz, gospel and folk music that continues to uplift and inspire listeners worldwide.
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Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band – live from the archives * BOOTLEG JUNE 15, 2000 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:41 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stoner Hill Records and Press
BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND is releasing their first live album, live from the archives, recorded on June 15, 2000 at Blues Alley in Washington D.C.This live set features Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd, Christopher Thomas, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Melvin Butler and Myron Walden in the living moment, listening and leaning on each other from beginning to end with fearless trust and fiery expressions. The audience echoes back with affirmation and reciprocal ecstasy. This recording is a must have for fans of The Fellowship Band.”Live from the Archives” will be available on vinyl and digital formats through the label founded by Brian Blade, Stoner Hill Records and Press.
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Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade – Trilogy 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:56:59 minutes | 3,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
In 2013, Chick Corea teamed up with a couple of gold-standard rhythmists – Christian McBride on the double bass and Brian Blade on drums – with whom he recorded Trilogy, a brilliant live album which saw him blend his own repertoire with classic standards by Thelonious Monk, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weil, Irving Berlin & co. Just as the title indicates, Trilogy 2 repeats the exercise: same cast, same idea, same great result. Of course, the relationship between the three of them has been consolidated over the years. And while Corea’s piano remains one of the best of his generation, it’s the McBride/Blade tandem that really shines as a creative stroke of genius. The accuracy of their interventions and punctuations are staggering, never off-kilter and never over the top. Finally, the repertoire is a touch more original than on the previous Trilogy, with Steve Swallow’s Eiderdown, Monk’s Crepuscule with Nellie, 500 Miles High by Return to Forever, Lotus Blossom by Billy Strayhorn as well as Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder. – Max Dembo
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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade – LongGone (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The members of the legendary Joshua Redman Quartet of the 1990s – Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass) and Brian Blade (drums) – reunited after 26 years for the album “RoundAgain,” released in 2020. Now the band returns with “LongGone,” a new recording that includes six original compositions by Redman. “Disco Ears,” the first taste of the album, is available now as a live performance video.
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Wolfgang Muthspiel, Larry Grenadier, Brian Blade – Driftwood (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring renowned US jazz players Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade.
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Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – Angular Blues (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called “a shining light” among today’s jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian’s fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio debut.
Like Driftwood the 2014 trio disc that JazzTimes dubbed “cinematic” and “haunting” Angular Blues finds Muthspiel paired with longtime collaborator Brian Blade on drums; but instead of Larry Grenadier on bass, it’s Scott Colley, whose especially earthy sound helps give this trio its own dynamic. Muthspiel alternates between acoustic and electric guitar and, along with his characteristically melodic originals including such highlights as the bucolic “Hüttengriffe” and pensive “Camino” he essays the first standards of his ECM tenure (“Everything I Love” and “I’ll Remember April”), as well as his first-ever bebop rhythm-changes tune on record (“Ride”). Angular Blues also features a single guitar-only track, “Solo Kanon in 5/4,” with Muthspiel’s electronic delay imbuing the baroque-like rounds with a hypnotic glow.
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