John Stein – No Goodbyes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

John Stein – No Goodbyes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:53 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound

Experience illuminates the path to clarity, and nowhere is this more evident than in No Goodbyes by guitarist John Stein. As his 18th recording and 13th for the renowned Whaling City Sound label, Stein, along with his exceptional trio partners Ed Lucie on bass guitar and Mike Connors on drums, showcases a transcendent musical experience. Building upon their previous collaboration on 2021’s Serendipity, the trio creates an enchanting collection of interactive, conversational, and expressive melodies.

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John Stein – Watershed (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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John Stein – Watershed (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:00 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound

Recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2019, it features John’s compositions, jazz classics by Jim Hall, Joe Henderson, Pat Martino, and a timeless gem by Henry Mancini. The exceptional band of musicians is fully committed, achieving stylistic variety, deep grooves, and authentic feeling on all the tunes.
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John Stein – Serendipity (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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John Stein – Serendipity (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound

Like many serious musicians, John Stein was trying to find a way to reach his audience following the Covid-19 breakout. He had just released Watershed, a career- defining recording to mark his planned retirement from Berklee College of Music, where he was an acclaimed educator. Of course, as with live music in general, the tour in support of Watershed was scrapped. Prior to the pandemic, Whaling City Sound’s Neal Weiss had asked Stein to bring a trio for an outdoor September show he had booked in New Bedford. But when hell broke loose, Neal moved the show inside, to the New Bedford Art Museum, and made plans to broadcast it virtually, as well as record the audio and video. “Thanks to Neal’s ability to see other possibilities,” recalls Stein, “it would be the only public concert I played the entire year.”
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John Stein – Lifeline (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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John Stein – Lifeline (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:24:55 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Whaling City Sound

With the release of Lifeline, John Stein celebrates a musical career as one of the most diverse jazz guitarists of his generation. Selected highlights from Stein’s varied discography capture his eclectic spirit with his honey-toned guitar effortlessly guiding listeners across several decades of brilliance. After retiring from a longtime career at Berklee College of Music where he held a professorship since 1999, and upon recently contracting a rare autoimmune disease, the esteemed jazz veteran decided to synthesize his remarkable body of recorded work. The recorded output surveyed on this compilation spans more than twenty years, from Stein’s 1999’s Green Street to the most recent recording, 2021’s Serendipity. Throughout this assortment of releases, Stein has been consistently regaled for his expansiveness, turning heads with his emotive, subtle, grooving, and precise stylistic excursions. With dazzling guitar playing, notable contributions from the side musicians, creative arrangements, and compositions that are at once sophisticated and memorable, the full scope of John Stein’s instrumental and compositional prowess is on display on this prodigious, varied, and musically rewarding retrospective.
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