Tony Bennett & k.d. Lang – A Wonderful World (2002) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Tony Bennett & k.d. Lang – A Wonderful World (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:48 minutess | Full Scans included | 4,04 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 43:17 mins | Full Scans | 865 MB

Tony Bennett has sung with k.d. lang previously, notably on his MTV Unplugged album, and the two have meshed well together, largely because of lang’s willingness to sublimate herself to Bennett’s approach. The same thing can be said of the two on this full-length duet album (which also contains solos — Bennett is heard alone on “That’s My Dream,” lang on “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” and “That Lucky Old Sun [Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day]”). It isn’t just that lang joins in on material more suitable to Bennett’s style than to hers. This is an album on which the musicians are the members of Bennett’s backup group (plus strings), recorded in Bennett’s studio. But one never gets the sense that lang is restricted by the approach. She is sufficiently versatile, or chameleon-like, to sound like she’s enjoying herself, just as she did earlier in her career when she was working with producer Owen Bradley in Nashville and singing traditional country. At 76, Bennett sings with an easy, casual style, never seeming to work very hard for his effects, and lang, in her vocal prime, deliberately complements him, though she never seems quite as comfortable. Although there is no indication other than an uncredited painting (by Bennett, of course) inside the CD booklet, this is a tribute album to Louis Armstrong, who recorded these songs over the course of his long career. That doesn’t mean that there’s a trumpet to be heard anywhere on the disc or that either of the singers tries to re-create any aspect of Armstrong’s vocal style. It simply provides an organizing principle that the listener can notice or not. (Well, it’s hard not to notice during the title song, with Bennett’s references to “Satchmo” and “Pops.”) Like Armstrong, Bennett and lang are trying to make the music sound effortless and unstudied, and to a large extent they succeed.

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k.d. lang – Ingénue Redux (Live From The Majestic Theatre) (2018) SD Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 + BDRip 720p/1080p

Title: k.d. lang – Ingénue Redux (Live From The Majestic Theatre)
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Country, Pop

Production/Label: MVD Visual
Duration: 01:42:45+00:30:18
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 19975 kbps 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: English 4509 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4509 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio 2: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Size: 23,02 GB

k.d. lang: Live at the Majestic Theatre. Ingénue Redux 25th Anniversary Tour

Landmarks Live In Concert returns to Great Performances from the magnificent Majestic Theater in downtown San Antonio, Texas, for the 25th anniversary concert of Ingénue, the critically acclaimed 1992 album by superstar singer-songwriter k.d. lang.

This Landmarks special features an uninterrupted performance of the complete ”Ingénue album”, featuring lang’s GRAMMY®-award winning hit, ”Constant Craving,” complemented by selections from lang’s 2004 album Hymns of the 49th Parallel as well as other notable favorites.

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