Author Archive: Leon

Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970) {2020, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

November 6, 2020

Grateful Dead - American Beauty (1970) {2020, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970) {2020, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 1.07 GB (CD-Quality) + 4..01 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino | Genre: Folk Rock, Country Rock

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. One of the highlights from the Capitol Theatre show, the previously unreleased performance of “Truckin’” is available today on all digital download and streaming services.Read More

Country Rock, Folk Rock

Eagles – Live From The Forum MMXVIII (2020) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}

November 4, 2020

Eagles - Live From The Forum MMXVIII (2020) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}

Eagles – Live From The Forum MMXVIII (2020) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}
Blu-ray | MPEG-4 AVC Video | DTS-HD MA (5.1 / 24bit / 48kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 48kHz)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 48kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
No Scans Included
Total Size: 43 GB (BD) + 5.58 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Warner | Genre: Country Rock, Classic Rock

Eagles appeared to be finished after the 2016 death of Glenn Frey — Don Henley said some words to that effect that year — but in 2017, Henley, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit revived the band with Vince Gill and Glenn’s son Deacon taking Glenn’s place. After playing a pair of festivals in 2017, the group went on tour in 2018, a jaunt that included a three-night stop at the Forum in Los Angeles.Read More

Classic Rock, Country Rock

Red Nichols And The Five Pennies At Marineland (1958) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

October 31, 2020

Red Nichols And The Five Pennies At Marineland (1958) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Red Nichols And The Five Pennies At Marineland (1958) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 820 MB (Hi-Res) + 237 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-093 | Genre: Jazz
Half-Speed Mastered

Reissued by the audiophile label Mobile Fidelity on LP, this Red Nichols set is a bit unusual in that it is a live session. The cornetist and his Five Pennies (which includes the great bass saxophonist Joe Rushton, clarinetist Bill Wood and trombonist Pete Beilman) plays one of their typical sets of the period.Read More

Jazz

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (1966) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

October 31, 2020

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1966) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (1966) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 575 MB (Hi-Res) + 170 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-118 | Genre: Latin Jazz, Easy Listening
Half-Speed Mastered

After bouncing around Philips, Atlantic, and Capitol playing Brazilian jazz or searching for an ideal blend of Brazilian and American pop, Sergio Mendes struck gold on his first try at A&M (then not much more than the home of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and the Baja Marimba Band).Read More

Easy Listening, Jazz

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Diana Krall – This Dream Of You (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

October 28, 2020

Diana Krall - This Dream Of You (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

Diana Krall – This Dream Of You (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 265 MB (CD-Quality) + 526 MB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Verve | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Diana Krall reunited with Tommy LiPuma, the producer who worked with her for the first decade-and-a-half of her career, for Turn Up The Quiet, a 2017 album that found the pianist returning to the Great American Songbook interpretations that made her name. LiPuma died just before the release of Turn Up the Quiet, prompting Krall to fashion a quasi-tribute to her collaborator from the album’s leftovers.Read More

Vocal Jazz

Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One : Strange Timez (2020) {Deluxe Edition, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

October 26, 2020

Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One : Strange Timez (2020) {Deluxe Edition, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One : Strange Timez (2020) {Deluxe Edition, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 558 MB (CD-Quality) + 893 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Parlophone | Genre: Electronic

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez is the seventh studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on 23 October 2020. The album is released as part of Gorillaz’ Song Machine project, a web series consisting of a collection of singles and music videos, dubbed “episodes” each featuring different guest artists. It has incorporated a wide range of genres, thus far including punk rock, The album marked the return of the character Murdoc Niccals in promotional material, after his absence from The Now Now in 2018.Read More

Electronic

Stan Kenton – Kenton / Wagner (1964) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

October 23, 2020

Stan Kenton - Kenton / Wagner (1964) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Stan Kenton – Kenton / Wagner (1964) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 878 MB (Hi-Res) + 223 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-091 | Genre: Jazz
Half-Speed Mastered

This unique album is a surprising artistic success. Stan Kenton and a large studio orchestra filled with many of his alumni perform his adaptations of eight themes from the classical works of Richard Wagner. Somehow Kenton turns Wagner’s music into jazz, capturing the intense emotion, pomposity and drama with daring ideas. Not for all tastes, this LP was one of Stan Kenton’s last innovative recordings.Read More

Jazz

Earl Klugh & Bob James – Two Of A Kind (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

October 23, 2020

Earl Klugh & Bob James - Two Of A Kind (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Earl Klugh & Bob James – Two Of A Kind (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 777 MB (Hi-Res) + 201 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-124 | Genre: Jazz
Half-Speed Mastered

Two of a Kind is the second album by Earl Klugh and Bob James, released in 1982. The album received a nomination for Best Selling Jazz Album at the NARM Awards in 1983, and peaked at No.1 on the Billboard’s Jazz Charts in January 1983.

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Jazz

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