Category: Jazz

Patricia Barber – A Distortion Of Love (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber - A Distortion Of Love (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber – A Distortion Of Love (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 2.46 GB (ISO) + 2.42 GB (DSF) + 1.09 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2100 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz
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Pianist and singer Patricia Barber’s second album (and major-label debut) is a consistently interesting, but not always completely rewarding, array of original instrumentals, vocal standards, and surprise cover versions. Continue reading “Patricia Barber – A Distortion Of Love (1992) [2013, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Patricia Barber – Companion (1999) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber - Companion (1999) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber – Companion (1999) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
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Total Size: 2.19 GB (ISO) + 2.14 GB (DSF) + 1012 MB (FLAC) + 340 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2023 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Vocal
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Companion was recorded in a special three-night series of shows in July, 1999 at Chicago’s famed Green Mill jazz club — an unusually short amount of time to produce a live album. To mine as much material as possible from those nights the performances were run more like recording sessions than live shows, with the crowd reverently hushed. Continue reading “Patricia Barber – Companion (1999) [2003, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Patricia Barber – Modern Cool (1998) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber - Modern Cool (1998) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber – Modern Cool (1998) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
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Total Size: 3.03 GB (ISO) + 2.98 GB (DSF) + 1.4 GB (FLAC) + 405 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2003 | Genre: Vocal Jazz
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The dark, smoky voice of Patricia Barber is quite haunting. On Modern Cool, she mostly sings downbeat songs at slow tempos. All but three songs are her own originals, and they deal with such subject matter as a “homage to beauty” that seems to connect painting one’s face with prostitution, loneliness, mindless conformity, the “postmodern blues” and other depressing topics. Continue reading “Patricia Barber – Modern Cool (1998) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Patricia Barber – Café Blue (1994) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber - Café Blue (1994) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Patricia Barber – Café Blue (1994) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 3.0 GB (ISO) + 2.58 GB (DSF) + 1.18 GB (FLAC) + 368 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2002 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Vocal
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Patricia Barber, who is both a fine keyboardist and an atmospheric singer, contributes roughly half of the material to her Premonition debut. Her dark voice and the generally esoteric program takes awhile to get used to (listeners will have to be patient), but after two or three listens, this thought-provoking and rather moody set becomes more accessible. Continue reading “Patricia Barber – Café Blue (1994) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Dinah Shore – 36 All-Time Greatest Hits (1999) [3CD]

Dinah Shore - 36 All-Time Greatest Hits (1999) [3CD]

Dinah Shore – 36 All-Time Greatest Hits (1999) [3CD]
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Total Size: 505 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | US | Cat#: DRC32374 / 15462 | Genre: Vocal Jazz

The GSC compilation 36 All-Time Greatest Hits does offer three-dozen solid songs by Dinah Shore, one of America’s foremost entertainers from the ’40s to the ’60s, though they’re scattered across three discs and the performances are of a dodgy vintage. The note on the back — “All tracks originally recorded prior to 1972” — might soothe the fears of some, but it raises more questions than it answers: at what point in Shore’s career were these recorded, and with whom? Unfortunately, buyers are no wiser after unwrapping the CD than they were before. Continue reading “Dinah Shore – 36 All-Time Greatest Hits (1999) [3CD]”

Rita Marcotulli – Koinè (2002) [2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rita Marcotulli - Koinè (2002) [2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rita Marcotulli – Koinè (2002) [2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
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Total Size: 756 MB (ISO) + 1.72 GB (DSF) + 856 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Fonè Jazz | Italy | Cat#: SACD183 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz

Koine is Rita Marcotulli’s second release following her earlier album The Light Side of the Moon which features a track made famous by Pink Floyd. Marcotulli is a jazz singer, pianist, and composer who always has a thread that connects her albums. Which explains why this album shares the title song (“Koine”) with her prior album along with 10 more of her original compositions. Continue reading “Rita Marcotulli – Koinè (2002) [2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Rita Marcotulli – The Light Side Of The Moon (2006) [2017, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rita Marcotulli - The Light Side Of The Moon (2006) [2017, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rita Marcotulli – The Light Side Of The Moon (2006) [2017, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 863 MB (ISO) + 1.91 GB (DSF) + 937 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Fonè | Italy | Cat#: SACD182 | Genre: Jazz

Three years after the last album, Koiné, Rita Marcotulli comes out with her first recording in solitude. A work that her admirers have been waiting for for a long time and that the pianist develops along the delicate ridge on which she has always moved when she produces things in her own name, straddling the many stylistic fields within which she has always worked very well in the his career. Continue reading “Rita Marcotulli – The Light Side Of The Moon (2006) [2017, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) [1970] [2016, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) [1970] [2016, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) [1970]
[2016, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
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Total Size: 2.18 GB (ISO) + 2.14 GB (DSF) + 1.05 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2150 | Genre: Fusion, Jazz
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None of Miles Davis’ recordings has been more shrouded in mystery than Jack Johnson, yet none has better fulfilled Davis’ promise that he could form the “greatest rock band you ever heard.” Containing only two tracks, the album was assembled out of no less than four recording sessions between February 18, 1970 and June 4, 1970, and was patched together by producer Teo Macero. Most of the outtake material ended up on Directions, Big Fun, and elsewhere. Continue reading “Miles Davis – Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) [1970] [2016, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970) [2014, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) [2014, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970) [2014, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 3.91 GB (ISO) + 3.85 GB (DSF) + 1.93 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2-2149 | Genre: Fusion, Jazz
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Thought by many to be among the most revolutionary albums in jazz history, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew solidified the genre known as jazz-rock fusion. The original double LP included only six cuts and featured up to 12 musicians at any given time, some of whom were already established while others would become high-profile players later, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Don Alias, Bennie Maupin, Larry Young, and Lenny White among them. Continue reading “Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970) [2014, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – On The Corner (1972) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - On The Corner (1972) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – On The Corner (1972) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 2.27 GB (ISO) + 2.23 GB (DSF) + 1.13 GB (FLAC) + 380 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2171 | Genre: Fusion, Jazz
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Could there be any more confrontational sound in Miles Davis’ vast catalog than the distorted guitars and tinny double-timing drums reacting to a two-note bass riff funking it up on the first track from On the Corner? Before the trumpet even enters the story has been broken off in the middle — deep street music melding with a secret language exchanged by the band and those who can actually hear it as music. Continue reading “Miles Davis – On The Corner (1972) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (1969) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 1.58 GB (ISO) + 1.56 GB (DSF) + 800 MB (FLAC) + 261 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2088 | Genre: Fusion, Jazz
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Listening to Miles Davis’ originally released version of In a Silent Way in light of the complete sessions released by Sony in 2001 (Columbia Legacy 65362) reveals just how strategic and dramatic a studio construction it was. If one listens to Joe Zawinul’s original version of “In a Silent Way,” it comes across as almost a folk song with a very pronounced melody. The version Miles Davis and Teo Macero assembled from the recording session in July of 1968 is anything but. There is no melody, not even a melodic frame. Continue reading “Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969) [2012, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Nefertiti (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Nefertiti (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Nefertiti (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 1.63 GB (ISO) + 1.60 GB (DSF) + 804 MB (FLAC) + 247 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2146 | Genre: Post-Bop, Hard Bop
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Nefertiti, the fourth album by Miles Davis’ second classic quintet, continues the forward motion of Sorcerer, as the group settles into a low-key, exploratory groove, offering music with recognizable themes — but themes that were deliberately dissonant, slightly unsettling even as they burrowed their way into the consciousness. In a sense, this is mood music, since, like on much of Sorcerer, the individual parts mesh in unpredictable ways, creating evocative, floating soundscapes. Continue reading “Miles Davis – Nefertiti (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Miles In The Sky (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Miles In The Sky (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Miles In The Sky (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 2.12 GB (ISO) + 2.08 GB (DSF) + 1.04 GB (FLAC) + 335 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2147 | Genre: Post-Bop
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With the 1968 album Miles in the Sky, Miles Davis explicitly pushed his second great quintet away from conventional jazz, pushing them toward the jazz-rock hybrid that would later become known as fusion. Here, the music is still in its formative stages, and it’s a little more earth-bound than you might expect, especially following on the heels of the shape-shifting, elusive Nefertiti. Continue reading “Miles Davis – Miles In The Sky (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
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Total Size: 2.34 GB (ISO) + 2.30 GB (DSF) + 1.15 GB (FLAC) + 355 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2148 | Genre: Post-Bop, Jazz
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Since it’s billed as “Directions in Music by Miles Davis,” it should come as little surprise that Filles de Kilimanjaro is the beginning of a new phase for Miles, the place that he begins to dive headfirst into jazz-rock fusion. It also happens to be the swan song for his second classic quintet, arguably the finest collective of musicians he ever worked with, and what makes this album so fascinating is that it’s possible to hear the breaking point Continue reading “Miles Davis – Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – Sorcerer (1967) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - Sorcerer (1967) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – Sorcerer (1967) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
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Total Size: 1.67 GB (ISO) + 1.65 GB (DSF) + 820 MB (FLAC) + 247 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2145 | Genre: Modal, Post-Bop, Jazz
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Sorcerer, the third album by the second Miles Davis Quintet, is in a sense a transitional album, a quiet, subdued affair that rarely blows hot, choosing to explore cerebral tonal colorings. Even when the tempo picks up, as it does on the title track, there’s little of the dense, manic energy on Miles Smiles — this is about subtle shadings, even when the compositions are as memorable as Tony Williams’ “Pee Wee” or Herbie Hancock’s “Sorcerer.” Continue reading “Miles Davis – Sorcerer (1967) [2015, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”