Category: Jazz

Dave Brubeck – Quiet as the Moon: Music from the Peanuts Tv Special “This is America, Charlie Brown” (1991) [2022 Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Dave Brubeck - Quiet as the Moon: Music from the Peanuts Tv Special

Dave Brubeck
Quiet as the Moon: Music from the Peanuts Tv Special “This is America, Charlie Brown” (1991)
[2022 Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 2.02 GB
Label: Amerco, Inc. | Genre: Jazz

Brubeck is heard at three separate recording sessions on this CD playing music that was used in the Peanuts cartoon series. The music ranges from such standards as “Bicycle Built for Two” and “When You Wish Upon a Star” and Vince Guaraldi classics (including “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”) to Brubeck originals. Continue reading “Dave Brubeck – Quiet as the Moon: Music from the Peanuts Tv Special “This is America, Charlie Brown” (1991) [2022 Release, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Stacey Kent – Summer Me, Winter Me (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Stacey Kent - Summer Me, Winter Me (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Stacey Kent – Summer Me, Winter Me (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Digital Booklet Included
Total Size: 1.03 GB
Label: Naive | Genre: Vocal Jazz

With her album sales measured in millions, Stacey Kent is one of the great success stories in modern jazz. Her multi-lingual abilities allow her to record in various languages and she has appeared in over fifty countries. Her appeal is global and it is her vocal ability which has taken her to these heights. Continue reading “Stacey Kent – Summer Me, Winter Me (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Nicki Parrott – Feelin’ Groovy (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Nicki Parrott - Feelin' Groovy (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Nicki Parrott – Feelin’ Groovy (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 918 MB
Label: Arbors Records | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Australian jazz vocalist and bass player Nikki Parrott’s 2024 album Feeling Groovy is a collection of 60s songbooks. It is a jazzy dish of 60s hits by Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, Sergio Mendes, Fred Neil, and others. Continue reading “Nicki Parrott – Feelin’ Groovy (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Clifford Brown – The Clifford Brown Box (2020) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Clifford Brown - The Clifford Brown Box (2020) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Clifford Brown – The Clifford Brown Box (2020)
[Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
4 x Discs
Total Size: 4.20 GB (DSF) + 2.89 GB (FLAC) + 6.89 GB (ISO)
Label: Esoteric Company | Japan | Cat#: ESSE-90223/6 | Genre: Jazz

This Limited Edition 4-SACD box set contains four iconic jazz albums featuring Clifford Brown including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Jams, Clifford Brown and Max Roach, plus Study In Brown. All albums were recorded between August 1954 and February 1955. Continue reading “Clifford Brown – The Clifford Brown Box (2020) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Japanese Edition]

Norah Jones - Visions (2024) [Japanese Edition]

Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 392 MB
Label: Universal | Japan | Cat#: UCCQ-9666 | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Norah Jones named her eighth proper studio set Visions because many of the musical ideas occurred to her in the middle of the night, right when her consciousness was hazy: they weren’t fully realized so much as an apparition. Continue reading “Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Japanese Edition]”

Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Norah Jones - Visions (2024) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 816 MB
Label: Blue Note | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Norah Jones’ new album Visions is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. Visions is the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off The Floor, Jones’ last album of new original songs which was released early in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period. Continue reading “Norah Jones – Visions (2024) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Seiko Matsuda – Seiko Jazz 3 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Seiko Matsuda - Seiko Jazz 3 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Seiko Matsuda – Seiko Jazz 3 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 1.67 GB
Label: Universal | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Third release from “SEIKO JAZZ” series, featuring Seiko Matsuda’s cover songs with jazz arrangement. The series has been released in the U.S. on the jazz label “Verve.” This third release in the series was produced by a bassist Nathan East through an introduction by Quincy Jones. The album was produced at two locations, LA and Tokyo, with the world’s best players. For the first time in the series, the album includes a jazz-arranged self-cover of her signature song “Akai Sweet Pea,” featuring saxophonist Kenny G. Continue reading “Seiko Matsuda – Seiko Jazz 3 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern – Lifecycle (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern - Lifecycle (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern – Lifecycle (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Scans Included
Total Size: 5.90 GB (DSF) + 4.14 GB (FLAC) + 4.14 GB (ISO)
Label: Heads Up International | US | Cat#: HUSA 9139 | Genre: Fusion, Smooth Jazz

If the Yellowjackets needed a guest guitarist, who would be the best person for the job? Pat Metheny would be an excellent choice, as would Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, or John Scofield. Well, the Yellowjackets did hire a guest guitarist for Lifecycle — an excellent and well-known guitarist, in fact — and they feature him extensively on this 2008 release. Continue reading “Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern – Lifecycle (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Herbie Hancock – Albums Collection (1962-2007) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Herbie Hancock – Albums Collection (1962-2007) [Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
39x Albums | Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz / 96kHz / 192kHz
Total Size: 52.1 GB
Hard Bop / Jazz-Funk / Fusion / Piano Jazz
Continue reading “Herbie Hancock – Albums Collection (1962-2007) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Paul Rogers, Paul Dunmall, Tony Orrell – That’s My Life (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Paul Rogers, Paul Dunmall, Tony Orrell - That's My Life (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Paul Rogers, Paul Dunmall, Tony Orrell – That’s My Life (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 683 MB
Label: 577 Records | Genre: Jazz

This album, That’s My Life, was more than ten years in the making. But the seeds were planted long before that. Saxophonist Paul Dunmall and Drummer Tony Orrell met in 1979 in a Bristol-based band Spirit Level. Continue reading “Paul Rogers, Paul Dunmall, Tony Orrell – That’s My Life (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

V.S.O.P. The Quintet / Herbie Hancock – Live Under The Sky (1979) [2007, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

V.S.O.P. The Quintet / Herbie Hancock - Live Under The Sky (1979) [2007, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

V.S.O.P. The Quintet / Herbie Hancock – Live Under The Sky (1979)
[2007, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
2x Discs
Total Size: 2.19 GB (DSF) + 1.76 GB (FLAC) + 3.96 GB (ISO)
Label: Sony Records Int’l | Japan | Cat#: SICP 10077-8 | Genre: Bop, Jazz

Herbie Hancock’s all-star V.S.O.P. Quintet reunited the Miles Davis group of the mid-’60s (Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano, pianist Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and Tony Williams), with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard doing his best to fill Davis’ shoes. Continue reading “V.S.O.P. The Quintet / Herbie Hancock – Live Under The Sky (1979) [2007, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Jerry Weldon & Massimo Faraò Trio – Grace (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Jerry Weldon & Massimo Faraò Trio - Grace (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Jerry Weldon & Massimo Faraò Trio – Grace (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 1.25 GB
Label: Venus Records | Genre: Jazz
Continue reading “Jerry Weldon & Massimo Faraò Trio – Grace (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (1959) [2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (1959) [2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (1959) [2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.06 GB (DSF) + 749 MB (FLAC) + 1.60 GB (ISO)
Label: SME Records | Japan | Cat#: SRGS 4535 | Genre: Hard Bop
Continue reading “The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (1959) [2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders – Live At Keystone Vol.1 (1988) [2004, Remastred, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders - Live At Keystone Vol.1 (1988) [2004, Remastred, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders – Live At Keystone Vol.1 (1988) [2004, Remastred, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.47 GB (DSF) + 1.06 GB (FLAC) + 2.28 GB (ISO)
Label: Fantasy | US | Cat#: FSA-7701-6 | Genre: Jazz, Soul, Funk

This 1973 release features what is essentially a Bay Area bar band led by Merl Saunders (keyboards) and Jerry Garcia (guitar) during the latter musician’s downtime from the Grateful Dead. Along with the two subsequent “encore” volumes, Live at Keystone includes performances drawn from the quartet’s July 10-11, 1973, run in the intimate confines of Keystone Korners in Berkeley. Continue reading “Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders – Live At Keystone Vol.1 (1988) [2004, Remastred, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”