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Miles Davis - Original Album Classics (2018)

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Miles Davis - Original Album Classics (2018)

Miles Davis - Original Album Classics (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 717 MB
5:13:01 | Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Modal, Post Bop, Jazz-Rock, Soundtrack | Label: Sony Music

(5CD) Four classic albums from the early 70s for a great price; 'Tribute to Jack Johnson' 'On the Corner' 'Big Fun' (2CD) & 'Water Babies'.

The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)

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The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)

The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)
FLAC (tracks, booklet) - 818 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 352 MB
2:32:42 | Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modal, Jazz-Rock, Fusion | Label: Jazz In Britain

For the first time ever, the Bobby Wellins Quartet albums – Jubilation and Dreams Are Free - expanded with bonus tracks. The original albums, and the extra tracks, were all recorded by the same quartet in 1978 or 1979.
Released in partnership with Spike Wells, the drummer in the quartet, who provided the extra recordings from his own tape archive, and wrote the booklet notes as well as providing many previously unseen photographs, Fiona Wellins, Bobby’s daughter, and the bassist in the quartet Adrian Kendon, who also produced the original recordings for the vinyl-only Vortex label.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (1959) + Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (1958) + Somethin' Else (1958) [3LP on 2CD, 2010]

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Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (1959) + Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (1958) + Somethin' Else (1958) [3LP on 2CD, 2010]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue '59 + Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud '58 + Somethin' Else '58 [3LP on 2CD]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 606 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 254 Mb | Scans ~ 61 Mb
Hard Bop, Modal jazz | Label: Not Now Music | # NOT2CD335 | Time: 01:51:16

Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue possess such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius. It lures listeners in with the slow, luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of "So What." From that moment on, the record never really changes pace – each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz – tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band – Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb – one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power.

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)

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Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 230 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 MB
39:53 | Soul-Jazz, Modal | Label: Craft Recordings

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds” fuses hard bop with middle eastern music as he is joined by Barry Harris on piano alongside Ernie Farrow (double bass, rabaab) and Lex Humphries (drums). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on 192/24 hi res digital.

The Dave Pike Set - Live at the Philharmonie (1969) Remastered Reissue 2008

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The Dave Pike Set - Live at the Philharmonie (1969) Remastered Reissue 2008

The Dave Pike Set - Live at the Philharmonie (1969) Remastered Reissue 2008
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 213 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 110 Mb | Scans included
Label: MPS/Promising Music | # SPV 441012 CD | Time: 00:31:37
Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal, Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Vibraphone

Live at the Philharmonie was the Dave Pike Set's third record for MPS in the year 1969 alone; Noisy Silence-Gentle Noise (MPS 15215) and the stellar Four Reasons (MPS 15253) preceded it. One of the most interesting ideas about this amazing set of music concerns the notorious circumstances under which it was recorded, at the 1969 Berlin Jazz Days festival. The reason for this is the year itself: Miles Davis and his group had brought their fiery brand of electricity to jazz and its reverberations were being heard the world over. At the same time, prog rock and Krautrock were making their heads (considered ugly by jazz purists) known in the guises of Can, Neu!, Amon Düül, and Faust. Add to this Charlie Mariano's great band, the new hip embracing of rock culture by the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass, and any number of other groups, and Berlin was in a state of tension. The wild thing is, everybody agreed on Pike's group – it was the bridge between the jazz tradition, what was transpiring, and what was to come.

Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

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Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords (1972) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 281 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Modal | Label: Impulse! | # UCCI-9110 | Time: 00:42:18

Lord of Lords, released in 1972, was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! It was the final part of a trilogy that began with Universal Consciousness and continued with the expansive World Galaxy. Like its immediate predecessors, the album features a 16-piece string orchestra that Coltrane arranged and conducted, fronted by a trio in which she plays piano, Wurlitzer organ, harp, and timpani with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ben Riley. Riley was familiar with the setting because he had been part of the sessions for World Galaxy. The first two pieces, "Andromeda's Suffering" and "Sri Rama Ohnedaruth" (titled after the spiritual name for her late husband, John Coltrane), are, in essence, classical works. There is little improvisation except on the piano underneath the wall of strings. They are scored for large tone clusters and minor-key drone effects, but also engage in creating timbral overtones.

VA - The Best Of Blue Note (1991)

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VA - The Best Of Blue Note (1991)

VA - The Best Of Blue Note (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 375 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 165 Mb | Scans ~ 63 Mb
Hard Bop, Soul-Jazz, Modal | Label: Blue Note | # CDP 7 96110 2 | Time: 01:11:59

Granted, a single-disc overview of Blue Note's finest recordings can't help but offer listeners more than a myopic view of the label's true scope, but for jazz neophytes, this nine-track collection will undoubtedly serve as a tantalizing taste of the company's riches. The song selection, though lacking few surprises, is consistently wonderful – how could a disc featuring John Coltrane's "Blue Train," Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," Horace Silver's "Song for My Father" and Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder" be anything but? – and purists' complaints aside, for new fans it's a solid introduction to the Blue Note magic.

Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969/2022) (Remastered)

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Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969/2022) (Remastered)

Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969/2022) (Remastered) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks, scans) - 288 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 MB
38:55 | Modal, Post Bop, Avant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz | Label: Impulse! / UMe, Verve

Pharoah Sanders' third Impulse! album, 1969's Karma, is a milestone of the Spiritual Jazz movement and a natural progression in the sonic exploration that Sanders, along with John and Alice Coltrane, had spearheaded over the previous five years. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" is as close as Spiritual Jazz comes to having its own anthem. Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Miles Davis - 'Four' & More: Recorded Live In Concert (1964) Japanese Press 1990

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Miles Davis - 'Four' & More: Recorded Live In Concert (1964) Japanese Press 1990

Miles Davis - 'Four' & More: Recorded Live In Concert (1964) Japanese Press 1990
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 302 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Hard Bop, Cool, Modal | Label: CBS/Sony | # CSCS 5145 | Time: 00:54:09

In an odd bit of programming, Columbia placed the ballads from Miles Davis' February 12, 1964, concert on My Funny Valentine and the uptempo romps on this LP. Davis, probably a bit bored by some of his repertoire and energized by the teenage Tony Williams' drumming, performed many of his standards at an increasingly faster pace as time went on. These versions of "So What," "Walkin'," "Four," "Joshua," "Seven Steps to Heaven," and even "There Is No Greater Love" are remarkably rapid, with the themes quickly thrown out before Davis, George Coleman, and Herbie Hancock take their solos. Highly recommended and rather exciting music, it's one of the last times Davis would be documented playing a full set of standards.

Miles Davis Quintet - The Unissued Japanese Concerts (2011)

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Miles Davis Quintet - The Unissued Japanese Concerts (2011)

Miles Davis Quintet - The Unissued Japanese Concerts (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 256 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 197 MB
1:26:11 | Cool Jazz, Modal, Hard Bop | Label: Domino Records

Miles Davis toured Japan for the first time during July 1964 with a quintet that included saxophonist Sam Rivers, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. Although several Japanese concerts were booked, only three performances are known to have taken place: the well known July 14 show at Kohseinenkin Hall, in Tokyo (which was issued on LP), and the previously unissued July 12 & 15 concerts, presented on this set.
Both concerts appear here for the first time ever. No other recorded collaborations between Miles and Rivers exist apart from the three shows in Japan!

Chet Baker - This Is Jazz (1996)

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Chet Baker - This Is Jazz (1996)

Chet Baker - This Is Jazz (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 223 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 167 Mb
Full Scans | 00:40:01 | RAR 5% Recovery
Columbia / Legacy / X-cellent / Sony Music #CK 064779 0 / 064779 0
Cool Jazz / Modal / Vocal Jazz

This Is Jazz, Vol. 2 isn't an ideal overview of Chet Baker's seminal Columbia recordings, but it isn't bad, either. Many of the featured 16 songs are among Baker's very best, giving novices a good idea of the sound, style, and depth of his music, even if it doesn't provide an ideal context. Nevertheless, This Is Jazz doesn't intend to provide context, which will undoubtedly frustrate collectors and jazz purists. However, it does succeed in offering an affordable sampler of his classic Columbia recordings for curious listeners – and it succeeds quite well in that regard.

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (1971) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (1971) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (1971) Japanese Remastered 2004
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans included
Label: Impulse!/Universal | # UCCI-9107 | Time: 00:37:29
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal, Free Jazz

Journey in Satchidananda is the fourth solo album by Alice Coltrane. Its title (and title track) reflects Coltrane's inspiration by Swami Satchidananda, to whom she had become close, and whose disciple she was. "Shiva-Loka", or "realm of Shiva" — the realm of the third member of the Hindu trinity, the "dissolver of creation". "Stopover Bombay" refers to a five week stay in India and Sri Lanka on which Coltrane was due to go in December 1970. "Something About John Coltrane" is based on themes by her late husband, John Coltrane. "Isis and Osiris", on which Charlie Haden replaces Cecil McBee on bass, and Vishnu Wood plays oud, indicates Coltrane's interest in Middle Eastern and North African music and culture. The presence of the tamboura, played by Tulsi, reflects Coltrane's interest in Indian music and religion.

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud (1970) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

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Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud (1970) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud (1970) Japanese Remastered Reissue 2004
with Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Ben Riley

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 289 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 141 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal, Free Jazz | Impulse!/Universal | # UCCI-9106 | Time: 00:46:11

Sometimes written off as an also-ran to her more famous husband, Alice Coltrane's work of the late '60s and early '70s shows that she was a strong composer and performer in her own right, with a unique ability to impregnate her music with spirituality and gentleness without losing its edges or depth. Ptah, The El Daoud is a truly great album, and listeners who surrender themselves to it emerge on the other side of its 46 minutes transformed. From the purifying catharsis of the first moments of the title track to the last moments of "Mantra," with its disjointed piano dance and passionate ribbons of tenor cast out into the universe, the album resonates with beauty, clarity, and emotion. Coltrane's piano solo on "Turiya and Ramakrishna" is a lush, melancholy, soothing blues, punctuated only by hushed bells and the sandy whisper of Ben Riley's drums and later exchanged for an equally emotive solo by bassist Ron Carter.

The Miles Davis Sextet - At Newport 1958 (2001/2016)

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The Miles Davis Sextet - At Newport 1958 (2001/2016)

The Miles Davis Sextet - At Newport 1958 (2001/2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 433 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 177 MB
1:16:58 | Jazz, Bop, Modal | Label: Essential Jazz Classics

You will have almost certainly seen part of the Newport Jazz Festival of 1958 because the film ‘Jazz On A Summer’s Day’ was recorded there. Unfortunately, the Miles Davis Sextet was not featured. What a mistake! Davis produced some great groups but this Davis group proved to be one of his most remarkable groups and one of the most remarkable in the whole of jazz. Davis was surround by equals. That never happened again. Eight months after this appearance the same group recorded ‘Kind of Blue’ a completely different kind of jazz.

Herbie Hancock - The Best Of (The Blue Note Years) (1988) Reissue 1995

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Herbie Hancock - The Best Of (The Blue Note Years) (1988) Reissue 1995

Herbie Hancock - The Best Of (The Blue Note Years) (1988) Reissue 1995
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 381 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans included
Label: Blue Note | # CDP 7 91142 2, 0777 7 91142 2 1 | Time: 01:03:47
Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Piano Jazz, Modal

Mirroring his onetime boss and mentor Miles Davis' own protean output, Herbie Hancock has explored hard bop, soul-jazz, fusion, funk-rock, soundtracks, hip-hop-inflected pop ("Rockit"), and many permutations in between. His early work for Blue Note, though, offers the best entrée for newcomers. Compiled from five of his albums for the label and covering a period from 1962-1968, this fine sampler includes highlights from his debut, Takin' Off ("Watermelon Man"), the classic Maiden Voyage (the title track and "Dolphin Dance"), and the early electric album Speak Like a Child (the title track and "Riot"). Add to this more indelible cuts like "Cantaloupe Island" and "One Finger Snap," not to mention the presence of numerous '60s jazz luminaries (Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Thad Jones, Hank Mobley, Billy Higgins, et al.), and you have perfect way to get a taste of some of the best modern jazz committed to wax.