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VA - The Passion Of Charlie Parker (2017/FLAC-HD)

Impulse!/Verve present “The Passion of Charlie Parker”, an album of iconic Parker songs transformed through the addition of lyrics to create a musical play that narrates Bird’s life. Produced by Larry Klein with lyrics by David Baerwald, the album features actor Jeffrey Wright in the role of Parker as narrator, with vocals provided by Wright, Gregory Porter, Madeleine Peyroux, Melody Gardot, Barbara Hannigan, Luciana Souza, Kurt Elling and Camille Bertault.

This ambitious project reimagines the music of Charlie Parker with lyrics that tell the story of Parker's life. Produced by Grammy winner Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock) with lyrics by David Baerwald, the album features actor Jeffrey Wright portraying Parker as narrator, while Gregory Porter, Madeleine Peyroux, Melody Gardot, Barbara Hannigan, Luciana Souza, Kurt Elling and Camille Bertault lend their voices. The singers are backed by a superb band consisting of pianist Craig Taborn, saxophonist Donny McCaslin, guitarist Ben Monder, bassists Larry Grenadier and Scott Colley and drummers Mark Giuliana and Eric Harland.

A CD sets with the most beautiful ballads in the history of jazz.

Lyrical, imaginative, sensuous and melodic jewels from the art of music.

Precisely for those people who have maintained their taste for lasting musical values.

Jazz in its most gentle form.

Irrestible...

Jazz Ballads 1: Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan
Jazz Ballads 2: Ben Webster
Jazz Ballads 3: Lester Young
Jazz Ballads 4: Clifford Brown & Sonny Rollins
Jazz Ballads 5: Don Byas

In the early 90′s, Dreyfus starts to get involved with jazz music. 20 years later, Dreyfus Jazz label has become a prestigious and unavoidable label of quality and high artistic standards universally recognized. Today, the label continues to bring together the best talent and promote quality jazz.

Adrien Moignard - All The Way
Ahmad Jamal - It's Magic
Aldo Romano - Just Jazz
Anne Ducros - Close your eyes
Béla Fleck-Places
Bireli Lagrene - Gipsy Trio
Didier Lockwood - Tribute To Stephane Grappelli
Eddy Louiss - Eddy Louiss Trio
Franck Avitabile - Short stories
Geraldine Laurent - Time Out Trio
Marcus Miller - The Essential Marcus Miller - Power
Michel Petrucciani - Solo Live
Philip Catherine - Philip Catherine - Guitars Two
Richard Galliano Septet - Piazzolla forever
Rosario Giuliani - Lennie's Pennies
Roy Haynes - Fountain of Youth
Steve Grossman with Michel Petrucciani - The Quartet
Sylvain Luc - Joko
Terez Montcalm - Voodoo
Trio Sud - 'Young And Fine'

This 10 CD set offers an exciting overview of some of the most important recordings made by American jazz stars in Paris in the Fifties. They are milestones of Modern Jazz, Bebop and Hard Bop recorded by some of the most important players of the time, including Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Lionel Hampton, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Mary Lou Williams, Lester Young and Donald Byrd. Treated like second class citizens at home, many American jazz stars not only got more recognition and respect in the French capital, but found much better playing conditions as well. From concert-halls like "L'Olympia" to the clubs of the "Latin Quarter" they were appreciated and celebrated, and their music met with a glowing enthusiasm.

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006. As of 3 November 2017 the festival officially will be known as the NN North Sea Jazz Festival.

The founder of the three-day festival was Paul Acket, a businessman and jazz lover who made a fortune in the 1960s with his pop magazine publishing company. When Acket sold his company in 1975, he was able to start and sponsor the North Sea Jazz Festival. Acket wanted to present American jazz and European avant-garde jazz. In 1976 the first edition of the festival took place. It was an immediate success: six stages, thirty hours of music, and 300 performances drew over 9000 visitors. Acts included Count Basie, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, James Taylor, Benny Goodman, and Sarah Vaughan among others.

The Complete Gershwin Songbooks collects three discs also released separately: 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, and 'S Paradise. The first two discs include the greatest vocalists Verve had to offer, including Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Shirley Horn, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Bing Crosby, Joe Williams, Fred Astaire, and even Antonio Carlos Jobim. Obviously, the songs are all classics and the versions presented are quite legendary themselves. The third disc in the set includes instrumental versions of Gershwin standards (by Bill Evans, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson) that focus on the composer's stunning gift of melody and harmonic interplay -- just as the vocalists' versions highlight his lyrical prowess. Not all the versions are definitive, but The Complete Gershwin Songbooks includes many treats for fans of classic traditional pop.

A CD sets with the most beautiful ballads in the history of jazz.

Lyrical, imaginative, sensuous and melodic jewels from the art of music.

Precisely for those people who have maintained their taste for lasting musical values.

Jazz in its most gentle form.

Irrestible...

Jazz Ballads 16: Charlie Parker

Jazz Ballads 17: Tenor Giants

Jazz Ballads 18: Art Tatum

Jazz Ballads 19: Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden

Jazz Ballads 20: All Stars Jam Sessions

VA - Golden Jazz Box: The Six Best Albums From The Six Best Jazzmen (6 CD, 2015) [FLAC]

Son of the Blues, Jazz is one of the deepest expressions in music. With improvisation as its foundation, the genre includes multiple artists that are embedded in gold letters in the history of popular music. Golden Jazz Box is a celebration of that legacy, presenting the 6 best albums of each one of the genre's biggest icons: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans and Duke Ellington.

Golden Jazz Box works as a true musical encyclopedia, the definitive collection of these wonderful singers in one six-CD box. Golden Jazz Box is a fantastic album, suitable for any moment and mood and an opportunity to get closer to these timeless artists.

The Hot Record Society, a New York-based group of jazz recording enthusiasts organized in 1937 by Stephen W. Smith, quickly evolved from a clearinghouse and auction outlet for collectors into a real recording organization. Across ten years from 1937 through 1947, HRS recorded such outfits as Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers (an ad hoc group formed by members of Count Basie's and Eddie Condon's bands), Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier, Rex Stewart's Big Seven, Brick Fleagle's Orchestra, Sandy Williams' Big Eight, Jimmy Jones, J.C. Higginbotham, Joe Thomas, Harry Carney, Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, the Billy Taylor Quartet, Russell Procope, Dicky Wells, Babe Mathews and Joe Thomas, and Billy Kyle. It's all here, 124 tracks encompassing everything from prewar New Orleans jazz to the early bop period of the mid-'40s, and while there are gaps -- Smith went for years without recording after the outbreak of the Second World War, owing to a government priority for shellac (the substance that 78s were made from) that barely kept the major labels in business -- it's a good account of what happened with jazz over the decade represented here. Some of the selected material is a little odd, owing to choices made based on copyright accessibility (or nonexistence), and there are perhaps too many alternate takes for the novice listener. On the other hand, the sources are excellent, the recording venue was very fine, and the Mosaic people have done their usual excellent remastering job, so that, say, Budd Johnson's tenor sax and Jimmy Jones' piano on "Sunny Side Up" and "Strollin' Easy" sound incredibly clean and close, and Freddie Green's guitar gets one of its better showcases of the era. And the Brick Fleagle sides, starting with the extraordinary "Brick's Boogie," are almost worth the price of admission by themselves, just to hear what this overlooked, prodigiously talented musician had to offer in his prime, 60 years earlier.

VA - Blue Note : Music for Lovers [9 CD, 2006/FLAC]

CD compilation series by the Blue Note label

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records is a four-disc set, compiled and annotated by author Ashley Kahn who wrote the book of the same name being published concurrently with its release. Impulse's great run was between 1961 and 1976 -- a period of 15 years that ushered in more changes in jazz than at any other point in the music's history. Impulse began recording in the last weeks of 1960, with Ray Charles, Kai Windig /J.J. Johnson, and Gil Evans. While Impulse experimented with 45s 33 1/3 EPs, cassettes, and reel to reel tapes later in its existence, it was--and this set focuses on-- it was the music on its LPs (with distinct orange and black packaging in gatefold sleeves containing copious notes) that helped to set them apart. Impulse was dedicated to ushering in the new and controversial, but also sought to showcase established artists from the tradition (maintaining the jazz lineage) who continued to work and develop. While the label is certainly associated more closely with John Coltrane than any other of its artists (Coltrane also acted as an ad hoc A&R man), it nonetheless established and forwarded the careers of dozens of jazzers.

In this collection by the German "History" label, you get nearly 40 hours of digitally remastered original 78s and 45s. The sound quality is truly amazing - the remastering process removes hiss, clicks & pops; optimizes the equalization, and synthesizes stereo. The forty discs in this set are grouped into twenty 2-disc volumes which are dedicated to a vocalist or pair or vocalists.

Volume 16. Peggy Lee — Everything I Love
Volume 17. Anita O’Day / June Christy — Easy Street
Volume 18. Jo Stafford — Fools Rush In
Volume 19. Frank Sinatra / Ivy Anderson — It Don’t Mean A Thing
Volume 20. Billie Holiday / Jimmy Rushing — Blue Skies

Volume 11. Dinah Washington — You Can Depend On Me
Volume 12. Mildred Bailey — It Had To Be You
Volume 13. Judy Garland — I’m Nobody’s Baby
Volume 14. Sarah Vaughan — If You Could See Me Now
Volume 15. Dinah Shore — Who’s Sorry Now

Volume 06. Billie Holiday — The Man I Love
Volume 07. Lena Horne — Stormy Weather
Volume 08. Andrews Sisters / Boswell Sisters — Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
Volume 09. The Mills Brothers — Swing Is The Thing
Volume 10. Ella Fitzgerald — My Man

Limited edition of 10'000 and contains the Mercury 1940's output of musicians like Albert Ammons (including a great father & son date with Gene Ammons on tenor), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Jay McShann, Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair), Helen Humes, Buddy Rich's Big Band, Cootie Williams (including some Willis "Gator" Jackson), and others. There are six discs full of music, plus a seventh with alternates and a very rare, previously unreleased date by Mary Lou Williams (two tunes).

Volume 01. Frank Sinatra — I’ll Be Seeing You
Volume 02. Nat King Cole — It’s Only A Paper Moon
Volume 03. Perry Como — With A Song In My Heart
Volume 04. Bing Crosby — My Melancholy Baby
Volume 05. Louis Armstrong / Cab Calloway — Long Long Journey

18 original albums in one budget-priced deluxe box with some of the greatest names in Jazz incl. Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Oscar Peterson

- The greatest Broadway musicals of all time from Porgy & Bess to West Side Story in fantastic Jazz arrangements

- Also featuring hidden gems like Do-Re-Mi by June Christy and Bob Cooper or Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green.

Between January of 1958 and April of 1959, famed English jazz writer Stanley Dance produced nine glorious LPs of traditional jazz for the Felsted label. Among the performers were many superb jazzmen who had been forgotten for decades or had rarely recorded as leaders. This 5-CD box set puts together, for the first time ever, all of the Felsted swing albums in their complete form, half of which had never previously appeared on CD, while many others have been long unavailable and truly hard to find. The leaders on the nine albums are clarinettist Buster Bailey, trombonist Dicky Wells (two LPs), tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Tate and Budd Johnson, pianists Earl Hines and Billy Strayhorn, and drummer Cozy Cole. Also featured are: Buck Claytonlayton, Charlie Shavers (tp),Johnny Hodges (as), Vic Dickenson (tb), Willie “The Lion” Smith, Hank Jones, Dick Caryary (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Rayay Brown (b),Jo Jones (d), among many others.

Glass Onion (2003)

01. Glass Onion - Arif Mardin (2:45)

02. Savoy Truffle - Ella Fitzgerald (2:48)

03. Day Tripper - Herbie Mann And Tamiko Jones (2:34)

04. The Word - The Harvey Averne Dozen (2:38)

05. Hey Jude - Clarence Wheeler And The Enforcers (7:58)

06. Something - Wade Marcus (3:36)

07. Come Together - The Meters (3:10)

08. Drive My Car - Black Heat (3:11)

09. All You Need Is Love - The Freedom Sounds (3:51)

10. The Long and Winding Road - Aretha Franklin (3:37)

11. And I Love Her - King Curtis (2:26)

12. Carry That Weight - Carmen McRae (2:45)

13. A Hard Day's Night - Eddie Cano And Nino Tempo (2:09)

14. Get Back - Shirley Scott And The Soul Saxes (4:43)

15. I Saw Her Standing There - Little Richard (3:29)

16. Good Day Sunshine - Roy Redmond (2:42)

17. Got To Get You Into My Life - Ella Fitzgerald (3:06)

18. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band - Bill Cosby (2:20)

19. Let It Be - Aretha Franklin (3:30)

20. Yesterday - David Newman (4:04)

21. Here Comes The Sun - Charles Wright (4:56)

Daytrippers (2005)

01. DayTripper - Otis Redding (2:44)

02. The Nght Before - Herbie Mann (5:01)

03. I Feel Fine - Ray Ellis (2:09)

04. Here There And Everywhere - Carmen McRae (2:35)

05. Because - Shirley Scott (3:45)

06. And I Love Him - Esther Phillips (2:37)

07. Yellow Submarine - Don Randi Trio (2:16)

08. Hey Jude - King Curtis (3:13)

09. Let It Be - Clarence Carter (3:31)

10. Eleanor Rigby - Aretha Franklin (2:33)

11. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Arthur Conley (3:01)

12. Give Peace A Chance - Johnny Harris (5:51)

13. My Sweet Lord - Marion Williams (3:49)

14. Got To Get You Into My Life - Don Randi Trio (2:14)

15. Something - Carmen McRae (3:06)

16. Yesterday - Ray Ellis (2:19)

17. Michelle - King Curtis (2:08)

18. Come Together - Herbie Mann (10:08)

19. Dear Prudence - Brad Mehldau (5:21)

VA - It's a Groovy Thing! Vol.1-3 [2017/FLAC]

Vol. 1 (The Amazing Jazz Funk Organ Sound)

1 Sam Paglia - Strip Tease Organ 1:43

2 Capiozzo, Mecco - Whisky Go Go 4:46

3 Soul Jazz Unit - Need Your Funk 6:03

4 Hammond Express - Ass Enchillada 3:28

5 Modulo5 - Electric Boogaloo 5:58

6 Gazzara - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) 5:14

7 Low Fidelity Jet Set Orchestra - The Original Sound 3:38

8 Capiozzo, Mecco, Santimone - Back To The Future 4:21

9 Montefiori Cocktail - Another B 5:46

10 Robert Passera - Musicarello Decamerotico 4:35

11 Capiozzo, Mecco - The Howl 3:37

12 Sam Paglia - Lo Bianco Theme 3:43

13 Sam Paglia - Sweet Lavalamp 2:48

14 Hammond Express - Move On Up 4:43

15 Sam Paglia - Bullit 4:24

16 Hammond Express - Batucada Express 5:09

17 Modulo5 - Focus On Sight 4:06

18 Capiozzo, Santimone - Suparoad 2 3:55

19 Low Fidelity Jet Set Orchestra - The Rustlers 4:49

20 Capiozzo, Mecco - Spinning Wheel 5:06

21 Low Fidelity Jet Set Orchestra - The Amplifer 3:16

22 Soul Jazz Unit - Summertime 6:10

23 Capiozzo, Mecco, Santimone - Jack Come On Back West 5:04

24 Sam Paglia - After Pizza 2:21

25 Montefiori Cocktail - Je T'adore 5:26

Vol. 2 (The Amazing Jazz Funk Guitar Sound)

1 Soul Jazz Unit - Red Baron 5:49

2 Black, Brown - Tribal Boogaloo 3:38

3 Piero Masciarelli - Be Bop Dance (Feat. Carlos Sarmiento, Marcello Surace) 4:47

4 3 Teams - L'assassino (Black & Brown Funky Stuff) 4:19

5 Bossa Nostra - Kontaminazione II (Feat. Vicki Anderson) 5:05

6 Jestofunk - Nel Nome Del Suono 6:36

7 Funk Revenge - Hand In Hand 6:42

8 L.T.J. Sound Machine - Funky Superfly 5:21

9 Capiozzo & Mecco, Santimone - F.T. 5:11

10 Papik - Don't Ever Let It Go (Featuring Ely Bruna) 4:03

11 Mr Wolf - Sad Like A Pierrot 4:14

12 Legato - Vertigo (Feat. Karen Jones) 4:49

13 Soul Jazz Unit - Pentatonic 4:58

14 Black & Brown - Cool Affair 5:23

15 Funka Fuzz - Funka Fuzz 5:13

16 Piero Masciarelli - Roy's (Feat. Carlos Sarmiento, Marcello Surace) 6:17

17 Adrianomaria - N577548 5:04

18 Man Sueto - Try To Love Me 5:27

19 Blender - Trouble Jazz (Funky Mix) 5:26

20 Soul Jazz Unit - Rhymecar 5:44

21 Mysterious Traveller - Its Not My Style 5:47

22 Funk Revenge - Negative Disko 5:36

23 Andy G Raff - Con Il Nastro Rosa 4:52

24 Dj Rodriguez - Four Steps 6:16

25 Piero Masciarelli - Scotty Groove (Feat. Carlos Sarmiento, Marcello Surace) 4:41

Vol. 3 (The Amazing Jazz Funk Sax Sound)

1 Jestofunk - Close To My Heart 4:44

2 Black Mighty Wax, Piero Odorici - Manhattan Skyline 5:25

3 Bossa Nostra - Life (Feat. Bruna Loppez) 5:24

4 Ida Landsberg - 1,2,3,4 4:44

5 Michele Villari - Lolita 7:06

6 Napolangeles - Dwellers Of The Parallel World 4:19

7 Bossa Nostra, Vicki Anderson - Kontaminazione 7:48

8 Papik Smooth Experience, Johann Asmundsson - Peep This 5:03

9 Aaron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair - Instant Love 5:10

10 Peepstyle - In The Footsteps Of The Greats 4:37

11 Montefiori Cocktail - Crazy Beat 6:27

12 Italian Secret Service - Strange Days 4:18

13 Three Reeds Quintet - Boodoo (Feat. David Liebman) 5:25

14 Live Tropical Fish, Jay Rodriguez - Shape Your Life 4:57

15 Jestofunk - Fly Love Song (Mc Turbo Sax) 4:07

16 Faze Liquide - Diabolique 4:40

17 Man Sueto - Try To Love Me 5:27

18 Teo Ciavarella - One Note Funk (Feat. George Garzone) 4:11

19 Redsolution - Gate 74 (I Still Believe) 3:35

20 Jerome Van Rossum - The Phunky Bishop (Feat. Jay Collins) 4:44

21 Montefiori Cocktail - Anamaria 6:52

22 Francesco Vittorio Amenta - Blue 6:52

23 2 Men 4 Soul - Spread Your Sax 5:15

24 Ferrucci - Joy And Pain (Feat. James Thompson) (Sax Instrumental) 6:14

25 DJ Rodriguez - Mystic Room 5:57

Jazz Cafee

VA - The Passion Of Charlie Parker (2017/FLAC-HD)

VA - Membran Music's Jazz Ballads Series Vol. 1-5 (10 CD, 2004) [FLAC+320]

VA - Dreyfus Jazz : 20 Years [20 CD, 2012]

VA - Americans in Paris: The City of Love and All That Jazz (10 CD, 2012/FLAC)

VA - The Best Jazz Is Played with Verve - Your Guide To North Sea Jazz Festival 1994 (2 CD, 1994/FLAC)

VA - The Complete Gershwin Songbooks (3 CD, 1995) [FLAC]

VA - Membran Music's Jazz Ballads Series Vol. 16-20 (10 CD, 2004) [FLAC + 320]

VA - Golden Jazz Box: The Six Best Albums From The Six Best Jazzmen (6 CD, 2015) [FLAC]

VA - The Complete H.R.S. Sessions [6 CD, 1999/FLAC]

VA - Blue Note : Music for Lovers [9 CD, 2006/FLAC]

VA - The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (4 CD, 2006/FLAC)

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 16-20 of 20

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 11-15 of 20

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 06-10 of 20

VA- Blues, Boogie & Bop - The 1940s Mercury Sessions [7 CD, 1995]

VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 01-05 of 20

VA - Jazz on Broadway: The Greatest Musicals [10 CD, 2019]

VA - The Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection (1958-1959) [5 CD, 2011]

Various Artist play Songs of the Beatles (from the Atlantic & Warner jazz vaults) [2 CD, 2003-2005/FLAC]

VA - It's a Groovy Thing! Vol.1-3 [2017/FLAC]