Norah Jones discography [2002-2020] (FLAC)

 

Vocalist and pianist Norah Jones developed a unique blend of jazz and traditional vocal pop, with hints of bluesy country and contemporary folk, due in large part to her unique upbringing. The daughter of Ravi Shankar, Jones grew up in Texas with her mother. While she always found the music of Billie Holiday and Bill Evans both intriguing and comforting, she didn't really explore jazz until attending Dallas' Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. During high school, Jones won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Original Composition in 1996, and earned a second Best Jazz Vocalist award in 1997. Putting her vocal talents on the back burner, Jones worked toward earning a degree in jazz piano at the University of North Texas for two years before accepting a friend's offer of a summer sublet in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1999.

(2002) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (CD + Enhanced BonusCD, Limited Edition)

(2004) Norah Jones - Feels Like Home (Deluxe Edition)

(2007) Norah Jones - Not Too Late

(2009) Norah Jones - The Fall (Deluxe Edition)

(2010) Norah Jones -  ...Featuring

(2012) Norah Jones - Covers

(2012) Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts (Deluxe Edition)

(2017) Norah Jones - Day Breaks

(2019) Norah Jones - Begin Again

(2020) Norah Jones - Pick Me Up Off The Floor

Dave Stryker - Blue to the Bone Vol. 1-4 (1996-2011/FLAC)

 

Dave Stryker (born March 30, 1957) is an American jazz guitarist. He has recorded over twenty-five albums as a leader and has been a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany.

Dave Stryker’s music is deeply rooted in blues, having performed with Jack McDuff in the 80s and Stanley Turrentine in the 90s. Dave’s special blend of jazz and blues culminated first time in 1996 in the form of “Blue To The Bone I”. Since then the project has become a popular on-going series.

Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 21-30

 

 Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.

VJM 21 - George Benson

VJM 22 - Billy Eckstine

VJM 23 - Gil Evans

VJM 24 - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

VJM 25 - Stan Getz & Dizzy Gillespie

VJM 26 - Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterson

VJM 27 - Roland Kirk

VJM 28 - Charlie Parker Plays Standards

VJM 29 - Jimmy Smith

VJM 30 - Lester Young

 

The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Anything Goes! The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter (1967/FLAC)

The Quartet performs eight of Cole Porter's most famous songs on this enjoyable outing. Few surprises occur but the music often swings hard, pianist Brubeck and altoist Paul Desmond take several excellent solos and bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello really push the group. 

•     Dave Brubeck – piano
•     Paul Desmond – alto saxophone
•     Gene Wright – double bass
•     Joe Morello – drums
•     Teo Macero – producer 

A1 Anything Goes

A2 Love For Sale

A3 Night And Day

A4 What Is This Thing Called Love

B1 I Get A Kick Out Of You

B2 Just One Of Those Things

B3 You're The Top

B4 All Through The Night

Steve Coleman - Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (2021) [ FLAC]

 Recorded live in performance at the renowned Village Vanguard in New York City, "Mdw Ntr," finds MacArthur Fellow Steve Coleman exploring new terrain in his use of non-linear performance practices in his music. Featuring his long-running flagship ensemble Five Elements, he utilizes spontaneous and pre-composed modules, or motivic cells that can be played in any order, allowing each musicians to spontaneously jump forward or backward to different sections – even between compositions – highlighting different strata of the music and reinventing the form each time in a completely interactive way. Coleman often composes these modules by envisioning them as chains of tonal dyads that are strung together along rhythmic patterns to create melodic structures, something he sees as an analogue of DNA sequences. 

• Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
• Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet)
• Kokayi (wordsmith)
• Anthony Tidd (bass)
• Sean Rickman (drums) 

1. Menes to Midas 12:29

2. Unit Fractions 16:15

3. Little Girl I'll Miss You 09:34

4. Compassion (drum solo) - Ascending Numeration - DeAhBo (Reset) 16:14

5. Pad Thai-Mdw Ntr 14:33

6. 9 to 5 09:36

7. Mdw Ntr 08:42

8. Rumble Young Man, Rumble 08:52

9. Khet & KaBa 07:38

10.DeAhBo (Reset) 08:04

11.9 to 5 - Mdw Ntr 21:33 

Claude Hopkins And His Orchestra - The Chronogical Classics 1932-1940 (3 CD/FLAC)

 

Claude Driskett Hopkins (August 24, 1903 – February 19, 1984) was an American jazz stride pianist and bandleader. 

Hopkins was born into a well-educated, middle-class family, both parents being members of the faculty of Howard University. He studied formally at Howard before starting a career as a dance band pianist. In the mid-20s he visited Europe as leader of a band accompanying Joséphine Baker. Later in the decade and into the early 30s he worked in and around New York, leading bands at many prestigious dancehalls, including the Savoy and Roseland. In 1934 he began a residency at the Cotton Club, sharing headline space with the Jimmie Lunceford band, which lasted until the club closed its Harlem premises in February 1936. In the late 30s and early 40s Hopkins toured extensively but folded the band in 1942. He regularly employed first-class musicians such as Hilton Jefferson, Edmond Hall, Vic Dickenson and Jabbo Smith. After a spell outside music he returned to the scene, fronting a band in New York in 1948, and continued to appear in the city and other east coast centres, with large and small groups, into the 70s. Among the musicians with whom he performed during these years were Henry ‘Red’ Allen, Wild Bill Davison and Roy Eldridge. The bands which Hopkins led always had a relaxed, lightly swinging sound, eschewing powerhouse bravura performances.

 

Frank Sinatra - 100 Hits collection (5 CD, 2007/FLAC)

 The name and music of Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) remain today a dominant feature of the show business landscape. Seldom can one man have made quite as big an impact as ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’. He released over 100 albums in his six decades as a recording artist, winning nine Grammy awards and creating a legend that will surely never be surpassed.

 

Gregory Porter - Still Rising - The Collection (2021/FLAC)

 

Gregory Porter's Greatest Hits double album. This will be the first EVER hits collection from the seven-time Grammy nominated, two-time Grammy winner, celebrating Gregory Porter's decade of success with his best songs from 2010 to 2021, multiple brand new songs, bonus material, and new recordings of his much-loved global hits.

 

Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select 16 (3 CD, 2005/FLAC)

 

With the release of these sessions, recorded between 1967 and '70, every piece of music from Andrew Hill's Blue Note recordings has been issued. This outstanding, unique pianist-composer is heard in a variety of contexts, and only six of the 31 selections on this set have ever been out in any form. Their common denominator is Andrew's brilliant improvisations and unique compositions.

The 1970 sextet with trumpeter Charles Tolliver and saxophonists Pat Patrick and Bennie Maupin features six challenging pieces played with drive and swing. Some of the best writing in the set comes from two 1969 dates that pair Hill's quartet (Maupin, Ron Carter and Mickey Roker or Carlos Garnett, Richard Davis and Freddie Waits) with a fully integrated string quartet. Three tunes from each of these projects were previously issued, but now the entire sessions have been newly remixed from the original eight-track tapes for release.

A February 1967 session with saxophonists Robin Kenyatta and Sam Rivers features Hill's recorded debut at the organ on two selections, an instrument to which he returns for two pieces on his May 1967 trio date with Ron Carter and Teddy Robinson. From October 1967 comes a powerful septet date with Woody Shaw, Kenyatta, Rivers and Howard Johnson in the front line

The Quintet (Charlie Chan, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie) - Jazz At massey Hall (1956-2004/FLAC)

Bop pioneers Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell,and Max Roach are on fire in this performance given in 1953. Parker is listed as "Charlie Chan" due to his contract with his record label.

 Recorded live at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada; May 15, 1953.

• Alto Saxophone – Charlie Chan
• Bass – Charlie Mingus
• Drums – Max Roach
• Piano – Bud Powell
• Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie

01. Perdido (7:43)

02. Salt Peanuts (7:40)

03. All The Things You Are / 52nd Street Theme (7:51)

04. Wee (A.K.A. Allen's Alley) (6:42)

05. Hot House (9:11)

06. A Night In Tunisia (7:34)