Azymuth – Telecommunications Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Brazilian Jazz Distributed as FLAC (24/192, 24/96) and mp3 (320kbs) 1982 Milestone || 2022 Jazz Dispensary (Craft) || Ltd. ed Hey, remember when this blog featured Brazilian music? Me neither! Well, the relative inutility of music blogs in 2023 notwithstanding, I’m going to make a New…
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Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite: We Insist feat. Abbey Lincoln (1961)
Max Roach – Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite: We Insist Vinyl trasnsfer in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC | 300 dpi + web scans | Bebop, Hard Bop Candid CLP 30021 | Record Store Day 2022 | Orig.rel. 1961 “The Beat has a rich and magnificent history…” We could do worse than to commemorate Juneteenth with…
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Cosmic Funk (1974) (2022 RGM)
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Cosmic Funk Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC | 300 dpi scans | Jazz, Spiritual jazz 2022 Real Gone Music || 1974 Orig. Flying Dutchman So I actually crafted a new, short write-up of this record without remembering that I posted about it once before, 13…
Larry Coryell – Live At The Village Gate (1971)
Larry Coryell – At The Village Gate (1971) Vanguard VSD-6573 – Vinyl transferred at 192 khz 32-bit floating point Most of the Vanguard material that Larry Coryell recorded is pretty distinct from the kind of music he would later become known for. More raw, psychedelic, and bluesy than his later shred-it-to-bits fusion flexing, and with…
Nina Simone – Nina Simone’s Finest Hour (2000)
Nina Simone – Nina Simone’s Finest Hour 2000 Verve Records (314 543 604-2) I thought I would make a quick blog post to commemorate International Women’s Day and pay tribute to one of my heroes, the great Nina Simone. Superlatively gifted and inspired as both a pianist and vocalist, courageous and visionary, groundbreaking, tenacious, mercurial…
Wayne Shorter – The Best of Wayne Shorter (1988, Blue Note)
Wayne Shorter The Best of Wayne Shorter BLUE NOTE CDP 7 91141 2 Released 1988 I had a different blog post planned for today, but the world lost one of the great forces in jazz yesterday with the passing of Wayne Shorter. If you don’t know why you should care about that, you can read…