Sam Cooke – Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 81:56 minutes | Scans included | 3,36 GB
Genre: Vocal, Soul, Gospel | Japan, ABKCO Records (92642)

From his teenage debut as a full fledged member of the legendary Soul Stirrers in 1951 through his career as a rhythm and blues phenomenon, Sam Cooke is acknowledged as the progenitor of soul music. His hit songs, most of which he wrote, went on to become pop standards, enduring to this day. Sam Cooke’s amazing body of work is now encapsulated in Sam Cooke: Portrait of A Legend:1951-1964. It includes 30 tracks and is part of ABKCO’s Sam Cooke Remastered Collection, an initiative to offer state of the art editions of restored and remastered. The songs included into Portrait Of A Legend collectively logged 273 weeks or five years and three months on Billboard’s Pop Chart and a mind boggling 508 weeks (nine years and nine months) on the Pop and R&B charts, combined.

Some 46 years after his first pop hit, and 39 years after his death, comes only the second attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA’s early-’80s The Man and His Music, going it better in running time but losing some important recordings — “That’s Heaven to Me” and “Soothe Me,” arguably one of Cooke’s most important songs — in the process of summing up his career. From 1951’s Soul Stirrers’ gospel classic “Touch the Hem of His Garment” through to 1964’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “Shake,” we get highlights of Cooke’s career presented in state-of-the-art digital audio; superior in every way possible to the audio quality of The Man and His Music. What’s more, this is a hybrid disc with SACD capability, and the sound on that layer is almost as much of a jump above the quality on the CD layer as this remastering is from the old The Man and His Music disc; and either the standard CD or the SACD playback makes that 1980s-issued compilation sound faint and anemic. There’s also annotation here — which was totally lacking on the earlier CD — by Peter Guralnick, which delves very effectively into the background of each song. And the producers have taken the trouble to be a little inventive in the programming — it would have been easy enough to follow a strict chronological approach, but instead the disc opens and closes with tracks that reveal Cooke’s gospel roots, which is pretty much where his music started and where it ended up, bookending his first hit with songs from his first session ever.

Tracklist

1. Touch the Hem of His Garment
2. Lovable
3. You Send Me
4. Only Sixteen
5. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
6. Just For You
7. Win Your Love For Me
8. Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
9. I’ll Come Running Back to You
10. You Were Made For Me
11. Sad Mood
12. Cupid
13. (What a) Wonderful World
14. Chain Gang
15. Summertime
16. Little Red Rooster
17. Bring it on Home to Me
18. Nothing Can Change This Love
19. Sugar Dumpling
20. (Ain’t That) Good News
21. Meet Me at Mary’s Place
22. Twistin’ the Night Away
23. Shake
24. Tennesse Waltz
25. Another Saturday Night
26. Good Times
27. Having a Party
28. That’s Where It’s At
29. A Change is Gonna Come
30. Jesus Gave Me Water
31. Soul

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Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star (1973) [Reissue 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:12 minutes | Scans included | 2,26 GB
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A Wizard, a True Star is the fourth album by American musician Todd Rundgren, released on March 2, 1973. Its music was a significant departure from his previous album Something/Anything? (1972), which consisted largely of straightforward ballads. This LP featured in “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”. This 45th Anniversary Reissue, never before available on SACD, is the definitive sounding reissue of this landmark album.

Something/Anything? proved that Todd Rundgren could write a pop classic as gracefully as any of his peers, but buried beneath the surface were signs that he would never be satisfied as merely a pop singer/songwriter. A close listen to the album reveals the eccentricities and restless spirit that surges to the forefront on its follow-up, A Wizard, A True Star. Anyone expecting the third record of Something/Anything?, filled with variations on “I Saw the Light” and “Hello It’s Me,” will be shocked by A Wizard. As much a mind-f*ck as an album, A Wizard, A True Star rarely breaks down to full-fledged songs, especially on the first side, where songs and melodies float in and out of a hazy post-psychedelic mist. Stylistically, there may not be much new – he touched on so many different bases on Something/Anything? that it’s hard to expand to new territory – but it’s all synthesized and assembled in fresh, strange ways. Often, it’s a jarring, disturbing listen, especially since Rundgren’s humor has turned bizarre and insular. It truly takes a concerted effort on the part of the listener to unravel the record, since Rundgren makes no concessions – not only does the soul medley jerk in unpredictable ways, but the anthemic closer, “Just One Victory,” is layered with so many overdubs that it’s hard to hear its moving melody unless you pay attention. And that’s the key to understanding A Wizard, A True Star – it’s one of those rare rock albums that demands full attention and, depending on your own vantage, it may even reward such close listening.

Tracklist:

01. International Feel
02. Never Never Land
03. Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off
04. You Need Your Head
05. Rock And Roll Pussy
06. Dogfight Giggle
07. You Don’t Have To Camp Around
08. Flamingo
09. Zen Archer
10. Just Another Onionhead / Da da Dali
11. When The Shit Hits The Fan / Sunset Blvd.
12. Le Feel Internacionale
13. Sometimes I Don’t Know What To Feel
14. Does Anybody Love You?
15. Medley
16. Hungry For Love
17. I Don’t Want To Tie You Down
18. Is It My Name?
19. Just One Victory

Mastered from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
Authored by Gus Skinas at the Super Audio Center.

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Todd Rundgren – Something-Anything (1972) [Reissue 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 89:40 minutes | Scans included | 3,61 GB
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This 1972 release, from Bearsville Records, was engineered by Todd Rundgren with a little help from his friends Rick Derringer, Billy Mundi, Moogy Klingman, Amos Garrett, Bugsy Maugh and Gene Didwiddie (both from the Butterfield Blues Band), the Hunt Brothers, Rick Vito, Jim Horn and the Brecker Brothers. This 45th Anniversary Reissue, never before available on SACD, have been mastered from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

After two albums, Todd Rundgren had one hit and a burgeoning cult following, plus growing respect as a hitmaking record producer. There’s no question he was busy, but as it turns out, all this work only scratched the surface of his ambition. He had decided to abandon the Runt pretense and recorded a full double album by himself (save for one side). Others had recorded one-man albums before, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but Rundgren – without borrowing musically from either artist – captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary feel of Music of My Mind, adding an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music from Gilbert & Sullivan through Jimi Hendrix, plus the crazed zeal of a pioneer. Listening to Something/Anything? is a mind-altering trip in itself, no matter how many instantly memorable, shamelessly accessible pop songs are scattered throughout the album. Each side of the double album is a concept onto itself. The first side is “a bouquet of ear-catching melodies”; side two is “the cerebral side”; on side three “the kid gets heavy”; side four is his mock pop operetta, recorded with a full band including the Sales brothers. It gallops through everything – Carole King tributes (“I Saw the Light”), classic ballads (“Hello It’s Me,” “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference”), Motown (“Wolfman Jack”), blinding power pop (“Couldn’t I Just Tell You”), psychedelic hard rock (“Black Maria”), pure weirdness (“I Went to the Mirror”), blue-eyed soul (“Dust in the Wind”), and scores of brilliant songs that don’t fall into any particular style (“Cold Morning Light,” “It Takes Two to Tango”). It’s an amazing journey that’s remarkably unpretentious. He may have contributed self-penned liner notes, but Rundgren peppers his writing with self-aware, self-deprecating asides, and he also indulges his bizarre sense of humor with gross-outs (“Piss Aaron”) and sheer quirkiness, such as an aural tour of the studio at the beginning of side two. Something/Anything? has a ton of loose ends throughout: plenty of studio tricks, slight songs (but no filler), snippets of dialogue, and purposely botched beginnings, but all these throwaways simply add context – they’re what makes the album into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive. Rundgren occasionally touched on the sheer brilliance of Something/Anything? in his later work, but this extraordinary double album is the one time where his classicist songcraft and messy genius converged to create an utterly unique, glorious record.

Tracklist:

01. I Saw The Light
02. It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
03. Wolfman Jack
04. Cold Morning Light
05. It Takes Two To Tango (This Is For The Girls)
06. Sweeter Memories
07. Intro
08. Breathless
09. The Night The Carousel Burnt Down
10. Saving Grace
11. Marlene
12. Song Of The Viking
13. I Went To The Mirror
14. Black Maria
15. One More Day (No Word)
16. Couldn’t I Just Tell You
17. Torch Song
18. Little Red Lights
19. Overture – My Roots: Money (That’s What I Want) \ Messin’ With The Kid
20. Dust In The Wind
21. Piss Aaron
22. Hello, It’s Me
23. Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me
24. You Left Me Sore
25. Slut

Mastered from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
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Tony Malaby – Apparitions (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:42 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,14 GB
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Tony Malaby is an excellent, progressively inclined tenor and soprano saxophonist, possessed of an expressive tone, formidable technique and fertile imagination. On Apparitions, his second album as a leader, Malaby fronts a band consisting of the ultra-talented bassist Drew Gress and a pair of dynamic drummers, Michael Sarin and Tom Rainey. Sarin and Rainey work hand-in-glove, and Gress is melodically and percussively inventive. Indeed, the band at times seems like a percussion quartet, so concerned are they with rhythmic interaction. This is no bebop album. It’s avant-gardish, but not impenetrable, making it easy to recommend to the serious listener, regardless of his or her stylistic inclination.

Saxophonist Tony Malaby grabs the ears of jazz fans and critics alike, and on the basis of his Songlines label debut as a leader, 2003’s Apparitions, it’s easy to hear why. His robust tenor fits in well with the adventurous New York City crowd that held court at the Knitting Factory back in the ’90s, while his tone, phrasing, and innate melodicism – not to mention that soulful upper-register wail poised just at the brink of a multiphonic explosion – might even draw comparisons to Coltrane himself. On Apparitions he’s powerful enough to hold his own with a powerhouse rhythm section: bassist Drew Gress, and the tandem drumming team of Tom Rainey and Michael Sarin. Listeners familiar with the N.Y.C. jazz community in which these musicians are leading lights might be drawn to this recording on the basis of the drummers alone; matchups like Rainey (in the right channel) and Sarin (in the left) don’t happen all that often. One might recall the Ned Rothenberg Double Band’s Real and Imagined Time, with Jim Black on the right and Billy Martin on the left, but that was a six-piece ensemble, and Rothenberg was not the solitary horn perched alone in the middle of a rhythmic tumult. Moreover, the conception here is entirely different, with steady pulses to be sure, but with the rolling propulsiveness of acoustic free jazz emphasized over slammin’ free funk. For Apparitions Malaby has penned original compositions with plenty of space for exploration of mood and texture, tilting a bit further toward free improvisation than his work with bassist Mark Helias’ Open Loose trio, which also features Rainey on drums. In fact, comparisons with Open Loose become particularly appropriate when, in an interesting move, Malaby calls on one of the drummers to sit out a given passage (e.g., during “Mambo Chueco”) and the group is transformed into a sax/bass/drums trio. The return to two drummers creates quite a dramatic surge, although truth be told, Rainey and Sarin fit so well together that they often seem like one eight-limbed creature to begin with. Gress is formidable, as always, whether plucking or bowing, and Malaby also shows he’s got what it takes on soprano, drawing additional favorable nods from the Coltrane crowd.

Tracklist:

01. The Mestizo Suite-Picacho
02. The Mestizo Suite-Humo
03. The Mestizo Suite-Mambo Chueco
04. Talpa
05. Voladores
06. Fast Tip
07. Apparitions
08. Dos Caminos
09. Jersey Merge
10. Tula

Recorded on October 8, 2002 at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY.
Recorded & Mixed in DSD

Personnel
Tony Malaby – tenor & soprano saxophones
Drew Gress – bass
Tom Rainey – drums
Michael Sarin – drums & percussion

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Ravel: Bolero – La valse – Rapsodie espagnole / Debussy: Images
Charles Munch / Boston Symphony Orchestra
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,70 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,30 GB | Partial Artwork
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-66374-2 | Country/Year: US 2005
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

Stereo sonics: top sound

I had thought of leaving my little review at that but……

This wonderful SACD arrived a week ago and, having listened to it quite captivated by the wonderful performances and superb engineering, I was surprised that it had not been reviewed here. Indeed, it had attracted only one recommendation, a negative one at that, though the score has now improved hugely.
Munch seems to make the BSO sound like a top flight French orchestra in that the performances sound so authentic; the playing is sensitive and powerful, the balance superb. There is depth to the recording which is a credit to the minimal number of microphones used, but the balance and ensemble are down to the inspiring conducting of Munch.

Bolero is taken at a tempo which maintains the tension without becoming heartlessly relentless. La Valse’s performance has been described elsewhere as a bit of a mess, but I found the ensemble in the rubati breathtakingly elegant.

Rapsodie Espagnole and Images are virtuoso performances; just luxuriate in the music and the sound!
Recommended with enormous pleasure. ~peter @ sa-cd.net

SACD Info:
Ravel: Bolero – La valse – Rapsodie espagnole / Debussy: Images
Charles Munch / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Label: RCA Red Seal
Series: Living Stereo
Catalog#: 82876-66374-2
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Stereo & MCH
Country: US
Released: 2005
Recorded: 1955 to 1957
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

Tracklist:
1 Boléro 13:49
2 La Valse 11:21
Rapsodie Espagnole 14:54
3 Prélude À La Nuit 4:33
4 Malagueña 1:53
5 Habanera 2:31
6 Feria 5:57
Images For Orchestra 33:12
7 Gigues 6:30
Ibéria:
8 Par Les Rues Et Par Les Chemins 6:58
9 Les Parfums De La Nuit 7:58
10 Le Matin D’Un Jour De Fête 4:30
–
11 Rondes De Printemps 7:16

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Beethoven / Mendelsohn: Violin Concertos
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch / Jascha Heifetz
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,30 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,12, GB | Artwork | 3% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-61391-2 | Country/Year: US 2006, 1955 & 1959
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

These reissues are undoubtedly amongst the most treasured recordings of these fine pieces. There must be 50 or more interpretations of the Beethoven currently available, but you must hear Heifetz. No schmaltz. He articulates Beethoven as Beethoven wrote the concerto. The emotion is there…in the music. No extra added flourishes are needed. In fact, they can easily be a negative, so well constructed is this work. The Mendelssohn is also spectacular. Listening to Heifetz makes one wish he were alive in his heyday. It makes you wonder what Paganini really sounded like! The tempi are fast, yet it doesn’t sound rushed at all. Heifetz articulates every note; his technique is incomparable.
As a child, I wore out the grooves on this recording.
The recording quality is remarkable. The Beethoven is in 2ch, even on SACD “multi”, because the original recording was stereo. But the Mendelssohn master is 3ch, and is thus presented. The center channel stabilizes the position of the violin. No “sweet spot” problems…it sounds good from any part of the couch! The clarity is surprisingly good considering a 50+ year old tape. Current recording engineers could learn a thing or two from these old gems. The SACD rendering truly gives you the feel of analog, the warmth of the violin, while adding dynamic range and soundstage. The CD layer is also quite good, just a little restricted…only in comparison to the SACD.
After this purchase, I am seriously thinking of buying all the rest of the “Living Stereo” series. And I hope that all those legendary performances get their tapes dusted off, and made into SACDs
soon.
I don’t care how many versions of these concerti you have…If you don’t have a Heifetz recording you are missing out, and this SACD is the one to have. Go buy it now. ~sa-cd.net

SACD Info:

Beethoven / Mendelsohn: Violin Concertos

Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch / Jascha Heifetz

Label: RCA Red Seal
Series: Living Stereo
Catalog#: 82876-61391-2
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Multichannel
Country: US
Released: 2006, 1955 & 1959
Genre: Classical
Style: Viennese School

Tracklist:

1 Allegro, Ma Non Troppo 20:43
2 Larghetto 8:45
3 Rondo, Allegro 8:31
4 Allegro Molto Appassionato 11:01
5 Andante 7:01
6 Allegretto Non Troppo – Allegro Molto Vivace 5:59

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V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Five Stars (1979) [Japan 2007]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 32:38 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,31 GB
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Recorded in Tokyo, Five Stars is a studio album featuring the Miles Davis alumnus quintet V.S.O.P. playing a handful of original compositions. Featured here are former Davis bandmates pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, joined by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Released around the same time as the concert album Live Under the Sky, Five Stars showcases the group’s frenetic, modal post-bop, played in the spirit of Davis’ classic ’60s quintet.

Tracklist:

01. Skagly
02. Finger Painting
03. Mutants On The Beach
04. Circe

Personnel
Herbie Hancock – piano
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet, flugelhorn
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums

Recorded on July 29, 1979 at CBS/Sony Studio, Tokyo, Japan.
Sony Music Japan # SICP-10079

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V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Live Under The Sky (1979) [Japan 2007]
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 85:53 minutes | Scans included | 3,88 GB
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V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky is a 1979 live album by the V.S.O.P. Quintet, a record of a performance at the 1979 Live Under the Sky Festival as it was performed live in Japan over two days. This, the fourth VSOP release, once again featured Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Freddie Hubbard.

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. The Japanese outdoors concert (recorded during a rainstorm) heard on this two-LP set finds the talented players in fine form on extended versions of six group originals (only Williams’ “Pee Wee” dates from the Miles Davis years); a Hancock-Shorter duet medley on “Stella by Starlight,” and “On Green Dolphin Street” is offered as the encore. Few surprises occur, but it is particularly rewarding to hear Wayne Shorter (after years of being in Weather Report) stretching out again.

Tracklist

DISC ONE:
01. Eye Of The Hurricane
02. Teardrop
03. Domo
04. Para Oriente
05. Pee Wee

DISC TWO:
01. One Of Another Kind
02. Fragile
03. Stella By Starlight/On Green Dolphin Street

Personnel
Herbie Hancock – piano
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Ron Carter – double bass
Tony Williams – drums

Recorded Live Under the Sky Festival on July 26, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.
Sony Music Japan # SICP-10077~78

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V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Tempest In The Colosseum (1977) [Japan 2007]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 69:21 minutes | Scans NOT included | 2,78 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans NOT included | 1,52 GB

Tempest in the Colosseum was recorded on July 23, 1977 in the Den-En Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan. Musicians for this performance were Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Tony Williams on drums, Ron Carter on double bass, and Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano saxophones. Originally the album was released in late 1977 only in Japan by Columbia.

Only five days after The Quintet concerts in California, V.S.O.P. was caught live again on tape in Tokyo’s Den-En Colosseum for another Japanese CBS/Sony release. “Tempest” is a good description, for this album contains more volatile ensemble playing than its Columbia predecessor; clearly some tighter bonding took place since the trans-Pacific flight. The notion that Freddie Hubbard is filling in for Miles Davis in a reunion of his old quintet does not have much relevance, for Hubbard is always his own man, in command of his reverberant tone quality and idiosyncratic flurries that owe very little to Miles. Only “Lawra” is duplicated from The Quintet, and there is the additional treat of hearing Hubbard’s masterpiece “Red Clay” performed to a turn by this crack quintet.

Tracklist:

01. Eye Of The Hurricane
02. Diana
03. Eighty-One
04. Maiden Voyage
05. Lawra
06. Red Clay

Personnel
Herbie Hancock – keyboards, piano, synthesizer, vocals
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums

Recorded on July 23, 1977 at the Den-En Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan.
Sony Music Japan # SICP-10076

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Various Artists – Concord Jazz: SACD Sampler, Vol.2 (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:07 minutes | Covers | 3,84 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround sound | Label: Concord Records | Release Year: 2004

The sound quality of this CD recording is fantastic, as it should be. The primary reason that I only gave it a four star rating over a five stars, is the fact that I am unfamilar with many selections, and I thought it would have a 50-50 mix of Real Jazz and Smooth Jazz. Otherwise, this SACD is really great, and I would recommend it to other lovers of Real Jazz music.

Tracklist:

01. Monty Alexander’s Ivory & Steel – Reggae-Later
02. Nnenna Freelon – Nature Boy
03. The Ray Brown Trio – The Real Blues
04. Herb Ellis & Joe Pass – Seven, Come Eleven
05. Scott Hamilton – Goodbye Mr. Evans
06. Susannah McCorkle – The Waters Of March
07. Pete Escovedo – Whatcha Gonna Do
08. Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau – It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing
09. Jack McDuff & Joey DeFrancesco – Funk Pie
10. Karrin Allyson – No Moon At All
11. Gary Burton – Elucidation
12. Marian McPartland – Silent Pool

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VA – Golden Age Of Crossover: Fusion 1977-1987 – Best Sound Selection (2019)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:07 minutes | 2,67 GB
or DSD64 (tracks.dsf) 1 bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 2,63 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo 24-bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,39 GB
Victor Entertainment / Stereo Sound Japan # SSRR-12

“Golden Age of Crossover” is a compilation of fusion music selected by Japanese audio critic, Yoshio Obara. With the cooperation of JVC/Kenwood Victor Entertainment, Obara has carefully chosen 13 tunes of Japanese fusion — all of which are his favorites from school days — from its music list, especially from those recognized their excellence in sound creation. This new disc by Stereo Sound label have been released under label’s “Critics Series” mark, that have been produced as reference discs for the auditioning of audio components and are one of well-received “Reference Record Collections”.

What is special about this disc is that the chosen tunes, which were issued from 1977 to 1987, include the ones composed by overseas artists or the ones recorded at the studio abroad, and in some tunes Japanese and overseas artists are playing vying each other. For these backdrops, the disc has “Crossover” for its name. While modern compilation albums are often produced from digital source, 12 out of 13 tunes of this disc were transferred from the authentic analog master tapes.

With the presence of Obara, mastering of the disc (a hybrid SACD) was done by Tsuyoshi Hakamada who is an engineer of mastering studio FLAIR, supervised by Hideo Takada who used be a sound producer and recording engineer of the VICTOR STUDIO and engaged in the original recordings of 5 tunes included in this disc. The fact is that “Golden Age of Crossover” has become the first SACD for the JVC/KENWOOD Victor Entertainment. It would also be an enough reason for music lovers to listen to.

The masters used for the standard CD audio format on the top layer are the same ones from which the “K2HD PRO MASTERING” series were transferred; different masters were used for the higher-fidelity SACD format on the bottom layer. In the accompanying liner notes, Obara commented on what was the impetus to have a liking for the fusion music, each tune’s high spot, and on a blissful moment to listen to the greatest tunes of fusion music in Japan on a finely tuned audio system.

Tracklist:

01. Sadao Watanabe – Morning Island (Originally released in 1979)
02. Its – Keepin’ Score (Originally released in 1980)
03. Masaki Matsubara – Suicide Freak (Originally released in 1979)
04. Yasuko Agawa – Sentimental Journey (Originally released in 1980)
05. Malta – High Pressure (Originally released in 1987)
06. Naomi Akimoto – Silent Communication (Originally released in 1982)
07. Native Son – Super Safari (Originally released in 1979)
08. Mari Nakamoto – Stay Close (Originally released in 1984)
09. Junshi Yamagishi – Soap Dancer (Originally released in 1979)
10. Terumasa Hino – Gently (Originally released in 1980)
11. Sunburst – Sunburst (Originally released in 1980)
12. Takehiro Honda – With Our Soul (Originally released in 1978)
13. Sadao Watanabe – My Dear Life (Originally released in 1977)

Compiled by Yoshio Obara. Mastering Engineer: Takeshi Hakamata.

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VA – Highlights From Cats – Original 1981 London Cast (1989) [Reissue 2016]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:41 minutes | Scans NOT included | 2,31 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 678 MB

Highlights from the U.K. cast. This famous original recording features a stirring performance by musical theater legend Elaine Paige as Grizzabella and the hilarious character actor Brian Blessed. A must-have recording for collectors and musical theater aficionados.

London’s and the world’s longest-running musical still fills seats in a dozen theaters worldwide. Uncountable recastings and reorchestrations later, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats strives to please the ears of ever-new generations. This is the original cast recording, and it retains a freshness from the still-recent opening, its novelty untarnished by decades of success. Also, the abundance of “names”–both singers and musicians–makes this one of the high-class musical recordings of all time. Elaine Paige rose to stardom as Grizabella with the hit “Memory”; at the time, though, bigger names were Wayne Sleep, Paul Nicholas, and Brian Blessed. Sarah Brightman and Bonnie Langford are also on the cast list. Lloyd Webber himself plays keyboards and the impressive roster of session musicians includes Barbara Thompson and David Locke. Lloyd Webber, well versed in the practice of “auto-quotation,” can always look back to this work for cat-chy material: the Overture, “Old Gumbie Cat,” “Rum Tum Tugger,” and “Mr. Mistoffelees”–the list of good tunes and themes goes on and on. This remains a fun listening experience, even for those few who still haven’t caught the show.

Tracklist:

01. Prologue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
02. Solo Dance
03. The Old Gumbie Cat
04. The Rum Tum Tugger
05. Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
06. Old Deuteronomy
07. The Jellicle Ball
08. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat / Memory
09. Gus: The Theatre Cat
10. Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
11. Macavity The Mystery Cat
12. Mr. Mistoffelees
13. Memory
14. The Journey To The Heaviside Layer
15. The Ad-Dressing Of Cats

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Various Artists – SACD The Ultimate Audio Experience: The Classical Sampler (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:00 minutes | Covers | 4,3 GB
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Release Year: 2003

The subtitle of this SACD is “The Ultimate Audio Experience”. But open the notes, and you discover that all the tracks save one are from 44, 48, and 96KHz PCM sample original sources. There are some great performances here –- forever trapped in mid-definition resolution. They date from 1993 to 2003, a surprising number of them being recorded in 2001-2003, after DSD recording was available. In listening to this SACD, I was beginning to have doubts about the SACD format until I noticed the sources in the liner notes.
The one DSD recording here is the Dvorak Slavonic Dance op. 71 #1 with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra Dvorák: The Slavonic Dances [SACD]. My reference is Reiner’s performance Dvorak: Slavonic Dances & Brahms: Hungarian Dances / Fritz Reiner Conducting The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and I would have to say that I prefer Fischer’s performance, which has tremendous nuance and exuberance.

Tracklist:

Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911):
1. Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Pt. 1 – Kräftig. Entschieden – excerpt 5:30
Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez
Antonín Dvorák (1841 – 1904):
2. 8 Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, B. 147 – No.1 in B (Molto vivace) 4:13
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
3. Rusalka, Op.114, B. 203, Act 1 – Mesicku na nebi hlubokém 5:02
Anna Netrebko, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gianandrea Noseda
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827):
4. Violin Romance No.2 in F major, Op.50 8:20
Anne-Sophie Mutter, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur
Francesco Gasparini (1661 – 1727):
5. Ecco che alfin ritorno, Critical Edition: Dr. Alessandro Borin – Il nocchier nella procella 3:19
Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924):
6. La Bohème, Edited Francesco Degrada (1988), Act 1 – “O soave fanciulla” 4:03
Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Simon Keenlyside, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly
Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835):
7. La Sonnambula, Act 2 – Ah, non credea mirarti 6:37
Renée Fleming, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Of St Luke’s, Patrick Summers
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 – 1704):
8. Missa Salisburgensis – Kyrie 5:50
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Players
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881):
9. Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel) – Promenade I – 1. Gnomus 3:56
Wiener Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev
Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911):
10. Symphony No. 2 in C Minor “Resurrection”, Tracking of Symphony by Gilbert Kaplan – 5th Movement – Sehr langsam und gedehnt (“der grosse Appell”) & Pesante 4:48
Gilbert Kaplan, Wiener Philharmoniker
Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849):
11. Waltz No.8 in A flat, Op.64 No.3 2:31
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848):
12. Don Pasquale, Act 3 – Com’è gentil…tornami a dir 3:47
Juan Diego Flórez, Andrea Menafra, Rossella Perrone, Giulio Patara, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Frizza
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883):
13. Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act 3 – Wie Todesahnung… O du mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram) 5:34
Bryn Terfel, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992):
14. Turangalîla Symphonie – 5. Joie de sang des étoiles 6:20
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

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Various Artists – Sacred Rhythm Of Bali (2002) [Japan 2008]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:03 minutes | Scans included | 3,75 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 1,36 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Sony Music International, Japan # XSCL 10007

It’s a compilation of various Bali tribal songs. The instruments are a mixture of brass pots, drums, bells and chanting. Most of it is very rapid and stacatta in nature. If you’re into “world music” or want something that’s quite a departure from the garbage you hear on the radio, get this impossible to find CD. It’s simply amazing.

Tracklist:

01. Tabuh Batel – Pengalang
02. Kecak – Pengawit
03. Tabuh Angkat-Angkatan – Kejojor
04. Tabuh Batel – Bebapangan
05. Kecak – Kapandung Sita
06. Tabuh Pategak – Sekar Jepun
07. Tabuh Pengalang – Semara Winangun
08. Kecak – Ring Taman Asoka
09. Tabuh Gilak – Paponggangan
10. Kecak – Pasiat
11. Tabuh Pategak Batel – Saketi
12. Tabuh Telu – Bebaturan

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Various Artists – Telarc Classical SACD Sampler II (2003) SACD ISO
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:29 minutes | Covers | 3,96 GB
Label: Telarc | Release Year: 2003

Available in multi-channel surround SACD only!
Telarc offers this multi-channel discrete surround classical SACD sampler featuring some of our top classical artists including Paavo Jarvi, Erich Kunzel, Benjamin Zander, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano and many others…

Tracklist:

1. Rondeau: From Abdelazer 2:14
Composed by Henry Purcell
The Empire Brass Quintet
Organ – William Kuhlman
2. Death Of Tybalt: From Romeo And Juliet, Suite 1, Op. 64A 4:30
Composed by Sergei Prokofiev
Pavvo Jarvi
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
3. Rainbow Body 12:56
Composed by Christopher Theofanidis
Roberto Spano
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
4. Malaguena: From Andalucia, Suite Espagnole 4:52
Composed by Ernesto Lecuona
Harp – Yolanda Kondonassis
5. Surge, Propera Amica Mea: From Canticum Canticorum 2:16
Tapestry Chorus
6. Double Fugue – Moderato Maestoso: From Mysterious Mountain, Op. 132 5:52
Composed by Alan Hovhaness
Gerard Schwarz
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
7. Presto – Allegro Assai: From Symphony No. 9 (Excerpt) 3:36
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Chorus – Atlanta Symphony Chorus
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
8. Parade Of The Charioteers: From Ben Hur 3:27
Erich Kunzel
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
9. String Of Pearls 3:36
Erich Kunzel
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
10. Allegro Vivace: From Holberg Suite 2:46
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Conrad van Alphen
Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra
11. La Rejouissance: From Music For The Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 1:58
Composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
Martin Pearlman
Boston Baroque
12. Finale: Allegro Moderato: From Symphony No. 6 (Excerpt) 5:19
Composed by Gustav Mahler
Benjamin Zander
Philharmonia Orchestra
13. Infernal Dance Of King Katschei: From The Firebird Suite 4:03
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Paavo Järvi
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
14. End Theme: From Sleepy Hollow3:45
Erich Kunzel
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
15. Scollay’s Reel / King Of The Fairies / Old Grey Cat / The Dance Goes On 4:56
Ensemble Galilei

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Various Artists – Telarc SACD Sampler I (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:07:00 minutes | Covers | 4,18 GB
Label: Telarc | Release Year: 2002 | Genre: Jazz, Classical

This is Telarc’s first Stereo / Multichannel SACD sampler. It offers a wide variety of Jazz and Classical selections recorded in Analog, PCM and DSD so it made for an interesting comparison of the three main types of recording.

From the liner notes on level differences on this Telarc Sampler SACD: “Our goal in compiling this sampler was to present the listener with a variety of differing approaches to creating a surround sound experience, using various musical examples.

The Selections included in this SACD are presented with no alternation in overall level or dynamic range from the original masters. The apparent levels, therefore differ greatly from track to track. Telarc’s masters are optimized for maximum peak levels during the recording sessions and subsequent mastering. When we attempted to match the relative volume between these tracks, we found it significantly degraded the sonic integrity of the original masters, resulting in out decision to leave them alone.

To make it easier to play these unleveled tracks, we chose to group them from loudest to softest. There is roughly a 45 percent difference in apparent level from the first track to the last so you will undoubtedly want to increase the volume as you play through the disc.”

All tracks are Telarc recordings with the exception of Tracks 3 and 4 which are from their sister label Heads Up.

Tracklist:

01. Moanin’ – Monty Alexander from “Monty Meets Sly and Robbie” (Source: Analog)
02. Badia – Jason Miles, etc. from “Celebrating the Music of Weather Report” (Source: PCM 24/44.1)
03. Nature Boy – Philip Bailey from “Soul On Jazz” (Source: Analog / PCM 24/44.1)
04. Feelin’ Fine – Spyro Gyra from “In Modern Times” (Source: Analog / PCM 24/44.1)
05. Give Me One Reason – Junior Wells from “Come On In This House” (Source: Analog / PCM 24/44.1)
06. Anthony’s Blues – Michel Camilo from “Triangulo” (Source: Analog with DSD)
07. Harcourt Nights – Oscar Peterson Quartet and the Michel Legrand Strings from “Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite” (Source: DSD)
08. Pride And Joy – Kevin Mahogany from “”Pride and Joy” (Source: DSD)
09. Simple Gifts – Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra from “A Celtic Spectacular” (Source: DSD)
10. September In The Rain – Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra from “Nice ‘N’ Easy, Celebrating Sinatra” (Source: DSD)
11. Across the Universe – King’singers, Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra from “Music of the Beatles” (Source: DSD)
12. Cuban Landscape With Rain – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet from “Latin Album” (Source: DSD)
13. Dupre: Magnificat VI – Michael Murray from “Dupre, Franck, Widor: Organ Works” (Source: DSD)
14. Song For All Seas All Ships – Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus from “Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 “A Sea Symphony” (Source: DSD)
15. O Fortuna – Donald Runnicles, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus from “Orff: Carmina Burana” (Source: DSD)

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Various Artists – The Pinnacle Of Chesky Voice (2017)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:49 minutes | Scans included | 2,55 GB
Label: Chesky Records | Release Year: 2017 | Genre: Vocal Jazz

Music is multifarious and transcends all lingual and cultural borders. Anyone who loves music wants not just to hear it, but to experience it: authentically, naturally and dynamically. As a musician or a music enthusiast – people all around the world are united by music. This is the message of ‘The Pinnacle Of Chesky Voice’. The soulful voices of fourteen artists are demonstrating how passionate, authentic, natural and lively songs can be presented.

Tracklist:

01 – Rebecca Pidgeon – Kalerka (3:06)
02 – Rosa Passos, Ron Carter – The Girl From Ipanema (3:19)
03 – Marta Gómez – Confesion (4:21)
04 – Amber Rubarth – Full Moon In Paris (3:28)
05 – Ana Caram – Fly Me To The Moon (4:09)
06 – LaVerne Butler – I Cover The Waterfront (6:08)
07 – Sara K. – Vincent (4:08)
08 – Christy Baron – She’s Not There (3:35)
09 – Valerie Joyce – Baby Can I Hold You (3:12)
10 – Carla Lother – The Lake (4:28)
11 – Alexis Cole – A Kiss In The Dark (2:35)
12 – Christy Baron – Happy Together (2:52)
13 – LaVerne Butler – Day Dreaming (3:38)
14 – Rachel Z – Imagine (6:57)
15 – Macy Gray – I Try (4:18)
16 – Melissa Menago – Airplane (3:35)

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Various Artists – The Wonderful Sound Of Female Vocals (2018) [Analogue Productions]
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 92:01 minutes | Scans included | 3,7 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,9 GB

Female vocalists have forever been celebrated by audiophiles and music lovers alike. Whether the delivery is delicate or bombastic, a great female vocal well-recorded is just so sensuous. It’s the genre that most often typifies the potential of hi-fi and what it can do to engage our emotions. It’s no wonder the hallways of any hi-fi show will be resonating with the sounds of sparsely-arranged recordings of great women singers. It’s the genre that best shows off the systems that manufacturers and dealers are trying to sell. Now, you can have all of those best demo tracks on one album. Show stoppers by Julie London, Diana Krall, Rickie Lee Jones, Nina Simone, Janis Ian, Phoebe Snow, Jennifer Warnes, Dusty Springfield, Shelby Lynne and many more. Every single track is an audiophile demo classic.

I wrote this compilation’s liner notes and created the 22 song track order. Chad Kassem selected the female artists and the individual tracks sourced from albums he’d previously licensed and released on vinyl, SACD and high resolution download (maybe even R2R tape). The concept was simple enough: a collection of well-recorded female vocalists revered by audio enthusiasts as well as by music lovers in general. Since Kassem’s licensing choices hit sonic and musical bullseyes, all were guaranteed to sound good. But since they weren’t selected mindful of any particular concept, ordering them into a coherent “story” was the difficult if not impossible task I faced.

The sources all were high-resolution files, some DSD, some PCM, depending upon what Kassem was originally given in the digital domain, or in most cases what Gus Skinas produced in DSD using the original analog tapes. Anyone thinking why wasn’t this cut from tape is either insane or ignorant. Cutting from tape would have necessitated getting the originals, which would be both costly and time consuming (if at all still possible), and making a copy from the master of each song and then splicing them all together. This is a great sampler! (there I go again). Easy to recommend for the music and the consistently fine sound. And yes, the album title sounds like either Reader’s Digest lives or something hatched by Time-Life in the 1970s!
– Michael Fremer, analogplanet-com

Tracklist

DISC ONE:
01. Julie London – Cry Me A River
02. Ella Fitzgerald – Black Coffee
03. Phoebe Snow – [The Wonderful Sounds Of Female Vocals CD1 #03] Poetry Man
04. Dusty Springfield – Son Of A Preacher Man
05. Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin’
06. Rickie Lee Jones – Show Biz Kids
07. Patsy Cline – Crazy
08. Holly Cole – Tennessee Waltz
09. Janis Ian – Breaking Silence
10. Myra Taylor – Hey There
11. Patricia Barber – What a Shame
12. Nina Simone – Plain Gold Ring

DISC TWO:
01. Rickie Lee Jones – The Moon Is Made Of Gold
02. Julie London – Blue Moon
03. Nancy Bryan – Blame It on the Moon
04. Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust
05. Joan Armatrading – Somebody Who Loves You
06. Judy Collins – Send In the Clowns
07. Jennifer Warnes – Ballad Of The Runaway Horse
08. Diana Krall – A Case of You
09. Dusty Springfield – The Look of Love
10. Joan Baez – Brothers In Arms

Mastered for this SACD by Kevin Grey.
Analogue Productions # CAPP 122 SA Stereo.

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Roy Haynes – Love Letters (2002) [Japan]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:23 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 2,27 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,1 GB
Genre: Jazz

Roy Haynes is a legendary drummer who’s had a very long and illustrious career, and he is still going strong with incredible energy and vitality. For this album – now considered a classic – Eighty-Eight’s producer Yasohachi Itoh put together an all-star, intergenerational band around him: Kenny Barron and David Kikoski on piano, Dave Holland and Christian McBride on bass, Joshua Redman on sax and John Scofield on guitar.

These all-stars were all eager to play with Haynes, and their joy of making music together is infectious. Recorded by the legendary engineer David Baker in pure DSD and produced as a hybrid SACD, the sound quality of this disc is exemplary. Strongly recommended to jazz fans and audiophiles!

Originally released in Japan on producer Yasohachi Itoh’s 88 label, Columbia has licensed several titles from the audiophile label, including this one from veteran hard bop/new thing drummer Roy Haynes. Love Letters gathers an all-star roster, including pianists Kenny Barron and David Kikoski, bassists Dave Holland and Christian McBride, tenor player Joshua Redman, and guitarist John Scofield for a thoroughly solid set of standards. Even as he approaches his eighth decade, Haynes continues to display the drive that has made him an in-demand timekeeper since his tenure with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. It’s evident throughout the entire album, from the rock-ist suggestions of Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue” to the poignant take on Horace Silver’s “Que Pasa.” All of the groupings have their shining moments, but Haynes with Holland and Scofield is a combination that demands to be documented further. Recommended.

Tracklist:
01. The Best Thing for You
02. That Old Feeling
03. Afro Blue
04. Que Pasa?
05. How Deep Is the Ocean
06. Love Letters
07. My Shining Hour
08. Stompin’ at the Savoy
09. Shades of Senegal 2

Produced by Produced by Roy Haynes and Yasohachi “88” Itoh. Engineered by David Baker.
DSD Recording. Recorded on on May 23 and 23, 2002 at Avatar Studio, New York.
Mastered By Koji “C-chan” Suzuki at Sony Music Studios, Tokyo, Japan.

Personnel
Roy Haynes – drums
Kenny Barron – piano
Dave Holland – bass
David Kikoski – piano
Christian McBride – bass
Joshua Redman – tenor sax
John Scofield – guitar

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The Beach Boys – Japanese SHM-SACD Reissue Series 2014 (6x SACD, 1964-1967)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 7,04 GB
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group’s original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Emerging at the vanguard of the “California Sound”, the band’s early music gained international popularity for their distinct vocal harmonies and lyrics evoking a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. Influenced by jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and doo-wop, Brian led the band to experiment with several genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic and baroque while devising novel approaches to music production and arranging. While initially managed by the Wilsons’ father Murry, Brian’s creative ambitions and sophisticated songwriting abilities dominated the group’s musical direction.

Released in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and the “Good Vibrations” single featured an intricate and multi-layered sound that represented a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys’ early years. Soon after the dissolution of Smile, Brian gradually ceded control to the rest of the band, reducing his input due to mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered international critical success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band’s name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl’s death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour into the 2000s while other members pursued solo projects. For the band’s 50th anniversary, the surviving co-founders briefly reunited for a new studio album and world tour.

The Beach Boys are often touted “America’s Band”,and AllMusic stated that their “unerring ability…made them America’s first, best rock band.”The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time and are listed at number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2004 list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.They have received one Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions (2011). The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

The Beach Boys – Shut Down Vol.2 (1964) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 27:29 minutes | Scans included | 1.11 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 529 MB

Another erratic early album from the Beach Boys; few other rock LPs have such a wide gap between the best and worst material. On the good side, you have absolute classics in the Chuck Berry-ish “Fun, Fun, Fun” and the superb “Don’t Worry Baby,” one of the most advanced pop productions of 1964 with its breathtaking harmonies and unusual lyric. “The Warmth of the Sun” is one of the most melodic (and melancholic) ballads they ever recorded, and “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” is one of their best oldies covers. Yet the rest reduces the oceanic scale of the classics to dishwater, whether they’re throwaway hot rod tunes and instrumentals, innocuous high-school romantic ditties, or a soulless cover of “Louie Louie.” When this album hit the racks in early 1964, the Beatles were proving that you could make LPs that were all killer, no filler; the Beach Boys would soon be forced to up their ante.

Tracklist:
01. Fun, Fun, Fun
02. Don’t Worry Baby
03. In The Parkin’ Lot
04. “Cassius” Love Vs. “Sonny” Wilson
05. The Warmth Of The Sun
06. This Car Of Mine
07. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
08. Pom Pom Play Girl
09. Keep An Eye On Summer
10. Shut Down, Part II
11. Louie Louie
12. Denny’s Drums

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (1964) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 25:49 minutes | Scans included | 1,04 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 529 MB

The best pre-1965 Beach Boys album featured their brilliant number one single “I Get Around,” as well as other standout cuts in the beautifully sad “Wendy,” “Little Honda” (one of their best hot rod tunes, covered by the Hondells for a hit), and their remake of the late-’50s doo wop classic “Hushabye.” The nostalgic “All Summer Long,” another great production, seemed (whether intentionally or not) like a sort of farewell to the frivolous California beach culture that had supplied the lyrical grist for most of their music up to this point, with a longing, regretful chorus that was totally at odds with the bouncy arrangement. Other relatively little-known treasures are the sumptuous ballad “Girls on the Beach,” with some of their best early harmonizing, and “Don’t Back Down,” with uncommonly anxious lyrics. You can’t give an unqualified high rating, however, to an album that also contained such disposable filler as the “Our Favorite Recording Sessions” comedy bit and “Do You Remember?,” a “let’s-pay-tribute-to-rock’s-early-days” number with a sh*t-eating grin wide enough to qualify as an oldies radio ID jingle.

Tracklist:
01. I Get Around
02. All Summer Long
03. Hushabye
04. Little Honda
05. We’ll Run Away
06. Carl’s Big Chance
07. Wendy
08. Do You Remember
09. Girls On The Beach
10. Drive-In
11. Our Favorite Recording Sessions
12. Don’t Back Down

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – Today! (1965) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 29:08 minutes | Scans included | 1,18 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 515 MB

Brian Wilson’s retirement from performing to concentrate on studio recording and production reaped immediate dividends with Today!, the first Beach Boys album that is strong almost from start to finish. “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Do You Wanna Dance” were upbeat hits with Spector-influenced arrangements, but Wilson began to deal with more sophisticated themes on another smash 45, “When I Grow Up,” on which these eternal teenagers looked forward to the advancing years with fear and uncertainty. Surf/hot rod/beach themes were permanently retired in favor of late-adolescent, early-adult romance on this album, which included such decent outings in this vein as “She Knows Me Too Well,” “Kiss Me Baby,” and “In the Back of My Mind.” The true gem is “Please Let Me Wonder,” one of the group’s most delicate mid-’60s works, with heartbreaking melodies and harmonies. Be aware that the version of “Help Me, Rhonda” found here is an inferior, earlier, and slower rendition; the familiar hit single take was included on their next album, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!).

Tracklist:
01. Do You Wanna Dance?
02. Good To My Baby
03. Don’t Hurt My Little Sister
04. When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
05. Help Me, Rhonda
06. Dance, Dance, Dance
07. Please Let Me Wonder
08. I’m So Young
09. Kiss Me, Baby
10. She Knows Me Too Well
11. In the Back Of My Mind
12. Bull Session With “Big Daddy”

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – Summer Days (And Summer Nights!) (1965) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 26:56 minutes | Scans included | 1,09 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 458 MB

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) was a bit of a regression from the success of Today!, lapsing back into that distressing division between first-rate cuts and lightweight also-rans that characterized their pre-1965 albums. The difference is that the very best tracks were operating on a more sophisticated level than the 1962-1964 classics. “Help Me, Rhonda” was a number one single and would be their last Top 40 exercise in sheer fun for a while. More impressive was “California Girls,” with its symphonic arrangement, glorious harmonies, and archetypal statement of Californian lifestyle. On the other hand, subpar efforts like “Amusement Park U.S.A.” and “Salt Lake City,” throwbacks to the empty-headed summer filler of previous days, will necessitate that the CD remote button remains close at hand. The answer song “The Girl From New York City” and the cover “Then I Kissed Her” are well done but don’t break new ground. Yet a couple of cuts are among their most essential LP-only efforts. “Let Him Run Wild” is a soulful ballad with a great Brian Wilson falsetto vocal. “Girl Don’t Tell Me,” with its gorgeous melody, fine lead vocal debut from Carl Wilson, and subtle depiction of romantic rejection and disappointment, may be the best obscure pre-Pet Sounds Beach Boys track.

Tracklist:
01. The Girl From New York City
02. Amusement Parks U.S.A.
03. Then I Kissed Her
04. Salt Lake City
05. Girl Don’t Tell Me
06. Help Me, Rhonda
07. California Girls
08. Let Him Run Wild
09. You’re So Good To Me
10. Summer Means New Love
11. I’m Bugged At My Ol’ Man
12. And Your Dream Comes True

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:25 minutes | Scans included | 1,47 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 625 MB

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. It wouldn’t have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group’s most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well). The spiritual quality of the material is enhanced by some of the most gorgeous upper-register male vocals (especially by Brian and Carl Wilson) ever heard on a rock record. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “Caroline No,” and “Sloop John B” (the last of which wasn’t originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits, but equally worthy are such cuts as “You Still Believe in Me,” “Don’t Talk,” “I Know There’s an Answer,” and “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times.” It’s often said that this is more of a Brian Wilson album than a Beach Boys recording (session musicians played most of the parts), but it should be noted that the harmonies are pure Beach Boys (and some of their best). Massively influential upon its release (although it was a relatively low seller compared to their previous LPs), it immediately vaulted the band into the top level of rock innovators among the intelligentsia, especially in Britain, where it was a much bigger hit.

Tracklist:
01. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
02. You Still Believe In Me
03. That’s Not Me
04. Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
05. I’m Waiting For The Day
06. Let’s Go Away For Awhile
07. Sloop John B
08. God Only Knows
09. I Know There’s An Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
12. Pet Sounds
13. Caroline, No

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (1967) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 27:44 minutes | Scans included |1,12 GB
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After the much-discussed, uncompleted Smile project — which was supposed to take the innovations of Pet Sounds to even grander heights — collapsed, the Beach Boys released Smiley Smile in its place. (To clarify much confusion: Smiley Smile is an entirely different piece of work than Smile would have been, although some material that ended up on Smiley Smile would have most likely been used on Smile. Also, much of Smiley Smile was in fact recorded after the Smile sessions had ceased.) For fans expecting something along the lines of Sgt. Pepper (and there were many of them), Smiley Smile was a major disappointment, replacing psychedelic experimentation with spare, eccentric miniatures. Heard now, outside of such unrealistic expectations, it’s a rather nifty, if rather slight, effort that’s plenty weird — in fact, often downright goofy — despite Brian Wilson’s retreat from both avant pop and active leadership of the group. “Wind Chimes,” “Wonderful,” “Vegetables,” and much of the rest is low-key psychedelic quirkiness, with abundant fine harmonies and unusual arrangements. The standouts, nonetheless, were two recent hit singles in which Brian Wilson’s ambitions were still intact: the inscrutable mini-opera “Heroes and Villains,” and the number one hit “Good Vibrations,” one of the few occasions where the group managed to be recklessly experimental and massively commercial at the same time.

Tracklist:
01. Heroes And Villains
02. Vegetables
03. Fall Breaks And Back To Winter (Woody Woodpecker Symphony)
04. She’s Goin’ Bald
05. Little Pad
06. Good Vibrations
07. With Me Tonight
08. Wind Chimes
09. Gettin’ Hungry
10. Wonderful
11. Whistle In

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.

The Beach Boys – Shut Down Vol.2 (1964) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (1964) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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The Beach Boys – Today! (1965) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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The Beach Boys – Summer Days (And Summer Nights!) (1965) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (1967) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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