Branford Marsalis Quartet - Crazy People Music (1990) {CBS}

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Branford Marsalis Quartet - Crazy People Music (1990) {CBS}

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Crazy People Music (1990) {CBS}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 6 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 375MB + 5% Recovery
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Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

Branford Marsalis (on tenor and soprano) performs four of his originals, Bob Hurst's "The Dark Knight," Keith Jarrett's obscure "Rose Petals" and "The Ballad of Chet Kincaid" (co-written by Bill Cosby and Quincy Jones) on this outing with his 1990 quartet. It's an impressive group that also includes pianist Kenny Kirkland, bassist Hurst and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. "Ballad" would catch on to a general audience, but on the others Marsalis is heard throughout in prime form, sounding more original and pushing himself.

Tania Maria - Brazil With My Soul (1978) {Universal}

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Tania Maria - Brazil With My Soul (1978) {Universal}

Tania Maria - Brazil With My Soul (1978) {Universal}
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Genre: Brazilian Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova, Post-Bop

Tania Maria's debut is a mix of hushed bossa numbers and up-tempo, jazz-inflected sambas that show off the prowess of her nine-piece band. "Zé," which belongs to the latter category, is an original tune that begins with Maria's slightly over-the-top scatting and builds into a kickin' samba jam; on "Para Chick," a Tom Jobim instrumental, the group is at its most improvisational, with Maria herself (on piano) dishing out some fine solos; and on the tempo-shifting "Ideias E Ideias," Maria manages to sound like Astrud Gilberto and Ella Fitzgerald within the span of a few chord changes. Though it's heavy on the standard bossa/samba fare, it's also a uniformly solid album and a fine introduction to Maria's catalog.

Jonathan Butler - The Worship Project (2004) {Maranatha}

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Jonathan Butler - The Worship Project (2004) {Maranatha}

Jonathan Butler - The Worship Project (2004) {Maranatha}
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Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul, Gospel

A vocalist and guitarist that writes and produces most of his own music, Jonathan Butler has had successes over his twenty-five year recording career in pop, R&B, smooth jazz and adult formats. Self-produced, the songs on The Worship Project reflect the heart of a man who feels that he is in the best place he has been in personally in over a decade. The album is incredibly soulful and the messages are deeply spiritual. Butler's nylon guitar, smooth piano and jazzy vocals intertwine with shuffling percussion rhythms to create this 12-song gospel marvel.

Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}

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Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}

Tania Maria - Love Explosion (1984) {Concord Picante}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 237MB + 5% Recovery
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Genre: Latin Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Bossa Nova

The time I felt an explosion of musical love, was when through the hands and sounds of my favorite Brazilian pianist Luis Eca, I saw, heard and felt a colored flash of beauty, harmonious, sensual, loving, sweet, bitter, irritating. We discovered that music was a woman; assertive, urgent, possessive, dominant, explosive, but always bringing and explosive, powerful discovery, that by mixing bodies and souls without hesitation, you reach that desired target. Even today I'm fascianted by the strength and power of the musicians sounds in relation to our sensibility.

Trilok Gurtu - Twenty Years of Talking Tabla (2007) [2CDs] {Manteca}

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Trilok Gurtu - Twenty Years of Talking Tabla (2007) [2CDs] {Manteca}

Trilok Gurtu - Twenty Years of Talking Tabla (2007) [2CDs] {Manteca}
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Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Ethnic Fusion, World Music

The 20 years referred to in the title of this 2CD collection is only the length of the Bombay-born percussionist's solo career. Gurtu was already beginning to play Indian classical tabla at the age of six, eventually opening his jazz-fusion phase by gigging with Oregon and Don Cherry. This set's subtitle blurb reads 'the serial collaborator in full flight with…', then proceeds to list a highly impressive gathering of guest artists, hailing from both jazz and global music zones. There's always the danger, particularly with drumming leaders, to be subsumed and sidelined by your singers, guitarists and horn players, but Trilok always invites his collaborators into his own universe, retaining a strong sense of Indian classical tradition. Often this will be pleasingly filtered via a fusion with jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, African, Latin, Far Eastern or Western classical musics, but Gurtu usually tends to emerge unscathed and undiluted.

Weather Report - Original Album Classics (2007) [5CDs Box Set] {Columbia}

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Weather Report - Original Album Classics (2007) [5CDs Box Set] {Columbia}

Weather Report - Original Album Classics (2007) [5CDs Box Set] {Columbia}
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Genre: Jazz, Fusion

2007 five CD set, a great installment in Sony/BMG's Original Album Classics series that brings together rare and out of print titles with some best sellers from the Sony/BMG Jazz catalog. Many of these albums have been unavailable on CD for some time and are sought after by collectors. Each set is presented in a high quality, rigid cardboard slipcase containing five 'vinyl replica' mini LP sleeves. This collection from the Jazz fusion greats features the albums I Sing the Body Electric, Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Black Market and Night Passage.

Weather Report - Live & Unreleased (2002) [2CDs] {Columbia}

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Weather Report - Live & Unreleased (2002) [2CDs] {Columbia}

Weather Report - Live & Unreleased (2002) [2CDs] {Columbia}
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Genre: Fusion

Live and Unreleased is a compilation of live recordings of Weather Report. The tracks are taken from live performances that took place from November 25, 1975 to June 3, 1983. Since its skill at live improvisation made up a large part of the band's appeal, its perhaps surprising that this is only their third official live recording (the previous two were 1972's Live in Tokyo and 1979's 8:30).

Virgil Donati - Ruination (2019) {Gildon}

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Virgil Donati - Ruination (2019) {Gildon}

Virgil Donati - Ruination (2019) {Gildon}
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Genre: Prog Rock, Fusion, Progressive Metal

On Ruination, once again, Virgil brings together extraordinary young talent from all parts of the globe, that delivers intensely searing, heartfelt music. Blurring the boundaries between fusion and progressive, instrumental and vocal, Virgil's most recent touring band is featured on this record - Andre Nieri guitar, Junior Braguinha bass, Chris Clark keys, along with many special guests, including Anton Davidyants and Evan Marien on bass, Julian Lage, Marco Sfogli, Carl Mörner Ringström, and Matteo Mancuso on guitar, Steve Hunt (Allan Holdsworth), Alex Argento, and a reunion of sorts, Joe Chindamo (Loose Change) on keys, and vocalist/guitarist Irwin Thomas, aka Jack Jones (Southern Sons).

Virgil Donati - On the Virg-Serious Young Insects (1999) {Vorticity Music}

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Virgil Donati - On the Virg-Serious Young Insects (1999) {Vorticity Music}

Virgil Donati - On the Virg-Serious Young Insects (1999) {Vorticity Music}
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Genre: Progressive Metal, Fusion

Absolutelly phenomenal album! Super jazz metal fusion made by true pros plus killer drumwork on this album,absolutelly mindblowing! Donati is a master of polyrhythms,his versatility is unbelieveble and this modern type of fusion can please even the most pretentious fusion lover! The sound is killer too,wonderful indeed! The diversity of the compositions is well balanced,each musician is an ace in hos work,but overall is this "not of this earth" drumming from Virgil Donati, absolutelly fantastic! Sometimes we have the impressions that the unbelieveble technical skills provided by Donati, are here only to prove his fantastic talent and this music is made only for musicians! That's not true, but to fully understand this album, there are many auditions necessary!

Djavan - Matizes (2007) {Luanda Records}

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Djavan - Matizes (2007) {Luanda Records}

Djavan - Matizes (2007) {Luanda Records}
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Genre: Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova, MPB

Matizes is Djavan's 18th studio album, and another exemplary display of his unique style of composition and singing. As usual, Djavan writes songs that incorporate elements of jazz, bossa, soul, rock, blues, pop, and just about everything under the sun that is immaculately elegant, and yet that can never be pinpointed to any specific genre. Similarly, his lyrics exude a languid romanticism, although, as in "Imposto," he may also occasionally indulge in social criticism – of course, those who do not speak Portuguese would never be able to comprehend its incensed subject matter, since Djavan's vocal delivery remains as suave as ever. However, as accomplished as it is, Matizes is no masterpiece, but just a fine addition to Djavan's impeccable discography.

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}

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Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}

Black Ivory - Then and Now (1984) {Panoramic Records}
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Genre: Funk, Soul

Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson were Black Ivory, an exceptional and occasionally brilliant soul group from Harlem that recorded throughout the '70s and returned sporadically during the decades following. The trio developed out of the late '60s as a group called the Mellow Souls and were eventually taken under the wing of Patrick Adams. Adams had been in a group called the Sparks, but he developed his skills as a songwriter, arranger, and producer with Black Ivory. Adams scraped together all the money he possibly could in order to have the group record their first single, "Don't Turn Around." Adams took the demo to several unimpressed labels before hitting Today Records.

Cliff Dawson - Cliff Dawson (1982) {FunkyTownGrooves}

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Cliff Dawson - Cliff Dawson (1982) {FunkyTownGrooves}

Cliff Dawson - Cliff Dawson (1982) {FunkyTownGrooves}
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Genre: Funk, Soul

Cliff Dawson was the lead singer for a band called Pleasure House of Detention which then went on to change it’s name to Zenith. They did one Album for CBS. This album Was Cliffs only solo release, it contains the fantastic duet with Renee Diggs of Starpoint - Never Say Do, The song ”I can love you better” that Boardwalk removed to make way for another track “Never Say I Love You” w become Cliff's signature song in Europe, Reissuing this title gave us the chance to coorect what we feel was a mistake, we added back in both the duet with Renee diggs and I Can Love you better, we also took it to another level by getting John Morales to do a reedit of I can love you better and added it as a bonus track.

LeVert - Bloodline (1986) {Atlantic}

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LeVert - Bloodline (1986) {Atlantic}

LeVert - Bloodline (1986) {Atlantic}
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Genre: Quiet Storm, Soul, Funk

When Eddie Levert's two sons, Gerald and Sean, teamed with Marc Gordon to form their own trio, everyone in the R&B community expected great things. They didn't get off to a good start when they recorded for the tiny Tempre label, but once they moved to Atlantic, Levert began building their image and reputation. They earned a number one R&B hit with "(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind" and followed it with a Top 20 single in "Let's Go Out Tonight." Gerald's delivery, tone and approach mirrored his father's; their harmonies and production were contemporary, yet also reflected The O'Jays' influence.

Dave Valentin - In Love's Time (1982/2019) {Arista}

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Dave Valentin - In Love's Time (1982/2019) {Arista}

Dave Valentin - In Love's Time (1982/2019) {Arista}
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Genre: Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Latin Jazz

This album has a good R&B edge to it on the first 4 tracks and then some solid fusion efforts in the vein of other Valentin albums. Worth it purely for the version of Clove and Cinnamon alone as a jazz funk classic!!

Dave Valentin - Land Of The Third Eye (1980/2019) {Arista Legacy}

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Dave Valentin - Land Of The Third Eye (1980/2019) {Arista Legacy}

Dave Valentin - Land Of The Third Eye (1980/2019) {Arista Legacy}
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Genre: Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Latin Jazz

Smooth-ass jazz-funk courtesy of American-Latin flautist Dave Valentin. Great album originally released on GRP . If you like Tom Browne, Don Blackman etc then add this to your collection. Funky flute all the way through! Valentin beat the Ohio Players at their own game with that cover art too.