Ike Quebec – Blue & Sentimental (1962) [APO Remaster 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:29 minutes | Artwork (PDF) | 2,03 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Artwork (PDF) | 943 MB
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 50:36 minutes | 2,05 GB
Ike Quebec’s 1961-1962 comeback albums for Blue Note were all pretty rewarding, but Blue and Sentimental is his signature statement of the bunch, a superbly sensuous blend of lusty blues swagger and achingly romantic ballads. True, there’s no shortage of that on Quebec’s other Blue Note dates, but Blue and Sentimental is the most exquisitely perfected. Quebec was a master of mood and atmosphere, and the well-paced program here sustains his smoky, late-night magic with the greatest consistency of tone. Part of the reason is that Quebec’s caressing tenor sound is given a sparer backing than usual, with no pianist among the quartet of guitarist Grant Green, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. It’s no surprise that Green solos with tremendous taste and elegance (the two also teamed up on Green’s similarly excellent Born to Be Blue), and there are plenty of open spaces in the ensemble for Quebec to shine through. His rendition of the Count Basie-associated title cut is a classic, and the other standard on the original LP, “Don’t Take Your Love from Me,” is in a similarly melancholy vein. Green contributes a classic-style blues in “Blues for Charlie,” and Quebec’s two originals, “Minor Impulse” and “Like,” have more complex chord changes but swing low and easy. Through it all, Quebec remains the quintessential seducer, striking just the right balance between sophistication and earthiness, confidence and vulnerability, joy and longing. It’s enough to make Blue and Sentimental a quiet, sorely underrated masterpiece.
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Ida Haendel, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole & Ravel: Tzigane (1964) [Japan 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:30 minutes | Front/Rear covers | 1,77 GB
or FLAC Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear covers | 946 MB
This is the world’s first SACD reissue of Lalo’s famous performance, which combines the beautiful and rich sound of violin of Ida Handel with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karel Ančerl. This reissue uses a new DSD sound sourced from the original analog master tape. The jacket photo uses the original LP design, renews the sound quality and reprints.
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I Ching – Of The Marsh And The Moon (1996) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:16 minutes | Artwork | 3,21 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:18 minutes | 1,15 GB
Take three Chinese musicians schooled in the ancient art of traditional music making. A tradition that evokes images of romance and mystery. Add the futuristic, yet always musical sound of a synthesizer and apply state-of-the-art Chesky sonic technology. The result? I Ching: Of The Marsh and The Moon. This instrumental recording offers melodies that are at times distressingly beautiful, rhythmically driving and lushly melodic. Featuring Sisi Chen playing the Yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), Tao Chen on Chinese flute and Bao Li on Erhu (two stringed Chinese fiddle) with the synthesizer of Joel Goodman, this is World music meeting New Age. This is I Ching.
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Ichimujin – Rui (2006)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans 300dpi | 2.03 GB
FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans 300dpi | 923 MB
New generation guitar duo by Kochi Prefecture-born classical guitarist “Yasuto Uko & Shunsuke Yamashita”. Now his debut, even while keeping our focus on the classic base, business card instead worthy familiar classic music of “one unmanned” that will show with a broad music, from the movie “Cinema Paradiso” 3 songs, songs from the drama that participated in the soundtrack “unfair”, “in love with the pupil of the ugly”, and even the music selection that flew to the original song three songs and a variety of. Producer and the recording engineer, hired Ezaki TomoYoshi of Okuda via record representative that has won many awards applied to the recording production in the inside and outside.
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Ian Shaw – Drawn To All Things (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 62:14 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,51 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,17 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround Sound | Linn Records # AKD 276 | Genre: Jazz
Ian Shaw’s debut album on Linn Records is a stunning collection of re-workings of classic and lesser-known Joni Mitchell songs. Ian Shaw records a personal tribute to his personal heroine Joni Mitchell. Drawn To All Things includes three songs which had not previously been recorded by anyone other than Joni; ‘Talk to Me’, ‘Love Or Money’ and ‘Stay In Touch’. Top jazz vocalists and musicians lend their support; Claire Martin and Lea de Laria on vocals, plus trumpeter Guy Barker and guitarist Jim Mullen.
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Joe Pass – Intercontinental (1970/2015)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 47:00 minutes | 1,85 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:00 minutes | 0,98 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Genre: Jazz | © MPS Records
“Joe Pass looks like somebody’s uncle and plays guitar like nobody’s business.” So said New York Magazine about the man considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century. Pass’s masterful melodic counterpoint and quicksilver improvisational style flow throughout “Intercontinental”. Deftly accompanied by German bass virtuoso Eberhard Weber and English drummer Kenny Clare, the music runs the gamut of genres – a meditative Jobim bossa nova, a lusciously relaxed version of the jazz standard, “Stompin’ at the Savoy”, a blues-drenched rendition of the Bobby Gentry pop classic, “Ode to Belly Joe”, and a display of dynamically controlled guitar pyrotechnics on the exhilarating “I Love You”.
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Joe McQueen and friends – Ten at 86 (2006)
DFF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:53:04 minutes | 2.09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Digital Booklet , Front cover | © IsoMike
Joe McQueen has been a professional jazz musician for over seventy years, turning ‘Pro’ at the tender age of sixteen. He was introduced to the saxophone a few years earlier by his cousin, Herschel Evans, who played in Count Basie’s band in the mid -1930s. Born in 1919 in Dallas, Texas, Joe was raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he played tuba and then saxophone in the Ardmore High School band.
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Joe Beard feat. Duke Robillard and friends – Dealin’ (2000)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 54:27 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Blues
Source: ISO SACD | © AudioQuest Music
In the blues world it’s OK to be a late bloomer, and when it came to recording, Joe Beard was exactly that. The charismatic singer/guitarist, whose influences range from Jimmy Reed to Lightnin’ Hopkins, worked “day gigs” when his kids were growing up and didn’t start to build a catalog until he was in his fifties. Blues lovers who heard Beard’s AudioQuest dates of the ’90s found themselves saying, “Hey, this guy is very talented; why haven’t I heard of him until now?” And, of course, the answer to that question is that his nine-to-fives and family life had kept him from being a full-time bluesman. But when his kids reached adulthood, the Mississippi native turned Rochester, NY, resident had more time to devote to music. Recorded in April 2000 (when he was 62), Dealin’ is Beard’s third CD for AudioQuest and underscores his ability to handle a variety of electric blues styles. Beard’s appreciation of Reed and the Chicago blues is evident on gutsy, rough-and-tumble tracks like “Give Me Up and Let Me Go,” “My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble,” and “The Bitter Seed,” a Jimmy Reed classic. Like Reed, Beard favors a gentle and laid-back style of singing but still has plenty of grit and doesn’t mind having a tough, hard-driving band behind him. Meanwhile, “Holding a Losing Hand” and “If I Get Lucky” (both Beard originals) go for the sort of moody, shadowy, haunting ambiance that often worked so well for Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. This isn’t to say that Beard is going out of his way to emulate Reed, Hopkins, Hooker, or anyone else. Dealin’ shows who some of his influences are, but it also reminds you that Beard is an appealing bluesman in his own right. –Alex Henderson, AllMusic
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I Solisti Filarmonici Italiani – J.S. Bach. Concerto for 2 Violins (2015/2018)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,29 MHz | Time – 01:00:489 minutes | 9,58 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:48 minutes | 1,15 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
The new Italian ensemble is a long-established ensemble that was predecessor of the Italian ensemble, known as an expert in baroque music along with I Musici, inspired by the “Roma ensemble” that prevailed in the 1970s. This is a super ensemble that includes the masters of the Italian violin world, Federico Guglielmo, and the heavyweights that support the Italian music world both in name and reality. The sound of the golden strings and the flowing ensemble give us a blissful time. The sound of gold strings and flowing ensembles give us a blissful time.
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Jascha Heifetz, Malcol Sargent, New Symphony Orchestra of London – Bruch & Mozart (1963/2015)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,64 MHz | Time – 00:43:50 minutes | 3,46 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:43:50 minutes | 708 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Bookelt | Genre: Classical | © RCA / HDTT
Jascha Heifetz was, probably, the greatest twentieth-century exponent of his instrument. Violin at its best, although some memorable recordings are … more memorable than others.
The Bruch is one of two takes under Sir Malcom Sargent. A memorable 1963 execution, well remastered and absolutely pleasant to the ear. The Mozart is coeval, and as pleasantly remastered as the Bruch. Sir Malcom conducts the New Symphony Orchestra of London with a sense of supple complementarity to the soloist. Heifetz always boasts a brisk pace in his music-making. That might come as unusual to certain listeners. However, the purity of his sound, as produced by the unequalled Guarneri del Gesù he plays with immense sense of refinement, will grace you with more and more pleasure as you will keep coming back to this beautiful duo of great violin literature.
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Illinois Jacquet – Swing’s The Thing (1956/2014)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 34:20 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Verve Music Group / Analogue Productions XVRJ8023D64
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original analog master tapes to vinyl and PCM. The DSD was sourced from the PCM. George listened to all of the different A/D converters he had before he chose which to use, and he felt the George Massenburg GML 20 bit A/D produced the best and most synergistic sound for the project.
Illinois Jacquet’s 1956 album Swing’s The Thing features Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Jones, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Jo Jones. Throughout his career, Jacquet, who was born of a Sioux mother and a Creole father, played marvelous swing music. He was famed for his imaginative improvisations and gave brilliant shows with the Count Basie orchestra and at a number of Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts. The man from Louisiana performed swing at every live appearance – no wonder, then, that Norman Granz chose this theme as the title of the present recording, which was set down in October 1956. This time, however, Jimmy Jones on the piano was not responsible for providing the background for a vocal soloist; rather he delivers airy chords for the swinging tenor sax. That all musicians are superb interpreters of ballads is testified to in “Harlem Nocturne,” where Illinois Jacquet’s sound can best be described as “soulful.”
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Ikuyo Nakamichi – Chopin: Waltzes (2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:45:57 minutes | 4,18 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:45:57 minutes | 855 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Front Cover | Genre: Classical
Popular Japanese pianist Nakamichi Ikuyo represent the Chopin’s waltz collection. Needless to say, Waltzes is the most popular work among Chopin piano works. The most famous 14 waltzs centered on the published works in his lifetime, added three waltzs were published after his death. The essence waltz of Chopin, the Nakamichi considered to have been hidden in the shadow of the brilliant melody “composer of his own soul confession”, a little bit different waltz image of Chopin as ever shown sympathy to the depth of the shadow we raised draw. In addition, first disc played on the 1842 made Pleyel, for the second disc she’s using the Steinway modern piano, which was playing the waltz of the same 17 songs.
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Ikumi Ogasawara – Tears Of Joy (2019)
DSD512 (.dsf) 1 bit/22,4 MHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 14 GB
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 3,5 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192kHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 1,86 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96kHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 927 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet | Source: nativeDSDmusic | © Vivid Productions
“Tears of Joy” is the first solo album from Japanese pianist/composer Ikumi Ogasawara. It includes 10 of her most popular original compositions. Her music is inspired by various sceneries and life events that she encounters during her daily life and time. Her colorful/expressive music and performing style attracts many fans in Japan since her debut. Listening to the album, you will discover why she is a highly regarded melody maker.
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Ike Quebec – Blue & Sentimental (1962/2011/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 50:36 minutes | 2 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:36 min | 1,03 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Digital booklet
Ike Quebec’s timeless, big-toned tenor was a frequent visitor to Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in the early sixties. But this album from December 1961 with spare, soulful backing from Grant Green, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones is his masterpiece. The leaner setting works perfectly, evoking an aura of relaxation and monumentality, with the deepest blue of accents.
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Hubert Sumlin – I Know You (1998/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 56:54 minutes | 2,24 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:54 minutes | 1,09 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Digital booklet
Genre: Blues | © APO Records
Hubert Sumlin was listed as #43 in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Sumlin is best known for his “wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions” as a member of Howlin’ Wolf’s band. On “I Know You”, the Chicago Blues legend, surrounded by old friends such a fellow Wolf bandmate Sam Lay on drums and the great Carey Bell on harmonica, Hubert felt free to create in an intimate setting that captured the spirit of the great Chess recordings from the ’50’s.
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