Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen – Free Hoops (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen – Free Hoops (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:46 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records

Sylvie Courvoisier presents a new trio album at the height of her mastery and success. “Free Hoops” follows the widely celebrated trio album “D’Agala” which “The New York Times” counted as among the best records of the year.

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Ralph Alessi, Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits – Quiver (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ralph Alessi, Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits – Quiver (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:25 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s ECM leader debut – 2013’s Baida – was the album where “everything came together for him,” according to Nate Chinen in a JazzTimes profile. “Without abandoning his yen for oppositional energies, it’s a beautifully coherent statement, not just his most accomplished album but a contender for one of the year’s best.” Baida indeed went on to become the most lauded release of Alessi’s career, with The New York Times praising the music for its balance of “elegant precision and power.” With Quiver, Alessi teams with pianist Gary Versace and the trumpeter’s longtime rhythm section of choice – bassist Drew Gress and drummer Nasheet Waits – to create a follow-up of quicksilver melodicism and subtly energized rhythm; there is a lyricism to Alessi’s playing that channels such forebears as Miles Davis and Kenny Wheeler, the mood reflective, even pensive. As DownBeat says, “Alessi works between the notes, his thoughtful, conversational solos as meditative as a calligrapher’s art, each line free-flowing and declarative but with immaculate shape and beauty.”

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