Jason Moran – The Sound Will Tell You (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Jason Moran – The Sound Will Tell You (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:11 minutes | 384 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SKANI

The Sound Will Tell You, Moran’s 3rd Solo piano recording, was made on January 4-6, 2021. Half of the works use an effect dubbed “DRIP”, a filter to allow the sound cast a shadow. The Drip gives the note another gravity. These pieces are marked by “tear”, “honey” and “shadow. Moran, from Houston, also recalls DJ Screw’s ability to give a song a new sluggish gait. Drawing out the drawl and sinking the beat into the mud. The music moves in slower motion.
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Jason Moran – All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jason Moran – All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:58 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller is a collaboration with the vocalist Meshell Ndegeocello that recasts the music of the legendary jazz entertainer Fats Waller as a modern dance party. The album is the studio culmination of a project that was born onstage at Harlem Stage Gatehouse as the Fats Waller Dance Party in 2011 as part of their “Harlem Jazz Shrines” series.

“Fats Waller is a special kind of provocateur,” says Moran. “It stems mainly from the fact that he was a singer as well as a pianist. Sometimes he was like an MC. It has always amazed me that a pianist whose playing was so deep could sing and keep a running commentary of what was going on around him all at the same time.”
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Jason Moran – From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jason Moran – From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:57 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jason Moran

They walked a very long way, saw you, and tagged you forever… then strode away, but kept you in their mind as they tagged someone else. See, That’s how a lot of this works.

They didn’t tell you where they were going,or what it would feel like,or sound like,or the stories you’d tell about all that you’d survive. And YES, you will survive…or be survived by.

In 1881, James Reese Europe is born in Mobile, Alabama, and in the pre-dawn of the Great Migration, his parents moved up to Washington, D.C. because they knew. It is in D.C that James begins to take violin lessons from Joseph Douglas, the grandson of Frederick Douglass because Douglass innately knew that liberation not only speaks from the mind, but also from instrument. The violin, hollowed wood, with a bow strung with horse hair abrading tense steel.
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Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran – Hagar’s Song (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran – Hagar’s Song (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:24 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Hagar’s Song, the latest album from long-time ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is a thrilling duo recording with Jason Moran. The pianist was a key member of Lloyd’s latter-day quartet, performing on the albums Rabo de Nube, Mirror and Athens Concert. This stunning new release features pieces dear to Lloyd including compositions by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson. The centerpiece on the album is the title suite, dedicated to Lloyd’s great-great-grandmother.

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