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Titolo: News dal mondo SACD

Altre notizie dal mondo SACD
dal sito 
www.amusicdirect.com
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Fantasy Records is actually a number of outstanding record labels
which, over the last quarter century, have happened to find themselves
under one roof. Fantasy's ambitious reissue programs have been
influential industry-wide, highlighting aspects of its vast catalog
from acid jazz to folk and blues to classic jazz in "twofer" CDs,
boxed sets, 20-bit remastered CDs, and now, SACDs. Each of these SACDs
are hybrid stereo releases that will play on any CD player. 
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Bill Evans
Portrait In Jazz (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
This is the album that redefined the piano trio, changed the way
modern jazz pianists used harmony and influenced the course of music
in the last half of the 20th century. Bill Evans' chord voicings, his
strength and lyricism, his melodic conception, were major elements in
the landmark Miles Davis Kind of Blue recording in November 1959. The
next month, Portrait in Jazz found Evans leading the ideal trio he had
been conceptualizing for years. Evans, the astonishing virtuoso
bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian interacted with
cohesiveness, responsiveness, and empathy that set new standards.
SACD - $17.99
Dave Brubeck Jazz At Oberlin (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
Early in the groups career, they sometimes played in cafeterias
doubling as auditoriums, but for their Oberlin College appearance in
the spring of 1953, the quartet found itself in the
acoustically-blessed chapel of an institution known for the quality of
its music department. The audience knew what it was hearing and
responded with enthusiastic appreciation as the tape rolled. When
Fantasy issued the concert as a long-playing record, a phenomenon was
established: Jazz kept on going to college and Brubeck created an
audience that has been loyal to him for decades. Jazz at Oberlin has
some of Brubeck's and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond's finest playing.
SACD - $17.99
John Coltrane Lush Life (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
When he recorded Lush Life, John Coltrane was rapidly gaining
recognition for his innovations in jazz soloing. As a member of the
Miles Davis Quintet, he had become known far beyond a small circle of
jazz insiders. Coltrane's development as a soloist came at a pace and
an intensity seldom witnessed in jazz. Freeing his astonishing
creativity from the imposed harmonies of a piano, he employs his
massive technique to put into standard song and blues forms nearly all
that they could contain. In two pieces with pianist Red Garland, his
colleague from the Davis group, Coltrane is scarcely less inventive.
SACD - $17.99
Creedence Clearwater Revival The Concert (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
For 10 years, they labored in the bars of Northern California's East
Bay as The Blue Velvets, then The Golliwogs. In the rock and roll
deluge, they hardly made a ripple. That changed fast after they moved
to Fantasy Records and took the name Creedence Clearwater Revival. In
1968, their debut album with that title became an enormous hit.
Creedence's no-nonsense style and John Fogerty's excoriating lead
vocals captivated fans and by the end of the decade, Creedence's Bayou
Country album with "Proud Mary" had gone platinum and the band was an
American institution. The Concert finds them world-famous on home
ground in an Oakland stadium giving a partisan crowd what it wanted -
undiluted all-out rock and roll. 
SACD - $17.99
Gil Evans Gil Evans & Ten (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
In 1957, Miles Davis, high on the success of his recent collaborations
with his old friend Gil Evans, persuaded Prestige Records to give
Evans his own record date. Evans packed the resulting album with the
brilliance that music insiders had recognized since his days as an
arranger for Claude Thornhill in the 1940s and his work on Davis'
Birth of the Cool recordings. Writing for only eleven instruments,
Evans used his wizardry with dynamics, motion, and harmonic voicings
to create orchestral effects suggesting a substantially larger
orchestra. For the first time we hear the full spectrum of these
masterpieces from the original stereo tapes that had been presumed
lost for decades. 
SACD - $17.99
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
This is no guitar shootout. It's a meeting of a mutual admiration
society. In an inspired pairing for a Canadian television special, the
young Stevie Ray Vaughan met his idol and model Albert King to jam on
the blues. Vaughan, whom King remembered from Austin as Little Stevie,
could have used his phenomenal technique to bury the old man. Instead,
he expressed his respect in restrained, worshipful, playing that made
for a perfect match. Because of his unmistakable licks, King was one
of the most imitated of all blues guitarists, and Vaughan made King's
style a foundation of his playing. Still, as Vaughan makes forcefully
clear at King's urging, he also had a big helping of Jimi Hendrix on
his plate. King's inimitable singing makes this good get-together a
must not just for guitar aficionados, but for all blues lovers. 
SACD - $17.99
Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
Wes Montgomery appeared on the national jazz scene in 1960 as if from
out of nowhere. In fact, he was from Indianapolis, where he had been
playing incredible jazz guitar for years. Musicians traveling through
Indianapolis marveled at his warmth, speed, creativity, unconventional
thumb technique and octave passages. Finally, Cannonball Adderley
insisted that Riverside Records sign Montgomery. By the end of the
year the guitarist had recorded two albums. This, his second, became
one of the most admired and influential recordings in the annals of
the music. Listeners loved it. Guitarists worshipped it. Hundreds of
guitarists have patterned, or tried to pattern, their playing after
Montgomery's. Incredible Jazz Guitar is a high point in Montgomery's
short career and in the history of the instrument. 
SACD - $17.99
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
John Coltrane's development as an improviser accelerated in the
mid-1950s when he was with Miles Davis. During six months of 1957 with
Thelonious Monk in a celebrated engagement at New York's Five Spot
Café, it went into overdrive. Because of the artists' conflicting
contractual agreements, Jazzland (Riverside's sister label) was unable
to capture the Monk quartet live at the Five Spot. Producer Orrin
Keepnews managed to record three studio tracks that did not see the
light of day until the sixties. "Ruby, My Dear," "Trinkle, Tinkle" and
"Nutty" let us hear what all the excitement was about. "Off Minor" and
"Epistrophy" find Monk and Coltrane in a septet that included the
great Coleman Hawkins. The CD also includes "Functional," an
unforgettable Monk solo blues. 
SACD - $17.99
Zoot Sims: Zoot Sims & The Gershwin Brothers (Fantasy Hybrid SACD)
Congratulations. You are about to embrace the irreplaceable Zoot Sims.
If you have a crush on Zoot, if he's already the man you love, that's
wonderful. If you're coming to him for the first time, you needn't
know how long this has been going on because if you've got rhythm, man
or lady, you'll discover how Zoot could be good at fast tempos and
sublime in ballads. Isn't it a pity that years ago you didn't have
someone to watch over you and lead you to Mr. Sims? Never mind,
summertime or any season, now you'll always have Zoot. They can't take
that away from you. Every track here is a bonus track. You get the
bonuses of Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, George Mraz, Grady Tate and some
of the Gershwins' best songs.
SACD - $17.99
Aaron Neville Nature Boy: The Standards Album (Verve hybrid
multichannel SACD). A deeply satisfying suite of standards sung with
remarkable sensitivity, Nature Boy is both a hallmark and a
revelation: Aaron's feel for sweetly swinging jazz is pitch-perfect.
He reinvents the Great American Songbook with a sure, soft touch;
lavishing his remarkable gifts on each track, making it classic-and
classy-in every respect. Features guest appearances by Linda Ronstadt,
Roy Hargrove, Ray Anderson, Michael Brecker, Charles Neville and Ry
Cooder. Hybrid 5.1 SACD - $17.99 
SACD
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto Piano Concerto No.1, Christian Tetzlaff,
Nicolai Lugansky, Kent Nagano, Russian National Orchestra (hybrid
multichannel) (PantaTone)  $19.99 
Kent Nagano conducts the Russian National Orchestra featuring
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) and Nikolai Lugansky (piano) through a
stirring performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D and Piano
Concerto No. 1. 
 
Sting - Sacred Love (A&M) (hybrid multichannel)  $17.99 
Sting's 2003 follow-up to 1999's Brand New Day. Taking a cue from his
last album's success, Sting enlists the aid of three guest vocalists
in Vincente Amigo, Anoushaka Shankar and Mary J. Blidge.  
 
Aaron Neville - Nature Boy: The Standards Album (Verve) ( hybrid
multichannel)  $17.99 
This new album on Verve features guest appearances by Linda Ronstadt,
Roy Hargrove, Ray Anderson, Michael Brecker, Charles Neville and Ry
Cooder. 
* PRE-ORDERS *
SACD: David Bowie (including "Ziggy Stardust" and "Let's Dance"!),
George Thorogood, Bob Dylan, Kelly Rowland, Creedence, Michael
McDonald, Karrin Allyson, Lang Lang, Maynard Ferguson, John Hiatt,
Carmen McRae, Hank Jones, Jennifer Warnes, Ray Brown Trio, Marian
McPartland, Nnenna Freelon, Michael Feinstein, Kitaro, David Sanborn,
Brother Jack McDuff, Cal Tjader, Gil Evans, Zoot Sims, Wes Montgomery,
Monty Alexander, Scott Hamilton, Pete Escovedo, John Coltrane,
Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi ("Charlie Brown Christmas"), Albert
King with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
News
Cisco Music's new SACD's are now expected in early November. This
includes Jennifer Warnes, Joan Baez and Doc Watson.
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Ciao,
F.a.D.
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Qui invenit amicum invenit thesaurum

>Sting - Sacred Love (A&M) (hybrid multichannel)  $17.99 
Molto interessante 'sta cosa...A&M si è data anche lei al SACD..e
Sting pure...peccato questo disco non mi sembri un gran che....aspetto
che rimasterizzino in SACD i suo vecchi dischi! in particolare quello
che ha registrato dalla mie parti.
Ciao
PS noto con piacere che anche la Verve è in SACD...magari con il tempo
uscirà qualcosa anche della GRP
Togliere SBAM per rispondere via mail.

Sting pure...
Ho scoperto che 
www.amazon.de
 lo vende a 13.99 Euro...
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