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Jim James
Uniform Clarity [ ATO Records / CD - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Uniform Clarity comprises intimate acoustic renditions of the songs originally found on 2018's Uniform Distortion, along with two new tracks. The album was recorded with GRAMMY® Award-winning producer/engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, The... |
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Jim James
Uniform Distortion [ ATO / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Third solo album from the frontman of My Morning Jacket. Uniform Distortion was inspired by a photograph from the 70's environment focused magazine The Last Whole Earth Catalog, and is a reflection on society's addiction to technology and how... |
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Jim James
Uniform Distortion (LP) [ ATO / LP - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Third solo album from the frontman of My Morning Jacket. Uniform Distortion was inspired by a photograph from the 70's environment focused magazine The Last Whole Earth Catalog, and is a reflection on society's addiction to technology and how... |
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SCHUBERT
Trout Quintet / A minor Quartet John O'Conor (piano) / Cleveland Quartet with James Vandermark (double bass) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2002 ] "plenty of controlled emotion." -Fanfare |
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Jose James
Black Magic [ Brownswood / CD - released 8/Mar/2010 ] |
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Jose James
Blackmagic Ep [ Brownswood / 12in - released 8/Mar/2010 ] |
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Jose James
The Dreamer (LP) [ Brownswood / LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] The jazz voice of a generation, José James released his debut LP 'The Dreamer' in 2007 on Brownswood Recordings. It was crammed with smoky, low-slung jazz grooves blessed with Jose's rich baritone vocals - magnificent self-pennedNworks nestling... |
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Jose James
The Dreamer (Vinyl) [ Brownswood / LP - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
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Jose James
No Beginning No End [ CD - released 25/Jan/2013 ] A seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by James' transcendent voice. |
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Jose James
While You Were Sleeping (180g Double LP) [ Bluenote / 2 LP - released 20/Jun/2014 ] José James' new album, While You Were Sleeping, his fifth studio album and his second album for Blue Note Records, is the follow-up to his widely acclaimed R&B and jazz steeped No Beginning No End, and signals a new creative direction for the... |
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Jose James
Yesterday I Had The Blues - The Music of Billie Holiday [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz / CD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] Acclaimed vocalist José James releases his new album, Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday, a tribute to the legendary singer in honor of Holiday's 100th birthday. James celebrates the woman he refers to as his "musical mother" with... |
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FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiems Judith Blegen (soprano) James Morris (bass) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Robert Shaw [ Telarc / CD - released 17/Jan/2008 ] Grammy Award Winner for Best Engineered Recording, Classical |
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HANDEL
Messiah: Live from the Auckland Town Hall Katherine Wiles, soprano, Kate Spence, Mezzo-soprano, Shaun Dixon, tenor, James Harrison, bass, Pipers Sinfonia. Peter Watts [ Auckland Choral / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] "Among the choir's strengths were upward leaps of pinpoint accuracy, entries that breathed their way in pianissimo, yet with clarity of articulation that revelled in the Town Hall's acoustics, and a big full throated sonority for the high points" |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990) Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Dawn Upshaw / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, james Levine [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jun/2018 ] "Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir … spirited virtuosity in the orchestral playing" Gramophone |
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Carole King & James Taylor
Live at the Troubadour [ Hear Music / Concord / 2 CD/DVD - released 27/May/2010 ] In November 2007, James Taylor; Carole King; and members of their renowned original band, "The Section", returned to the Troubadour (after some 36 odd years) for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue's 50th anniversary... |
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FRANZ LISZT
St. Stanislaus (Oratorio) Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano) / Donnie Ray Albert (baritone) / Cincinnati May Festival Chorus / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / James Conlon [ Telarc Records / CD - released 13/Feb/2004 ] Telarc's recording of Franz Liszt's St. Stanislaus with the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of James Conlon is the first complete recording of the two scenes Liszt finished for his last great... |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - The Mines of Sulphur (Complete Opera) Kristopher Irmiter (bass-baritone) Beth Clayton (mezzo-soprano) Brandon Jovanovich (tenor) James Maddalena (baritone) / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur is reminiscent of suspense thrillers from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Hitchcock. Love, longing, and dark as well as light comedy abound in this macabre tale of greed and retribution set in... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La forza del destino [The force of destiny] (Complete Opera recorded in 1976) Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto / John Allois Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "strongly cast down to the smallest comprimario roles. Admirers of Leontyne Price will undoubtedly be tempted by a set which includes her Leonora, strongly supported by Domingo (his first attempt at Don Alvaro) and Miln." (Gramophone) |
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FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de VACnus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50 / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem" Gramophone |
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Loraine James
Reflection (LP) [ Hyperdub LP / LP - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Made during summer 2020, Loraine James' second Hyperdub album, 'Reflection', is a turbulent expression of inner-space, laid out in unflinching honesty, offering gentle empathy and bitter-sweet hope. 'Reflection' further develops a unique pop... |