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Grant Green – Grantstand (1962) [APO Remaster 2011] [SACD / Analogue Productions – CBNJ 84086 SA]

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Title: Grant Green – Grantstand (1962) [APO Remaster 2011]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Grant Green’s third album to be released, Grantstand teams the clear-toned guitarist with an unlikely backing group of musicians who rarely appeared with Blue Note otherwise: tenor saxophonist Yusef Lateef (who doubles on flute), organist Brother Jack McDuff, and drummer Al Harewood. Although Lateef was beginning to delve deeply into Eastern tonalities and instruments around the same time, his playing here is pretty straightforward and swinging, fitting the relaxed, bop-tinged soul-jazz that makes up most of the session. For his part, McDuff is mellower than his usual ferocious self, laying back and swinging with a blissful ease. Green contributes two bluesy originals, the nine-minute title track and the 15-minute “Blues in Maude’s Flat,” which are turned into loose, loping jams that rank as some of the best examples of Green’s ability to work an extended groove. (The CD bonus track, “Green’s Greenery,” is in much the same vein, though not as long.) Elsewhere, Green leads a delicate, sensitive exploration of “My Funny Valentine” that ended up as his greatest standard performance to date, setting the stage for a great deal more work in this vein that was soon to be forthcoming (including his brilliant sessions with Sonny Clark). Still, the groove is what reigns supreme for most of the album; if you’re looking for Green the soul-jazz groovemaster, Grantstand is an excellent place to find him.

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Grand Funk – We’re An American Band (1973) [Japanese SHM-SACD 2014] [SACD / Capitol Records – TYGP-89001]

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Title: Grand Funk – We’re An American Band (1973) [Japanese SHM-SACD 2014]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Having made several changes in their business and musical efforts in 1972, Grand Funk Railroad made even more extensive ones in 1973, beginning with their name, which was officially truncated to “Grand Funk.” And keyboardist Craig Frost, credited as a sideman on Phoenix, the previous album, was now a full-fledged bandmember, filling out the musical arrangements. The most notable change, however, came with the hiring of Todd Rundgren to produce the band’s eighth album. Rundgren, a pop/rock artist in his own right, was also known for his producing abilities, and he gave Grand Funk exactly what they were looking for: We’re an American Band sounded nothing like its muddy, plodding predecessors. Sonically, the record was sharp and detailed and the band’s playing was far tighter and more accomplished. Most important, someone, whether the band or Rundgren, decided that gruff-voiced drummer Don Brewer should be employed as a lead singer as often as guitarist Mark Farner. Brewer also contributed more as a songwriter, and the results were immediate. The album’s title song, an autobiographical account of life on the road written and sung by Brewer, was released in advance of the album and became a gold-selling number one hit, Grand Funk’s first really successful single. Despite the band’s previous popularity, for many, it must have been the first Grand Funk record they either heard or bought. Elsewhere on the album, Farner contributed his usual wailing vocals and guitar, singing of his heartfelt, if simpleminded, political concerns. But We’re an American Band really belonged to Brewer and Rundgren, and its success constituted a redefinition of Grand Funk that came just in time.

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Grand Funk – Shinin’ On (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2017] [SACD / Audio Fidelity – AFZ 251]

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Title: Grand Funk – Shinin’ On (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2017]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

After racking up their biggest success to date with We’re an American Band, Grand Funk Railroad decided to keep a good thing going by retaining Todd Rundgren as their producer and continuing to push their sound in a pop/rock direction. The end result has its moments but is not as strong as We’re an American Band. Although the songs are tight and benefit from a strong performance by the group, the material simply isn’t as inspired this time out: songs like “Please Me” and “Getting Over You” are energetic but lack the infectious hooks and clever arrangement touches that would make them stick in the listener’s memory. Shinin’ On’s best songs are the ones that became its single releases: the title track infuses its hard-driving, spacy rock groove with some surprisingly ethereal vocal harmonies and the cover of “The Loco Motion” turns this dance classic on its ear with a stomping beat and a screeching guitar lead from Mark Farner. Other tracks make up for their lack of hooks by experimenting with the group’s sound in interesting ways: “Mr. Pretty Boy” is a creepy slow blues that features an atmospheric Mellotron backing and “To Get Back In” is a full-fledged soul song built on thick combination of organ and horns. In the end, Shinin’ On is too unfocused and uneven to win over non-fans but Grand Funk Railroad fans will find plenty to enjoy on this album.

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Grand Funk Railroad – Shinin’ On (1974) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] [SACD / Capitol Records – TYGP-89002]

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Title: Grand Funk Railroad – Shinin’ On (1974) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
Genre: Hard Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

After racking up their biggest success to date with We’re an American Band, Grand Funk Railroad decided to keep a good thing going by retaining Todd Rundgren as their producer and continuing to push their sound in a pop/rock direction. The end result has its moments but is not as strong as We’re an American Band. Although the songs are tight and benefit from a strong performance by the group, the material simply isn’t as inspired this time out: songs like “Please Me” and “Getting Over You” are energetic but lack the infectious hooks and clever arrangement touches that would make them stick in the listener’s memory. Shinin’ On’s best songs are the ones that became its single releases: the title track infuses its hard-driving, spacy rock groove with some surprisingly ethereal vocal harmonies and the cover of “The Loco Motion” turns this dance classic on its ear with a stomping beat and a screeching guitar lead from Mark Farner. Other tracks make up for their lack of hooks by experimenting with the group’s sound in interesting ways: “Mr. Pretty Boy” is a creepy slow blues that features an atmospheric Mellotron backing and “To Get Back In” is a full-fledged soul song built on thick combination of organ and horns. In the end, Shinin’ On is too unfocused and uneven to win over non-fans but Grand Funk Railroad fans will find plenty to enjoy on this album.

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Grand Funk – All The Girls In The World Beware (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2017] [SACD / Audio Fidelity – AFZ 252]

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Title: Grand Funk – All The Girls In The World Beware (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2017]
Genre: Hard Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Grand Funk Railroad continued to move further into the pop/rock mainstream with this hit album. They are aided considerably in this aim by the ultra-slick production of Jimmy Ienner, a producer best known for his work with the Raspberries: songs like “Runnin'” and “Memories” boast rich yet punchy horn and string arrangements that beef up the group’s sound without softening its energetic edge. The album’s combination of high-gloss production and the band’s energy resulted in some impressive hits: “Some Kind of Wonderful” is an exuberant, organ-drenched soul song that highlight’s the group’s strong harmonies while “Bad Time” mixes a delicate, string-laden melody with a pulsing beat from the rhythm section to create a one-of-a-kind power ballad. None of the other songs on All the Girls in the World Beware have hooks as compelling as these hits, but they are energetically performed and often push the band’s sound in interesting new directions: “Memories” is a moody ballad with a country-styled melody and the title track is a humorous portrait of a would-be lady-killer delivered over a funky Santana-esque jam driven by lightning-fast organ riffs and congas. “Good and Evil” is another big surprise, a moody mid-tempo track whose creepy distorted vocals and gothic organ effects create a sound reminiscent of mid-’70s Alice Cooper. In the end, casual listeners would probably be better off seeking this album’s hits on a compilation, but All the Girls in the World Beware will definitely appeal to any Grand Funk Railroad fan who enjoyed We’re an American Band or Shinin’ On.

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SACD

Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel (1974) [MFSL 2012] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2059]

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Title: Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel (1974) [MFSL 2012]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Gram Parsons fondness for drugs and high living are said to have been catching up with him while he was recording Grievous Angel, and sadly he wouldn’t live long enough to see it reach record stores, dying from a drug overdose in the fall of 1973. This album is a less ambitious and unified set than his solo debut, but that’s to say that G.P. was a great album while Grievous Angel was instead a very, very good one. Much of the same band that played on his solo debut were brought back for this set, and they perform with the same effortless grace and authority (especially guitarist James Burton and fiddler Byron Berline). If Parsons was slowing down a bit as a songwriter, he still had plenty of gems on hand from more productive days, such as “Brass Buttons” and “Hickory Wind (which wasn’t really recorded live in Northern Quebec; that’s just Gram and the band ripping it up live in the studio, with a handful of friends whooping it up to create honky-tonk atmosphere). He also proved to be a shrewd judge of other folks material as always; Tom T. Hall’s “I Can’t Dance” is a strong barroom rocker, and everyone seems to be having a great time on The Louvin Brothers’s “Cash on the Barrelhead.” As a vocal duo, Parsons and Emmylou Harris only improved on this set, turning in a version of “Love Hurts” so quietly impassioned and delicately beautiful that it’s enough to make you forget Roy Orbison ever recorded it. And while he didn’t plan on it, Parsons could hardly have picked a better closing gesture than “In My Hour of Darkness.” Grievous Angel may not have been the finest work of his career, but one would be hard pressed to name an artist who made an album this strong only a few weeks before their death — or at any time of their life, for that matter.

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Gram Parsons – GP (1973) [MFSL 2012] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2058]

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Title: Gram Parsons – GP (1973) [MFSL 2012]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

1973 Landmark Set a Profoundly Influential Record on Country, Folk, and Rock Genres. Influential doesn’t begin to capture the scope, legacy, and brilliance of Gram Parsons’ GP. By wedding traditional country threads with folk, soul, and rock fabrics, the singer/guitarist unconsciously gave birth to a new subgenre that would later evolve into what we now know as country-rock and Americana. Thematically, Parsons proves beyond his then 25-year-old age and addresses heartbreak, yearning, dreams, and wistful feelings with the lived-in conviction of someone many years his senior.

Mastered from the original master tapes, and going far beyond the multiple digital reissues that never opened up the music as promised, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited edition hybrid SACD brings to fore unprecedented degrees of fireplace-hearth warmth, natural organic accents, and the you-are-there vocal signatures of Parsons and partner Emmylou Harris. Listeners that swear by the sound of albums cut in the 60s and early/mid 70s will instantly fall in love with what they hear: Every member of Parsons’ band gets their own distinct space, frequencies extend and decay, small details emerge, and that rare “breath of life” resounds throughout each note. If you’re a fan of the Byrds, Neil Young, CSN, or peak-era Bob Dylan, you need this SACD. Akin to so many profoundly influential works of art, GP had auspicious beginnings. Parsons spent 1971 palling around with Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who, originally, was tabbed to produce. But logistical circumstances ultimately led to putting Rik Grech in the control chair. He performed on and presided over sessions that witnessed Parsons redefine music via aching ballads, gospel-styled weepers, honky-tonk barn-burners, and rollicking shuffles. The chemistry achieved and attained throughout simply boggles the mind. Whether it’s James Burton’s dobro or guitar playing, Elvis Presley drummer Ron Tutt keeping the beat, or Glen Hardin’s tuckpointed piano riffs, the combination of instruments and deliveries translate into Southern-flavored, California-stirred, desert-ripened magic. And those nuanced vocals. Restrained, plaintive, melodic, and almost effortless, Parsons and Harris’ are often the sound of angels taking country and turning into white spirituals. They are also the sound of two hearts breaking and of souls being torn into two as a result of unrequited love and unyielding passion. GP never cracked the Billboard album charts or yielded a hit single. But time has testified on behalf of its magnificence and importance. Parsons is now seen as the golden god of country rock, and for good reason. As for his goals? He once said that he wanted to unite the people in overalls (country) with those adorned in velvet (rock). Consider the mission accomplished. GP is a temple that contemporary leaders such as Wilco, the Decemberists, the Jayhawks, and myriad others worship.

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Grady Tate – All Love: Grady Tate Sings (2002) [SACD / Eighty-Eight’s – VRGL 7002]

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Title: Grady Tate – All Love: Grady Tate Sings (2002)
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Grady Tate has been one of the world’s most versatile, frequently-recorded musicians for more than 40 years. He is often featured as a distinctive drummer, but in fact, he is also one of the best vocalists in the world. For this album, Grady Tate selects everything from standards to ’50s musical hits number to his own composition, but the common theme is “love.” That is the very message Tate, who celebrated his 70th birthday during the recording date, wanted to remind people of. Grady’s voice swings gently and sometimes longingly together with the finest trio.

Grady Tate is best known as a top drummer, much in studio demand, with a long and impressive resumé. His singing talents are less widely documented, although he’s released about a dozen vocal albums since 1968 and was nominated for a 1986 Best Jazz Vocal Grammy for his performance of “She’s out of My Life.” Tate is a fine singer in the Nat Cole/Johnny Hartman tradition: smooth and soulful, with naturalistic phrasing and a direct emotional message. While he doesn’t have a big voice, it’s affable and very pleasant, and the classic love songs on All Love are the perfect material to set it off. Two of the tunes are less familiar – “Follow the Path,” a pretty melody by the late Bobby Scott with inspirational lyrics by Mort Goode, and Tate’s own heartfelt “Dream Love.” Tate enlists some stellar colleagues to enhance the mood and meaning of each track, including veterans Frank Wess, whose masterful flute blows cool and fresh, and pianist Kenny Barron, whose elegant solos are a delight (see, for example, his understated beauty on “My One and Only Love”). Tate plays drums on five of the nine tracks, with the legendary Jimmy Cobb on four. All told, All Love is a relaxed and engaging album, refreshingly free of hype and fluff.

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Grace Mahya – The Look Of Love (2006) [SACD / Village Records – VRCL11003]

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Title: Grace Mahya – The Look Of Love (2006)
Genre: Jazz
Format: DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Grace Mahya is Japanese female vocalist/pianist, who is also known as the “great treasure of Japan Jazz world”. She’s started learning classical piano at the age of 3. The Look Of Love is her debut album. Features “My Favorite Things”, “The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”, “Tennessee Waltz”, “The Look Of Love” and more.

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Grace Mahya – Last Live at Dug (2007) [SACD / Village Records – VRCL 11004]

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Title: Grace Mahya – Last Live at Dug (2007)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Grace Mahya is Japanese female vocalist/pianist, who is also known as the “great treasure of Japan Jazz world”. She’s started learning classical piano at the age of 3. “Last live at DUG” is her second album. It is a live recording of a Christmas concert 2006 and the last live performance at Japanese club DUG. “It was an amazing night”.

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