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Giovanni Guidi Trio – Tomorrow Never Knows (2006) [Japan 2019] [SACD / Venus Records – VHGD-337]

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Title: Giovanni Guidi Trio – Tomorrow Never Knows (2006) [Japan 2019]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Italian jazz pianist Giovanni Guidi was born in Foligno in 1985. While attending the Siena summer seminars, he was noticed by Enrico Rava, who placed him in the Rava Under 21 group, which later became Rava New Generation. With this latter group he recorded three CDs for l’Espresso in 2006, 2010 and 2016. His first album as a leader is Tomorrow Never Knows, recorded by the Japanese label Venus, receiving five stars in a review by the Swing Journal magazine.
I heard 21-year-old Giovanni Guidi at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia last July, and was knocked out by his combination of advanced creativity and impulsive fearlessness. With the passage of time, you always wonder whether a player is as good as your first impression, and if so, whether a record can capture it. Guidi’s debut recording is here, and the answer is yes on both counts. He has the instincts to find great hidden material like Krzysztof Komeda’s ‘Sleep Safe and Warm’ (from the film Rosemary’s Baby), and the maturity to feel the darkness between its silences. In Perugia he did several Ornette Coleman tunes, and here he takes ‘Turnaround’ and smokes it. Guidi’s standards do not come from the traditional songbook but from places like Björk (‘Jóga’ is perfect for him, a hovering unresolved melody on which he can float and ascend) and Radiohead (‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is a stasis that deceptively evolves) and, especially, Lennon/McCartney. His versions of ‘Norwegian Wood’ and the album’s title track are anything but reverent, submerging the former in his own details and fracturing and spattering the latter… Tomorrow Never Knows is a stunning start. -— Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes

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Gezz – Jazz Pop-Uped (2004) [Reissue 2009] [SACD / A-Records – SAAL 73236]

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Title: Gezz – Jazz Pop-Uped (2004) [Reissue 2009]
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

The real thing about making improvised music is that you never know exactly what you’re going to do. The music takes you to places in your mind you never knew existed. Melodies come up as they disappear, rhythmic phrases seem out of reach ’till you know you’ve passed them on the way to a new one. It’s a never ending journey… When we started out we just enjoyed playing together. But as we went along we decided we had a special thing on our hands. During improvisations, themes would come up from songs from our shared musical past, sometimes we played things we knew but couldn’t name. Phrases and melodies from old and new pop songs that are embedded in our heads. This album is the result of our urge to make a statement in what improvisation means to us, therefore it is dedicated to all those great musicians who inspired (and inspire) us to do what we do best: improvise.

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The Gewandhaus Quartet – Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 44, Nr. 3 – Schumann: String Quartet, No. 3, Op. 41 (2008) [SACD / New Classical Adventure – 60176]

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Title: The Gewandhaus Quartet – Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 44, Nr. 3 – Schumann: String Quartet, No. 3, Op. 41 (2008)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

The Gewandhaus Quartet (German: Gewandhaus-Quartett) is a string quartet based in Leipzig. It was founded in 1808 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchester, as one of the first professional quartets in the world. In its more than 200-year history, they played many world premieres. The Gewandhaus Quartet celebrates its two hundredth anniversary in 2008 making it the oldest string quartet in the world. The quartet stands for the very highest level of chamber music, a fact underlined by its worldwide success. With this release the quartet presents the second volume of recordings of string quartets by Mendelssohn and Schumann (Volume 1 catalog no.60108): Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat major op. 44 Nr. 3 (1838) and Schumann’s String Quartet in A major op. 41 Nr. 3 (1842). Both works enjoyed resounding success at their respective Gewandhaus premiere performances Mendelssohn’s quartet in 1838, Schumann’s quartet in 1848.

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The Gewandhaus Quartet – Haydn: Famous String Quartets (2005) [SACD / New Classical Adventure – 60148-210]

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Title: The Gewandhaus Quartet – Haydn: Famous String Quartets (2005)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

The Gewandhaus Quartet (German: Gewandhaus-Quartett) is a string quartet based in Leipzig. It was founded in 1808 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchester, as one of the first professional quartets in the world. In its more than 200-year history, they played many world premieres. On this recording the Leipzig Gewandhaus-Quartett is dedicated to the famous string quartets by Joseph Haydn. Haydn, who is considered the “father” of the string quartets, is also the composer of the melody of the German national anthem which can be heard as part of the “Kaiserquartett” on this release. In addition to this it includes also the compositions “Quintenquartett” and “Der Sonnenaufgang”.

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Gerry Mulligan – Supreme Jazz (2006) [SACD / Supreme Jazz – 223265-207]

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Title: Gerry Mulligan – Supreme Jazz (2006)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

The most famous and probably greatest jazz baritonist of all time, Gerry Mulligan was a giant. A flexible soloist who was always ready to jam with anyone from Dixielanders to the most advanced boppers, Mulligan brought a somewhat revolutionary light sound to his potentially awkward and brutal horn and played with the speed and dexterity of an altoist.

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Gerry Mulligan Meets Scott Hamilton – Soft Lights & Sweet Music (1986) [MFSL 2006] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2017]

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Title: Gerry Mulligan Meets Scott Hamilton – Soft Lights & Sweet Music (1986) [MFSL 2006]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Starting in the late ’50s, Gerry Mulligan recorded a series of encounters with fellow saxophonists that included such immortals as Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster. In 1986 he resumed the practice for this one date on which his baritone is matched with the tenor of the young great Scott Hamilton. The music, which includes warm ballads and fairly hot romps (five of the seven songs are Mulligan originals), consistently swing and are quite enjoyable.

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Geri Allen – The Life Of A Song (2004) [SACD / Telarc – SACD-63598]

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Title: Geri Allen – The Life Of A Song (2004)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Life of a Song is Geri Allen’s first recording under her own name in six long years. She teams with the rhythm section of bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette, whom she worked with on the late Betty Carter’s stellar live date Feed the Fire in 1993. Allen composed eight of the album’s 11 cuts, and the covers include Bud Powell’s “Dance of the Infidels,” Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life,” and Mal Waldron’s “Soul Eyes.” This last selection is augmented by the participation of Marcus Belgrave on flugelhorn, saxophonist Dwight Andrews, and trombonist Clifton Anderson.

The album’s title reflects the depth of commitment to the song forms inherent in jazz. Allen is in fine form here, and one can hear her various instrumental and vocal influences. The album swings, but looks underneath swing for its subtleties and its edges, too. The set opens with a playful, pianistic dissonance on “LWB’s House (The Remix)” – and lest punters be alarmed, the tune is not “remixed” at all, but is actually an earlier composition reworked. The bluesy funk here is augmented with Afro-Cuban rhythms and a series of tonal shifts where Allen is trying to emulate the African stringed instrument, the kora. Swing is inherent in every chorus, and Holland and DeJohnette keep the pace relaxed yet deeply focused. The interplay between Holland and Allen on “Mounts and Mountains” – particularly during the bassist’s solo passage – are remarkable as she responds with a contrapuntal solo that draws on both Herbie Hancock and Ahmad Jamal. Elsewhere, on the Powell tune her facility to usher it in a relaxed, easy way, and then dazzle with her two-handed counterpoint in the solo showcase Allen’s quick wit and dazzling chromatic command. The title cut, with its obvious Hancock homage in the head and swinging head, is one of the album’s many high points. This is a trio date that has all the elements: an indefatigable lyricism and honesty of emotion, as well as beautiful colors and deft, even uncanny engagements among the three principals. What a welcome return for Allen, who expertly displays she’s been refining her chops and listening deeply to her Muse these past six years.

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Gerard Presencer – The Optimist (2001) [SACD / Linn Records – AKD 166]

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Title: Gerard Presencer – The Optimist (2001)
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

The first thing that hits you when you listen to this record is the extensive use of samples and drum rhythms one would expect in a dance record. This album is clearly a cross over between Jazz and Dance. Which is fine since it was done really well. The music can be a bit too much in your face at times, and I have been in the situation before were I decided to put it on but regretted it as soon as the first track began. Other times I love this record and tend to turn up the volume so far that I sure my neighbours aren’t happy that I’m living next to them. I’ve gotten both albums which were release by Gerard Presencer on SACD and I must admit I prefer this one. sa-cd.net

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Gerard Presencer – Platypus (2000) [SACD / Linn Records – AKD 139]

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Title: Gerard Presencer – Platypus (2000)
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Gerard Presencer’s recording debut as a leader is very impressive. He’s a virtuoso trumpeter but plays flugelhorn throughout this recording with four of the younger virtuosi from the London jazz scene. Here the normal grammar and syntax of jazz are permanently in evidence, the rhythm section of Cleyndert and Stacey is magnificent, and there are are fine solos from the leader, pianist Rebello and guitarist Parricelli. Presencer, who wrote seven of the pieces, already seems an accomplished composer and even his rearrangement of the eighth and last piece, Bobby Timmons’ Moanin’ (retitled Still Moanin’)is a highly imaginative, almost cubist deconstruction of the original. Presencer never forces his solos – he’s prepared to wait, but has plenty in reserve. All the performances are excellent, but Afterthought, with its moody resonances, passionate flugelhorn and eloquent guitar, is a gem.

In the early 1970s, different jazz artists had different ways of acknowledging funk and soul. Miles Davis, John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Larry Coryell, and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever played outright fusion; their music was an innovative, forward-thinking mixture of jazz, rock, and funk. But at Creed Taylor’s CTI Records, the electric jazz of Freddie Hubbard, Joe Farrell, and others wasn’t really fusion — CTI had more of a “post-bop meets funk and pop” outlook. And similarly, Gerard Presencer’s 1997 recording Platypus combines jazz and funk without being outright fusion; on this melodic CD, the flugelhornist sounds like a post-bopper who has started incorporating funk rhythms and using electric instruments. Presencer’s appealing tone is greatly influenced by Hubbard (with hints of Miles Davis), and original pieces like “In the Air” and “Still Moanin'” wouldn’t have been out of place on a CTI recording that Taylor produced in the early 1970s. Platypus (which employs Jason Rebello on keyboards, John Paricelli on guitar, Andrew Cleyndert on bass, and Jeremy Stacey on drums) isn’t innovative or remarkable, but it’s definitely enjoyable — and you have to admire the fact that Presencer wrote everything on the CD instead of inundating listeners with overdone standards.

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Gerald Veasley – Velvet (2002) [SACD / Heads Up International – HUSA 9072]

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Title: Gerald Veasley – Velvet (2002)
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Take the best of ’70s R&B and funk and filter it through a contemporary sensibility, and you have Gerald Veasley’s Velvet. On the album, the Philly-born bassist acknowledged the styles that inspired him in his youth and added his own expressive bass voice to create a collection of tunes that hark back to a seminal period in urban music but reflect a modern perspective.

On Velvet, bass player extraordinaire Gerald Veasley is as smooth as the title of his sixth solo effort for the Heads Up label implies. After one listen, his audience will know that the soul he plays is legendary. Veasley blends a richly textured mix of urban funk, the Philly sound, and his unique bass perspectives to give listeners his rendition of the sounds and sensibilities of the neo-soul movement. Eleven new compositions either written or co-written by Gerald Veasley, “Home,” and the outstanding cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “Let’s Do It Again” make a resounding statement about the rich tradition of soul, rhythm & blues, gospel, and funk that continues to endear generation after generation of music lovers to their very essence. Songs such as “Coup de Ville,” “Velvet,” “Summer Kiss,” and “It’s Alright (Tonight’s the Night)” conjure up the perfect snapshot of Veasley’s musical mindset, which was obviously inspired by real-life visuals. Even though Gerald Veasley is still in tune with the fan appreciation garnered by his previous releases, he has noticeably stepped away from the bass riffs and voicing used on many of them, especially those heard during his time with Grover Washington, Jr.. However, his dynamic six-string bass guitar work still allows ample room and space for the very vivid improvisations contributed by his accompanists. Nearly 15 guest musicians add their impressions and memorable moments to this great musical set that Gerald Veasley has filled with tender human emotion, matchless funk, and memorable entertainment experiences.

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