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Art Pepper is holding "skool" at the moment with Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section! Nice audiophile recording.
 

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Hi Bill Frisell fans, Check out Floratone. Great album
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Floratone has a complicated premise. In 2005, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain, the instrumental half of the Floratone quartet, recorded a free-improv session together. They then gave the tapes to the production half, Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend, who hewed 11 song-length tracks out of them and returned them to Frisell and Chamberlain for overdubs with bass (Viktor Krauss), cornet (Ron Miles) and violin (Eyvind Kang). The final product of two years’ work is a set of saturnine, post-everything sound paintings, ambient yet strangely earthy.
Mostly, it works. The pieces on Floratone are hypnotic, usually arresting and occasionally, as on “Mississippi Rising,” even boisterous. Townsend and Martine let their respective loves of dub reggae (“The Passenger”) and country and folk music (“Take a Look”) set the pace for much of their behind-the-board work, with Frisell’s jazz pedigree and Chamberlain’s pop sensibilities meshing within the raw material. At Floratone’s best, these disparate elements converge into evocative, delicately beautiful music, especially on the ultramodern penultimate track, “Frontiers.”
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This isn't "strictly" jazz, as it is really jazz/classical European fusion:

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A 1993 GRP production that is only available on CD to my knowledge, it features Ray Brown and Phil Woods. A very nice blending of genres and styles, and well-recorded to boot. If you are a fan of both or either genres, it is definitely worth a listen.
 

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Olskool said:
Art Pepper is holding "skool" at the moment with Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section! Nice audiophile recording.
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It is a wondeful recording and all the more impressive when one read that:
According to Pepper, the album was recorded under enormous pressure, as he first learned of the recording session the morning he was due in the studio, and he had never met the other musicians, all of whom he greatly admired.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP]:192-195[/SUP] He was playing on an instrument in a bad state of repair, and was suffering from a drug problem.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP]:192-195[/SUP] Purportedly, Pepper had not played the saxophone for some time, either for two weeks (according to the liner notes), or six months (according to Pepper's autobiography Straight Life),[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP]:192-195[/SUP] although the discography in Straight Life indicates that Pepper had recorded many sessions in the previous weeks, including one five days earlier.[SUP][[/SUP]
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I recently purchased three DSD downloads from MativDSD dot com of "Jazz At The Pawnshop". I really like the After hours album. The SQ of the DSD 5.6 downloads is off the charts.
 
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