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From: "HDtracks Press" < To: "[email protected]" :[email protected]> Subject: HDTRACKS PRESENTS TWO OF THE GREATEST LIVE RECORDINGS EVER MADE NOW AVAILABLE IN HI RES Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:24:27 +0000 HDtracks is proud to present two of the greatest live recordings of all time, available for the first time in 88.2kHz/24bit and 96kHz/24bit. Experience these legendary performances with startlingly new sonic clarity. For the first time ever, Sam Cooke's legendary 1964 performance at the Copa and Keith Jarrett's Koin Concert are available as high definition recordings! Featured Albums "It doesn't get any better than this: THE seminal R&B crossover artist performing a milestone gig. This is history, folks, a perfect live recording that happens to sound as good as any so-called audiophile release that I've ever heard." —Ken Kessler, Hi-Fi News, & Record Review Sam Cookc At the Copa (NEW 88.2kHz/24bit) "This is one of my all-time favorite albums" Sam Cooke —Al Schmitt, producer and 7-time Grammy® ABKCO winner Recorded on July 7th and 8th, 1964, this is quite simply one of the finest soul performances ever captured on tape. Cooke's golden croon is as versatile and nuanced an instrument as any saxophone or guitar, careening through rapid scalar passages, mournful cries and delicate vibrato. The recording, available for the first time in high res 88.2kHzi24bit, is absolutely astounding—every horn is audible, every drum hit startlingly crisp. This is less a record than it is a supremely recorded all-encompassing experience. An absolutely essential addition to any audiophile collection (or music collection in general), Live at the Copa is a document of one of the greatest soul vocalists of all time delivering a once-in-a-lifetime performance. The best-selling solo jazz album in history—now in 96kHz/24bit "The album is not so much masterpiece as masterwork: art as a process that forever EFTA00779960 Gr remains in the present." —Corinna da Fonseca- Wollheim, Wall Street Journal The Koln Concert (NEW 96kHz/24bit) "A work of genius" - Record Collector Keith Jarrett ECM The most successful solo jazz album of all time, The Koln Concert is an awe-inspiring work of improvisation and invention. Consisting of four tracks that together comprise over an how of music, the performance is an apt demonstration of Jarrett's genius as a piano player and conceptualist. It features one of the greatest series of free improvisations ever caught on tape—endlessly imaginative and absolutely mesmerizing. Released for the first time in breathtaking 96kHz/24bit, the performance takes on an entirely new dimension—one that places you immediately before Jarrett's phenomenal keyboard displays of virtuosity and gives additional resonance to every struck note. New 96kHz/24bit titles from 2L and Reference Records' new FRESH! label Nidaros (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Radiant Blue (NEW 96kHz/24bit) Nidaros Cathedral Choir Anton Schwartz 2L FRESH! Led by musical director Vivianne Sydnes, "Schwartz blows with a warm, fluid tone, and Nidaros Cathedral Choir invites you to enjoy the great economy... his decisions all sound right... wonderful ambience of the Nidaros Cathedral. A This ensemble shines.... The music bins are full spectacular audiophile experience, this album of bluely jazz albums; this one brims with truly brings out the reverberations of this optimism and intelligence."- Ed Kopp, magnificent space. The forty-person choir has JAZZJZ Magazine commissioned a number of new choral works during the last decade and Nidams is comprised The music on this brilliant audiophile jazz album mostly of these (most of which have not is an exploration of the blues form as it applies to previously been recorded). The repertoire spans different improvisational styles. The from music composed for national events, compositions run the gamut from straight ahead concerts, and religious services. jazz to New Orleans second line to Afro-samba, angular funk, relaxed swing, feel-good South African, and greasy shuffles. The result is a delightfully varied listen marked by top-notch musicianship and plenty of soul. New 88.2kHz/24bit and 96kHz/24bit titles from Channel Classics and Fonl Records EFTA00779961 LlaysUS Beethoven Concerto No 2 (NEW Astor Piarolla — Oblivion (NEW 96kHz/24bit) 88.2kHz./24bit) Salvatore Accardo I Orchestra Da Camera Italian Dejan Lazic Astor Piazzolla Channel Classics FOlle Records "a brilliant pianist and a gifted musician full Another in Fone Records' presentation of the of ideas and able to project them great Astor Piazzolla's work, this remarkable CD, persuasively."—Gramophone masterfully recorded with startling clarity, explores nine of the Argentinean composer's On this fantastic hi-resolution recording, shorter pieces. With master violinist Salvatore internationally acclaimed pianist Dejan Lazic Accardo (widely regarded as one of the greatest performs piano works by two of the most living violin virtuosos) taking the helm, the important figures of Western Music: Haydn and Orchestra da Camera Italiana breathes new life Beethoven. Haydn's piano sonatas sparkle with into these already invigorating masterworks. wit and his ear for musical jokes (as well as his uncanny genius for melody and variation). Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, op. 19 shows the young, but already revolutionary composer's stormy, emotional writing and structural brilliance. Jazz from ECM The Ruh And Spare Cligogg And if Michael Formanek Anal Fort Trio "This is a smart and bracing ECM debut, and "Anat Fort is a daring pianist-composer whose an album not for the lightheaded."—Josef inventive way with tunes and time suggests a Woodard, Jazz Times huge talent in the making. And she understands the importance of a good working The ECM debut for Michael Formanek, whose trio, which is why hers is so cohesive."—K. formidable bass has propelled groups from the Leander Williams, Time Out New York Mingus Big Band to Tim Beme's Bloodcount and has backed artists as diverse as Chet Baker and On this beautiful trio recording, the cerebral and Elvis Costello. A bandleader and composer in his sublime find equal footing. The music is imbued own right, he is heard here with some highly- with an Impressionist quality: the instrumentalists talented colleagues in an outgoing programme of seem to delight in creating dreamlike clouds of his own pieces, whose unorthodox constructions texture and interplay. The Israeli pianist made a set up strong solos and fiery group interaction. lot of friends with her widely-praised ECM debut EFTA00779962  A Long Story in 2007, and this new disc, with her regular working band, will make some more. Classic Albums from Sun Records Million Sellers - Sun's Gold Hits Vol. Jerry Lee's Greatest (96kHzJ24bit) (96kti7/24bi0 Jerry Lee Lewis Various Artists This week only- V% oeff this title This week onlyi2rAsuiddlifile Jerry Lee's second album for Sun Records Originally released in 1960, Million Sellers was a features one of rock and roll's all-time greatest reminder of Sun's crucial importance to country, recordings: "Great Balls Of Fire." The single, rockabilly, and rock and roll. Jerry Lee Lewis, charged with controversial sexual undertones, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and others are manic piano-playing, and Lewis' quirky tenor, featured on twelve of early rock and roll's biggest made the already famous wild-man of rock a and most influential hits. With remasters of songs superstar. Greatest also features a number of that changed the course of rock-and-roll (Lewis' covers performed as only Lewis could pull them "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On;" Perkins' "Blue off, including Barrett Strong's "Money," and Ray Suede Shoes"), this first-time high resolution Charles' "What'd I Say." Essential listening. release tnily brings out the sense of depth of these phenomenal performances and immerses you in studio of the legendary Sun Records. All Aboard the Blue Train (96kHzJ24bit) The Memphis Sessions (96kHz/24bit) Johnny Cash Howlin' Wolf iltratieds/a2radf-thilliag One of Johnny Cash's landmark Sun Records Sam Phillips called Nowlin' Wolf his greatest albums, All Aboard the Blue Train features the discovery, ahead of Elvis Presley. The tracks classics "Folsom Prison Blues," "Give My Love included here were recorded by Phillips from to Rose," and "Wreck of the Old '97." Bob December, 1951 to October, 1952. None arc less EFTA00779963 Dylan told Rolling Stone in 2009, "I tell people if than brilliant. They showcase Howlin' Wolf's they are interested that they should listen to menacing delivery in his unique approach to the Johnny on his Sun records (of the 1950s) and blues. His gruff vocals and harp are perfectly reject all that notorious low-grade stuff he did in complemented by the distorted, overdriven guitar his later years. It can't hold a candlelight to the of Willie Johnson and the force of Willie Steele's frightening depth of the man that you hear on his drums. Add various piano pounders such as L.C. early records. That's the only way he should be Hubert, Ike Turner, and Albert Williams, with the remembered." occasional horn section at the ready, and you have some of the most emotionally charged music ever recorded. Classic Film Music for Thanksgiving weekend The Essential James Bond Music From The Harry Pot cr Films John Barry I City Of Prague Philharmonic City Of Prague Philharmonic I James Fitzpatrick What better way to bring in Thanksgiving (and its With the seventh installment of the blockbuster decadent TV marathons) than with some of the Harry Potter series in theatres, it's a great time to greatest, most iconic film music ever written. explore John Williams' magical, masterful John Barry's James Bond scores are bombastic orchestral scores. Few film composers come to masterpieces that epitomize cool. The Prague close to Williams' brilliance and stature and Philharmonic, conducted by Nic Raine, a former hearing these fantastic scores separated from the collaborator of Barry's, gives a fantastic films truly makes you realize the psychological performance of Bond film cues, which include and narrative impact that his music makes on the themes from Dr. No, Diamonds Are Forever, highest grossing film series of all time. Goldfinger, and more. This Thanksgiving, hear the DifferenceAND Make a Difference! Last chance to take advantage of this offer! You'll save 10% off your entire purchase of anything in our catalog and HDTracks.com will also donate an additional 10% of your total purchase to help support music people who've fallen on hard times, need help recovering from natural disasters, are in need of medical treatment or addiction recovery resources, and so much more through the music industry's most important safety-net charity, MusiCares®! You'll save 10%, and MusiCares® will get an additional 10% when you use the discount code naras, now through midnight November 30, 2010. Hidden Treasures A new section of our newsletter devoted to interesting music off the beaten path from the depths of the HDtracks collection. EFTA00779964 Time Changes Galactic Mandolin Mark Dresser I Denman Maroncy Radim Zenkl "Time Changes features an enigmatic mix of "...a rising young mandolin talent. Open up reflective lyricism, edgy improv and wry your mind and ears and give a listen."—David swing."—Mark Keresman, All About Jazz Crisman Mark Dresser has recorded with Ray Anderson, Over the course of these 13 remarkable tracks, Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, John Zorn and Radim Zenki redefines the possibilities of solo countless others. As a composer and bassist, his mandolin playing. The music ranges from innovations and contributions to the evolution of exhilarating ragtime to meditative minimalist jazz arc legendary. On Time Changes, he musings that recall Philip Glass and Steve Reich; collaborates with pianist Denman Maroncy, Eastern European folk music to experimental drummer Michael Sarin, and vocalist Alexandra classical and 40s Swing. Fans ofnew acoustic Montano to create a recording of unbridled depth music, Django-style gypsy-jazz, bluegrass, folk, and beauty. and classical will absolutely love this astounding display of virtuosity and innovation. HDtracks' #1 Best Seller of the Week Featured Album Winner of the 2004 Grammy® Awards for: • Record of the Year • Album of the Year • Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) • Best Gospel Performance • Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals • Best Pop Vocal Album Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical • Best Surround Sound Album Genius Loves CommyJNEW 96kHz/24bit) Ray Charles Genius Loves Company stands as a remarkable hallmark in a legendary career. A twelve-time Grammy® Award-winner and an original inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ray Charles, who has appeared on more than 250 recordings, is a true titan of 20th century music. On the multiple Grammy®-winning Genius Loves Company, Ray sings a dozen duets with a dazzling array of guest artists from virtually every genre, who have won a combined 79 Grammy® Awards, including Elton John, Van Morrison, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Diana Krall, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt, and more. In addition to the extraordinary music, the album is an audiophile's dream. The first ever recipient of the Best Surround Sound Album category, the record features production credits by some of the industry's greatest (John Burk, Terry Howard, Phil Ramone, and Ed Thacker to name a few) and truly astonishing sonic engineering by Al Schmitt, Robert Hadley, Doug Sax, and more. Presented here in 96kHz/24bit, this already spectacular album takes on an entirely new level of clarity and nuance. 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