Taylor Swift - Midnights

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:30
Size: 161,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:22) 1. Lavender Haze
(3:38) 2. Maroon
(3:20) 3. Anti-Hero
(4:16) 4. Snow On The Beach
(3:14) 5. You're On Your Own, Kid
(2:54) 6. Midnight Rain
(3:30) 7. Question...?
(2:44) 8. Vigilante Shit
(3:14) 9. Bejeweled
(4:08) 10. Labyrinth
(3:24) 11. Karma
(3:08) 12. Sweet Nothing
(3:11) 13. Mastermind
(4:00) 14. The Great War
(3:38) 15. Bigger Than The Whole Sky
(3:16) 16. Paris
(3:51) 17. High Infidelity
(2:28) 18. Glitch
(4:20) 19. Would've, Could've, Should've
(3:45) 20. Dear Reader

Midnights is the tenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 21, 2022, through Republic Records.

Swift announced the name of each track on the standard edition of the album through TikTok in a series called Midnights Mayhem with Me. Target revealed the name of each track on the lavender edition on October 13. On October 21, after the standard edition of the album came out, Swift announced that an additional seven tracks would be released at 3AM EST, in a digital-exclusive 3AM edition.

On May 24, 2023, Swift announced that there would be two new editions of Midnights released. The deluxe edition of the album, Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition) was released on May 25, 2023, and the Midnights (The Late Night Edition) was released on May 26, 2023 as an on-site exclusive for ticket holders at the East Rutherford shows of The Eras Tour.
https://taylorswift.fandom.com/wiki/Midnights

Midnights

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Irakere - The Best of Irakere

Styles: Latin Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:09
Size: 177,9 MB
Art: Front

( 5:46) 1. Gira gira
( 6:05) 2. Claudia
( 9:20) 3. Ilya
( 6:04) 4. Añunga Ñunga
( 7:49) 5. Ciento años de juventud
( 4:59) 6. Aguanile
(17:39) 7. Misa negra (The Black Mass)
( 5:46) 8. Adagio on a Mozart Theme
( 6:14) 9. Xiomara
( 5:22) 10. Por romper el coco

For Latin jazz fans, this is a succinct and nearly complete roundup of Irakere's two North American albums, a brief peek through Cuba's door before politics slammed it shut again for another generation. Irakere is represented by four tracks, including the lengthy, uncut "Black Mass," and Irakere II by six tracks. The live Irakere was an exciting breakthrough, a real advance in the alliance between Afro-Cuban and American jazz that took into account the electronic developments in music since politics isolated Cuba from the U.S.

Irakere II, a studio product, is not nearly as startling; the sound and arrangements are slicker, there are strings and voices on some cuts, super-trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was encouraged to show off his pretty tone as well as his fire, and the Cubans even tried to churn out a disco beat on some tracks, negating all of those wild, wonderful Afro-Cuban cross rhythms. Still, there are passages where the more commercially motivated grooves take off, as in the central section of "Ciento Anos De Juventud," and "Xiomara" is a killer in the old Cuban tradition.

Interestingly, when Irakere made their belated American comeback at the Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl in 1996, some of their innovative edge was gone, replaced by overt attempts to get the crowd up on their collective feet. All the more reason to cherish this CD which has become the only option one has to sample this Cuban band at or nearly at their peak. By Richard S. Ginell
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-best-of-irakere-mw0000111499

The Best of Irakere

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Martina Dasilva & Dan Chmielinski - Milky Way

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:05
Size: 98,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:13) 1. Twin Flame
(3:37) 2. Just Squeeze Me
(3:46) 3. To Each Their Own
(4:51) 4. Take a Picture of the Moon
(5:35) 5. Life on Mars
(2:02) 6. Manhã De Carnaval
(5:17) 7. It Never Entered My Mind
(5:45) 8. If You Want the Rainbow, You Must Have the Rain
(3:14) 9. On The Sunny Side of the Street
(4:41) 10. My Universe

Jazz vocalist Martina DaSilva, a New York City native, captivates audiences with her signature blend of daring technical virtuosity and expressive emotional sensitivity. Drawing equally from the styles of early jazz, opera, and chamber music, her musicality transcends conventional genre labelling.

As a Brazilian-American, Martina also has a passion for performing the works of Brazilian composers. DaSilva actively performs with her own group in addition to leading the jazz vocal harmony group, The Ladybugs. Martina has received high praise for her performances at the Kennedy Center, the Bern International Jazz Festival, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, the NYC Hot Jazz Festival, Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Generations in Jazz Festival, and the NY Winter Jazzfest.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/martina-dasilva/

Milky Way

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Terry Gibbs Legacy Band - The Terry Gibbs Songbook

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:52
Size: 167,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:58) 1. Let's Go to Rio
(4:33) 2. Those Eyes, Those Lips, That Nose, That Face, That Girl
(5:08) 3. I Was Loved
(5:54) 4. Now's the Time to Groove
(4:10) 5. The House That Might Have Been
(4:27) 6. Nina
(4:47) 7. I Can Hardly Wait for Saturday Night
(5:02) 8. If I Were You
(3:18) 9. Play and Sing
(4:27) 10. Lonely Days
(4:57) 11. And That's Why They Call It the Blues
(4:33) 12. Say Goodbye
(5:53) 13. Stay with Me Tonight
(3:58) 14. If I Knew Then
(5:41) 15. Sweet Young Song of Love

Legacy Band? At age ninety-eight, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs the last remaining member of a legendary group of jazz musicians who defined the big-band era in America and helped expand and sharpen the music's vocabulary hasn't finished writing his own legacy, which is why this album is subtitled "The Terry Gibbs Songbook."

Although best known as a player, Gibbs, as it turns out, is a splendid composer as well, and wrote every one of the album's fifteen songs, adding lyrics to a couple, with verses elsewhere courtesy of Michael Dees, Arthur Hamilton, Bobby Troup, Steve Allen and Jerry Gladstone. He even sings (in his own sweet way) and plays two-finger piano on the well-named "Now's the Time to Groove." As no lyricist is named on the ballad "If I Knew Then," the presumption is that Gibbs wrote both music and lyrics to that one.

Speaking of vocalists, Danny Bacher is the main man here, and he proves an admirable fit, giving every lyric its due and sparring playfully with Gibbs on "Now's the Time." When Bacher isn't holding court, the tunes are in the capable hands of the six-member Legacy Band, trimly anchored by Gibbs' son, drummer Gerry, with the marvelous Tom Ranier on piano, Mike Gurrola on bass and a superlative two-tenor front line consisting of Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen (whose solos are unlisted but essentially interchangeable).

As for the elder Gibbs' themes, they are bright and pleasing with an emphasis on soulfulness and emotion and a handful ("Let's Go to Rio," "And That's Why They Call It the Blues," "Stay with Me Tonight," "Sweet Young Song of Love") that stand out among the herd. That's not to say that anything else is less than engaging, as each one of Gibbs' songs has a temperament and charm of its own, and his ballads are well worth one's time and awareness.

As Terry Gibbs explains in his liner notes, he never intended that an album of his music should be recorded; he simply wanted to hear one of the songs he had written while in his nineties performed by professional musicians. But after sending a copy to lyricist Alan Bergman, he writes, one thing led to another...and now fifteen of his more than two hundred compositions have been recorded by the Legacy Band. While Gibbs calls that "a fluke," most listeners would call it a stroke of good fortune. Legacy or no, these songs deserve to be heard, and Terry Gibbs' stature as a jazz legend has grown even larger because of them.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-terry-gibbs-songbook-terry-gibbs-legacy-band-whaling-city-sound__8441

Personnel: Scott Hamilton: saxophone, tenor; Harry Allen: saxophone; Tom Ranier: piano; Danny Bacher: voice / vocals; Mike Gurrola: bass; Gerry Gibbs: drums.

The Terry Gibbs Songbook

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