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From: "HDtracks Press" To: "jeevacation@gmail.com" leevacation@gmail.com> Subject: HDtracks presents legendary hits in stunning high-res! Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:41:12 +0000 HDtracks is proud to usher in the Holiday season with Diana Krall's Christmas Songs and John Coltrane's classic Ballads, both in stunning 96kHz/24bit. Featured Albums "...a smoky, sophisticated, and slightly melancholy album perfectly suited to accompany egg nog cocktails and romantic afterglow holiday affairs." -Matt Collar, Allmusic.com Christmas Sangs_04EW 96k1-17/24bit) Diana Krall Co-produced by Krall, with Grammy® award winning producer Tommy LiPuma, Christmas Songs finds the velvety-voiced singer backed by the all-star team of arranger/bassist John Clayton (Count Basic, Duke Ellington), guitarist Anthony Wilson (Chris Botti, Michael Buble), drummer Jeff Hamilton (Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole) and bassist Bob Hurst (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live) for a warming set of seasonal standards. Also included are previously released versions of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Christmas Time Is Here" with a band that includes legendary guitarist Russell Malone. The perfect stocking stuffcr for the holiday season. A classic album by one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. "Falling in love music." -Murray Honvitz, NPR EFTA00780014 Ballads (NEW 96kHz/24bit) John Coltrane A breathtaking album by the single most influential saxophone player (and perhaps jazz artist) in history. By the time ofBallads' original 1962 release, Coltrane had already helped to redefine jazz several times, pushing the boundaries of the art form and earning a reputation as one of the music's most adventurous voices. Ballads, featuring his stellar quartet of McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison, finds Coltrane at his most pensive and lyrical. The result is one of the great jazz albums of the 20th Century. Absolutely essential. New Classical and Vocal Releases in 96kHz/24bit harri rgkzaNEW 96kHz/24bitl Gentlemen of the Chapel Roy NEW Sigmund Groven I Iver Kleive 96047/24bift 2L Peter Dijkstra I The Gents Channel Classics "Sigmund Groven...now unquestionably reigns supreme as one of the finest exponents of the "...A choir to watch." -Gramophone harmonica in the world." - Sir George Martin The acclaimed choral group The Gents This fantastic and unusual audiophile release masterfully explore the sacred and secular music pairs harmonica and organ, the world's smallest of the Elizabethan era in an absolutely and the world's largest musical instruments, in breathtaking album of choral music. stunning baroque pieces and Norwegian folk music. 1 Musici - Concerts and Follies in Pergolesi's time Slattar pa tungL(NEW 96kHzJ24bit) for the 300th anniversary (NEW Bait Opheim Versto 96IcHz/24bit) 2L Giulio Cesare Ricci Fone "...you are in for a treat no doubt." - Audiophile Audition To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the great Italian composer Pergolesi, master producer On this fantastic vocal album, singer Bcrit Giulio Cesare Ricci programs not Pergolesi's Ophcim Versto uses wordless vocals to interpret music, but rather selections by his complex instrumental lines and create a contemporaries: Vivaldi, Durante, and Geminiani. breathtaking sonic world unlike any you've The musicians attack the oft-performed experienced. If you enjoy vocalists like Bobby masterpieces with staggering new intensity in McFerrin or great scat singering groups like these remarkable performances. Manhattan Transfer, you're going to absolutely love this. EFTA00780015 The very best of Sam Cooke: Portrait of a Legend 31 timeless classics by one ofthe greatest songwriters and soul singers ofall time, including "What A Wonderful World," "Chain Gang," "You Send Me," "A Change Is Gonna Come," and "Cupid" Over an hour and twenty minutes worth of music! Click here fur specialpricc Portrait of a Legend (NEW 88.2kHz/24bit) Sam Cooke ABKCO "The sound quality is, arguably, as close to what Sam Cooke and his fellow musicians heard when the engineer pressed the 'playback' button for the first time after those original sessions." -Jody Klein, restoration producerfor The Sam Cooke Remastetrd Collection. Sam Cooke: Portrait OfA Legend provides a major overview of a career that has left an everlasting mark on American music. A diligent quality assurance program coupled with painstaking research and the most advanced digital-to-analog transfer and mastering technologies were employed in producing this spectacular collection. The result is nothing less than extraordinarily authentic. Jazz from ECM and Reference Record's new FRESH! label Lt. Purcor The Slow Lane Trygve Seim I Andreas Utncm Anton Schwartz On this intensely melodic ECM release, the The second album by San Francisco-based saxophone/piano duo of Seim and Utnem display saxophonist Anton Schwartz is a soothing blend an almost telepathic connection during of soulful ballads, mid-tempo West Coast improvisations on psalms ("Kyrie," "Agnus Dci") grooves, and blues-twinged instrumentals. and quiet original compositions. 88.2kHz/24bit from Chandos EFTA00780016 Gr Hoist. Orchestral Works, Vol I ($8 2kHz/24bift rad Orff Carmina Burana ($8 2kHzl24bit) BBC National Orchestra Of Wales I Richard Richard Hickox I London Sinfonietta I London Hickox I Joyful Company Of Singers Symphony Orchestra I Tiffin Boys' Choir ThisirskinbarAggiallililig This week ordy 20% off of this titlq The Planets is a well-known masterpiece, but Richard Hickox conducts Carl Orff's immensely much of Hoist's orchestral output is unjustly popular dramatic cantata Carmina Baratta. The neglected. This fantastic audiophile release with scorn's combination of glorious vulgarity conductor Richard Hickox illuminates the interspersed with moments of genuine beauty has composer's brilliant, but oft-neglected orchestral assured it an unquestionable position as one of work, making for a gorgeous and invigorating the most popular of all twentieth-century choral listen. works. Rock 2 Angel In The Dark Hits Laura Nyro The Birthday Party A heartfelt and beautifully crafted set of songs by "...they roar, howl, and rail like a preacher on one of the great artists of our time, this album fire, relishing the ecstasy in the agony..." — features many of New York's best musicians, Entertainment Weekly including saxophonist Michael Brecker and trumpet player Randy Brecker. Jazzy, intimate, Leader Nick Cave would go on to an award- and impossibly soulful, fans of Nora Jones, Joni riddled, wildly influential career, but the Mitchell, and the great singer/songwriters will psychedelic sounds of The Birthday Party still love this. continue to enjoy an ever-growing, cult-like following. More Holiday favorites EFTA00780017 The Alligstor Records Christsnoi Pennine Houscrockins Christmas carla's Christmas Carols Collection Various Artists Carla Bley Various Artists Sixteen slices of holiday blues This ECM release features Bluesy holiday gems by Koko from Alligator's top artists, gorgeous instrumental Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Charlie guaranteed to give you a blue, blue holiday arrangements of Musselwhite, Lonnie Brooks, Christmas! Including Koko Taylor, traditional and non- Kenny Neal, Charles Brown, and Lonnie Brooks, Marcia Ball, Little traditional Christmas carols more. Charlie, Lil' Ed and many others. by master composcriananger Carla Bley. MAXJAZZ Holiday Dallas Christmas Gala Sweet Songs of' Christmas Various Artists Ott 7O17/24bit) Canadian Brass Dallas Symphony Orchestra I The MAXJAZZ Holiday Andrew Litton Fantastic brass Collection features vocalists Carla arrangements of timeless Cook, LaVeme Butler, Rene Marie, The beloved carols featured on this Christmas songs by Christine Hitt, Phillip Manuel, orchestral disc offer the listener a Canadian Brass, who have Mary Stallings and pianist Bruce perfect seasonal journey from the been bringing the joy of Barth performing new sacred to the secular. Included on Christmas to their audiences arrangements of holiday favorites. this seasonal celebration arc: and fans for over thirty "White Christmas, Sleigh Ride, years. The Holly and the Ivy" and many more. Hidden Treasures A new section of our newsletter devoted to interesting music off the beaten path from the depths of the HDtracks collection. Immortal Memory Chinary Ung: Seven Mirrors Patrick Cassidy I Lisa Gerrard La Jolla Symphony Orchestra "Huge, awesome, tear-stinging stuff....Epie, The work of Cambodian-American composer exhilarating, extraordinary." — Mojo Chinary Ung is resplendent with lush romantic harmonies, rhythmic complexities, and lyrical This epic and dreamlike orchestral album is melodic passages that draw on the Impressionism firmly rooted in the classical mystic soil of of Debussy. A breathtaking orchestral album. Gorecki and Handel, but its combination of Gaelic and Latin lyrics with dark, churning EFTA00780018 textures creates a completely unique and surreal sonic world. HDtracks' #1 Best Seller of the Week 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 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 hour 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 96kHz124bit, 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. Best Sellers Genius Loves Company_thIEW Sam Cooke At the Copa_usW.W J)amn The Torpedoes 88.2kHz/24bit) 88.2kHz/24bit) (Deluxe Edition)JNEW Ray Charles Sam Cooke 96kHz/24bit) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers HDtracks' #1 Best Seller of the Month Special Edition / Paul McCartney & Wings' GRAMMY® award winning Band on the Run, in high-resolution 96-kHz124-bit audio. The HDtracks download includes nine bonus tracks, with a total of 35 minutes of music not found on the original album. HDtracks give you two choices: I) The original album mastered in 96/24 2) The newly =mastered Band on the Run in 96/24 with moN( dynamic range compression. EFTA00780019 Rand on the Run (NEW 96kHz/24bi0 fikk here for Special Price! 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(96kHz/24bit) (96kHz/24bit) Albert King I Stevie Ray Johnny Cash The Kinks Vaughan EFTA00780021 o.a, Where The Wild ThingsAz Night Train (96kH7/24b1fl FIla and Louis (96kH7/24bit) (26kH7J24bit) Oscar Peterson Louis Armstrong I Ella Steve Vai Fitzgerald Children's Holiday Corner The Snowbcars of Lake Louise Quiet Time Classical Cats - A Ralf' Childmn's Introduction To A fun musical CD and illustrated The Orchestra book about the environment. A mix of traditional songs like Various Artists "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and click here for special pricy original children's compositions. "...superbly recorded Perfect for naptime or just winding music that will keep down with your child. children's attention..."- Stereophile click here for special prig Specials of the Week The Specials of the Week page has been updated recently with all new titles. In this section we are offering 20% discounts on select titles from your favorite artists and labels. 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