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Vienna Art Orchestra - Concerto Piccolo (1980)

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Vienna Art Orchestra - Concerto Piccolo (1980)

Vienna Art Orchestra - Concerto Piccolo (1980)
EAC | APE | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included | 01:04:34
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band, Creative Orchestra | Label: Hat ART | # hat ART CD 6038

Recorded live at the Zurich Jazz Festival in 1980, this was America's first taste of the wild abandon that is the Vienna Art Orchestra and expatriate Lauren Newton's glorious vocal instrument. This is a 13-piece big band led by the beautifully weird compositional, instructional, and arranging craziness of Mathias Rüegg. They trash and revere all traditions – both historical and avant-garde at the same time – while using them both along with carnival and circus music, classical forms and fugues, and French salon music. They swing here like a Mingus big band playing "Jelly Roll, But Mingus Rolls Better," with soloists who could care less what the ensemble chart says and vice versa. Newton, mixed high above the prattle, soars with the intensity of a pianist while blowing Jon Hendricks away at his own game. The fun really begins when the ensemble changes tempos two or three times and sections play against each other as in "Concerto Piccolo," even if begun by the lilting line of the title's instrument.

Vienna Art Orchestra - All That Strauss (2000)

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Vienna Art Orchestra - All That Strauss (2000)

Vienna Art Orchestra - All That Strauss (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 482 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 196 Mb | Scans included
Experimental Big Band, Creative Orchestra | Label: TCB | # 20052 | Time: 01:13:58

From Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin to Mahler and Bartok, European classical music has been a source of inspiration to numerous jazz musicians. The 19th Century compositions of the Strauss family are the subject of All That Strauss, which documents a New Year's 2000 concert by the Vienna Art Orchestra–one of Europe's most adventurous big bands. It is quite appropriate that this Strauss tribute concert was performed in Vienna and that the orchestra has Vienna in its name; for many classical greats have lived in Austria's largest city, including Johann and Eduard Strauss. While the Vienna Art Orchestra's love of the Strauss legacy is obvious, the band doesn't treat its compositions like museum pieces. Instead, time-honored compositions like "Donauwalzer," "Albion Polka," "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien" and "Lagunen Walzer" are given serious jazz makeovers, and arranger Mathias Rüegg sees to it that the orchestra takes a lot of chances with the material.

Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism of Erik Satie (1989)

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Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism of Erik Satie (1989)

Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism of Erik Satie (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 275 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans included
Experimental Big Band, Creative Orchestra | Label: Hat Hut | # hat ART CD 6024 | 01:15:11

Mathias Rüegg's Vienna Art Orchestra had always been an eclectic bunch, working in the odd jazz or classical cover into its repertoire with some regularity, but for this release, the ensemble went whole hog, leaping into the oeuvre of that grandfather of minimalism, Erik Satie. Originally issued as a two-LP set, every track (save one evocative Gil Evans-y piece by Rüegg) is a Satie composition rearranged, often brilliantly, and generally highlighting two or three individual VAO members. This reductionist technique serves the band well, as it has often had a tendency toward weighty ponderousness. Here, the arrangements are light and linear, affording a supple but transparent platform for the soloists, who are clearly encouraged to venture out into jazzy territory.

Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling (2020)

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Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling (2020)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 417 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | 01:10:54
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Strut Records

The planets align as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, are releasing their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling’.

Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra - Dream Keeper (1990)

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Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra - Dream Keeper (1990)

Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra - Dream Keeper (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 258 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 116 Mb | Scans included
Label: Polydor/Polygram Jazz | # 847 876-2 | Time: 00:48:42
Experimental Big Band, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz

Dream Keeper is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden that was recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy award and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critic's poll. Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively. The album is the third studio recording by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to their 1983 The Ballad of the Fallen.

Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Expanded & Remastered) (1979/2021)

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Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Expanded & Remastered) (1979/2021)

Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Expanded & Remastered) (1979/2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 198 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 82 Mb | 00:35:28
Avant-Garde Jazz, Cosmic Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Enterplanetary Koncepts

Sun Ra, as well as anyone, proved that an artist could change with the times without being a dedicated follower of fashion. In fact, Ra and his music never stopped evolving. A series of albums recorded from 1978 to 1980—Lanquidity, On Jupiter, Sleeping Beauty, and Strange Celestial Road—demonstrate the influence on Ra of musical and production trends of the mid- and late-1970s, especially heavy, studio-enhanced dance floor grooves (traceable from soul and funk to disco), and atmospheric New Age "dream" pieces. But Ra never fully surrendered to these trends; it's arguable that he even embraced them. He adapted techniques, but what he created amounted more to reinventions than "File Under" genre works.

Sun Ra - Of Abstract Dreams (2018)

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Sun Ra - Of Abstract Dreams (2018)

Sun Ra - Of Abstract Dreams (2018)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:39:15 | 171 Mb
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Strut Records

Strut and Art Yard present another exclusive from the vast catalogue of cosmic jazz pioneer Sun Ra: a previously unreleased radio session most likely recorded at the WXPN FM radio studios in Philadelphia, 1974-5.

Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (2008) [Re-Up]

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Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (2008) [Re-Up]

Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 424 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Scans included | 01:05:11
Modern Creative, Experimental Big Band, Jazz-Rock, Fusion | Label: Tzadik | # TZ 8122

With groups like Sex Mob, Millennial Territory Orchestra and Diaspora Soul, Steven Bernstein is energizing the downtown scene with a passionate and indefatigable creativity. His brilliance continues with Diaspora Suite, the fourth installment in his Diaspora series for Tzadik and perhaps the best! Twelve original compositions exploring the Jewish tradition are brilliantly performed by a nonet of California musicians including Ben Goldberg, Peter Apfelbaum and several key players from his legendary band the Hieroglyphics. Channeling Miles Davis, Gil Evans and the Sephardic traditions of Darkness and Light, this is fabulous new Jewish music by one of the most talented and charismatic figures in the downtown scene.

Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) (1978/2021)

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Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) (1978/2021)

Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) (1978/2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 514 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 210 Mb | 01:31:26
Soul Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Strut Records

Strut present the definitive edition of Sun Ra’s classic ‘Lanquidity’ album from 1978 with brand new 4LP box set and 2CD editions, featuring the widely distributed version of the album alongside alternative mixes by Bob Blank originally released in limited quantities for a 1978 Arkestra gig at Georgia Tech. Both versions of the album are cut loud at 45 rpm over 2LPs each.

Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)

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Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)

Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 113 Mb | 00:48:12
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Modern Harmonic

Celestial Love contains recordings made in September 1982 at New York's Variety Studios, which had hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since the late 1960s. This was one of the last extended sessions at Variety, and these recordings were the last studio works released on Sun Ra's own Saturn label (though the label did continue to press concert recordings, and new studio recordings did appear on other labels). Aside from their inclusion on Celestial Love, tracks from these sessions landed on the albums A Fireside Chat With Lucifer and Nuclear War. Since Nuclear War's contents overlapped with both Fireside Chat and Celestial Love, we have reconstituted the latter two as complete albums, thus covering all titles from these Variety dates.

Sun Ra And His Astro-Galactic-Infinity-Arkestra - Dark Myth Equation Visitation (2020)

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Sun Ra And His Astro-Galactic-Infinity-Arkestra - Dark Myth Equation Visitation (2020)

Sun Ra And His Astro-Galactic-Infinity-Arkestra - Dark Myth Equation Visitation (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 Mb | 00:40:38
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Strut Records

Following on immediately, Dark Myth Visitation Equation might be better known to some as Sun Ra In Egypt Vol.1 or alternatively, Nature's God. It's an album based in part on a Cairo TV broadcast, and the general tone of the record tends to eschew electronics in favour of the Arkestra's more conventional cosmic shuffle. Finishing off the album is the highly surreal 'Why Go To The Moon?', Sun Ra's equivalent of a three-minute pop song, drawing on a weird gospel feel and the usual interplanetary subject matter.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Unity: Live at Storyville NYC Oct 1977 (2020)

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Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Unity: Live at Storyville NYC Oct 1977 (2020)

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Unity Live at Storyville NYC Oct 1977 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 503 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 195 Mb | 01:25:00
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Sun Ra Music

Recorded live at Storyville jazz club, New York, October 24 & 29, 1977. Quite simply one of Sun Ra's best live albums. This rare recording (originally on Horo records) finds Ra, along with a 19-piece Arkestra, playing a mix of his own compositions ('Images' and 'Lights') along with several jazz standards (including Jelly Roll Morton's 'King Porter Stomp' and Duke Ellington's 'Lightnin''). While Ra's own compositions were usually more avant-garde affairs, he always revelled in playing the classics as well in an effort to give his audience a lesson in jazz history."

Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords (2020)

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Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords (2020)

Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 508 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 226 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:36:04
Jazz, Post-Bop, Experimental Big Band | Label: ArtistShare

NEA Jazz Master Maria Schneider creates music that critics describe as “heartstoppingly gorgeous and beyond categorization.” With her orchestra, she introduces her bold new piece, Data Lords, which explores life simultaneously being lived through the natural and digital worlds.

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Faces of Souls (2020)

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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Faces of Souls (2020)

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Faces of Souls (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 295 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | 01:10:16
Experimental Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Leo Records

This is the tenth CD by the 20-piece strong Aardvark Jazz Orchestra for Leo Records. Now in its 48th season, it's one of the longest continuously operating jazz orchestras in the world which is an incredible achievement of Mark Harvey, founder, music director, conductor, composer and a trumpet player. The music by Mark Harvey is grounded in large-scale structures that allow for solo and ensemble improvisation while cross-referencing textures, cordal and corale complexes, and rhythmic motifs. The spirit of Charles Ives hover over all of this, as elements emerge, merge, then fade away, as the tangible becomes intangible.

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (2020)

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Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (2020)

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 434.16 Mb | 01:05:29 | Cover
Experimental Big Band | Label: Odin Records (Norway) - ODIN 9572

Fasten your seat belt, please. Get ready for the full tilt, barely tamed, beautiful monster that is Gard Nilssen’s sixteen-piece Supersonic Orchestra. Audacious and experimentalist, like everything the Norwegian drummer and composer touches, Supersonic flouts convention and, in particular, realigns the longstanding relationship between pre-composition and improvisation in orchestral jazz. If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours, its debut, was recorded live at the adventurous Molde International Jazz Festival in 2019, where Nilssen was Artist in Residence. The band’s uniquely configured, all-star lineup features three drummers, three double bassists and ten horn players, most of them saxophonists. It is a big band, Jim, but not as we know it.