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    https://sophisticatedspectra.com/article/drosia-serenity-a-modern-oasis-in-the-heart-of-larnaca.2521391.html

    DROSIA SERENITY
    A Premium Residential Project in the Heart of Drosia, Larnaca

    ONLY TWO FLATS REMAIN!

    Modern and impressive architectural design with high-quality finishes Spacious 2-bedroom apartments with two verandas and smart layouts Penthouse units with private rooftop gardens of up to 63 m² Private covered parking for each apartment Exceptionally quiet location just 5–8 minutes from the marina, Finikoudes Beach, Metropolis Mall, and city center Quick access to all major routes and the highway Boutique-style building with only 8 apartments High-spec technical features including A/C provisions, solar water heater, and photovoltaic system setup.
    Drosia Serenity is not only an architectural gem but also a highly attractive investment opportunity. Located in the desirable residential area of Drosia, Larnaca, this modern development offers 5–7% annual rental yield, making it an ideal choice for investors seeking stable and lucrative returns in Cyprus' dynamic real estate market. Feel free to check the location on Google Maps.
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    Jorge Ben - Salve Jorge! (2009) 15CD Box Set

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    Jorge Ben - Salve Jorge! (2009) 15CD Box Set

    Jorge Ben - Salve Jorge! (2009) 15CD Box Set
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 4.31 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.57 Gb
    Label: Universal Music Brazil | Time: 10:15:41 | Complete Scans
    MPB, Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz, Samba Jazz, Samba Rock, Tropicalia, Funk

    An amazing collection – every single Jorge Ben album recorded for Philips – one hell of a massive legacy in music, packaged here with a bonus CD of rare material too! The albums in the collection are the stuff of legend – amazing discs that forever changed the face of Brazilian music with Jorge's unique blend of samba and soul, plus a touch of funk as the 70s came on – and together, the music is a mindblowingly heavy batch of work that few other artists could ever match! Titles include Samba Esquema Novo, Sacudin Ben Samba, Ben E Samba Bon, Big Ben, Jorge Ben (1969), Forca Bruta, Negro E Lindo, Ben, 10 Anos Depois, A Tabua De Esmeralda, Solta O Pavao, Gil E Jorge, and Africa Brasil. Rarities disc is unique to this set, from what we can tell – and is filled with goodies too!

    David Sanborn - Albums Collection 1976-1982 (6CD) [Japanese Remastered 2013-2014]

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    David Sanborn - Albums Collection 1976-1982 (6CD) [Japanese Remastered 2013-2014]

    David Sanborn - Albums Collection 1976-1982 (6CD) [Japanese Remastered 2013-2014]
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.55 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 694 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Funk, Smooth Jazz | Time: 03:44:46

    David William Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school. One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since the 1980s, Sanborn is described by critic Scott Yannow as "the most influential saxophonist on pop, R&B, and crossover players of the past 20 years." He is often identified with radio-friendly smooth jazz, but he has expressed a disinclination for the genre and his association with it. Collection includes: Sanborn (1976); Promise Me The Moon (1977); Heart To Heart (1978); Hideaway (1980); Voyeur (1981); As We Speak (1982).

    The Jazz Crusaders - Happy Again (1995)

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    The Jazz Crusaders - Happy Again (1995)

    The Jazz Crusaders - Happy Again (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 442 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Scans included
    Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Fusion | Label: Sin-Drome | # 99.5032.2 | 01:05:54

    When trombonist/producer Wayne Henderson, pianist/keyboardist Joe Sample, sax-man Wilton Felder, and drummer Stix Hooper changed their name from the Jazz Crusaders to the Crusaders back in 1971, it signaled a more R&B-minded direction for the group – they were always funky, but in the '70s, they became even funkier. And so, the names the Crusaders and the Jazz Crusaders came to stand for two different things – if the Jazz Crusaders were synonymous with a funky yet acoustic-oriented approach to hard bop (à la Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers), the Crusaders were about electric-oriented jazz-funk and fusion. In 1995, Henderson (who left the Crusaders in 1975) resurrected the name the Jazz Crusaders and produced Happy Again for the small, Los Angeles-based Sin-drome Records.

    The Crusaders - Street Life (1979) Reissue 1996

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    The Crusaders - Street Life (1979) Reissue 1996

    The Crusaders - Street Life (1979) Reissue 1996
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 97 Mb | Scans included
    Jazz-Funk, Disco, Soul, Crossover Jazz | Label: Blue Thumb | # BTD-701 | Time: 00:39:22

    Although the Crusaders could not have known it at the time, their recording of "Street Life" (which features a memorable vocal by Randy Crawford) was a last hurrah for the 20-year old group. Their recordings of the next few years would decline in interest until the band gradually faded away in the '80s. However this particular set is well worth picking up for the 11-minute title cut and there is good playing by the three original members (Wilton Felder on tenor, soprano and electric bass, keyboardist Joe Sample and drummer Stix Hooper) along with guitarist Barry Finnerty; horn and string sections, plus additional guitarists are utilized on Sample's commercial but listenable arrangements.

    Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)

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    Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)

    Etta James - Life, Love & The Blues (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 382 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans ~ 69 Mb
    Soul-Funk-Jazz-Blues | Label: Private | # 01005 82162 2 | Time: 00:59:38

    Etta James followed her two deeply jazzy mid-'90s albums of torch songs with Love's Been Rough on Me, a flirtation with Nashville writers. On Life, Love & the Blues, she returns to her blues and soul repertoire, enlivening even the hoariest of tunes ("Spoonful," a gender-flopped "Hoochie Coochie Gal") with her growl. The tinges of funk underpinning "Born Under a Bad Sign" are given full room to stretch on a cover of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," and James nearly swipes "The Love You Save May Be Your Own," one of Joe Tex's great preaching ballads, from the master.

    The Crusaders - Images (1978) Remastered 2009

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    The Crusaders - Images (1978) Remastered 2009

    The Crusaders - Images (1978) Remastered 2009
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 254 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 96 Mb | Scans included
    Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Funk | Label: Verve | # 0602517995710 | Time: 00:39:44

    Possessing not the greatest album sleeve in history - "Images" was nonetheless a bit of a Jazz-Funk peach. Produced by "Stix" Hooper, Wilton Felder & Joe Sample for "Crusader Productions, Inc." and mastered by long-standing expert Bernie Grundman, it followed so much of their Seventies output - really well-produced instrumental funky tracks followed by mellow ones that filled both the floor and the heart at one and the same time. Remastered from the original tapes by KEVIN REEVES at Universal Mastering in the States, it now sounds FABULOUS - really clear and defined - and virtually hiss-free. After a whole decade and umpteen albums of their particular type of funk & jazz, the same team that handled "Images" would finally hit paydirt a year later in 1979 with the global smash of "Street Life" and make Randy Crawford a star.

    The Crusaders - Scratch (1974) Reissue 1997

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    The Crusaders - Scratch (1974) Reissue 1997

    The Crusaders - Scratch (1974) Reissue 1997
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 245 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 96 Mb | Scans included
    Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Soul Jazz, Hard-Bop | Label: MCA | # MCAD-37072 | 00:40:24

    Recorded live at the Roxy, Scratch was one of the Crusaders' best recordings, an extravaganza of jazz and funk with great soloing from the group on top of a set of excellent grooves. From the loose-limbed funk of "Scratch" to a restless, understated version of their live standard "Eleanor Rigby" (which they'd been performing live for over six years), the Crusaders displayed a command of R&B forms in a jazz context. Another cover, Carole King's "So Far Away," is betrayed by a muddy '70s arrangement and sound, but nothing else here fails to illustrate the excellence of the best R&B group in the jazz world.

    The Crusaders - Crusaders 1 (1972) Remastered Reissue 2006

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    The Crusaders - Crusaders 1 (1972) Remastered Reissue 2006

    The Crusaders - Crusaders 1 (1972) Remastered Reissue 2006
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 430 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Scans included
    Label: Blue Thumb | # BTS 6001, 0602517040663 | Time: 01:17:41
    Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Soul Jazz, Crossover Jazz

    In 1971, the Jazz Crusaders reinvented themselves for the first time. First they dropped the word "jazz" from their moniker, and secondly they wholeheartedly embraced electric bass and guitars in their mix. Their new "debut" is a wonder of jazz-funk as a natural evolution out of hard bop and soul-jazz. While the wonderful horn interplay between saxophonist Wilton Felder and trombonist Wayne Henderson is still everywhere evident, the badass, beat-driven rhythm section has Joe Sample playing funky Rhodes piano against Chuck Rainey's basslines and an orgy of guitars – led by Larry Carlton's brilliant lead work. These are all anchored by Stix Hooper's never out-of-the-pocket, popping kit work. Certainly other acts had used the same instrumentation, but the sheer sophistication in the Crusaders compositions and charts combined with their dedication to grooved-out accessibility – and Stewart Levine's magnificent production – made them a singular entity even in the up-and-coming jazz-rock fusion scene.

    Phillip (Phil) Upchurch - Darkness, Darkness (1972) Japanese SHM-CD, Reissue 2008

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    Phillip (Phil) Upchurch - Darkness, Darkness (1972) Japanese SHM-CD, Reissue 2008

    Phil Upchurch - Darkness, Darkness (1972) [Japanese SHM-CD Reissue 2008]
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 496 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans included
    Label: Blue Thumb/Universal | # UICY-93418 | Time: 01:06:54
    Genre: Fusion, Jazz Funk, Jazz Blues, Jazz Pop

    Recorded in 1971, shortly after he departed Cadet where he served as a house sideman-playing on dozens of records and a prefferred guitarist for Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler, Phil Upchurch headed for the West Coast and Blue Thumb Records. Produced by Tommy LiPuma, Upchurch's Darkness, Darkness is his quintessential (double) album, full of laid-back funky grooves, elegant, mind-blowing guitar work, elegant string and horn arrangements, and fine Fender Rhodes work from Donny Hathaway with legendary session bassist Chuck Rainey and smooth jazz piano great Joe Sample in the house. Upchurch effortlessly walks the line where jazz, blues, rock, soul, and funk fold into one another, yet he never gives quarter in the process.

    VA - (I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz: A GRP Artists' Celebration Of The Songs Of The Beatles (1995)

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    VA - (I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz: A GRP Artists' Celebration Of The Songs Of The Beatles (1995)

    Various Artists - (I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz:
    A GRP Artists' Celebration Of The Songs Of The Beatles (1995)

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 431 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
    Jazz, R&B, Tribute | Label: GRP | # GRD-9827 | Time: 01:11:50

    (I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz is a 1995 tribute album by various jazz artists and bands (George Benson, Diana Krall, Lee Ritenour, Chick Corea, David Benoit, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Grusin, and many others) from the GRP Records label. It consists of jazz cover versions of songs originally by The Beatles. The album's title comes from the lyrics of the Beatles's cover of the Chuck Berry song, "Rock and Roll Music", which was originally released on the studio album Beatles for Sale. Dave Grusin was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his cover of "Yesterday" on the album.

    The Crusaders - Live In Japan (1981) Reissue 1993

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    The Crusaders - Live In Japan (1981) Reissue 1993

    The Crusaders - Live In Japan (1981) Reissue 1993
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 466 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 197 Mb | Scans included
    Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz | Label: GRP Records | # GRP97462 | Time: 01:18:06

    This CD contains selections from a triumphant Japanese tour which saw three-fourths of the original lineup augmented by such guest stars as guitarists Barry Finnerty and Roland Bautista, percussionist Rafael Cruz, and bassist Alphonso Johnson. But the interaction and contributions of Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, and Stix Hooper make this memorable, plus the fact that this is the first time the complete concert has ever been available on a domestic release. It's really a "greatest-hits live" CD, with such familiar numbers as "Spiral," "Rainbow Seeker," "So Far Away" and "Put It Where You Want It" part of the menu. While not in the class of such classic releases as 1, Scratch, or Second Crusade, this is still a welcome addition to the legacy of a sorely underrated group.

    Pleasure - Joyous (1977) Remastered Reissue 2010

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    Pleasure - Joyous (1977) Remastered Reissue 2010

    Pleasure - Joyous (1977) Remastered Reissue 2010
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 285 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 111 Mb | Scans included
    Funk, Jazz Funk, Quiet Storm, Soul | Label: Fantasy/BGP | # CDBGP 211 | Time: 00:41:10

    The 1970s saw a plethora of great funk and jazz albums that for somewhat mystifying reasons have failed to be reissued. Sitting at home one night it occurred to me that we had better get a move on and get them out. With this in mind we are launching BGP Funk and Soul Classics: long out-of-print albums on CD featuring the very best mastering, great packaging and some nifty sleeve notes to let you know where the album fits into the scheme of things. Our first batch of releases come from the extensive catalogue of Fantasy Records and feature a host of albums that are sought after by collectors the world over.

    Caldera - Caldera (1976) Japanese Reissue 2015

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    Caldera - Caldera (1976) Japanese Reissue 2015

    Caldera - Caldera (1976) Japanese Reissue 2015
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 279 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 106 Mb | Scans included
    Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz, Jazz-Rock | Label: Capitol | # UCCU-90112 | Time: 00:38:39

    With Wayne Henderson of Crusaders fame handling the production, Caldera showed a great deal of promise on its self-titled 1976 debut album. The Latin jazz-fusion unit isn't afraid to take chances on such imaginative pieces as Jorge Strunz's "El Juguete" and Eduardo del Barrio's "Exaltation" – chances that pay off in a major way. Though one can tell that Caldera's members were well aware of such explorers as Return to Forever, Weather Report, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, it's also clear that they were major Earth, Wind & Fire fans and had absorbed a wide variety of Latin music. Strunz and del Barrio were hardly the only fusionists who incorporated Latin rhythms in the 1970s – Chick Corea, George Duke, Wayne Shorter, Al DiMeola, and Joe Zawinul were all well aware of the musical innovations of Latinos, but Caldera was unique in the sense that the band represented a real melting pot of Latinos bringing different ideas to the table. And on this LP, those ideas work magnificently.

    Brandon Coleman - Resistance (2018) Japanese Release

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    Brandon Coleman - Resistance (2018) Japanese Release

    Brandon Coleman - Resistance (2018) Japanese Release
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 316 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 112 Mb | Scans included
    Jazz-Funk, Funk, R&B | Label: Brainfeeder/Beat | # BRC-573 | Time: 00:47:00

    Recognized most for his keyboard work but also a composer, producer, arranger, and vocoder-armed vocalist, Brandon Coleman is among the flock of jazz-rooted musicians hatched out of Los Angeles during the early 2000s. The musician is connected with virtually all West Coast luminaries of his generation – Kamasi Washington, Ryan Porter, Miles Mosley, Thundercat, and so on – and has ventured stylistically afield with Babyface and Anthony Hamilton among those who have sought his talent. Moreover, Coleman is likely the lone link from smooth jazz stalwart Boney James to polyglot experimentalist Flying Lotus, the latter of whom featured him on Until the Quiet Comes and You're Dead!, and issued Resistance on his Brainfeeder label. This is actually Coleman's second album as a leader. His first, Self Taught, received a low-key release in 2011 and a few years later was reissued in Japan. Like it, Resistance enables Coleman to indulge in his affinity for late-'70s/early-'80s electronic funk from a jazz perspective. As a teenager, around the time he started learning to play, his head was spun by Herbie Hancock's vocoder-ized Sunlight, and that work, as well as other openhearted moments of the master's catalog from Man-Child through Lite Me Up, informs the material here. Considering Coleman's rare spotlight, truckload of stockpiled gear (20 instruments, just for himself), and accommodation of fellow instrumentalists and background singers numbering in the dozens (including many L.A. players), Resistance is extraordinarily condensed.

    Larry Braggs {Tower of Power} - Jus' Sangin'(2011)

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    Larry Braggs {Tower of Power} - Jus' Sangin'(2011)

    Larry Braggs - Jus' Sangin'(2011)
    EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 383 MB | Scans
    Genre: Jazz Funk, Soul | Label: evosound | Catalog Number: EVSA151

    Larry Braggs (ex-lead singer of Tower Of Power, and Temptations vocalist) solo album, Jus' Sangin'. The album was recorded in the US & UK and features Larry singing classic soul songs from the Great American Soul Book! Highlights include Larry singing, Curtis Mayfields 'People Get Ready', Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You', Delfonic's 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind), Steve Millar Band's 'Fly Like An Eagle', Stylistics 'You Make Me Feel Brand New'.