All 14 tracks are from the Original Direct-to-DSD or the Original Analog-to-DSD recordings. The album features the vocals of Diana Krall.

The album highlights include: The intimate, delicate, sweet and tender voice of Jacintha; Roy Gaines, the greatest living blues guitarist that you probably don’t know anything about, a sizzling blues guitarist with one of the most magnificent blues voices around; Eden Atwood, who has a voice that is many things – seductive, plaintive, sensitive, gifted with perfect intonation and phrasing, and entertaining; Touring as the guitarist for Diana Krall, Anthony Wilson is one of the most brilliant musicians working in the U.S. jazz scene; Bill Cunliffe is a leading West Coast jazz pianist with several albums to his credit; With a sensual and seductive voice right out of the ’40s or ’50s, Luqman Hamza (pronounced Luke-mahn Hahm-za) is a real discovery; And rounding out this already impressive list, tenor saxophonist extraordinaire Bennie Wallace!

Diana Krall – Vocals
Jacintha – Vocals
Roy Gaines – Vocals
Eden Atwood – Vocals
Lauren White – Vocals
Luqman Hamza – Vocals
Jay McShann – Vocals
Anthony Wilson – Guitar
Bennie Wallace – Saxophone

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The album highlights include: The intimate, delicate, sweet, and tender voice of Jacintha; vocalist Roy Gaines, the greatest living blues guitarist that you don’t know anything about, a sizzling blues guitarist with one of the most magnificent blues voices around; Eden Atwood, who has a voice that is many things – seductive, plaintive, sensitive, gifted with perfect intonation and phrasing, and entertaining. With a sensual and seductive voice right out of the ’40s or ’50s, Luqman Hamza (pronounced Luke-mahn Hahm-za) is a real discovery;

Turning to the instrumental side of things Groove Note has Anthony Wilson, known best as the Guitarist for Diana Krall, he is one of the most talented musicians working in the US jazz scene today. Bill Cunliffe is a leading West Coast Jazz pianist and arranger with several albums to his credit. Rounding out this already impressive list is tenor saxophonist extraordinaire Bennie Wallace!

Note: All 14 tracks are presented in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64.

7 of these Tracks are also available in Multichannel DSD 256, DSD 128 and DSD 64, these are # 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 12. Downloading the files using the .zip or our download manager will display track 3 as track 2, 5 as 3, and onward. This is a known issue. The tags inside will read correctly in your player, however, as the track numbers align with the titles, the file name will not. Tracks 8 and onwards will not download in our downloader, as these do not exist.

* NativeDSD makes this recording available for the first time as a DSD Download to a wider audience, outside the US and Canada.
* NativeDSD exclusively offers this recording as DSD 128, DSD 256 and DSD 512 Downloads.

Jacintha – Vocals
Roy Gaines – Vocals
Eden Atwood – Vocals
Luqman Hamza – Vocals
Anthony Wilson – Guitar
Bill Cunliffe – Piano
Bennie Wallace – Saxophone

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This latest album from tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace (a familiar audiophile artist) is one of his finest and most lyrical sessions to date. Recorded direct to 2-track Analog Tape at Systems 2 in New York in May the session features some of the hottest jazz musicians currently working in the US: Mulgrew Miller (piano), Peter Washington (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums) The performances include the following Love For Sale. I Concentrate On You, A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing, When A Woman Loves A Man, April In Paris, Milestones and Con Alma. The sound and feel of the album is very close to that of the great Moodsville and Prestige recordings of the 50s and 60s featuring artists like Gene Ammons. This album is a tribute to those great recordings hence the title Moodsville. There are stunning versions of April In Paris, A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing and When A Woman Loves A Man. This is the kind of beautiful, smoky, full bodied and ballad-filled tenor sax album that audiophiles just love!

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“Bennie Wallace is unlike any tenor saxophonist, often alternating between a soulful, fat tone (which is very similar to Ben Webster’s approach) and sudden unpredictable jumps (no doubt inspired by alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy). Joined by an outstanding rhythm section consisting of pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash, Wallace explores favorites from the swing and bop eras, with his bandmates providing a solid anchor underneath his flights. Two gems from the pen of Billy Strayhorn, the rhapsodic “My Little Brown Book” and the fragile ballad “A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing,” stand in a class by themselves with Wallace’s fresh interpretations. Both theLatin-flavored arrangement of “Love for Sale” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Con Alma” pack a powerful punch, while “Milestones” (the earlier one which Miles Davis recorded for Savoy, though it was actually composed by John Lewis) takes a far more adventurous route than typically heard.

This excellent session demonstrates a mature artist with a very distinct sound, which should be the ultimate goal of every jazz musician. This highly recommended Album is one of Bennie Wallace’s best sessions of his long, very fruitful career.”

– Ken Dryden, All Music

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