Nina Bradlin - Right Where You Are

Size: 107,0 MB
Time: 46:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Folk, Blues, Others
Label: Nina Bradlin
Art: Front

01. Martha (4:04)
02. She's The One (3:56)
03. Right Where You Are (3:33)
04. La Premiere Nuit (3:21)
05. Daydreaming (3:59)
06. Rejected Secrets (4:26)
07. Dreams Grow On Solid Ground (3:42)
08. Beauty Queen (3:00)
09. Movie Scene (4:12)
10. Nameless (2:33)
11. The Only Heart I Ever Had (3:14)
12. Death Is Worth Waiting For (2:45)
13. Le Pelerinage (3:36)

The new album "Right Where You Are", written in entirety by Nina Bradlin (with Kieran Kennedy and Michael Turtle), surpasses boundaries of genre to create a dynamic mix of styles which reflect the artist's diverse music passions and influences. A fusion of jazz, folk, pop, chanson, torch song, blues and more, the connecting element is Nina's desire to communicate each song as a unique piece and to create a work that surprises the listener.

The album was recorded in Schull, West Cork and Dublin in sessions with the Irish guitarist, singer and composer Kieran Kennedy (Hot House Flowers, Maria Doyle Kennedy), near Basel, Switzerland with percussionist, composer and Nina's main music partner, Englishman Michael Turtle (wearedust) and the intercontinental blues track "Dreams Grow on Solid Ground" was recorded in Basel and near Detroit at Alliance Recording with Al Hurschman (Bob Seger, Grand Funk Railroad).

Right Where You Are

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Larry Carlton & Robben Ford - Unplugged

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 57:46
Size: 132.3 MB
Styles: Blues/jazz guitar
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[7:33] 1. Nm Blues 08
[8:55] 2. Thet Road
[7:10] 3. Monty
[7:05] 4. Cold Gold
[4:58] 5. Hand In Hand With The Blues
[6:33] 6. Amen Ac
[6:24] 7. I Put A Spell On You
[9:05] 8. Rio Samba

Larry Carlton and special guest Robben Ford sharing the same stage, unplugged. This DVD is a guitar lovers dream. This unique pairing of great guitar legends delivers and unforgettable evening of dueling guitar solos and an uncompromising evening of The Blues the way it was meant to be.

Recording information: New Morning Jazz Club, Paris, France.

Larry Carlton (guitar); Robben Ford (vocals, guitar); Claude Salmieri (drums).

Unplugged

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Sathima Bea Benjamin - A Morning In Paris

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:21
Size: 97.0 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1963/2008
Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Darn That Dream
[4:32] 2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
[3:19] 3. I Could Write A Book
[3:11] 4. I Should Care
[2:00] 5. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
[3:29] 6. Solitude
[4:15] 7. The Man I Love
[2:37] 8. Your Love Has Faded
[3:17] 9. I'm Glad There Is You
[3:08] 10. Soon
[3:29] 11. Lover Man
[5:13] 12. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

In 1963, singer Sathima Bea Benjamin persuaded Duke Ellington to see her future husband, Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand), play in a club in Europe. Ellington was impressed by both of the recent South African émigrés and arranged with Reprise to record them. While Brand's record came out within a year, Benjamin's debut was lost and not heard for decades, even by the singer. As it turned out, engineer Gerhard Lehner had made a second copy and kept it for all of these years, so the initial 1997 release of this important session was possible. Backed by pianist Ibrahim, bassist Johnny Gertze, drummer Makaya Ntshoko, and (on two songs apiece) Duke Ellington or Billy Strayhorn, and occasionally joined by violinist Svend Asmussen (who here plays exclusively pizzicato, as if he were using a high-pitched guitar), Benjamin's voice sounds quite beautiful. She performs two Ellington tunes, Strayhorn's "Your Love Has Faded," and nine standards, with the emphasis on slow ballads. The moody music is often haunting and quite memorable. ~ Scott Yanow

Recorded at Barclay Studios, Paris, France on February 23, 1963.

Sathima Bea Benjamin (vocals); Svend Asmussen (violin); Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Abdullah Ibrahim (piano); Johnny Gertze (bass); Makaya Ntshoko (drums).

A Morning In Paris

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Bill Carrothers - Home Row

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:48
Size: 142.2 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[ 5:56] 1. When Will The Blues Leave
[12:23] 2. Jesus' Last Ballad
[ 6:20] 3. A Squirrel's Tale
[ 5:45] 4. Hope Song
[ 8:23] 5. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[ 6:16] 6. Off Minor
[ 5:13] 7. Lost In The Stars
[ 7:08] 8. Home Row
[ 4:20] 9. Ballad Of Billy Milwaukee

Pianist Bill Carrothers is joined by bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Bill Stewart for this stunning trio session, a compelling mix of originals, standards, and arrangements of jazz compositions by others. Ornette Coleman's quirky blues "When Will the Blues Leave?" and Thelonious Monk's "Off Minor" are full of humor. The dark, haunting "Jesus' Last Ballad," which was a prominent selection on the collaboration between the late pianist Bill Evans and harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans (though Thielemans is incorrectly credited as composer instead of Gianni Bedorri), unwinds slowly in a rhapsodic treatment, with Peacock's understated bass and Stewart's minimal brushwork complementing the leader. Carrothers' brisk, angular setting of Cole Porter's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a delightful romp, while his spacious arrangement of "Lost in the Stars" emphasizes its lyricism. The pianist's originals are equally strong. The rambunctious "A Squirrel's Tale," with its sudden changes in direction, is full of whimsy, while "Home Row" is a spirited, unconventional blues. Highly recommended! ~ Ken Dryden
Recording information: The Studio, New York, NY (01/18/1992/01/19/1992).

Bill Carrothers (piano); Gary Peacock (bass instrument); Bill Stewart (drums).

Home Row

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Kris Adams - This Thing Called Love

Styles: Vocal
Label:  Jazzbird
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:26
Size: 117,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:15)  1. Honeysuckle Rose
(6:07)  2. In Your Own Sweet Way
(5:50)  3. Her Last Years
(3:47)  4. What Is This Thing Called Love?
(3:26)  5. Secret Love
(5:25)  6. Retrato Em Branco E Preto
(5:38)  7. Waltz For Debby
(4:07)  8. Indian Summer/when The World Was Young
(4:19)  9. Lover
(4:11) 10. Double Rainbow
(3:16) 11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

If risk-taking is a crucial element in jazz singing, then Boston-based Kris Adams takes the ultimate plunge on her maiden album, This Thing Called Love. Working from a playlist composed of standards, a couple of Antonio Carlos Jobim masterpieces, and an original, Adams presents the material in a meter not usually associated with this style of music, attacking the songs in a decidedly offbeat manner. The digression from the melody varies from tune to tune. Adams' rendition of "Honeysuckle Rose" features a melody line and meter totally unlike those used in Nat King Cole's, or even Thelonious Monk's, version. At first, Adams' singing seems out of tune (it isn't), but after a few listens, her vocalizing begins to take on a pleasing shape and form. Bill Evan's "Waltz for Debby" is stimulating, as is Jobim's "Double Rainbow." Those who are willing to open their ears, or those who cozy to creative jazz and adventurous vocalists like Norma Winstone and Ursula Dudziak, will enjoy this album. Traditionalists, though, are likely to be turned off by Adams' unusual treatment of the music.~Dave Nathan http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-thing-called-love-mw0000233630// .

This Thing Called Love

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Walter Ostanek - Non-Stop Dancing

Styles: Easy Listening
Label:  Unidisc
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:36
Size: 78,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:15)  1. Rolling Rock Polka
(2:37)  2. Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme)
(2:38)  3. There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder
(2:36)  4. Tiny Bubbles
(2:42)  5. Friendship Polka
(2:30)  6. Spanish Nights and You
(2:13)  7. Euclid Vet's Polka
(2:14)  8. Isle Of Capri
(4:21)  9. Medley
(2:24) 10. Walk Through This World With Me
(2:14) 11. Mama Inez
(1:46) 12. EE-I-EE-Oh Polka

Walter Ostanek is a living legend in the world of polka music. He is known to many as Canada's Polka King  a title he has well-earned. During more than four long decades as a professional performer, he has made somewhere over 50 recordings, and earned a number of Grammy Awards and nominations. He has also been inducted into the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and the International Polka Hall of Fame, both as a Lifetime Achievement Honoree. Ostanek was born in Duperquet, Quebec, in the spring of 1935 as Ladislav John Ostanek. His parents, both from Yugoslavia, moved the small family to St. Catharines, Ontario, about the same time young Ostanek started school. With a natural love for music, he began playing the button diatonic accordion when he was only nine. Before he reached his teens, he moved on to a piano accordion. He excelled with the instrument. When Ostanek was 16 he put together his first band. The group landed small gigs, playing a mixture of country & western polkas. After polishing his skills for a couple more years, he moved on to a radio show called "Abbie Andrews & his Canadian Ranch Boys." He performed with the act a number of times a week until about 1956 when he left to form the Walter Ostanek Band. In 1963, Ostanek completed his debut album, Gay Continental Dance Party. If anyone thought the young accordion player was going to be no more than a short-lived flash of fame, they were very wrong. Ostanek went on to have his own long-running radio program, as well as his own television series like It's Polka Time and Polka Party. In the '70s and '80s, between working on a string of recordings, Ostanek toured through many countries including Austria and Italy. He still found time to perform on numerous popular television shows like the Phil Donohue Show, Lawrence Welk, and the Johnny Carson Show. During this time he earned several awards and gold records.  In the '90s, albums still appeared from the musician. A few of the many full-length recordings Ostanek has released over the years are Yearning for Polkas and Waltzes, Accordionally Yours, Instrumental Button Box Classics with Canada's Polka King, On Our Way for More Non-Stop Dancing, Music and Friends, Continental Dance Party With Walter Ostanek & Band, Memories Polkas and Waltzes, Just for You, and As Time Goes By. ~Bio  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/walter-ostanek/id289238235#fullText.

Non-Stop Dancing

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