Shirma Rouse & Kim Hoorweg - Dedicated To You

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:38
Size: 113.6 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:11] 1. I'm Beginning To See The Light
[3:23] 2. Jackson
[3:02] 3. China Boy
[4:55] 4. Dedicated To You
[2:43] 5. A Bicyclette
[3:35] 6. Attardi
[4:18] 7. Tennessee Waltz
[3:39] 8. Love Is A Beautiful Thing
[2:58] 9. Drop Me Off In Harlem
[4:13] 10. Lonely Town Lonely Walker
[3:00] 11. Onder De Wuivende Palmeri
[3:23] 12. I Say A Little Prayer
[4:09] 13. A Place Called Home
[3:02] 14. One Love

Two women with two completely different backgrounds: Shirma Rouse, brought up with Antilean music, gospel and soul on the island of St. Eustatius. Kim Hoorweg, who listens since her childhood days to heroes like Jaap Valkhoff, Yves Montand and Johnny Cash. Both young but experienced singers who enter into a musical cooperation on CD and in theatres. They both sing world renowned tracks from music celebrities with whom they grew up.

Kim: “Shirma and I are quite different, but we have a special musical bond. Together we go back to our roots. With my heroes and Shirma, who introduces me to Antillean music, Aretha Franklin and Bob Marley.” Kim Hoorweg has been working on her musical career since she was 14 years and is considered to be the Dutch Jazz vocal-talent.

Shirma: “I come from a family that listened a lot to gospel, soul and reggae music. It was very exciting to unite our ‘roots’ and discover how well they musically fit together, even though we look totally different and have quite different cultural backgrounds.” Shirma Rouse is an experienced vocalist, who worked together as a background singer with a.o. Anouk, Candy Dulfer, Trijntje Oosterhuis and Wouter Hamel.

All tracks on the CD ‘Dedicated To You’ are a re-make of the originals, resulting in a fresh sound, also because of the special arrangement by Erwin Hoorweg for percussion (Martin Verdonk), keys (Erwin Hoorweg) and bass (Boudewijn Lucas).

Dedicated To You

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Artie Shaw - The Artistry Of Art Shaw & His Bop Band 1949

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:49
Size: 118.6 MB
Styles: Bop, Big band
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:21] 1. Smooth 'n Easy
[3:18] 2. Krazy Kat
[3:42] 3. Afro-Cubana
[3:40] 4. Stardust
[4:06] 5. Fred's Delight
[3:25] 6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
[0:20] 7. Mucho De Nada
[3:13] 8. I Cover The Waterfront
[3:01] 9. 's Wonderful
[3:26] 10. Similau
[3:41] 11. Aesop's Foibles
[2:52] 12. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[3:22] 13. So Easy
[3:06] 14. Carnival
[2:39] 15. Orinoco
[4:30] 16. Innuendo

In 1949 just before he was about to start yet another big band, Artie Shaw made the following statement: 'We'll find an identity. Perhaps it would be fairer to say I'll find one. Sooner or later all bands that stick find an identity, and find it through their leader. All the sounds, the creative arrangements, the pop tunes and the originals, must be channelized through the leader''. And on September 14, 1949 Artie Shaw was back on the bandstand, opening at Symphony Hall, Boston. The band's book contained both old and new material, and it was the first time Shaw had gone on the road with a band for many years. The 1949 band features a mixture of numbers associated with the Shaw bands of the early 40's and some in a more modern vein from new writers/arrangers such as Tadd Dameron, Johnny Mandel, Gene Roland and George Russell, with the more exotic Latin sounds coming from the pen of John Bartee.

The Artistry Of Art Shaw & His Bop Band 1949

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Patrick Prouty - Roll The Windows Down

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:36
Size: 88.4 MB
Styles: Soul, Funk
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:46] 1. Duck!
[5:04] 2. Ms. Lavette
[2:47] 3. New Jersey
[3:40] 4. One For Jamerson
[4:04] 5. Woodward
[3:41] 6. Summer Of '84
[3:44] 7. Roll The Windows Down
[2:51] 8. Between The Stax
[4:13] 9. 1978 Camaro
[3:41] 10. Tumbleweeds

Detroit bassist Patrick Prouty's, Roll The Windows Down is an homage to the music of Stax and Motown. It features 10 original funky/soul instrumentals in the style of Booker T. and The Funk Brothers.

Patrick Prouty is a veteran bassist/composer from Detroit. He began is musical pursuits with piano lessons at age 10 and when he got to high school he started singing an playing guitar in local rock bands. Early on music became his foremost passion! Switching to electric bass in his senior year of high school and without much formal musical training, he decided to pursue a jazz studies degree at Wayne State University in Detroit. After a less than spectacular audition, Professor Matt Michaels agreed to let him enter the jazz program but only after a summer of lessons with Wayne State’s bass instructor Dan Pliskow. Professor Pliskow encouraged Patrick to acquire an upright bass. He found one for sale in the paper, purchased it and three days later did his first gig on it!

In the fertile Detroit jazz and blues scene, Patrick began to make a name for himself as a solid, reliable sideman on both the electric and upright bass and started to make his living as a musician. He began sharing the stage and the recording studio with some of Detroit’s best jazz and blues artists like Marcus Belgrave, and Alberta Adams.

Al Hill, Kevin Grenier- Keyboards; George Bedard, Kris Kurzawa- Guitars; Bill Higgins, Kevin Venney- Drums; Patrick Prouty- Basses; Steve Wood- Saxophones.

Roll The Windows Down

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Dina Blade - Sentimental Journey Popular Songs From WW II

Styles: Vocal, Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:19
Size: 78,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Accentuate The Positive
(2:10)  2. I Thought About You
(1:58)  3. G.I. Jive
(3:18)  4. Star Dust
(2:52)  5. Perfidia
(4:03)  6. Blues In The Night
(2:51)  7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(2:56)  8. My Buddy
(3:02)  9. Sentimental Journey
(2:33) 10. White Cliffs Of Dover
(3:00) 11. It's Been A Long Long Time
(2:01) 12. I'll Be Seeing You

This cd’s mellow, “jazzy-bluesy” vibe creates a compelling listening experience that brings a distant era much closer while rekindling its magic. Vocalist Dina Blade “literally breathes new life into old standards” (-Jazziz Magazine), and captures the spirit of these 1930s and 40s wartime megahits with a relaxed and swinging sound that will not only delight listeners already familiar with her work, but establish new fans of both the music and the artist. “Beautiful new album.” ~Carol Newman KMUN radio  

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dinablade4

Sentimental Journey

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The Claudia Quintet - September

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:57
Size: 162,4 MB
Art: Front

( 2:35)  1. September 20th: Soterius Lakshmi
(10:36) 2. September 9th: Wayne Phases
( 6:27)  3. September 25th: Somber Blanket
(10:27) 4. September 29th, 1936:  "Me Warn You"
( 4:48)  5. September 22nd: Love Is Its Own Eternity
(10:35) 6. September 18th: Lemons
( 6:54)  7. September 17th: Loop Piece
( 6:24)  8. September 24th: Interval Dig
( 6:24)  9. September 16th: Mystic Klang
( 5:42) 10. September 12th: Coping Song

“Rich with ambition and empathetic interplay...the Claudia Quintet doesn’t...sound like anybody else. Which is exactly what makes them worth seeking out.” ~ Los Angeles Times

Led by composer, drummer and three-time Grammy nominee John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. They are one of the most influential stylists on other musicians in cutting-edge jazz today and the sound of jazz and what jazz can be in the in our time has changed because of their sound and stance.
Hailed by Nate Chinen of the New York Times for their “clockwork intricacy and crisp premeditation ... [striking an] accord between the factions of progressive jazz, classical Minimalism and low-glare experimental rock,” the Claudia Quintet tackles Hollenbeck’s highly demanding works with a wry improvising spirit and a backbone of surging, mesmerizing rhythm.

The new album, ‘September,’ the group's seventh, pays homage to a time of year when Hollenbeck seeks the isolation and creative focus of artist residencies. In the last dozen years  often in September  he’s spent invaluable time at retreats in places as far afield as Italy, New Mexico and upstate New York. Writes Hollenbeck in the liner notes: "September is a wonderful month and, for me, the equivalent of Thursday, my favorite day of the week which I celebrated in song on the first Claudia Quintet CD!"

In the lineup are two newer players: accordionist Red Wierenga, like Hollenbeck an alum of the Eastman School of Music; and (on four tracks) bassist Chris Tordini, a frequent sub for Claudia’s original bassist Drew Gress. Hugely in-demand as a sideman and an inspired bandleader in his own right, Gress appears on six of the 10 tracks that make up ‘September.’

Clarinetist/tenor saxophonist Chris Speed and vibraphonist Matt Moran, both Claudia members from the start, play with stirring virtuosity and give Hollenbeck’s writing a sonorous warmth, balancing its more technical and rocking side. Unorthodox textures, fragmented beats and “bright tones filled with folky allusions and plaintive undercurrents” (Siddhartha Mitter, Boston Globe) continue to define the Claudia Quintet’s unclassifiable output.

‘September’ marks another departure in that Hollenbeck chose "to create music for the Claudia Quintet that could be communicated and performed without the use of written music." The fact that Hollenbeck taught these labyrinthine pieces to the band largely by ear makes the polish and cohesion all the more astonishing.

Celebrating 15 years of work together with the release of ‘September,’ this NYC ensemble’s sound continues to explore the edge without alienating the mainstream, proving that genre-defying music can be for everyone. 

http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/september

Personnel : John Hollenbeck - drums, percussion; Chris Speed - clarinet, tenor saxophone; Matt Moran – vibraphone; Red Wierenga – accordion; Drew Gress - acoustic bass (1, 3, 7-10); Chris Tordini - acoustic bass (2, 3, 5, 6)

September

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Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Styles: Alt Country
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:47
Size: 104,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:37)  1. Wild Creatures
(3:45)  2. Night Still Comes
(3:27)  3. Man
(3:00)  4. I'm From Nowhere
(2:16)  5. Bracing For Sunday
(2:31)  6. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu
(2:36)  7. Calling Cards
(4:04)  8. City Swan
(2:18)  9. Afraid
(2:32) 10. Local Girl
(3:26) 11. Where Did I Leave That Fire
(5:13) 12. Ragtime
(3:45) 13. Madonna Of The Wasps
(2:55) 14. Magpie To The Morning
(1:15) 15. Yon Ferrets Return

The cover photo for 2009's Middle Cyclone found indie rock civil defense siren Neko Case warning the masses of potentially deadly weather from atop the hood of a 1967 Mercury Cougar. It was a striking image, and one that perfectly captured both the album's quiet might and her distinctive Patsy Cline-meets-Rosie the Riveter allure. Once again barefoot and wielding a samurai sword, Case squares off against a trio of serpents on the front jacket of 2013's like-minded, yet decidedly more adventurous The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, a 12-track horn of plenty that taunts, comforts, bruises, and empowers, and like all of her previous offerings, rewards repeated spins with a multitude of riches. Her most vulnerable and permeable collection of songs to date, it's not quite Neko Case unchained, but it's certainly as emotionally raw as it is willfully enigmatic, especially on quieter numbers like "Nearly Midnight, Honolulu," "I'm from Nowhere," and an airy, evocative cover of Nico's "Afraid," all three of which benefit from the barest of arrangements. That said, when Case decides to go big, she doesn’t skimp on the trimmings (guest spots are populated by the likes of M. Ward, Howe Gelb, Mudhoney's Steve Turner, and members of Calexico, Los Lobos, 

My Morning Jacket, Visqueen, and of course, the New Pornographers and longtime shadow Kelly Hogan), but her version of opulence is mired in great taste, which affords superb, midtempo offerings like "Night Still Comes, "Ragtime," and "Local Girl," straight-up dirt road rockers such as "City Swans," and the punk-infused, delightfully subversive single "Man" ("I'm a man, that's what you raised me to be/ I'm not your identity crisis/This was planned") the room they need to flex their considerable muscle while maintaining an air of warm, almost casual bombast that invokes names like Sandy Denny and Dusty Springfield. It's some of her most instantly gratifying work as well, perfectly encapsulating all of her personas, from the erudite, whiskey-shooting provocateur to the sweet and soulful, small town crooner who sounds like she was plucked from the pages of a novel set in the antebellum north. Case has proven time and again that she has the songwriting chops to match her earthy, superlative voice, but never with such authority.~ James Christopher Monger  http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-worse-things-get-the-harder-i-fight-the-harder-i-fight-the-more-i-love-you-mw0002555210.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

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