Joanie Pallatto & Bradley Parker - Days With Joanie & Sparrow

Size: 162,9 MB
Time: 69:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Vocal Jazz
Art: Front

01. Comunicando ( 7:42)
02. Sangre Dulce (Sweet Blood) ( 7:05)
03. Flashes Of Light ( 5:16)
04. Days ( 4:37)
05. Katerina Tango ( 8:12)
06. Dog-A-Dog ( 3:23)
07. The Beauty Of It All ( 5:44)
08. Something For Nothing ( 5:31)
09. Love Will Be Found ( 6:58)
10. Dreams (11:30)
11. John Lennon ( 3:52)

"Days" with Joanie & Sparrow is a life collaboration of original songs.

featuring:
Joanie Pallatto - voice and Bradley Parker-Sparrow - piano
with:
Luiz Ewerling - drums, Kurt Schweitz - bass, George Freeman - guitar, Steve Gibons - violin, Bobby Lewis - trumpet and flugelhorn, Pat Mallinger - tenor saxophone, John Devlin - guitar and vocals, David Onderdonk - guitar, Alejo Poveda - congas, bongoes and percussion, Eldee Young - bass, and Redd Holt - drums.

Bradley Parker-Sparrow - pianist and composer
"Amazing and exciting" - Studs Terkel, Chicago
A Chicago native, Bradley Parker-Sparrow is a pianist, composer, recording engineer, record producer, writer, photographer and film maker. Composer-In-Residence
for The City of Chicago from 1979-1981, Parker-Sparrow has performed at The Chicago Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival, New York's "The Iridium" and many performances at
Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago. Sparrow has been a leader on numerous recordings, scored feature films, and composed music for Theatre and the Ballet. Founder of Sparrow Sound Design recording studio in 1977, Sparrow is partner with wife and singer Joanie Pallatto at Southport Records. The Southport catalog includes over 140 record projects.

Joanie Pallatto - vocalist and composer
"A stirring and special voice" - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
A native of Xenia, Ohio, Joanie Pallatto is a graduate of The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Pallatto toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra as featured vocalist before moving to Chicago in 1979. Partner with pianist/composer and husband, Bradley Parker-Sparrow at Sparrow Sound Design and Southport Records, Pallatto has expertise in all aspects of musical production. As a solo singer, group singer and voiceover talent, she has recorded on hundreds of radio and television commercials nationally. As a jazz vocalist, Pallatto has released ten CDs, and performs at Chicago jazz clubs, including Katerina's, Andy's and the Green Mill, along with her New York debut at The Iridium. Concert engagements have included the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, The Old Town School of Folk Music, Park West, Stage 773 and Bailiwick Theater; she was featured soloist with Daniel Barenboim in "Ellington Among Friends" at Symphony Center in 1999.

Days With Joanie & Sparrow

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Reverend Chris & The High Rollers - Viper Mad

Size: 157,4 MB
Time: 67:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: New Orleans Blues/Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Swing
Art: Front

01. Exactly Like You (3:35)
02. Frenchmen Street Stomp (3:08)
03. Laughlin's Laughin' (3:57)
04. Here Comes The Man With The Jive (4:08)
05. Butcher Pete (3:57)
06. Hallelujah I Love Her So (3:19)
07. Swanee River Boogie (3:10)
08. Smokin' (4:12)
09. The Weed Smoker's Dream (3:15)
10. If You're A Viper (4:06)
11. That's My Girl (3:51)
12. Dog Days (4:58)
13. Eggplant (4:14)
14. Look Where We Have Been (3:25)
15. Tequila (4:36)
16. Sweet Marijuana Brown (4:00)
17. I Wanna Be The Big Chief (5:10)

Eclectic swing, originals and covers, from 1920-2013 that range from jazz to blues from boogie-woogie to acoustic funk laced with a heavy dose of New Orleans piano.

Personnel:
Rev. Chris on piano and vocals
Tony Garro on upright bass
Chuck Lindsey on drums
Richard Redding on saxes

Reverend Chris, piano and vocals, relocated to Philadelphia following a decade in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. He brought that Big Easy style of relaxed fonky jazz piano that has made so many other New Orleans keyboardists extremely popular. He has been a member of Brides of Jesus, Restless Natives, New Orleans Juice, Ellen Rogers, Balding Vincents, Dodge City Junkies, Roger Learnard Band, Alryn Wolters, Naked Nuns of Soul, SubStream Quartet. He has performed with many music greats including Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Irvin Mayfield, George Porter Jr., Mark Van Allen (Blueground Undergrass), Russell Batiste (the funky Meters), Charles Neville, Ian Neville, and “Mean” Willie Green (the Neville Brothers), just to name a few. Past gigs include the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Philadelphia Folk Fest, the Palace Casino in Biloxi, Fairmont Hotel’s Sazarec Lounge House Band, Bourbon Street’s Storyville Jazz Parlour House Band and led a New Orleans Jazz Brunch at Philadelphia’s Le Cochon Noir.

Tony Garro, upright bass and vocals, has performed with the Scott Romig Band for over 20 years. He has gigged at many of Philadelphia’s current and defunct music venues with other bands such as Crazy Bread, Dodge City Junkies, Katie Drake and the Roger Learnard Band. With Reverend Chris he has performed as a duo, trio, quartet and larger ensemble. He appears on Reverend Chris’s 2010 live album: “Fool On the Hill”.

Chuck Lindsey, drums and vocals, has been a Philadelphia staple for over 25 years. Numerous appearances at community concerts, nightclubs, bars and the Philadelphia Folk Festival have led to his being extremely on-demand for his laid-back “southern swing”. You can also find him driving the drum kit for the legendary band Beats Walkin’, the Mighty Rhythm Kings and the Delco Nightingales.

Viper Mad

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Nina Simone - A Single Woman

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:18
Size: 135.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[3:31] 1. A Single Woman
[3:06] 2. Lonesome Cities
[3:57] 3. If I Should Lose You
[3:37] 4. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
[3:55] 5. Love's Been Good To Me
[4:20] 6. Papa, Can You Hear Me
[6:29] 7. Il N'y A Pas D'amour Heureux
[4:26] 8. Just Say I Love Him
[2:39] 9. The More I See You
[2:43] 10. Marry Me
[3:33] 11. The Long And Winding Road
[2:52] 12. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
[1:00] 13. Baseball Boogie
[3:13] 14. No Woman, No Cry
[3:18] 15. Do I Move You
[0:56] 16. The Times They Are A-Changin'
[5:33] 17. Sign 'o' The Times

For four decades, Nina Simone has bewitched listeners with her uncategorizable blend of music. Unwilling to compromise to popular standards, hers has been a lonely course which led her away from the United States. Nina Simone adds to her recording legacy with this fine 1993 collection of contemplative tracks (which was her first release in more than five years). A SINGLE WOMAN is an appropriately titled, almost autobiographical testament to her life, a meditation on the joys and pains of a woman alone. Her rich, deep voice soars dramatically over lush orchestral arrangements. The album's high point is a superb reprise of her haunting tango arrangement of "Just Say I Love Him" with guitarist Al Shackman (whom she worked with during her early years) making a guest appearance. Also included are three Rod McKuen songs and a moving version of the standard "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" that is dedicated to the late Prime Minister of Barbados.

Recorded at Oceanway Studios, Hollywood, California, and Mad Hatter Studio, Los Angeles, California.

Nina Simone (vocals, piano); Gerald Albright (vocals); John Chiodini, Al Shackman (guitar); Ann Mason Stockton, Carol Robbins (harp); James Ross (violin, viola); Gerald Vinci, Assa Drori, Shari Zippert, Henry Ferger, Mari Tsumura, Irving Geller, Gina Kronstadt, Connie Kupka, Isabelle Daskoff, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Israel Baker, Yvette Devereaux, Kathleen Lenski , Gordon Marron Strings, Mark Cargill (violin); Rollice Dale, Margot MacLaine, Hershel Wise, Marilyn Baker, Evan Wilson (viola); Igor Horoshevsky, David H. Speltz, Melissa "Missy" Hasin, Suzie Katayama, Marie Fera, Frederick Seykora (cello); Frank Marocco (accordion); Jon Kip, Gary Foster, Jack Nimitz, Jeff Clayton , Earl Dumler, Bob Tricarico, Valarie King (woodwinds, brass); Jack Sheldon (trumpet); Marilyn L. Johnson , Jeffrey DeRosa, Richard Todd, Brad Warnaar (French horn); Mike Melvoin (piano); Paul Robinson, Jeff Hamilton , Paul Robinson (drums); Darryl Jackson, Larry Bunker, Bill Summers (percussion).

A Single Woman

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Herb Ellis Trio - Burnin' (With Hendrik Meurkens)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 52:45
Size: 120.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[8:23] 1. Oh, Lady Be Good
[6:14] 2. Limehouse Blues
[8:00] 3. A Foggy Day
[5:03] 4. Bye Bye Bay
[7:24] 5. I Can't Get Started
[5:23] 6. What Is This Thing Called Love
[7:57] 7. Wave
[4:16] 8. The Flintstones

Herb Ellis is heard in performance in two separate German nightclubs during a 1998 tour of Europe, accompanied by harmonica player Hendrik Meurkens, young bassist Chris Berger, and drummer Chuck Redd. The seasoned guitarist is in top form, with Meurkens proving to be a good foil for him, though the latter man also proves himself to be a virtuoso on his instrument (comparable to Toots Thielemans). The selections primarily stick to standards, include a smoking interpretation of "Oh, Lady Be Good" and a fluid take of "Limehouse Blues," along with a funky, strutting rendition of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" Meurkens switches to vibes for the one bossa nova track ("Wave"). They have plenty of fun dashing through "The Flintstones," though they eschew the almost mandatory chant of "Yabba Dabba Doo!," possibly to avoid sounding a bit too corny. Recommended. ~ Ken Dryden

Recorded live at Birdland, Hamburg & Kleinkunstkeller, Bietigheim Germany in January 6, 1998.

Herb Ellis (guitar); Hendrik Meurkens (harmonica, vibraphone); Chris Berger (bass); Chuck Redd (drums).

Burnin' (With Hendrik Meurkens)

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Bobby Darin - Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:57
Size: 82.3 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 1962/2004
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. What'd I Say
[6:31] 2. I Got A Woman
[1:51] 3. Tell All The World About You
[2:47] 4. Tell Me How Do You Feel
[2:34] 5. My Bonnie
[3:25] 6. The Right Time
[2:49] 7. Hallelujah I Lover Her So
[3:13] 8. Leave My Woman Alone
[2:55] 9. Ain't That Love
[3:20] 10. Drown In My Own Tears
[2:23] 11. That's Enough

`I'm proud to say that I was on the Ray Charles bandwagon when it was just a baby-carriage; even before the first album came out I was listening to his single releases. ~B. Darin

Released in March of 1962, Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles was his second-to-last for Atco. The tribute to one of the musicians who had most influenced him included 11 solid covers. The album peaked at number 96 and stayed on Billboard's charts for 11 weeks. The opening song, "What'd I Say," earned Darin a Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. In addition to the rocking "What'd I Say," standouts include the swinging testament to love, "I Got a Woman," "Ain't That Love," and "Hallelujah I Love Her So." The original liner note to Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles declares that "from the first plangent phrases by Darin, you realize that this will be no Broadway blues pastiche, no Waldorf-Astoria silk blouse folk-music." This album highlights both the depths of Darin's talents and the depth of his love for rhythm and blues. In fact, Darin once said, "I'm proud to say that I was on the Ray Charles bandwagon when it was jut a baby carriage. In fact, two singers -- Fats Domino and Ray Charles -- opened up my ears to a whole new world, different from anything I'd heard until then. They both became major influences when I realized these are the roots." A listener can debate if these covers are as good as the originals (could they be?) but not the authenticity that jumps off the turntable. All of the small details are here: the simple beauty of Jimmy Haskell's arrangements, the sax solos by Plas Johnson and Nnino Tempo, and even the backup vocals of the Blossoms, who were the mid-1950s version of the Raylettes. Eight of the 11 songs are Charles originals, and all are from his early career, before he evolved from the blues to the Tin Pan Alley sounds. Darin, reflecting on Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles, said "Making this album was one of the biggest kicks of my life." With one listen to this you will feel the same. ~JT Griffith

Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles

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Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:55
Size: 98,3 MB
Art: Front + Back

(3:57)  1. Dance Me To The End Of Love
(3:11)  2. Don't Wait Too Long
(3:18)  3. Don't Cry Baby
(3:27)  4. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
(3:45)  5. Between The Bars
(3:33)  6. No More
(3:11)  7. Lonesome Road
(2:56)  8. J'ai Deux Amours
(3:40)  9. Weary Blues
(4:48) 10. I'll Look Around
(3:51) 11. Careless Love
(3:11) 12. This Is Heaven To Me

Why it took vocalist Madeleine Peyroux eight years to follow up her acclaimed Dreamland album is anybody's guess. The explanation from her website bio claims, "I could have kept running with it, but I took a breather." Really it hardly matters, since there have been plenty of capable singers to fill that void. Produced by Larry Klein, Careless Love is essentially Dreamland part deux. She lost Yves Beauvais and Atlantic Records, as well as a stellar cast of edgy jazz and rock session players, but she did gain Larry Klein. There are some fine players on this album, including Larry Goldings, Scott Amendola, David Piltch, and Dean Parks, and it's a much more focused set than Dreamland. That she's on Rounder is just an "oh well." Since Klein is not reined in by having to be a "jazz" producer, his sense of restrained and subtle adventure is a perfect foil for Peyroux's voice and phrasing, which is still too close to the Billie Holiday model for comfort. The material is a curious collection of modern pop songs, country tunes, and old nuggets. There's an original as well in "Don't Wait Too Long," co-written with Jesse Harris and Klein. Peyroux's reading of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love" that opens the disc is radical, sung like a German cabaret song, and lacks the drama of the original, which is on purpose but it's questionable as to whether it works.

Her cover of Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" works much better. It keeps the breeziness of the original but focuses on the object of the song still being very present to the protagonist delighting in the presence of the Beloved. Parks' guitars play sparely and pronouncedly in the mix, as Amendola's brushwork complements the spare cymbal and tom-tom work of Jay Bellerose as well as Goldings' in-the-groove organ and piano. The hinge track on this record is the empathic and moving version of Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars." With tense sound effects whispering in the backdrop and Goldings' celeste setting the atmosphere, once again Amendola's brushes whisper and shimmer, giving the singer an anchor in the depth of the song's melancholy. It's simply awesome. The sparse haunted treatment of Hank Williams' "Weary Blues" is devoid of its country trappings and rooted firmly in the uptown blues tradition of Holiday's 1940s. Likewise, the title track, a classic standard by W.C. Handy, is turned inside out and made a gospel-flavored R&B tune, driven by Goldings on the organ and a Rhodes piano an instrument that makes a frequent appearance here. Parks' subtle yet dirty guitar gives the singer a platform and she swims inside the lyric, letting it fall from her mouth. The tune's swing quotient is formidable. In all, this is a stronger record than Dreamland, in part because Klein is obviously sympathetic to singers and because Peyroux is a more confident and commanding singer. It's a welcome addition to the shelf, but if she waits another eight years, that space reserved for her may disappear. 

~ Thom Jurek  http://www.allmusic.com/album/careless-love-mw0000686575 

Careless Love            

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Sutton Foster - An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live At The Café Carlyle

Styles: Stage & Screen
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:23
Size: 147,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:10)  1. I'm Beginning To See The Light
(0:32)  2. Dialog #1 - Introductions
(3:25)  3. Not For The Life Of Me/NYC/Astonishing
(1:10)  4. Dialog #2 - Up On The Roof Intro
(2:39)  5. Up On The Roof
(2:13)  6. Air Conditioner
(3:30)  7. Warm All Over
(1:59)  8. Dialog #3 - Angel Cards
(3:26)  9. Show Off
(3:58) 10. More To The Story
(4:28) 11. My Heart Was Set On You
(2:20) 12. Down With Love
(2:56) 13. I Like The Sunrise
(2:37) 14. Dialog #4 - Ho Cup Surprise
(3:52) 15. Defying Gravity
(2:16) 16. Late Late Show
(0:39) 17. Dialog #5 - Jeopardy
(4:00) 18. Sunshine On My Shoulders
(4:05) 19. Anyone Can Whistle/Being Alive
(1:31) 20. Dialog #6 - Thank Yous
(3:22) 21. Come The Wild Wild Weather
(2:11) 22. Here, There, Everywhere
(0:53) 23. Dialog #7 - Encore
(3:58) 24. And I Am Telling You

If Broadway had a reigning diva as of 2010, it was probably Sutton Foster, who had worked more or less without letup in starring roles in musicals starting with Thoroughly Modern Millie and continuing with Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Shrek. After Shrek's closing, however, she was available for two weeks to try cabaret at New York's prestigious Café Carlyle in connection with her debut solo album, Wish, and this recording was made on the last night of her run. The café is not only tony, it's tiny, so that on live albums made there, it sometimes seems possible to identify every set of clapping hands. In this performance, Foster wisely plays to the little crowd, using the same comic charm she has brought to her stage roles. Naturally, she includes some of the songs associated with her musicals, notably "Show Off," her stand-out number from The Drowsy Chaperone, a humorous number in which the singer protests, "I don't want to show off" while doing exactly that. You can't help thinking a video would have done better justice to it than this mere audio experience, but it's still very funny. For Shrek, Foster includes the cut song "More to the Story," which is good enough to make it regrettable that she couldn't have sung it on Broadway. Elsewhere, the set is an expected combination of other show tunes and some mostly good pop songs (John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulders" just doesn't measure up to the attention Foster gives it). At one point, she introduces a piece of audience participation by putting the names of five Broadway showstoppers in a cup and having someone pick the next song. It turns out to be "Defying Gravity" from Wicked, which Foster then renders as if channeling Idina Menzel. Their voices are similar, but when, at the end, she encores with another song from the cup, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls, she again impersonates the woman who sang it originally, Jennifer Holliday, this time to audience laughter. Foster certainly has the pipes for such songs, but maybe she should find her own interpretations of them if she's going to sing them; here, they sound, inappropriately, like parodies. ~ William Ruhlmann   http://www.allmusic.com/album/an-evening-with-sutton-foster-live-at-the-caf%C3%A9-carlyle-mw0002110155

An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live At The Café Carlyle

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Danny Moss - Keeper Of The Flame

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:25
Size: 172,7 MB
Art: Front + Back

(5:18)  1. Three Little Words
(5:55)  2. When Your Lover Has Gone
(4:25)  3. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
(6:54)  4. Speak Low
(4:55)  5. Where Or When
(6:09)  6. Moten Swing
(4:53)  7. Cry Me A River
(5:46)  8. It Only Happens When I Dance With You
(7:39)  9. Taking A Chance Of Love
(4:47) 10. I Should Care
(6:21) 11. Perdido
(6:58) 12. I Thought About You
(5:20) 13. Small Fry

British tenor saxophonist Danny Moss is the real deal, an up-from-the-heels wailer whose swinging declamations remind me of such consummate titans as Sonny Rollins and Zoot Sims. From the opening "Three Little Words," a rollicking romp a la Rollins, to the curtain-closing "Small Fry," it's a magic carpet ride through a dozen-plus standards guaranteed to leave one smiling and happy to be taking nutrition.

Moss, in the manner of swing-bop masters like Dexter Gordon, paints with a bold brush. On the loping "When Your Lover Has Gone," while inside the groove, he's also an astute observer of his ongoing work able to comment on proceedings with wry asides and pungent quotes from the canon of bop. As a balladeer, his earthy sound and palpitating vibrato inform his commentaries with a wisdom at once worldly and yet also appreciative of the miraculousness of the moment. For samples, check the burnished vibrancy of his limnings of "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" and the smoldering "Where Or When" or "Cry Me a River."

Throughout, the amiable tenorist receives hand-in-glove support from the trio of pianist John Pearce, bassist Len Skeat and drummer Charly Antolini, whose in-the-pocket backings simmer and steam. As the music casts its spell, it soon becomes clear why Moss was a favorite of stalwarts Maynard Ferguson, Tony Bennett, Buddy Rich and Louis Armstrong. Now, in this heartfelt date, the spotlight shines on the venerable Moss who connects with both body and soul. ~ Chuck Berg   http://jazztimes.com/articles/12102-keeper-of-the-flame-danny-moss-quartet

Keeper Of The Flame

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