Arnett Cobb - Jumpin' The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 72:25

Size: 165.8 MB

Styles: Saxophone jazz

Year: 2013

Art: Front

[3:01] 1. The Shy One

[2:59] 2. Li'l Sonny

[3:07] 3. Someone To Watch Over Me

[2:52] 4. Open House

[2:50] 5. Whispering

[2:06] 6. Walkin' Home

[2:56] 7. Pay It No Mind

[2:43] 8. Smooth Sailing

[2:39] 9. Big League Blues

[3:04] 10. Flower Garden Blues

[4:17] 11. Jumpin' The Blues

[2:57] 12. Chick She Ain't Nowhere

[2:36] 13. Go Red Go

[2:38] 14. Cobb's Corner

[3:01] 15. Walkin' With Sid

[2:53] 16. I'm In The Mood For Love

[2:34] 17. Still Flying

[2:58] 18. Running With Ray

[3:10] 19. Dutch Kitchen Bounce

[2:45] 20. Arnett Blows For 1300

[2:43] 21. Cobb's Boogie

[5:27] 22. When I Grow Too Old To Dream

[2:53] 23. Top Flight

[3:05] 24. Cobb's Idea

A stomping Texas tenor player in the tradition of Illinois Jacquet, very robust and sometimes raw, who mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B, and originator of the “Open Prairie” tone and “Southern Preacher” style of playing. Arnett Cobb has that honking, bar-walking saxophone sound that used to blast from jukeboxes coast-to-coast. There was always excitement elicited by Cobb’s uninhibited, blasting style which earned him the label “Wild Man of the Tenor Sax.”

Cobb was a prolific showman, writer, stylist, arranger, and tenor saxophone technician. His saxophone technique and music style directly influenced Illinois Jacquet, Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Houston Person, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Turrentine, King Curtis, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and a generation of musicians in jazz, swing, R&B, soul, and funk music.

Baritone Saxophone – Charles Fowlkes, Johnny Griffin; Bass – Carl Pruitt, Gene Wright, Walter Buchanan; Drums – Al Walker, George Ballard; Piano – George Rhodes; Tenor Saxophone – Arnett Cobb, Willard Brown; Trombone – Michael Wood, Dickie Harris; Trumpet – David Page, Ed Lewis, Lamar Wright, Willie Moore.

Jumpin' The Blues

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Joni Mitchell - Hits

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 65:54

Size: 150.9 MB

Styles: Folk, Folk-rock

Year: 1996

Art: Front

[5:04] 1. Urge For Going

[2:30] 2. Chelsea Morning

[7:41] 3. Big Yellow Taxi

[5:26] 4. Woodstock

[4:50] 5. The Circle Game

[3:02] 6. Carey

[3:49] 7. California

[2:38] 8. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio

[3:05] 9. Raised On Robbery

[3:21] 10. Help Me

[3:02] 11. Free Man In Paris

[4:02] 12. River

[5:16] 13. Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody

[7:29] 14. Come In From The Cold

[4:32] 15. Both Sides Now

All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. HITS and MISSES, released on the same day in October 1996, are, amazingly enough, the first compilations of Joni Mitchell's work. Mitchell is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the rock era. By incorporating poetic lyricism and a jazzy harmonic sensibility into the troubadour tradition, she paved the way for everyone from Rickie Lee Jones to Sting. HITS features some of the best-known songs from her immense repertoire (MISSES highlights equally important, but less commercially successful, compositions). HITS begins and ends with early, acoustic guitar-based material. "Urge For Going" (previously unavailable on CD) and "Both Sides Now" both yielded reams of cover versions by the likes of Judy Collins, Tom Rush and countless others. Moving on through the stylistically divergent phases of Mitchell's career, the lush pop songs "Help Me" and "Free Man In Paris" segue into the starkly confessional piano ballad "River" and the slippery, jazzy feel of "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody," adorned by Larry Klein's Jaco-manque fretless bass. HITS can only skim the surface of Mitchell's prolific output; a truly thorough chronicle would require a box set. But every song here is a gem, and this is a perfect place for the uninitiated to begin.

Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, piano, electric piano, keyboards); Saskatunes, Lookout Mountain United Downstairs Choir (vocals); Larry Klein (guitar, percussion); Stephen Stills (guitar); James Taylor (acoustic guitar); José Feliciano, Larry Carlton, Robbie Robertson, Steve Lukather (electric guitar); Graham Nash (harmonica, background vocals); Tom Scott (woodwinds, horns); Joe Sample (electric piano); Larry Williams (synthesizer); John Guerin (drums, percussion); Jim Hughart, Russ Kunkel, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Alex Acuña & the Unknowns, Alex Acuña, Milt Holland, Bobbye Hall (percussion); David Crosby (background vocals).

Hits

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Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 44:40

Size: 102.3 MB

Styles: Swing, Jazz vocals

Year: 2013

Art: Front

[3:20] 1. Shine My Shoes

[4:29] 2. Go Gentle

[3:29] 3. I Wan'na Be Like You

[3:14] 4. Swing Supreme

[3:56] 5. Swings Both Ways

[3:31] 6. Dream A Little Dream

[3:17] 7. Soda Pop

[3:17] 8. Snowblind

[2:31] 9. Puttin' On The Ritz

[3:13] 10. Little Green Apples

[3:39] 11. Minnie The Moocher

[3:50] 12. If I Only Had A Brain

[2:48] 13. No One Likes A Fat Pop Star

Swings Both Ways, Robbie's much-anticipated tenth studio album is out now and recently earned the title of the UK's 1,000th ever No.1 album, a whole 999 releases after Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers! became the first.

Following in the toe-tapping footsteps of Robbie's most successful album to date, 2001's Swing When You're Winning, the new record features a mix of classic covers and new material as well as duets with some of pop's biggest names, including Lily Allen, Michael Bublé, Kelly Clarkson, Olly Murs and Rufus Wainwright.

Swings Both Ways is the tenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. The album is Williams's second swing album after 2001's Swing When You're Winning.

Swings Both Ways  

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Sarah Morrau - To Hold You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:10
Size: 96,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Autumn Leaves
(2:41)  2. Skylark
(3:21)  3. Voices
(4:51)  4. Both Sides Now
(4:49)  5. Summertime
(4:07)  6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(3:31)  7. Hold You
(3:35)  8. Suzanne
(3:57)  9. Smile
(2:29) 10. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And Out)
(3:51) 11. Song Of Bernadette

Some local artists have released new CDs that might be worth a look especially if you're in a quiet mood...captured by local singer/songwriter Sarah Morrau on her new release, ...To Hold You.

Singing both old standards like "Autumn Leaves" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me," and her own compositions, Morrau often sounds like a hybrid of Connie Evingson and Beth Nielsen Chapman, with a little Lisa Loeb (minus the whininess) thrown in.

Morrau's two original compositions on the CD, "Voices" and the title track, are among its prettiest. The latter, particularly, is heartfelt without being schmaltzy in the least (it's particularly reminiscent of Chapman).

[Sarah's] CD, produced here by Barking Dog Records [sic  recorded and co-produced by Mike Coates at Raptor Studios] prove talent runs deep and wide in Fargo-Moorhead.

 ~Tom Pantera  http://www.barkingdogrecords.com/sar.press.html

To Hold You

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Karin Plato - Downward Dancing

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:31
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Gypsy In My Soul
(3:38)  2. Let There Be Love
(6:06)  3. So In Love
(4:35)  4. He Was Too Good To Me
(3:27)  5. Shoe Passion Blues
(4:58)  6. Falling In Love With Love
(4:58)  7. Sometimes I'm Happy
(7:39)  8. You Are Too Beautiful
(4:39)  9. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
(4:52) 10. Downward Dancing
(3:53) 11. Sometime Ago / Hi Li Li Hi Lo

Passionate swinging standards and tender ballads sensitively sung by this Canadian jazz vocalist and composer. Here on her sixth release she is featured with acclaimed Toronto musicians: pianist Nancy Walker, bassist Steve Wallace and drummer Joel Haynes.  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/plato5

Downward Dancing

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John Pizzarelli - Meets The Beatles

Styles: Revival Swing
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:03
Size: 108,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:37)  1. Can't Buy Me Love
(2:48)  2. I've Just Seen A Face
(5:04)  3. Here Comes The Sun
(4:16)  4. Things We Said Today
(3:27)  5. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
(5:03)  6. Eleanor Rigby
(3:57)  7. And I Love Her
(2:45)  8. When I'm 64
(4:04)  9. Oh Darling
(4:01) 10. Get Back
(3:46) 11. Long And Winding Road
(3:12) 12. For No One

Beatles fans love to explain that the key to the successful partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was their contrasting songwriting personalities  Lennon was the tongue in cheek sardonic wit, McCartney the earnest balladeer. On John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles, a sharply conceived tribute which sets the duo's classics in a jazz trio with big-band arrangements, the singer/guitarist hits the mark more often when he's taking on the Lennon persona. He approaches "Cant' Buy Me Love," "When I'm 64," and "Get Back" with a playful wink, jumping off his speedy melody lines and the rising brass sections for extended improvisational tradeoffs with pianist Ray Kennedy, and adding colorful touches like scatting and even ad libbing his own lyrical verses based on the originals. Likewise, he attacks the all-instrumental "Eleanor Rigby" with a jumpy, swinging aggression. Pizzarelli, however, becomes overly schmaltzy in presenting ballads like "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Long and Winding Road" too seriously, with maudlin, straightforward arrangements that grind the party to a halt. The one exception is the more percussive "Oh Darling," where his intense vocal helps the tune rise above the hotel lounge mentality. ~ Jonathan Widran    http://www.allmusic.com/album/meets-the-beatles-mw0000041997

Meets The Beatles

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Cedar Walton - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Vol. 25

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:20
Size: 122,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:01)  1. The Maybeck Blues
(5:52)  2. Stella by Starlight
(3:48)  3. Sweet Lorraine
(5:04)  4. Darn That Dream
(7:19)  5. Zingaro/Caminhos Cruzados
(4:21)  6. Bremond's Blues
(4:09)  7. You're My Everything
(4:04)  8. The Meaning of the Blues
(3:51)  9. I'm Old Fashioned
(5:07) 10. I Didn't Know What Time it Was
(5:40) 11. Just One of Those Things

Although this is hardly Cedar Walton's first attempt to go completely solo, his fans still know him primarily from his ensemble work and will no doubt be surprised and pleased with this album, No. 25 in the Maybeck Recital Hall series. After warming up with an intricate self-composed workout, "The Maybeck Blues," Walton veers into some standards ("Stella By Starlight," "Sweet Lorraine") with the polystylistic twists and turns of an Art Tatum. Walton's other composition "Bremond's Blues" is somehow generated by the changes from "Giant Steps" a neat trick. Beyond the strong Tatum influence, Walton remains a strong hard bopper with his right hand, a manner that takes very well to the characteristically bright, crisp tone of the hall's Yamaha pianos; but he also displays as fully equipped a harmonic arsenal as that of anyone. The CD concludes with a technical tour de force on "Just One of Those Things," which almost, but not quite, ties itself in knots. ~ Richard S. Ginell  

http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-maybeck-recital-hall-series-vol-25-mw0000096005

Live at Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Vol. 25

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