Danny Moss - Danny Moss Meets Buddha's Gamblers: A Swingin' Affair

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 63:04
Size: 144.4 MB
Styles: Swing, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[4:50] 1. Just You, Just Me
[6:35] 2. Moten Swing
[5:30] 3. D.M. Blues
[6:12] 4. Moppin' And Boppin'
[4:14] 5. A Smooth One
[6:39] 6. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
[4:17] 7. Georgia On My Mind
[4:47] 8. Crazy Rhythm
[6:59] 9. Swingin' The Blues
[4:49] 10. Sweet And Lovely
[8:07] 11. The King

A superior swing-based tenor saxophonist, Danny Moss is heard here on one of his finest sessions. He is joined by Buddha's Gamblers, an exciting German septet. Together they explore some of the most viable devices of the swing era, including heated and riff-filled renditions of "Just You, Just Me," "The Jeep Is Jumpin'," "Crazy Rhythm," and "The King." Moss and the band clearly inspired each other, and there are plenty of stirring performances throughout this highly recommended German import. ~Scott Yanow

Danny Moss Meets Buddha's Gamblers: A Swingin' Affair

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Janet Macklin - Floating On The Silence

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:33
Size: 138.6 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[2:33] 1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
[5:11] 2. Girl From Ipanema
[5:20] 3. Someday My Prince Will Come
[3:18] 4. Exactly Like You
[4:53] 5. Corcovado
[4:56] 6. Lullaby Of Birdland
[6:24] 7. Dindi
[4:02] 8. Louisiana Fairytale
[4:48] 9. It's Only A Paper Moon
[7:30] 10. Willow Weep For Me
[4:58] 11. Summertime
[4:51] 12. Desafinado
[1:43] 13. Dream A Little Dream For Me

A native of Long Island, Janet began performing in the early 1980s in New York City's Greenwich Village. After moving to Wisconsin in 1985, she became established as a solo vocalist and guitarist, with much of her repertoire gleaned from the Tin Pan Alley era.

In 1998 The Janet Macklin Quartet was formed. The jazz quartet has performed at many state festivals, including Green Bay's Bayfest and Art Street, Appleton's Art in the Park, The Ripon and Neenah Jazz Festivals, The Fond du Lac Art Center Jazz Concert Series, The Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival in West Bend, Milwaukee's Bastille Days, Summerfest, Boerner Botanical Gardens, Cathedral Park Square Concert Series, and A la Carte at the Zoo, as well as Madison's Isthmus Jazz Festival and Art Fair on the Square. The band's club dates include regular appearances throughout the state, including numerous venues in Madison and Milwaukee. Numerous art museums have used Janet for openings and special events. Janet is a 2001 WAMI nominee for best female vocalist. (Wisconsin Area Music Industry)

The Janet Macklin Quartet consists of Janet on guitar and vocals, and various combinations of the finest jazz drummers, saxophonists, and upright bass players in Wisconsin and places beyond. Piano is the newest introduction to the group, forming a truly fine jazz quintet. The band explores the jazz music of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, and features works of the following artists, composers and lyricists: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Django Reinhart, the Gershwins, Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, Fats Waller, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Benny Goodman and Chick Webb, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Gus Kahn. The group regularly performs a number of original compositions as well. Janet still performs as a solo artist, as well as working with a duo, trio, quartet, and quintet.

Floating On The Silence

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Dontae Winslow - Ballads

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:24
Size: 122.2 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[ 1:12] 1. Amazing Grace
[ 5:16] 2. In A Sentimental Mood
[ 3:20] 3. Elaine
[ 8:43] 4. Death Of A Young Man Blackman
[ 5:00] 5. Blue Moon
[ 4:49] 6. Fall
[ 5:17] 7. When I Fall In Love
[ 7:12] 8. Body And Soul
[10:25] 9. Divine Order
[ 2:07] 10. Somwhere Over The Rainbow

Dontae Winslow is one of music's "rising stars" and educators. He grew up in the tough neighborhood of Coppin Heights, on West North Avenue, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was trained in music at the formidable Baltimore School for the Arts high school. While there Dontae starred in 2 regional commercials, and one public service announcement for AIDS awareness. In three years, he attained a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Classical Music Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the John's Hopkins University. From that esteemed institution, he also received his Master's degree in European Classical Music Performance two years later.

As a full-time college student Dontae toured the world with the Gary Thomas Quintet. The group Overkill utilized Dontae's contributions as a rap artist, writer, and trumpeter. He has performed throughout North America and Europe (Spain, Italy, Germany, France, etc.). Dontae has toured with multi-platinum R&B artist D'Angelo, and gospel phenomenon Natalie Wilson and the S.O.P. Chorale. He has performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival (1995), the Montreal Jazz Festival (1997), the Brecon Jazz Festival (1998), and the Marciac Jazz Festival (1998). In 1997 Dontae was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition and a finalist in the Marvin Hamlisch "Search for a Star" competition. Opening for such masters as Maya Angelou, Ashford and Simpson, and Wayne Shorter has elevated Dontae to the forefront of young innovators in music. He has performed with master Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, The Roots, Wynton Marsalis, Milt Jackson, Maysa of Incognito, Freddie Hubbard, Stevie Wonder, Larry Willis, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Dontae has performed as a lead trumpeter in such broadway musicals as "Dinah Was" and "Ain't Misbehavin'". He programmed MPC drums on the new Roy Hargrove release "RH Factor", and produced,mixed, recorded, and arranged the music from "The Real Thing", new soul CD, by MaShica Winslow. He has released over 8 hip-hop and jazz titles on his own independent label, Ransom Entertainment.

Having a strong devotion to helping children led to Dontae's latest recording entitled "Change a Life...Change the World". The CD features his students from the Gilmor-Edison Elementary Choir, and his wife, MaShica Winslow on vocals. The CD is offered free to kids so that they will be inspired to attend college. In 2002, Dontae Winslow was the Grand Prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting contest in the Children's Music category. Dontae's song entitled "I Love School" was selected out of 24,000 entries. His winnings from the contest include an EMI music publishing contract and $5,000 in Yamaha Studio Equipment. Dontae believes that, despite your circumstances, with God and a good education you can achieve your dreams.

Ballads

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Patricia Vonne - Firebird

Released: 2007
Size: 88,9 MB
Time: 38:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Folk-Rock, Latin
Art: Full

01. Missing Women [2:57]
02. Hot Rod Heart [3:14]
03. Battle Scars [4:36]
04. Torera [4:06]
05. Jett Rink [3:05]
06. The Dogs Dance  [3:47]
07. La Huerta De San Vicente [4:00]
08. Dutch Cigarette  [2:52]
09. Karolina  [3:38]
10. Will We Ever Be [2:57]
11. Mujeres Desaparecidas (Bonus Track) [2:56]

Latin Roots Rocker and Troubadour Patricia Vonne releases "Firebird"
Patricia Vonne's remarkable third release "Firebird" is the payoff for seven years of hard work and cements the bilingual songstress's ability to deliver a perfect balance of Tex-Mex and roots-rock with strength, purpose and femininity. Vonne's excellent songwriting has a flare for romance, drama and fantasy, even while chronicling the ups and downs of everyday life.
"Firebird" opens with the haunting "Missing Women" a tribute to the hundreds of women murdered in Juarez, Mexico. Vonne made several trips to Juarez doing research for the song and shooting a video. She had the opportunity to meet many of the mothers of the victims' and has become very close to the project and in hopes of bringing more awareness to the campaign she has donated the song as a free download on the Amnesty International's website.The CD features a Spanish version of the same song, "Mujeres Desaparecidas" as a bonus track.Vonne's long time musical partner, Robert LaRoche former Virgin Recording artist 'The Sighs' , co-wrote five of the ten tunes and his stellar guitar work is the perfect accompaniment for Vonne's sultry vocals. They duet on the beautiful "Battle Scars".On "Firebird" Vonne works with an all star cast of musicians including Rick Del Castillo, Michael Hardwick, Steven Medina Hufsteter, Tito Larriva, David Perales, Michael Ramos, Joe Reyes, Scott Garber, Dony Wynn, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Carl Thiel.Every song on "Firebird" carries a great personal story from Vonne. She co-wrote with her childhood musical hero, Johnny Reno on "Hot Rod Heart," and was so inspired by visiting the home of late Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca in Granada, Spain that she wrote "La Huerta de San Vincente" about the experience. "Dutch Cigarette" chronicles the non-stop travel from 13 European tours that has elevated Vonne to playing huge festivals overseas, while the sweet "Karolina" is a tribute to the children in hospitals in NYC that Vonne would visit and sing to while a "musician on call"."Firebird" is a follow up to 2004's "Guitars and Castanets" and Vonne's self titled debut in 2002 and is a her best work yet and a fine addition to her ever growing musical legacy.

Firebird

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Rebecca Zapen & Gary Starling Group - Zapstar

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:29
Size: 149,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:32)  1. On the Street Where You Live
(5:43)  2. Like Someone in Love
(6:21)  3. It Might as Well Be Spring
(6:57)  4. How Deep Is the Ocean
(4:31)  5. It Ain't Necessarily So
(6:54)  6. Things We Said Today
(7:01)  7. Nuages
(3:50)  8. Bernie's Tune
(5:48)  9. I Only Have Eyes for You
(5:17) 10. When You Wish Upon a Star
(7:30) 11. I Thought About You

Rebecca Zapen is a violinist/vocalist whose singing is reminiscent of Astrud Gilberto and Chet Baker, and whose violin playing draws upon the traditions of jazz violin greats Stephane Grappelli and Regina Carter. She is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the School of Music of Florida State University, and also holds a degree in biology. She has performed throughout the United States, and in destinations abroad including the UK, France, and Switzerland, gracing concert stages, intimate jazz clubs, and big band dance halls. She has released several albums: ZAPSTAR and HUMMINGBIRD, which are comprised of bossa novas, ballads, standards, and Rebecca’s original compositions (in Hummingbird), and JAPANESE BATHHOUSE, featuring all original songs by Ms. Zapen and showcasing her diversity as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. To learn more about Rebecca, visit her online at www.zapen.com.

Gary Starling: Synonymous with jazz on the First Coast, Artist in Residence and professor of guitar at Jacksonville University, Gary Starling has inspired and broadened the horizons of hundreds of aspiring musicians and has played with performers such as Bob Hope, Diahann Carroll, Rita Moreno and Skitch Henderson. The Gary Starling Group has made multiple appearances at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. Gary has appeared with the Jacksonville Symphony Pops Orchestra and with jazz artists Eddie Harris, Nat Adderley, Joshua Breakstone, Carla White, Jim Snidero, Ben Tucker, and more. To learn more about Gary, visit him online at www.garystarling.com.

Chelsea Chason (bass) is a graduate of the jazz studies program at University of North Florida. She has studied under Blue Note recording artists Kevin Bales and Ricky Ravelo. She has appeared with Benny Green, Marcus Printup, Cyrus Chestnut, The Heath Brothers, and Doug Wamble. She has performed with the Gary Starling Group since 1999. Chelsea is also the founder of the Awkward Pause Ensemble and a mainstay of the North Florida local music scene. Peter Miles is an exceptional performer whose sought-after versatility keeps him busy all over the world. His current touring finds him with the Doug Wamble Quartet on the Marsalis Music label. Peter plays Sabian cymbals exclusively.  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rzgsg

Personnel:  Rebecca Zapen - violin and vocals;  Gary Starling – guitar;  Chelsea Chason - double bass;  Peter Miles - drums

Zapstar

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Solitaire Miles - Solitaire Miles

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:05
Size: 108,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:36)  1. Comes Love
(3:19)  2. Autumn Leaves
(2:24)  3. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
(4:02)  4. I Wished on the Moon
(5:01)  5. Lush Life
(4:18)  6. I Don't Know Enough About You
(5:35)  7. Blowtop Blues
(2:56)  8. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
(5:52)  9. You Go to My Head
(5:03) 10. You Let Me Down
(3:52) 11. A Kiss to Build a Dream On

Chicago jazz vocalist Solitaire Miles captivates the seasoned jazz veteran with mesmeric tone, conversational phrasing, and a sinuous sense of swing. Her unaffected delivery never draws attention to itself, allowing the lyrics to shine through. She presents each song in a sincere manner, intimating a supple delivery so the patois of each arrangement has a lasting effect on the listener. Her timing and style impressed Chautauqua Symphony Bassist Harry Jacobson enough to label her as "Billie Holiday with sunshine and air".

Her debut album includes some of Chicago's best performers, arranged by the great jazz violinst Johnny Frigo and incomparable pianist Willie Pickens, the recording reflects the laid back, forthright swing that is signature of the Chicago sound. Also featured is Chicago Sax Maestro Von Freeman, who keeps the music genuine and sassy. There is also a cameo from trumpeter Brad Goode and three live tracks recorded in New York with pianist Don Rebic.  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/solitairemiles

Personnel: Solitaire Miles vocals ; Johnny Frigo violin; Von Freeman sax;  Willie Pickens piano;  Brad Goode trumpet ; Don Rebic piano;  Bruce Johnstone sax/clarinet ; John Whitfield bass;  Mike Raynor drums

Solitaire Miles

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