Chloe Brisson - Blame It On My Youth

Size: 130,5 MB
Time: 56:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Send For Me (Feat. Ben Williams) (4:08)
02. Day By Day (Feat. Martin Wind) (4:34)
03. Blame It On My Youth (Feat. Fred Haas & Bill Mays) (7:12)
04. So Long, You Fool (Feat. Ben Williams & Matt Wilson) (5:10)
05. Dindi (Feat. Marvin Stamm) (6:08)
06. Just One Of Those Things (Feat. Bil Mays) (2:01)
07. I Fall In Love Too Easily (Feat. Fred Haas) (5:20)
08. What A Difference A Day Made (Feat. Matt Wilson) (3:35)
09. Deed I Do (Feat. Martin Wind) (4:26)
10. Aretha (Feat. Fred Haas) (3:31)
11. How Hgh The Moon - Ornithology (Feat. Martin Wind & Matt Wilson) (2:46)
12. Someone To Watch Over Me (Feat. Bill Mays) (4:03)
13. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Feat. Sheila Jordan) (3:10)

At eighteen, Chloe Brisson is a talented and energetic emerging Jazz vocalist who has thrilled audiences with her gift of song and savvy stage presence. Her new CD, entitled "BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH" was released in Jan. 2012 to much acclaim and places her as a jazz talent that is here to stay! The August studio session, at Manfred Knoop Recording Studio, brought in friends and heavy hitters such as Bill Mays, Martin Wind, Marvin Stamm, Matt Wilson, Fred Haas and Ben Williams. The CD also includes a guest vocal duet with Jazz Master Sheila Jordan! As we move into 2013, it is apparent that this will be a very busy year for the high school senior. During the past three years, Chloe has studied at Dartmouth College where she attends classes, studies jazz theory and piano, and performs extensively with the nationally acclaimed Dartmouth College Gospel Choir. Chloe's devotion to the roots of jazz and her drive to continue the genre forward, make her a special asset to the jazz community. Chloe has attended Interplay Jazz Camp each summer and has worked with Sheila Jordan, Dianne Reeves, Karrin Allyson and Dena DeRose. She also attended the five week summer program at Berklee College of Music. Her Debut CD entitled "RED DOOR SESSIONS" was recorded in December of 2007 at the age of 13.

Chloe has a natural gift for expressing emotion through music and has developed the ability to free flow with musicians of many talents. She truly embraces the art of Jazz where the connection with the band and the audience are palatable in her performances. Chloe has performed for packed audiences throughout the NH and VT region, including First Night Burlington and the Burlington Waterfront Festival. She also has donated many evenings of wonderful jazz entertainment to local charities and fundraisers. Chloe has recently been selected as a winner for YoungArts and has been selected as a member of the acclaimed GRAMMY Camp- Jazz Session, where she will perform in Los Angeles at various events surrounding and at the GRAMMYS. Chloe will travel to Yaroslavl, Russia in March and spend a week performing at the "Jazz Over The Volga" Jazz festival!

Blame It On My Youth

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Buckaloose - Live At Upstairs

Size: 179,7 MB
Time: 77:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Jazz: Hammond Organ
Art: Front

01. Mile End Stomp (9:02)
02. Tastes Like Burning (7:31)
03. Barney Big Nuts (8:55)
04. Bits And Pieces (9:55)
05. Statement (9:41)
06. Tell Me About It (12:00)
07. Man Down (10:59)
08. Man Of The World (9:47)

Buckaloose brings you hard-driving groove and soul reminiscent of the Hammond B3 jazz organ groups of the 1960s and 70s, with a modern and personal touch. This intensely high-energy yet deeply warm and expressive performance at Montreal's top jazz venue is yours to enjoy over and over again!!

Chris Gale - saxophones
Vanessa Rodrigues - Hammond B3 organ
Mike Rud - guitar
Davide DiRenzo - drums

Recorded November 11, 2010
Upstairs Jazz Bar
Montreal, Canada
Engineer: Christopher Murtagh
Cover photo: Katherine Moller

Since meeting in 2003, Vanessa Rodrigues (Montreal) and Chris Gale (Toronto) have been collaborating, recording and touring across Canada.

With the addition of Mike Rud (Montreal) and Davide DiRenzo (Toronto), a serious collective was formed with a live CD being the product of their intense musical bond (Gale/Rodrigues Group Live at the Rex - CGVR01; 2007)

The next chapter of the group's creative efforts came with the birth of Buckaloose, and along with the new name, their first studio album, recorded in 2010 for LeLab Records' “The 270 Sessions” jazz series.

Live At Upstairs

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Karen Taborn - Singin' A Sonny Song

Size: 79,0 MB
Time: 33:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Brazilian Rhythms
Art: Front

01. Meu Bem Meu Mal (4:29)
02. Billy's Blues (5:03)
03. Chovendo Na Roseira (5:17)
04. Love Me Or Leave Me (3:00)
05. Singin' A Sonny Song (4:26)
06. Once I Loved (6:55)
07. Yesterdays (4:43)

What music journalist, Jeff Davis wrote about Karen Taborn in 1990 still holds true today. "Far from flamboyant, Taborn has an appealingly unaffected voice. She uses dynamics and a horn player's ear for phrasing to draw out the emotional depths of original material, Brazilian tunes and jazz standards. In other words, Taborn is a jazz singer, not a saloon shouter; her approach to performing is about taste and swing, not flash and brass."

Singin' A Sonny Song

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Brian Culbertson - Another Long Night Out

Size: 128,1 MB
Time: 55:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Smooth Jazz
Art: Front

01. City Lights (Feat. Lee Ritenour) (5:57)
02. Fullerton Ave. (Feat. Chuck Loeb) (5:57)
03. Beyond The Frontier (4:37)
04. Heroes Of The Dawn (Feat. Eric Marienthal & Rick Braun) (5:29)
05. Beautiful Liar (Feat. Steve Lukather) (4:17)
06. Double Exposure (Feat. Russ Freeman) (4:43)
07. Twilight (Feat. Eric Marienthal) (4:06)
08. Horizon (Feat. Patches Stewart) (4:26)
09. Alone With You (6:31)
10. Long Night Out (Feat. Candy Dulfer) (4:54)
11. Changing Tides (Feat. Jonathan Butler) (4:04)

My name is Brian Culbertson and I am a contemporary jazz multi-instrumentalist with 13 award-winning albums released over the last 20 years. I’ve been touring non-stop while continually writing and producing new music and am currently in the studio re-recording my very first album, Long Night Out, with many of the musicians that inspired me back in the day! The new version (which will be released on the 20th anniversary of the original in February of 2014) will aptly be named, Another Long Night Out.

I’ve had the idea to re-record this album for many years now and have been waiting for just the right time. Since I recorded the original while attending DePaul University in my college apartment (above a Costume Shop) with 3 roommates on a busy street in Chicago with very little money, I was extremely limited to say the least. Therefore, I had to make do with my resources at hand which meant programming most of the instruments to sound real using drum machines, synth bass and most dreadedly, sampled/synth piano. Since those days, I’ve been able to meet and work with many of the top names in the music industry so I thought coming up on the 20th anniversary of the original release would be the perfect time to re-record all of those songs with the artists and musicians that have been so influential to me since the beginning.

This record is a true passion for instrumental contemporary jazz and a real full circle for me as a recording artist...and YOU can help make it happen!

To record this album ‘the way I always wanted to make it’ is going to be a huge undertaking both financially and logistically. For starters, every song will feature a host of the biggest names in jazz, many with legendary status. I also have to hire recording and mix engineers, a few outside studios (other than my own), a mastering engineer and studio time there, plus I have an idea to use a real orchestra on four of the songs (this is not cheap). Here is a list of musicians currently confirmed to play on Another Long Night Out:

• Russ Freeman (Rippingtons) - guitar
• Eric Marienthal (Chick Corea Elektric Band, solo and others) - sax
• Chuck Loeb (Fourplay and solo) - guitar
• Candy Dulfer (solo & Prince) - alto sax
• Steve Lukather (Toto) - guitar
• Paul Jackson, Jr. (Tonight Show with Jay Leno and countless records) - guitar
• Will Kennedy (Yellowjackets) - drums
• Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets, Bruce Hornsby and others) - bass
• Nathan East (Fourplay, Toto, Eric Clapton and others) - bass
• Ricky Lawson (Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Yellowjackets and others) - drums
• Michael Thompson (David Foster, Celine Dion and others) - guitar
• Lenny Castro (percussionist for everyone) - percussion
• Michael Bland (Prince and the New Power Generation) - drums

Another Long Night Out

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Linda Kosut - Long As You're Living

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:45
Size: 113,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. A Tree and Me
(3:02)  2. Mr. Kicks
(3:55)  3. Hazel's Hips
(3:24)  4. Summer in the City
(3:46)  5. A Column of Birds
(6:17)  6. 'Round Midnight & The Beach
(3:25)  7. Brother, Where Are You?
(1:39)  8. Bid 'Em In
(2:30)  9. The Call of the City
(2:15) 10. The Snake
(3:54) 11. Old Lovers' Song
(3:42) 12. Humdrum Blues
(3:36) 13. Tower of Time
(3:26) 14. Long As You're Living

Singer Linda Kosut has admired the music of Oscar Brown Jr. from the time she first heard it in the 60s. In 2006, she turned his songs into a tribute on stage. Long As You're Living - The Songs & Poetry of Oscar Brown Jr. has been performed in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Kosut has pulled some of the songs from Brown's repertoire for this CD. She has her own style, she never seeks to imitate or pay cloying tribute to him. She gives Brown's songs a fresh slant, which by and large makes this a pleasure to listen to. 

Kosut has selected a wide range of songs that showcase her vocal ability. She is bang in the groove on "Bid 'Em In evocating the charged atmosphere of a slave auction which she sings a capella. Brown's words focused not only on social issues but also on observations of everyday life. "Hazel's Hips gets its first undulation from Max Perkoff's piano. Kosut is slinky and sly in unraveling the blues. Perkoff returns for an appropriately greasy solo on the trombone. The slow burn of the blues and the saucy lyrics make this salivating.  A Tree and Me is awash in warmth. Kosut plumbs the depth of the emotion and comes up with a winning performance. "Mr. Kicks is quite a different bag. Upbeat and joyous, the song gives Kosut an opportunity to show her mettle as a jazz singer. ~ Jerry D’Souza   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26833#.UwY-y4VQE9c

Personnel: Linda Kosut: vocals;  Max Perkoff: piano, trombone;  Tom Shader: bass;  Paul van Wageningen: percussion.

Long As You're Living

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Tim Armacost - The Wishing Well

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:41
Size: 150,6 MB
Art: Front

(10:04)  1. Body And Soul
( 7:58)  2. Sustenance
(17:15)  3. Crescent
(14:42)  4. Black Sand Beach
( 8:18)  5. The Wishing Well
( 7:22)  6. Special Delivery

In order to play true jazz, a musician needs to assimilate all that went before him, paying particular attention to those artists who charted the course and defined the vernacular for the specific instrument that he has set out to master. In music, nothing ever gets pulled out of thin air. You carry forth a linage, and hopefully along the way, through intense study and careful examination, you can extend that lineage by putting your own fingerprint on what you play; a sort of musical DNA that separates you from everyone else. On The Wishing Well , the latest CD from tenor saxophonist Tim Armacost, we hear Tim re-examining and re-assessing that linage, while carefully placing his own ideas under a microscope, crystalizing them, absorbing them, and preserving them, not unlike a scientist does with laboratory samples of organic DNA. A native of California, 37 year old Armacost is a young lion with a mature and toasty-warm sound, a lyrical approach, and a innate sense of swing. He plays through this program of originals (plus two standards) with the grace of an albatross; gliding effortlessly over the thermal convection provided by bandmates Bruce Barth, Ray Drummond, and Billy Hart. All the performances are on a very high level on this date, and the selection of tunes are nothing to sneer at either. 

Just when you thought "Body and Soul" had been played to death, Armacost gives us a version in waltz time, with a substitution in the bridge comprised of modulating two-fives, which greatly extends the harmonic interest of the piece. When listening to this disc you also will get a feeling that Armacost has been deeply moved by the music of John Coltrane(what saxophonist of the last forty years hasn't?), and his stirring rendition of Cresent shows that he is not afraid to let us know just that. The set closes with Armacost's Special Delivery; indeed special, for this up-tempo burner finds everyone inspired and in good spirits. Throughout The Wishing Well, Tim Armacost shows us that he is a voice and a talent to be reckoned with, thus earning the honorable distinction in jazz circles as being "one of the cats." Welcome aboard, Tim! ~ Aaj Staff   

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=5732#.Uw0-FYVZhhk

Personnel: Tim Armacost (tenor sax); Bruce Barth (piano); Ray Drummond (bass); Billy Hard (drums)

The Wishing Well

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