Sally Night - Love For Sale

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:54
Size: 166,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:24)  1. My Funny Valentine
(4:03)  2. Love For Sale
(2:49)  3. Wisper Not
(4:51)  4. Angel Eyes
(3:57)  5. It's Alright With Me
(6:16)  6. Black Coffee
(4:10)  7. Tendery
(2:19)  8. Just You Just Me
(6:06)  9. Bossa Medley
(3:50) 10. The Lady Is A Tramp
(2:54) 11. Our Love Is Here To Stay
(4:55) 12. Day In Day Out
(4:09) 13. Why Don't You Meet Me Downtown
(4:24) 14. Enbraceable You
(6:07) 15. I Thought About You
(4:16) 16. Honeysuckle Rose
(3:18) 17. The Way You Look Tonight

.......“Sally is one of the new 'Greats' ! She has an amazing voice & talent both as a singer and a composer”.~  Frank Omar, of  Frankly Speaking, arts & cultural Chanel 34 mnn.

“British singer Sally Night adroitly sang her own compositions and standards, backed by the Florida International University jazz big band to open the Miami Nice Jazz Fest” ~  John Radanovich, Downbeat Magazine

“US-based UK vocalist & songwriter Sally Night is an accomplished singer with a sultry, lissom contralto voice & sensuous delivery, who can also swing & put a fresh spin on old classics. “ ~ Charles Waring for Record Collector & Jazz Collector Magazine

“I love Sally's albums, they are terrific and Sally's new song 'Yes I Do' is Brilliant” ~ Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records /EMI

“Sally has a Beautiful voice...Keep Singing Sally!”~ Sheila Jordan , Singer & Nea Jazz Master 2012

“Sally sounds wonderful...I put her album directly into my itunes, I love listening to it” ~ Michael Feinstein, Singer/Pianist multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated artist

Sally Night's first love is music. She grew up singing in church, her various schools, playing various instruments & listening to Jazz, Classical music, Opera and other styles of music at home. Her Farther & Mother loved jazz and performed locally. Although she studied and was trained to sing Opera and has a great love of that music, she found it too restrictive.

After a long musical break and extensive traveling, Sally started to sing and perform Jazz in France. Then she started to tour Europe and work with the great Philadelphia born drummer Bobby Durham (who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson) who taught her how to swing and encouraged her to start composing. After recording a couple of albums and receiving great reviews in Europe for her live shows & recordings and several visits to New York, Bruce Lundvall, EMI-Blue Note Records persuaded Sally to move to New York in 2012!  

http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=48880#.UyX03IU7aQM

Love For Sale

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Natalie Cressman - Turn the Sea

Styles: Trombone And Vocal, Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:58
Size: 103,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:26)  1. Turn the Sea
(5:07)  2. Fortune's Fool
(5:22)  3. Blindsided
(3:57)  4. New Moon
(4:49)  5. Do Not as I Do
(5:10)  6. Checkout Time
(3:43)  7. Winter Chill
(7:51)  8. Stolen Away
(4:29)  9. Turn the Sea (Jnthn Stein Remix)

Trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman follows-up her excellent debut recording, Unfolding (Self Produced, 2012) with her fully realized yet completely different Turn the Sea. Cressman is a busy artist recently appearing on many projects as disparate as anchoring the horn section of Trey Anastasio's band and appearing on recording dates led by Peter Apfelbaum and Josh Roseman to her conspicuous role on Laura Furci's excellent Think Con La Tua Cabeza (2013). Cressman brings these multiple exposures to bare on Turn the Sea. This is a collection of angular compositions that are as intricate as they are accessible. The title piece is given two mixes bookending the remaining seven songs. The rhythm line is infectious and insistent and very contemporary, representing a new alchemy for Cressman. 

The mix of Cressman's confident voice, tart trombone and crack songwriting establishes the artist well down the road from an already fully-established sound on Unfolding. The Jnthn Stein remix adds pop-synth to the song "Fortune's Fool" uses judicious voice overdubs by Cressman, accentuating her well-conceived melodies within her clever arrangement. "Do Not As I Do" is a brightly sung and orchestrated, again with a complex (and catchy) bass underpinning. Cressman employs a little big band in a very contemporary way. There is a melding of her pop and jazz experience that is well captured in this format. Natalie Cressman continues to arrive and is sure to continue her brilliant evolution as a musician.. ~ C.Michael Bailey   

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=46523#.UySQGYU7aQM
 

Personnel: Natalie Cressman: trombone, vocals; Ivan rosenberg: trumpet; Steven Lugerner: flute, clarinet, bass clarinet; James Casey: tenor saxophone; Samora Pinderhuges: keyboards; Gabe Schnider: guitar; Jonathan Stein: acoustic and electric bass; Michael Mitchell: drums, percussion.

Turn the Sea

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Bruce Barth - Live at the Village Vanguard

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:33
Size: 148,1 MB
Art: Front

( 6:50)  1. Little Dirty
(10:03)  2. Star Eyes
( 5:23)  3. Rosalie: In the Still of the N
( 5:01)  4. Song for Alex
( 5:31)  5. San Francisco Holiday
( 5:00)  6. Evidence
( 6:36)  7. Let's Call This
( 8:35)  8. Days of June
( 5:45)  9. Prospect Avenue Blues
( 5:46) 10. When the Sun Comes Out

On Live At The Village Vanguard, Cole Porter’s “In The Still Of The Night” charges straight ahead with the zip, the zig, and the zag of a hound dog chasing a rabbit through open sagebrush. While Bruce Barth is totally unpredictable in places, he is sure to bring back the familiar melody to us before we get lost. His melodies are pretty, but what captures the listener’s ear is the pianist’s spontaneous approach to improvised adventure. Four originals emphasize melody. Barth’s “Prospect Avenue Blues,” however, gets down and dirty with a genuine mood. 

All the same, embellished melody and steady meter can become tiresome when used for too long a time. Fortunately, the leader called in reinforcements during his Village Vanguard performances last year. With Monk to the rescue, Barth perks up his session with a rollicking “San Francisco Holiday,” a dark, solo piano sojourn through “Evidence,” and a medium tempo blues walk through “Let’s Call This.” Monk provides the ammunition to make any performance sizzle and swing. Ugonna Okegwo and Al Foster, who accompany with faithful support, contribute heartily. 

While the pianist’s Village Vanguard session brought cheers those two August nights, it stands marred by the unfair ratio of too little adventure to middle-of-the-road, laid-back rambling. ~ Jim Santella  

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=11402#.Uyjn4oUqPro
 

Personnel: Bruce Barth- piano; Ugonna Okegwo- bass; Al Foster- drums.

Live at the Village Vanguard

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Paul Desmond - Summertime

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1969
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:53
Size: 94,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:32)  1. Samba With Some Barbecue
(5:36)  2. Olvidar
(2:15)  3. Ob-La-Di,Ob-La-Da
(4:53)  4. Emily
(3:09)  5. Someday My Prince Will Come
(3:03)  6. Autumn Leaves
(5:36)  7. Where Is Love?
(3:10)  8. Lady In Cement
(4:34)  9. North By Northeast
(3:59) 10. Summertime

In the midst of lolling away his time in semi-retirement after the Dave Brubeck Quartet broke up in 1967, Paul Desmond allowed himself to be lured back into the recording studio by producer Creed Taylor, who knew exactly what to do with his idle, but by no means spent, alto player. The result is a beautifully produced, eclectic album of music that revives Desmond's "bossa antigua" idea and sends it in different directions, directly toward Brazil and various Caribbean regions, as well as back to the jazzy States. "Samba With Some Barbecue" is a marvelous bossa nova treatment of Louis Armstrong's New Orleans rouser "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," whose opening bars bear an uncanny resemblance to those of "Samba de Orpheus" (which the erudite Desmond was no doubt aware of). No matter how many times you've heard "Autumn Leaves," Desmond's bossa nova treatment will give you a fresh jolt as he offhandedly tosses off the most exquisitely swinging ruminations; too bad it fades after only three minutes. 

In a pliable mood, Desmond even consents to record a then-new Beatles tune, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," samba-style, quoting "Hey Jude" along the way (it's very possible that he was attracted by the main character of the lyric, a fellow named Desmond), and he makes potent music out of movie tunes like "Emily" and even the snazzy "Lady in Cement." Don Sebesky brings in some intelligently crafted arrangements for big band augmented by French horns, Herbie Hancock turns in some often brilliant solo work in several featured spots, Ron Carter is on bass, and Leo Morris and Airto Moreira alternate on drums. Never before had Desmond's alto been recorded so ravishingly Rudy Van Gelder's engineering gives it a new golden-mellow glow and the original LP had a great, sarcastic cover: gleaming icicles. ~ Richard S.Ginell   

http://www.allmusic.com/album/summertime-mw0000530335

Summertime

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