Bob Wilber - New Clarinet In Town

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:18
Size: 87.7 MB
Styles: Dixieland, Swing
Year: 1960/2006
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Swing 39
[5:40] 2. The Duke
[2:53] 3. Blame It On My Youth
[6:53] 4. Benny Rides Again
[5:27] 5. Django
[2:39] 6. All Too Soon
[3:07] 7. Clarinade
[3:17] 8. Lonely Town
[4:51] 9. Upper Manhattan Medical Group

Bob Wilber - clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader - has done it again. He is featured here with a quintet consisting of Charlie Byrd (guitar), Dave McKenna (piano), George Duvivier (bass) and Bobby Donaldson (drums), as well as a string section conducted by Dean Kincaide. On this rare Classic Jazz release, originally released in 1960, the group swings through nine tracks including "The Duke," "Benny Rides Again" and "Upper Manhattan Medical Group."

Bob Wilber (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Charlie Byrd (guitar); Peter Dimitriades, Jesse Tryon (violin); George Brown (viola); Sidney Edwards (cello); Tony Miranda (French horn); Dave McKenna (piano); Bobby Donaldson (drums).

New Clarinet In Town

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Søs Fenger - On Holiday

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:48
Size: 82.0 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz vocals
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. You Better Go Now
[4:19] 2. I'll Be Seeing You
[3:21] 3. You Let Me Down
[3:27] 4. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
[3:57] 5. Maybe You'll Be There
[4:43] 6. The Man I Love
[3:44] 7. I'm Pulling Through
[5:50] 8. I Cover The Waterfront
[3:22] 9. Gloomy Sunday

Fenger, Danish singer, was a member of various rock bands in the 1980s, including Love Construction and News. She made her debut as soloist with the lp Winter Days (1989), among others contained the song Watching you, which achieved great commercial success as a single. Fenger moved stylistically and effortlessly to jazz vocal music on the CD On Holiday (1991), which spotlighted Billie Holiday songs to soft, swinging pop.

On Holiday

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Kenny Dorham - Mack The Knife

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 41:52
Size: 95.9 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 1961/2013
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Mack The Knife
[3:08] 2. Alone Together
[7:35] 3. Blue Spring Shuffle
[4:37] 4. I Had The Craziest Dream
[4:35] 5. Lotus Blossom
[5:08] 6. Old Folks
[5:03] 7. My Ideal
[8:44] 8. Blue Friday

Note: This album was originally released in 1961 as "Quiet Kenny". It has been remastered, renamed and the track sequence changed but this is essentially the same album. The following review is for "Quiet Kenny".

In the liner notes of Quiet Kenny, former Downbeat magazine publisher Jack Maher states that trumpeter Kenny Dorham's music is not necessarily the demure, balladic, rapturous jazz one might associate as romantic or tranquil. Cool and understated might be better watchwords for what the ultra-melodic Dorham achieves on this undeniably well crafted set of standards and originals that is close to containing his best work overall during a far too brief career. Surrounded by an excellent rhythm team of the equally sensitive pianist Tommy Flanagan, emerging bassist Paul Chambers, and the always-beneficial drummer Art Taylor, Dorham and his mates are not prone to missteps or overt exaggerations. One of Dorham's all-time best tunes "Lotus Blossom" kicks off the set with its bop to Latin hummable melody, fluid dynamics, and Dorham's immaculate, unpretentious tone. "Old Folks," a classic ballad, is done mid-tempo, while the true "quiet" factor comes into play on interesting version of "My Ideal" where Dorham gingerly squeezes out the slippery wet notes, and on the sad ballad "Alone Together." The rest of the material is done in easygoing, unforced fashion, especially the originals "Blue Friday" and the simple swinger "Blue Spring Shuffle" which is not really a shuffle. Never known as a boisterous or brash player, but also not a troubadour of romanticism -- until he started singing -- Dorham's music is also far from complacent, and this recording established him as a Top Five performer in jazz on his instrument. It comes recommended to all. ~Michael G. Nastos

Mack The Knife

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Bastien Mayras - Salaam Bossa

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:39
Size: 150.3 MB
Styles: Flute jazz, Latin jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:44] 1. Les Roses De Beauvais
[4:58] 2. En Paix
[1:08] 3. Flutucada Do Sol
[7:38] 4. La Pluie
[7:17] 5. La Maison Grande
[7:40] 6. Nos Anciens
[6:55] 7. Salaam Bossa
[1:05] 8. Nuages
[6:13] 9. Sauveterre
[7:46] 10. Le Voyage D'aicha
[3:27] 11. Koan
[6:44] 12. Salaam Bossa Ghost

"Bastien Mayras, french musician, plays flute since the age of 6. Self tought musician, he plays also bass and saxophones in different projects.

He fell in love with jazz and brasilian music many years ago. After being playing with all the brasilian musicians of Paris for several years, he planned to record an album in tribute to the brasilian music and culture. He composed and arranged all the songs and playes flute, alto flute and piccolo on this album.

Salaam bossa is a jazz/brasilian album offering either strong tracks with great arrangements and solos or very quiet tracks played with deep feeling and musicality. This project is a colored and spicy album, filled with samba, bossa nova, but also some bahian rythms, giving swing and energy to the tunes, with virtuosity and delicacy. It's been recorded during a live session, as a meeting between friends coming from different backgrounds and cultures playing together in a grateful tribute to the brasilian and the jazz music.

This is the kind of album you can listen very carrefully or leave it spreading around peaceful vibes when you want to relax and chill out."

Salaam Bossa

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Katrine Madsen Swing Quintet - I'm Old Fashioned

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:48
Size: 125,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:08)  1. Bye Bye Blackbird
(6:23)  2. Somewhere over the Rainbow
(7:24)  3. A Time for Love
(4:17)  4. I'm Old Fashioned
(3:15)  5. I Get Along Without You Very Well
(4:17)  6. The More I See You
(5:40)  7. All of Me
(4:54)  8. Smile
(3:14)  9. Katrine's Blues
(5:55) 10. I've Got the World on a String
(4:15) 11. It Don't Mean a Thing

Katrine Madsen (born 7 March 1972 in Århus ) is a Danish jazz singer, composer and teacher. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. In 1994 she formed the group Swing Quintet which debuted with I'm Old Fashioned in 1996, which was followed by Dream Dancing in 1997. She has also appeared in Ed Thigpens Ed Thigpen Rhythm Features, has toured with Lars Moller on saxophone, Jan Lundgren piano, Jesper Bodilsen on bass and Morten Lund on drums in different contexts. In spring 2000, she starred in DR 's television series The spider as nightclub singer, in which she also starred on the soundtrack. In the same year came the album My Secret which got good reviews. On her tour in the My Secret, she was accompanied by guitarist Jacob Fischer and bassist and her husband Jesper Bodilsen. Katrine Madsen has repeatedly worked with Swedish musicians. On the release of Magic Night 2001 allied herself with the Stockholm orchestra Bohuslän Big Band, which also led to a tour in Scandinavia. She has also sung with Claes Crona Trio and Svante Thuresson. About Katrine Madsen wrote Dagbladet Information in April 2003: She has style, [...]. No doubt about it. A singer since the mid-90s preferably have felt called into the classic American jazz tradition with romantic ballads as a specialty. In suited her dark, airy voice and gentle, easy-going style itself, reminiscent in the direction of Shirley Horn, Ruth Cameron and Anita O'Day. And as the great jazz vocal tradition offers, she has arrogated a fragile vibrato that makes her sound older and more old lady-like; an effete quality [...]. The debut album of 1996 was also a manifesto titled I'm Old Fashioned.

At the sixth album Close to You was turned down for the big bigbandlyd in favor of a more intimate musical space. The record total again Madsen's usual rhythm section with Jesper Bodilsen and Morten Lund. This time they were supplemented by Bodil's and Lund's regular trio pianist Stefano Bollani partner and saxophonist Hans Ulrik and Swedish trumpeter Mårten Lundgren. Here binds Madsen way with old standards like Ellington's In a sentimental mood, Burt Bacharach Close to you, and Lennon / McCartney And I love her. The album was nominated for a Danish Music Award Jazz Year vocal release 2005. On release Box of Pearls 2005 Allied Katrine Madsen again with Claes Crona Trio and Svante Thuresson to a collection vocal duets. This studio album was nominated for this year's vocal release for Danish Music Award Jazz in 2006. http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrine_Madsen   (Translate by Google)

Players: Katrine Madsen(vo), Finn Odderskov(ts), Hans Esbjerg(p), Jesper Bodilsen(b), Hans Brockstedt(dr)

I'm Old Fashioned

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Cæcilie Norby - Silent Ways

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:52
Size: 114,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:27)  1. Stepping Stone
(3:53)  2. Winter Lady
(3:20)  3. In My Secret Life
(4:39)  4. Papa Was a Rolling Stone
(3:55)  5. Diamonds and Gold
(3:52)  6. Like a Rolling Stone
(4:46)  7. Hurt
(5:08)  8. Hearts and Bones
(3:28)  9. Silent Ways
(4:08) 10. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
(5:03) 11. Black Hole Sun
(4:09) 12. Hymnen

From a classical upbringing, to pop, jazz funk and jazz, Norby listens solely to her heart and evaluates the musical quality of melodies fully free of genre restrictions. It is a path between worlds that her ACT debut 'Arabesque' (9723-2) defined two years ago: She wrote her own lyrics to classical works, from Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel to Michel Legrand, and transported them to jazz with the aid of her husband Lars Danielsson and their band. Now, with her second ACT album 'Silent Ways' she goes back in the other direction to some extent.

She selected a dozen of her favourite singer/songwriter melodies including 'Hymnen' by herself and her husband, and charged them up with classical and jazz influences. A powerful, thrilling, convincing mix, on the classics like Bob Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone', John Fogerty's 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain' and Paul Simon's 'Hearts And Bones', on the earthly tracks like Barrett Strong's 'Papa Was A Rolling Stone', the originally bulky works like Tom Waits' "Diamonds And Gold", the Indie-rock anthem "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails genius Trent Reznor or on the loungey title track 'Silent Ways' composed by Wolfgang Haffner, to which Norby contributes her wonderful lyrics. It is 'the sound of the new, European jazz' that vocalist Caecilie Norby stands for like no other, the way she best defines it.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Ways-Caecilie-Norby/dp/B00C1GBPIM.

Personnel: Cæcilie Norby / vocals; Lars Danielsson / cello, bass, acoustic guitars, tambourine; Leszek Mozdzer / piano; Nguyên Lê / electric guitars, electronics; Robert Mehmet Ikiz / drums & percussion

Silent Ways

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Ray Charles - Forever

Styles: R&B
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:28
Size: 113,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:14)  1. A Song For You
(3:42)  2. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
(3:10)  3. Ring Of Fire
(3:42)  4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(4:14)  5. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(4:09)  6. Till There Was You
(4:07)  7. Isn’t It Wonderful
(5:04)  8. None Of Us Are Free
(4:29)  9. Imagine
(4:57) 10. If 1 Could
(4:02) 11. So Help Me God
(3:35) 12. America The Beautiful

Commemorating Ray Charles' deserved appearance on a U.S. postal stamp, Concord's 2013 CD/DVD set Ray Charles Forever rounds up various highlights from the entirety of Charles' career. This is true for both the CD and the DVD, with the latter containing live clips that loosely correspond to the music on the CD, but the emphasis here is on the CD which spotlights not Ray's hits, but Ray singing standards of all kinds. Everything from Leon Russell's "A Song for You," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," and John Lennon's "Imagine" to "America the Beautiful," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," and "Till There Was You" are here, and they're familiar enough to compensate for the curious selections from late in Charles' career, such as the lite-funk of "Isn't It Wonderful." 

Generally, there is an overabundance of latter-day tracks over half of the cuts date from 1993 or later; his '50s and '60s prime is represented by a mere two tracks ("I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" and "Come Rain or Come Shine," respectively)  which does mean this not only lacks big hits (no "I Got a Woman," "Hit the Road Jack," "Georgia on My Mind") but it also isn't quite representative of Charles' peerless musical synthesis, where he blurred boundaries between R&B, gospel, jazz, blues, and country. What shines through is Ray's versatility as a vocalist, as he still sounds powerful and compelling even when his surroundings are synthetic, and that forceful, distinctive vocal style is not a bad way to remember Charles at all. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine   http://www.allmusic.com/album/ray-charles-forever-mw0002570341

Forever

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Ron Carter - It's The Time

Styles: Jazz, Bop
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:17
Size: 122,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:52)  1. It's The Time
(4:55)  2. Eddie's Theme
(5:42)  3. Mack The Knife
(5:17)  4. Candle Light
(5:36)  5. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
(8:17)  6. I Can't Get Started
(4:23)  7. Super Strings
(7:52)  8. My Ship
(5:59)  9. Laverne Walk
(2:20) 10. It's The Time (TVCM Version)

It's the Time is a Japan-only solo album by legendary American jazz bassist Ron Carter. With the appearance of the title track as well as Carter himself in a coffee commercial, there was a resurgence in his popularity in Japan, with this album of new recordings the result. ~ Ian Martin   http://www.allmusic.com/album/its-the-time-mw0001630634

Personnel:  Ron Carter-bass;  Mulgrew Miller-piano;  Russell Malone-guitar

It's The Time

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