Charles Brown - Honey Dripper

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 59:37

Size: 136.5 MB

Styles: West Coast blues, Urban blues

Year: 1996

Art: Front

[7:06] 1. News All Over Town

[4:24] 2. I Cried Last Night

[5:10] 3. When Did You Leave Heaven

[3:21] 4. There Is No Greater Love

[3:48] 5. If I Had You

[3:10] 6. Gee

[5:03] 7. The Very Thought Of You

[4:51] 8. You Won't Let Me Go

[4:25] 9. The Honey Dripper

[4:23] 10. They All Say I'm The Biggest Fool

[5:55] 11. At Your Beck And Call

[3:58] 12. Everyday I Have The Blues

[3:30] 13. Precious Lord

[0:26] 14. Charles Brown's Thank You

"Soothing" is not a word normally associated with blues, but its the word that best captures the experience of listening to Charles Brown, and Honey Dripper is no exception. Listening to it is like sipping a fine bottle of cognac. Seventy-two years old at the time of this recording session, Brown sounds agile, almost ageless. Indeed, time seems to stand still when he plays and sings in that same understated, urbane manner he popularized with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers back in the 1940s. Like his other recordings this decade, Honey Dripper features Brown's regular working combo, led by guitarist Danny Caron and including saxophonist Clifford Solomon. The songs range from straight-ahead blues to jazz ballads, with some straddling the line. ~Steve Hoffman

Honey Dripper

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Josh Lawrence - Roots

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:55
Size: 84.5 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:41] 1. 125th Street Intro
[5:26] 2. Queensborough Bridge Stomp
[5:27] 3. Northwest Extension
[4:15] 4. Jacob & Aaron
[6:02] 5. Someday Afternoon
[4:20] 6. One For The Cats
[4:10] 7. Sugar Hill Stroll
[4:30] 8. 145th Street Outro

Josh Lawrence is an internationally acclaimed trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator. He has performed with artists from Erykah Badu to Charli Persip and toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. His band the Josh Lawrence Jazz 3 fuses influences from New York City and Philadelphia into a fresh new sound called Soul Bop.

Lawrence studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and became a popular sideman on the neo-soul and jazz scenes. After graduation, he moved to the historic Sugar Hill neighborhood in Harlem where he was introduced to jazz masters Barry Harris, Frank Lacy, Jimmy Cobb, Lou Donaldson and Olu Dara. He co-founded the Uptown Brass at the Church of the Intercession in Washington Heights, worked as musical director for the band Harlem PsychaDelic and taught on faculty as brass instructor at Bronx Arts and Bronx Lab.

Today Josh Lawrence performs in clubs and festivals across Europe spreading the “gospel of American jazz”. His duo project with pianist Reggie Moore is receiving critical praise in Germany, his work with Adam Baldych’s Damage Control is garnering rave reviews throughout Poland and the Jazz 3 tours are establishing him as a bright new star on the international stage. He has just released his second album Roots and continues to teach students of all ages through master class programs.

Roots

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Maruja Muci - My Funny Valentine

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:25
Size: 106,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:35)  1. All Of Me
(2:57)  2. Black Coffee
(3:16)  3. Tenderly
(3:53)  4. Fever
(2:21)  5. Lullaby Of Birdland
(2:50)  6. Peel Me A Grape
(3:28)  7. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(4:22)  8. It Ain't Necessarilly So
(4:36)  9. Cry Me A River
(2:50) 10. Night And Day
(4:02) 11. We'll Be Together Again
(3:12) 12. Do I Move You
(5:57) 13. My Funny Valentine

This is Maruja Muci’s second commercial release. “My funny Valentine”, the title of her second album, is inspired by R. Rodgers & L. Hart’s song of the same title. The album contains 13 songs chosen from what it is called The Great American Songbook , songs that were written between the decades of 1930 and 1960. This album seeks to reinterpret some of the most relevant songs of this era with a Latin influence. It was a very difficult to choose the songs, since this repertoire is so extense and beautiful. Nostalgia may have played a significant role in the selection, as the voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Peggy Lee and many others were always there when she visited her father’s home. 

The album was recorded live in Jazzmania studios in Caracas,the General Production was managed by Maruja Muci, with collaboration from pianist Alberto Lazo. Many other talented musicians also participated in this production such as Bassist Carlos Rodríguez, drummer Miguel Hernández, Benjamín Brea plays the flute and the saxo, Cellist Pedro Vásquez and Nadim Dao in the Harmonica. The great Austrian- Venezuelan musician, Gerry Weil arranged and played the piano for the title song of this work. Listening to Maruja's voice is listening to a clean, velvety and unaffected voice that wraps itself around the lyrics, it is a voice that tells stories while it sings and brings with it a sense of intimacy between the listener and the artist as if she is singing to you and you alone.   http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/marujamuci2

My Funny Valentine

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Patrick Saussois, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jerry Bruno - Swingin American Songs

Styles: Swing And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:11
Size: 113,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:10)  1. Taking a Chance On Love
(4:54)  2. East Of The Sun
(3:50)  3. Pennies From Heaven
(6:35)  4. Tenderly
(3:18)  5. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
(3:56)  6. Indian Summer
(5:45)  7. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
(2:14)  8. The More I See You
(5:16)  9. If I Had You
(3:04) 10. But Not For Me
(7:05) 11. Body And Soul

The meeting in a studio of NY city in February of two generations of jazz guitarists, the first is French, the second American, and a bass player. Swingin' American Songs is a quite selected title. The beauty of the melodies of these American songs is certainly at the origin of their choice by the three protagonists. No artifice, just 2 guitars, a double bass, years of experiment, to know how to do and a nobstinated research of complementarity and the note which sound well with the moment when nobody have to prove its value, they express themselves in a righter and more significant way. 11 tracks. Djaz Records. 2005. ~Editorial Reviews http://www.amazon.com/Swingin-American-Songs-Patrick-Saussois/dp/B0009Y9EXG

Personnel: Jerry Bruno – bass; Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar; Patrick Saussois - guitar

Swingin American Songs

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Bob Wilber - Spreadin' Joy : The Music Of Sidney Bechet

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:25
Size: 104,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:50)  1. Polka Dot Stomp
(4:42)  2. Where Am I?
(2:57)  3. Ghost Of The Blues
(4:05)  4. When The Sun Sets Down South
(4:24)  5. Little Creole Lullaby
(3:08)  6. Spreadin' Joy
(5:08)  7. Who'll Chop Your Suey When I'm Gone
(4:32)  8. Quincy Street Stomp
(4:44)  9. Georgia Cabin
(3:16) 10. Blackstick
(5:33) 11. Blue Horizon

Throughout his long career, Bob Wilber has done a lot to keep classic jazz alive. A bit misplaced (most jazz players of his generation were much more interested in bop and hard bop), Wilber (along with Kenny Davern, Ralph Sutton, and Dick Wellstood) was one of the few in his age group to stick to pre-bop music. In high school he formed a band that included Wellstood, and as a teenager he sat in at Jimmy Ryan's club in New York. Early on he became Sidney Bechet's protégé and led his own young group, the Wildcats (with whom he made his recording debut). The close association with the dominant Bechet led to a bit of a personality crisis in the 1950s as Wilber sought to find his own voice. 

He studied with Lennie Tristano and formed the Six, a group that tried to modernize early jazz. When that ended, he played Dixieland with Eddie Condon, and in 1957 joined Bobby Hackett's band for a year. Wilber freelanced throughout the 1960s, in 1968 became a founding member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in 1973 he formed Soprano Summit with Kenny Davern, one of the top swing-oriented groups of the decade. A few years later the band broke up and Wilber teamed up with his wife, singer Pug Horton, in Bechet Legacy (which also featured either Glenn Zottola or Randy Sandke on trumpet).

In addition, Bob Wilber has worked with the New York Jazz Repertory Company, released music on his own Bodeswell label, wrote the authentic soundtrack to the movie The Cotton Club (1984), in 1988 led a band at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Benny Goodman's famous concert, and authored his frank memoirs, Music Was Not Enough. Influenced on soprano, clarinet, and alto by respectively Bechet, Goodman, and Johnny Hodges, Wilber has long had his own sound on each of his instruments. He recorded frequently through the years for many labels, including Arbors in the '90s and 2000s. ~ Bio Scott Yanow   http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-wilber-mn0000074476/biography

Spreadin' Joy : The Music Of Sidney Bechet

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Vincent Herring - The Uptown Shuffle

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:29
Size: 157,3 MB
Art: Front

( 7:31)  1. Elation
( 5:47)  2. Love Walked In
(10:18)  3. Tenderly
( 7:57)  4. Uptown Shuffle
( 7:49)  5. The Atholete
( 8:17)  6. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
( 7:22)  7. Strike up the Band
( 9:10)  8. Don't Let It Go
( 4:15)  9. Big Bertha

Following on the heels of their vinyl sampler and an introductory set by pianist Harold Mabern, comes The Uptown Shuffle by alto saxophonist Vincent Herring. This nine-track recital offers a smattering of Herring originals along with some well-chosen standards. Herring's choice of bandmates is nothing short of top shelf, with pianist Cyrus Chestnut and drummer Joe Farnsworth locking in with up and comer Brandi Disterheft on bass. A native of Vancouver, Disterheft has three albums of her own and has been actively making a name for herself here in the States the past few years.

The opening "Elation" is a Herring original of the modal variety with plenty of up tempo fire and panache to go around. Herring's tone has matured over the years and now has a stronger core tone, not unlike that of Kenny Garrett. For "Love Walked In," Herring recalls Lou Donaldson with his buttery tone and rhythmic swagger. Chestnut's original, "Uptown Shuffle" is feel good music of the best kind with a substantive solo from its composer. A master of brisk tempos, Farnsworth makes "Strike Up the Band" bristle with excitement. Check out the Phineas Newborn quote from Chestnut that ushers in a brief series of exchanges with Farnsworth to hear how well this rhythm section collates into a unified whole. A favorite Duke Pearson ditty, "Big Bertha," wraps up the proceedings on a joyous note, making this one of Herrings best presentations to date. 

~ C.Andrew Hovan http://www.allaboutjazz.com/smoke-sessions-a-threesome-from-herring-jackson-and-hazeltine-by-c-andrew-hovan.php#.U6iKhLG4OSo

Personnel: Vincent Herring: alto sax; Cyrus Chestnut: piano; Brandi Disterheft: bass; Joe Farnsworth: drums.

The Uptown Shuffle

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