Masha Campagne - Caminhos Cruzados = Crossroads

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:01
Size: 100.8 MB
Styles: Latin jazz, Standards
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[5:54] 1. Romance Além Das Nuvens Romance Beyond The Clouds
[5:36] 2. So In Love
[3:19] 3. Doralice
[9:20] 4. Jobim Medley
[5:30] 5. Pra Quem Quiser Me Visitar For Those Who Want To Visit Me
[3:54] 6. O Côco Do Côco The Coconut Beat
[4:15] 7. It Might As Well Be Spring
[6:09] 8. Faltando Um Pedaço Missing A Piece

Since moving from Russia to San Francisco in 1991, Campagne has forged relationships with some of the region’s finest musicians, and she makes the most out of those ties on her debut album, Caminhos Cruzados. Most importantly, she’s collaborated widely with Iago, the brilliant Rio-raised pianist/arranger who has so enriched the Northern California music scene. Exploring a program of American Songbook standards and Brazilian gems by the likes of Dorival Caymmi, Jobim and Guinga, Champagne has forged a delicious Brazilian jazz sound that she traces back to her early infatuation with Astrud Gilberto.

“I think it was the vulnerability of her voice that caught me, and the energy, passionate yet subtle,” Campagne says. “Later I realized that Brazilian songs had all the components for great music. The lyrics are poetic and beautiful, the melodies are gorgeous, the rhythms swaying and bouncy, and the harmonies are very sophisticated.” ~Andrew Gilbert

Caminhos Cruzados = Crossroads

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Alain Mion & His Funkey Combo - Groovin' In Paris

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:08
Size: 110.2 MB
Styles: Funky jazz, Piano jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[5:01] 1. The Wrong Soul Blues
[5:36] 2. East St. Louis, 1917
[3:03] 3. Dee Da Doo Ha !
[7:00] 4. Some Soul Food
[3:57] 5. The Last Train To Gila Bend
[6:04] 6. When The Ship Sails Away
[4:52] 7. Phila Nite Song
[3:29] 8. Joshua Fits The Battle Of Jericho
[6:37] 9. The Tap Tap
[2:24] 10. Greene Street

Recorded Live At the Jazz Club Lionel Hampton, Méridien Etoile, Paris, France

International top level band, directed by Alain Mion, formidable pianist, singer, composer, bandleader and arranger, certainly one of a kind in the “jazz funk and soul” style, in the same vein as Les McCann, Ramsey Lewis or Monty Alexander.

This 5 piece band has been created by Alain for a one week’s engagement at a prestigious Paris venue. The rare infectious energy of Alain, the groove of the trio and the swing and pleasure to play of the rhythm section (Swedish bassist Patrik Boman and German drummer Michael Kersting, both of them top level jazzmen with prestigious credits) are enriched with funky arrangements, played by a 2 sax ‘’rythm’n’blues’’ section (alto, tenor).

Fine melodist, radio hits composer (Pheno-Men, Devil’s Dance, The Tap Tap), gifted with a virtuoso pianist technique and a rare infectious energy, Alain Mion (today 63 years old) has performed on many radio and TV shows as well as at international festivals and prestigious venues, performing or recording from USA to China, from Sweden to Morocco, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, France

Groovin' In Paris

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Maggie Green - Maggie Green

Styles: Brazilian Jazz, Bossa Nova
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:59
Size: 92,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:46)  1. Bahia Com H
(4:22)  2. Leveza Do Ser
(4:06)  3. Eu Nao Existo Sem Voce
(2:49)  4. One Note Samba
(4:51)  5. A Ra
(5:20)  6. Sem Mais Adeus
(5:03)  7. That's All
(3:54)  8. Inquietacao
(3:22)  9. Trocando Em Miudos
(2:21) 10. Samba Do Aviao

“Maggie is one of the most promising new musicians… an accomplished singer and great live performer” ~ Ray Hanley, Greater Columbus Arts Council President

American singer Maggie Green traveled to Rio de Janeiro to make this recording with some of Brazil's finest musicians including Luiz Avellar, Marcos Ariel and Kiko Freitas to name a few. Features original arrangements of bossa nova classics and more. Studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Maggie filled her time listening to recordings of the jazz greats and began developing a style all her own. It was also during this time that she started absorbing the music of Brazil. The exploration of this music has become an integral aspect of her work. This new CD release was recorded in Rio de Janeiro, features pianists Marcos Ariel and Luiz Avellar, drummer Kiko Freitas and bassist Ney Conceicao, Jurim Moreira, bassist Andre Neiva and guitarist Leonardo Amuedo. Maggie has performed sold out shows at Rio’s Estacio de Sa and has also sang at Abbey Road Studio Pub in Porto Alegre, Brazil with guitarist Julio Herrlein. 

While in Porto Alegre, Maggie was featured in an article in the statewide newspaper Zero Hora and gave live performances on Brazilian television. She leads her own various ensembles and formed the bossa nova-samba group Canto Poetico. She has performed in the Columbus Latino Festival, Columbus Jazz & RibFest, and the Columbus Arts Festival. Her club performances include Nighttown in Cleveland and Acton Jazz Café in Acton, Massachussetts. Her first self-produced CD entitled “First Song” features Maggie with several Columbus artists, including violinist Chris Howes, guitarist Stan Smith, bassists’ Roger Hines and Chris Berg and drummer Joe Ong. Maggie has served on the faculty as jazz vocal instructor at Capital University. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/maggiegreen

Maggie Green

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Dana Robbins - So So Good

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:44
Size: 73,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Poquito Mas
(4:25)  2. For The Boyz
(3:31)  3. So Good
(3:35)  4. Watch It
(3:44)  5. Alexandra
(4:13)  6. Love Crusade
(4:16)  7. Groovin' The Boulevard
(3:28)  8. Maddi's Lullaby

Dana Robbins is an American singer who was the first contestant eliminated from the music reality competition Rock Star: INXS, in 2005. The daughter of a physician father and a nurse/real estate agent mother, Dana was born and mostly raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite her parents’ professional backgrounds, Dana caught the performance bug early, becoming a showgirl at the age of 17 and performing in the Riviera hotel shows Jubilee and Splash. She also founded the band Honey Pot and performed at Vegas hotspots like Club Utopia. She then moved to Los Angeles where she formed her current band Aerial. As the lead singer of Aerial, she's rocked in L.A.’s classic clubs, including the Viper Room, the Roxy, and the Gig. She has also performed in a number of softcore films and television series, including Intimate Nights (1998), Stripper Wives (1999), Sinful Obsession (1999), The Pleasure Zone (1999) and Pleasure Zone: Volume 4 - Promiscuous (2000). By day Dana is a bartender, yoga instructor and dancer.Her rock idol is Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.  

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So So Good

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Nicholas Payton - Numbers

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:20
Size: 158,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:48)  1. Two
(6:42)  2. Three
(5:46)  3. Four
(3:15)  4. Five
(4:59)  5. Six
(5:49)  6. Seven
(6:25)  7. Eight
(6:00)  8. Nine
(6:33)  9. Ten
(4:51) 10. Eleven
(6:37) 11. Twelve
(3:29) 12. Thirteen

I think y’all are going to dig this one. It's what Prince was going for on the Madhouse joints, but we leaned closer to Funk and Soul with a flare of New Orleans, of course. It’s like Leon Ware and Marvin Gaye - I Want You meets the vamps of The Meters and the cues of The Ohio Players, with a touch of Herbie Hancock and Patrice Rushen thrown in, and a dash of Dilla. But it don't sound like none of that shit at the same time. This album was recorded at Jellowstone Studios on all live instruments in one room with these cats out of VA called "Butcher Brown." Butcher Brown is Corey Fonville on drums; Devonne Harris on keys and bass; Keith Askey on guitar; and Andrew Randazzo on bass. Fonville's been working with me since 2010. I met him while he was still in college. I kept my eye on him and snatched him up as soon as he finished. 

He had been telling me about Harris, aka DJ Harrison, for years. Being the product of mentorship myself, the idea of sharing, lineage, and ancestry inspired me to get with these cats whom I felt a kinship. Sankofa is the spirit of Paytone Records. Go back and get it! When we tracked, I played mostly Rhodes and just a hint of trumpet with the idea that I would go back and overdub solos. After I lived with the material for a while, I came to love it just the way it is. As a result we may have recorded the hippest, funkiest Play-A-Long album that's ever been documented. Musicians, rappers, singers, DJs, and lovers have in this collection of records an album designed for you to float on top of. It’s a bed of sex wrapped in 500-thread count sonic sheets. The idea is that we leave space for you to find yourself in the music. In the New Orleans tradition, collective interplay is key. The cats from Virginia fit right in with my concept. I had these motifs sitting around for years these little 2 and 4-bar vamps. Part of the reason I started Paytone Records is to get all this stuff out, so I can do it on my schedule and not have to wait for the green light from someone else. I stopped writing songs over 10 years ago. I get moments of melodic, chordal, or rhythmic inspiration and I put that down. 

They write themselves. That’s the real stuff. When I began to assemble all of these melodic fragments, I was astonished at how seamlessly they all fit together. It’s like when you buy clothes and pick up a tie here or a vest there. Then you go to your closet and arrange an ensemble and it works as if you bought all the pieces at the same time, but it’s an assortment of things you’ve accumulated over the years. Because they were all picked with your eyes, it works. That’s what composing is for me these days. So far, Butcher Brown and I have done two sessions. The first was September 9 – 11, 2013, and the one that produced Numbers was from December 18 – 20, 2013. The last tune we did in the first session is called “One,” so I called the first piece from the 2nd session, “Two.” So if you’re wondering why the first track on Numbers is “Two,” and it makes you ask, “Where’s One?” you’ll have to wait for the first album. If someone wants you to describe what Numbers sounds like, tell them it’s like Nicholas and Butcher Brown took a time capsule back to 1973 and played a gig for the people demonstrating what's happened in music for the past 40 years. ~ Nicholas Payton, June 2014  http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/press-release-for-numbers-by-nicholas-payton-ft-butcher-brown/

Numbers

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Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine - Blue Flames

Styles: Hard Bop, Soul Jazz
Year: 1964
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:32
Size: 77,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:41)  1. The Funky Fox
(5:41)  2. Hips Knees An' Legs
(5:31)  3. Five Spot After Dark
(7:25)  4. Grand Street
(9:12)  5. Flamingo

All of the many collaborations between organist Shirley Scott and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine in the 1960s resulted in high-quality soul jazz, groovin' music that was boppish enough to interest jazz listeners and basic enough for a wider audience. This CD reissue has the duo (joined by bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Otis "Candy" Finch) performing a pair of Scott originals, Benny Golson's "Five Spot After Dark," Sonny Rollins' obscure "Grand Street" and the veteran standard "Flamingo." The only fault of this CD reissue is its brief length, just 32 minutes. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-flames-mw0000263755

Personnel: Shirley Scott (Hammond organ); Stanley Turrentine (tenor saxophone); Bob Cranshaw (bass); Otis Finch (drums).

Blue Flames

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