Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 30:35

Size: 70.0 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz, Standards

Year: 1957/2009

Art: Front

[2:47] 1. Broadway

[2:44] 2. Trust In Me

[2:08] 3. Summertime

[2:32] 4. Misty

[2:16] 5. A Foggy Day

[2:33] 6. What Do You See In Her

[2:31] 7. The Late, Late Show

[2:41] 8. My Funny Valentine

[2:15] 9. Give Me The Simple Life

[2:45] 10. You Showed Me The Way

[2:37] 11. Moonray

[2:39] 12. Ain't No Use

Singer Dakota Staton's first full-length album was one of her best. She had a hit with "The Late, Late Show" and performed memorable versions of "Broadway," "A Foggy Day," "What Do You See in Her," "My Funny Valentine" and "Mooney." Backed by a largely unidentified orchestra arranged by Van Alexander (with Hank Jones on piano), Staton sounds both youthful and mature, displaying a highly appealing voice on a near-classic set. ~Scott Yanow

The Late, Late Show

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The Gene Harris Quartet - Like A Lover

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:05
Size: 133.0 MB
Styles: Mainstream jazz, Piano jazz
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[4:31] 1. Like A Lover
[7:27] 2. Misterioso
[4:25] 3. Strollin'
[6:24] 4. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
[6:36] 5. Jeannine
[5:19] 6. I Can't Stop Loving You
[6:53] 7. You Make Me Feel So Young
[4:25] 8. Oh, Look At Me Now
[4:25] 9. Just One More Chance
[7:35] 10. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)

Pianist Gene Harris' 1992 quartet (with guitarist Ron Eschete, bassist Luther Hughes, and drummer Harold Jones) explores ten wide-ranging selections on this CD. But despite the very different chord changes, they are able to infuse the music with so much soul that the results are consistently bluesy. Among the tunes that Harris and his group explore are Horace Silver's "Strollin'," "Until the Real Thing Comes Along," "Jeannine," "You Make Me Feel So Young," and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams." An excellent effort. ~Scott Yanow

Like A Lover

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Rebecca Kilgore - Rebecca Kilgore's Lovefest at the Pizzarelli Party

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:23
Size: 138,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. How Are You Fixed for Love
(5:27)  2. Middle of Love
(3:11)  3. Loads of Love
(5:15)  4. Let There Be Love
(4:29)  5. Where Is Love?
(5:02)  6. It's Love
(4:58)  7. That Tired Routine Called Love
(5:02)  8. Love Is a Necessary Evil
(5:16)  9. That Old Devil Called Love
(4:45) 10. Take Love Easy
(7:49) 11. Down With Love / Hooray for Love
(4:03) 12. Something Like Love

One can almost hear Rebecca Kilgore smiling as she sings. Since she launched her jazz career, she's been a jazz party favorite and has often displayed a penchant for digging up forgotten songs. For these 2010 sessions, she shares the spotlight with some of her regular collaborators on record dates (most of whom she's shared the stage with as well), including guitarists Bucky and John Pizzarelli, bassist Martin Pizzarelli, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, pianist Larry Fuller, drummer Tony Tedesco, and violinist Aaron Weinstein, with love being a common theme in the music. The little licks added behind her vocals in the swinging opener, "How Are You Fixed for Love," demonstrate the natural chemistry of the musicians. The haunting ballad "Where Is Love?," written for the movie Oliver!, is a warm feature with John Pizzarelli's soft guitar; Tedesco adds gentle brushwork, while Weinstein detours into "Who Will Buy?" from the same film in his brief solo.

Kilgore's lively approach to Matt Dennis' "That Tired Routine Called Love" makes one wonder why jazz singers have overlooked this gem for so long. Harry Allen's sassy tenor is the perfect accompaniment to the singer in her swinging take of Duke Ellington's obscure "Take Love Easy." There isn't a weak spot throughout this enjoyable CD, something Rebecca Kilgore fans have long come to expect when giving her latest release its initial spin. ~ Ken Dryden  http://www.allmusic.com/album/lovefest-at-the-pizzarelli-party-mw0002087161

Personnel: Rebecca Kilgore, vocal; John Pizzarelli, guitar; Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar; Martin Pizzarelli, bass; Aaron Weinstein, violin; Harry Allen, tenor sax; Larry Fuller, piano; Tony Tedesco, drums.

Rebecca Kilgore's Lovefest at the Pizzarelli Party

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The Bob Wilber Big Band - Bufadora Blow-Up

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:54
Size: 163,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:31)  1. Bufadora Blow-Up
(5:51)  2. Dancing On A Rainbow
(3:50)  3. Patterns Of Ecstasy
(3:55)  4. It's Been So Long
(3:11)  5. Early Morning Blues
(1:06)  6. I'm Checking Out
(3:27)  7. Clarion Song
(4:35)  8. Goodnight, My Love
(1:01)  9. Mostly Mozart
(2:53) 10. In A Melancholy Mood
(0:58) 11. Movin' N' Groovin'
(3:00) 12. Tango Royale
(3:32) 13. The Big Pearl
(3:57) 14. Mdina
(3:20) 15. We'll All Go Ridin' On A Rainbow
(3:55) 16. Jumpin' At The Woodside
(0:27) 17. Untitled
(4:31) 18. Untitled
(4:48) 19. Untitled
(7:58) 20. Untitled

Recorded at the third annual March of Jazz party put on by Mat and Rachel Domber of Arbors Records, this concert gave Bob Wilber a rare opportunity to put together a big band and present his own charts. Of the 16 songs, 11 are his originals, and in general, despite the fresh repertoire, the music is in the style of Benny Goodman's Orchestra with touches of Ellington and Basie. Wilber is generally the main soloist, and although there are short spots for many of the notable players (which include trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso and pianist Dick Hyman), the emphasis is mostly on the written ensembles and often moody melodies. Pug Horton sings on about half the songs in the same straightforward and lightly swinging manner as Helen Ward did with BG 60 years ago. None of Wilber's originals are destined to become standards, but taken as a whole, they are quite enjoyable. After performing the tightly controlled music, the band had the opportunity to close the concert with a rousing rendition of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" that features solos from a dozen of the musicians, including a tenor player using the pseudonym of "Shoeless Henry Aaron" who I am unable to positively identify (Harry Allen?). Although not an essential release, this CD should interest swing collectors. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/bufadora-blow-up-at-the-march-of-jazz-96-mw0000595256

Personnel: Bob Wilber (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Howard Alden (guitar); Chuck Wilson, Jerry Jerome, Scott Robinson (saxophone); Wendell Brunious, Jon-Erik Kellso, Bob Merrill , Charlie Bertini (trumpet); Dan Barrett , George Masso (trombone); Dick Hyman (piano); Ed Metz, Jr. (drums).

Bufadora Blow-Up

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Sonny Clark - Good As Gold

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 108:54
Size: 250,2 MB
Art: Front

( 9:31)  1. Deep Night
( 8:16)  2. Sippin' At Bells
( 6:12)  3. Personality
( 9:50)  4. Be-Bop
( 5:35)  5. Since I Fell for You
( 5:59)  6. Tadd's Delight
( 5:04)  7. C.T.A
( 4:57)  8. Who Do You Love I Hope
( 4:19)  9. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
( 6:31) 10. Softly As in a Morning Sunrise
( 9:20) 11. Cool Struttin'
( 7:02) 12. Candy
( 4:52) 13. I'll Remember April
(10:17) 14. Blue Minor
( 3:41) 15. Two Bass Hit
( 7:22) 16. All the Way

Like Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker before him, Sonny Clark's life was short but it burned with musical intensity. Influenced deeply by Bud Powell, Clark nonetheless developed an intricate and hard-swinging harmonic sensibility that was full of nuance and detail. Regarded as the quintessential hard bop pianist, Clark never got his due before he passed away in 1963 at the age of 31, despite the fact that it can be argued that he never played a bad recording date either as a sideman or as a leader. Known mainly for seven records on the Blue Note label with a host of players including such luminaries as John Coltrane, Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Art Taylor, Paul Chambers, Wilbur Ware, Philly Joe Jones, and others, Clark actually made his recording debut with Teddy Charles and Wardell Gray, but left soon after to join Buddy DeFranco. His work with the great clarinetist has been documented in full in a Mosaic set that is now sadly out of print. Clark also backed Dinah Washington, Serge Chaloff, and Sonny Criss before assuming his role as a leader in 1957. Clark's classic is regarded as Cool Struttin' but each date he led on Blue Note qualifies as a classic, including his final date, Sonny's Crib with John Coltrane. And though commercial success always eluded him, he was in demand as a sideman and played dozens of Alfred Lion-produced dates, including Tina Brooks' Minor Move. Luckily, Clark's contribution is well documented by Alfred Lion; he has achieved far more critical, musical, and popular acclaim than he ever did in life. Bio ~ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sonny-clark/id1004725#fullText

Good As Gold

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Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

Styles: Rock
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:58
Size: 159,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. Secret Love
(4:32)  2. For What It's Worth
(3:58)  3. In Your Dreams
(5:36)  4. Wide Sargasso Sea
(5:34)  5. New Orleans
(5:26)  6. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
(5:58)  7. Annabel Lee
(4:12)  8. My Heart
(5:16)  9. Soldier's Angel
(5:16) 10. Everybody Loves You
(6:06) 11. Ghosts Are Gone
(5:26) 12. You May Be The One
(4:38) 13. Italian Summer
(3:38) 14. Cheaper Than Free (Featuring Dave Stewart)

Stevie Nicks built her legend on the California-Babylon chronicles she perfected in the Seventies with Fleetwood Mac, and in the Eighties on underrated solo gems like The Other Side of the Mirror. But she still has that eternal edge-of-17 tremor in her voice. The gypsy queen is in royal form on In Your Dreams it's not just her first album in 10 years, it's her finest collection of songs since the Eighties.
In Your Dreams has the high-gloss L.A. production of her collaborators, Glen Ballard and Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. But the material is Nicks in platform-soled hyper-romantic mode, with her voice in surprisingly supple shape. "Secret Love" is an oldie she wrote in 1976 who knew she was still keeping secrets from her Rumours days? It seems to be about one of her rock-star beaus, although she coyly maintains she can't remember which one. Yet it isn't even one of the better tracks on In Your Dreams. The over-the-top seduction ballad "Italian Summer" could be her answer to the Stones' "Wild Horses." It climaxes in a very Stevie credo: "Love was everywhere/You just had to fall."

Nicks finds storytelling inspiration everywhere, from the Twilight series ("Moonlight [A Vampire's Dream]") to Jean Rhys ("Wide Sargasso Sea"). But the real showstopper here is the Edgar Allan Poe tribute "Annabel Lee," a fan fave that's been kicking around on bootlegs since the Nineties. It's a six-minute meditation on love and death with echoes of the Fleetwood Mac classic "Dreams." Poe's key line "The moon never beams without bringing me dreams" might have been written in 1849, but it was clearly meant for Stevie Nicks to sing.  http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-your-dreams-20110427

Personnel: Stevie Nicks (vocals, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Dave Stewart , Lindsey Buckingham (vocals, guitar); Mike Campbell (guitar, lap steel guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion); Glen Ballard (guitar, piano, keyboards); Neale Heywood, Al Ortiz, Rob Cavallo, Waddy Wachtel (guitar); Greg Leisz (mandolin); Ann Marie Calhoun, Torrey Devito (violin); Ricky Peterson (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Mike Rowe (Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards); Zach Rae (Hammond b-3 organ); Ned Douglas (keyboards, programming); Mick Fleetwood, Blair Sinta, Steve Ferrone (drums); Scott Campbell (percussion, programming); Lenny Castro, Mike Fasano (percussion); Sharon Celani, Lori Nicks (background vocals).

In Your Dreams

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