Sinne Eeg - Sinne Eeg

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:07
Size: 99,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:19)  1. How Deep Is The Ocean
(5:34)  2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
(6:28)  3. You Don'T Know What Love Is
(5:21)  4. Everybody's Song But My Own
(5:01)  5. Comes Love
(7:01)  6. Silence
(4:00)  7. Month Of May
(3:19)  8. Close Your Eyes

Sinne Eeg is one of the strongest new female vocalists from the Scandinavian jazz scene. With 5 albums Sinne Eeg has established herself as a Danish jazz singer with international potential.

Sinne’s distinctive vocals have earned her a loyal and ever growing fan base around the world as well as in her native country. As a singer she is influenced by Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, but with her personal touch of soft darkness, Sinne keeps the Scandinavian melancholy settled in her music. Since the release of the album “Waiting For Dawn” (2007) Sinne has won several music awards in Denmark,amongothersDanishMusicA ward (Best jazz vocal Album 2007, 2010), Danish Radio Jazz Award 2009. http://www.sinnemusic.com/

"The ravishing young Danish vocalist Sinne Eeg. Eeg has an amazing technique, coverage for all the tones she sings, a genuine jazz feeeling and an unusually large vocal range from top to bottom. Coupled with a totally obvious stage charisma, dignity and a sparkle in the eye, this really makes you surrender." (Review of Sinne Eeg + trio at Kristianstad Jazzfestival 10 Oct 2008 by Alexander Agrell, jazz journalist at Sydsvenskan (leading morning paper of South Sweden)

”A fully mature artist who dares to take chances, and succeeds with an instinctive feeling that lends credibility to everything she does.”  ~ Boris Rabinowitsch, Politiken  (Danish national daily newspaper)

”A voice that is warm and tremendously expressive sometimes revealing a touch of fragility - and whose emotional register ranges from delicate modesty to explosiveness, without falling for the temptation of over dramatizing. Add to this a talent for phrasing and a rhythmic emancipation that makes the music come alive in a way I have not experienced in any other Danish singer. It is equally rare to encounter a CD release containing a series of newly-written songs that are such gems.” ~ Boris Rabinowitsch, Politiken

”Not a single track seems superfluous; not one passage in a song seems lacking  which is why the album is so masterful. Immediately accessible, but at the same time so complex that new layers are constantly revealing themselves.” ~ Gaffa (Danish music magazine)

Sinne Eeg

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Russell Malone - Triple Play

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:17
Size: 138,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Honeybone
(5:25)  2. Mind Wine
(4:19)  3. Unchained Melody
(6:24)  4. Butch and Butch
(3:41)  5. Pecan Pie
(6:53)  6. Sweet Georgia Peach
(3:12)  7. Du Barry Was a Lady:  Do I Love You
(4:50)  8. Pocketwatch
(6:35)  9. The Witching Hour
(6:11) 10. Tail Feathers
(7:49) 11. The Kind of Girl She Is

Russell Malone's Triple Play is a notable session because it mixes his infectious originals with a number of decades-old songs that have unjustly been overlooked. Superbly accompanied by bassist David Wong and drummer Montez Coleman, Malone kicks off with his breezy bossa nova "Honeybone," which blends in a funky flavor and a bit of the blues. Malone's easygoing ballad "Pecan Pie" is an engaging melody worthy of a tasty lyric, while he showcases Coleman in his funky "Sweet Georgia Peach." The guitarist uncovered several gems by earlier jazz artists, including the late John Hicks' hip bop vehicle "Mind Wine" and Oliver Nelson's early-'60s intricate "Butch and Butch," both of which the trio interprets with flair. Malone's excursions into forgotten standards include an intimate setting of Cole Porter's "Do I Love You" and a moving solo interpretation of Alex North's hit "Unchained Melody" (the latter which has been recorded many times but infrequently by jazz artists). All in All, Triple Play is an impressive outing by Russell Malone. ~ Ken Dryden  http://www.allmusic.com/album/triple-play-mw0002044854

Personnel: Russell Malone: guitar; David Wong: bass; Montez Coleman: drums.

Triple Play

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The Rein de Graaff Trio, Conte Candoli, Bob Cooper - Thinking Of You

Styles: Piano, Trumpet And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:54
Size: 151,1 MB
Art: Front

(11:31)  1. Thinking Of You
( 9:53)  2. We'll Be Together Again
(10:33)  3. Star Eyes
(10:11)  4. I'll Remember April
( 8:34)  5. Ow!
( 5:58)  6. Loverman
( 9:12)  7. Oleo

This previously unreleased 1993 recording features two legendary West Coast jazz musicians, trumpeter Conte Candoli and tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper. Recorded shortly before Cooper suffered a fatal heart attack aged 67 the two musicians perform a set of standards backed by a seriously good Dutch rhythm section.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-You-Rein-Graaff-Trio/dp/B001U041MM

Personnel: Conte Candoli (trumpet), Bob Cooper (tenor saxophone), Rein de Graaff (piano), Koos Serierse (bass), Eric Ineke (drums)

Thinking Of You

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Adam Cohen - Like A Man

Styles: Vocal, Folk
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:05
Size: 85,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:01)  1. Out of Bed
(3:20)  2. Matchbox
(3:31)  3. Like A Man
(3:31)  4. Sweet Dominique
(4:42)  5. What Other Guy
(3:10)  6. Girls These Days
(4:14)  7. Lie Alone
(2:39)  8. Overrated
(3:29)  9. Beautiful
(2:23) 10. Stranger

On his fourth solo recording, songwriter Adam Cohen, progeny of one of pop music's greatest poets, Leonard Cohen, finally quits struggling against his birthright and surrenders. And in doing so, he's come all the way over to the side he seemed so determined to escape. Thank goodness. Like a Man assembles ten songs about what else? Love. There's no mistaking the singer's lineage: it's in his expressive baritone (his voice, though still somewhat flat, is not gruff or harsh). The arrangements and production bear his dad's influence: nylon-string guitars, upright bass, piano, subtle strings, and harmony vocals by no less than Jennifer Warnes. For those suspecting that Cohen is merely channeling and cashing in on his dad's rep, that's their problem. He makes no secret of his father's influence, but his way of writing songs is certainly his own. He uses fewer metaphorical or metonymic devices; his approach is more halting, less authoritative, but he possesses a keen eye for observation. Cohen is a mature songwriter whose work has been featured on other artists' records, but this is the first time his own voice so completely possesses his material. 

The title track, with its damning observations and admissions about the male gender, offers no excuses, its vulnerability evident. Producer Patrick Leonard's lilting string arrangements and Warnes' hushed backing vocals lend the song a quiet power. "Sweet Dominique" is as poignant a love song seen through the rearview mirror of life as you're likely to find. "What Other Guy" is from the same perspective, but without the distance of time to lessen the ache. It's all the more devastating because the protagonist knows virtually everything about his former, still-longed-for love, including "what you smell like when the night ends." Warnes' multi-tracked backing vocals on the chorus underscore the song's poignancy and tenderness. Like a Man was a recording Cohen had to make; it feels like he's coming to terms with exactly who he is. No, he's not as profound as his dad, but who the hell is? Measure him up to other great songwriters of his own generation born between the late '60s and the mid-'70s and he shines. ~ Thom Jurek  http://www.allmusic.com/album/like-a-man-mw0002203943

Personnel: Adam Cohen (vocals, nylon-string guitar); Bruce Geitch (steel guitar); Pat Leonard (piano, harmonium, Hammond b-3 organ, synthesizer).

Like A Man

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