Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg - The Starlit Hour

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:59
Size: 138,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:24)  1. I Hear Music
(2:42)  2. Glad to be Unhappy
(2:31)  3. Got a Date With An Angel
(2:36)  4. Not Mine
(2:14)  5. You Smell So Good
(3:22)  6. Você E Eu
(2:53)  7. The Starlit Hour
(3:48)  8. Song Of The Islands
(3:03)  9. Thief In The Night
(2:31) 10. I Hear The Music Now
(3:13) 11. Thanks For The Memory
(3:31) 12. It's The Talk Of The Town
(3:15) 13. Memphis in June
(2:53) 14. Ten Cents a Dance
(4:32) 15. Cry Me A River
(2:28) 16. I Go ForThat
(4:08) 17. Everthing Happens To Me
(4:13) 18. How Long, How Long Blues/ Song Of The Wanderer
(3:32) 19. Evenin'

There was something special about Rebecca Kilgore and Dave Frishberg's long-running engagement at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Ore. Unfortunately, the gig ended in 1997. The good news is that one evening in February of that year, Alan Garren of the delightfully named Waltzing Bear Audio captured an hour of their collaboration. Garren's recording is up close and perfectly balanced. Musical, cheerful, literate and faultlessly in tune, Kilgore sang 17 songs. Frishberg was at the piano, not opening his mouth. Famous as a songwriter and singer, he is less well known these days as an accompanist and soloist. He is, however, a world-class pianist, favored in his salad days by Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Jimmy Rushing, Carmen McRae and Ben Webster. His work with Kilgore, including two solo features, is a firm reminder of that. From her enormous repertoire, Kilgore chose familiar songs like "Cry Me a River," 

"Everything Happens to Me" and "It's the Talk of the Town." She also presented wonderful obscurities, among them "Not Mine," "You Smell So Good," "Thief in the Night" and "The Starlit Hour." She is an optimist. In "Glad to Be Unhappy," she sounds glad, and means it. An accomplished musician who knows chords, Kilgore could no doubt scat. She chooses not to, rather like Mark Twain's gentleman who knows how to play the accordion but refrains from doing so. She creates variations on melodies, works wonders with lyrics and swings. She doesn't need to scat to be a jazz singer. 

~ Doug Ramsey  http://jazztimes.com/articles/12815-the-starlit-hour-rebecca-kilgore-dave-frishberg

Personnel: Dave Frishberg (piano); Rebecca Kilgore (vocals).

The Starlit Hour

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Tommy Banks, Al Muirhead, Campbell Ryga, George Koller, Blaine Wikjord - All The Stars Aren't In The Sky

Styles: Traditional Jazz Combo
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:22
Size: 180,0 MB
Art: Front

(10:23)  1. Things Aint What They Used To Be
( 9:01)  2. If I Should Lose You
( 7:40)  3. I Thought About You
( 9:03)  4. Waltz For Debbie
( 6:11)  5. For All We Know
( 7:11)  6. Out Of Nowhere
( 5:54)  7. Darn That Dream
(11:04)  8. The Way You Look Tonight
( 1:52)  9. Two For The Road
( 9:56) 10. Stars Fell On Alabama

In the fifteenth century it was common for scientists, and others to sit at the feet of Artists as they were the ones who had the answer to the cosmic riddle. In the middle 1950's it was the jazz guys of New York who had a straight pipe tapping into the mother lode of what it was all about. Making the leap from amateur to fully committed artist, a Studio separate from where we lived was important. Crucial to the overall strategic plan was being able to listen to the great jazz masters of the day who were the cutting edge of contemporaneous thought. The first item of furniture purchased for the Studio was a stereophonic LP record player. Being able to listen to what “it” was all about whilst engaged in the actual act of painting was vitally important. What a gifted time it all was! Late at night standing at the easel with loaded brush and fevered mind I listened to Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, and so very many more. Playing tunes I was well familiar with such as “Stars Fell on Alabama”, “For all we know”, and “Moonlight in Vermont” they would weave intricate alternate lines contrapuntal to the musical passages written and in doing so prompt me to explore exciting alternate visual solutions.

They were the cutting edge of contemporaneous thought with intellectually challenging concepts. Their flights of fancy, and excursions into unexplored territory guided my brush, and informed my mind. My paintings of that time all owe a debt of great gratitude to those individuals, and the tunes of that day. Mounting this exhibition of works from that time I can think of no better way of celebrating them than to let the works hear the sort of sounds and music that were so instrumental in their creation so long ago. Playing those sorts of sounds, and that sort of music I can think of no finer artists than My good friend Al Muirhead, Campbell Ryga, the great Senator Tommy Banks , George Koller, and Blaine Wikjord to recreate those sounds. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tbcrgkbwam

All The Stars Aren't In The Sky

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Nathalie Loriers - Nympheas

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:27
Size: 115,8 MB
Art: Front

(9:35)  1. Désirs de Kiwis
(5:26)  2. Black Is Hard
(4:49)  3. Nat's Blues
(6:39)  4. Peace
(5:35)  5. Arica
(5:49)  6. Pleine lune
(6:02)  7. Nympheas
(6:27)  8. Nardis

Nathalie Loriers is a pianist of jazz Belgian born in Namur on 27 October 1966 and a native of Andenne. Trained in classical music, Nathalie Loriers quickly turned to jazz. Influenced by her professors Steve Houben and Charles Loos , barely 23 years old, the Belgian association of jazz critics elected him in 1989 "Best young talent in the country." The following year, she received the first prize for piano and jazz harmony at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and the title of "Best Young Soloist" at the Brussels Jazz Rally. In 1999, she received an award DjangodOr and released the album Silent Spring. With his group, she won in 2000 the Eurodjango and price Bobby Jaspar awarded by the Academy of Jazz . 

Within a few years of career, Nathalie Loriers occurred over a dozen albums. She has worked with world-renowned musicians, including Toots Thielemans , Lee Konitz , Diederik Wissels and the singer David Linx , with whom she recorded Standards, released in 1997. Strongly influenced by his mentor Charles Loos, she released the album in 2002 titled Timbuktu. In 2004, she formed the duo crossed paths with the oud player Tunisian Yadh Elyes . Their repertoire is written by Nathalie Loriers and Yadh Elyes. The compositions are steeped in jazz and meditative oriental music. Since May 2005, the young Belgian-Jordanian oud player, Karim Baggili replaces Yadh Elyes within the group. Translate by google ~ http://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Loriers&prev=search

Featuring : Nathalie Loriers (piano), Philippe Aerts (bass), Kurt Van Herck (saxophone), Mimi Verderame (drums)

Nympheas

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