Doug Raney Quartet - Blues On A Par

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:34
Size: 131.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[ 6:48] 1. I Concentrate On You
[ 9:17] 2. Estate
[ 7:24] 3. Blues On A Par
[ 6:11] 4. Close Your Eyes
[13:41] 5. When Sunny Gets Blue
[ 5:24] 6. La Mesha
[ 8:46] 7. Midnight Delight

Guitarist Doug Raney has been a resident of Denmark for almost two decades since he moved there at the age of 19 and has matured into a formidable artist in his own right and is well established on the European jazz scene, though it is hard to forget about his famous father and fellow guitarist Jimmy Raney perhaps because of their striking physical resemblance.

Doug and producer Nils Winther have been planning this “back home” session for quite some time. And the result is this exciting CD in which you can hear that New York and the Apple’s brilliant rhythm section gave the guitarist an extra edge.

Blues On A Par

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Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose A Good Thing

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:11
Size: 64.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul
Year: 1963/2006
Art: Front

[1:53] 1. Second Fiddle Girl
[2:17] 2. Give Me A Break
[2:02] 3. Dina And Petrina
[2:12] 4. Lonely Heartache
[2:21] 5. I Warned You Baby
[2:27] 6. I'm Sorry I Met You
[2:35] 7. You'll Lose A Good Thing
[2:17] 8. Heartbreaking Years
[1:42] 9. Teen Age Blues
[2:31] 10. What I Need Is Love
[3:20] 11. You Don't Have To Go
[2:28] 12. Letter To Mommy And Daddy

Barbara Lynn Ozen's smoky voice and fine guitar playing was one of the better blends of soul vocals and blues embellishment. Huey P. Meaux produced this early-'60s record, which featured the classic title track. Other Lynn numbers, like "I'll Suffer," were equally outstanding; Lynn was sometimes tough and confrontational, and tender, inviting or anguished at other times. Meaux didn't clutter the works with unnecessary firepower; his arrangements and charts were just enough to augment Lynn's sturdy vocals. Lynn also wrote ten of the 12 songs. ~Ron Wynn

You'll Lose A Good Thing

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Pat Coil - Java Jazz

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:17
Size: 103.7 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:14] 1. You're The Cream In My Coffee
[3:11] 2. Isn't This A Lovely Day
[3:52] 3. The Look Of Love
[3:07] 4. Give Me The Simple Life
[3:17] 5. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
[5:07] 6. Black Coffee
[4:10] 7. Days Of Wine And Roses
[5:11] 8. Sunday Kind Of Love
[3:16] 9. Here's That Rainy Day
[3:15] 10. Sunday
[5:00] 11. Easy Living
[2:31] 12. The Coffee Song

Green Hill Productions presents "JAVA JAZZ" -- featuring Pat Coil, if you watch television, listen to the radio, or go to the movies, you have heard Coil and some form of his music. He is an extremely accomplished pianist/synthesist, composer, producer, arranger, programmer, as well as a highly respected studio musician.

Living now in Nashville with his wife and children, Coil continues his successful career composing, recording, performing, producing and arranging. He has composed, produced and performed on hundreds of underscores heard on a variety of media all over the world.

Coil has recorded several solo jazz albums of his own. Since then has recorded with my favorite jazz label Green Hill Productions. ~J. Lovins

Java Jazz

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Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson - Double Exposure

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:54
Size: 82.2 MB
Styles: Standards, Vocal jazz
Year: 1961/2005
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Summertime
[2:33] 2. I Only Have Eyes For You
[5:05] 3. It Never Entered My Mind
[2:36] 4. Two Ladies In De Shade Of De Banana Tree
[4:12] 5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
[4:20] 6. The Lonesome Road
[2:45] 7. All The Things You Are
[3:36] 8. Black Coffee
[4:23] 9. Happy New Year
[3:10] 10. That's How It Went All Right

Singer Chris Connor was nearing the end of her Atlantic years (which were really her prime) when she recorded this interesting, if not quite classic set with the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra, last reissued on a 1984 LP. With the exception of trumpeter Ferguson, there are few significant solos, and the big band mostly acts as an ensemble. Both Connor and MF were Kenton alumni, and there are moments where the orchestra reminds one of that band, but the focus is mostly on the singer. She is in particularly fine form on "I Only Have Eyes for You," "It Never Entered My Mind," "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" and "The Lonesome Road," although one wishes there was more interplay with the orchestra. ~Scott Yanow

Double Exposure

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Scott Hamilton - Live In Barcelona

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:39
Size: 114,0 MB
Art: Front

(8:17)  1. Slow Boat To China
(9:33)  2. Beautiful Friendship
(8:37)  3. Red Wagon
(5:43)  4. You Are Too Beautiful
(9:48)  5. Old Fashioned Love
(5:09)  6. Sweet Georgia Brown
(2:28)  7. Presentacion

The appearance of a disk of Scott Hamilton is good news for jazz fans and for all genuine music lovers. In these times of tribulation, in which the experimental formalism and the music hybrid have replaced the interpretive strength as a framework for creativity, Hamilton is a benchmark of how you can achieve a personal style through a proposal without complexes, which assimilates the speech timeless jazz in its various genres and variations. The choice of the repertoire of standards is the obvious symptom of this provision of Hamilton and his combo for concerts held in the Jamboree Club from Barcelona the days 17th and 18th of December 2010, some of whose performances have been selected for this album. Live in Barcelona is a recording to catch the early catalysts of jazz, its classical fundamentals, its expressive potential, which allow the best tradition reconcile and overcome the emptiness of many experiences that are supposedly innovative and an indication of a aimless time. ~ Javier Vellón, jazz critic  http://www.blaurecords.com/br-web/hamilton_en.html

Personnel: Scott Hamilton saxophone;  Gerardo Nieto piano;  Ignasi González bass;  Esteve Pi drums

Live In Barcelona

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Stride Piano Summit: A Celebration of Harlem Stride & Classic Piano Jazz

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:54
Size: 144,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:25)  1. Ain't Misbehavin'
(2:43)  2. Bach Up To Me
(4:34)  3. Old Fashioned Love
(2:12)  4. Eye Opener
(4:39)  5. Dinah
(5:34)  6. Confessin' The Blues
(3:42)  7. Persian Rug
(3:12)  8. Thou Swell
(5:41)  9. Clothes Line Ballet
(3:34) 10. 'Deed I Do
(5:16) 11. Sunday
(2:34) 12. Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
(2:46) 13. Am I Blue
(5:51) 14. Sweet Lorraine
(5:04) 15. All Of Me

Stride Piano Summit was an annual concert with a special group of pianists who gathered to celebrate the genre in San Francisco beginning in 1988; the 1990 edition was the first gathering recorded, featuring a rotating cast of musicians, including Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton, Mike Lipskin, and, finally, Jay McShann, who is better known for his Kansas City blues. Hyman and Lipskin pair up on several numbers, including a strutting take of "Ain't Misbehavin'" (during which they are also joined by the muted trumpet of Harry "Sweets" Edison) and a rambunctious duo piano take of "'Deed I Do"; Hyman switches to the powerful organ at Davies Symphony Hall to accompany Lipskin (still on piano) for "Persian Rug" and "Thou Swell," two of the numbers Fats Waller recorded on pipe organ during a 1928 session. 

Both of them are featured on a pair of piano solos apiece, with the expected first-rate results. Sutton joins forces with McShann and a rhythm section for "Old Fashioned Love," although they clearly don't mesh together as well as Hyman and Lipskin. Sutton fares better as a soloist in a brief run through "Eye Opener" and a crowd-pleasing rendition of Waller's "Clothes Line Ballet." McShann, who is clearly the odd man out in what is billed as a stride piano event, fares better in his playing of "Sunday" (with Hyman and Edison) and shines with yet another version of his well-known "Confessin' the Blues." In retrospect, a rhythm section seems superfluous when a true stride master is at the piano, but it is likely that the concert producers were trying to add a little variety. This enjoyable date is recommended for stride fans, with Hyman taking top solo honors for the evening. ~ Ken Dryden  http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/stride-piano-summit-a-celebration-of-harlem-stride-classic-piano-jazz-mr0000118088

Personnel: Dick Hyman (piano, organ), Mike Lipskin, Jay McShann (piano, vocal), Ralph Sutton (piano), Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet)

Stride Piano Summit

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Cristina Morrison - Baronesa

Styles: Vocal, Jazz Fusion
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:44
Size: 148,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:24)  1. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
(3:41)  2. The Sky Is in Your Eyes
(4:26)  3. Vocalise for My Mother
(7:28)  4. Cry Me a River
(4:56)  5. Ophelias's Madness
(4:19)  6. La Del Estribo
(6:15)  7. Mi Amargo Placer
(7:21)  8. Nuestro Juramento
(8:15)  9. Spanish Dreamland Ingquisition
(4:05) 10. Princesa Baronesa
(6:28) 11. Light or Dark

This new album is jazz-infused, much like her first album, I Love, but this time around Cristina expands her horizon. Here she sings in four languages and showcases her experience as an actress, singing in different styles and genres including: bolero, drum & bass, cha-cha-cha, lounge, and Arabian rhythms. The result is an eclectic cross-genre world-jazz production. Her lyrics speak of love, dreams, colorful memories, the pain of losing her mother, and also about her friends and anecdotes. Cristina plays through her interpretive side not only on the record but on stage as well. Her performance has evolved into more of a theatrical experience as she navigates through the realms and concepts within Baronesa. “It's musically complex and deep, it's a well thought out production and very very fun too!" she smiles.

Her creative process for Baronesa started on the Galapagos Islands just like I LOVE. She's committed to the Islands as a promoter of an arts education program called Arteducarte, taught in the public schools of Isabela Island. A percentage of her record sales go towards the yearly funding of the program. Recently she was honored with an invitation to speak at the first Tedx Galapagos and as part of the Jury committee for the fiction feature length competition at the Havana Film Festival in New York. Cristina is also involved as a board member of the screen actors union of Ecuador. Her latest film, Feriado, in which she played and was an associate producer, had it's world premiere at the Berlinale last year and screened during Latinbeat at Lincoln Center.

Personnel:  Cristina Morrison: vocals; Misha Piatigorsky: piano and all keys , percussion; Conor Rayne: cajon; Willard Dyson, Ari Hoenig, Rudy Royston: drums; Danton Boller. Edward Perez, Sergio Branda~o: bass; Ron Affif, Mark Hermann: guitars; Joel Frahm: tenor and soprano saxophone; Tatum Greenblatt: trumpet; Magnus Lindgren: flute; Mauricio Herrera: percussion; Victor Prieto: accordion; Frederika Krier: violin; Chorus: Misha Piatigorsky, Tatum Greenblatt, Mauricio Herrera, Anatalya Piatigorsky.  http://news.allaboutjazz.com/cristina-morrison-hot-new-cd-baronesa-out-on-june-9.php

“Vocalist Cristina Morrison is as worldly and well-traveled as they come. She was born in Miami and spent time living in Rome, Quito, the Galapagos Islands and Los Angeles before landing in the Big Apple, from whence she recorded this fine debut. Morrison possesses a voice that's alternately soothing, sassy, straightforward or sly, and she brings it to bear on a diverse array of original and oft-covered offerings." ~ Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

 

Baronesa

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George Cables - By George (Plays Music Of George Gershwin)

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:19
Size: 107,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:25)  1. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
(7:31)  2. My Man's Gone Now
(4:36)  3. I Got Rhythm
(6:51)  4. Embraceable You
(7:06)  5. Someone to Watch over Me
(5:53)  6. A Foggy Day
(4:53)  7. Summertime

Assisted by bassist John Heard and drummer Ralph Penland on four of the six tracks, pianist George Cables explores six very familiar George Gershwin compositions. The fact that he was able to come up with fresh statements on these warhorses (and still stay melodic) says a great deal about Cables's inventiveness.

~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/by-george-mw0000193812

Personnel: George Cables (piano); John Heard (bass); Ralph Penland (drums)

By George

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