Richard "Groove" Holmes & Jimmy Witherspoon - Groovin' And Spoonin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:36
Size: 74.6 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues, Urban blues
Year: 1973/2010
Art: Front

[2:09] 1. Take This Hammer, Part 1
[3:30] 2. In Blues
[2:13] 3. Loser's Blues
[2:27] 4. Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:25] 5. Key To The Highway
[2:24] 6. Cry The Blues
[2:07] 7. Out Blues (For Big Joe)
[3:27] 8. Since I Fell For You
[2:20] 9. Everything
[3:56] 10. Goin' To Chicago Blues
[2:30] 11. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
[3:03] 12. Take This Hammer, Part 2

Jimmy Witherspoon (Vocals), Groove Holmes (Organ), Teddy Edwards (Tenor Saxophone), Frank Butler (Drums), Jimmy Bond (Bass), Herman Mitchell (Guitar), Paul Moer (Piano).

An expanded CD was released in 2010. This material was also released on an album titled Spoon And Groove in 1996 and an album titled Blues For Spoon And Groove in 2009.

Groovin' And Spoonin' 

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Raphaële Atlan - Give It Time

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:09
Size: 112.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:45] 1. The Pursuit
[3:44] 2. Trente Ans
[3:42] 3. Summer Song
[3:33] 4. Give It Time
[5:01] 5. Night Passengers
[4:48] 6. Tous Ces Mois De Juliet
[5:03] 7. Rise
[3:29] 8. Rio
[3:19] 9. Eu Nao Existo Sem Voce
[4:48] 10. Real
[6:52] 11. What Remains

After her first album, Inner Stories, which received a critical acclaim in 2011, and a French tour in 2012, the singer and pianist Raphaële Atlan went back to the studios in 2014 to record Give It Time, essentially made of personal compositions that reveal a unique and creative kind of jazz, a universe full of energy, sweetness and poetry. In this second opus, her music is more than ever a reflection of herself : generous, multifaceted, enthusiastic, and deeply turned towards the world.

Born from a need to escape, several trips as many contemplative wanderings between three bright cities, NYC, Rio and Paris, this second album Give It Time shows the need for authenticity and new horizons that characterizes the young singer and pianist, gifted with an exceptional voice. In addition, the album is in itself a thought about the concept of time : the time one takes to fulfill oneself and make choices, the time one takes to discover, feel, leave ; time : the greatest vertigo of all, as well as our best ally in life…

Give It Time

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Michel Petrucciani Trio - Estate

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:52
Size: 77.6 MB
Styles: Post bop, Piano jazz
Year: 2001/2014
Art: Front

[5:28] 1. Pasolini
[4:57] 2. Very Early
[5:48] 3. Estate
[3:47] 4. Maybe Yes
[6:21] 5. I Just Say Hello
[4:13] 6. Tone Poem
[3:16] 7. Samba Des Prophetes

Michel Petrucciani was not quite 20 years old at the time of this trio session with drummer Aldo Romano and bassist Furio Di Castri, but he was already displaying incredible potential as a pianist. Petrucciani's risk-taking interpretation of Bill Evans' turbulent "Very Early" is the highlight of this release, closely followed by his own bittersweet ballad, "I Just Say Hello." Romano's rapid fire "Samba Des Prophetes" is superior to his rather bland and predictable "Pasolini." Michel Petrucciani made a number of dates for Owl and The George Wein Collection around the same time period as these recordings which are superior to this CD, yet none of them have remained in print. Even though this can't be considered an essential release for Michel Petrucciani fans (especially with its brief playing time of under 35 minutes), it is an enjoyable session. ~Ken Dryden

Estate

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Joel Weiskopf - Devoted To You

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:01
Size: 156,1 MB
Art: Front

(10:58)  1. Beauty For Ashes
( 6:26)  2. Devoted to You
( 9:30)  3. Giving Thanks
( 6:21)  4. November
( 6:41)  5. St. Denio
( 8:10)  6. The Strongest Love
( 7:27)  7. You Must Believe In Spring
( 4:41)  8. Wondrous Love
( 5:45)  9. A Mighty Fortress
( 1:58) 10. One Bright Morning

Brazilian influenced rhythms, loose-limbed swing and secondline groove are all part of Joel Weiskopf's fourth Criss Cross session as a leader. His incisive piano improvisations are enhanced by two of the label's star sidemen, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Eric Harland, each of whom also take advantage of a plentiful amount of solo space. The program includes Weiskopf's melodically opulent compositions, the standard You Must Believe in Spring, the spiritual Wondrous Love, and a rousing rendition of Martin Luther's hymn A Mighty Fortress. ~ Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Devoted-You-Joel-Weiskopf-Trio/dp/B000NVLABY

Personnel: Joel Weiskopf (piano); John Patitucci (bass guitar); Eric Harland (drums).

Devoted To You

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Lisa Bassenge Trio - A Sigh, A Song

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:00
Size: 140,2 MB
Art: Front

( 3:53)  1. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
( 4:34)  2. Adeus
( 2:34)  3. Blue Suede Shoes
( 2:50)  4. It's Now Or Never
( 3:05)  5. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes
( 3:26)  6. Shake The Disease
( 3:28)  7. My Guy
( 5:33)  8. Blue
( 3:33)  9. A Sigh, A Song
( 3:23) 10. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
( 1:38) 11. Are You Lonesome Tonight (Intro)
( 1:54) 12. Are You Lonesome Tonight
( 3:43) 13. Ol' 55
( 4:35) 14. Golden Earrings
( 1:09) 15. Interlude
(11:34) 16. Junimond

After his furious debut album Going Home Berlin Piano Trio puts the singer Lisa Bassenge here his second album before. The title A Sigh, A song could be in completely programmatically meant: between a sigh and a song need not necessarily lie worlds. At least that leads the ninth track, the only original composition of the album, before ears.It shows the band, as it dominates the reduction to the essentials and gets by with very little means to let a song go under the skin atmospherically. In a nutshell, two piano chords, a sensitively-sufficient mysterious bass. They conjure up that mood that can make just by a love sigh air. Of course there is not least the voice of the singer. For some ballads you may still need the large, even lived suffering; but not the passion. Lisa Bassenges singing is clear, supple and experiment. Already on their debut album, they had transformed Madonna's "Like A Virgin" in a delicate, wonderfully complex ballad. Now she has made with her companions except jazz standards more pop Title to deconstruct them. The trio is far from easy to covers songs; Jazz standards, it lights up from scratch, pop songs translated it into the jazz idiom. This produces creations that are sometimes even surpass the original. Rio Reiser "Junimond" Tom Waits '"Ol' 55" or "Shake The Disease" by Depeche Mode are imaginative, sensitive adaptations, but also discover the breaking points. For example, the Lisa Bassenge Trio dispensed with "Shake The Disease" in the well-kept British boredom that blew the arrangements of '80s cult band. The song does well, the trio well. It maintains its own attitude to life, and that has nothing to do with cerebral jazz. ~ Roman Rhode 

Tuesday she enthused Harald Schmidt: Lisa Bassenges Pop-jazz mix is ??ripe for a breakthrough... It is fitting that the first major television appearance of Bassenge Trio last Tuesday went at late night mockers of Sat1 across the stage. Because the transgressing character of music of Lisa Bassenge, pianist Andreas Schmidt and bassist Paul Kleber does not belong in the category of ghetto culture magazines. The Berlin reconcile with songs that everyone knows, interpret with improvisation. As the ancestors of the genre you are looking for the Jazz to Pop. The Bassenge Trio breathes classics by Elvis Presley, Tom Waits or Depeche Mode new life - and open up new world of hearing: so fragile and intimate as in the version of Bassenge Trio Madonna's hit "Like A Virgin" has never sounded ... ~ Handelsblatt, 06.12.2002  Translate by google  http://www.amazon.de/Sigh-Song-Lisa-Bassenge-Trio/dp/B00006ALD7

A Sigh, A Song

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Greg Fishman, Jeremy Monteiro - Only Trust Your Heart

Styles: Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:52
Size: 98,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:34)  1. Only Trust Your Heart
(5:41)  2. I Can't Get Started
(4:43)  3. El Cahon
(5:59)  4. Isfahan
(4:03)  5. My Funny Valentine
(4:50)  6. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
(6:20)  7. My Romance
(5:39)  8. Nancy With The Laughing Face

This set of duets by tenor saxophonist Greg Fishman and pianist Jeremy Monteiro is full of strong melodies, lyrical and thoughtful improvising, and warm feelings. Fishman's tone is a little reminiscent of Stan Getz and the Four Brothers without sounding derivative while the supportive Monteiro features attractive chord voicings and a fine two-handed style. Together, Fishman and Monteiro bring out the beauty in eight selections that include ballads and medium-tempo romps, all from the mainstream jazz tradition. This delightful program is well worth checking out. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/only-trust-your-heart-mw0001445890

Personnel:  Greg Fishman - Tenor Saxophone;  Jeremy Monteiro - Piano

Only Trust Your Heart

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John Davis & The Monster Orchestra - Night & Day

Styles: Jazz, Bop
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:10
Size: 78,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:10)  1. Tell Me How You Like It
(2:55)  2. I Get A Kick
(5:04)  3. Night & Day
(4:16)  4. I've Got You Under My Skin
(5:02)  5. I Can't Stop
(5:20)  6. In The Still Of The Night
(3:41)  7. You Do Something to Me
(2:40)  8. It's Delovely

The ensemble released its first album, Night and Day, in 1976. The 12" single, "I Can't Stop", was one of its original tunes. The album enjoyed minor success and its second release was 1977's Up Jumped The Devil. By 1978, the band had released its third album, Ain't That Enough For You. It was their most commercially successful release, featuring the self-titled hit "Ain't That Enough For You." The album gave the outfit its only UK hit, when the record reached #70 in the UK Singles Chart. 1979's The Monster Orchestra Strikes Again! would be the band's final album release. 

The record spawned two 12" singles: "Love Magic" would rival the group's previous success, whilst "Bourgie Bourgie" was a cover version of the Ashford & Simpson penned song. John Davis and the Monster Orchestra released a last gramophone record in 1981. Available only on a 12" single, "Hangin' Out" charted on Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in August 1981 and topped at number 46. 

In 1990, a remix of "(Feel The) Love Magic" was released and it became a club hit again. In 1992, Davis wrote, produced and performed the "Theme From Beverly Hills, 90210.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_and_the_Monster_Orchestra

Night & Day

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