Milt Jackson - Bebop

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:53
Size: 116.5 MB
Styles: Vibraphone jazz
Year: 1988
Art: Front

[5:23] 1. Au Privave
[5:46] 2. Good Bait
[4:57] 3. Woody 'n You
[7:07] 4. Now's The Time
[5:28] 5. Ornithology
[5:53] 6. Groovin' High
[5:37] 7. Birks' Works
[5:52] 8. Salt Peanuts
[4:46] 9. I Waited For You

Fantastic bebop album from Milt. This one was released in 1988 forty years after the birth of bebop to tribute the genius of this music and of its creators Parker, Gillespie, Monk, Christian and Milt himself who was among the best of them all at the time. This album is simply superlative. The line up consists in Milt at the vibraharp, Jon Faddis, the Dizzie Gillespie alumn at the trumpet, JJ Johnson at the trombone, Jimmy heath tenor sx, Cedar Walton (the maestro!!) at the piano, John Clayton at the doublebass, Mickey Roker drums. The tunes are all fast bebop numbers from the era, Ornithology, Au privave, bebop blueses and anatolls from Parker's, Gillespie's, Dameron's pens. In the end of the selection the band play a stellar version of I" waited for you", a marvellous bebop ballad. It's simply pefect in the tune selection too. What can I say more? Uh, yes, the album is perfectly recorded .. it is a bebop album without the limits of the forties in the recording step. So it is a must have. The emphasis of the music is just right, just perfect. Solos are wonderful. ~Jazzcat

Bebop 

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Joe Beck, Santi Dibriano, Thierry Arpino - Tri07

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:04
Size: 153.5 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[ 5:30] 1. Impressions
[ 8:33] 2. But Beautiful
[ 4:30] 3. Laura
[ 5:46] 4. My Romance
[10:03] 5. Alone Together
[ 9:19] 6. Cry Me A River
[ 3:41] 7. A Little Blue
[ 8:07] 8. Dancing To San Xavier
[ 4:43] 9. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance With You
[ 6:48] 10. You And The Night And The Music

Tri07 is a different type of release for Joe Beck. Which is a powerful statement, since this guitarists' guitarist has won the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) five different times, and his career, which spans five decades, includes working with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Antonio Carlos Jobim and other geniuses.

Tri07 delivers two distinct Beck flavors: Adventurous improvisational explorations that deconstruct and reassemble pieces such as "You and the Night and the Music" and John Coltrane's "Impressions," and reverential yet energetic reviews of numerous hallowed standards ("But Beautiful," "Laura," "My Romance," "Cry Me A River" and "(I Don't Stand) a Ghost of a Chance with You").

Beck can move so freely between these styles thanks to the energy and dexterity of his rhythm section: bassist Santi Dibriano, who has played with Larry Coryell, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers, Sonny Fortune and Archie Shepp; and drummer Thierry Arpino, who most often plays with Jean-Luc Ponty. "We traveled together musically for two solid days of experimental sessions," wrote Dibriano in his notes; "This rhythm section is almost too good to be true," wrote Beck in reply.

This trio's opening "Impressions" of the Coltrane classic provides a clear path for the extrapolations and interpretations which follow. Arpino's firm beat grounds the ensemble, but Beck's guitar doesn't stay shackled to any uniform cadence for very long. Their ten-minute exploration takes "Alone Together" even farther out, and they wrestle new riffs and colors from the concluding "You and the Night and the Music," an abstract spacewalk through which Dibriano's fingers fly so quickly that his bass notes blur together into a continuous harmonic rumble, and Arpino's unaccompanied breaks fracture the brittle sound of Elvin Jones into brilliant marble pieces. Beck proves to be a ballad interpreter who allows the original melody to whisper through his own vision. "But Beautiful" retains that gorgeous, almost timeless melody over which Tony Bennett, for example, loves to linger, but within these eight minutes Beck finds time and space to beautifully improvise on its underlying chords, with perfect, literally perfect, rhythmic support. The trio unravels the chords of "(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance with You" into ribbons, and then neatly ties these ribbons back up into colorful knots and bows, while "Cry Me a River" suggests the soft strong touch of Barney Kessel.

Beck also contributes two of his own tunes. "A Little Blue" is precisely that, a loping blues shuffle where he sharpens his chords and attack, and shows off his Chet Atkins and George Benson chops. "Dancing to San Xavier" is evocative in both title and impact; Beck's guitar sort of hovers between clouds of airy melodic lines, while DiBriano and Arpino samba with only the loosest of gossamer connections between them, until everyone descends upon a spontaneous improvisational eruption of flowing, hot chords to close. ~Chris M. Slawecki

Joe Beck: guitar; Santi Dibriano: bass; Thierry Arpino: drums.

Tri07

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Cecilia Dale - 2 albums: Standards In Bossa / Standards In Bossa II

Album: Standards In Bossa

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 47:12

Size: 108.1 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 1999/2013

Art: Front

[3:30] 1. Night And Day

[3:38] 2. I'm In The Mood For Love

[3:51] 3. Cry Me A River

[4:02] 4. What's New?

[2:25] 5. Just One Of Those Things

[3:47] 6. Moonlight In Vermont

[3:44] 7. As Time Goes By

[2:45] 8. How High The Moon

[4:29] 9. Over The Rainbow

[2:58] 10. How About You

[3:36] 11. Bewitched

[2:13] 12. Makin' Whoopee

[2:54] 13. Smile

[3:15] 14. Tenderly

Standards In Bossa I

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Album: Standards In Bossa II

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 47:09

Size: 108.0 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 2006/2013

Art: Front

[2:17] 1. It Had To Be You

[3:32] 2. Manhattan

[2:33] 3. I Left My Heart In San Francisco

[3:34] 4. My Foolish Heart

[3:59] 5. That's All

[3:17] 6. Call Me Irresponsible

[5:26] 7. You Go To My Head

[2:23] 8. Dream

[2:59] 9. Fly Me To The Moon

[5:22] 10. My Funny Valentine

[2:30] 11. Our Love Is Here To Stay

[3:06] 12. Foggy Day

[3:08] 13. You Do Something To Me

[2:55] 14. All The Things You Are

Standards In Bossa II

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Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires - Distillations Of The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:44
Size: 107.0 MB
Styles: Jazz/blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:42] 1. Hesitation Blues
[4:21] 2. Sweat Upon My Brow
[5:07] 3. I Don't Feel Welcome Here
[3:35] 4. I've Got A Right To Carry On
[4:17] 5. One More Distillation Of The Blues
[4:00] 6. Champion Jack
[3:06] 7. Slippin' Slowly
[4:16] 8. Bad Kids
[4:01] 9. Adam And The Devil
[4:49] 10. Butterfly Dreamin'
[4:25] 11. When The Weather Breaks

Featuring guitarist Neil Flink of Toronto, Ontario, bassist Brian Vinson of Louisville, Kentucky, and Norman Edwards Jr. of West Hempstead, New York on drums, Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires bring original stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, the bare-bones sensibility of early folk and the vibrancy of New Orleans. From a home base in Brooklyn, NY, Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires tour a wide swath of the country from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Thomas West Virginia, to Tulsa Oklahoma, and Nashville, Tennessee. Their 2009 release, Egyptland, and their 2011 release, If I Walked On Water, were both well received by the press.

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Ted Hefko moved to New Orleans on a Greyhound Bus when he was 18 and fresh out of high school. He rode next to a Memphis call-girl, nearly twice his age, who entertained him with stories of the ins and outs of her business. Ted began writing song lyrics when he was in second grade and picked up the guitar a couple years later along with any instrument he could get his hands on, from violin to keyboard and banjo. Saxophone was offered in sixth grade band. As a young adult, Ted wanted to dig a little deeper into modern jazz at The University of New Orleans. There he chose saxophone over guitar as his primary instrument. That choice led to ten years of working as a free-lance horn player in New Orleans and New York, before song writing and the guitar began calling him back. His original act encompasses the full range of these experiences. Ted strums a guitar while he sings his lyrics before switching to tenor sax or clarinet for his solos.

Distillations Of The Blues

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Renee Rosnes - Black Narcissus

Styles: Piano Jazz

Year: 2008

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 53:43

Size: 123,1 MB

Art: Front

(4:07)  1. Black Narcissus

(6:09)  2. Without A Song

(5:59)  3. You Know I Care

(8:04)  4. Beatrice

(5:35)  5. Recorda Me

(4:29)  6. Chelsea Bridge

(4:45)  7. Isotope

(5:46)  8. What's New

(4:34)  9. Serenity

(4:09) 10. Night And Day

Beautiful trio work from pianist Renee Rosnes a set that sparkles with warmth and imagination, and which features wonderful support from drummer Lewis Nash and bassist Peter Washington! The trio's perfectly poised throughout, but never in staid ways just always open to a new groove, and a newly fluid line magically reforming themselves with a new sense of energy on each fresh track, and never failing to delight us as the set moves on! Renee's piano is as warm and lyrical as ever, but we're especially in love with the Washington/Nash rhythm team as they push a cool groove on the set, one that makes Rosnes sound better than we remember on other recent dates. Titles include "Black Narcissus", "Night & Day", "Serenity", "Beatrice", "Recorda Me", and "Isotope".https://www.dustygroove.com/item/609719

Personal: Renee Rosnes – piano;  Peter Washington – bass;  Lewis Nash - drums

Black Narcissus

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Tessa Souter - Listen Love

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:26
Size: 102,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:46)  1. The Peacocks
(4:42)  2. Willow
(3:45)  3. Caravan
(4:03)  4. Listen Love
(4:43)  5. Fragile
(6:15)  6. You Don't Have To Believe
(3:50)  7. Daydream
(3:10)  8. Insensatez
(4:01)  9. Left Alone
(6:06) 10. The Creator Has A Master Plan

"On her amazing album Listen Love, [Tessa Souter] delivers powerful versions of nonstandards such as Pat Martino's "Willow" and Pharoah Sanders' complex "The Creator Has a Master Plan," in addition to her originals, all delivered in a crystal-clear voice with diamond-cut phrasing and a slight tinge of melancholy. She's a gem." (Phladelphia Inquirer) "Like Norma Winstone whose lyrics for Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks" she uses here Souter understands what is needed to deliver a song .... Souter's singing style feels natural and organic her rich, dark voice combines with her ability to see the shape of a tune and so the words seem to come from her soul." (All About Jazz-New York) ~ Editorial Reviews http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Love-Tessa-Souter/dp/B000CA35BE

"Musical sophistication ... extraordinary authenticity." ~ Los Angeles Times

"On her amazing album Listen Love, ... crystal-clear voice with diamond-cut phrasing and a slight tinge of melancholy. " ~ Philadelphia Inquirer

Listen Love

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Stan Getz - Award Winner

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:40
Size: 169,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:08)  1. Where Or When
(7:03)  2. Woody 'N' You
(4:44)  3. Smiles
(6:55)  4. Three Little Words
(6:41)  5. Time After Time
(9:19)  6. This Can't Be Love
(7:42)  7. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
(5:31)  8. But Beautiful
(7:10)  9. Woody 'N' You (Alternative Take)
(6:49) 10. Time After Time (Alternative Take)
(0:30) 11. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm (False Start)
(0:17) 12. Smiles (False Start)
(0:37) 13. Time After Time (False Starts)
(0:23) 14. Woody 'N' You (False Start)
(2:43) 15. Woody 'N' You (Inserts)

Award Winner reunites Stan Getz with his mid-'50s right-hand men pianist Lou Levy and bassist Leroy Vinnegar, plus drummer Stan Levey, who sat in with the trio on 1956's The Steamer. Not surprisingly, it's quite similar to that effort, as the quartet keeps thing alternately cool, swinging ballads, and simmering, low-key grooves. It's the sound that made Getz' reputation and brought him popularity, a fact alluded to in the set's title. In retrospect, that can make Award Winner seem like standard-issue Getz, since it is straight-up Stan, with no surprises. Still, that's a very good thing, since few other tenor saxophonists had such a deft touch with laid-back, sensual cool jazz. Each cut on the six-track album feels sensual, even when the tempo is fleet on the side-closers "Smiles" and "This Can't Be Love." Everyone involved sounds as if they're enjoying themselves, and that results in a solid record that may have a few outstanding moments here and there a nice turn of phrase by Getz, a good solo from Levy, supple support from Vinnegar and Levey but is more distinguished by its overall strength and consistency of mood.

Not necessarily a knockout, then, but certainly a record any true Getz fan would want in their collection. [Award Winner was released as a Verve Master Edition in 2000, containing nine bonus tracks, including four false starts and a track's worth of inserts. The real treat are the non-LP cuts from the same session, "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" and "But Beautiful," which live up to the standard of the original LP, plus alternate takes of "Woody N You" and "Time after Time." All of this music is also available on the three-disc set, East of the Sun: The West Coast Sessions.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine http://www.allmusic.com/album/award-winner-stan-getz-mw0000055403

Personnel: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Lou Levey (piano); Leroy Vinnegar (bass); Stan Levey (drums).

Award Winner

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Chihiro Yamanaka - Syncopation Hazard

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:21
Size: 120,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:31)  1. Syncopation Hazard
(5:33)  2. The Entertainer / Ritual
(3:37)  3. Maple Leaf Rag
(5:31)  4. The Easy Winners
(5:10)  5. Dove
(5:15)  6. Reflection Rag
(5:35)  7. Sunflower Slow Drag / Ladies In Mercedes
(5:27)  8. New Rag
(5:23)  9. Heliotrope Bouquet
(2:54) 10. Uniformity Rag
(3:22) 11. Graceful Ghost Rag

Born Kiryu, Japan. Yamanaka played piano from the age of four, studying classical music and was eventually awarded the grand prize of Japan’s Gumma Fresh Talent competition. In the USA, she studied at the Berklee College Of Music, graduating in 2000. She was critically praised, winning DownBeat magazine’s award for Outstanding Performance and the IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators) Sisters In Jazz competition, following which she toured Europe with other winners. Among many artists with whom she has performed are George Benson, Gary Burton, Terri Lyne Carrington, Curtis Fuller, George Russell and Ed Thigpen. In the early 00s she was a member of DIVA, the all-female big band led by drummer Sherrie Maricle, with which group she has played concerts and recorded. Yamanaka also played in the DIVA spin-off quintet, Five Play, with which group she played on Marlene VerPlanck’s 2003 album It’s How You Play The Game. Among musicians Yamanaka has used on her recording dates are bass players Ray Parker, Ben Street and Larry Grenadier and drummers Ben Perowsky, Rodney Green and Jeff Ballard. ~ Bio http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chihiro-yamanaka-mn0000283696/biography

Personnel:  Chihiro Yamanaka - Piano, Fender Rhodes; Yoshi Waki - Bass; John Davis - Drums.

Syncopation Hazard

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