Toots Thielemans - Only Trust Your Heart

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:30
Size: 138.5 MB
Styles: Harmonica jazz
Year: 1988
Art: Front

[5:02] 1. Speak No Evil
[4:52] 2. Estaté
[5:34] 3. Three And One
[5:47] 4. Rain Waltz
[4:26] 5. All Of You
[4:56] 6. The Dragon
[5:17] 7. Only Trust Your Heart
[5:01] 8. Sophiticated Lady
[5:48] 9. Hello Young Lovers
[4:55] 10. Sarabande
[5:04] 11. Little Rootie Tootie
[3:41] 12. We'll Be Together Again

Although the liner notes claim that this Concord release was Toots Thielemans' first recording as a leader in more than a dozen years, somehow the harmonica great's 14 European dates (not to mention sets released by Stash and Pablo) were overlooked. In any case, this is a pretty definitive session by the harmonica virtuoso who is joined by pianist Fred Hersch, either Marc Johnson or Harvie Swartz on bass, and drummer Joey Baron. The material is filled with challenging and generally underplayed standards (including Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil," Thad Jones' "Three and One," Benny Carter's lyrical "Only Trust Your Heart," and Thelonious Monk's "Little Rootie Tootie"), plus two fine Hersch originals. Ranging from hard bop to Brazilian music and post-bop, this is a consistently enjoyable and highly recommended outing. ~Scott Yanow

Only Trust Your Heart

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Maxine Sullivan, Bob Haggart, Ike Isaacs - Enjoy Yourself

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:27
Size: 156.7 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1981/1999
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. My Very Good Friend, The Milkman
[3:45] 2. This Heart Of Mine
[2:29] 3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[4:48] 4. You Go To My Head
[2:11] 5. By Myself
[2:23] 6. I Hadn't Anyone Til You
[2:14] 7. It's Only A Paper Moon
[2:50] 8. Everything Happens To Me
[2:09] 9. I Could Write A Book
[2:17] 10. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
[2:06] 11. This Can't Be Love
[2:45] 12. Truckin'
[3:44] 13. What's New (Take 3)
[4:17] 14. Get Happy
[4:44] 15. Get Out And Get Under The Moon
[3:58] 16. Ain't We Got Fun
[3:16] 17. It's The Talk Of The Town
[2:34] 18. Make Someone Happy
[2:20] 19. When A Woman Loves A Man
[3:15] 20. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
[4:04] 21. What's New (Take 5)
[3:26] 22. Side By Side

Maxine Sullivan is a master. Unvarnished, not over stylized, just damn good music recognized and respected by a pro. ~Richard P. Randall

With The Ike Isaacs Quartet & The Bob Haggart Quintet. featuring Dardanelle-pno, Sil Austin-tnr, Dan Wall-pno + 1978 & 1985.

Enjoy Yourself 

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Bob Brookmeyer - Portrait Of The Artist

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:16
Size: 181.5 MB
Styles: Trombone jazz
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[4:54] 1. Out Of Nowhere
[4:26] 2. Darn That Dream
[7:18] 3. Introduction & First Movement
[3:53] 4. Second Movement
[4:57] 5. Third Movement
[5:18] 6. Fourth Movement
[5:49] 7. Mellowdrama
[6:15] 8. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
[4:52] 9. Air Conditioned
[3:23] 10. This Can't Be Love
[4:35] 11. Exactly Like You
[4:40] 12. The Things I Love
[3:30] 13. Only When You Are Near
[4:33] 14. Green Stamps
[3:17] 15. You're My Everything
[7:26] 16. Co-Operation

Nick Travis, Thad Jones (tp), Bob Brookmeyer (vtb, p, arr), Curtis Fuller (tb), Danny Bank (fl, bcl, bs), Al Cohn (ts), Gene Quill (as, cl), Hank Jones, Wynton Kelly (p), George Duvivier, Paul Chambers (b), Charlie Persip, Paul Motian (d).

Twofer: Tracks #1-8 from "Portrait Of The Artist" (Atlantic LP 1320). Tracks #9-16 from "Jazz Is A Kick" (Mercury MG 206000).

The portrait that emerges from this disc reveals a trombonist with excellent technique, a smooth, pungent percussive wit, dark and buttery tone, down home stomping and slyly musical humor; a pianist who ranges from a basic, solid, four-square attack to a delightfully airy way; a composer who is strongly conscious of the foundations of jazz; and an arranger who mainly writes with a heavy emphasis on a rolling swing, and occasionally blending it with impressionistic devices, but always with strength and simplicity.

In a revealing insight, Nat Hentoff considered that “Brookmeyer has opened himself to jazz of all eras. He has absorbed, tested, and selected from the whole reservoir of autobiographies in sound that is the jazz language, those elements he felt relevant to his own experience in living and telling his history of jazz. He has not limited himself to any one era, school or attitude, preferring to filter all of jazz through his emotions rather than remain a parochial hipster.”

Portrait Of The Artist

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Romane, Stochelo Rosenberg - Tribulations

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:27
Size: 131.5 MB
Styles: Gypsy Swing
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:07] 1. Tribulations
[5:50] 2. Brasilian Breeze
[3:31] 3. Caprice De Bridget
[4:31] 4. Guet-Apens
[3:16] 5. Indigo
[4:51] 6. Tangolero
[4:17] 7. For Brassens
[4:17] 8. Fragilidade
[4:51] 9. Salsa Guitar
[3:08] 10. Phase Bop
[3:13] 11. Lueurs
[2:53] 12. Wild Ride
[3:17] 13. Gypsy Groovin'
[5:19] 14. Ciao Bella

Romane, de son vrai nom Patrick Leguidcoq, est un guitariste de jazz né à Paris en 1959. Bien que non gitan de naissance, Romane bénéficie très tôt de l'influence du style manouche et en particulier de Django Reinhardt, dont il reste d'ailleurs un fidèle héritier au fil de sa carrière. Toutefois, ce respect ne l'entrave aucunement et ne l'empêche pas de composer des morceaux personnels.

Stochelo Rosenberg was born in a Gypsy camp on 19 February 1968 in Helmond, Netherlands, the first son of Mimer Rosenberg and Metz Grunholz. He has four brothers and one sister. Stochelo has two sons Isaac and Pepito and a daughter Bridget. He started playing the guitar when he was 10 years old, rather late for a boy in a family which consists of all musicians. He learned to play the guitar from his father and his uncle Wasso Grunholz, but most of all he learned by listening to the records of his hero, Django Reinhardt. Together with his cousins Nous’che and Nonnie Rosenberg they formed a trio and played mostly at festivals in their gypsy communities in Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria

Tribulations

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Phineas Newborn - Plays Again!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:12
Size: 64.6 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[5:32] 1. Night In Tunisia
[3:45] 2. Nica's Dream
[5:28] 3. Airegin
[4:40] 4. Bag's Groove
[3:27] 5. C Jam Blues
[5:17] 6. Walkin'

One of the most technically skilled and brilliant pianists in jazz during his prime, Phineas Newborn remains a bit of a mystery. Plagued by mental and physical problems of unknown origin, Newborn faded from the scene in the mid-1960s, only to re-emerge at irregular intervals throughout his life. Newborn could be compared to Oscar Peterson in that his bop-based style was largely unclassifiable, his technique was phenomenal, and he was very capable of enthralling an audience playing a full song with just his left hand.

He started out working in Memphis R&B bands with his brother, guitarist Calvin Newborn, and recorded with local players including B.B. King in the early 1950s. Brief stints with Lionel Hampton and Willis Jackson preceded a period in the military (1952-54). After moving to New York in 1956, Newborn astounded fans and critics alike. Although he worked briefly with Charles Mingus (1958) and Roy Haynes, Newborn usually performed at the head of a trio or quartet. His early recordings for Atlantic (1956), Victor, Roulette and Contemporary are quite outstanding. Unfortunately, after the mid-'60s, Newborn's profile dropped sharply, and although there were further recordings for Contemporary (1969), Atlantic (1969), Pablo (1976) and the Japanese Philips (1977) label, and although he still sounded strong when appearing in public, the pianist was in danger of being forgotten by most of the jazz world during his last decade. Spending most of his time in Memphis, he was an inspiration to many younger pianists including James Williams, Harold Mabern, Mulgrew Miller, Donald Brown and Geoff Keezer, who after Newborn's death would dedicate their work as the Contemporary Piano Ensemble to Phineas. Fortunately, the episode of Jazz Scene USA that features Phineas Newborn in 1962 has been made available on a video by Shanachie. ~bio by Scott yanow

Plays Again!

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Agnieszka Hekiert E-Jazz Quartet - Stories

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:31
Size: 151,1 MB
Art: Front

(6:03)  1. Like A Nice Dream
(5:23)  2. Last Camel
(4:33)  3. Ballad For M
(5:13)  4. Gdyby Tylko
(4:58)  5. Folk Song
(6:44)  6. Prabhakar
(5:51)  7. Nic
(6:38)  8. On Green Dolphin Street
(4:36)  9. Kiedy Mowisz
(5:38) 10. Who Knows
(5:43) 11. Fragile
(4:06) 12. Not A Samba

It took some three weeks that I understand these stories. Agnieszka album Hekiert, which can in principle be regarded as her solo debut disc does not belong to hit. I could not choose from this CD single. It should be for the panels, which should be in every good jazz music library consists. If you have a limited budget, you buy yourself this album, leaving on the shelf in the store this year the world's greatest singers news. You will not regret it for a moment. Music does not create name. Music is the excitement and "Stories" is an album simply true and therefore so beautiful, but at the same time uneasy, nieprzebojowy.

Today, impeccable vocal technique, musicianship and compositions are good enough. Such panels can be found on store shelves much. So why do we reach just after the "Stories"? It's simple ... Here no one will fail. You will find here beautiful ballads, feisty duo Agnes Hekiert with Cuba Badach - "If only", featuring occurring recently ubiquitous Atom String Quartet and an equally active, playing the flute in "Prabhakar" Christopher Herdzin. This is the real debut of Agnieszka Hekiert, because as she says, her recorded several years ago with a team of Christopher Herdzin album "Night And Day Swing" is an album "in a drawer". Agnieszka is for this very active on stage. Perhaps some of you have not noticed collaboration with Bobby McFerrin at the concert of the project "Vocabularies" or the many concerts that Agnieszka game, mainly in Germany with Leszek Sting and Konstantin Kostov. I admit that I, too, am among you. Bobby McFerrin with this particular project did not come to the Polish, you probably did not make the organizer of an adequate budget, something else to bring one singer with a microphone in his pocket, and a completely different project is the appearance of several people. But today is not about Bobby McFerrinie, but about Agnes Hekiert that is for me and I have no doubt that it will also be a valuable discovery for you.

Agnes can sing anything. With effortless ease as he sings ballads, swings, improvising without words, perfect breath control in challenging fast passages. But it all seems obvious, does not it stand "Stories" with other vocal blockbuster. Also excellent compositions in the case of good boards are obvious. Those listed in the "Stories" are in large part by Konstantin Kostova. It is also one of the most recorded Polish compositions - "On Green Dolphin Street," Bronislaw Kaper and "Fragile" by Sting. It's a great set of good texts and even better music. But choose a good composition is not everything. You have to feel them so that listeners hear the emotions real and not fake. It managed to Agnieszka Hekiert perfectly ...This album is for me a revelation. It is not only exquisite vocal and full of great compositions plate with which I met Agnes talent. 

It is also extremely original pianist - Konstantin Kostov. His playing is full of Bulgarian somewhat unusual even for wyrobionego jazz listener scales. From the same Agnieszka I know that this extraordinary pianist plans to release his own album, which will be equally interesting. Regular listeners to my radio already had the opportunity to hear pieces of it ... With this album, as I said I could not choose a single. Officially, promotes album "Who Knows". I conspicuous abstract vocals in "Last Camel" - it's my favorite track on the album, vocal improvisations in "Prabhakar" and brilliantly sung standard - "On Green Dolphin Street". I prefer too Agnieszka export version singing in English. But it's a great album and this choice does not mean that the other songs are worse, this matter of taste. I'm going to this board often come back and certainly always listened to her in full, and I highly recommend you.  Translate by google  http://www.jazzpress.pl/plyta-tygodnia/1358-agnieszka-hekiert-stories

Stories

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Fabien Mary - Three Horns Two Rhythm

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:57
Size: 121,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:28)  1. Trips And Quads
(5:38)  2. The Camel Step
(6:28)  3. You're Not On The Map
(4:46)  4. The Little Tower On A Hill
(5:23)  5. Ydal Drib
(5:18)  6. Lament
(6:32)  7. Yellow Dog
(6:07)  8. Adam 1890 Blues
(5:13)  9. Line On Rhythm

Musician absolute must on the stage of modern jazz, the trumpet player Fabien Mary returns with training in atypical instrumentation. Recorded in New York, where Fabien lived and continues to maintain strong ties,  "Three Horns Two Rhythm"combines three brass, backed by a rhythm section bass / drums. Fabien Mary has fully composed this directory for New York five brilliant musicians that surround it. His arrangements highlight alliances between stamps brass: trumpet, tenor saxophone, trombone, baritone saxophone or flute ... The absence of harmonic instrument allows the space left open to soloists, and brass arrangements thus become paramount ...

Recorded at Bunker Studio in Brooklyn in New York last October, Three Horns Two Rhythm meets Fabien Mary (trumpet), Steve Davis (trombone), Chris Byars (tenor and flute saxophone), Frank Basile (baritone saxophone), David Wong (bass ) and Pete Van Nostrand (drums). With five nominations for the Prix Django Reinhardt "French Musician of the Year" by the Jazz Academy over the years and an impressive course where it is found alongside Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, Benny Golson, Harold Mabern, Johnny Griffin, Steve Turre, Michel Legrand, Archie Shepp and many others, this musician never ceases to fascinate with his talent, his class and his musical requirement. Translate by google  http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/open-jazz/2014-2015/fabien-mary-avis-de-vents-forts-sur-new-york-05-12-2015-18-02

Three Horns Two Rhythm

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Stan Kenton - Portraits On Standards

Styles: Piano Jazz

Year: 1954

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 41:19

Size: 95,5 MB

Art: Front

(2:41)  1. You And The Night And The Music

(2:55)  2. Reverie

(2:50)  3. I've Got You Under My Skin

(2:39)  4. Autumn In New York

(2:52)  5. April In Paris

(2:21)  6. How High The Moon

(2:58)  7. Crazy Rhythm

(2:59)  8. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

(2:46)  9. Baia

(3:04) 10. Street of Dreams

(3:12) 11. Don't Take Your Love From Me

(2:32) 12. More Love Than Your Love

(2:34) 13. Alone Too Long

(2:03) 14. The Lady In Red

(2:47) 15. Under a Blanket of Blue

While most of Stan Kenton's recordings in the 1950s tend to be complex and sometimes bombastic, his versions of standards could often be sentimental and very melodic. This LP from the Creative World catalog (music originally released by Capitol) alternates between ballads and boppish romps, mostly featuring the 1953-1954 orchestra, a band that could often swing hard. With such major soloists as altoist Art Pepper (featured on "Street of Dreams"), trumpeter Conte Candoli, Zoot Sims on tenor, altoist Lee Konitz, and trombonist Frank Rosolino, Kenton's orchestra could hold its own with any big band of the period. The arrangements (all by either Bill Russo or Kenton) showcase these talents at their best. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/portraits-on-standards-mw0000588250

Personnel: Stan Kenton (piano); Ralph Blaze, Joe Gibbons, Sal Salvador, Laurindo Almeida (guitar); Vinnie Dean, Harry Klee, Lee Konitz, Art Pepper, Ronnie Lang, Bud Shank (alto saxophone); Bart Calderell, Bill Holman, Bob Cooper (tenor saxophone); Bob Gioga, Tony Ferina, Hank Levy (baritone saxophone); Conte Candoli, Don Dennis, Don Fagerquist, Ernie Royal, Ruban McFall, John Howell , Don Paladino, John Coppola , Maynard Ferguson, Pete Candoli, Buddy Childers (trumpet); Milt Bernhart, Bob Fitzpatrick, Frank Rosolino, Harry Betts, Herbie Harper, Bill Russo (trombone); George Roberts (bass trombone); Stan Fletcher (tuba); Shelly Manne, Stan Levey (drums).

Portraits On Standards

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Fred Wesley & The Swing 'N Jazz - It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Styles: Trombone Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:38
Size: 150,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:04)  1. Wicked Walk
(4:50)  2. Dream Catcher
(4:23)  3. Eventually
(6:27)  4. Body & Soul
(4:49)  5. Missin' RB Blues
(6:49)  6. Emily
(4:37)  7. It Don't Mean A Thing
(5:02)  8. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
(6:52)  9. Par Three
(8:37) 10. Acirfa
(7:03) 11. Head Start

Charity golf tournaments raise millions sometimes billions in the name of giving back. Trombonist Fred Wesley uses a different kind of swing to make his contribution: His recent release as bandleader, It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, benefits The Commission Project (TCP), a nonprofit that supports various music education projects around the U.S. Wesley isn't alone in his humanitarianism; the CD spotlights the unique talents of eight other jazz masters collectively, The Swing N' Jazz All-Stars in an assortment of "as good as it gets music. Here's how it works. Each year in early June TCP hosts a jazz and golf weekend in Upstate New York called "Swing 'N Jazz. Attendees take jazz master classes by day and jam with the pros by night. On Sunday, for a contribution to TCP, participants get to play golf with their jazz legend of choice (perhaps not so pro when it comes to golf, but still a good time). TCP uses the donations to commission new works and sponsor promising young talent. Definitely win-win.

At the 2005 Swing 'N Jazz weekend Wesley served as musical director, and after the amateur golfer-musicians had gone home, he shepherded eight musicians from the festival into a nearby studio to record the CD. Just about all the players contributed a tune; among the originals are Wesley's funky "Wicked Walk, drummer Akira Tana's eerily sweet ballad "Dream Catcher, and saxophonist Carl Atkin's quixotic "Acirfa. Jay Leonhart distinguishes himself as a bassist and perceptive vocalist on "Missin' RB Blues, and Bob Sneider (guitar) sends up an engaging waltz with "Par Three. Closing the CD is "Head Start, one of the last, always-uplifting performances of the late Keter Betts (bass). Not to miss: Betts and Leonhart alone in their duet on "Just Squeeze Me. Not to be overlooked: Pianist Mike Holober's understated arrangement of the time-honored title cut and trumpeter Marvin Stamm's clarion playing throughout. ~ Suzanne Lorge  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/it-dont-mean-a-thing-if-it-aint-got-that-swing-fred-wesley-sons-of-sound-review-by-suzanne-lorge.php

Personnel: Fred Wesley: trombone; Carl Atkins: alto and baritone saxophone; Marvin Stamm: trumpet, flugelhorn; Mike Holober: piano; Jay Leonhart: bass, vocal; Bob Sneider: guitar; Akira Tana: drum; Keter Betts: bass; Rich Thompson: drums.

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

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