Peter Beets - New York Trio - Page Two

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:02
Size: 128,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:54)  1. The Groove Merchant
(3:22)  2. Paradox
(7:19)  3. For Simon
(9:24)  4. Without A Song
(7:12)  5. It Has Happened
(4:41)  6. So What / Impressions
(8:01)  7. Chelsea Bridge/Upper Manhattan Medical Group
(5:01)  8. In a Hazy Mood
(6:04)  9. Night Mist Blues

Although he's recorded with such American jazz masters as Curtis Fuller and Jeff Hamilton, Dutch pianist Peter Beets is just starting to make a name for himself on the international scene. While the first Criss Cross appearance of his New York Trio brought critical raves and fanfares, "Page Two" is sure to bring Beets an even wider audience. This time around, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Willie Jones III complete the trio as they explore a varied program of originals and standards from the pens of Sonny Rollins, Ahmad Jamal, and Billy Strayhorn. ~ Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Trio-Page-Two/dp/B00008V5V8

Personnel: Peter Beets (piano); Larry Grenadier (bass); Willie Jones III (drums).

New York Trio - Page Two

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Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1965
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:17
Size: 90,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:51)  1. The In Crowd
(4:06)  2. Since I Fell For You
(5:02)  3. Tennessee Waltz
(2:59)  4. You Been Talkin''Bout Me Baby
(7:09)  5. Love Theme From Spartacus
(3:28)  6. Felicidade (Happiness)
(3:34)  7. Motherless Child
(4:33)  8. Come Sunday
(2:31)  9. The Party's Over

Ramsey Lewis staked his claim to fame with The In Crowd, an instrumental version of Dobie Gray's Top 40 hit. He also was one of the first soul jazz icons of the mid-'60s, based on the strength of the sales of this recording, done over three days during a club date at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C. What is not readily acknowledged over the years is that bassist Eldee Young is really the star of the show. He's the one who gets the crowd revved up with his vocalizing in tandem with the notes he is playing. It's on his Ray Charles-like take on "Tennessee Waltz" and a similar treatment of Gale Garnett's minor pop hit "You Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby" that gets the patrons off. Of course the quintessential hip shakin' introductory title track gets the groove in motion, but it's Young that lights the fuse. His stellar work with drummer Redd Holt bolsters the style of Lewis, and takes it further for the upbeat bossa "Felicidade." Of course, Lewis is the bluesy centerpiece on "Since I Fell for You," another cover of a pop hit that at the time Lenny Welch did so well. The variant is the dramatic "Theme from Spartacus," which has an up-and-down dynamic more suited for a concert hall than a smoky nightclub. This is the moment where Lewis shined the brightest, the "in crowd" at the club was verbally into it, and the time for this music was right. ~ Michael G.Nastos  http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-in-crowd-mw0000654554

Ramsey Lewis Trio: Ramsey Lewis (piano); Eldee Young (bass, cello); Red Holt (drums).

The In Crowd

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Pelle Trazan Jonasson - Copenhagen Connection

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:32
Size: 132,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:49)  1. Secret Love
(4:52)  2. Little Willie Leaps
(6:47)  3. If You Could See Me Now
(7:34)  4. Star Eyes
(3:36)  5. Prelude In Blue
(4:06)  6. Nothing Special
(4:44)  7. Our Delight
(3:51)  8. You and the Night and the Music
(4:49)  9. Sometime Ago
(3:48) 10. Backgammon
(5:32) 11. Firm Roots

Bebop is spoken throughout this excellent set. Two Swedish musicians (pianist Jan Lundgren and trumpeter Peter Asplund) meet up with a couple of Americans (bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Paul Kreibich) on a variety of superior standards, plus a couple of jazz interpretations of obscure Swedish songs. Asplund has a bright sound in the Clifford Brown tradition; Lundgren looks toward Bud Powell; and the Americans are quite supportive of the lead voices. 

To break up the strict quartet format, Barney Kessel's "Swedish Pastry" is taken by the rhythm trio; Lundgren and Asplund play a duet version of "Sodermalm"; Lundgren is absent on "I Hear a Rhapsody"; and "How Deep Is the Ocean" is a piano-bass duet. Other highlights include "Au Privave," "What Is This Thing Called Love," and "When It's Sleepy Time Down South." Easily recommended to bebop collectors.  https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/copenhagen-connection/id349049202

Personnel:  Jan Lundgren(p);  Jesper Lundgaard(b);  Pelle Trazan Jonasson(ds);  Nisse Sandstrom(ts)

Copenhagen Connection

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Nils Wulker - Just Here, Just Now

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:36
Size: 116,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:08)  1. Lakeside
(4:57)  2. Goodbye Sorrow
(5:31)  3. Walking on Air
(6:07)  4. Just Here, Just Now
(5:07)  5. Today's Gravity
(4:49)  6. September Skies
(5:36)  7. High and Rising
(3:55)  8. All We Need
(3:44)  9. Itchy Feed
(6:37) 10. Farewell

Wülker received from the age of seven piano lessons from the age of ten trumpet lessons with classical orientation. 1994 visited Wülker for one year as ASSIST -Stipendiat a private school in the US. There he discovered jazz and has been prepared by acid jazz and Miles Davis marked. Back in Germany played Wülker soon the Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW, with which he participated in 1996 and 1998 on two tours to China. In 1998 he studied after high school at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler", which he successfully completed of 2002. In 2005, Wülker his own record label (Ear Treat Music), before joining Warner 2015th .

During his studies he played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, representation, in the RIAS Big Band, from 2001 in the ensemble of its university lecturers Nicolai Thärichen ("Thärichens Tentett"), but also in the Judy Niemack Group and the Berlin Jazz Orchestra of Jiggs Whigham. Already before the end of his studies, he went with his own group into the studio to produce shots. The resulting CD "High Spirits" went as the first publication of a German jazz musician with Sony Music in company history; as the second album was released as Space Night Vol. 10 at Sony. Wülker took the publication of further plates before his band on his own label. In his Quintet he plays with Jan von Klewitz on saxophone, Lars Duppler on piano, Dietmar Fuhr on bass and Jens Dohle on drums. 2010, the band around guitarist was Arne Jansen and Edward Maclean expanded on bass, Benny Greb took over in 2012 the position of drummer.

He attracted attention by his published compositions on CD for the night program Spacenight des Bayerischen Rundfunks. In his compositions he combines the rhythmic and harmonic finesse of jazz with melodic and groovebetontem game of funk, rock and pop. Besides working with his own band, he played with Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Wolfgang Schmid and William Kennedy as "Hang All Stars" with Omara Portuondo, Dominic Miller, Joe Locke, Silje Nergaard, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ute Lemper and Samy Deluxe, for his album Dis where I he Herkomm 2009, the track talk like I produced speech. 2013 Wülker received the ECHO Jazz in the category "Instrumentalist / in the year National Brass / Brass". 2014 he received the German Jazz Award in Gold for his album "Safely Falling", 2015, the German Jazz Award in Gold for his album "UP". https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Wülker

Just Here, Just Now

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