The Spitfire Band - 'S Wonderful

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:19
Size: 90.0 MB
Styles: Big band, Swing
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Strike Up The Band
[2:21] 2. At Last
[3:16] 3. Put On A Happy Face
[4:11] 4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[2:37] 5. Mrs Robinson
[4:09] 6. Laura
[2:45] 7. But Not For Me
[2:59] 8. 's Wonderful
[4:46] 9. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
[2:47] 10. The Tender Trap
[2:58] 11. There I've Said It Again
[3:04] 12. Don't Be That Way
[0:36] 13. Reprise: Radio And Fan Salute

Jackie Rae (vocals); Jack Zaza, Bob DeAngelis, Bill Ruttle, Dave Caldwell (saxophone); Arnie Chycoski, Dave Woods, Micky Erbe, John MacLeod, Mike Malone (trumpet); Bob Hamper, Bob Livingston, Dave McMurdo, Laurie Bower (trombone); Gary Gross (piano); John Sumner (drums).

'S Wonderful

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Jazz Five - Belleville Street

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:50
Size: 100.4 MB
Styles: New Orleans jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[6:01] 1. Little Liza Jane
[3:50] 2. Blue Monday
[4:45] 3. Something You Got
[5:33] 4. Hey Pockey Way
[5:53] 5. It's Now Or Never
[3:14] 6. Sugar Daddy
[5:15] 7. Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
[4:14] 8. Ooh Pooh Pah Dooh
[5:01] 9. It's All Over Now

Jazz Five takes the audience to modern day New Orleans and delivers a unique show with funky second line grooves, blues, shuffle and jazz`n`roll.

Jazz Five was formed in 1996 and since have played over 1000 concerts from British Columbia, to Bornholm and all the way to South Korea in 2013. Whether we are talking festivals, jazz clubs or other arrangements, Jazz Five always projects overwhelming charisma. The band is a non-stop swinging sweat dripping party machine that invites the listener to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and delivers a world class show. With two saxes in the front, an energetic rhythm section, intoxicating blues piano and a singing drummer Jazz Five mixes a live music cocktail that will make your head spin. The audience is pulled out of their seats by the pure seduction of the deep southern funky rhythm set on the scene.

An old dream became reality in January 2014, when Jazz Five travelled to New Orleans to record their 5th album which is called “Belleville Street”. This album is a true mixture of the bohemian sound of Mardi Gras music, street brass band, an intimate jazz club and Sunday gospel in church, united with Jazz Five’s style, in cooperation with Michael Watson (voc/trb), Derwin “Big D” Perkins (g) and John Boutte (voc). The album was released June 2014 and received great reviews from Danish critics.

Belleville Street

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Lola Albright - Lola Wants You

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 29:28

Size: 67.5 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 2004/2013

Art: Front

[2:42] 1. A Man, A Man, A Man

[2:04] 2. Candy

[2:17] 3. Put Your Arms Around Me

[2:27] 4. Goodbye My Lover

[2:34] 5. Aren't You Knida Glad We Did

[2:40] 6. I Got A Crush On You

[2:19] 7. Here 'tis

[1:55] 8. All Of You

[2:45] 9. There's A Man In My Life

[2:25] 10. Think Of Me

[2:28] 11. Do What You Gotta Do

[2:47] 12. He's My Guy

Prior to her starmaking turn as a nightclub singer on the television classic Peter Gunn, Lola Albright recorded this slight but alluring session for Roost. From its cheesecake cover photo to Dean Elliott's lush, melodramatic arrangements, Lola Wants You is above all a tribute to the perennial salability of sex, and an engaging one at that. Albright's kittenish vocals are undeniably effective within their narrow range, and songs like "A Man, a Man, a Man" and "There's a Man in My Life" play nicely to her strengths. ~Jason Ankeny

Lola Wants You

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Al Caiola - Spanish Guitar Afternoon

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 25:09
Size: 57.6 MB
Styles: Jazz guitar, Easy Listening
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:23] 1. Cielito Lindo
[2:16] 2. La Paloma
[3:21] 3. Clementine
[2:07] 4. Be Mine Tonight (Noche De Ronda)
[1:47] 5. Tico Tico
[1:41] 6. El Relicario
[2:33] 7. Espana Cani
[3:08] 8. Granada
[3:26] 9. Malagueña
[2:22] 10. Ring On Her Finger

Al Caiola is a guitarist who initially made his reputation as a session musician, playing on records made by Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz, among others. Caiola was the conductor and arranger for United Artists Records in the late '40s and early '50s. After leaving UA, he signed with RCA, where he released a number of singles in the '50s. In the early '60s, he went back to United Artists, which is where he scored his first hit with the theme to the film The Magnificent Seven. The single peaked at 35 in early 1961 and it was quickly followed by the theme to the television series Bonanza, which climbed to number 19. For the rest of the '60s, Caiola released a number of easy listening instrumental albums. During the decade he also hosted a television show, which was only aired for a short while. Caiola continued to record throughout the '70s and into the '80s. ~bio by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Spanish Guitar Afternoon

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Peter Anderson, Will Anderson - Correspondence

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:35
Size: 155,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:40)  1. Correspondence
(5:34)  2. Bread & Butter
(6:37)  3. You Have to Try It Once
(5:58)  4. Go Ahead!
(6:48)  5. I'll Keep Loving You
(6:33)  6. Meat of the Matter
(9:22)  7. Let's Get Out of Town
(6:22)  8. Contagious Curiosity
(5:23)  9. Shaw Nuff
(7:13) 10. Slipped Again

What’s a quick way for young jazz musicians to appear out of their league? Book some studio time with pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ben Wolfe and drummer Kenny Washington. But saxophonists (and identical twins) Peter and Will Anderson consistently rise to the challenge on Correspondence, displaying a firm grounding in bop/postbop tradition and demonstrating impressive harmonic and rhythmic assurance. Robust tandem passages and fluid improvisations generate lots of color and contrast, with Peter, on tenor, and Will, on alto, reinvigorating “Shaw ’Nuff” and other jazz and pop classics. Better yet are the original tunes, such as Will’s ever-spiraling romp “Go Ahead!,” which point to an exceedingly bright future. In his liner notes, Phil Schaap recalls that the Andersons received A’s in his Origins of Jazz class at Juilliard; you can apply the same grade to this CD, the Andersons’ first as leaders. ~ Mike Joyce  http://jazztimes.com/articles/107967-correspondence-peter-will-anderson

Personnel: Will Anderson (alto saxophone); Peter Anderson (tenor saxophone); Kenny Barron (piano); Kenny Washington (drums).

Correspondence

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Katrine Madsen & Svante Thuresson - Live In Stockholm

Styles: Vocal Jazz

Year: 2008

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 66:15

Size: 152,1 MB

Art: Front

(7:10)  1. For Once In My Life

(4:59)  2. Let There Be Love

(5:50)  3. Skylark

(8:03)  4. They Can't Take That Away From Me

(5:35)  5. The Shadow Of Your Smile

(5:10)  6. I Hear A Rhapsody

(6:24)  7. Young And Foolish

(8:06)  8. When Night Birds Sing

(5:32)  9. Bye, Bye Blackbird

(3:53) 10. Every Time We Say Goodbye

(5:28) 11. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

Svante Thuresson (born 7 February 1937 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963. Svante won the national selection and represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest in 1966 with "Nygammal vals", and came in second place; he performed with Lill Lindfors. In 2002, he released Nya kickar, which rose the classic/jazz charts in Sweden. In 2007, Thuresson and Anne-Lie Rydé performed at Melodifestivalen 2007 as a duo for the opportunity to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Thuresson

Katrine Madsen (born 1972 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish jazz singer. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked in Copenhagen on albums with transplanted American jazz artists Ed Thigpen and Richard Boone. In 2002, she founded the Katrine Madsen Sextet and gave their first concert at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrine_Madsen

Personnel: Svante Thuresson – vocal;  Katrine Madsen - vocal;  Claes Crona - piano;  Jesper Bodilsen - bass;  Peter Ostlund - drums

Live In Stockholm

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George Cables - Icons & Influences

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:53
Size: 167,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:37)  1. Cedar Walton
(6:52)  2. Farewell Mulgrew
(6:28)  3. Happiness
(7:28)  4. The Duke
(7:08)  5. Come Sunday
(6:39)  6. Little B's Poem
(6:58)  7. Nature Boy
(6:32)  8. Very Early
(5:16)  9. Isotope
(6:35) 10. The Very Thought of You
(5:36) 11. Mo' Pan
(2:38) 12. Blue Heart

When a jazz musician has been around as long as pianist George Cables, and has seen, heard and performed with so many other world-class musicians, such interactions are bound to leave a lasting impression, and on the trio date Icons and Influences Cables warmly salutes a number of those who have helped frame his musical persona and escorted him along a journey of wonder and discovery that has enabled him to become the superbly talented artist he is today.

As most listeners would assume, several of Cables' influences are fellow pianists, and those remembered here include Cedar Walton, Bill Evans, Mulgrew Miller, Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington. While Nat Cole, acknowledged with "The Very Thought of You," was also a pianist, Cables says he was inspired more by Cole's vocal talents, along with those of Tony Bennett, on Ray Noble's venerable standard. "Nature Boy," he writes, was prompted not by Cole but by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's instrumental version. Other tenors represented are Benny Golson ("Blue Heart") and Joe Henderson ("Isotope") as well as vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson ("Little B's Poem"). Cables plumbs his own early years with "Happiness," the "first tune [he] wrote" while in his early 20s, and Trinidadian Lord Kitchener's "Mo' Pan," one of the many calypso tunes Cables played or heard while growing up in Brooklyn and Queens, NY. Whatever the source, the salient point is that every one of these tunes shines like a polished gem in Cables' masterful hands. 

Tempos are flawless, interpretations admirable, ad-libs smooth and persuasive, the framework lucid and sunny yet emphatic when need be, as on "Isotope" or "Mo' Pan." As for the comfort zone, it is spacious, thanks to the unwavering resilience of bassist Dezron Douglas and drummer Victor Lewis whose cozy shelter is always close at hand. In every instance, Cables lays bare the unique essence of his role models, and nowhere is this more apparent than on Brubeck's "The Duke," Evans' "Very Early" or his own compositions, "Cedar Walton" and "Mulgrew Miller." Dedications aside, this is a splendid trio session led by one of the jazz world's more proficient and accessible contemporary pianists. Full credit to Cables, Douglas and Lewis for a job well done. ~ Jack Bowers  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/icons-and-influences-george-cables-highnote-records-review-by-jack-bowers.php
 

Personnel: George Cables: piano; Dezron Douglas: bass; Victor Lewis: drums.

Icons & Influences

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