Arnett Cobb - Smooth Sailing

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:52
Size: 84,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:26)  1. Charmaine
(4:47)  2. Cobb's Mob
(4:47)  3. Ghost of a Chance, (I Don't Stand A)
(3:48)  4. Let's Split
(8:21)  5. Blues Around Dusk
(5:04)  6. Smooth Sailing
(5:37)  7. Blues in My Heart

This CD reissue brings back a typically swinging date by tenor saxophonist Arnett Cobb. The colorful trombonist Buster Cooper (who was not featured in enough small group sessions through the years) seems to inspire Cobb; the rhythm section (organist Austin Mitchell, bassist George Duvivier and drummer Osie Johnson) proves a strong asset for this music. Four standards (three from the swing era plus Cobb's "Smooth Sailing") alternate with a blues and a couple of up-tempo riff numbers. Arnett Cobb's solos are typically emotional and generally exciting during the fine set. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/smooth-sailing-mw0000263462

Personnel: Arnett Cobb (tenor saxophone); Buster Cooper (trombone); Austin Mitchell (organ); George Duvivier (bass); Osie Johnson (drums).

Smooth Sailing

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Annie Ross - Skylark

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1956
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:18
Size: 77,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:42)  1. Gypsy In My Soul
(2:20)  2. I Love Paris
(3:23)  3. I Didn't Know About You
(2:15)  4. The Lady's In Love With You
(2:46)  5. 'tain't What You Do
(4:52)  6. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(2:28)  7. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
(2:22)  8. Don't Worry 'bout Me
(2:27)  9. I've Told Every Little Star
(2:10) 10. Manhattan
(2:31) 11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
(2:57) 12. Skylark

This little-known set (reissued on CD) from 1956 features singer Annie Ross four years after she originally recorded "Twisted" but a year before the formation of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Based in London at the time, Ross avoids scatting and vocalese in favor of conventional swinging and jazz-oriented interpretations of standards. Backed tastefully by pianist Tony Crombie, clarinetist Bob Burns, guitarist Roy Plummer and bassist Lennie Rush, Annie Ross shows that she could have been a successful solo artist if she had not met up with Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks; at times she almost sounds like Susannah McCorkle. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/skylark-mw0000079344

Personnel: Annie Ross (vocals); Bob Burns, Jr., Robert Burns (clarinet); Tony Crombie (piano).

Skylark

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Jay Migliori - Count The Nights And Times

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1975
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:03
Size: 83,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:55)  1. Puttin'
(7:03)  2. Cheryl E.
(5:45)  3. Count The Nights And Times
(4:29)  4. Desert Flower
(3:46)  5. Fluvius
(8:02)  6. Nirvana

One of the original members of Supersax, Jay Migliori has long been a top bop-oriented saxophonist based in Los Angeles. He actually started out working frequently in the Boston area in the mid-'50s. Migliori was with Woody Herman's Orchestra from 1957-58 before setting in L.A. 

Since the early 1960s he has worked frequently in the studios, gigging at night in clubs. He was with Supersax from 1972-84 and has often led his own combos. Migliori led bop-oriented albums for Transition (1955), PRB Int. (1975) and Discovery (1980-81). ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jay-migliori-mn0000810762

Featuring: Jay Migliori (saxophone), Franck De La Rosa (bass), James Gannon (bass), Joe Lettieri (piano), Pete Magadini, Nick Martinis (drums), Wolfgang Melz (bass), Maurice Mille
 

Thank You my Friend!

Count The Nights And Times

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The Softies - Winter Pageant

Styles: Vocal, Pop/Rock
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:18
Size: 83,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:36)  1. Pack Your Things and Go
(3:10)  2. So Sad
(2:56)  3. Over
(2:08)  4. No One at All
(3:20)  5. Tracks and Tunnels
(2:59)  6. Excellent
(2:27)  7. My Foolish Way
(2:52)  8. The Best Days
(2:16)  9. Fortune
(2:03) 10. Splintered Hands
(1:52) 11. About You
(2:34) 12. Anywhere But Here
(2:58) 13. Winter Pageant
(1:59) 14. Make Up Your Mind

Amidst the popular shouting and mystical-philosophical dramatics of their female contemporaries, the Softies make music that is barely audible, delicately lovelorn, and mostly unknown. Like It's Love, the Softies' debut LP, Winter Pageant is a collection of songs that begin after the romance has ended. Their sound is intimate and fragile guitars like baby birds and voices as brightly immaterial as sunlight shimmering on water. The rare songs that celebrate a love that has not yet died "The Best Days" and "Excellent" have the same wistful air as the rest. They eulogize a perfect moment, preserve it as a tragic souvenir, before the inevitable end. Despite the melancholy tone, there is something hopeful in the Softies' resignation, a faith in perfect moments that is as strong as the knowledge of love's frailty. There is no recrimination in these songs and no bitterness. From their own intimate distress, Jen Sbragia and Rose Melberg have chosen to produce neither manifestoes nor rallying cries, but sad lullabies for the amorously disenfranchised. In their unassuming way, the Softies remind us that the personal need not always be political, that sometimes personal is enough. ~ Jessica Jernigan  http://www.allmusic.com/album/winter-pageant-mw0000095040

The Softies include: Rose Melberg, Jen Sbragia.

Winter Pageant

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