Della Reese - Swing Slow And Cha Cha Cha

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:08
Size: 251,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:51)  1. Come On-A-My House
(2:48)  2. Why Don't You Do Right
(2:55)  3. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
(3:07)  4. When A Woman Loves A Man
(3:09)  5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
(2:30)  6. You're Driving Me Crazy
(2:25)  7. I'm Beginning To See The Light
(3:49)  8. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
(2:40)  9. It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House
(2:12) 10. Tea For Two
(2:46) 11. Call Me
(3:22) 12. I Get The Blues When It Rains
(2:05) 13. There's Nothing Like A Boy
(3:16) 14. Whatever Lola Wants
(3:06) 15. Three O'Clock In The Morning
(2:43) 16. Daddy (Hey Daddy)
(2:42) 17. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
(2:27) 18. Let's Get Away From It All
(2:37) 19. I'll Get By
(2:40) 20. And Now
(4:23) 21. How Did He Look
(5:16) 22. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
(3:10) 23. Won'cha Come Home Bill Bailey
(2:42) 24. The Most Beautiful Words
(2:35) 25. Don't You Know
(2:38) 26. Not One Minute More

This two-fer from BMG International features a pair of out of print Della Reese LPs: Swing Slow and Della Della Cha-Cha-Cha. 

Originally issued on RCA Victor in the early '60s, these 26 traditional pop songs include "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," "Come on-A-My House," "Tea for Two," and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." This is a nice sampler of familiar items that should satisfy the needs of casual fans.~AlCampbellhttp://www.allmusic.com/album/swing-slow-della-della-cha-cha-cha-mw0000767284

Swing Slow And Cha Cha Cha

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Marcus Koch - Behind The Rhodes

Styles: Piano Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:37
Size: 164,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:32)  1. Smooth
(4:11)  2. Lovely Clouds
(7:02)  3. Summertrain
(4:47)  4. Whispering Birds
(4:00)  5. Isolde
(4:47)  6. Misty Sax
(3:31)  7. Sonic Cubes
(4:07)  8. Lazy Old Trees
(4:29)  9. Affair
(4:30) 10. Bayana
(5:47) 11. Desire
(5:45) 12. Finest
(4:51) 13. Good News
(4:48) 14. Living Motion
(4:25) 15. Loft

Marcus grew up in a musical family and got an early piano lessons. As a teenager he developed a strong interest in the composition , as well as the production of their own music. During this time he learned more instruments among other guitar , drums and accordion . After graduation in 1998 he started studying music, which he successfully completed of 2004. Consequently, he worked as a producer in many recording studios with artists such as Martin Solveig , Shaun Baker and John Davies together. The M & M's remix of "Rocking Music" for Martin Solveig made ??it to number 9 of the Media Control Charts . The collaboration with Shaun Baker and John Davies could demonstrate various chart positions. 2011, wrote Marcus exclusively the label Plusquam Records and released his debut album "Behind the Rhodes" the lead single "Smooth" reached the 13th place of the German charts Chillout. 

The title of this album are now available on many successful and international compilations represented. 2012 published Marcus his second album "Last Summer", as well as the EP's "Maldives", "One by One" and "Symphony". 2013 took over the label Amaro - Music its entire music catalog. His third album "Chill Modes" and the piano-LP "Time" were released in December, 2013. Under the pseudonym "Symphonicum" published his first classical work named "Awakening" in the same year. Translate by google  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Koch_(Musiker)

Behind The Rhodes

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Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1973
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:28
Size: 138,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:33)  1. Astral Traveling
(6:21)  2. Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
(5:33)  3. Rejuvenation
(6:11)  4. I Mani (Faith)
(7:18)  5. In Search Of Truth
(4:35)  6. Aspirations
(5:41)  7. Astral Traveling (Alternate Take)
(6:38)  8. Rejuvination (Alternate Take)
(6:04)  9. Imani (Alternate Take)
(6:29) 10. In Search Of Truth (Alternate Take)

For many jazz fans, pianist Lonnie Liston Smith irredeemably blotted his copy book decades ago. Right enough, for Smith's smooth jazz and quiet storm albums of the 1980s and 1990s were bland, blissed-out, insubstantial affairs. But between 1965, when he was featured on saxophonist (Rahsaan) Roland Kirk's Here Comes The Whistleman (Atlantic), and the early 1970s, when he was a member of trumpeter Miles Davis' electric group, Smith was not only on the page, he was helping to write it.  From 1969-73, Smith was a key player in the astral jazz movement led by pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was Sanders who made the first fully-formed astral jazz album, his Bob Thiele-produced Impulse! debut, Tauhid (1967). Smith was featured as pianist (and occasional co-arranger) on five Sanders albums: Izipho Zam (Strata-East, 1969) and Impulse!'s Karma (1969), Jewels Of Thought (1970), Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) and Thembi (1971). Smith did not work with Coltrane: she played all the piano she needed, plus the harp and Wurlitzer organ. In Sanders' bands, Smith approximated the sweeping harp and piano glissandos which were emblematic of Coltrane's spin on astral jazz. He also added block chord accompaniments more redolent of McCoy Tyner (an early influence), and fit into the music's hummable melodies and vamp- and ostinato-driven grooves like they were made for him.

With Sanders, Smith played a supporting role, but an important one. The trouble, the intimations of quiet storm, came when Smith started leading his own band, the Cosmic Echoes. Well, not exactly when he started. The group's debut, Astral Traveling produced by Thiele for Flying Dutchman, the label he set up on leaving Impulse! in 1969 was rooted in the sound of Sanders' bands. Revisited almost 40 years later, it still has weight.  Astral Traveling leads off with two tunes associated with Sanders: the title track, written by Smith, which Sanders and Smith had recorded on Thembi, and "Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord," a traditional gospel tune which they had recorded on Summun Bukmun Umyun, where it had been arranged by Smith. George Barron, the Cosmic Echoes' saxophonist, is not in Sanders' league, technically or conceptually, but his soprano is pleasing enough on both tracks. His multiphonic tenor solo on "I Mani (Faith)" is more memorable. Smith, who is mainly heard on acoustic piano, solos infrequently, and approaches Astral Traveling much as he did Sanders' albums: embellishing the melodies and subsuming himself in the collective groove.  

The other musicians anchored by bassist Cecil McBee (a frequent member of Sanders' lineups) and drummer David Lee Jr drive the ostinatos and add color. There are three percussionists, including conga player James Mtume and tabla player Badal Roy (both Sanders alumni), and on "In Search Of Truth" (at 7:08, the longest track), Geeta Vashi is heard on tamboura, astral jazz's signature instrument. At no point does Astral Traveling reach the heights of Sanders' or Coltrane's contemporaneous albums, but on "Rejuvenation," "I Mani (Faith)" and "In Search Of Truth" it gets close enough. 

Recent CD reissues have included alternate takes of all three tracks. Anyone bitten by the astral jazz bug is sure to find plenty to enjoy on the disc. Sad then, that Smith's subsequent Flying Dutchman releases moved steadily towards smooth jazz and cocktail funk. 1974's Cosmic Funk had its moments, as did, to a lesser extent, the same year's Expansions. But by the time the synths and disco beats moved in, on 1975's Visions, it was bye-bye Lonnie Liston Smith for most of the jazz world. (A half dozen Pharoah Sanders/Alice Coltrane albums of the early/mid 1970s were reissued in October 2011 in Impulse!'s 2-on-1 series and are reviewed here). ~ Chris May  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/lonnie-liston-smith-astral-traveling-lonnie-liston-smith-by-chris-may.php

Personnel: Lonnie Liston Smith: piano, electric piano; George Barron: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone; Joe Beck: guitar; Cecil McBee: bass; David Lee Jr.: drums; Sonny Morgan: percussion, conga; James Mtume: percussion, conga; Badal Roy: tabla; Geeta Vashi: tamboura.

Astral Traveling

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