Leana Sealy - Undecided

Size: 103,9 MB
Time: 37:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Call The Police (3:25)
02. Cheek To Cheek (3:12)
03. So What (3:25)
04. Night In Tunesia (3:19)
05. Love For Sale (3:57)
06. No More Blues (2:14)
07. Seven Steps (2:08)
08. Scrapple From The Apple (3:13)
09. Lush Life (4:01)
10. Man Who Sold The World (5:22)
11. Uninvited (3:10)

Born in Dublin with parents from Barbados and Ireland, Luxembourg based vocalist Leana Sealy infuses jazz standards and contemporary songs with her fresh new style.

The talented singer blends scat, soul and jazz into effortless and passionate interpretations from great songbooks spanning from Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to pop songs from James Morrison or Alanis Morissette. A classically trained saxophonist, she merges her unique phrasing and improvisation style with an exceptional and charming soulful voice to produce an acoustic and intimate sound that pays homage to the great jazz tradition whilst giving it a youthful, modern touch.

Having done numerous recordings and live performances with notably Gast Waltzing, Guy Cabay, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra and her own Leana Sealy Quintet with whom she released her debut album in 2004 (On The Street Where You Live), Sealy has just finished recording her second album to be released later this year (2009) on WPR Jazz with fellow musicians David Laborier on guitar and Rom A Heck on bass and Michel Mootz on drums.

Undecided

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Tony Yazbeck - The Floor Above Me

Size: 125,2 MB
Time: 53:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Broadway
Art: Front

01. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (2:23)
02. Let Yourself Go/No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)/Fascinating Rhythm/Can't You See It (4:31)
03. My Mom And I Drove Into New York... (0:48)
04. Pure Imagination (2:54)
05. Flash Forward To 2007... (0:17)
06. All I Need Is The Girl (2:55)
07. I Was Living Out My Dream... (0:36)
08. Moses Supposes (2:58)
09. 'Til Kingdom Come (3:34)
10. Got To Get You Into My Life (1:37)
11. Dance Me To The End Of Love/I Won't Dance (5:06)
12. Cheek To Cheek (1:46)
13. Change Partners/Let's Face The Music And Dance (4:44)
14. Nothing I Do (2:56)
15. Where Did I Go Wrong (4:01)
16. I Was Taught To Be A Fighter... (0:38)
17. Both Sides Now (4:20)
18. I'm Backstage At This Theatre... (0:19)
19. Lucky To Be Me (2:57)
20. Hello, My Old Heart (3:36)

Having conquered Broadway with a string of acclaimed roles – from Gypsy to White Christmas to On the Town – triple-threat Tony Yazbeck sets his sights on reinventing the solo album with his new studio recording, The Floor Above Me, adapted and expanded from his one-man show. Blending song, dance and personal narrative, Yazbeck breathes new life into not only the time-honored tale of the Broadway dreamer but the solo album as well, with ecstatic tap dancing and a moving story that deepens the emotional impact of Yazbeck's carefully curated program. Yazbeck, whose "easy, warm, open-hearted and touchingly real performance" as Gabey in the 2014 Broadway revival of On the Town "provided the show with a firm emotional center" (The New York Times), brings his openness, charm and boundless energy to his own story as a hardworking kid growing up in Pennsylvania who dreamed of making it on Broadway – and did. Comprising an eclectic mix of songs ranging from the classic tunes of Irving Berlin ("Let Yourself Go," "Cheek to Cheek") and the Gershwins ("Fascinating Rhythm," "Slap That Bass") to the more modern pop of Coldplay, Jamie Cullum and Martin Sexton, and featuring guest appearances by Clyde Alves (Yazbeck's co-star in On the Town) and Melinda Sullivan (So You Think You Can Dance), The Floor Above Me gives audiences the chance to join Yazbeck on his journey to Broadway.

The Floor Above Me

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Donatella Luttazzi & Amedeo Tommasi Trio - I Love You Chet

Size: 119,3 MB
Time: 50:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. I Love You Chet (3:16)
02. Donatella Luttazzi Amedeo Tommasi Trio (3:13)
03. All The Thinks You Are (3:59)
04. My Funny Valentine (4:34)
05. Like Someone In Love (3:49)
06. Angel Eyes (3:23)
07. My Romange (3:39)
08. Stella By Starlight (4:33)
09. Just Friends (4:43)
10. In Love Too Easily (3:17)
11. My Foolish Heart (4:41)
12. Alone Togheter (4:04)
13. The Touch Of Your Lips (3:25)

Donatella Luttazzi, singer, singing teacher, composer and arranger.

Jazz Singer, American folk, loving even the Brazilian repertoire, sang with Tony Scott, Francesco Puglisi, Eddie Palermo, Antonello Vannucchi, Irio De Paula, Cinzia Gizzi, Amedeo Tommasi, and many others, and for some months to Barbra's of New York with the quintet of Jeff Hittman.

She has just finished recording a CD with the trio of Amedeo Tommasi, with John Thomas at CB and Marco Valeri on drums, the repertoire of his loved Chet Baker.

I Love You Chet

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Dirk Schaadt Organ Trio - Time To Change

Size: 148,5 MB
Time: 64:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz: Hammond Organ
Art: Front

01. Eddie Likes It (5:54)
02. Tristesse Royal (6:33)
03. You Think You Know It (6:37)
04. Seven Dance (6:45)
05. Both Of You (6:31)
06. She's Late (5:57)
07. Keep The Flow (5:53)
08. Time To Change (7:22)
09. Just An Option (6:19)
10. Gut Gelaunt (6:10)

The Cologne music scene has always been a very fertile ground for spectacular projects - international names of many genres make the city as their home and meet local heroes as well as emerging talents. Cultural life, club and concert culture is a pulse of this city. See you on stage and in sessions - and sometimes then meet musicians, which are already "sparks" at the first meeting. This happened when Dirk Schaadt organ trio that now his debut album Time To Change presents.

Dirk Schaadt (Hammond organ), Martin Feske (guitar) and Marcus Möller (drums), all already known quantities of their craft have immediately sensed that they are musically exactly on the same wavelength.

"The high-energy, homogenous trio sound was the first common tone there. And we was all at once a compelling need clear that this is the birth of a new sensational band be m u s s! "Schaadt gives a nod to protocol.

Their concert program of this high-energy trio presented here also an immense variety of styles: Songs of funky soul jazz finely engraved ballads to groovy and swinging jazz compositions combine to create a dynamic, homogeneous and therefore unique, unmistakable trio sound and thus ensure an absolutely authentic and varied musical experience. ~Google translator

Time To Change

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Jeff Beal - Three Graces

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Jazz Fusion
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:49
Size: 119,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:43)  1. Jazz Habit
(5:40)  2. Three Graces
(5:41)  3. I Saw Isabella
(5:15)  4. Wrong Number
(6:40)  5. Through A Glass Dimly
(5:19)  6. The Watchers
(3:49)  7. Prayer of St. Francis
(6:22)  8. Dizzy Spells
(6:22)  9. For Miles
(2:54) 10. Waltz for Mary

Trumpeter Jeff Beal's compositions do not contain catchy melodies, but instead set mysterious and often melancholy moods with interesting frameworks, using occasional funk lines creatively. Much of the music builds logically to unexpected heights with surprising turns. Beal's fine trumpet playing is generally quite original (even if he hints strongly at Miles Davis' sound when he is muted) and his sextet (with Steve Tavaglione's tenor, pianist John Beasley, and bassist John Patitucci) is flexible enough to interpret his complex compositions. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/three-graces-mw0000621319

Personnel: Trumpet – Jeff Beal;  Bass – John Patitucci;  Drums – Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta;  Guitar – Steve Cárdenas;  Piano – John Beasley;  Saxophone [Tenor] – Steve Tavaglione

Three Graces

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Dave Weckl Band - Multiplicity

Styles: Jazz, Crossover Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:11
Size: 125,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:30)  1. Watch your step
(5:40)  2. Elements of Surprise
(5:55)  3. Vuelo
(6:01)  4. Inner vision
(6:25)  5. What it is
(5:34)  6. Chain reaction
(5:33)  7. Cascade
(6:37)  8. Mixed bag
(6:54)  9. Down on the corner

Sometimes it's best to take things on face value. A solid collection of engaging compositions, plenty of infectious grooves, and strong soloing/interplay can go a long way to making an album worthwhile, even if it doesn't demonstrate any kind of specific characteristics that give it a distinctive personality. Sometimes an album is just plain fun, nothing more, nothing less. Over the course of his 25-year career, drummer Dave Weckl has created an almost unparalleled reputation in fusion circles as a player with staggering chops and the ability to navigate the most complex of charts the latter arguably most visible during his tenure with keyboardist Chick Corea's Elektric Band, which reconvened last year for a new record and tour, after a fourteen-year hiatus. But along with his reputation as a virtuosic player was often an undercurrent that his playing always felt somehow cold and sterile. While Weckl has been releasing solo albums since '90's Master Plan, it's really been over the past five years that his Dave Weckl Band has emerged with a combination of deep funk grooves and hints of rhythmic influences from farther afield that lay waste to the claim that Weckl is a skilled but clinical player. Multiplicity is a high-energy but never bombastic session that gives everyone plenty of chance to stretch out, all within the context of some attractive and upbeat compositions, most being collaborations between Weckl, reedman Gary Meek, and keyboardist Steve Weingart, with three tracks by Weingart alone. But, most important, the album feels good. 

The precedents are all there. Weckl's time with Corea can be heard in some of the charts' complicated and unexpected rhythmic twists and turns, but Yellowjackets and Jaco-era Weather Report are the clearest foundations. Weckl and his long-time rhythm section partner, bassist Tom Kennedy, seem joined at the hip on tunes ranging from the bright opener "Watch Your Step, the Latin-informed "Vuelo, and the 7/4 mover, "Mixed Bag. But Weckl is equally connected to bassist Ric Fierabracci, who plays on four of the nine tracks, most notably on the Weather Report-inflected shuffle of "Elements of Surprise and the visceral, behind-the-beat funk of "What It Is. Weingart and Meek are capable soloists, but if there's any criticism, it's that, while everything is delivered with complete commitment, no originality distinguishes the players. The generic nature of the playing, despite its high level, is what stops the record, clearly an enjoyable one, from being great. There's no doubt that, in the area of funkified fusion, Weckl and his band represent some of the better players around. And in that regard, for fans of the genre who want to hear vivid playing that avoids its almost inherent excesses, one could do far worse than check out Multiplicity. Still, if Weckl wants his band to get to the next level, he needs to find a way of giving it a clear identity. ~ John Kelman  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/multiplicity-dave-weckl-stretch-records-review-by-john-kelman.php

Personnel: Dave Weckl (drums, timbales, percussion, programming); Paul Pesco (guitar); Gary Meek (alto flute, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Steve Weingart (keyboards); Richie Gajate Garcia (congas, percussion).

Multiplicity

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Eddie Harris - Dancing By A Rainbow

Styles: Vocal, Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:51
Size: 130,6 MB
Art: Front

(12:52)  1. Mean Greens
( 5:30)  2. The Grand Strut
( 7:09)  3. Set Us Free
( 3:42)  4. Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova
( 6:40)  5. You Are Not The Right One For Me
( 5:33)  6. Dancing By A Rainbow
( 7:19)  7. An April To Be Remembered
( 8:02)  8. It's Just Fun And Games

If Musicmasters' claim that Freedom Jazz Dance is the last "fully authorized" Eddie Harris studio session is to be believed, what are listeners to make of this baby, which followed the Musicmasters date by nearly a year? Whether authorized or not, Dancing by a Rainbow is actually a better capstone to his studio legacy. Recorded in a reverberant Munich studio, with old '70s cohort Ronald Muldrow back on electric guitar, Nolan Smith on trumpet and flugelhorn, and a strutting rhythm section (electric and acoustic bassist Jeff Chambers, drummer Gaylord Birch), the music-making is hotter, the styles more diverse, and the 60-year-old leader who had a little more than a year and a half to live is in just as splendidly inventive shape. All the compositions are Harris', nearly half of which are remakes of some of his best, less-often-encored stuff from his heyday in the '60s and early '70s. If anything, this hard-swinging, nearly 13-minute remake of "Mean Greens" is even better than the original, with Muldrow's rhythm guitar serving as the main engine. 

Harris' solo is a career-encompassing summary of his funk style, and further down on the track he starts comping on piano right in the middle of Chambers' solo which has the electrifying effect of driving everyone even harder. "Set Us Free" (originally recorded with Les McCann) goes at a faster, more brittle, percolating tempo, and "Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova" is brighter in tone and funkier in pace. The newer tunes range from truckin' soul-jazz ("The Grand Strut") through the loose-jointed syncopated funk of the title track, the good-time Brazilian samba "It's Just Fun and Games," and the more straight-ahead manner that Harris often cultivated in the last years. For old times' sake, Harris also cuts loose a bop-scat vocal on "An April to Be Remembered," with an occasional reminder of his Leon Thomas-style yodel. Clearly, the Europeans understood Eddie Harris' versatility perfectly. ~ Richard S. Ginell  http://www.allmusic.com/album/dancing-by-a-rainbow-mw0000646878

Personnel: Eddie Harris (vocals, tenor saxophone, piano); Nolan Smith (trumpet, flugelhorn); Ronald Muldrow (electric guitar); Jeff Chambers (electric bass); Gaylord Birch (drums); Uli Stach (percussion).

Dancing By A Rainbow

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