Jenny Evans - Girl Talk

Styles: Vocal Jazz

Year: 1993

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 61:57

Size: 142,1 MB

Art: Front

(4:15)  1. Too Close To Comfort

(6:03)  2. Girl Talk

(3:57)  3. Love For Sale

(5:22)  4. Miss Otis Regrets

(5:16)  5. Song For My Father

(4:12)  6. There Will Never Be Another You

(4:09)  7. Autumn Leaves

(3:55)  8. Dat Dere

(5:47)  9. Jenny's Place

(4:07) 10. St. Thomas

(6:22) 11. Mr. Bojangles

(3:45) 12. I Wanna Be Near To You

(4:39) 13. 's Wonderful

Born in London, England, in the lowly outskirts of Beckenham, Jenny Evans is a talented master of many trades. She is an unforgettable jazz singer, but she has also been an actress and lyricist, and she has run a jazz club for five years called Jenny's Place. She has been in musicals such as Blood Brothers, her voice has been used in films, and she even has a M.A. degree in linguistics to fall back on (as if she would ever need to). Evans moved to Munich, Germany, in 1976 to study to be a teacher of music and English. While working toward her degree, she became the lead singer for a band called Old Socks New Shoes. The ragtime numbers she performed with the group slowly blended toward classic jazz. Though she appears comfortable and capable singing anything from Gershwin songs to numbers by the Beatles, her sultry voice seems made just for jazz. In 1997, Evans released her debut album for ENJA Records, Shiny Stockings. The album won her good reviews by many. Girl Talk hit the stores in 1999 with tracks like "Love for Sale," "Mr. Bojangles," and "I Wanna Be Near to You." Evans keeps busy between recordings, playing at many clubs and festivals, and touring in Europe, Germany, Australia, Russia, and Japan. ~ Charlotte Dillon  https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jenny-evans/id58282661#fullText

Girl Talk

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Derek Smith Trio - Love For Sale

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:32
Size: 113,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:08)  1. Love For Sale
(5:34)  2. Autumn Leaves
(6:18)  3. Summertime
(3:51)  4. One To Warm Up On
(5:19)  5. When Sunny Gets Blue
(5:30)  6. Tristessa
(7:35)  7. Sweet Lorraine
(3:21)  8. Too Close For Comfort
(5:52)  9. A Day In The Life Of A Fool (Carnival)

A powerful swing-based pianist, Derek Smith is heard in top form throughout this trio set with bassist George Duvivier and drummer Bobby Rosengarden. The nine-song program (which has been reissued on CD) is highlighted by "Love for Sale," "Autumn Leaves," "Too Close for Comfort" and Smith's "One to Warm Up On." Easily recommended to fans of mainstream piano. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/love-for-sale-mw0000308750

Personnel: Derek Smith (piano); Bobby Rosengarden (drums).

Love For Sale

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Sir Roland Hanna - Everything I Love

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:18
Size: 175,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:19)  1. Comedy Tonight
(5:23)  2. A Tribute
(2:48)  3. Lullaby Of The Leaves
(6:30)  4. I Hear A Rhapsody
(5:22)  5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(4:50)  6. Send In The Clowns
(5:26)  7. In The Blue Of The Evening
(5:57)  8. All Blues
(7:18)  9. Comes Autumn
(6:30) 10. Embraceable You
(7:24) 11. How Deep Is The Ocean
(6:45) 12. Alone Together
(4:39) 13. Everything I Love

Pianist Roland Pembrooks Hanna was born on February 10, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan and passed away on November 13, 2002 at the age of 70. He began his professional career in 1958, when he joined Benny Goodman’s band for a concert in Belgium. He was conservatoire trained and provided his services to Sarah Vaughan, Al Hibbler, Carmen McRae, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and Charles Mingus. In 1970, President William Tubman of Liberia honored Hanna with Knighthood in 1970 for humanitarian services henceforth, Sir Roland Hanna. Sir Roland Hanna belonged to a rarified group of pianists that includes Hank Jones, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, and Mulgrew Miller. These pianists share in common an urbanity and grace unbridled. Each has amassed talent in all styles and genres before stamping music with his own indelible character. Nowhere is this better heard than when Sir Roland, in particular, performs solo, as he does on Everything I Love, recorded shortly before his death. This album is one of two recordings Hanna made for IPO Recordings as their inaugural set of three releases (the remaining two are Sir Roland Hanna and Carrie Smith  I’ve Got a Right to Sing The Blues and Dubravka Tomsic  A Liszt Recital ). Hanna drinks deep and provides an expansive breadth of the American Song Canon. 

He performs a liberal sprinkling of Cole Porter with the title cut and a very balladic "You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To." Two Sondheim chestnuts in "Comedy Tonight" and "Send in the Clowns" grace the package, each played with sensitivity and resourcefulness. The highpoint of the recording is Hanna’s own "Bags A Tribute" which exists as a set of variations on Milt Jackson’s "Bag’s Groove." This is thrilling and well performed. Sir Roland Hanna has left us a beautiful love letter in the form of Everything I Love. We are blessed that he thought of us before leaving. ~ C.Michael Bailey http://www.allaboutjazz.com/everything-i-love-sir-roland-hanna-ipo-recordings-review-by-c-michael-bailey__1439.php 

Solo performer: Sir Roland Hanna (piano).

Everything I Love

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