Hot Lips Page - Jump For Joy!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:46
Size: 148.3 MB
Styles: Swing, Trumpet jazz
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. St. James Infirmary
[2:39] 2. Walkin' In A Daze
[2:48] 3. Take Your Shoes Off, Baby
[2:34] 4. La Danse
[2:58] 5. Baby, It's Cold Outside
[2:58] 6. The Hucklebuck
[3:01] 7. Baby, Look At You
[3:12] 8. Far Away Blues
[3:20] 9. Jump For Joy
[2:51] 10. Limehouse Blues
[2:49] 11. Limehouse Blues
[2:48] 12. Now You're Talking My Language
[2:49] 13. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
[2:54] 14. When You're Smiling
[2:33] 15. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
[2:31] 16. Why Did I Always Depend On You
[3:04] 17. Long Gone Blues
[3:06] 18. Got An Uncle In Harlem
[3:10] 19. Jeety-Boat Joad
[3:01] 20. Blow, Champ, Blow
[3:22] 21. There Ain't No Flies On Me
[3:02] 22. Miss Larceny Blues

Because this is a mix of solo sessions from one era (the late '40s and early '50s) and Hot Lips Page's work in the bands of Pete Johnson, Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson, and Billie Holiday from another era (the late '30s), it's too scattered to function as an overview or as a detailed snapshot of a particular aspect of Page's career. There's still some material here for Page fans to enjoy, particularly as some of the tracks were previously unreleased. On the solo sides, he comes off as similar but inferior to Louis Armstrong, though enjoyable on his own terms if comparisons with that behemoth are avoided; the interpretation of Ravel's "La Danse" is a highlight. A young Pearl Bailey duets with him on "Baby It's Cold Outside" and a previously unreleased alternate take of "The Hucklebuck." A young Joe Turner is the vocalist on the Johnson sides, and here the main collector attraction is the previously unreleased "Jump for Joy." More such goodies include a previously unreleased alternate take of "Limehouse Blues" (as part of Berry's band); two previously unissued performances as a member of Wilson's orchestra; and, finally, previously unavailable alternate takes of "Got an Uncle in Harlem" and "Jeety-Boad Joad" (both from 1949) and the hitherto unissued "Blow, Champ, Blow" (from 1950). ~Richie Unterberger

Jump For Joy!

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Curtis Cantwell Jackson & Janiece Jaffe - Songs That Make You Feel This Way

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:00
Size: 107.6 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Sunshine On My Shoulders
[4:47] 2. Lazybones
[3:25] 3. It's Lonely Here
[4:37] 4. Don't Know Why
[6:01] 5. Autum Leaves
[3:46] 6. Three Little Birds
[4:35] 7. You Send Me
[6:30] 8. Weakness
[4:44] 9. Corcovado
[4:36] 10. You Are So Beautiful

Curtis and I met at the Farmer's Market in Bloomington IN in 2002! We did not sing with each other until 2007 when we kept hearing from fans and friends that we should collaborate. Little did we know we would become such a dynamic duo! We both come from a rich background of teaching and performing, and enjoy the magic that comes from sharing our passion for life and music.

Songs That Make You Feel This Way

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Coleman Hawkins - On Broadway

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 75:56

Size: 173.5 MB

Styles: Saxophone jazz

Year: 1997

Art: Front

[4:17] 1. I Talk To The Trees

[4:36] 2. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

[2:23] 3. Wanting You

[6:14] 4. Strange Music

[4:03] 5. The Man That Got Away

[4:09] 6. Get Out Of Town

[4:05] 7. Here I'll Stay

[4:45] 8. A Fellow Needs A Girl

[4:10] 9. Loads Of Love

[4:18] 10. The Sweetest Sounds

[7:45] 11. Wouldn't It Be Loverly

[4:28] 12. Cry Like The Wind

[4:31] 13. Climb Ev'ry Mountain

[3:03] 14. Make Someone Happy

[4:48] 15. Out Of My Dreams

[3:23] 16. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You

[4:42] 17. I Believe In You

A generous 76-minute CD, Coleman Hawkins On Broadway contains 1962 recordings originally heard on three LPs: Good Old Broadway, Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy From Do Re Mi and The Coleman Hawkins Quartet Plays The Jazz Version Of No Strings. All of the songs Hawk interprets were from Broadway plays, and everything boasts the sparkling Tommy Flanagan on piano, Major Holley on bass and Eddie Locke on drums. Fast-tempo aggression isn't a priority here instead, the seminal tenor saxman brings a relaxed confidence to standards like "The Sweetest Sounds," "Make Someone Happy" and "Get Out Of Town." Comfortable tempos are the rule, and in fact, much of this CD can function quite well as nocturnal mood music but mood music of a consistently high quality. And as usual, Hawk's big, breathy tone is something to savor. ~AAJ Staff

On Broadway

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Dinah Shore, Andre Previn - Dinah Sings Previn Plays

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz

Year: 2006

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 45:27

Size: 104,5 MB

Art: Front

(3:19)  1. The Man I Love

(2:58)  2. April In Paris

(3:13)  3. That Old Feeling

(2:43)  4. I've Got You Under My Skin

(3:23)  5. Then I'll Be Tired Of You

(2:42)  6. Sleepy Time Gal

(3:42)  7. My Melancholy Baby

(3:36)  8. My Funny Valentine

(3:26)  9. It Had To Be You

(3:10) 10. I'll Be Seeing You

(3:22) 11. If I Had You

(3:00) 12. Like Someone In Love

(2:54) 13. Stars Fell On Alabama

(3:08) 14. While We're Young

(4:17) 15. The Man I Love

While maintaining her status as a television star, Dinah Shore made a series of classy albums for Capitol Records between 1959 and 1962. On this, the fourth of her five LPs for the label, she again teamed with André Previn, who had arranged and conducted her earlier album, Somebody Loves Me. This time, Previn took to the piano, joined only by an occasional rhythm section for another set of ballads (or, as the sleeve note put it, "songs in a mid-night mood"). They included standards by the Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart and others, and Shore handled them with more than her usual warmth; she smoldered. The result was a concept album that ranks with some of Frank Sinatra's. Maybe sales were negligible because the Shore of this album was hard to reconcile with the grinning hostess on TV, but it probably had more to do with the overexposure TV gives any regular performer, causing the public to look for her on the small screen rather than on the record shelves. In any case, that made this album a lost gem.~William Ruhlmann http://www.allmusic.com/album/dinah-sings-previn-plays-mw0000557770

Personnel: Dinah Shore (vocals); Dinah Shore; Red Mitchell (upright bass); André Previn (piano); Frank Capp (drums).

Dinah Sings Previn Plays

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Chano Dominguez - Hecho A Mano

Styles: Piano Jazz, Latin Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:39
Size: 145,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:35)  1. Alma De Mujer
(4:23)  2. Retaila
(5:31)  3. Pinar Hondo
(4:35)  4. Tu Enciendes Las Estrellas
(2:52)  5. Cardamomo
(6:34)  6. Bajamar
(7:15)  7. Cilantro Y Comino
(6:58)  8. Solea Blues
(3:55)  9. Jacaranda
(7:23) 10. Bubango
(2:57) 11. Bemsha Swing
(4:34) 12. Solo Con Verte

The cross-pollination of Latin music and jazz has been going on for decades. Typically, a jazz group will borrow Latin grooves and instrumentation, while Latin players apply their rhythms and harmonies to the American standards songbook. It's usually a rather self-conscious blending in which the genre lines are still obvious; only a few musicians have managed to make the mix organic (Chick Corea, Michel Camilo, and Al DiMeola's The Grande Passion CD come to mind).  Now we have Chano Dominguez, a fine pianist from Cadiz, Spain, who weaves jazz with a flamenco approach. Hecho a Mano (aka Handmade) was recorded in Madrid in September, 1996, for Nuba Records, and released on October 15, 2002 by Sunnyside. Dominguez's ten originals integrate jazz improvisation and harmonies with the fire and mystery of his native culture; it's a seamless blend, exciting and original. Dominguez also breathes fresh life into a pair of classics: "Turn Out the Stars" gets a new Spanish subtitle {"You Turn On the Stars") as a tribute to composer Bill Evans; it also gets a new feel as a lovely flamenco waltz. Monk's quirky "Bemsha Swing" becomes a delightful mix of piano and powerful hand-clapping and shoe-tapping.

Dominguez introduces the American listener to a broad range of flamenco forms which extend far beyond the Hollywood stereotype of the fierce, scowling dancer to include the tango, the exuberant buleria and sequidilla, and the bluesy solea. His compositions range from a musical description of a woman's soul ("Alma de Mujer"), which builds from tenderness to passion, to the tabla-inflected "Cardomono," the gypsy "Retaila" and the sexy fandango, "Pinar Hondo." "Cilantro y Comino" is an extended journey that's full of rhythmic surprises and joyful energy. All the musicians are first-rate, with notable solos delivered by bassist Javier Colina and guitarist Tito Alcedo. This is exciting, soulful, memorable music.~Dr Judith Schlesinger http://www.allaboutjazz.com/hecho-a-mano-chano-dominguez-sunnyside-records-review-by-dr-judith-schlesinger.php

Personnel: Chano Dominguez: piano; Javier Colina: bass; Guillermo McGuill: drums; Tomatito: guitar; Antonio Toledo: guitar; Nono Garcia: guitar; Tito Alcedo: guitar; Tino di Geraldo: percussion, tablas, cajon, drums, tambourine, clapping); Chonchi Heredia: vocals, clapping; Joaquin Grilo: foot tapping, clapping; Juan Diego clapping; Lorenza Virseda: clapping.

Hecho A Mano

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Keyon Harrold - Introducing Keyon Harrold

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:52
Size: 135,1 MB
Art: Front

(7:27)  1. TMF Nuttz
(7:17)  2. Sudden Inspiration
(8:00)  3. Shirley's Blues
(6:34)  4. Keyon Beyond
(6:41)  5. Amazing Grace/ Lord My God
(7:57)  6. Peace
(7:38)  7. Hip Hop Joint
(7:14)  8. The Awakening

Keyon Harrold comes to jazz and pop from his home in St. Louis, and at age 28 presents his debut recording of straight-ahead modern mainstream music in the typical Criss Cross label tradition. He's not carved in the mold of hometown icon Miles Davis, but has some of the bold technique of Freddie Hubbard and fluidity of Lee Morgan, while stylistically within the neo-bop range of Wynton Marsalis or Tom Harrell. Harrold has played with the Count Basie and Roy Hargrove big bands and as a sideman with Billy Harper, and has worked with Jay-Z, Beyoncé Knowles, and Snoop Dogg, among others, so he knows the twentysomething audience as well as grown-up purist jazz listeners. Brothers Marcus Strickland (saxes) and E.J. Strickland (drums) support Harrold, along with the fabulous young pianist Danny Grissett and bassist Derzon Douglas. 

As you'd expect, Harrold is an accomplished player with both youth and experience on his side, but also uses different arenas of modern jazz as a composer. His opener, "TMF Nuttz," is a Marsalis-type angular bop-strewn swinger powered by Grissett's two-fisted chords and a ripe solo by the brassman, and features Harrold's mentor, fellow trumpeter Charles Tolliver. The chunkier melody of "The Awakening" takes into account a blues aspect that identifies Harrell's pure tuneful sound, while an atypical version of Horace Silver's "Peace" is stewed in a light Brazilian broth with guitarist Jeremy Most added on in an interpretation quite different from the pensive, balladic original. Grissett is fond of switching to the electric Fender Rhodes piano, adding more of a retro feel to the funky boogaloo strains of "Shirley's Blues" and the 4/4 bounce during "Hip Hop Joint," with Harrold's muted horn alongside Marcus Strickland's solid tenor sax. In reference to his deep St. Louis gospel roots, "Amazing Grace"/"Lord, My God" is fairly typical in the main, but Marcus Strickland's soprano sax adds brighter color to the combo piece. 

These are all very good and well for what one might expect, but "Sudden Inspiration" stands out in its easy swing stance offset by staggered phrasings that jump out, where "Keyon Beyond" more perfectly envisions the duality of clockwork beats with a hip-hop sway that made Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana" a seminal reference point for current music in the urban collective. Certainly this is a credible first effort, as Harrold only scratches the surface of his potential, and though somewhat derivative of past predecessors, it bodes well for his bright future alongside Jeremy Pelt, Sean Jones, and Ambrose Akinmusire as the leading jazz trumpet players of a new generation.~Michael G.Nastos http://www.allmusic.com/album/introducing-keyon-harrold-mw0000833353

Personnel: Keyon Harrold (trumpet); Jeremy Most (guitar); Marcus Strickland (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Charles Tolliver (trumpet); Danny Grissett (piano); E.J. Strickland (drums).

Introducing Keyon Harrold

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Larry Coryell - Spaces

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1974
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:04
Size: 85,2 MB
Art: Front

(9:23)  1. Spaces (Infinite)
(4:12)  2. Rene's Theme
(4:32)  3. Gloria's Step
(9:02)  4. Wrong Is Right
(9:32)  5. Crisis
(0:21)  6. New Year's Day In Los Angeles-1968

This album features the pioneer fusion guitarist Larry Coryell with quite an all-star group. Two selections match Coryell with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin, bassist Miroslav Vitous (doubling on cello) and drummer Billy Cobham, all important fusion players at the time. "Rene's Theme" is a guitar duet with McLaughlin, while "Gloria's Steps" (a Scott LaFaro composition) has Coryell, Vitous and Cobham jamming as a trio. Chick Corea sits in on electric keyboard for "Chris," and the 20-second closer ("New Year's Day in Los Angeles 1968") finds Coryell playing alone. Overall, the music has its energetic moments, but also contains some lyricism often lacking in fusion of the mid-'70s. In addition, all of the musicians already had their own original voices, making Spaces a stimulating album worth searching for.~Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/spaces-mw0000197196

Personnel:  Larry Coryell – guitar;  John McLaughlin – guitar;  Chick Corea – electric piano;  Billy Cobham – drums;  Miroslav Vitous – bass

Spaces

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