Joan Regan - If I Give My Heart to You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 56:04
Size: 103,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:45)  1. Till I Waltz Again with You
(2:39)  2. Ricochet
(2:28)  3. Till They've All Gone Home
(2:15)  4. I Know for Sure
(2:48)  5. If I Give My Heart to You
(2:24)  6. This Ole House
(2:16)  7. Someone Else's Roses
(2:02)  8. Jilted
(2:46)  9. Cleo and Me-O
(2:35) 10. Merry Go Round and Swings
(1:56) 11. Wait for Me Darling
(2:37) 12. The Love I Have for You
(2:18) 13. I'll Travel with You
(2:25) 14. Prize of Gold
(2:22) 15. Two Kinds of Tears
(2:13) 16. Faded Flowers
(2:26) 17. When You're in Love
(2:15) 18. The Bluebells of Broadway Are Ringing Tonight
(2:19) 19. Don't Be Afraid of Love
(2:07) 20. Pinetree, Pine Over Me
(2:36) 21. The Shepherd Boy
(2:48) 22. The Rose and the Flame
(2:32) 23. Love and Marriage

Joan Regan was born in Romford, Essex on the 19th January 1928. While working as a photographer's re-toucher, she cut a couple of discs, versions of the songs Too Young and I'll Walk Alone which after coming to the attention of Bernard Delfont, earned her a recording contract with Decca Records. As virtually all of her British contemporaries at that time, she was presented with American songs to cover, her first being Till I Waltz Again With You and I'll Always Be Thinking Of You, but neither of these were strong enough to break into the charts. 

On her third song, Ricochet, she was backed by the vocal group The Squadronaires which just reached the top 10 at the end of 1953 and led to her regular appearances on the TV series Quite Contrary, which was followed later by four series of her own show, Be My Guest. During 1954 and 1955 she had several hits with further covers, Someone Else's Roses, If I Give My Heart To You, Prize Of Gold and Wait For Me Darling on which she was backed by The Johnson Brothers. She developed her act to include impressions of Gracie Fields, Judy Garland and actress Anna Neagle and in the late 1950s, she appeared several times at the London Palladium including The Royal Command performance and also in the show Stars In Your Eyes with her long term friend, Russ Conway who had been her rehearsal pianist during the early days. Leaving Decca in 1958, she signed with EMI's HMV label and had one final top 10 hit in the summer of 1959 and four minor hits during 1960 with yet another company Pye, Happy Anniversary, Papa Loves Mambo, One Of The Lucky Ones and It Must Be Santa. She married Harry Claff in 1957 who had worked at the Palladium but they divorced in 1963 after he was jailed for five years for fraud. By this time, the hits had completely dried up and she suffered a nervous breakdown, and relocated to Florida, marrying Martin Cowan. 

She suffered a brain haemorrhage in 1984 and was left paralysed but recovered enough to appear on stage again with Russ Conway. She signed a new deal with Nectar records in 1992 and continues to make occasions appearances on stage. ~ Sharon Mawer https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/joan-regan/id15482708

If I Give My Heart to You

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Herman Foster - Explosive piano of/ Have you heard

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1960
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:22
Size: 173,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:04)  1. Yesterdays
(5:48)  2. Like Someone In Love
(5:52)  3. Carol
(4:19)  4. Dancing In The Dark
(6:33)  5. Goodbye
(5:57)  6. Dream
(4:48)  7. Herman's Blues
(9:21)  8. Volare
(7:22)  9. Lover Man
(6:45) 10. When I Fall In Love
(4:49) 11. Strange
(9:38) 12. Angel Eyes

A longtime sideman, primarily to Lou Donaldson, blind pianist Herman Foster only made three albums as a leader, the two combined on this discount-priced two-fer CD, recorded and released by Epic Records in 1960-1961, and Ready and Willing for Argo in 1963. Although Have You Heard and the inappropriately named The Explosive Piano Of (placed in reverse chronological order on this disc) are both agreeable collections that demonstrate Foster's distinctive piano technique, you can tell why he remained mainly a backup musician for most of his career. Foster has a locked-hands approach, with which he plays the same chords in different keys, sometimes precisely, sometimes in slightly jagged fashion to create a rolling, rhythmic effect. 

Then he will break off and play single-note runs, though "runs" is not the right word "ambles" would be more like it. He is respectful of the melodies of what are usually standards, at least when playing the head, and he enjoys tossing in quotations from other well-known tunes here and there. Accompanied on each LP only by bass (Earl May) and drums (Grassella Oliphant or Frankie Dunlop), he is given plenty of room to shine, and he takes it to create interpretations that are consistently engaging without ever being disturbing. Other jazz musicians of the early '60s may have been exploring the uses of dissonance and extreme freedom, but Foster still had a lot left to say in the bop idiom. He may not have been a virtuoso like his heroes, especially Bud Powell, but he could find new approaches to traditional melodies that illuminated them, and his albums remain highly listenable.~William Ruhlmann http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-explosive-piano-of-herman-foster-have-you-heard-mw0000659366

Personnel: Herman Foster (piano); Earl May (bass); Grassella Oliphant, Drnkie Dunlop (drums).

Explosive piano of/ Have you heard

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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Blues To East

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1978
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:07
Size: 76,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. Our Delight
(9:27)  2. Love Theme From Spartacus
(2:27)  3. All In Love Is Fair
(5:45)  4. Love For Sale
(5:12)  5. My Old Flame
(5:33)  6. Blues To East

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto is a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, and educator from Nagoya, Japan. He began playing drums in Japan as a teenager, excelling in rock, and funk. In college, he began to play Jazz and had many live performances with various big bands, small bands, and funk bands while continuing to play rock. His band released a CD on an independent label in March 2004, and toured in Japan around Tokyo and Osaka. He graduated from Nagoya University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Science in 2006. In 2006 Tsuyoshi received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music where he majored in jazz composition and performance, winning the Louie Bellson Award, as well as a Berklee achievement-based scholarship. He graduated Magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in 2011. In 2011 Tsuyoshi moved to New York City to attend Rutgers University, where as a part of the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble, he had the honor of performing at the famous Blue Note in May 2013. Since graduating with a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Studies from Rutgers, Tsuyoshi has been performing and teaching extensively in New York in the genres of jazz, fusion, salsa, and rock. Besides drum set, he also plays timbales, cajon, and djembe.http://www.tsuyoshiyamamoto.com/biography/

Personnel:  Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (piano);  Tsutomu Okada (bass);  Hiroshi Murakami (drums)

Blues To East

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