Sy Oliver - Yes Indeed

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:16
Size: 87.6 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Yes Indeed
[3:52] 2. Rumble
[3:18] 3. Creole Love Call
[3:59] 4. Pennies From Heaven
[4:49] 5. Zonky
[2:59] 6. T'aint What You Do It's The Way You Do It
[4:56] 7. Undecided
[3:20] 8. Sophisticated Lady
[3:13] 9. Ain't She Sweet
[4:36] 10. Sy Oliver -Move

Born Melvin "Sy" Oliver on December 17, 1910, in Battle Creek, Michigan, he left home at age 17 to play trumpet with Zack Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels. He later developed his growling trumpet style in Alphonso Trent's territory band. Oliver joined Jimmie Lunceford's band in 1933, playing trumpet and contributing many hit arrangements, including "My Blue Heaven" and "Ain't She Sweet." In 1939, he became Tommy Dorsey's main arranger, providing many hip arrangements for the group at the time (similar to Fletcher Henderson's role with the rival Benny Goodman Orchestra during the same period). After leaving the Dorsey band, Oliver worked as a freelance arranger, including 10 years as musical director at Decca Records, during which time he presided over arrangements of recordings for Ella Fitzgerald. He continued leading his own nine-piece band through the '70s and retired from the music scene in 1984. He passed away on May 29, 1988, at age 77. ~Bill Milkowski

Yes Indeed

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Peter Bernstein - Let Loose!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:53
Size: 127.9 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[6:47] 1. Let Loose
[7:04] 2. Resplendor
[5:59] 3. Hidden Pockets
[5:23] 4. Tres Palabras
[5:03] 5. Cupcake
[6:10] 6. Lullaby For B
[6:32] 7. Sweet Love Of Mine
[6:53] 8. Blue Gardenia
[5:56] 9. This Is Now

Guitarist Peter Berstein is justly renowned as an interpreter of other people’s music. His unerring, relaxed swing, his stunning gift for crafting and developing sophisticated melodies, the un-showy but absorbing narrative arc of his solos, the just plain rightness of his in-the-moment choices—all of these account for his well-established status as one of the most in-demand musicians on the New York jazz scene.

Let Loose, Bernstein’s debut release for Smoke Sessions Records, shifts the focus to Bernstein the composer. Five of the album’s nine tracks stem from the guitarist’s pen. It also features a quartet of artists who are equally well versed in tradition and innovation, who can breathe ecstatic life into these pieces while simultaneously anchoring them with deep roots. Bassist Doug Weiss and drummer Bill Stewart are longtime collaborators stretching back nearly three decades. Gerald Clayton is the newcomer but brings along a reputation as one of the most respected pianists of his generation.

The spirit of the session is pithily captured in the title of the album: Let Loose, a case of simplicity masking complexity. The surface meaning suggests an unbridling of passion, an opening of the floodgates of expression that definitely characterizes the playing of all four members of the quartet. But there’s also the suggestion of the need to allow oneself to be loose, free, open to whatever may come—a guiding principle on the stage as well as off.

Let Loose!

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