Joe Locke - Moment To Moment: The Music of Henry Mancini

Styles: Vibraphone Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:00
Size: 131,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:33)  1. Slow Hot Wind
(6:48)  2. Moon River
(6:49)  3. Moment To Moment
(3:40)  4. Whistling Away The Dark
(6:28)  5. Charad
(7:32)  6. Loss Of Love
(6:33)  7. The Days Of Wine & Roses
(5:45)  8. Two For The Road
(5:48)  9. Dreamsville

Vibraphonist Joe Locke offers a fresh look at works by Henry Mancini on this release, as he leads a powerhouse quartet that includes pianist Billy Childs, bassist Eddie Gomez, and drummer Gene Jackson. His dramatic and spacious treatment of one of Mancini's most beloved works, "Moon River," gives the oft-recorded song a very new sound, while another frequently played number, "Days of Wine and Roses," begins with a dreamy introduction before progressing into a head-shaking hard bop arrangement. "Charade" is another well-loved movie theme that gets a thorough revamping; in Billy Childs' chart the piano alternates between a swirling line that contrasts with the leader as he plays its theme with a straight-ahead bop segment. But the group is not content just to stick to Mancini's best-known songs; "Loss of Love" is a straight-ahead ballad nailed on the first take, while "Whistling Away the Dark" showcases Eddie Gomez's lovely arco bass. When one combines great compositions and inventive, talented musicians such as the member of the Joe Locke Quartet, the results have to be highly recommended. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/moment-to-moment-the-music-of-henry-mancini-mw0000178289

Personnel: Joe Locke (vibraphone); Billy Childs (piano); Eddie Gomez (bass); Gene Jackson (drums).

Moment To Moment: The Music of Henry Mancini

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Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson - Rendezvous

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:01
Size: 112,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:47)  1. Old Devil Moon
(5:45)  2. Chan's Song
(4:47)  3. Tennessee Waltz
(5:06)  4. Little Boy Lost
(2:38)  5. Autumn Leaves
(4:59)  6. It Might As Well Be Spring
(3:25)  7. My Ship
(3:02)  8. I Remember You
(4:47)  9. Tea For Two
(5:29) 10. If Ever I Would Leave You
(3:09) 11. Chicago 1987

For this notable set, pianist Jacky Terrasson teams up with the smoky, chance-taking vocalist Cassandra Wilson, either Lonnie Plaxico or Kenny Davis on bass and percussionist Mino Cinelu. The music is quite impressionistic and atmospheric. Terrasson and Wilson stick to standards, but their renditions of such songs as "Old Devil Moon," "My Ship," "Tea for Two" and even "Tennessee Waltz" are quite haunting and floating, slightly disturbing and occasionally sensuous. Terrasson, who takes "Autumn Leaves" and "Chicago 1987" (the one non-standard) as solo pieces, was on his way to forming his own style, while Wilson had certainly found her niche. An intriguing matchup. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/rendezvous-mw0000595600

Personnel: Jacky Terrasson (acoustic & electric pianos); Cassandra Wilson (vocals); Lonnie Plaxico, Kenny Davis (bass); Mino Cinelu (percussion).

Rendezvous

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Rufus With Chaka Khan - The Very Best Of

Styles: Vocal, Funk, Soul
Year: 1982
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:08
Size: 99,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:30)  1. Do You Love What You Feel
(4:40)  2. Tell Me Something Good
(4:00)  3. Dance With Me
(4:09)  4. Hollywood
(5:42)  5. Stay
(4:31)  6. Once You Get Started
(4:45)  7. You Got The Love
(4:21)  8. At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)
(3:06)  9. Please Pardon Me (You Remind Me Of A Friend)
(3:20) 10. Sweet Thing

The Very Best of Rufus with Chaka Khan is a greatest hits album by funk band Rufus and singer Chaka Khan, originally released on the MCA Records label in 1982. The collection comprises ten of the group's biggest hits on the ABC/MCA labels, including "You Got the Love", "Sweet Thing", "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)", "Do You Love What You Feel", "Tell Me Something Good", "Stay", "Hollywood" and "Dance Wit Me". The Very Best of... was released in late 1982, prior to the recording of the band's two final albums, both for the Warner Bros. Records label, and does consequently not include their hits "Ain't Nobody" and "One Million Kisses", both from the 1983 double-set Stompin' at the Savoy - Live. However, it doesn't contain any material from their 1973 self-titled debut album or their recent album at the time, 1981's Camouflage. It also doesn't contain any material from the Khan-less albums Numbers (1979) and Party 'Til You're Broke (1981). The ten track Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan was re-released on CD by MCA/Geffen Records in the mid 1990s in both the US and Europe and is to date the only career retrospective available with the band. Rufus and Chaka Khan's ABC/MCA back catalogue (1973–1982) is as of 2003 distributed by the Universal Music Group.In a contemporary review, Billboard said The Very Best Of revisits the group's "spine-tingling brand of soul-gone-funk", which remains potent because of Khan's singing. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said the compilation contained Khan's "great Rufus songs". Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars in his review for AllMusic, and Dave Thompson gave the record an eight out of 10 in his 2001 book Funk. "All the hits and no misses", he wrote. "A great comp". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_Rufus_with_Chaka_Khan

Personnel: Tony Maiden (vocals, guitar, percussion, background vocals); Ron Stockert (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Chaka Khan (vocals, background vocals); Bobby Ray Watson, Bobby Watson (vocals); Al Ciner (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Kevin Murphy (piano, Clarinet, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, background vocals); David "Hawk" Wolinski (keyboards, background vocals); Moon Calhoun, André Fischer (drums, percussion, background vocals); John "J.R." Robinson , John "4 Daddman" Robinson (drums, percussion); Dennis Belfield (background vocals).

The Very Best Of

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Martial Solal - Solitude

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:03
Size: 110,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:51)  1. Darn That Dream
(6:29)  2. Caravan
(3:53)  3. Our Love Is Here to Stay
(4:07)  4. Chi Va Piano...
(6:20)  5. Medium
(5:53)  6. Bluesine
(5:06)  7. On a Clear Day
(5:51)  8. In My Solitude
(5:28)  9. Darn That Dream (alternate take)

Recorded at two sessions in late April 2005 and released by CAM Jazz exactly two years later, Solitude is a gratifying reminder that at the age of 77, Algerian pianist Martial Solal was still a formidably creative improviser. The album, which begins and ends with complementary bookend versions of "Darn That Dream," is sprinkled with standards by Ellington and Gershwin and a '60s pop tune, as well as three Solal originals. One of these is titled with an abbreviation of an old Italian saying which translates as: "He who goes softly, goes safely. He who goes safely goes far." Solal's next recordings, made when he was 80 years old, would be Longitude, a trio album with François and Louis Moutin, and the highly acclaimed Live at the Village Vanguard. As for Solitude, the album will endure as a welcome return to the terrain visited years earlier on his album En Solo. ~ arwulf arwulf  http://www.allmusic.com/album/solitude-mw0001517605

Solitude

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