Jason Palmer - Here Today

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:47
Size: 70,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:03)  1. Here Today, Gone Yesterday
(5:24)  2. Abu Abed
(2:59)  3. 3rd Shift
(4:20)  4. Takes Courage To Be Happy
(3:40)  5. Skylark/I Can't Help It
(4:26)  6. 3 Point Turn
(3:51)  7. Capricorn

Thank you all for supporting this project and this label! I’m excited to present this project of mostly original material with this NY based band (with all the members having musical ties to Boston/Cambridge). It’s indeed an all-star cast and I don’t think I could have picked a better group for the tunes that I selected for the session. It was one of the smoothest sessions that I’ve ever been a part of music wise, but at the same time, it was one that I was extremely nervous about because we didn’t rehearse and I was worried that everyone on the session would not have had time to check out the music ahead of time. As it turned out, they played the tunes like they wrote them themselves. Every song was recorded in two takes and in most cases we kept the first one. I’m really thankful for that. ~ Jason Palmer https://jasonpalmerjazz.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/here-today-liners-for-all-of-you-that-purchase-digitally/

Personnel:  Jason Palmer, trumpet;  Mark Turner, tenor saxophone;  Nir Felder, guitar;  Edward Perez, bass;  Kendrick Scott, drums

Here Today

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Jacqui Dankworth - Detour Ahead

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:56
Size: 124,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:07)  1. Detour Ahead
(5:11)  2. But Beautiful
(4:56)  3. On The Street Where You Live
(1:38)  4. My Romance
(5:00)  5. The Island
(5:47)  6. Time Takes Its Time
(4:03)  7. Strange Woman
(5:32)  8. Gentle Rain
(3:57)  9. I Can't Make You Love Me
(5:07) 10. Train In The Distance
(4:30) 11. Not Like This
(3:03) 12. Come Home Baby

Great Britain's finest jazz vocalist, Jacqui is the daughter of the legendary John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. The talented Miss Dankworth first ventured onto the stage as a successful actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. Complimenting her impressive vocal range (exhibited on 'Detour Ahead' and 'Strange Woman') Jacqui has crafted a personal sense of time and space. Feeling is something Miss Dankworth has in abundance as she lives the lyrics, bending notes and caressing words to stunning effect - try 'But Beautiful', for the definitive Dankworth! ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Detour-Ahead-JACQUI-DANKWORTH/dp/B00028DOIK

Personnel: Jacqueline Dankworth (vocals); Linley Hamilton (trumpet); Malcolm Edmonstone Trio (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); David Gordon (piano); Dominic Seldis, Alec Dankworth, Tim Harries (bass guitar); Mike Outram (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); James Pearson (piano); Roy Dodds (drums, percussion).

Detour Ahead

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Rich Perry - Beautiful Love

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:01
Size: 167,2 MB
Art: Front

(10:28)  1. In Love in Vain
( 9:19)  2. Prisoner of Love
(10:38)  3. All the Things You Are
( 8:07)  4. I Fall in Love Too Easily
(10:13)  5. But Not for Me
( 8:32)  6. Beautiful Love
( 6:26)  7. I Can't Get Started
( 9:16)  8. Will You Still Be Mine?

A fine young veteran tenor player, Rich Perry went on the road in 1975 with the Glenn Miller ghost band. In 1976, he moved to New York and joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra. He went on to play with a wide variety of top players including Chet Baker, Machito, Bob Moses, Jack McDuff, Billy Hart, Eddie Gomez, Tom Harrell, the Mel Lewis big band, and Harold Danko. Rich Perry first recorded as a leader in 1993 for SteepleChase. ~ Scott Yanow https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/rich-perry/id81007264#fullText

Personnel:  Rich Perry (tenor sax);  Jay Anderson (bass);  Victor Lewis (drums)

Beautiful Love

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Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan - Two of A Mind

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:48
Size: 93,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:52)  1. All The Things You Are
(8:24)  2. Stardust
(5:47)  3. Two Of A Mind
(6:36)  4. Blight Of The Fumble Bee
(7:23)  5. The Way You Look Tonight
(6:43)  6. Out Of Nowhere

Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan helped to define the cool school with their light, almost vibratoless tones--Desmond's alto luminous and airy, Mulligan's baritone woolly and quietly gruff. They also shared a fondness for improvised counterpoint, and that's the defining characteristic of these 1962 sessions, from the theme statement of "All the Things You Are" with Mulligan echoing Desmond's lead. Like Mulligan's famous group with trumpeter Chet Baker, this is a pianoless quartet, and the open harmonic atmosphere casts the saxophonists' interplay in high relief. Desmond's title tune and Mulligan's "Blight of the Fumble Bee" lead to extended passages of collective improvisation, while Mulligan often supplies Desmond with restrained counterlines. On "The Way You Look Tonight," the theme gradually emerges out of Desmond's part in an almost fuguelike improvisation. The LP-length recording took a surprising three sessions to produce, and there's a revolving door for rhythm sections. Drummer Connie Kay from the Modern Jazz Quartet appears on two tracks with bassist Wendell Marshall and one with John Beal. Drummer Mel Lewis teams with bassist Joe Benjamin on the other three. Despite that, there's nothing lacking in the quality of the support: the two saxophonists sound consistently if quietly inspired. ~ Stuart Broomer https://www.amazon.com/Two-Mind-Paul-Desmond/dp/B000003G3J

Personnel: Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); John Beal, Wendell Marshall, Joe Benjamin (bass); Connie Kay, Mel Lewis (drums).

Two of A Mind

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David Friesen - Amber Skies

Styles: Jazz, Post-Bop 
Year: 1983
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:44
Size: 123,3 MB
Art: Front

( 8:14)  1. Amber Skies
(10:20)  2. Blue and Green
( 5:58)  3. Underlying
( 4:43)  4. Jenelle Number Four
( 8:55)  5. In the Place of Calling
( 6:16)  6. Sitka in the Woods
( 9:14)  7. Voices

One of bassist David Friesen's better jazz sessions as a leader, this set (which has been reissued by other labels on CD) has some excellent playing by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson on "Amber Skies" and "Underlying," a rare opportunity for flutist Paul Horn to take a solo in a straight-ahead setting ("Blue and Green"), and was the first opportunity that pianist Chick Corea and drummer Paul Motian had to work together; percussionist Airto completes the sextet. The diverse originals, all by Friesen, feature each of the players quite favorably, and the overall results are stimulating. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/amber-skies-mw0000119934

Personnel: David Friesen (acoustic bass); Paul Horn (flute); Chick Corea (piano); Paul Motian (drums); Airto Moreira (percussion)

Amber Skies

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