Inga Swearingen & The Bill Peterson Trio - Reverie

Size: 144,8 MB
Time: 62:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Tiptoes (4:11)
02. Black Crow (5:31)
03. Reverie (5:17)
04. Where Flamingos Fly (5:15)
05. Stargazer (6:27)
06. Down By The Riverside (4:40)
07. Happy To Be (3:42)
08. Sunrise (4:01)
09. Stompin' At The Savoy (4:19)
10. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (5:57)
11. Beautiful Love (4:47)
12. Just In Time (3:08)
13. My One And Only Love (4:49)

"Reverie" is an intriguing mix of moody originals and carefully chosen standards. Inga's clear, strong voice paints a colorful landscape of soaring notes and earthy rhythms beautifully framed by Bill Peterson on piano, Jeff Denson on bass and Ronen Itzik on drums.

Reverie

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Jenny Evans - Be What You Want To

Size: 119,1 MB
Time: 51:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. The Sunshine Of Your Love (4:15)
02. Be Want You Want To (4:17)
03. Paint It Black (4:19)
04. Englishman In New York (5:09)
05. She's Leaving Home (5:46)
06. Living In The Past (5:20)
07. Oh Darling (4:45)
08. It's Allright (4:52)
09. Death Of A Clown (4:09)
10. Star Song (3:43)
11. A Hard Day's Night (4:30)

Born in London, England, in the lowly outskirts of Beckenham, Jenny Evans is a talented master of many trades. She is an unforgettable jazz singer, but she has also been an actress and lyricist, and she has run a jazz club for five years called Jenny's Place. She has been in musicals such as Blood Brothers, her voice has been used in films, and she even has a M.A. degree in linguistics to fall back on (as if she would ever need to). Evans moved to Munich, Germany, in 1976 to study to be a teacher of music and English. While working toward her degree, she became the lead singer for a band called Old Socks New Shoes. The ragtime numbers she performed with the group slowly blended toward classic jazz. Though she appears comfortable and capable singing anything from Gershwin songs to numbers by the Beatles, her sultry voice seems made just for jazz. In 1997, Evans released her debut album for ENJA Records, Shiny Stockings. The album won her good reviews by many. Girl Talk hit the stores in 1999 with tracks like "Love for Sale," "Mr. Bojangles," and "I Wanna Be Near to You." Evans keeps busy between recordings, playing at many clubs and festivals, and touring in Europe, Germany, Australia, Russia, and Japan. ~ Charlotte Dillon

Be What You Want To

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Lee Konitz & Kenny Wheeler Quartet - Olden Times: Live At Birdland Neuburg

Size: 181,0 MB
Time: 78:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999/2016
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Lennie's (Live) ( 8:09)
02. Where Do We Go From Here (Live) ( 7:34)
03. Kind Folk (Live) ( 8:32)
04. Thingin' (Live) (14:34)
05. On Mo (Live) ( 9:33)
06. Olden Times (Live) ( 4:21)
07. Aldebaran Play Fiddle Play (Live) ( 3:59)
08. Kary's Trance (Live) ( 8:54)
09. Bo So (Live) ( 6:12)
10. No Me (Live) ( 6:25)

This re-release of the 1999 recording Live At Birdland has been remastered for optimal sound quality and includes a bonus track not previously included on the album. Lee Konitz was born in 1927 in Chicago. When he was 11 years old, he received his first instrument, a clarinet, but later dropped the instrument in favor of the tenor saxophone. He eventually moved from tenor to alto. His greatest influences at the time were the Swing big bands he and his brother listened to on the radio, in particular Benny Goodman. He started his professional career in 1945, and played with all the greats, from Miles Davis to Joe Henderson. Kenny Wheeler was born in 1930 in St. Catharines, Ontario. He studied trumpet in Toronto and moved to London in 1952. Versatile artist as he was, he played free improv in the Globe Unity Orchestra of Alexander von Schlippenbach as well as jazz-rock in the United Jazz & Rock Ensemble. He passed away on September 18, 2014. Light shines on this rerelease, on the glistening vibrato of the alto saxophone, the lyrical melancholy of the flugelhorn, the spinning web-like weaving of the piano as well as the clever architecture of the bass. Everything joins into a shimmer mesh of interaction and strategy of technical brilliance and solo sophistication.

Olden Times

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Sue Raney - Christmas Lady

Size: 106,1 MB
Time: 39:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Xmas
Art: Front

01. Christmas Lady (2:57)
02. The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (2:32)
03. A Christmas Love Song (4:31)
04. The Christmas Waltz (3:01)
05. A Marshmallow World (3:01)
06. Christmas Time Is Here - From A Charlie Brown Christmas (2:54)
07. Silver Bells (3:10)
08. White Christmas (2:35)
09. I'll Be Home For Christmas (3:29)
10. Merry Christmas, Darling (2:26)
11. We Need A Little Christmas (1:58)
12. The Christmas Song (3:17)
13. Silent Night (3:03)

Blessed with a beautiful voice from an early age, Sue Raney has performed music ranging from swinging jazz and ballads to cabaret, middle-of-the-road pop and jingles. Her mother was a singer and a great great aunt had been in German opera. Raney started singing when she was four and a year later she first performed in public, at a party in Wichita, Kansas. Because a voice teacher could not be found for her daughter (because of her extreme youth), Raney's mother took voice lessons herself and then passed down what she learned to Sue. A professional before she was a teenager, Raney worked steadily in New Mexico when her family relocated and took several trips out to Los Angeles during a couple of summer vacations. She joined the Jack Carson radio show in 1954 in L.A. when she was barely 14. Raney then appeared on Ray Anthony's television program and became his band's main vocalist. At 18 she started working as a single. She had already recorded for Phillips and then signed with Capitol, recording several middle-of-the-road jazz-influenced pop dates for the company. In the 1960's Raney often appeared on television variety shows, she led her own group and became very active in the studios where her impressive voice helped sell products. By the early 1980's, she was also working as a voice teacher. In the 1990's Sue Raney has sung with the L.A. Voices and Supersax, the Bill Watrous big band and as a single in addition to staying active as a jazz educator and in the studios. Her main jazz recordings were a trio of albums for Discovery in the 1980's; a VSOP/Studio West CD features the singer on various live performances from the 1960's. ~ Scott Yanow

Christmas Lady

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Girls From Mars - Return To Planet Swing

Size: 103,9 MB
Time: 44:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Retro Swing
Art: Front

01. Let Me Off Uptown (2:55)
02. Hit That Jive Jack (4:21)
03. Blue Drag (3:44)
04. Don't Blame Me (4:04)
05. Take The A Train (4:11)
06. Daddy Daddy (3:26)
07. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (3:04)
08. Rhythm Town (2:48)
09. Comes Love (3:06)
10. Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On (3:49)
11. Left With The Thought Of You (2:53)
12. Sway (2:56)
13. Drum Boogie (2:48)

Girls From Mars (Wendi Bourne, Lauren Janson & Annie Patterson) have been singing Jazz & Swing for over 30 years. Their much anticipated CD, Return to Planet Swing, is now available here! Produced by Glenn Barratt & Wendi Bourne and recorded at 2x Grammy award winning engineer/producer Glenn Barratt's Morning Star Studios. Barratt captures perfectly the deep, swingin' groove that has become the band's hallmark.

Their previous CD, "Planet Swing" has been selling around the world for the past decade, loved by those who appreciate old swing music that is not "schmaltzed up". The Girls call it "Cave Man Jazz". On both "Planet Swing" and "Return to Planet Swing", a three or four part rhythm section holds down the groove and sets up the pocket - the vocals deepen the pocket. Great instrumental soloists are the "cherry on top" !

The Martians are accompanied by some of the best in the business on this record: Ralph Gordon - bass, Howard Sitron - trumpet, Myles Rothwell and Matt Scarano - drums, Dave Posmontier - piano, Tom Mitchell - guitar, Ron Kerber - Sax and the list goes on. The Girls From Mars' stellar three part harmony can be heard on such tracks as Let Me Off Uptown, Hit That Jive Jack, Blue Drag, Take the A Train, Sunny Side of the Street and more.

Return To Planet Swing

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Jan Garbarek - Star

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:24
Size: 97,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:15)  1. Star
(4:21)  2. Jumper
(6:08)  3. Lamenting
(6:16)  4. Anthem
(5:39)  5. Roses For You
(4:38)  6. Clouds In The Mountain
(5:21)  7. Snowman
(3:42)  8. The Music Of My People

Saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Miroslav Vitous and drummer Peter Erskine have been making records for ECM for a long time, both as leaders and as sidemen. They know each other's styles well, they're familiar with ECM label head Manfred Eicher's echo-drenched production tendencies, and they know how to turn jazz formulas into hip, lyrical romanticism. On this leaderless trio album, as with most ECM releases, you get the feeling of music emerging from a vast and echoey space; Erskine's Morse-code drum accents, Vitous' thrumming basslines and the plaintive cry of Garbarek's soprano and alto saxophones are far removed from what some would consider "jazz," but that's not the point. The tunes may be somewhat interchangeable, but the music is virtuosic, thoughtful and thoroughly lovely, at times heart-tugging. Makes you wish these three would get together more often. ~ Rick Anderson http://www.allmusic.com/album/star-mw0000677682

Personnel:  Jan Garbarek - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone;  Miroslav Vitous – bass;  Peter Erskine - drums

Star

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Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jazz
Year: 1969
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:51
Size: 174,0 MB
Art: Front

( 7:01)  1. Little Miss No Nose
(10:33)  2. Manhattan Fever
( 2:58)  3. Loneliness
( 5:46)  4. Stammpede
( 3:29)  5. You Gotta Be Kiddin'
(11:50)  6. Seventh Avenue Bill
( 7:07)  7. Slug's Bag
( 9:24)  8. What's New From the Monster Mi
( 7:27)  9. Hip Shakin'
( 3:29) 10. The House That Love Built
( 6:41) 11. Fly By Night

Frank Foster has been largely defined in jazz circles by his long association with Count Basie (Foster was with Basie from 1953 until 1964 and led the orchestra for nine years following Basie's death), but the tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger led his own recording session as early as 1954 when he cut a 10" LP for Alfred Lion's Blue Note Records. He returned to Blue Note in 1968 and recorded Manhattan Fever, and material for yet another album was cut at a session held later in 1969. Manhattan Fever had disappointing sales, however, and the 1969 sides ended up not being released as planned. This CD reissue adds some of that 1969 material to the original Manhattan Fever track listing, and it makes for a much stronger and more varied set. Highlights include the lovely "Loneliness" from the original LP and the starkly beautiful ballad "The House That Love Built," and a wonderfully wobbling and woozy version of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Fly by Night" from the 1969 sessions. Foster's compositional (he wrote all but three of the eleven selections here) and arranging talents are at center stage, but when he steps out front as a soloist like he does on "The House That Love Built," he shows why he is a top line tenor sax player. ~ Steve Leggett  http://www.allmusic.com/album/manhattan-fever-mw0000779830

Personnel: Tracks 1-6 Frank Foster: tenor sax;  Marvin Stamm: trumpet;  Garnett Brown: trombone;  Richard Wyands: piano;  Bob Cranshaw: bass;  Mickey Roker: drums.  Tracks 7-11 Frank Foster: tenor sax/clarinet;  Burt Collins: trumpet/piccolo trumpet;  Jimmy Cleveland: trombone;  Ed Pazani: alto sax/flute/oboe;  George Cables: piano;  Buster Williams: bass;  Mickey Roker: drums.

Manhattan Fever

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JP Schlegelmilch - Throughout: The Music Of Bill Frisell

Styles: Solo Piano
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:42
Size: 97,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:56)  1. Throughout
(4:31)  2. Rag
(3:42)  3. Resistor
(3:21)  4. This Land
(4:04)  5. Hangdog
(4:01)  6. Monica Jane
(2:38)  7. Jimmy Carter
(5:40)  8. Child At Heart / Beautiful E
(3:26)  9. Twenty Years
(4:18) 10. Deep Dead Blue

JP Schlegelmilch is a Brooklyn-based pianist, accordionist, electric keyboardist and composer. Born in New Hampshire, JP began instruction in classical piano at age 6 and went on to study music at Berklee College of Music and SUNY Purchase. After moving to Brooklyn in 2006, JP began performing with his own groups and has also had the opportunity to perform with some of New York’s most esteemed improvising musicians. JP’s current projects include the indie-jazz-folk ensemble Old Time Musketry, which features his unique approach to the accordion as well as piano and electric keyboards. The band’s first album “Different Times” was released in 2012 and received much critical acclaim, including a 4-star review in Downbeat magazine. It was also mentioned on several “Best Albums of 2013” lists by journalists George Grella and Tom Hull.

In 2013 JP released his first solo piano recording, “Throughout”, which focused on the compositions of iconic guitarist Bill Frisell. The album was called “a warm and elegant new solo effort" by Time Out New York, and was mentioned on a “Best Jazz Albums of 2013” list on the Big City Blog. In addition to his own groups, JP has toured with the indie-classical chamber group Fireworks Ensemble; performed with avant-jazz legend Tim Berne; and played on the soundtrack to the Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild. JP also frequently plays with rock bands and has toured the country with the chamber-pop group The Silent League, and the indie rock singer Abby Payne. In each musical project JP seeks to synthesize his diverse musical interests, creating a personal and non-genre-specific music. He strives to continually enrich his musical language through studying various musical traditions including jazz, experimental music, classical music, and folk music from around the world. http://jpschlegelmilch.com/about/

Personnel: JP Schlegelmilch (piano)

Throughout: The Music Of Bill Frisell

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Cory Weeds Quintet - It's Easy To Remember

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:57
Size: 121,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:16)  1. With Prestige
(5:54)  2. Emily
(5:47)  3. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(5:42)  4. Expose
(5:24)  5. Candy Man
(5:53)  6. It's Easy To Remember
(6:06)  7. Bossa For All
(5:56)  8. Kelp
(5:55)  9. The Mabe

A tenor saxophonist with an expressive sound rooted in Jazz tradition, a label owner tirelessly documenting unsung Jazz heroes, one of Canada’s most important Jazz impresarios, the hardest-working man in Jazz business – Cory Weeds is all of these things, and much more. Weeds may be best known as the founder and owner of Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver, which he successfully ran for more than 13 years. Weeds built the Cellar to become one of North America’s best Jazz clubs, where masters such as George Coleman, Jeff Hamilton, Louis Hayes, David “Fathead” Newman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the finest Jazz musicians from Vancouver and across Canada performed before it closed in February 2014. But he wasn’t just the club owner. As a saxophonist who studied at the University of North Texas and Capilano College, Weeds spent many nights on the Cellar bandstand as a leader and sideman. He held his own when performing with icons like Joey DeFrancesco and Christian McBride. Weeds has also recorded eleven albums as a leader, including: It’s Easy To Remember (with David Hazeltine, Joe Magnarelli, Paul Gill and Jason Tiemann)  This Happy Madnes, (with The Jeff Hamilton Trio),  Condition Blue, The Music Of Jackie McLean (with Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, and Joe Farnsworth)., As Of Now(with the Harold Mabern Trio), Let’s Go (with Steve Davis), the Juno-nominated Up A Step(Cory Weeds Quartet), With Benefits (with Lewis Nash and Peter Washington), Just Like That(with the Tilden Webb Trio), The Many Deeds of Cory Weeds (with Joey DeFrancesco),Everything’s Coming Up Weeds (with Jim Rotondi), and Big Weeds (with Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, and Joe Farnsworth).

While the Cellar is now a happy memory, the record label Weeds established in 2001 is alive and well. Cellar Live has put out over 100 recordings, including many that have spent extensive time on the JazzWeek charts, with many more releases planned. In addition to playing on numerous sessions, Weeds has also served as producer on more than 80 recordings. On the presentation front, Weeds is employed full-time by Coastal Jazz & Blues (the producers of the annual TD International Jazz Festival) where he serves as Programming Manager for Clubs & Special Projects. Cory Weeds Presents also presents music all over the city at various venues including The Italian Cultural Center, Hycroft at The University Women’s Club and Blue Frog Studios in White Rock. Beyond Vancouver, Weeds has a strong affinity with New York City. He brought so many of the Jazz mecca’s top players to his club, and has performed, toured, and recorded with many of them. Tapping in to his insider knowledge of the New York scene, he has led the New York With Weeds tour to NYC four times. Weeds leads about 40 Jazz lovers on each tour to Jazz clubs off the beaten track and private recording sessions. The sixth tour in March 2016 sold out in record time and 2017 will see the group head to Chicago, Illinois. Finally, Weeds has also worked as an educator, leading the BC Music Educators Association’s Honour Ensemble, giving clinics, and teaching privately. He has also been a Jazz disc jockey on Vancouver Co-Op Radio. http://coryweeds.com/bio/

Personnel:  Cory Weeds - tenor saxophone, Joe Magnarelli - trumpet, David Hazeltine - piano, Paul Gill - bass, Jason Tiemann - drums

It's Easy To Remember

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