Dave Lambert - Sing And Swing Along With Dave Lambert / Evolution Of The Blues Song

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:27
Size: 179.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:57] 1. All Alone
[2:17] 2. The Best Thing For You
[2:12] 3. Autumn Nocturne
[3:04] 4. Blues
[3:17] 5. We Could Make Some Beautiful Music Together
[4:50] 6. Short Blues Around The Broadway Bridge
[2:02] 7. Lover Come Back To Me
[3:33] 8. Yesterday's Gardenias
[2:44] 9. Over The Weekend
[2:53] 10. Yesterdays
[3:14] 11. Evolution Of The Blues Song-Intro
[1:10] 12. Amo
[2:29] 13. Some Stopped On De Way
[5:23] 14. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
[3:40] 15. New Orleans
[4:33] 16. If I Had My Share
[3:21] 17. Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:24] 18. Sufferin Blues
[2:25] 19. That's Enough
[1:50] 20. Aw, Gal
[3:51] 21. See See Rider
[2:47] 22. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
[2:05] 23. Sun Gonna Shine In My Door
[2:48] 24. W.P.A. Blues
[4:26] 25. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

UK collection that combines two Jazz concept albums, long out of print long-players recorded in 1960 by Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks, two of the original members of the pioneering vocalese trio Lambert Hendricks and Ross. As striking as any of his musical achievements, Evolution of the Blues Song was written by Hendricks for the 1960 Monterey Jazz Festival and written on the spot. Legend has it that the performance received a 20 minute standing ovation. The work generated enormous interest, on the modified and augmented version that graces this edition Hendricks narrates and sings with contributions from Jimmy Witherspoon, 'Big' Miller, 'Pony' Poindexter, Ike Issacs and the Hannah Dean Chorus. The recording was made in Los Angeles before the revue was staged at the Broadway Theatre in San Francisco where it ran for five years.

Sing And Swing Along With Dave Lambert

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Antonio Koudele - A La Manera Cubana

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:51
Size: 114.1 MB
Styles: Afro-Cuban jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:14] 1. A La Manera Cubana
[4:17] 2. Amor
[3:44] 3. La Habana Vieja
[4:38] 4. Tu Y Yo
[4:27] 5. Vaya A Donde Vaya
[5:28] 6. Te Agradezco
[5:11] 7. Amor O Juego
[3:26] 8. La Primavera
[5:09] 9. No Me Dejes Esperar
[5:05] 10. Amantes
[4:08] 11. Yo VolverÉ

With original compositions and arrangements by Antonio Koudele, "A La Manera Cubana" is a stylistically confident journey through Cuban adaptations of the "Musica Bailable" of the Caribbean, Latin America, New York and Miami. A new cultural idiom breaks free from political regementation: Contrary to the brassy timbre of trombones and trumpets of the Puerto Rican salsa, the Cuban Sons Montuno ("A la Manera Cubana", "La Primavera") is played classically on the three double stringed tres guitar and complemented by the softer woodwinds of flute and saxophone. Exhilarating, even gratifying is the album's Chachacha ("La Habana Vieja")! The wonderful, precise accents of the classic syncopation of the 2/4-beat recall the famed "Oye como va" by Santana. Under the rythmic guidance of claves, timbales, congas and maracas, the contra bass and piano feel wonderfully free, a lively expression of an irrepressible music, an irrepressible joy of life! Salsa! Azugar!Azugar!

A La Manera Cubana

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Lani Hall - Hello It's Me

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:43
Size: 74.9 MB
Styles: Latin jazz vocals
Year: 1975/2016
Art: Front

[3:36] 1. Hello It's Me
[4:12] 2. Peace In The Valley
[4:18] 3. Time Will Tell
[2:50] 4. Banquet
[2:36] 5. Wheelers And Dealers
[2:36] 6. Happy Woman (Happy Man)
[3:48] 7. Exclusively For Me
[3:15] 8. Save The Sunlight
[3:33] 9. Sweet Jams And Jellies
[1:55] 10. Corrida De Jangada

Wonderful album from a too often overlooked vocalist. She was great with Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66. But on her own . . . marvelous ~Jay Montgomery

Hello It's Me

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Hal Stein, Warren Fitzgerald - Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:27
Size: 179.6 MB
Styles: Bop, Modern Creative
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:30] 1. Bee Dee's Blues
[5:33] 2. Zounds
[4:45] 3. Have You Heard (The Latest Blues In Town)
[7:08] 4. Medley You Go To My Head
[4:59] 5. The Sarong Is New
[6:23] 6. Nan De Mo Nai
[5:22] 7. Choice Derby
[7:45] 8. This Love Of Mine
[5:16] 9. Do You Really Care
[4:59] 10. Twonky
[5:23] 11. Fitz' Tune
[5:47] 12. Cattin'
[5:44] 13. Just Friends
[4:47] 14. Bee Dee's Blues (Alternate Take)

Warren Fitzgerald (tp), Hal Stein (as, ts), Bob Dorough (p), Al Cotton (b), Paul Motian (d) Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, July 19 (#1-7 & 14), 20 (#8-12), and August 31 (#13), 1955.

When he made his recording debut in 1955 - with an album that was destined to become a cult classic in Japan - Hal Stein was a 27-year-old alto and tenor saxophonist with a solid, big band background. Both he and his co-leader, trumpet player Warren Fitzgerald, another young musician, had just signed for the recently reactivated jazz label, Progressive Records, under the control of Joe Maggio, with Gus Grant in charge of a&r and as session supervisor.

The album revealed Stein as a competent, vigorous soloist, a Bird-molded altoist and a hard-school tenor out of Byas-Hawkins school, and Fitzgerald as a percussive trumpeter with a sharp-toned, rough-edged conception, though not a markedly individual soloist. But the most impressive contributors to the session were also to become the most widely known. Pianist Bob Dorough,later also celebrated as a singer and composer, delivered fluent, inventive solos and offered fine support in a rhythm section notable for the presence of the soon-to-be great and influential drummer, Paul Motian, with Al Cotton on bass.

Stein was to amass an impressive CV during his career, working with players as disparate and notable as Artie Shaw, Charles Mingus, Claude Thornhill and Phil Woods, and remained active until his death on April 28, 2008 in his home in Oakland, California, at the age of 79.

Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet

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Mal Waldron & Marion Brown - Song of Love and Regret

Styles: Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:34
Size: 129,8 MB
Art: Front

( 7:21)  1. Blue Monk
( 6:43)  2. A Cause de Monk
( 5:40)  3. To the Golden Lady in Her Graham Cracker Window
( 8:11)  4. Contemplation
( 4:45)  5. Hurry Sundown
( 8:08)  6. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
(15:42)  7. Blue Monk (take 2)

A pianist with a brooding, rhythmic, introverted style, Mal Waldron's playing has long been flexible enough to fit into both hard bop and freer settings. Influenced by Thelonious Monk's use of space, Waldron has had his own distinctive chord voicings nearly from the start. Early on, Waldron played jazz on alto and classical music on piano, but he switched permanently to jazz piano while at Queens College. He freelanced around New York in the early '50s with Ike Quebec (for whom he made his recording debut), Big Nick Nicholas, and a variety of R&B-ish groups. Waldron frequently worked with Charles Mingus from 1954-1956 and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist during her last two years (1957-1959). Often hired by Prestige to supervise recording sessions, Waldron contributed many originals (including "Soul Eyes," which became a standard) and basic arrangements that prevented spontaneous dates from becoming overly loose jam sessions. After Holiday's death, he mostly led his own groups, although he was part of the Eric Dolphy-Booker Little Quintet that was recorded extensively at the Five Spot in 1961, and also worked with Abbey Lincoln for a time during the era. He wrote three film scores (The Cool World, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, and Sweet Love Bitter) before moving permanently to Europe in 1965, settling in Munich in 1967. Waldron, who has occasionally returned to the U.S. for visits, has long been a major force in the European jazz world. 

His album Free at Last was the first released by ECM, and his Black Glory was the fourth Enja album. Waldron, who frequently teamed up with Steve Lacy (often as a duet), kept quite busy up through the '90s, featuring a style that evolved but was certainly traceable to his earliest record dates. Among the many labels that have documented his music have been Prestige, New Jazz, Bethlehem, Impulse, Musica, Affinity, ECM, Futura, Nippon Phonogram, Enja, Freedom, Black Lion, Horo, Teichiku, Hat Art, Palo Alto, Eastwind, Baybridge, Paddle Wheel, Muse, Free Lance, Soul Note, Plainisphere, and Timeless. In September of 2002, Waldron was diagnosed with cancer. Remaining optimistic, he continued to tour until he passed away on December 2 in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 76.~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mal-waldron-mn0000665824/biography

Personnel:  Marion Brown, alto saxophone;  Mal Waldron, piano

Song of Love and Regret

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Marjorie Barnes - Tenderly

Styles: Vocal Jazz

Year: 2015

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 62:43

Size: 143,9 MB

Art: Front

(5:03)  1. Mellow Tone

(4:48)  2. Easy Living

(4:58)  3. Misty - Tenderly

(4:38)  4. So Many Stars

(4:48)  5. Speak Low

(2:57)  6. Street of Dreams

(2:32)  7. My Favorite Things

(4:52)  8. The Lamp Is Low

(7:02)  9. East of the Sun

(9:11) 10. Gershwin Medley

(2:53) 11. 'S Wonderful

(4:31) 12. The Touch of Your Lips

(4:24) 13. Passing Strangers

A tribute to the legendary Sarah Vaughan a singer that Marjorie Barnes certainly matches with her wonderful range and sublime sense of phrasing but a set that also gets some nice soulful undercurrents, too and a presentation level that reminds us a bit of Ernestine Anderson's best work at times! The group here is a small Dutch combo with Rob Van Bavel on piano and they do a great job of keeping in the pocket, and laying down a great rhythmic groove on the swingers then stepping back a fair bit on the gentler moments, so that Marjorie opens up in even more Vaughan-like lines. Titles include "So Many Stars", "Speak Low", "The Lamp Is Low", "East Of The Sun", "In A Mellow Tone", "Easy Living", and "Passing Strangers". © 1996-2016, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/758490

Tenderly

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Donald Harrison - Spirits Of Congo Square

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:06
Size: 138,6 MB
Art: Front

(1:12)  1. And How That Rhythm
(7:51)  2. Two Way Pockey Way
(3:29)  3. Don't Drink The Water
(4:07)  4. Bye-Ya
(7:34)  5. Crisis
(5:40)  6. Bob's Place
(5:19)  7. Oleo
(7:01)  8. Spirits Of Congo Square
(6:16)  9. True Or False
(2:39) 10. Just A Close Walk With Thee
(8:53) 11. The Second Line

Altoist Donald Harrison's disc utilizes New Orleans parade rhythms on all of the selections, even while most of the solos (until the final three numbers) are more hard bop than New Orleans jazz. John O'Neal verbally pays tribute to the rhythms on the opening "And How That Rhythm." The other selections include an augmented bop blues ("Two Way Pocky Way"), the tricky "Don't Drink the Water," Thelonious Monk's "Bye-Ya," a pair of Freddie Hubbard tunes well worth reviving ("Crisis" and "Bob's Place"), Sonny Rollins' "Oleo," and the catchy "Spirits of Congo Square." Throughout these performances there are many colorful solos from trumpeters Nicholas Payton and Marlon Jordan, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, Victor Goines on tenor, and Harrison. Roy Haynes' "True of False" is Dixieland-ish in its own eccentric way, with clarinetist Louis Ford and trumpeter Jamil Sharif being added to the band. Finally, Payton plays beautifully on a respectful rendition of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" and all seven horns romp and riff throughout "The Second Line," which is really "Joe Avery's Blues." Overall, this colorful album is full of spirit, always holds on to one's interest, and is highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/spirits-of-congo-square-mw0000604855

Personnel: Donald Harrison (alto saxophone); John O'Neal (vocals); Victor Goines (tenor saxophone); Nicholas Payton, Marlon Jordan, Jamil Sharif (trumpet); Delfeayo Marsalis (trombone); Louis Ford (clarinet); Peter Martin (piano); Elton Heron (bass); Adonis Rose (drums).

Spirits Of Congo Square

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Mark Whitfield - Songs Of Wonder

Styles: Guitar Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:22
Size: 98,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:57)  1. Isn't She Lovely
(4:15)  2. Superstition
(4:47)  3. Love's In Need
(3:46)  4. I Wish
(4:04)  5. Overjoyed
(3:57)  6. Signed, Sealed, Delivered
(4:51)  7. Ribbon In The Sky
(3:41)  8. Do I Do
(3:50)  9. Send One Your Love
(4:09) 10. Livin' For The City

You've seen him with Chris Botti! You've heard his solo LPs on Warner Bros, Verve, and more! Here's Mark Whitfield's latest CD - a tribute to the great Stevie Wonder, with all the raw and personal emotion that only Whitfield can bring to classic songs! The CD features Chris Botti on trumpet, John Mayer on guitar and Sy Smith on vocals and of course, Whitfield's stunning expertise on guitar... It makes for a must-have for jazz-aficionados and Stevie Wonder fans alike. Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, the world's foremost institute for the study of Jazz and modern American music, in the Spring of 1987 having studied composition and arranging as well as all styles of guitar performance. Upon graduation, he returned to his native New York to embark on a career as a jazz guitarist that afforded him the opportunity to collaborate with many legendary artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Clark Terry, Jimmy Smith, Carmen McCrae, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Jack McDuff, Betty Carter, Shirley Horn, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Joe Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Bradford Marsalis, Stanley Turrentine and his greatest teacher and mentor George Benson.

Along the way, the New York Times dubbed Whitfield "The Best Young Guitarist in the Business" and in September of 1990 Warner Bros. released his solo debut, "The Marksman". The success of this release has led to a recording career that has produced 14 solo projects to date and a myriad of collaborative efforts with some of the most important artists in recent years; Sting, D'Angelo, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, John Mayer, Jill Scott, Roy Hargrove, Diana Krall, Lauryn Hill, Sy Smith and Chris Botti.  In September of 2005, Mark Whitfield accepted the invitation to join the faculty at his alma mater, teaming up with Joe Lovano, Ralph Peterson, Danilo Perez, and Terry Lynn Carrington as "Artists in Residence" at the Berklee School. While maintaining a teaching schedule that requires his presence on campus 1 day a week for 14 weeks/per semester, and a touring schedule that includes at least 100 concert dates/per year with trumpeter Chris Botti, Whitfield still manages to remain active as a solo artist and 2008-2009 will see the release of his latest solo effort; a Stevie Wonder tribute entitled "Songs Of Wonder" and 2 collaborative projects with long time friends Christian McBride and Nicholas Payton. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/whitfieldmark

Songs Of Wonder

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