Larry Coryell, Paolo Morello, Andreas Dombert, Helmut Kagerer - Night Of Jazz Guitars

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:02
Size: 153.5 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:59] 1. Cookin' At The Continental
[4:31] 2. Koala
[6:03] 3. They Loved You More In Paris
[6:38] 4. Like Someone In Love
[4:40] 5. Jailbreak
[7:03] 6. Tender Tears Theme & Variations
[3:59] 7. Noites Cariocas
[4:51] 8. Blue In Green
[4:12] 9. Blues For Bireli
[5:53] 10. I Think It Is Too Late Now
[4:13] 11. Tadd's Delight
[7:50] 12. Bolero
[3:04] 13. All The Things You Are

Chamber music? Without any doubt! Consciousness of tradition? Definitely! Courage to be innovative? Yes, indeed! Team spirit? Of course! Soloist individuality? Can’t do without it! Thus, same procedure as any time when guitarists get together in a jazz context? Under no circumstances! For Helmut Kagerer, Paulo Morello, Andreas Dombert and guest star Larry Coryell their teamwork means much more than a blue print of the formula “Great Guitars”. These gentlemen define the pure distillation of their stringed work, the intermingling of ideas and chords in a completely new way. Not only in terms of the line-up. Since in modern jazz you have to examine the scene with a fine-tooth comb if you look for a guitaristic quartet. Here four excellent virtuoso and visionary players unify their strength for a fearless highwire act, for exiting and electrifying dialogues. They built an elaborated dramaturgy with plenty of space to improvise. These "four musketeers“ know each other, also know their limits and how to gain more possibilities beyond these limits with every live show they play. When they act on stage you witness adventures which captivate musicians as well as audience. Never before has jazz guitar experienced such a mighty renaissance. Four individualists with distinct personalities melt together for a creative power station and provide new steam for the often cited magic of the strings. These are four outstanding instrumentalists, representing four generations rooted in four different directions. They find a common grounding in standards and original compositions, and they create a very special, warm and breathtaking music which is seldom found in these days.

Night Of Jazz Guitars

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Aaron Neville - My True Story

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:22
Size: 87.9 MB
Styles: R&B, Adult Contemporary
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:53] 1. Money Honey
[2:59] 2. My True Story
[2:30] 3. Ruby Baby
[3:28] 4. Gypsy Woman
[2:47] 5. Ting A Ling
[3:48] 6. Be My Baby
[2:39] 7. Little Bitty Pretty One
[3:30] 8. Tears On My Pillow
[2:53] 9. Under The Boardwalk
[3:05] 10. Work With Me Annie
[4:30] 11. This Magic Moment True Love
[3:16] 12. Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)

Back in 1985, Aaron Neville offered fans a glimpse of his love of doo wop with the EP Orchid in the Storm. Over a quarter-century later, he returns to it on My True Story. Doo wop pre-dates rock & roll. Its reliance on the human voice in group harmony communicates not only melody but rhythm, and influenced the sounds of Motown, Stax, and early rock & roll. Even Frank Zappa claimed it as a prime influence. Co-produced by Keith Richards and Blue Note label boss Don Was, the dozen tunes here make prime use of Neville's voice, placing his high, smooth, vulnerable tenor way up front; he is backed by vintage-era doo wop singers and an all-star band that includes Richards and Greg Leisz on guitars, Benmont Tench on keyboards, bassist Tony Scherr, and drummer George R. Receli. Lenny Pickett helps out on horns and winds on a number of tracks as well. The production is clean, the musical backing used more as texture and color than as real support -- Neville and his vocalists offer all the impetus needed to pull this off (indeed one wonders what this set might have sounded like a cappella). The tunes are all classics. Standouts include Lieber & Stoller's "Ruby Baby," a medley of Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman's "This Magic Moment" and "True Love," Hank Ballard's "Work with Me Annie" (featuring a guest appearance from Art Neville on B-3), Sylvester Bradford's and Al Lewis' "Tears on My Pillow," and Curtis Mayfield's "Gypsy Woman." The latter marries doo wop to early Chicago soul, and Neville celebrates this in his reading. "Be My Baby," which will forever be associated with the Ronettes and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, is stripped back to the source music that inspired its authors, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Spector -- even when adding a Pickett flute solo to the chart. Ultimately, My True Story is a smooth, mostly laid-back, and soulful recording by Neville. He provides a healthy -- sometimes overly -- reverential respect for the original material. Coupled with his vocals, these restrained yet imaginative arrangements offer some surprising twists and turns. ~Thom Jurek

My True Story

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Sandra King, Richard Rodney Bennett - Making Beautiful Music Together

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:10
Size: 126.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[2:39] 1. Love Of My Life
[4:19] 2. Blame It On My Youth
[3:04] 3. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me
[2:53] 4. There Is No Music
[2:54] 5. A Beautiful Friendship/We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
[3:27] 6. Second Chance
[3:37] 7. I'm Way Ahead Of The Game
[3:07] 8. On Second Thought
[3:50] 9. I Never Know When
[3:58] 10. I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do
[3:09] 11. Early To Bed
[3:41] 12. Empty Space
[3:21] 13. Boy Wanted
[4:03] 14. If You Never Come To Me
[3:20] 15. I Have The Feeling I've Been Here Before
[3:41] 16. I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open

Sandra King vocals, Richard Rodney Bennett piano, Greg Cohen bass.

Sandra King treasures the memory of a day in the mid-1970s when she came to Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London to rehearse for an engagement. As she and her accompanist Pat Smythe ran through Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood," King noticed a man watching her from the back. He came closer, and she found herself face to face with Stan Getz. He proceeded to tell her how much he admired her singing. "Stan was finishing a two-week booking there that night," she recalls. "He asked me if I'd like to join him on stage to sing a couple of songs. I was terrified, but I went down there and sang while he played behind me. It's an experience I'll never forget."

Making Beautiful Music Together

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Sonny Criss Quartet - Featuring Wynton Kelly

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:37
Size: 79.3 MB
Styles: Bop, Saxophone jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:39] 1. Sweet Lorraine
[3:59] 2. You Don't Know What Love Is
[5:35] 3. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
[4:02] 4. Butts Delight
[3:49] 5. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
[7:39] 6. Sylvia
[5:51] 7. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

Sonny Criss (as), Wynton Kelly (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Walter Perkins (d), Ole Hansen (tb). Recorded in Chicago, 1959.

Recorded in Chicago in 1959, this date places the great underappreciated altoist Sonny Criss in the company of Miles Davis' pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Walter Perkins, with some help from Norway's Ole Hansen on trombone. The program consists of straight late-'50s ballads and hard bop. Most of the program belongs to standards, such as "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (a staple of Criss' live set throughout his life), and Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad." But the real surprises here are the originals. Criss' crew really rocks it on "Butts Delight," playing stellar sprinting hard bop with incredible soloing by the leader. "Sylvia," his other number, is a strolling blues with requisite swing and beautifully articulated interplay between the saxophone and trombone. For the all too few Criss lovers out there, these sessions are essential. In addition to the material, the presentation and sound are excellent -- something rather uncharacteristic for Fresh Sounds as a label. ~Thom Jurek

Featuring Wynton Kelly

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Mick Goodrick, David Liebman, Wolfgang Muthspiel - In The Same Breath

Styles: Guitar And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:54
Size: 148,8 MB
Art: Front

( 7:07)  1. Hope
( 5:00)  2. Nardis
( 7:14)  3. Throughout
( 7:27)  4. Mothers and Daughters
( 9:46)  5. Visiones
( 5:51)  6. The Crusher
( 4:45)  7. Liebeslied
( 7:06)  8. The Three Stages
(10:34)  9. Ad Liebitum

Breathe in, breathe out, breathe out. When Liebs' sweetly purling soprano saxophone infiltrates the Mick 'n Wolfie guitar duo, what seemed a perfectly natural process suddenly becomes an out-of-body experience. Goodrick and Muthspiel have honed a mesmerizing mutual plectral hypnosis that levitates and transmigrates with each tune, whirling round and round the globe. They began it in small rooms like Ryle's Upstairs in Somerville, MA, and have taken it at least halfway 'round the Northern Hemisphere, as this album was recorded in Germany. When they invite in a third electronically adventuresome master instrumentalist, worlds collide and subside, pulses escalate. As saxophonist/teacher/writer Dave Liebman explains, concisely, with creative syntax: "The soprano immersed within the strings; the single line within the polyphony; the similar range of color for all three; the intensity and diversity of the rhythm-quite a large universe!" The three ply smooth and near waters (M. Davis' "Nardis") as well as those stormy and distant ("The Crusher"), two gorgeous waltzes (by Muthspiel and Kurt Weill). They sing in clear, brave voices in many tongues... Oh, let's let Liebs tell it: "The trio's range of expression moves from "Liebeslied" (swirling and harmonic) to "The Crusher" (textural) to "Mothers and Daughters" (polytonal) to the classic "Nardis" (swinging) to "Hope" (lyrical) to "Ad Liebitum" (rhythmical). This is one of the most pleasant and listenable recordings that I have ever been part of." ~  Fred Bouchard http://jazztimes.com/articles/8882-in-the-same-breath-mick-goodrick-dave-leibman-woflgang-muthspiel

Personnel:  Mick Goodrick – guitar;  David Liebman - soprano saxophone, wooden flute, piano;  Wolfgang Muthspiel - guitar, electric nylon string guitar, guitar synth, violin

In The Same Breath

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Greta Matassa - I Wanna Be Loved

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:14
Size: 150,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:02)  1. Broadway
(5:39)  2. Chan´s Song
(4:56)  3. Alone In The World
(6:42)  4. I Wanna Be Loved
(5:37)  5. Nothing Like You
(5:27)  6. You´ll See
(5:57)  7. Save Me
(5:49)  8. Two For The Road
(6:33)  9. The Night Mist
(4:22) 10. Would You Believe
(6:05) 11. All Night Long

Greta Matassa made her mark performing in the Pacific Northwest as a jazz vocalist, with a great insight into the Great American Songbook and strong scatting abilities. Both are on display in this big-band session, with arrangements by the promising young pianist Tamir Hendelman and an all-star group. Following a swinging "Broadway" that also includes a healthy dose of scat, she is draped in strings and complemented by Steve Wilkerson's soprano sax in a lively take of Herbie Hancock's "Chan's Song" that sounds like it could have come from a movie soundtrack. There are several little-known songs that Matassa makes her own, including Jerry Goldsmith's moving ballad "Alone in the World" (written for the soundtrack to the film Russia House and performed with just the rhythm section, Carroll Coates' luxurious ballad "You'll See," and a touching setting of Cy Coleman's "Would You Believe." If there's a weak spot, it is Al Jarreau's "Save Me," which is undermined a bit by its uninspired lyrics and the questionable use of a harmonica synthesizer (perhaps no jazz harmonica player was available at the time?). Greta Matassa makes a strong statement with this memorable recording. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-wanna-be-loved-mw0000817563

Personnel: Greta Matassa (vocals); Bruce Forman (guitar); Christian Howes (violin); Cameron Patrick, Gina Kronstadt, Susan Chatman (strings); Steve Wilkerson (reeds); Steve Wilkerson & Andrea Baker (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Willie Murillo (trumpet); Darin Clendenin & Friends, Darin Clendenin, Tamir Hendelman (piano); Bob Leatherbarrow (vibraphone, drums); Clipper Anderson (bass instrument).

I Wanna Be Loved

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John Nugent - Taurus People

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:08
Size: 140,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:11)  1. Taurus People
(6:48)  2. Monk's Dream
(6:23)  3. Star Crossed Lovers
(7:42)  4. Picadilly Lilly
(5:28)  5. Beija Flor
(9:18)  6. 12 Tone Poem
(5:10)  7. The Final Push
(8:20)  8. Bright Piece
(6:46)  9. Four of a Kind

Sharing the mike on four tunes with sopranist/tenorman Dave Leibman, his former teacher and continued good friend, tenorman John Nugent is here making his first bid for national attention. That he is doing this at the now comparatively advanced age of 35 seems to indicate a bit of well-advised caution and patience, a sign of maturity not shared by many other of our newer names. Stylistically, Nugent comes out of an essentially post-Coltrane/Shorter bag, but this is not to say that he is devoid of a personal sense of direction. He seems to be at his best on the tracks upon which he is the only hornman, i.e., "Monk's Dream," "Star Crossed Lovers," "Beija Flor," pianist Bruce Barth's "The Final Push," and Nugent's own "Four of a Kind."  Throughout, the contributions of Barth, bassist Doug Weiss, and drummer Al Foster present a flowing stream of time, while Liebman's soprano solos on the up-tempo "12 Tone Poem" and "Bright Piece" are typical of this idiosyncratic improviser. But on the occasions when he joins Nugent on tenor ("Taurus People" and "Picadilly Lily") there are noticeable differences of opinion regarding intonation, especially on unison passages. ~ Jack Sohmer http://jazztimes.com/articles/10553-taurus-people-john-nugent-quartet

Personnel: John Nugent (saxophone, tenor saxophone); David Liebman (saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bruce Barth (piano); Al Foster (drums, snare drum).

Taurus People

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Jack Walrath - Master Of Suspense

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:23
Size: 111,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:05)  1. Meat!
(5:19)  2. Children
(5:58)  3. No Mystery
(4:50)  4. A Study In Porcine
(3:52)  5. I'm Sending You A Big Bouquet Of Roses
(3:09)  6. The Lord's Calypso
(9:06)  7. I'm So Lonemsome I Could Cry
(5:27)  8. Monk On The Moon
(6:34)  9. A Hymn For The Discontented

The biggest news of this CD by trumpeter Jack Walrath is that Willie Nelson sings and plays guitar on two numbers: "I'm Sending You a Big Bouquet of Roses" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." The other selections feature Walrath (who composed all but the two Nelson features) with a larger group than normal; a septet that includes altoist Kenny Garrett, tenor saxophonist Carter Jefferson, trombonist Steve Turre, pianist James Williams, bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Ronnie Burrage. As usual Walrath's music stretches the boundaries of hard bop without tossing away its roots. Among the more memorable titles are "Meat," "The Lord's Calypso" and "Monk on the Moon." ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/master-of-suspense-mw0000193705

Personnel:  Alto Saxophone – Kenny Garrett;  Bass – Anthony Cox;  Drums – Ronnie Burrage;  Guitar, Vocals – Willie Nelson ;  Piano – James Williams ;  Tenor Saxophone – Carter Jefferson;  Trombone – Steve Turre;  Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jack Walrath

Master Of Suspense

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Donald Edwards - Prelude To Real Life

Styles: Post Bop, Contemporary Jazz  
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:11
Size: 156,7 MB
Art: Front

(1:57)  1. Taking Shape
(6:23)  2. Incantation
(1:00)  3. Hop Scotch
(8:09)  4. Apple Street
(8:08)  5. Way to Her
(0:38)  6. King
(7:37)  7. Queen and the Princess
(7:58)  8. Stablemates
(8:56)  9. Beautiful Intuition
(6:57) 10. Thought for the Day
(4:34) 11. Skippy
(4:47) 12. Prelude to Real Life

On his second Criss Cross leader date, Prelude to Real Life, drummer Donald Edwards picks up where he left off with the next installment of an autobiographical narrativ in notes and tones. Whereas in his debut, Evolution of an Influenced Mind, Edwards conveyed the story of his formative years as a musician with eleven original compositions, here he addresses themes of love, family and fatherhood with an engaging suite comprising six kinetic, diverse originals of his and one by Alex Sipiagin, two personalized standards (Thelonious Monk's Skippy; Benny Golson's Stablemates); and three textural drum interludes. Rejoining him from the first date are pianist Orrin Evans and tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, both Criss Cross veterans, guitarist David Gilmore, while rising star Luques Curtis assuming the bass chair. Edwards' old friend Nicholas Payton plays keyboards on three tracks, and eminent New York singer Vivian Sessoms lends her voice to three selections. https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Real-Life-Donald-Edwards/dp/B019A1AZJU

Personnel: Donald Edwards (drums); David Gilmore (guitar); Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone); David Stoller (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ); Nicholas Payton (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Orrin Evans (piano).

Prelude To Real Life

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