Ernestine Anderson - Never Make Your Move Too Soon

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:54
Size: 89.1 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues vocals
Year: 1981/2005
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. Never Make Your Move Too Soon
[4:44] 2. What A Diff'rence A Day Made
[4:37] 3. As Long As I Live
[7:13] 4. Old Folks
[5:26] 5. Just One More Chance
[3:31] 6. My Shining Hour
[4:18] 7. Why Did I Choose You
[5:34] 8. Poor Butterfly

Bass – Ray Brown; Drums – Frank Gant; Piano – Monty Alexander; Vocals – Ernestine Anderson.

The title cut of this near-classic album became a sort of theme song for Ernestine Anderson, but it is not the only high point. The singer sounds in top form on such fine material as "As Long As I Live," a touching "Old Folks," "My Shining Hour," and "Poor Butterfly." With fine assistance from pianist Monty Alexander, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Frank Gant, Ernestine Anderson is heard throughout in prime form, sounding quite enthusiastic and powerful. Highly recommended. ~Scott Yanow

Never Make Your Move Too Soon

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Pat Kelley - The Road Home

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:17
Size: 112.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 1994/2002
Art: Front

[6:39] 1. The Road Home
[4:52] 2. The Blue Nile
[5:05] 3. Toucan Dance
[4:41] 4. The Way You Look Tonight
[5:12] 5. Long Cold Winter
[4:03] 6. Big Sky
[5:33] 7. This Side Up
[4:45] 8. Natural Wonder
[4:58] 9. Green Country
[3:22] 10. Amazing Grace

On "The Road Home", jazz guitarist Pat Kelley surrounds himself with some of the greatest musicians in the world such as John Patitucci, Gary Novak, Tim Landers, Gary Herbig, David Witham, Michael Shapiro, and more.

After touring for five years with George Benson, George wrote the back cover liner notes which read: "Pat's latest effort shows his versatility and why he is so likeable and easy to work with. I'm glad to see that Pat is expressing himself through the jazz medium which he loves. Pats chops allow him to move about with ease and freedom and show his musical experiences to be broad. I even enjoy his vocals here and I am sure you will too. If this isn't enough, Pat has surrounded himself with nothing less that some of the best musicians around today. Right on Pat!"

The Road Home

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Various - Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto: Musicas De Pacifico Mascarenhas (2-Disc Set)

Meu nome é Pacífico Mascarenhas. Nasci em Belo Horizonte, em 21 de maio de 1935. Eu sempre vivi na região da Savassi – nasci ali no Bairro dos Funcionários, onde eu convivi muito tempo. Ali na Savassi nós tínhamos uma turma muito grande. E a gente fazia serenata todo fim-de-semana. Nessas serenatas eu descobri que estava faltando música de coisas que a gente queria falar para as namoradas, como por exemplo “se eu tivesse coragem de dizer que te amo…”. Então eu ia fazendo essa letra e outras, explicando, por exemplo, que “não sou culpado de ter enfim apaixonado.” Então fui fazendo letras de acordo não só para o meu caso, mas para o caso de diversos amigos e o que eles queriam dizer para as namoradas. A gente se reunia lá na Savassi, em um bar chamado Bar do Pinto, na Praça Diogo Vasconcelos. E de noite a gente saía fazendo serenata pela rua, pelo bairro todo. Foi aí que tudo começou. Eu virei compositor nesse momento de necessidade de fazer letra. Eu já gostava de tocar piano e violão, então foi um pulo para começar a fazer só isso. Isso foi bem no final da década de 50 – talvez antes. Nessa época até conheci o João Gilberto, lá em Diamantina – ele não era conhecido ainda. Ele não tinha nem gravado disco. Ele estava morando lá com a cunhada dele. E nessa época eu já estava fazendo umas músicas. Mais tarde eu o reencontrei no Rio de Janeiro.

Album: Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto: Musicas De Pacifico Mascarenhas (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 23:14
Size: 53.2 MB
Styles: Brazilian rhythms
Year: 2005

[3:41] 1. Sambacana - Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto
[1:25] 2. Paula Santoro - Praça Da Savassi
[1:17] 3. Beto Lopes - Ônibus Colegial
[3:22] 4. Sambacana - Belo Horizonte De Antigamente
[0:46] 5. Renato Motha - Dia Sorrindo Na Savassi
[1:19] 6. Gilberto Mascarenhas - Anos Savassi
[2:49] 7. Sambacana - Minha Cidade
[1:26] 8. Renato Motha - Fui No Minas Tênis Clube
[1:03] 9. Claudinho Campos - Vamos Comemorar
[1:10] 10. Marina Machado - O Jogo
[1:01] 11. Espero Você Em Lourdes
[1:43] 12. Renato Motha - Belo Horizonte, Londres, Pequim
[2:05] 13. Sambacana - Programa No Domingo

Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto: Musicas De Pacifico Mascarenhas (Disc 1)

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Album: Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto: Musicas De Pacifico Mascarenhas (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 22:45
Size: 52.1 MB
Styles: Brazilian rhythms
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[0:57] 1. Renato Motha - Triste Horizonte
[1:26] 2. Marilton Borges - Di
[1:45] 3. Renato Motha - Minas Gerais
[1:30] 4. Gilberto Mascarenhas - Meus Velhos Amigos
[2:41] 5. Renato Motha - Um Ilustre Brasileiro
[1:09] 6. Andando Na Bandeirantes
[1:33] 7. Renato Motha - Vem Para O Minas
[0:57] 8. Gilberto Mascarenhas - Turma Da Savassi
[1:46] 9. Renato Motha - Sou Do América
[3:09] 10. Alarme Falso - Ao Mestre Com Carinho
[1:07] 11. Renato Motha - Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto
[2:24] 12. Sambacana - Praça Da Savassi
[1:29] 13. Sergio Santos - Belo Horizonte De Antigamente
[0:45] 14. Affonsinho - Programa No Domingo

Belo Horizonte Que Eu Gosto: Musicas De Pacifico Mascarenhas (Disc 2)

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Louisa Bey, Nico Morelli - T For 2

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:31
Size: 88.2 MB
Styles: Jazz/blues/gospel vocals
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:04] 1. So Wonderful
[5:05] 2. The Book
[4:36] 3. T For 2
[3:40] 4. Moi & Toi
[4:05] 5. Je Suis
[3:21] 6. Beautiful Love
[3:52] 7. Cross My Way
[6:12] 8. Fever
[3:31] 9. Le Pont Mirabeau
[2:00] 10. Love

Louisa Bey – vocal; Nico Morelli – piano.

Une complicité artistique sous le charme entre lyrisme romantique et envolée passionnée entre Louisa Bey et Nico Morelli qui offrent un duo simple et fort à la fois aux grès des compositions de Louisa et des judicieuses reprises qui jalonnent ce nouveau et bel album (le 3è de la dame).

T For 2

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Calvin Owens - That's Your Booty

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:39
Size: 152.6 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:39] 1. That's Your Booty
[3:48] 2. Eat Where You Sleep
[6:02] 3. One Of Those Nights
[5:53] 4. Texas Red Shuffle
[4:53] 5. Trumpet Blues
[4:44] 6. Show Me
[4:17] 7. All My Fault
[4:12] 8. On My Feet Again
[5:47] 9. The Blues I Have For You
[3:54] 10. The Dog
[6:20] 11. Vincent Van Gogh
[3:21] 12. How Long
[5:12] 13. Take Time To Love
[4:29] 14. Mr. Head

Calvin and company come out of the gate with the wheels smoking. The lyrics on the first tune are really cool and quite humorous. The song has a jazzy feel to it with it's rather complex phrasings, but the blues roots are still in the base of the structure on the tune. This music is strongly rooted in the Blues genre but it's seasoned with hints from other genres (when it sounds right). That is the true genius behind Calvin Owens and his music, he has the gift of creating great arrangements that captivate the listener. The melody lines are charismatic and they're impossible to get out of your head, while the musicians on this album are of the highest caliber.

That's Your Booty

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René Marie - Serene Renegade

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:37
Size: 147.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[6:18] 1. Red Shoes
[7:10] 2. The South Is Mine
[4:49] 3. Autobiography
[6:30] 4. Wishes
[5:05] 5. Pause
[5:34] 6. Hard Day's Night
[5:41] 7. Lover Man Oh Where Can You Be
[6:16] 8. Many Years Ago
[5:29] 9. Little Girl
[4:09] 10. Rufast Daliarg
[7:30] 11. Ode To A Flower

Jeff Ballard: Drums; Bruce Barth: Piano; Roz Corral: Vocals; Steve Davis: Trombone; Larry Grenadier: Bass; John Hart: Guitar.

René Marie continues her string of inventive and soulful interpretations on Serene Renegade, her fourth MAXJAZZ adventure. Marie has it all -a rich, dark voice, an intensely brilliant sense of drama and a perfect presentation of song as entertainment and edification. And -like Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln -she writes strikingly personal and original songs that display all her wares to their best advantage. There are pain and discomfort in these songs to be sure but what raises them to a different level are the spirit and talent of the singer and the fact that the songs and the voice don't sound like anything else. Marie notes that her song "Wishes , to take one example, hits home with woman listeners but Marie's words and sound are so poignant and deep that the heartbreak is transformed into the positive beauty of art. That kind of experience happens often here.

Marie is blessed with musicians who translate her ideas and tunes into true visions and it doesn't hurt that she herself has created the beautiful arrangements in which they express themselves. Gorgeous indeed are the interplay of the muted trumpet of Jeremy Pelt, the piano of Takana Miyamoto, the delicate rhythmic underpinnings and punctuations of Herman Burney and Quentin Baxter and the amazing singing of the leader on "Pause. And talk about intriguing versions of other material -what a tapestry she weaves on the Beatles' "Hard Days Night! The song pulses like heavy breathing itself and builds to several powerful climaxes. John Toomey did the hip arrangement that's buoyed by the bowed bass work of Burney. The singing suggests a more out-and-out theatrical Shirley Horn.

On the notes here René Marie thanks "the little girl and the waterproof bitch who co-exist quite peacefully inside of me. These personae come together to create a dazzling individual talent. And she keeps on coming at you. ~Donald Elfman

Serene Renegade

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Various - The Art Of The Saxophone

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:46
Size: 91.0 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[ 6:12] 1. John Coltrane - Stars Fell On Alabama
[11:08] 2. Eric Dolphy - 245
[ 6:27] 3. Al Cohn - Halley's Comet
[ 6:57] 4. Al Cohn - The Red Door
[ 3:17] 5. Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul
[ 5:44] 6. John Coltrane - Wabash

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world. The pale "pure" tone of the instrument, as first used in classical compositions, vanished in a musical blast of slurs (Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges, occasional exciting "false-fingering" (Lester Young) and runs almost too fast, for some at the time, to listen to (Charlie Parker). Parker employed the range of the alto sax and its keying system to show the world a new music entirely, while "sonorists" like Stan Getz (possessor of "The Sound") turned the instrument into, effectively, the "sexophone." And so Hollywood movies have always automatically cued a sax solo " When Lights Are Low," as the Benny Carter title says.

The Art Of The Saxophone

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Jimmy Bruno - Burnin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:38
Size: 143.4 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[5:42] 1. The Eternal Triangle
[5:09] 2. Pastel
[4:45] 3. One For Amos
[5:01] 4. Love Is Here To Stay
[4:34] 5. Burnin'
[8:12] 6. Moonlight In Vermont
[1:57] 7. Central Park West
[5:39] 8. Giant Steps
[4:35] 9. Witch Craft
[5:01] 10. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[4:36] 11. A Rose For Peg
[7:21] 12. That's All

Bass – Craig Thomas; Drums – Steve Holloway; Guitar – Jimmy Bruno.

Burnin' is a most appropriate title for Jimmy Bruno's second album because much of the time, the guitarist is doing exactly that. A hard bopper with superb chops, Bruno loves to swing hard and fast, and he takes no prisoners on bop standards like Sonny Stitt's "Eternal Triangle" and John Coltrane's "Giant Steps." Known for its insanely difficult chord changes, the latter has long been considered a test piece for jazz musicians; Bruno sails right through the tune at maximum speed without even blinking an eye. But while his technique is impressive, it wouldn't mean as much if Bruno (who forms a trio with bassist Craig Thomas and drummer Steve Holloway) didn't have so much soul to go with his massive chops. As intensely as he plays on the fast numbers, Bruno has no problem turning around and showing his lyrical side on Trane's "Central Park West" and the standard "That's All." Burnin' was recorded at Philly's legendary Sigma Sound, where so many great R&B sessions were done in the '70s. ~Alex Henderson

Burnin'

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Jon Hendricks & Friends - Freddie Freeloader

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:53
Size: 132.5 MB
Styles: Vocalese, Vocal jazz
Year: 1990/2010
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. Jumpin' At The Woodside
[5:46] 2. In Summer
[9:05] 3. Freddie Freeloader
[3:55] 4. Stardust
[5:08] 5. Sugar
[3:00] 6. Take The A Train
[5:37] 7. Fas' Livin' Blues
[1:28] 8. High As A Mountain
[4:42] 9. Trinkle Tinkle
[2:50] 10. Swing That Music
[2:28] 11. The Finer Things In Life
[6:31] 12. Listen To Monk
[3:51] 13. Sing Sing Sing

This CD would be highly recommended if only for Jon Hendricks' brilliant vocalese version of "Freddie Freeloader," which has Bobby McFerrin singing pianist Wynton Kelly's part, Al Jarreau as Miles Davis, George Benson as Cannonball Adderley, and Hendricks re-creating John Coltrane. However, all 13 selections on this very memorable set have their strong moments, and the other guests include the Manhattan Transfer, the Count Basie Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Turrentine, Tommy Flanagan, Al Grey, and the Jon Hendricks Vocalstra. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" recalls the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross version, Judith Hendricks sings Louis Armstrong's solos on "Stardust" and "Swing That Music," Turrentine helps to re-create "Sugar," there are a couple of Thelonious Monk tunes, and the exciting proceedings conclude with "Sing, Sing, Sing." Essential music. ~Scott Yanow

Freddie Freeloader

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