Eddie Harris - People Get Funny...

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:44
Size: 95,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:37)  1. People Get Funny When They Get A Little Money
(8:04)  2. La Carnival
(5:18)  3. Ski Ball
(6:04)  4. Three Quarter Miles
(4:28)  5. Silver Plated
(5:25)  6. Hal Strange
(3:51)  7. The Time Of My Life
(2:55)  8. Step Down To The Top

Most of Eddie Harris' recordings on the Dutch Timeless label in the mid-'80s saw some action in the States but not this one, which was only released in Europe. A shame, for this was mostly one of Harris' few recorded excursions into funk during this period and it's a good one, stripped down, to the point, and featuring remarkably better material than most of his later Atlantic funk recordings. The full name of the vocal title track is "People Get Funny When They Get a Little Money" and it's another of Harris' wry, slightly bitter takes on the foibles of the material world, complete with some vintage acrobatic funk sax. "Three Quarter Miles" is one of Harris' most ingratiating loosey-goosey, triple-meter blues, and "Silver Plated" is a fine tune based roughly on a variation of the "Listen Here" vamp. With the help of overdubbing, Harris lays some electric and tenor saxophone, choral vocals, and humorous funk scatting over his own clarinet comping on the snazzy samba "Carnaval"; sometimes it's a bit stiff, but there is ebullience to spare. When drummer Carl Burnett is laying down a straight-ahead bop groove on "Hal Strange," Harris is locked into his distinctive funk manner, but when he takes off on Burnett's "The Time of My Life," he plays bop style with stunning harmonized electric sax runs Supersax on DC current. Pianist William S. Henderson III also contributes a Headhunters-esque piece called "Ski Ball." Harris' fans ought to grab this if it ever turns up in the vinyl bins. ~ Richard S.Ginell http://www.allmusic.com/album/people-get-funny-mw0000541077

Personnel: Eddie Harris (vocals, saxophone, tenor saxophone, electric saxophone, electric piano, Clavinet); Larry Gales (acoustic bass, electric bass); Carl Burnette (drums).

People Get Funny...

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Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd & Cecil Taylor - At Newport

Styles: Trumpet, Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:49
Size: 113,7 MB
Art: Front

( 7:13)  1. Johnny Come Lately
( 7:40)  2. Nona's Blues
(10:26)  3. Tune 2
( 8:32)  4. Splittin'
( 7:21)  5. Batland
( 7:34)  6. Love For Sale

At first combining a set by Cecil Taylor with another by the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory seems like an odd pairing, but it ends up working rather well. These live recordings, which come from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, have stood the test of time rather well. Taylor's style of piano playing is not that far removed from Thelonious Monk in his interpretation of Billy Strayhorn's "Johnny Come Lately," though his dissonant, angular approach is a bit busier; Steve Lacy's nasal-toned soprano sax and solid rhythmic support from bassist Buell Neidlinger and drummer Denis Charles fuel Taylor's fiery playing. Both Taylor's "Nona's Blues" and "Tune 2" are fairly accessible in comparison to his works in the decade which followed. The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory with pianist Hank Jones, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Osie Johnson is firmly rooted in hard bop. Oddly enough, none of the three pieces were written by either Gryce or Byrd, though they were both already budding composers at this point in their respective careers. But their brief program -- which includes Ray Bryant's "Splittin' (Ray's Way)," the blues "Batland," and a rousing rendition of "Love for Sale" is a good representation of this unfortunately short-lived and under-recorded group. Reissued as a part of Verve's limited-edition series in the summer of 2002, this valuable CD will be available until the summer of 2005. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-newport-mw0000222261

Personnel: Donald Byrd (trumpet); Gigi Gryce (alto saxophone); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Hank Jones , Cecil Taylor (piano); Osie Johnson (drums).

At Newport

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Kurt Edelhagen - Moonlight Serenade

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1950
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:05
Size: 187,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:00)  1. Begin The Beguine
(2:58)  2. Some Of These Days
(3:15)  3. Happy Days Are Here Again
(3:03)  4. No Can Do
(2:52)  5. In A Little Spanish Town
(2:53)  6. Sam's Song
(2:55)  7. Wilhelmina
(3:07)  8. Boogie At All
(3:07)  9. Paul's Boogie
(2:52) 10. Presto Aus Der "Fantasie In Be-Bop"
(3:08) 11. Moonlight Serenade
(2:58) 12. Dinah
(3:05) 13. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(3:09) 14. Korridor-Swing
(3:11) 15. Eisbär-Song
(4:12) 16. Blues Aus "Ein Amerikaner In Paris"
(3:26) 17. Hawaiian War Chant
(2:50) 18. Non-Stop-Riff
(3:44) 19. Stumbling
(3:06) 20. Taking A Chance On Love
(3:15) 21. Lilli-Boogie
(3:21) 22. Fine And Dandy
(2:29) 23. Guatemala
(2:56) 24. Hau Den Lucas

A well-respected bandleader whose orchestras tended to emphasize swinging dance music but were open to boppish solos, Kurt Edelhagen was a major name in Germany for quite a few years. He studied piano and conducting, and then in 1946 formed his first big band. Edelhagen was a natural bandleader and he headed ensembles for the radio station in Frankfurt, in Nuremberg (1949-1952) and most notably the orchestra of Sudwestfunk (1952-1957) which sometimes looked towards Stan Kenton. In 1957 he joined Westdeustcher Rundfunk in Cologne which in time included such players as trumpeters Dusko Goykovich and Jimmy Deuchar, altoist Derek Humble, and trombonist Jiggs Whigham. He headed that band until it broke up in 1973 and remained semi-active up until near his death. Kurt Edelhagen recorded fairly often in Germany during 1949-1972 although few of his records (other than one put out by Golden Era) have been made available in the U.S. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kurt-edelhagen-mn0001438091

Moonlight Serenade

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The Bangles - Sweetheart Of The Sun

Styles: Vocal, Contemporary Pop/Rock
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:29
Size: 99,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:31)  1. Anna Lee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)
(4:07)  2. Under A Cloud
(3:51)  3. Ball 'N' Chain
(3:40)  4. I'll Never Be Through With You
(3:46)  5. Mesmerized
(4:04)  6. Circles In The Sky
(2:11)  7. Sweet And Tender Romance
(3:23)  8. Lay Yourself Down
(3:39)  9. One Of Two
(3:22) 10. What A Life
(3:50) 11. Through Your Eyes
(3:00) 12. Open My Eyes

When the Bangles re-formed in the early 2000s and released Doll Revolution in 2003, the band seemed split between trying to recapture the jangle pop sound they had when they began and trying to stay current with the times (in terms of production). On the second album to come from their return, 2011’s Sweetheart of the Sun, there are no attempts to stay current. Instead, by hiring Matthew Sweet to co-produce, the band makes it clear that they are ready to embrace their power pop past. The record brims with jangling guitars, tough lead guitar work from Vicki Peterson, rich vocal harmonies, and a layered, live sound that sounds really, really good (and almost exactly what you’d hope the band who recorded All Over the Place in 1984 would sound like 25-plus-years later). The songs that Susanna Hoffs and the Peterson sisters (Debbi and Vicki) wrote for the record are good, too. Solid and gently hooky tunes about kids, relationships, and the realities of middle age life; they too sound like the best you could hope for all these years later. The mix of convincing rockers ("Ball N Chain," "What a Life"), rollickingly tender janglers ("Anna Lee (Sweetheart of the Sun)"), and a handful of introspective ballads is just about right, too, and shows the band is adept at conveying a wide range of moods and styles. And their choice of covers is predictably savvy. They rock out nicely on "Sweet and Tender Romance," an obscure British girl group song originally done by the McKinleys in 1964, and exhibit some amazing harmony singing on the Nazz's "Open My Eyes." The combo of songs, performance, and sound means that anyone who was saddened by the glitz pop turn the band took post-All Over the Place could look at Sweetheart as the true follow-up to their debut. The only thing that gives you a clue to all the time passed is the rough edges around the lead vocals. It’s kind of odd, really. They all sound miraculously ageless when singing in harmony but when singing alone they tend to push their voices past their natural limits and end up hitting some duff, craggy notes. Especially Hoffs, who takes the bulk of the leads. It’s too bad Sweet didn’t clamp down and reign in this small but noticeable problem, as it makes for some jagged moments. Still, Sweetheart of the Sun is a remarkably good record that comes long after anyone may have expected the Bangles to do anything much at all. Credit Sweet's production, but also the trio’s dedication and renewed skills and energy. Hopefully it won’t take another quarter-decade to follow this one up. ~ Tim Sendra http://www.allmusic.com/album/sweetheart-of-the-sun-mw0002187953

Personnel:  Debbi Peterson – Drums and percussion; vocals;  Vicki Peterson – Electric guitar; vocals;  Susanna Hoffs – Electric guitar; vocals

Sweetheart Of The Sun

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Stefanie Schlesinger - Reality

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:49
Size: 156,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:44)  1. Parole, Parole
(6:15)  2. The Summer Knows
(5:30)  3. Reality
(6:33)  4. Hotel Shanghai
(5:10)  5. Com Amor, Com O Mar
(5:47)  6. Ganz leise
(4:08)  7. With You
(5:33)  8. Hurra, wir leben noch
(6:55)  9. Windmills of Your Mind
(5:07) 10. Fool on the Hill
(6:17) 11. Munich Butterfly
(5:44) 12. The Winner Takes It All

Stefanie Schlesinger (born 12 February 1977 in Bamberg ) is a German jazz singer and songwriter. Schlesinger first received recorder lessons , then, from the age of 9, piano lessons. At the age of 12, first singing lessons followed. She completed her high school diploma at the ETA Hoffmann-Gymnasium Bamberg with major singing; Then a classical vocal study at the Leopold-Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg followed. She then appeared in musical and opera productions and gave premieres of contemporary works before turning to the jazz song. She directed her own combo and worked with musicians like Pete York , Daniel Messina , Klaus Doldinger , Herb Geller and Christian Bruhn . Since 2005, Schlesinger has been increasingly active in the composition and also composed poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Schiller , but also wrote music for children. In addition, arrangements were made for own projects. Together with her husband, Wolfgang Lackerschmid , she wrote the music for the musicletts "Ma très chère cousine!" And "Now he is dead, the dog", which she performed as an actress in Augsburg 2010 and 2011 with good reviews. In 2003, she was the first singer to receive the Bavarian Kunstförderpreis in the Jazz category. https://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanie_Schlesinger&prev=search

Reality

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