Laura Fygi - Eternal Flame: The Best Of

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:32
Size: 130,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:33)  1. Only You In My Heart [Chinese]
(3:29)  2. Autumn Leaves
(3:39)  3. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(3:27)  4. Disse Alguem (Al Of Me) [Portuguese]
(3:27)  5. Quizas, Quizas, Quizas [Spanish]
(3:38)  6. Noche De Ronda [Spanish]
(6:17)  7. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
(3:41)  8. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
(2:28)  9. For Me, Formidable [French]
(4:32) 10. Baby Come To Me
(2:34) 11. Do It Again
(3:09) 12. Et Si Demain [French]
(4:38) 13. The Summer Knows (From Summer Of '42)
(4:18) 14. Still
(3:35) 15. The Moon Speaks For My Heart [Chinese]

Although Dutch singer Laura Fygi initially garnered notice as a member of the disco group Centerfold, after setting out in 1992 as a solo performer she pursued a more jazz-inspired path with her debut effort Introducing Laura Fygi. 

On subsequent efforts including 1993's Bewitched and the following year's The Lady Wants to Know, she collaborated with figures including Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans and Clark Terry, and in 1997 Fygi worked with one of her idols, the great composer Michel Legrand, on Watch What Happens. ~ Jason Ankeny http://www.allmusic.com/artist/laura-fygi-mn0000115333/biography

Eternal Flame: The Best Of

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Louis Armstrong - Louis and the Good Book

Styles: Vocal And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1958
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:34
Size: 144,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:02)  1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:46)  2. Shadrack
(3:41)  3. Go Down, Moses
(2:58)  4. Rock My Soul
(2:33)  5. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
(3:05)  6. On My Way
(3:10)  7. Down by the Riverside
(3:09)  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(3:29)  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother
(2:40) 10. Jonah and the Whale
(2:52) 11. Didn't It Rain
(2:31) 12. This Train
(3:18) 13. Sit Down, You're Rocking the B
(2:59) 14. That's What the Man Said
(2:36) 15. Shadrack
(2:49) 16. Going to Shout All Over God's
(3:12) 17. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:49) 18. Jonah and the Whale
(4:22) 19. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Thro
(4:22) 20. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Gene

An unusual album in the Louis Armstrong canon, this collection of gospel songs, spirituals, homilies, and comic vignettes was the only religious album this determinedly secular musician recorded. Backed by a gospel vocal group led by the celebrated jazz arranger Sy Oliver, Armstrong performs a variety of religious-themed favorites, including "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," and "Didn't it Rain," as well as "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys And Dolls. 

There's an affecting version of the traditional spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and a particular highlight is the inclusion of two comic sermons by the musician's alter ego, Elder Eatmore. http://www.allmusic.com/album/louis-and-the-good-book-mw0000319753

Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Sy Oliver Choir (vocals); Trummy Young (trombone); Hank D'Amico, Edmond Hall, Dave McRae (clarinet); Billy Kyle (piano); Nickie Tragg, Harry Mills (organ); George Barnes (guitar); Joe Benjamin, Mort Herbert (bass); Johnny Blowers, Barrett Deems (drums).

Louis and the Good Book

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Kurt Edelhagen - Edelhagen plays Jimmy Webb

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1970
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:46
Size: 88,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Up Up and Away
(2:31)  2. By The Time I got to Phoenix
(5:40)  3. Didn't We
(2:35)  4. Galveston
(3:21)  5. Where's The Playground Susie
(4:05)  6. Evie
(2:24)  7. Sunshower
(3:42)  8. Mac.Arthur Park
(2:29)  9. Honey Come Back
(3:08) 10. If you must leave my life
(3:08) 11. Wichita Lineman

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/biography

Edelhagen plays Jimmy Webb

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Louie Louie Louie

Styles: Jazz, Swing
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:13
Size: 100,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Dinah
(2:41)  2. Oh,Marie
(4:04)  3. Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby
(3:19)  4. Jack, You Dead
(2:31)  5. Whistle Stop
(2:59)  6. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
(3:44)  7. Basin Street Blues
(3:53)  8. Jump, Jive, an' Wail
(2:48)  9. Knock Me a Kiss
(3:55) 10. Struttin' with Some Barbeque
(2:29) 11. Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
(3:20) 12. Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
(4:31) 13. When the Saints Come Marching Home

Although still largely associated with the '90s neo-swing movement, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have long outrun that moment's MTV zeitgeist and spent the 2010s deepening their jazz roots. The past decade-and-a-half have found them branching out, exploring New Orleans blues, Cajun, and second-line traditions on 2003's Save My Soul, and paying tribute to legendary Harlem bandleader Cab Calloway on 2009's How Big Can You Get? In this spirit of reinvestigating their influences, the band's 11th studio album, 2017's urbane and upbeat Louie Louie Louie, finds them celebrating three of their biggest musical heroes: Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima. and Louis Jordan. Here, the band round up a nicely curated set of tunes popularized by the three "Louies" and inject them with their own zesty brand of jump blues. Some of the song choices are deliciously on the nose with cuts like Jordan's "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," Prima's "Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days," and Jordan's "Jack, You're Dead!," feeling like well-loved road covers the band have played hundreds of times. Others, especially Armstrong's Herculean "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and the suavely refined "Basin Street Blues," with their nuanced harmonies and tricky horn lines, vibrate with a sense of danger and ambition as if the band had dared themselves to make them their own. Thankfully, they do. Elsewhere, we get equally compelling takes on "Dinah," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Knock Me a Kiss," and more. It's also fun to hear the band put their own stamp on one of the biggest anthems of the neo-swing movement, Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail," popularized in 1998 by the Brian Seltzer Orchestra. Still centered on lead singer/guitarist Scotty Morris, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have settled into a warm, crisply delivered style of swing that's studio savvy and precise while also full of in-the-moment improvisation and an overall live-sounding aesthetic. Helping to achieve this aesthetic is longtime pianist Joshua Levy, who supplied all the arrangements on Louie Louie Louie. Also impressive are bandmembers trumpeter Glen "The Kid" Marhevka, alto and tenor saxophonist Karl Hunter, and baritone saxophonist Andy Rowley, who all get plenty of room to solo. The result is an album that strikes a balance between Jazz at Lincoln Center-style adherence to tradition and dynamic, pop-informed bravura showmanship. ~ Matt Collar http://www.allmusic.com/album/louie-louie-louie-mw0003046852

Personnel: Scotty Morris (vocals, guitar, banjo); Andy Rowley (vocals, whistle, baritone saxophone); Dirk Shumaker (vocals, acoustic bass); Karl Hunter (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Glen "The Kid" Marhevka (trumpet); Joshua Levy (piano); Kurt Sodergren (drums); Lee Thornburg, Jim Fox, Paul Kreibich, Ira Nepus.

Louie Louie Louie

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