Laura Rosok - No One In Particular

Size: 98,7 MB
Time: 37:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Little Boat (2:42)
02. Don't Know Why (4:11)
03. Body And Soul (6:05)
04. Them There Eyes (2:49)
05. Someone To Watch Over Me (4:49)
06. Beautiful Love (4:58)
07. Stormy Weather (4:25)
08. Imagine (3:34)
09. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) (4:09)

Laura Rosok is an award winning Seattle based jazz vocalist. When you hear her sing, the timbre of her voice grabs your attention yet reassures with excellent pitch and control as she delivers her repertoire of jazz standards and popular songs with jazz and blues influences.

In 2015, Downbeat Magazine named Laura the national winner of their 38th annual Student Music Awards in the high school vocal jazz soloist category. Downbeat said of Rosok, “You are the total package! Beautiful, clear sound, great pitch, effortless flexibility of motion. A pleasure to listen to.” In 2014, Laura was named the winner of the high school division Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist competition. This led to guest performances at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle as well as at the Sone Jazz Club and the Jazz Queen Vocal Contest in Kobe, Japan.

Performances in local venues and festivals include Jazz Alley, the Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Proctor Arts Fest, Jackson Street Jazz Walk, the North Bend Jazz Walk, La Spiga, Tandem Wine Bar, 192 Brewing, Four Seas's Restaurant, Sea Jazz Edmonds, Egan’s Ballard Jam House, Boxley’s, and North City Bistro. Laura also performed with Lance Buller and the Roadsters recording a KPLU studio session and broadcasting live on the radio.

A Shoreline, WA native, Laura graduated from King’s High School and is currently attending the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in music with an emphasis in jazz vocal performance, as well as a B.S. in microbiology and immunology.

No One In Particular

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Johnny O'Neal - In The Moment

Size: 167,5 MB
Time: 71:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front & Back

01. Sweet Monk (4:10)
02. Guilty (5:14)
03. Churchill Grounds (2:11)
04. Savings All My Love For You (6:07)
05. After The Love Is Gone (3:17)
06. She Doesn't Know (I Love Her) (5:39)
07. Slow Hot Wind (5:30)
08. Please Be Kind (3:55)
09. The Folks Who Live On The Hill (4:22)
10. Cgls (3:42)
11. People Make The World Go Round (5:21)
12. Sunday In New York (6:25)
13. Trav'lin' Light (3:17)
14. Just A Dream (On My Mind) (3:37)
15. Being In Love With You (3:54)
16. Tropical Breeze (4:53)

While every great jazz musician knows the value of spontaneity, few understand the true value of being in the moment quite like Johnny O’Neal. A rising star in the early 1980s, O’Neal left New York after a mugging in 1986. Performing and recording in Atlanta, St. Louis, Montreal and his native Detroit, he experienced another setback after he was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1998. Since returning to New York in 2010, however, both his life and his health have been on an upswing, cementing that long-promised star status at the age of 60. His new album, In the Moment, is his most vivid recording to date, fully capturing the elegant pianism and emotionally gripping voice that have made him such a beloved fixture on the NYC jazz scene ever since his unparalleled comeback.

In the Moment will be released on 2017 by Smoke Sessions Records — appropriately enough, as the label’s namesake club has been one of O’Neal’s home bases for the last seven years. The album features bassist Ben Rubens and drummer Itay Morchi, O’Neal’s regular working trio for the past year. The weightless swing and easy but deeply felt interplay the three share reveal the benefits of their regular residencies, which include late-night every Saturday at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club and Sunday nights at Small’s. Some of the biggest names in jazz stop by to hear O’Neal, and there’s no telling who might sit in during his sets on any given week. True to that policy, two very special guests dropped by the studio for this session — trumpet great Roy Hargrove and tenor-man Grant Stewart.

In The Moment

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Chiara Pancaldi - What Is There To Say

Size: 118,4 MB
Time: 50:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Everything I Love (3:33)
02. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (5:19)
03. Born To Be Blue (4:51)
04. What Is There To Say (6:10)
05. I Don't Mind (4:27)
06. A Timeless Place (6:35)
07. Reverse The Charges (5:15)
08. Medley When You're Smiling - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (5:55)
09. Love Came (3:20)
10. Since I Fell For You (5:27)

Chiara Pancaldi is a passionate italian jazz singer. Performing live in clubs and festivals in Italy and aborad: Umbria Jazz, London Jazz Festival, CrossRoads Jazz Festival, Sunset Sunside Jazz Club, Jazzkeller Jazz Club, Porgy and Bess, Unterfahrt, Teatro Giordano, Ancona Jazz Festival, Bologna Jazz Festival, Muze, Torrione Jazz Club, Alexander Plaz Jazz Club, Cantina Bentivoglio Jazz Club, Orsara Jazz Festival, Paradiso Jazz Festival, and many more.
She has worked and performed with many great Italian and american jazz musicians such as Cyrus Chestnut, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth, Darryl Hall, Kirk Lightsey, Fabrizio Bosso, Piero Odorici, Nico Gori, Pietro Tonolo, Marc Abrams, Nicola Muresu, Nico Menci, Stefano Senni, Andrea Giuffredi to name a few.

Her last album, I WALK A LITTLE FASTER has Chiara performing with an excellent trio with Cyrus Chestnut on piano, John Webber on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums. The record, released by the dutch label Challenge Records, has Jeremy Pelt as Artistic Producer. The record has been awarded as Best Vocal Jazz Album 2015 by the Jazz Critique Magazine.

Chiara Pancaldi is presenting her new project. Chiara is supported by the legendary Kirk Lightsey on piano and the grooving Darryl Hall on bass. A pure jazz trio voice piano and bass, playing an accurate selection of jazz standards and searching for a sound that is personal, fresh and every time new.

Kirk Lightsey is a legendary jazz pianist. He has worked with jazz musicians such as Yusef Lateef, Betty Carter, Pharoah Sanders, Bobby Hutcherson, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker, and Kenny Burrell. From 1979 to 1983 he toured with Dexter Gordon and was a member of The Leaders in the late 1980s. During the 1980s he led several sessions of his own, including duets with pianist Harold Danko. In the 1980s and since he has worked with Jimmy Raney, Clifford Jordan, Woody Shaw, David Murray, Joe Lee Wilson, Adam Taubitz, Harold Land and Gregory Porter.

Darryl Hall is a jazz bassist based in Europe. He traveled all over the world many times with the most renowned jazz artists of today, including Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Mulgrew Miller and many others.
His first major accolade was the first prize in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute competition for bass in 1995, the jury of which was composed of Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Percy Heath and Chris McBride. This award provided an inroad to the jazz community and led Darryl to play with Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, Antonio Hart, Diane Reeves, Tom Harrell, Kirk Lightsey, and Benny Golson, Hank Jones, James Williams, Howard Johnson, Teodross Avery (s), Robert Glasper (p) among many others. Even bass phenomenon Christian McBride called upon Darryl to perform with his big band. He also works with renowned French artists including Laurent De Wilde and Christian Escoude.

What Is There To Say

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Lauren Kinhan - A Sleepin' Bee

Size: 169,2 MB
Time: 72:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Margot's Mood (7:16)
02. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West (8:06)
03. Fractal Shadows (5:50)
04. Concerto Peligroso (4:45)
05. Delicate Balance (7:28)
06. All The Pretty Horses (5:53)
07. The Sound of Sonny (6:45)
08. Dark Tapestry (4:42)
09. Frankie and Johnny (7:03)
10. Swingin' For The Fences (7:09)
11. Monk's Dream (7:55)

Leaning on touchstones as a creative resource can be tricky business. If an artist puts too much stock in the original, they end up with a second-rate likeness of the archetype. But if they move too far away from the model, the tether breaks and the connection is completely lost in the wind. It takes a shrewd conceptualist to find the right balance between bowing and breaking free, and vocalist Lauren Kinhan most definitely fits the bill.

With A Sleepin' Bee, Kinhan salutes the great Nancy Wilson without stepping into her shoes. Material from Wilson's classic collaboration with Cannonball Adderley (and a handful of other albums) is saluted and remodeled as Kinhan invests each song with her own creative perspective. It's a work rich with invention and focused intentions, neither fitting nor breaking a mold, but rather, reshaping one.

"Let's Live Again" launches the album, mixing easy swing with some hot-blooded notions while also giving pianist Andy Ezrin room to shine. Then Kinhan dissects and updates "Guess Who I Saw Today" in stunning fashion, playing the role of perspicacious chronicler without falling prey to the past and its expectations. The title track, the first of several numbers plucked from the playlist of the immortal Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (Capitol Records, 1961), opens on Jared Schonig's lightly dancing brushes before opening up into a tight swinger with hits aplenty from the band. Further explorations into that lodestar recording yield a hip and grooving "Never Will I Marry," featuring some fluid solo work from trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and showcasing a pointed hookup between Schonig and bassist Matt Penman; a "Save Your Love From Me" that distills the essence of the song, pulling every drop of beauty from each floating word, note, and chord; a trip through "The Old Country" that uses Penman's bass as a framing device and segues into "Passion Flower"; and a "Happy Talk" that moves from a drunken state to a solidly swinging environment while putting Jensen's muted horn in the spotlight. This is Kinhan's show in every respect, but she proves eager and willing to share the attention with her band.

Every single song in this collection hits a sweet spot of a different sort, but the most pleasing aspect of the recording is how it uncovers the stripped-down, soulful side of Kinhan's voice. Intentional or not, that's an aspect of her artistry that's been obscured on past productions. But with the raw emotionality of "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" now held up as the prime example, it's something that's impossible to forget about it. Add to that some other known and unknown aspects of her work—brilliance in interpreting ballads, off-the-cuff maneuvers in bluesy and bawdy environments, whip-smart interactions with the instrumentalists—and you end up with a complete picture of her talents and the manners in which she claims these songs as her own.

On the surface Kinhan may not appear to be ideally suited for a Wilson tribute. The two vocalists aren't matched in terms of timbre and tactics. But both of these women have a knack for ducking labels—Wilson's been claimed by jazz fans, R&B aficionados, and blues lovers alike, and Kinhan, best known for her work with the artistically broad-minded New York Voices, comes across as a sophisticated, pop-influenced singer-songwriter on her previous solo dates. Each possess chameleonic abilities in the way they present, so therein lies the great connection(s) between the two, cemented for all to hear on A Sleepin' Bee. ~by Dan Belawsky

Personnel: Lauren Kinhan: vocals; Andy Ezrin: piano; Matt Penman: bass; Jared Schonig: drums; Ingrid Jensen: trumpet.

A Sleepin' Bee

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Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra - Concerto Peligroso

Size: 169,2 MB
Time: 72:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Margot's Mood (7:16)
02. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West (8:06)
03. Fractal Shadows (5:50)
04. Concerto Peligroso (4:45)
05. Delicate Balance (7:28)
06. All The Pretty Horses (5:53)
07. The Sound of Sonny (6:45)
08. Dark Tapestry (4:42)
09. Frankie and Johnny (7:03)
10. Swingin' For The Fences (7:09)
11. Monk's Dream (7:55)

Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra with guest soloist Dan Faehnle head into Crossroads Studios to record a new album for Dot Time Records called "Concerto Peligroso". Chuck's exquisite and sensitive compositions, including the spectacular mini-concerto for piano "Concerto Peligrosso", will make up the majority of the tracks on the new record. Other highlights will include his arrangement of a beautiful American folk song "All the Pretty Horses", and a tribute to Sonny Rollins called "Sound of Sonny" based on the saxophone colossus' solo on the tune "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye".

Chuck Israels is a composer/arranger/bassist who has worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J.J. Johnson, John Coltrane, and many others. He is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio from 1961 through 1966 and for his pioneering accomplishments in Jazz Repertory as Director of the National Jazz Ensemble from 1973 to 1981.

Among Chuck's many recordings as a bassist, some outstanding ones include: Coltrane Time, with John Coltrane; My Point of View, with Herbie Hancock; Getz au Go-Go, with Stan Getz; and many recordings with the Bill Evans Trio, including The Town Hall Concert; The Second Trio; Trio '65; Live at the Trident; Time Remembered; and Live at Shelley's Manne Hole.

Recently retired from directing the jazz studies program at Western Washington University, Chuck has moved to Portland, OR to work in its vibrant jazz community and participate in his favorite Northwest city’s cultural life.

Concerto Peligroso

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Lina Nyberg - Terrestrial

Size: 120,8+100,5 MB
Time: 51:47+39:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Milky Way (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:01)
02. The Planet (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (7:38)
03. Gravity (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:49)
04. The Electra (Version For Symphony Orchestra) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:43)
05. Another World (Version For Symphony Orchestra) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:14)
06. Terrestrial I (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (7:45)
07. Terrestrial II (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (6:57)
08. Terrestrial III (Oh Humanity) (Feat. Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra) (5:38)

CD 2:
01. Lazy Afternoon (7:09)
02. Everyone Sang (3:42)
03. Undiu (5:43)
04. Entropia (6:46)
05. Ingrid (4:44)
06. Canto De Ossanha (7:14)
07. Another World (4:16)

In the fall of 2017 the final majestic part of Lina Nybergs astonishing album trilogy about humanity, the world and music itself is to be released – “Terrestrial”. Lina has composed and arranged music for symphony orchestra (and her band) on commission from the NorrlandsOperan Symphony Orchestra in Umeå. The piece will have it’s first live performance at Umeå Jazz Festival in October 2017.

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers. For about 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, starting with the debut in 1993 with the duo CD “Close” together with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson until now, about to release her 17th album. Since 2013 Lina has been working on this trilogy of albums, composing new music about our planet and the elements for different kinds of settings, exploring the art of instrumentation. In 2014 part one was released – “Sirenades” (music for big band and jazz quintet) and 2016 part 2 “Aerials” (music for string quartet and jazz quintet).

Terrestrial CD 1
Terrestrial CD 2

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Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:38
Size: 124,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:13)  1. Open Sesame
(6:28)  2. But Beautiful
(6:24)  3. Gypsy Blue
(5:36)  4. All Or Nothing At All
(6:03)  5. One Mint Julep
(7:02)  6. Hub's Nub
(7:19)  7. Open Sesame (Alt Tk)
(7:29)  8. Gypsy Blue (Alt Tk)

Open Sesame (1960) was Freddie Hubbard’s first record as a leader. If it was his only record it would be legendary, but within two years he had recorded four better ones. What raised the other records above Open Sesame was the drummers: Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, and Louis Hayes. There is nothing wrong with Clifford Jarvis he swings, he interacts with the other players, and he fits the band’s conservative concept. But on his best records Hubbard fed off his drummer’s energy. That does not happen here. According to the liner notes Tina Brooks was studying with Jackie McLean at the time of this session, and he does mirror McLean’s penetrating, bluesy sound. He solos with logic and passion but without McLean’s fire and edge. As a writer Brooks contributes the two best tunes of the session: “Open Sesame,” a close relative to Sonny Rollins’ “Airegin”, and “Gypsy Blue,” a blues that inspires Hubbard. The ballad “But Beautiful” is nothing special. Hubbard doesn’t do much with it (Brooks does.), but like the other cuts it gives the listener a taste of Hubbard’s upcoming brilliance in the genre. ~ Craig Jolley https://www.allaboutjazz.com/open-sesame-freddie-hubbard-blue-note-records-review-by-craig-jolley.php?width=1920 

Personnel: Freddie Hubbard: trumpet; Tina Brooks: tenor sax; McCoy Tyner: piano; Sam Jones: bass: Clifford Jarvis: drums.

Open Sesame

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Marcela Monreal - Fine And Mellow

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:18
Size: 106,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. Embraceable You
(4:33)  2. Love You Madly
(3:06)  3. Wave
(3:18)  4. If I Give My Hear To You
(3:45)  5. Deep Purple
(3:44)  6. Samba Da Minha Terra
(3:32)  7. As Time Goes By
(3:38)  8. Fine And Mellow
(4:40)  9. Ruby, My Dear
(3:32) 10. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
(3:32) 11. Summertime
(5:11) 12. What A Wonderful World

Marcela Monreal Born in the city of La Plata. He is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of La Plata. He performs piano, percussion and singing studies at the "Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory. In his artistic activity he performed an intense task, acting as soloist of various choral groups, under the direction of the maestro Orient Monreal, in his turn as assistant director. He is part of the vocal group "Octeto Siglo XX", under the direction of Prof. Eric Oña. In 1987 she joined the group "Multiplus", working in Bs. As., As a vocalist until 1989. That year she participated as a solo singer in several jazz shows, organized in Room 420, in the city of La Plata, next to Tato Finocchi, Pablo Ledesma, Hugo Marino, Martin Cairo, Quique Roca and others.

In 1990, she participated alongside the female vocal group "Bubbles", from the musical comedy Burbujas en Radio, by Ricardo Ibarlín, who remained on the stage during that year and came on stage at the Empire Theater in Buenos Aires, with a good critique of media. In 1992 and until 1994 he joined the group "Saxología", with Enrique Mayer, Pablo Ledesma, Luis Castillo, and others, acting in La Plata, Bs. As. And several localities of the Province of Buenos Aires. Jazz in April (festival that takes place annually in Mar del Plata) and Jazz in Tandil, in the year 1992. In the year 1994 he joins the jazz quartet La Plata which leads Mingo Martino together with which he performs a series of recitals: La Silver Jazz Festival. In the years 1995 and 1996 next to the Quartet participates of the recording of the Totum CD and the flute Pablo Sertqueque, that reunites to diverse platense musicians. Since 1997 he has been a member of Aquarela, a group led by Tato Finocchi, along with Horacio Amoretti and Julio Campos, playing Brazilian music and jazz. In 1998 he participated as a vocalist in performances with Pablo Ledesma and Pepe Angelillo. That same year he recorded his first CD as a Jazz soloist. In 1999 he presented his CD in the National Library. In October he participated together with the Jazz Quartet La Plata at the Cabrales Jazz Festival in the city of Mar del Plata. ~ Translate by Google

Fine And Mellow

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Cecil Payne - The Connection

Styles: Saxophone Jazz 
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:46
Size: 70,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:53)  1. Stop and Listen
(5:48)  2. Born Again
(4:07)  3. Dear People
(5:38)  4. Kenny's One
(3:20)  5. Sister Carol
(3:38)  6. Mighty Fine Wine
(3:20)  7. It's Your Life

The Connection was an off-Broadway play that centered around a number of dope addicts waiting to score a fix from their dealer, with a musical score contributed by pianist Freddie Redd. After Redd recorded an album for Blue Note and left the production, baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne and pianist Kenny Drew composed songs for a brand new score, with Payne taking over Redd's duties providing music for the play. Payne expanded to a sextet from a quartet for his LP (issued by the Charlie Parker label), though his recording has been unjustly overlooked. Joined by Clark Terry and Bennie Green in the front line, and a rhythm section consisting of Duke Jordan, Ron Carter, and Charlie Persip, Payne's album also has much to offer. While it is difficult to conceptualize what the play was like by just listening to this recording, the music stands on its own. All of the musicians shine throughout the sessions. Though Payne is a fine soloist, Terry's almost conversational solos tend to steal the show. Long out of print, this excellent disc will likely be found only on jazz auction lists. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-music-from-the-connection-mw0000902716

Personnel:  Baritone Saxophone – Cecil Payne;  Bass – Ron Carter;  Drums – Charlie Persip;  Piano – Duke Jordan;  Trombone – Bennie Green;  Trumpet – Clark Terry

The Connection

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Eric Le Lann Acoustic Quartet - Today I Fell In Love

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:53
Size: 165,5 MB
Art: Front

( 9:01)  1. Today, I Fell In Love
( 5:47)  2. Unknown Tower
( 6:35)  3. Is It Wonderland
( 9:55)  4. My Funny Valentine
( 7:05)  5. Le Bleu D'Hortense
( 9:23)  6. 429 Rue Paradis
(11:50)  7. I Fall In Love Too Easily
( 7:13)  8. So What
( 2:55)  9. The Theme
( 1:04) 10. Lola

Born in Brittany , Éric Le Lann moved to Paris in 1977, where he began his career as a professional musician. In 1979 he won the first prize in the national jazz competition of La Défense in Paris . At the age of 11, Eric Le Lann appeared on stage along with Bill Coleman , Claude Luter , and Stephane Grapelli , and was already playing with professional insurance. In April 1978, at the age of 20, he recorded his first LP, Jazz West Coast , Jazz Group of Brittany alongside Christian Hillion (saxophone), Pierre Goasguen (trombone), René Goae (piano), Gilles Gourmelon and Yvon Le Guen (bass) and Philippe Briand (drums), recorded at the Jazz Club La Potinière in Morgat (29) on the initiative of Gérard Le Bourdiec , manager of the establishment. Lann was influenced by Clifford Brown . He performed in René Urtreger's quintet alongside Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano and Jean Louis Chautemps , as well as with the quartet of Henri Texier with Bernard Lubat on drums . He also toured with Henri Salvador , as well as with Bernard Lavilliers (he appears in his live triple disc, Live Tour 80 ). He made a series of concerts with Pepper Adams in 1981 and then joined Patrice Caratini's onztet as well as Martial Solal's big band, where he participated in many jazz festivals in Europe ( The Hague , Prague , Pori , Montreux , Berlin ). He then went on to produce his own quartet with André Ceccarelli , Cesarius Alvim and Olivier Hutman in 1982. The following year he was awarded the Django-Reinhardt Prize by the Jazz Academy and participated in the European Radio Festival in Stockholm . He joins the trio Texier - Jeanneau - Humair during a tour in India . In 1985 he plays in the film of Bertrand Tavernier Around midnight with Dexter Gordon , Herbie Hancock and Billy Higgins . At the same time, he composed the music of Didier Haudepin Elsa, Elsa with François Cluzet and Lio , and then the music of Benoît Jacquot's film Corps et biens with Lambert Wilson and Dominique Sanda . 

He recorded the album I Mist You in quartet with Tony Rabeson on drums and performed in different festivals (Nice, Porto, Lisbon, Nancy, Paris, etc.). In 1989, he created a jazz fusion orchestra, including Louis Winsberg on guitar, Paco Séry on drums and then in New York recording with Mike Stern , Eddie Gómez and Mino Cinelu on New York . Many concerts will take place in France, Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Bali) and in India, Nepal, Algeria, Morocco before recording a disc of songs of Édith Piaf and Charles Trenet with an orchestra composed of 35 musicians, arranged by Martial Solal . From 1992 to 1995, he performed with various ensembles in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) in West Africa (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Togo, Benin) Southern Africa (Rwanda, Mauritius, Seychelles, Abidjan) in Israel (Eilat festival, Tel Aviv) and in Portugal and France. He has been performing since 1998 in duet with Martial Solal, in quintet with Archie Shepp or with his own quartet. With him he played at the European festival in New-Dehli and then a series of concerts in India and the Middle East (Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Jordan). He composed in 1999 the music of the film of Gilles Bourdos Disparus with Anouk Grinberg , then the music of a documentary of Valérie Stroh on Simone de Beauvoir for France 3 in a century of writer. He plays as soloist in the soundtrack composed by Martial Solal of the film of Bertrand Blier The Actors . He founded and directed the École de création musicale in Rennes, then moved it to Dinan in 2003. He participates in the album of Henri Salvador Room with view . In 2001, he participated in the festivals of Abidjan and Tunis with Archie Shepp as well as many concerts in duet with Martial Solal . He participated in the play of Jean-Bernard Pouy 54 × 13 with the actor Jacques Bonnaffé , given at the theater of the Bastille . In June 2001, he won the Critics' Grand Prize for Best Stage Musical Composition of the Year. He composes and arranges Origines , a work for 25 musicians at the Inter Celtic festival in Lorient, which he performed on 3 August 2002, recorded in 2004 with Manu Lann Huel and Marthe Vassallo . In 2007, the year of his fifty years, released Le Lann Top , published on the label Nocturne , fusion of jazz and electro . It is the result of a meeting between the trumpet of Le Lann and rock bass Jannick Top , joined by Lionel Loueke on guitar and Damien Schmitt on drums. In 2007 and 2008, the Lann Top quartet performed on numerous stages, supported by samples and sequences managed by Fabien Colella , the fifth man in the band. Guitarists such as Jim Grandcamp , Jean-Marie Ecay and Nelson Veras , and drummers Damien Schmitt and Thierry Arpino are joined by the two leaders. In 2013, he paid tribute to Chet Baker , and recorded I Remember Chet , along with Nelson Veras and Gildas Boclé , using the trumpet-guitar-double bass trio formula Chet Baker was particularly fond of at the end of his career. In 2015, he released the album Life on Mars with Paul Lay , Sylvain Romano and Donald Kontomanou , he was awarded the Charles Cros Academy Award.

Personnel:  Eric Le Lann (trumpet), Jean-pierre Arnaud (drums), Eric Legnini (piano), Rémi Vignolo (bass),

Today I Fell In Love

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Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Golden Memories

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1975
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:25
Size: 95,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. Love Walked In
(3:10)  2. Fats In The Fire
(3:59)  3. All The Things You Are
(3:18)  4. Golden Memories
(2:31)  5. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
(3:58)  6. The More I See You
(3:10)  7. Ghostriders Of Gulag
(3:48)  8. Bert's Bolero
(3:18)  9. C'est Si Bon
(3:15) 10. Some Other Day, Some Other Time
(3:16) 11. My Guy's Come Back
(3:20) 12. Today's My Day

Bert Kaempfert had almost too much talent, ability, and good luck rolled into one career to be fully appreciated, even by his own chosen audience, the lovers of fine orchestral pop music. He was one of the most successful conductors, arrangers, and recording artists in the latter field, but was also a major producer and played a key (if indirect) role in the roots of the British beat boom of the early '60s, which evolved into the British Invasion of America in 1964. Berthold Kaempfert was born in Barmbek, a working-class section of Hamburg, Germany, in 1923. He was musically inclined as a boy, and found that interest indulged by an act of fate when he was six years old Kaempfert was injured in a car accident and his mother used the money from the settlement to buy him a piano. He became proficient at the keyboard, and also on the clarinet and saxophone, among other instruments. He studied at the Hamburg Conservatory and although he was interested in all facets of music, Kaempfert was particularly taken with American-style big-band music of the late '30s and early '40s his multi-instrumental skills made him a potentially valuable commodity, and he was recruited into a pop orchestra run by Hans Bussch while in his teens, but was later drafted and served as a bandsman in the German navy, before being captured and interned as an Allied prisoner.

He founded a band of his own and later toured American military installations in Germany, at last able to play his favorite kind of music. Returning to his native Hamburg, he began performing on British Forces Network radio and writing compositions, initially using the alias of Mark Bones. Kaempfert's reputation in Hamburg attracted the attention of Polydor Records, which hired him as an arranger, producer, and music director during the second half of the 1950s. Among the talent that he brought to the company's roster was the Yugoslav pop artist Ivo Robic, who chalked up an international hit (Top 20 in America), and Viennese singer/guitarist/actor Freddy Quinn, who had a German hit with "Die Gittarre und das Meer." His own orchestra generated such hits as "Catalania," "Ducky," "Las Vegas," and "Explorer," but he had bolder, more ambitious music in mind. He arranged, produced, and recorded an instrumental entitled "Wonderland by Night," which was pretty enough but couldn't seem to get a hearing in Germany, even from his own company. Instead, Kaempfert and his wife brought the track to Milt Gabler, the legendary producer at Decca Records in New York, who arranged for its release in America in 1959; with its haunting solo trumpet, muted brass, and lush strings, the single topped the American pop charts and turned Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra into international stars. Over the next few years, he revived such pop tunes as "Tenderly," "Red Roses for a Blue Lady," "Three O'Clock in the Morning," and "Bye Bye Blues," bringing them all high onto the pop charts internationally, as well as composing pieces of his own, including "Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples)," "Danke Schoen," and "Wooden Heart," which were recorded by, respectively, Al Martino, Wayne Newton, and Elvis Presley (with Joe Dowell charting the hit single of "Wooden Heart"); for an old American jazz fan like Kaempfert, however, little may have brought him more personal satisfaction than Nat King Cole recording his "L-O-V-E." more.... ~ Bruce Eder https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bert-kaempfert-mn0000748088/biography

Golden Memories

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