Hank Mobley - Quintet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:51
Size: 130.1 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1957/2008
Art: Front

[6:45] 1. Funk In Deep Freeze
[7:38] 2. Wham And They're Off
[6:36] 3. Fin De L'affaire
[6:37] 4. Startin' From Scratch
[7:14] 5. Stella-Wise
[7:28] 6. Base On Balls
[6:54] 7. Funk In Deep Freeze
[7:35] 8. Wham And They're Off

In his musical life, there always seemed to be two Hank Mobleys. He spent most of his career as a sideman, uplifting the music of Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, Slide Hampton and Cedar Walton. But on records, his most significant work was as a leader for Blue Note. Mobley's round tone, flexibility and ability to write catchy melodies made him a popular figure for 15 years.

On Quintet, he is at the head of a group featuring musicians from both the Blakey and Silver bands including the two leaders. Mobley, who contributed all six compositions, is very much in control, performing the thoughtful and melodic yet stirring brand of hard bop that he most loved. Funk In Deep Freeze is the most famous of the songs but all are well worth reviving and enjoying.

Mobley and Art Farmer work off each other in subtle yet fiery fashion (they often seemed to think alike) and the Silver-Blakey reunion is a joyous occasion. Overall, the Hank Mobley Quintet sounds so tight and telepathic that it is almost like they played together four sets a night at Birdland rather than actually being a superb one-time get-together.

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Joanie Sommers, Laurindo Almeida - Softly, The Brazilian Sound

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:14
Size: 85.3 MB
Styles: Bossa Nova, Easy Listening
Year: 1964/1997
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Meditation
[3:16] 2. Dear Heart
[3:06] 3. Watching The World Go By
[2:49] 4. Quiet Nights (Corcovado)
[2:43] 5. Once
[3:21] 6. Softly, As I Leave You
[2:21] 7. I Could Have Danced All Night
[2:57] 8. I'll Remember April
[3:31] 9. You Can't Go Home Again
[3:23] 10. Carnival
[3:55] 11. Old Guitaron
[2:49] 12. That's All

Joanie had a great 'teen' hit in the early sixties called "Johnny Get Angry". But it was only a bit later when she released an album of Bossa Nova numbers that blew me away. Still a teen ager, I had landed a job with a local FM station and put Joanie's Bossa Nova on the air immediately. It was like a breath of fresh air. Her unique voice caressed subtle Bossa rhythms like a cool sea breeze. She handled rhythms and phrasing as subtly as Getz --lilting, gently swinging, precise. Listening to her ablbums are still like sipping Pina Coladas, barefoot on a sunset beach. Rio never had a better ambassador. The good news is: this sound is as fresh as ever. Timeless! This collection features some of the same songs that I remember from that sixites release --Quiet Nights and Meditation, specifically. But every song she touches, she makes hers. Joanie is definitely among the great vocalists. ~Len Hart

Softly, the Brazilian Sound

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Dan Siegel - Origins

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:24
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:57] 1. Rite Of Passage
[3:41] 2. When One Door Closes
[4:45] 3. After All
[3:47] 4. Lost And Found
[5:10] 5. Arabesque
[4:54] 6. Moon And Stars
[5:10] 7. Strange Sky
[4:49] 8. Under The Sun
[5:02] 9. Crossing
[4:04] 10. Origins

According to his official biography keyboardist Dan Siegel has already released twenty solo albums. With Origins he has just launched his newest project. Anew a collaboration with bassist Brian Bromberg. Beside Dan and Brian are performing Allen Hinds (electric guitar), Ramon Stagnaro (acoustic guitar), Craig Fundyga (vibraphone), Rogerio Jardim (voice), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) and Lenny Castro (percussion). All compositions and arrangements are by Dan.

Dan Siegel remains true to his well-established style, which moves in the melodious contemporary jazz without fashionable bonds and technical bells and whistles. His tried and tested team helps him realize his sonic dreams giving the listeners beautiful musical hours for a long time. ~Hans-Bernd Hulsmann

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Kathy Kosins - All In A Dream's Work...

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:29
Size: 104,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:52)  1. I Can't Change You
(4:21)  2. Man Of My Dreams
(4:49)  3. Down To My Last Dream
(5:15)  4. Four
(3:28)  5. Lucky Guy
(4:27)  6. Nightfall
(4:33)  7. Goodbye To Nothing
(3:42)  8. Happy
(5:46)  9. Time Changes Everything
(5:13) 10. Your Smile

The subtitle that Schoolkids gave Kathy Kosins' debut album, All in a Dream's Work, was A Collection of New Standards a lofty, exaggerated subtitle, to be sure. When you're putting out a collection of mostly new, previously unrecorded material by an unknown singer, calling the songs "new standards" is incredibly presumptuous and amounts to excessive hype. But while All in a Dream's Work isn't full of songs that became well-known standards, it's a decent, if unremarkable, debut that ranges from Blue Note-ish hard bop to R&B/pop-influenced quiet storm offerings. The only song on the album that can honestly be called a standard is "Four," which was credited to Miles Davis but is said to have been written by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson most of the other tunes were co-written by Kosins. While "Man of My Dreams" exemplifies her quiet storm side, "I Can't Change You" and "Lucky Guy" are the type of hard-swinging bop items you would have expected to hear on a Blue Note session in the late 1950s or early '60s. 

If you took away Kosins' expressive vocals and let the songs be heard as instrumentals, it would be easy to picture them on an old Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, or Horace Silver date. This CD demonstrated that while Kosins couldn't be considered a composer of standards in 1995, she was a competent artist who was worth keeping an eye on. ~ Alex Henderson https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-in-a-dreams-work-mw0000175878    

Personnel: Kathy Kosins (vocals); Paul Shapiro (soprano saxophone); Walt Symanski, Walt Szymanski, Walter White (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bobby Routch (French horn); Jeff Franzel (piano); Warren Odze, Damon Duewhite, Steve Wolf, Pete Siers (drums).

All In A Dream's Work...

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Karel Boehlee Trio - Love Dance

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:15
Size: 151,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:34)  1. Love Dance
(8:16)  2. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(4:56)  3. The Change Of Charly
(5:53)  4. Calling You
(6:35)  5. The Goodbye Look
(6:46)  6. Search For Peace
(5:41)  7. Rocket Love
(5:12)  8. Old Friends
(5:37)  9. Dance Cadaverous
(4:09) 10. Meditation From 'Thais'
(6:29) 11. Dance Of The Lonely Butterfly

Karel Boehlee (April 23, 1960), a pianist and composer. From his youngest years Boehlee was a revelation in the Dutch jazz scene. From his birthplace he started from his 16th to play with various bands and jazz artists. His first records were an immediate success, especially in Japan. And since 1989 he was invited with his European Jazz Trio for several performances in Japan. Over the years, Boehlee emerged himself as one of the greatest pianists in the Netherlands which resulted in performances with the very greatest international jazz musicians. He has been playing for over twenty years as a pianist with such as Toots Thielemans and Philip Catherine. He also plays regularly with our national jazz greats like Toon Roos, Fay Claasen and Trijntje Oosterhuis. He is also in demand as a session musician with pop artists like Gino Vanelli and many others. His recognizable piano playing and compositions are also increasingly being asked in Japan, Korea where Boehlee increasingly performs as a solo artist. Besides his career as a pianist Karel Boehlee is also main piano teacher at the Conservatory van Amsterdam. https://karelboehleepiano.wordpress.com/bio/

Love Dance

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Horace Silver - Safari (1952-1954)

Styles: Bop, Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:54
Size: 158,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. Safari
(2:55)  2. Thou Swell
(2:49)  3. Yeah
(3:48)  4. Horacescope (Horoscope)
(2:50)  5. Prelude To A Kiss
(3:11)  6. Ecaroh
(3:02)  7. Quicksilver
(2:49)  8. Knowledge Box
(3:28)  9. Opus De Funk
(3:01) 10. Day In, Day Out
(3:43) 11. How About You
(3:55) 12. I Remember You
(2:37) 13. Silverware
(3:05) 14. Buhaina
(6:45) 15. Doodlin'
(7:28) 16. Creepin' In
(5:22) 17. Room 608
(4:08) 18. Stop Time

Silver's music was a major force in modern jazz on at least four counts. He was the first important pioneer of the style known as hard bop, which combined elements of rhythm-and-blues and gospel music with jazz, influencing pianists such as Bobby Timmons, Les McCann, and Ramsey Lewis. Second, the instrumentation of his quintet (trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, double bass, and drums) served as a model for small jazz groups from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. Further, Silver's ensembles provided an important training ground for young players, many of whom (such as Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Blue Mitchell, Woody Shaw, Benny Golson, and Joe Henderson) later led similar groups of their own. Finally, Silver refined the art of composing and arranging for his chosen instrumentation to a level of craftsmanship as yet unsurpassed in jazz. He is a prolific composer, and one of very few jazz musicians to record almost exclusively original material; his work consistently combines simplicity and profundity in a rhythmically infectious style, which, despite its sophistication, sounds completely natural. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including The Preacher, Doodliti, Opus de Funk, Seflor Blues, Nica's Dream, Sister Sadie, and Song for my Father. From the mid-1960s Silver has written lyrics as well as music for a series of three quintet recordings, The United States of Mind, and recorded a number of albums featuring the quintet with ensembles of brass, woodwind, percussion, voices, and strings. His quintet continued to tour regularly in the 1980s, performing a wide range of material from his impressive and influential library of original works. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Safari-1952-1954-Horace-Silver/dp/B0000060SB

Safari (1952-1954)

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Silkie - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Styles: Vocal, Pop/Rock
Year: 1965
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 47:41
Size: 91,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:15)  1. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
(3:59)  2. Times They Are A-Changin'
(4:22)  3. Mr.Tambourine Man
(3:05)  4. Close the Door Gently
(3:53)  5. Dylan's Dream
(2:47)  6. Girl of the North Country
(2:59)  7. Blowin' in the Wind (1965)
(2:04)  8. Blood Red River
(3:13)  9. Love Minus Zero-No Limit
(3:08) 10. It Ain't Me Babe
(2:21) 11. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
(3:01) 12. City Winds
(2:37) 13. Leave Me to Cry
(2:28) 14. Keys to My Soul
(2:56) 15. Born to Be With You
(2:27) 16. I'm So Sorry

?The Silkie's sole album was unobjectionable but bland mid-1960s harmony pop-folk, similar to Peter, Paul & Mary and the Seekers, but lacking as strong a repertoire and as much vocal power as Peter, Paul & Mary (and to a lesser degree the Seekers). No less than eight of the twelve songs were covers of early Bob Dylan songs, none of them particularly creative. The two group originals were also in the anodyne pop-folk mold, making their hit Beatles cover itself no match for the John Lennon-sung original the highlight of the LP.

The CD reissue on One Way strengthens the record considerably with the addition of all four songs (three of them group originals) from their two 1966 singles. While similar to the material on the album, there's a little more grit and pop sensibility to the melodies and arrangements, although in the virtual absence of percussion, it doesn't quite cross into full-fledged folk-rock. ~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/youve-got-to-hide-your-love-away-mw0000079541     

Personnel: Ivor Aylesbury, Mike Ramsden (vocals, guitar); Sylvia Tatler (vocals); Kevin Cunningham (double bass).

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

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