Benny Carter, Phil Woods - Another Time, Another Place

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 137:15
Size: 314.2 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[ 8:56] 1. Sometimes I'm Happy
[ 6:32] 2. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
[ 8:33] 3. Rock Me To Sleep
[ 8:33] 4. Another Time, Another Place
[ 7:37] 5. Willow Weep For Me
[10:01] 6. Shiny Stockings
[10:41] 7. The Courtship
[11:12] 8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[ 9:15] 9. On Green Dolphin Street
[ 8:51] 10. A Walkin' Thing
[ 5:45] 11. Janel
[ 8:54] 12. Speak Low
[ 7:29] 13. Petite Chanson
[ 9:05] 14. Just Squeeze Me
[ 9:33] 15. Mood Indigo
[ 6:12] 16. How High The Moon

Alto Saxophone – Benny Carter, Phil Woods; Bass – John Lockwood; Drums – Sherman Ferguson; Piano – Chris Neville. Recorded live at the Regattabar, Cambridge, MA March 15, 16, 17, 1996.

Alto saxophonists Benny Carter and Phil Woods were great friends and enjoyed playing together on a number of record dates, though this double-CD live recording from a 1996 extended gig at the Regattabar proved to be the former's final release before he retired from active performing a few years afterward. A few months shy of 89 years old at the time, Carter still gives his all on his instrument and sounds like someone decades younger, while Woods' naturally more outgoing style proves complementary to the senior musician. Backed by a strong rhythm section, including Carter's long-time pianist Chris Neville, bassist John Lockwood, and drummer Sherman Ferguson, the two saxophonists have a ball as they play favorite standards, several Carter compositions, and gems penned by other jazz musicians. While fans of Carter and Woods will be delighted with this entire release, there are a few surprises. Carter's bluesy feature of "Willow Weep for Me" marks the only time he ever recorded it. The duo's robust, swinging setting of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a gem, as is Carter's swaggering "A Walkin' Thing." Beautifully recorded, this final meeting between Benny Carter and Phil Woods is one for the ages. ~Ken Dryden

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Jean Louisa Kelly - For My Folks

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:58
Size: 86.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:17] 1. I Got The Sun In The Morning
[2:24] 2. Where Or When
[4:25] 3. Soon It's Gonna Rain
[2:43] 4. It Had To Be You
[3:28] 5. Someone To Watch Over Me
[2:49] 6. Singin' In The Rain
[2:27] 7. Cheek To Cheek
[2:39] 8. If I Loved You
[3:40] 9. The Man That Got Away
[2:36] 10. For Me And My Gal
[3:10] 11. Danny Boy
[2:24] 12. As Time Goes By
[2:51] 13. Some Other Time

You might be aware of Jean Louisa Kelly as Rowena Martin and her moving vocal of "Someone To Watch Over Me" in "Mr. Holland's Opus," or perhaps from "Uncle Buck," or her 6 year stint on the TV sitcom, "Yes Dear." But perhaps you don't know, her deep passion for the American Standard Songbook, which is on clear display on For My Folks, which just hit digital platforms, stores and radio stations across the globe! This 13-song project showcases a stunning new rendition of her signature song "Someone to Watch Over Me," complete with an a cappella introduction and is dedicated to her parents and fans.

The album features moving renditions of timeless gems such as "Singin' in the Rain," "The Man that Got Away," "Danny Boy," and an especially heart-tugging version of "As Time Goes By." Gorgeous and inventive musical arrangements by producer Todd Schroeder and special guest John Lloyd Young (star of "Jersey Boys" on Broadway and on film), who lends a sparkling presence to "For Me and My Gal," round out the delicious album. ~Lois Gilbert

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The Roger Kellaway Trio - Remembering Bobby Darin

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:23
Size: 145.1 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:50] 1. Remember
[5:58] 2. Up A Lazy River
[7:05] 3. I've Found A New Baby
[5:48] 4. Meditation
[4:24] 5. More
[5:26] 6. Splish Splash
[5:27] 7. Oh! Look At Me Now
[8:32] 8. Once Upon A Time
[5:49] 9. I'm Beginning To See The Light
[5:56] 10. Beyond The Sea
[4:05] 11. Mack The Knife

If anyone bridged the gap between traditional jazz-influenced pop and early rock & roll, it was Bobby Darin. Some of his work appealed to the Frank Sinatra/Tony Bennett/Sammy Davis, Jr./Dean Martin crowd, while some of it appealed to the Elvis Presley/Chuck Berry/Jerry Lee Lewis crowd -- and that is in addition to the singer's folk-rock output. Stylistically, Darin was not easy artist to pin down, which means that anyone providing a Darin tribute has a wide variety of things to choose from. Roger Kellaway, much to his credit, acknowledges different sides of Darin's artistry on Remembering Bobby Darin. Recorded in 2004, Remembering Bobby Darin is a companion to the veteran pianist's other Darin tribute, I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook. But while I Was There is an album of unaccompanied solo piano performances, Remembering Bobby Darin finds Kellaway forming a cohesive, intimate trio with guitarist Bruce Forman and bassist Dan Lutz. If you're seriously into Nat King Cole, that drumless combination of instrumentals should sound familiar; Cole favored a piano/guitar/bass format when he led the legendary Nat King Cole Trio in the '30s and '40s. And that format serves Kellaway pleasingly well on this far-reaching CD, which ranges from the Darin smash "Beyond the Sea" to older standards like Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light" and "I've Found a New Baby." Kellaway celebrates Darin's swing side with an intriguing version of "Mack the Knife" (also known as "Moritat" or "Three Penny Opera") but savors Darin's rock & roll side on "Splish Splash," which the lyrical pianist performs in a Gene Harris-like fashion. I Was There and Remembering Bobby Darin are both excellent and well worth owning, but this release has a slight edge in the diversity department and reminds you just how impressively versatile Darin was. ~Alex Henderson

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Eddie Condon - Royal Garden Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 114:22
Size: 261.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 4:54] 1. At The Jazz Band Ball
[ 2:28] 2. Chicago
[ 3:55] 3. Love Is Just Around The Corner
[ 3:15] 4. South Rampart Street Parade
[ 3:31] 5. Ol' Man River
[ 5:35] 6. Copenhagen
[ 3:21] 7. Someday Sweetheart
[ 5:06] 8. Royal Garden Blues
[ 3:16] 9. Oh Baby
[ 3:05] 10. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
[ 2:57] 11. Oh Sister,Ain't That Hot
[ 7:15] 12. There'll Be Some Changes Made
[ 4:37] 13. Little White Lies
[ 3:43] 14. The Sheik Of Araby
[ 3:46] 15. Jazz Me Blues
[ 5:27] 16. Sugar
[ 7:42] 17. Tin Roof Blues
[ 4:19] 18. Singin' The Blues
[ 5:41] 19. Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me)
[ 3:08] 20. I've Found A New Baby
[ 2:58] 21. Ballin' The Jack
[ 5:11] 22. Fidgety Feet
[ 3:00] 23. Save Your Sorrow
[ 3:04] 24. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll
[12:56] 25. How Come You Do Me Like You Do

A major propagandist for freewheeling Chicago jazz, an underrated rhythm guitarist, and a talented wisecracker, Eddie Condon's main importance to jazz was not so much through his own playing as in his ability to gather together large groups of all-stars and produce exciting, spontaneous, and very coherent music.

Condon started out playing banjo with Hollis Peavey's Jazz Bandits when he was 17, he worked with members of the famed Austin High School Gang in the 1920s, and in 1927 he co-led (with Red McKenzie) the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans on a record date that helped define Chicago jazz (and featured Jimmy McPartland, Jimmy Teschemacher, Joe Sullivan, and Gene Krupa). After organizing some other record sessions, Condon switched to guitar, moved to New York in 1929, worked with Red Nichols' Five Pennies and Red McKenzie's Blue Blowers, and recorded in several settings, including with Louis Armstrong (1929) and the Rhythm Makers (1932). During 1936-1937, he co-led a band with Joe Marsala.

Although Condon had to an extent laid low since the beginning of the Depression, in 1938, with the opportunity to lead some sessions for the new Commodore label, he became a major name. Playing nightly at Nick's (1937-1944), Condon utilized top musicians in racially mixed groups. He started a long series of exciting recordings (which really continued on several labels up until his death), and his Town Hall concerts of 1944-1945 (which were broadcast weekly on the radio) were consistently brilliant and gave him an opportunity to show his verbal acid wit; the Jazzology label reissued them complete and in chronological order. Condon opened his own club in 1945, recorded for Columbia in the 1950s (all of those records have been made available by Mosaic on a limited-edition box set), and wrote three colorful books, including his 1948 memoirs We Called It Music. A partial list of the classic musicians who performed and recorded often with Condon include trumpeters/cornetists Wild Bill Davison, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Rex Stewart, and Hot Lips Page; trombonists Jack Teagarden, Lou McGarity, Cutty Cutshall, George Brunies, and Vic Dickenson; clarinetists Pee Wee Russell, Edmond Hall, Joe Marsala, Peanuts Hucko, and Bob Wilbur; Bud Freeman on tenor; baritonist Ernie Caceres; pianists Gene Schroeder, Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy, and Ralph Sutton; drummers George Wettling, Dave Tough, and Gene Krupa; a string of bassists; and singer Lee Wiley. Many Eddie Condon records are currently available, and no jazz collection is complete without at least a healthy sampling. ~ Scott Yanow

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Ernestine Anderson - Hot Cargo!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:16
Size: 89.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year:.1958/2008
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Mad About The Boy
[3:29] 2. Did I Remember
[3:32] 3. Day Dream
[3:42] 4. Experiment
[2:37] 5. That Old Feeling
[3:02] 6. The Song Is Ended
[2:23] 7. Love For Sale
[3:43] 8. Autumn In New York
[2:51] 9. My Man
[3:24] 10. Ill Wind
[3:33] 11. Little Girl Blue
[3:14] 12. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Rolf Ericson (tp), Cecil Payne (bs), Duke Jordan (p), John Simmons (b), Art Taylor (d), and the Harry Arnold Orchestra, featuring Benny Bailey (tp), Ake Persson (tb), Arne Domnerus, Bjarne Nerem (saxes), Thore Swanerud (p), Georg Riedel (b).

2008 collection from this Jazz/Soul vocalist containing studio tracks she recorded while in Sweden in 1956. Ernestine Anderson's fascinating voice is quite evident on this album that presents 'Love for Sale', 'lll Wind', 'My Man' and other evergreens in a torchy repertoire never before treated so knowingly. Full and expressive, her voice is an instrument that creates truly inspirational music.

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André Previn - A Touch Of Elegance: The Music Of Duke Ellington

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:14
Size: 85.2 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1961/2011
Art: Front

[3:23] 1. I Got It Bad
[2:57] 2. Satin Doll
[3:24] 3. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
[2:34] 4. Perdido
[2:54] 5. Solitude
[3:00] 6. Le Sucrier Velours
[3:33] 7. A Portrait Of Bert Williams
[3:16] 8. A Touch Of Elegance
[3:21] 9. It Don't Mean A Thing
[3:08] 10. Prelude To A Kiss
[2:45] 11. What Am I Here For
[2:53] 12. Sophisticated Lady

As if being a classical conductor, jazz pianist, and film composer weren't enough, Previn was also one of the biggest mood music mavens of the 1960s. This elegant collection showcases his lush, elegant "swing with strings" side, and even includes a few straight-ahead bop numbers with J.J. Johnson, Herb Ellis, and his old pals Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne.

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Martin Abbuehl's Swing Express - First Class

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:03
Size: 98.6 MB
Styles: Swing, Violin jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. Dream Of You
[2:55] 2. Micro
[3:30] 3. First Class
[4:15] 4. Django
[3:31] 5. Valse A Mia
[2:28] 6. Un Peu De Reve
[2:41] 7. Vamp
[2:54] 8. Train Bleu
[2:45] 9. Jaguar
[3:42] 10. Ballade
[3:14] 11. Swing For Rachel
[3:02] 12. Red And Hot Express Line
[3:35] 13. Le Bolero Des Controleurs

Martin Abbuehl (violin); Florent Kirchmeyer (guitar); Marco Neri (guitar); Thomas Dürst (double bass).

A train journey into the time of the legendary Hot Club de France and the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. When the four thoroughbred musicians start their Swing Express, nostalgia is the order of the day as the "train crew" is fully committed to Django Reinhardt's music. With violin, two guitars and double bass they bring the time of the 1930s back to life.

Thanks to the enthusiasm of the four dedicated string artists, the spark of enthusiasm jumps over in no time on the listener. Velvety soft melodies, sometimes dripping with melancholy, alternate with breathtaking, iridescent sound cascades and dizzying, breakneck solo caprioles. A ride on the Swing Express lets time pass by in no time and many a passenger would have liked to sit in the end ... (Translated from German.)

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Krisanthi Pappas - A Centennial Tribute To George & Ira Gershwin

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:01
Size: 123.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:12] 1. I Got Rhythm
[4:18] 2. Embraceable You
[3:40] 3. A Foggy Day
[3:27] 4. If I Had Only Known
[4:11] 5. Our Love Is Here To Stay
[3:22] 6. They All Laughed
[4:18] 7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
[4:01] 8. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[2:53] 9. Oh What A Day!
[4:34] 10. I've Got A Crush On You
[3:02] 11. Fascinating Rhythm
[4:06] 12. Someone To Watch Over Me
[3:34] 13. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
[5:17] 14. Summertime

Krisanthi Pappas' second album honoring the works of George and Ira Gershwin has established her as a credible interpreter of two giants of the great American songbook. Possessing a clear soprano voice with excellent diction and paying close attention to the meaning of the words she is singing, Pappas delivers Gershwin in a jazzier manner than other albums honoring Gershwin in his centennial year. Susannah McCorkle's Gershwin effort Someone to Watch over Me is done in her inimitable purring and sensuous style while Pappas just bounces along. Even the ballads have a lilt to them. Pappas also provides a bonus by singing the verses to many of the songs either as an introduction to the chorus or in between the first and second choruses. A nice touch. There are two non-Gershwin melodies on this album, both by Pappas. The first, "If I Had Only Known," is a lament to her late discovery of the joys of Gershwin's music. The second, "Oh! What a Day," is a lively celebration of that discovery. Pappas cleverly segues back and forth between her happy words and Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band" and "S'Wonderful" to display her considerable scatting skills. Much of the success for this CD has to be shared with the supporting cast of players. Bill Duffy's piano is prominent on several of the cuts -- listen to his minimalist, well-spaced approach on "They Can't Take that Away from Me." On the same song, John Payne's Lester Young-like tenor is heard to great effect -- as is his flute on "Oh! What a Day" and his clarinet on "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." The respected educator and performer Herb Pomeroy's muted trumpet graces "Embraceable You." Preusser's drums and Smith's bass lay a solid but unobtrusive foundation throughout. The Pappas interpretation of "Summertime" may raise the eyebrows of Gershwin purists with her vocal gyrations delivered over Smith's backbeat and Payne's raucous sax. Arguably, this bluesy, down-and-dirty reading is in harmony with the sometimes violent and always passionate storyline of Porgy and Bess. ~Dave Nathan

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Marcus Miller - Marcus

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:32
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: Funk-jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[5:43] 1. Blast
[5:10] 2. Funk Joint
[5:00] 3. Free
[5:10] 4. Higher Ground
[5:36] 5. Milky Way
[3:17] 6. Pluck
[4:40] 7. Lost Without U
[3:11] 8. 'cause I Want You
[3:57] 9. Ooh
[5:23] 10. When I Fall In Love
[5:39] 11. Strum
[6:13] 12. Jean Pierre
[5:57] 13. What Is Hip
[5:31] 14. Lost Without U (Spoken Word)

Concord Jazz presents Marcus, the album from critically-acclaimed and Grammy-winning artist Marcus Miller. The album, which is Marcus' seventh solo release, features guest appearances by Corinne Bailey Rae, Lalah Hathaway, Keb' Mo' and more, including Taraji P. Henson, the actress who leant her vocals to the Oscar winning song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from the film Hustle and Flow. The 13-track album finds Marcus serving up his own signature Funk-Jazz music and sees him cover some classics including Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground", Miles Davis' "Jean Pierre" and Tower of Power's "What is Hip?". Marcus also features two covers of the Robin Thicke 2007 hit "Lost Without You". The first sees Lalah Hathaway shining on vocals with Marcus' bass upfront and the second version, which is the album's bonus track.

Marcus is the Concord debut for this Grammy winning artist. Features guest vocalists Corinne Bailey Rae, Keb' Mo', Shihan the Poet, Taraji Henson [bonus track], & Lalah Hathaway. Marcus has scored over 20 movies including Boomerang and This Christmas. He was also responsible for writing the party song "Da Butt" for Spike Lee's film School Daze and has scored music for Chris Rock's hit TV show Everybody Hates Chris

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The New Morty Show - Straight Ahead

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:27
Size: 94.9 MB
Styles: Retro Swing
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. Tico Tico
[5:10] 2. Stella By Starlight
[4:32] 3. Maiden Voyage
[5:47] 4. Long Long Summer
[2:05] 5. Destination Moon
[4:58] 6. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
[3:07] 7. No Moon At All
[3:48] 8. Pork Pie
[4:33] 9. Samba Du Morpheus
[3:32] 10. All The Things You Are

Straight Ahead is a delightful mix of warm, vibrant jazz music and silky, seductive cocktail lounge. After hearing Rigormorty, you might be quick to write the band off as a rock 'n' roll act trying to cash in on the swing craze (a year late, even). After all, it has more rock influences than swing influences. But, after hearing tracks like "Destination Moon" and "No More At All," you'll instantly see the band for what it is, a modern swing act that loves the past but isn't afraid to re-create it for the present and beyond. ~Alex Steininger

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