Saturday, February 17, 2018

Roland Hanna - Perugia

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:49
Size: 93.5 MB
Styles: Bop, Piano jazz
Year: 1974/1983/1999
Art: Front

[6:07] 1. Take The A Train
[7:27] 2. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
[6:15] 3. Time Dust Gathered
[8:20] 4. Perugia
[5:28] 5. A Child Is Born
[7:10] 6. Wistful Moment

Piano [Solo] – Roland Hanna. Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland on July 2, 1974

A talented pianist with a style diverse enough to fit into swing, bop, and more adventurous settings, Roland Hanna was one of the last in an impressive line of great pianists who emerged in Detroit after World War II (including Hank Jones, Barry Harris, and Tommy Flanagan). After serving in the Army and studying music at Eastman and Juilliard, Hanna made a strong impression playing with Benny Goodman (1958). He worked with Charles Mingus for a period in 1959, and went on to generally lead his own trios. Hanna was an integral part of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra (1967-1974), and in 1974 helped found the New York Jazz Quartet (with Frank Wess). He was given knighthood (thus the "Sir") from the President of Liberia in 1970 in recognition for a series of concerts held to benefit Liberian children. Hanna recorded many solo dates and often with a trio, but also composed many works for groups of varying sizes - both for jazz groups and classical ensembles. His piece "Oasis" for piano and orchestra was performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1993. In addition to his busy performing schedule, Hanna was also an active educator and tenured professor at Queens College in New York. After almost half a century of performing and recording, Sir Roland Hanna passed away at the age of 70 on November 13, 2002 after suffering a heart attack. ~ Scott Yanow & Wade Kergan

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Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova All Stars - Bossa Nova

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:19
Size: 96.9 MB
Styles: Bossa Nova, Jazz guitar
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:18] 1. Naked City Theme
[2:11] 2. Ramblin' Rose
[2:22] 3. Maria
[2:34] 4. Lollipops And Roses
[2:02] 5. Moon River
[3:11] 6. Desafinado
[1:51] 7. Mr. Lucky
[2:13] 8. One Note Samba
[2:01] 9. Theme From Route 66
[2:53] 10. Recado Bossa Nova
[2:26] 11. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
[2:16] 12. O Barquinho (Little Boat)
[2:32] 13. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
[2:18] 14. Satin Doll
[2:04] 15. The Alley Cat Song
[2:32] 16. Meditation (Meditação)
[2:24] 17. Walk Right In
[2:04] 18. Days Of Wine And Roses

b. 2 September 1917, Prainha, São Paulo, Brazil, d. 26 July 1995, Van Nuys, California, USA. A fluent and skilled musician, famous in his native country as a classical Spanish guitar player, Almeida went to the USA in the 40s to work in film and television studios. His jazz work was first widely exposed during a spell with Stan Kenton in the late 40s. Although continuing his film and television work, Almeida also took many opportunities to play jazz, joining forces with bass player Harry Babasin, altoist Bud Shank and drummer Roy Harte in 1953. The work of this group anticipated many of the hallmarks of the bossa nova craze that came a few years later. In 1974, Almeida gained further appreciation when he was teamed with bass player Ray Brown, drummer Chuck Flores and Shank to form the L.A. 4. Records by this group, with Flores replaced successively by Shelly Manne and Jeff Hamilton, and later teamings with Shank in duo performances and with fellow guitarists Larry Coryell and Charlie Byrd, showcased the distinctive style that set Almeida’s work apart from the mainstream of jazz guitar.

During his career Almeida won Grammy awards in 1959 for his performance on Danzas, and the following year for The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida and Conversations With The Guitar. In 1961, he gained two more with Discantos and Reverie For Spanish Guitars, and in 1962 further honours with nominations for Viva Bossa Nova! in the Best Performance By An Orchestra For Dancing and Best Jazz Performance categories and a third nomination with The Intimate Bach (Best Classical performance). In 1964, the album Guitar From Ipanema won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, and in 1972 he was nominated for the Best Soloist award with The Art Of Laurindo Almeida. ~bio from AMG

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Stephanie Lottermoser - This Time

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:08
Size: 94.2 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. This Time
[3:58] 2. Your Own Sweet Way
[4:51] 3. No Horizon
[3:46] 4. Colours
[3:16] 5. Flip It
[5:04] 6. Temptation's Fair
[3:52] 7. Who's That
[3:59] 8. Lullabye
[3:07] 9. Reflection Song
[4:46] 10. Everyday People Freedom Jazz Dance

Stephanie Lottermoser started taking classical piano lessons and vocal training at the age of 7, with 14 she started to play saxophone and took lessons with Karsten Gorzel, Johannes Enders, Don Menza and Axel Kühn. She studied jazz saxophone with Leszek Zadlo at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Her compositions are a mixture of Jazz, Soul, Pop and Funk and in combining the saxophone with her vocals she found her own and very personal musical expression.

In 2013/2014 she received a six month scholarship oft he bavarian gouvernment for a stay at the "Cité Internationale des Arts" in Paris. Since then various new projects and collaborations were built that will continue, especially her work with french pianist François Faure who also plays on her current album. Stephanie Lottermoser is a Yamaha Performing Artist and plays a silver Yamaha 82Z tenor saxophone.

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Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Plays The Irving Berlin Song Book

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:29
Size: 72.1 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1959/2014
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
[3:10] 2. Supper Time
[1:59] 3. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
[2:23] 4. Change Partners
[2:56] 5. The Song Is Ended
[2:58] 6. How Deep Is The Ocean
[2:26] 7. Cheek To Cheek
[2:16] 8. I Used To Be Color Blind
[2:18] 9. You're Laughing At Me
[3:19] 10. Isn't This A Lovely Day
[2:14] 11. Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails
[2:49] 12. Remember

Oscar Peterson's Songbook have received mixed reviews through the years. The second time the pianist indulged in this project, he, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen recorded nine albums in a month. Obviously, not much planning went into the individual songs. Since the emphasis was on easy-listening jazz, the interpretations of the dozen Irving Berlin compositions included on this out-of-print LP are fairly melodic and safe, if swinging. Nothing unexpected occurs, but the music is reasonably pleasing, if lacking in emotional depth; certainly this is one of the happier versions of "Supper Time" (whose lyrics deal with a lynching) yet recorded. ~Scott Yanow

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Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best Of The Verve Years (3-Disc Set)

Many of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's recordings for the Verve label in the '50s and early '60s show him at the peak of his powers. This three-CD set is a sampler of his legacy, with the discs subtitled "Big Band," "Small Groups & Guests" and "In an Afro Cuban, Bossa Nova, Calypso Groove." The programming jumps all over the place and makes little sense but this set serves as a good excuse to acquire 40 performances by the great Gillespie and the many all-stars who recorded with him. Few but the most fanatical veteran Gillespie fans will have all of these selections. This collection filled a void until Verve got around to doing a much more comprehensive Dizzy Gillespie reissue program. ~Scott Yanow

Album: Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best Of The Verve Years (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:52
Size: 164.5 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 1992

[ 5:53] 1. Prelude
[ 6:45] 2. 'bout To Wail
[ 2:59] 3. Umbrella Man
[ 9:08] 4. The Chains
[ 4:54] 5. Birks' Works
[ 4:08] 6. Stella By Starlight
[ 3:39] 7. Dizzy's Business
[ 3:08] 8. Autumn Leaves
[11:47] 9. Dizzy's Blues
[ 3:52] 10. Flamingo
[ 4:11] 11. Jordu
[ 4:43] 12. Evening Sound
[ 6:38] 13. Take The A Train

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Album: Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best Of The Verve Years (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:36
Size: 168.5 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 1992

[11:48] 1. Blue 'n Boogie
[ 3:58] 2. Bonnie's Blues
[ 5:36] 3. Ool Ya Koo
[ 6:27] 4. Blues After Dark
[ 6:36] 5. The Heat's On
[ 2:28] 6. Leap Frog
[ 3:37] 7. Where's Adam
[ 3:27] 8. There's No Greater Love
[ 6:09] 9. Just One Of Those Things
[ 5:27] 10. I Know That You Know
[ 7:05] 11. Swing Low Sweet Cadillac
[10:54] 12. Dizzy Atmosphere

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Album: Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best Of The Verve Years (Disc 3)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:55
Size: 173.8 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[ 6:24] 1. Manteca
[ 3:53] 2. Fiesta Mojo
[ 4:14] 3. A Night In Tunisia
[ 3:21] 4. And Then She Stopped
[ 4:14] 5. Trin Tin Deo
[ 3:26] 6. Desafinado
[ 7:37] 7. Africana
[ 2:42] 8. Pergunte Ao Joao (Ask John)
[ 7:18] 9. Caravan
[ 3:01] 10. This Lovely Feeling
[ 3:19] 11. Ungawa
[ 4:51] 12. Begin The Beguine
[ 4:59] 13. Con Alma
[11:29] 14. Rio Pakistan
[ 5:01] 15. Jambo

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Karrin Allyson - Azure-Te

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:06
Size: 139.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[5:15] 1. How High The Moon / Ornithology
[4:34] 2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
[4:14] 3. Bernie's Tune
[5:23] 4. Night And Day
[6:58] 5. Blame It On My Youth
[4:06] 6. Yardbird Suite
[5:58] 7. Good Morning Heartache
[5:23] 8. Stompin' At The Savoy
[6:34] 9. Azure Te
[6:17] 10. Some Other Time
[6:19] 11. Samba '88

On piano: Paul Smith, Laura Caviani; on trumpet & flugelhorn: Stan Kessler, Mike Metheny; on bass: Bob Bowman, Gerlad Spaits; Todd Strait, drums: Rod Fleeman, acoustic guitar; Danny Embrey, electric guitar; Kim Park , alto & tenor saxaphones; Randy Weinstein, harmonica.

Karrin Allyson is one of the best jazz singers to emerge in the 1990s. She is a masterful scatter, as she shows on some of these selections (including "How High the Moon" and "Yardbird Suite"), but she is also quite expressive on ballads (including "Blame It on My Youth" and "Some Other Time"). The strong backup musicians (a variety of top Kansas City players with guest spots for violinist Claude Williams and flügelhornist Mike Metheny) keep the music swinging. Highly recommended. ~Scott Yanow

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Pius Baumgartner - Jazz-Q

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:06
Size: 165.1 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:39] 1. Conga Blues
[5:14] 2. In A Sentimental Mood
[5:16] 3. Boqueron
[4:35] 4. Waltzin'
[8:17] 5. Peruvian Nights
[6:16] 6. Coffee-Time
[7:46] 7. Darn That Dream
[4:57] 8. Poinciana
[6:03] 9. Estate
[5:26] 10. Gently
[5:02] 11. Bossa Al Dente
[3:18] 12. Good Monring Here's Your Wake Up Call
[7:11] 13. Watermelon Man

Pius Baumgartner (saxophone); Marcel Schefer (piano); Kalli Gerhards (double bass); Patrick Manzecchi (drums).

Pius Baumgartner, freelance musician and composer, born on December 25, 1967 in Lugano. Grew up in Samedan in the beautiful Engadine and since 2006 lives in Meierskappel (LU). At the age of eight, he received clarinet lessons from Dumeng Morell for the first time. 1990 - 95 Studied music at the Jazz-School St.Gallen and acquired the teaching diploma SMPV. This is followed by several stays abroad and engagements in Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Los Angeles, Ankara and Prague.

1995-96 saxophone and flute lessons in New York with Tim Price. Member of the then newly formed Army Big Band under the direction of Pepe Lienhard. Culture Prize of the Canton of Grisons. Collaboration with a variety of musicians, bands and artists u.a. "Chapella Clavadatsch", the "Engadine Ländlerfründa" and the brothers Domenic and Curdin Janett (Fränzlis) from Tschlin. Hans Hassler, Frantiske Uhlir, Francis Coletta, Kalli Gerhards, Isla Eckinger, Bernita Bush, Alexia Gardner, Dani Felber u.v.m. Recent projects with the Grisons cabaret flurin Caviezel and "The four holy three kings" - the swinging witty saxophone quartet with Carlo Schöb, Mario Haltinner, Franco Mettler and Pius Baumgartner. The "Christoph Walter Orchestra" (ART ON ICE 2011 in Zurich with Donna Summer). The "Bodan ARTOrchestra" with contemporary big band sound and the "Swiss Ländler Gamblers".

His musical roots are in Pius Baumgartner's Graubünden folk music. As a multi-instrumentalist - saxophone / clarinet & flute - he is found in a variety of styles and occupations, e.g. Big bands, musicals, folk bands or various experimental projects. Above all as a jazz saxophonist with his own band "Baumgartner Jazz-Q." (Translated from German.)

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