Ligia Piro - Baby!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:46
Size: 107.1 MB
Styles: Latin jazz vocals
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Love Me Or Leave Me
[4:26] 2. You Don´t Know What Love Is
[4:41] 3. Pra Machucar Meu Coracao
[2:47] 4. Call Me Irresponsible
[6:03] 5. P. S. I Love You
[3:05] 6. About A Girl
[5:06] 7. Round Midnight
[4:10] 8. At Last
[6:26] 9. Put Your Head On My Shoulder
[3:45] 10. The Man I Love
[3:48] 11. Samba De Orly

Ligia Piro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the national music conservatory López Buchardo. As an actress, she trained at the theater school of Agustín Alezzo. She worked in different plays and musicals such as "Vino de Ciruela" (directed by Rubén Pires) "Nine" (directed by David Leveaux), "Gotán" and "The Romance of Romeo and Juliet" (directed by Manuel Gonzáles Gil) among others, those that earned her the nominations for the ACE award in 1996, -revelation- for Gotán and in 2003, -better actress- for Vino de Plum.

Avocado to jazz and bossa nova in its beginnings, Piro today is considered one of the best artists of popular music and the voices of Argentina. Under her own label GatoPop, she edits his albums "LP", "Baby!" And "Trece canciones de amor", also released in Japan and the album "Strange Fruit", recorded with Juan Cruz de Urquiza and orchestra. With a presentation in 2010/11, the show "As Passing Years" at the Maipo theater, gives rise to a new live album that goes to the bateas together with its first Latin American music label "Las Flores Buenas".

Ligia Piro, Konex 2005 merit award, has an immense versatility when it comes to tackling different genres and continues her artistic career with her performances in the great theaters of Buenos Aires, Argentina and abroad. (Translated from Spanish.)

Baby! mc
Baby! zippy

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Teddy Wilson - Nice Work If You Can Get It

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:41
Size: 125.2 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1998/2009
Art: Front

[4:13] 1. Saint Louis Blues
[2:37] 2. Three Little Words
[4:04] 3. I've Got The World On A String
[3:03] 4. Don't Be That Way
[4:23] 5. You Go To My Head
[2:34] 6. My Heart Stood Still
[4:29] 7. Where Or When
[3:51] 8. Basin Street Blues
[3:32] 9. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
[3:45] 10. Flyin' Home
[2:37] 11. Nice Work If You Can Get It
[3:12] 12. Body And Soul
[2:30] 13. If I Had You
[2:16] 14. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[3:09] 15. Avalon
[4:17] 16. After You're Gone

This compilation is a bit frustrating for Teddy Wilson fans. The first ten tracks are a straight reissue of the Black & Blue LP Three Little Words, which has been reissued by the original label with four bonus tracks. It is an unusual session, recorded in an open air studio with bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Oliver Jackson, though the material represents standards that Wilson had played countless times by this point in his career. A breezy "Don't Be That Way" and a romp through "Flyin' Home" are obvious highlights, though every track is a winner. The last six tracks are listed as being from a 1982 Washington, D.C. concert in a quartet led by Benny Goodman, though the clarinet's discography doesn't list such a performance. In any case, it is a somewhat noisy concert with the audience in the immediate proximity of the outdoor stage, suggesting a venue like Ravinia. The recording quality is amateurish, with Goodman very clear, but Wilson sounding a bit distant and muddy. Some unidentified horns join at the conclusion of "If I Had You" and are also heard in "Avalaon." The performances are enjoyable, though hardly among the best work available of Goodman, so this compilation falls short of being essential. ~Ken Dryden

Nice Work If You Can Get It mc
Nice Work If You Can Get It zippy

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The Quiet Band - Lullabies & Dreams

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:43
Size: 109.3 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz, Easy Listening
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:35] 1. Corcavado
[4:09] 2. When You Wish Upon A Star
[4:33] 3. Sleeping Bee
[2:44] 4. Hushabye Mountain
[3:47] 5. It's Only A Paper Moon
[4:29] 6. Moonlight In Vermont
[4:21] 7. Wave
[4:06] 8. Lullabies & Dreams
[4:56] 9. Stardust
[3:48] 10. Alice In Wonderland
[3:18] 11. I See The Moon
[2:53] 12. White Christmas

“I wanted to make a jazz album that could lull my baby girl to sleep.” That was the inspiration for band-leader Dom Sales when making the album Lullabies & Dreams. Featuring the sublime voice of Jennie-Marie Hammond Lullabies & Dreams is a collection of jazz standards and lullabies dedicated to the night and quiet times. Lullabies and Dreams marks a slight change of direction to the usual contemporary jazz that Jellymould releases. This is unapologetically mainstream and features some of the finest session players in the country.

Dom became a father for the first time last year. “After trawling the internet for music to play to my daughter to help her to sleep I couldn’t find any jazz that wasn’t the ghastly pre-programmed, computer-made commercial material. I wanted something with integrity, with great playing and a soothing vocal.” That soothing vocal comes from new vocalist Jennie Marie Hammond. Her beautiful naïve quality, reminiscent of Astrud Gilberto’s style flows effortlessly over the top of a rhythm section comprising Sean Miller – piano, Richard Hammond – bass and Dom on drums. Mark Chandler is a trumpet player of distinct pedigree. His sublime flugel playing on this album showcases a musician of extreme taste along with tenor saxophonist Mike Hope whose sensitive playing is featured on a number of tracks. The band is completed by Tim Gunnell on vibraphone and Stuart Worthy on percussion.

Lullabies & Dreams is a thoughtful collection of songs carefully arranged by Sean Miller and the band. The album features one original, the title track by Dom and his lyricist father Patrick. The band recorded the album in two days, all in the same room playing acoustically and it’s not all sleep inducing – the band could not help themselves – there are some fine swinging moments! This is an album to relax to, to be enjoyed with a glass of your favourite drink of choice in the quietest of surrounding.

Lullabies & Dreams mc
Lullabies & Dreams zippy

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Wynton Marsalis Septet - United We Swing: Best of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:27
Size: 161.3 MB
Styles: Standards, Straight ahead jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:14] 1. The Last Time
[4:29] 2. It Takes A Lot To Laugh
[3:47] 3. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
[3:01] 4. I'm Not Rough
[3:12] 5. Creole Love Call
[4:18] 6. Milk Cow Blues
[2:42] 7. I'm Gonna Find Another You
[3:44] 8. My Baby Don't Tolerate
[6:44] 9. The Worst Thing
[4:06] 10. Please Baby Don't
[3:28] 11. Mean Old Man
[7:35] 12. Are You Gonna Go My Way
[4:21] 13. Fool's Paradise
[4:04] 14. Empty Bed Blues
[5:33] 15. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
[5:03] 16. What Have You Done

Recorded between 2003 and 2007, United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas finds an unparalleled array of music talent that collectively boasts 94 Grammy Awards joining Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis (a nine-time Grammy Award winner himself) and some of the world’s top jazz musicians to perform blues-inflected versions of iconic American repertoire.

Those one-night-only, live performances have never been released before. They include Lenny Kravitz performing Marsalis’s hypnotizing, New Orleans-inflected arrangement of Kravitz’s own song, “Are You Gonna Go My Way”; Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks uniting for a stirring, infectious take on Civil Rights anthem “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”; Bob Dylan adding harmonica licks to a deeply felt, in-the-pocket rendition of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”; and Ray Charles taking the stage for one of his final performances to play “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town.” Together these artists raise their voices to highlight jazz’s importance to America’s cultural heritage and to remind us that, even in divided times, music can unite us all. All proceeds from the album will go toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education programs, which introduce thousands of children to jazz each year.

United We Swing mc
United We Swing zippy

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Dave Koz & Friends - Summer Horns

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:11
Size: 126.3 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Always There
[5:37] 2. Got To Get You Into My Life
[5:06] 3. Rise
[4:37] 4. So Very Hard To Go
[4:26] 5. Hot Fun In The Summertime
[4:10] 6. Take 5
[4:46] 7. 25 Or 6 To 4
[4:44] 8. Reasons
[4:14] 9. I Got You (I Feel Good)
[3:44] 10. You Haven’t Done Nothin’
[5:43] 11. God Bless The Child
[3:56] 12. Summer Horns

Nine-time GRAMMY® nominee Dave Koz remembers a time when the summers lasted forever, and the most popular rock, R&B, soul and funk bands of the day were propelled by high-octane, richly arranged horn sections. Indeed, from the late 1960s through the ‘70s, bands like Sly & the Family Stone, Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears and other brassy juggernauts of the era ruled the airwaves and opened his young ears to the saxophone’s limitless possibilities as a solo instrument as well as a collaborative voice with the trumpet and trombone.

Four decades later, Koz has assembled three of his most talented and trusted colleagues – Gerald Albright, Richard Elliot and Mindi Abair – to revisit this golden age with new arrangements of classic songs from this period in the history of popular music. Dave Koz and Friends Summer Horns, produced by Paul Brown (Al Jarreau, George Benson, June Tabor, Boney James), is a collaborative effort that throws the spotlight on four high-profile saxophonists, and augments the team with several other equally talented musicians and vocalists. Summer Horns, released on June 11, 2013 on Concord Records, turns up the heat just in time for the summer tour season.

Summer Horns mc
Summer Horns zippy

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Tito Puente - Jazz

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:20
Size: 90.1 MB
Styles: Afro-Cuban jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Cochise
[2:37] 2. One Note Samba
[2:43] 3. 110th St And 5th Avenue
[3:09] 4. Picadillo
[5:23] 5. The Big Four
[3:51] 6. Timbales Solo
[3:25] 7. Autumn Leaves
[2:30] 8. Mambo Inn
[3:10] 9. A Noro Morales
[3:25] 10. Carnival In Harlem
[1:55] 11. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
[4:19] 12. Ritual Fire Dance

"No one in the world has done more for Afro-Cuban music than Tito Puente.” This is what Mario Bauzá - creator of Afro-Cuban jazz and legendary musical director of Machito's Afro-Cubans, stated when talking about Puente. Born to Puerto Rican parents in NYC's Harlem Hospital on April 20, 1921, Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (not Ernesto or Antonio, as has been incorrectly stated by many) was a towering figure who revolutionized the role of percussion and jazz arranging techniques in Afro-Cuban music. A product of his environment, Puente, who passed away in NYC on May 31, 2001, grew up in the East side enclave of Manhattan known as East Harlem, the Spanish Harlem or El Barrio. It was here that he grew up listening to the sounds of big band jazz (drummer Gene Krupa was his hero), Cuban and Puerto Rican music, and emulating movie stars such as James Cagney and Fred Astaire. At the time, East Harlem (Pleasant Avenue, 1st, 2nd , 3rd , Lexington, Madison, Park, and 5th Avenue's between 96th and 125th streets) was a thriving neighborhood populated by Italians, Jews, Germans, Cubans and a growing Puerto Rican community - all of them living side by side. "Little Ernie" or Ernestito, as he became known by his boyhood friends, absorbed everything this colorful environment had to offer. He took drum lessons with an African-American show drummer named Mr. Williams, piano lessons with Victoria Hernández (Rafael's sister), as well as dance lessons. All this would serve him well in his quest to become a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist (timbales, drums, piano, vibes, marimba, alto sax, and clarinet), arranger, composer and bandleader. His first recording experience was in 1939 with the Machito Afro-Cubans and Johnny Rodríguez's Stork Club Orchestra. After serving with honors in the U.S. Navy during WW II on the escort carrier Santee CVC 29 as a gunner’s mate and musician (he was the bugler and played alto saxophone and piano in the ship's big band), he would return to NYC and quickly establish himself as a bandleader. His first hit was the 1949 mambo, “Abaniquito,” featuring Vicentico Valdés on lead vocals, Mario Bauzá on trumpet and Graciela (Machito’s sister) on background vocals. A subsequent signing to the powerful RCA label yielded classic albums that demonstrated Puente's unique ability to compose and arrange jazz oriented Afro-Cuban music and established his renowned virtuosity on the timbales, vibes and marimba. His later years with Tico and Fania would yield much more dance-oriented music. But this compilation demonstrates that Puente could produce jazz-oriented music featuring both him and his musicians as world class soloists. Hard driving instrumental mambos like “Picadillo” and “A Noro Morales” feature him on marimba and vibes. His sensitivity and romanticism on the instrument is demonstrated on the classic jazz standard “Autumn Leaves.” Puente was a master of other styles as well. Just listen to the swing of Trinidadian calypso on “Carnaval en Harlem” and Brazilian bossa nova on “One Note Samba.” The power, swing and mastery of jazz harmony that he loved to employ in writing for his big band is demonstrated in full force on “Mambo Inn,” “110th St. & 5th Ave.,” “Jumpin' with Symphony Syd” and “Ritual Fire Dance.” But it is his virtuosity on the timbales that he is best known for, as demonstrated on “The Big Four,” where he is joined by Mongo Santamaría, Carlos "Patato" Valdés and Willie Bobo. There is also the “Timbales Solo,” where he takes an incredible improvisation with just the accompaniment of a cowbell. By its very nature, jazz is an art form that demonstrates the virtuosity of musicians as soloists. Enjoy it right here as Tito plays jazz. ~Bobby Sanabria

Jazz mc
Jazz zippy

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Geoff Keezer, Steve Nelson & Neil Swainson - Trio

Styles: Piano And Vibraphone Jazz
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:41
Size: 160,5 MB
Art: Front

(13:43)  1. Relaxin' At Camarillo
(10:35)  2. There Are Many Angels In Florence
(11:57)  3. On The Lam
( 5:55)  4. Solo Piano Medley
(13:24)  5. Epistrophy
(14:04)  6. Eternal Triangle

The music on this live CD is boppish but fresh, showcasing an exciting trio comprised of pianist Geoff Keezer, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and bassist Neil Swainson. The drumless group swings lightly but with excitement on such numbers as "Relaxin' at Camarillo," "Eternal Triangle," and "Epistrophy," each of which is over 13 minutes long. In addition to an original apiece from Nelson and Swainson, Keezer takes a medley of "Darn That Dream" and "Sophisticated Lady" as his solo piano feature. Easily recommended. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/trio-mw0000411039

Personnel: Geoff Keezer (piano); Steve Nelson (vibraphone); Neil Swainson (bass).

Trio

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Marie Bergman - But Beatiful

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:58
Size: 109,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:04)  1. You Don`t Know What Love Is
(3:49)  2. Invitation
(3:29)  3. All Of Me
(5:53)  4. Imagination
(3:41)  5. Like Someone In Love
(4:19)  6. Naima
(4:58)  7. Funny
(5:05)  8. Someone To Watch Over Me
(7:54)  9. But Beatiful
(2:41) 10. I Fall In Love Too Easily

I was born in Alberta then Shortly after, our family of five soon moved to Santa Clara, California. It was not until my early teens that we moved back to the Canadian prairies where we spent a number of years in southern Alberta. My travelling experiences brought me close with nature spending much of my time outdoors. One of the first paintings my parents bought back in 67 was “The Grand Tetons” by Robert Wood. I do believe that this painting was the start of a seed waiting to grow. While working as a live in care aide in Saskatoon SK. around 2004 I began to take my self up on painting. It is a chance for me to do what I have always wanted in life to be in touch with my creative side and explore the land that I walk on. (It was art and music I had taken in school).

In 2010 I began to study other artists, such as, Film Producer George Gallo,  Stephen Quiller, and Richard Schmid”s Alla Prima II , Katie Swatland’s book Companion, and  John F. Carlson, and many others to numerous to mention I  take their knowledge with me, and try to apply it in my own way. Painting is learned by doing as George Gallo, and many other artists say. The outdoors is something I have always loved, and the adventures of plein air painting is right my ally. I plan ahead so that my work will be thought of as a story a poetry of the land where I take the viewer in. In the future I can create a book or memoir. As a member of  the Federation of Canadian artist of Vancouver and the Okanagan. I have been busy entering shows , (though in 2017 I took a break from the shows ) and this has given me the time to think about where I want to go with it.  https://mariebergmanart.com/bio/.

But Beatiful

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Red Garland - Can't See for Lookin'

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1958
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:07
Size: 80,5 MB
Art: Front

(9:28)  1. I Can't See for Lookin'
(6:56)  2. Soon
(8:56)  3. Blackout
(9:45)  4. Castle Rock

Pianist Red Garland recorded many sets in the late 1950s and early '60s, often (as in this case) with bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor. Despite the slight length of this LP (under 35 minutes), this is a particularly strong showcase of Garland's talents. His block chords are distinctive, as is his use of space, and the music always swings. The trio sounds in top form on "I Can't See for Looking," George Gershwin's "Soon," "Blackout," and a driving version of the classic blues "Castle Rock." Recommended.

~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/cant-see-for-lookin-mw0000089212       

Personnel: Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Arthur Taylor (drums).

Can't See for Lookin'

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Lynne Arriale Trio - A Long Road Home

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:53
Size: 128,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:59)  1. Bye-Ya
(3:30)  2. Will o' the Wisp
(4:40)  3. A Night in Tunisia
(8:17)  4. Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
(5:48)  5. Letters from Mike O'Brien
(6:51)  6. Con Alma
(7:50)  7. I Wished on the Moon
(4:41)  8. The Dove
(7:12)  9. A Long Road Home

During the second half of the 1990s, pianist Lynne Arriale grew as an individual stylist from album to album. Although she is fine on the medium-tempo pieces of this CD, a trio outing with bassist John Patitucci and drummer Steve Davis, it is her work on the ballads (including her own "Will O' the Wisp" and the folky "The Dove") that is most impressive. 

Her impressionistic playing is full of creative subtleties, and the brilliant bassist Patitucci seems to consistently inspire her. Even the standards (such as a re-harmonized "A Night in Tunisia" and a floating "Wouldn't It Be Loverly") sound fresh and new. At this point in time, this was the pianist's strongest set to date; easily recommended.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/long-road-home-mw0000033019    

Personnel: Lynne Arriale (piano); John Patitucci (bass); Steve Davis (drums).

A Long Road Home

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