Herbie Harper - Jazz In Hollywood

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:23
Size: 110.8 MB
Styles: Trombone jazz
Year: 1954/1997
Art: Front

[5:10] 1. Jeepers Deepers
[2:52] 2. Dinah
[2:12] 3. Five Brothers
[2:57] 4. Herbstone
[3:00] 5. Summertime
[4:14] 6. Jive At Five
[2:31] 7. Patty
[3:36] 8. The New York City Ghost
[2:53] 9. Julie Is Her Name
[3:12] 10. Sanguine
[3:13] 11. Now Playing
[2:56] 12. 6 4 Mambo
[3:29] 13. Bananera
[2:24] 14. Indian Summer
[3:37] 15. The Happy Clown

Baritone Saxophone – Bob Gordon; Bass – Harry Babasin; Drums – Roy Harte; Guitar – Al Hendrickson; Piano – Jimmy Rowles, Marty Paich; Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Bud Shank; Trombone – Herbie Harper.

Although somewhat forgotten today, Herbie Harper was one of jazz's top trombonists of the 1950s. Even with the time he spent doing studio work, Harper was closely involved in the West Coast jazz movement in Los Angeles. This CD, whose music is also available as part of Fresh Sound's three-CD Complete Nocturne Recordings Vol. 1, has Harper's two Nocturne dates, including the earliest session cut by the label. Harper is heard on a delightfully swinging set with baritonist Bob Gordon, pianist Jimmy Rowles, bassist Harry Babasin and drummer Roy Harte, and on two other sessions with Babasin, Harte and sometimes Bud Shank (on tenor and baritone rather than alto and flute), guitarist Al Hendrickson and/or pianist Marty Paich. The music includes cool renditions of swing-era songs, a few newer originals, and some offbeat material. Recommended. ~Scott Yanow

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Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 88:12
Size: 201.9 MB
Styles: Afro-Cuban jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[ 4:45] 1. Chan Chan
[ 4:59] 2. De Camino A La Vereda
[ 8:00] 3. El Cuarto De Tula
[ 2:44] 4. La Engañadora
[ 5:59] 5. Buena Vista Social Club
[ 4:24] 6. Dos Gardenias
[ 3:47] 7. Quizás, Quizás
[ 4:05] 8. Veinte Años
[ 3:23] 9. Orgullecida
[ 3:33] 10. ¿y Tú Qué Has Hecho
[ 2:33] 11. Siboney
[ 5:29] 12. Mandinga
[ 5:50] 13. Almendra
[ 5:38] 14. El Carretero
[ 7:00] 15. Candela
[ 5:23] 16. Silencio
[10:33] 17. Chanchullo

The landmark Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall-July 1, 1998-was both the start of a remarkable story and the culmination of a dream. This one-time-only event elevated veteran Cuban performers like Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo to long-overdue status as international stars, and it transformed the BVSC's already critically acclaimed album into a commercial juggernaut. Since then, the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, recorded at Havana's Egrem Studio by guitarist Ry Cooder, has sold over eight million copies, making it the best-selling world music album ever, and the 'Buena Vista Social Club Presents' imprimatur has come to represent an unwavering mark of quality. The evening also became the dramatic heart of German filmmaker Wim Wenders' popular, Oscar-nominated documentary, also called Buena Vista Social Club. No one who saw it could be unmoved by the sight of an elderly performer like Ferrer taking in the skyscraper vistas of New York City or being overwhelmed by rapturous applause after he sang. This live set, then, is the crucial link to everything that happened before or after the Buena Vista Social Club as a group of musicians and as a brand; it's the album fans have eagerly awaited for a decade.

'With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero,' said The New York Times in a review of the concert, 'the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians and mourned the era they embody.' The cultural significance of BVSC's performance was matched by its political momentousness; this concert offered a rare opportunity for these master Cuban musicians, coming together for the first time as a single ensemble, to freely play their classic songs for an American audience. This two-CD set preserves an important, but sadly evanescent, moment when borders and bureaucracies miraculously disappeared in the name of art. As singer Portuondo, who would subsequently embark on her own successful American tour, recalled, 'I felt triumphant seeing how we all worked together as a group, seeing how the music reached the audience...We felt so elated to be able to share our music. All of us had known each other for many years and played together many times, but it was a unique and unrepeatable occasion that our culture and our roots could reach the public through such a beautiful concert with all of us there together on the stage.'

To build awareness and anticipation for the live set, Nonesuch released a digital single of 'Chan Chan,' the concert's opening number and arguably the BVSC's signature song, on July 1, the 10th anniversary of the concert date. The two-disc package also includes candid, often quite moving, first-person reminiscences from many of the surviving participants about the days-and hours-leading up to the concert and the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the evening itself. As album producer and fellow performer Cooder puts it, 'Listening to the tapes of the concert for the first time in ten years, I'm struck by what an amazing musical event it was. You'll never hear it again, people of this caliber working together. They were dramatic personalities and they're nearly all gone. There's nobody left like that anymore.'

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Colette Magny - Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:31
Size: 90.5 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues vocals
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[2:32] 1. Etude Révolutionnaire Op.10 N°2
[3:32] 2. Strange Fruit
[4:30] 3. You Got To My Head
[3:35] 4. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[4:42] 5. The Meeting (The Black Panther Party National Anthem)
[4:00] 6. My Man Titine
[4:46] 7. The House Of The Rising Sun
[4:47] 8. All Of Me
[2:58] 9. Young Woman's Blues
[1:58] 10. Melocoton
[2:06] 11. Prison Op.83 N°1

Colette Magny was a French singer/songwriter with a propensity for protest songs whose musical style was informed by blues, jazz, folk, poetry, and spoken word. Born on October 31, 1926, in Paris, France, she made her recording debut in 1963 with the single "Melocoton" on CBS. The single, the closest she would ever come to a mainstream breakthrough hit, was subsequently compiled on her full-length solo album debut, Les Tuileries (1964). Her final release on CBS, Les Tuileries is comprised of musical adaptations of works by writers Victor Hugo, António Jacinto, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antonio Machado, and Louis Aragon, plus a couple American traditionals and a few originals. Magny returned two years later with "Avec" Poème (1966), an experimental full-length effort informed by musique concrète on which André Almuro is credited for the music. After this experimental effort on the short-lived label Disques Mouloudji, Magny began her long association with the label Le Chant du Monde, beginning with the album Colette Magny (1967), sometimes referred to by its album-opening song, "Vietnam 67." Subsequent albums on Le Chant du Monde include Magny 68 (1969), Feu et Rythme (1970), Répression (1973), Transit (1975), Chili un Peuple Crève... (1976), Visage -- Village (1977), Je Veux Chaanter (1979), Thanakan (1981), Cahier d'une Tortue (1981), and Chansons Pour Titine (1983). In later years, Magny self-released the album Kevork (1989) on the label Colette Magny Promotion, and some of her Le Chant du Monde output was reissued in the early '90s. Her death on June 12, 1997, in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France, sparked another round of reissues including Melocoton (1997), which compiled the highlights of her CBS output, and Blues (1999), which is essentially a repackaged version of her final Le Chant du Monde album, Chansons Pour Titine. ~bio by Jason Birchmeier

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Martin Schulte - Time Remembered

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:14
Size: 119.6 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[6:11] 1. Time Remembered
[4:54] 2. All Or Nothing At All
[5:15] 3. Where We Belong
[4:34] 4. 26-2
[5:43] 5. Darn That Dream
[5:40] 6. This Way
[6:40] 7. Junk In The Trunk
[7:49] 8. I'll Be Seeing You
[5:24] 9. I Fall In Love Too Easily

Schulte got classical piano lessons at the age of six. At the age of thirteen, he received electric guitar lessons from Mirko van Stiphaut at the Lower Rhine Music and Art School in the city of Duisburg. In 1997 and 1999 he was awarded the first prize in the competition Jugend jazzt. From 2000 he studied jazz guitar at the University of Music and Dance Cologne with Werner Neumann and Frank Haunschild. From 2009 to 2010, the DAAD scholarship holder attended Queens College, City University of New York, where he took instrumental lessons with Ben Monder and Paul Bollenback, and composition lessons with Mike Holober and Darcy James Argue. In 2013 he completed a master's degree in composition / arrangement with Jürgen Friedrich at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim.

Since then he worked u. a. with Antonio Hart, Claudio Puntin, Claudius Valk, Duo Doyna, Frank Möbus, Frederik Köster, John Ruocco, Magnus Mehl, Matthias Akeo Nowak, Mirek Pyschny, Nils Wogram, Oliver Lutz, Pablo Held, Peter Ehwald, Peter Gall, Steffen Schorn, the Stefan Schultze Large Ensemble, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra. Schulte played at the Leverkusen jazz days, the Ibiza Jazz Festival a. v. a. and was heard in several radio productions such as WDR, Deutschlandfunk or BR.

Since 2012 Schulte is a lecturer for jazz guitar and ensemble at the Saar Music Academy. (Translated from German.)

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Fred Wesley & The New JBs - Let It Flow: Fred Wesley's Tribute To James Brown

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:11
Size: 92.0 MB
Styles: Funk/Soul/Jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[5:05] 1. Funk For Your Ass
[2:29] 2. Out Of Sight (Feat. Djizzle)
[4:53] 3. I Got The Feelin'
[4:21] 4. Hippity Hobbit
[3:19] 5. Crazy
[4:52] 6. Livin' In America (Feat. Icandi)
[4:31] 7. I'm Gonna Getcha
[3:53] 8. Sex Machine
[3:49] 9. Psycho Path (Feat. Mr. Hardgroove & Chuck D)
[2:54] 10. Let It Flow (Feat. Bobby Byrd)

As the longtime musical director for soul legend James Brown's renowned backing unit the J.B.'s, trombonist Fred Wesley was the world's most famous sideman, orchestrating the sinuous grooves and contributing the bold, surgically precise solos that defined the language of funk. Born July 4, 1943, in Columbus, Georgia, Wesley was raised in Mobile, Alabama. At age three, he studied classical piano under his grandmother, a music teacher, but much preferred the big-band music played by his father, Fred Wesley, Sr., who also chaired the music department at Mobile Central High School. Wesley, Jr. remained with the piano until middle school, first adopting the trumpet before moving to the trombone. He made his professional debut at age 12 in a big band led by his school's music teacher, E.B. Coleman, and soon was sitting in with local R&B acts as well. While studying music at Alabama State University, Wesley briefly tenured with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue as well as Hank Ballard & the Midnighters before serving in the U.S. Army, playing with the 55th Army Band and graduating from the Armed Forces School of Music. After returning from military duty in 1967, Wesley formed his own project, the Mastersound, fusing R&B with hard bop. The group splintered within a year, however, and when he received a phone call from J.B.'s trumpeter Waymon Reed, who told him Brown was seeking a new trombonist, Wesley accepted the offer.

Brown's infamously dictatorial approach wore greatly on Wesley, and the two men clashed often. After appearing on landmark singles including "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)," "Licking Stick," and "Mother Popcorn," the trombonist even quit the J.B.'s in late 1969, briefly gigging with Sam & the Goodtimers before returning to Brown's camp in early 1971 and assuming the role of musical director and arranger. Wesley's contributions to classic funk outings including Black Caesar, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, and The Payback cannot be overstated: alongside bandmates including Maceo Parker and Bootsy Collins, he spearheaded Brown's groundbreaking transformation from soul to funk, establishing the template for the R&B of a new decade. "I completed [Brown's] creations, I followed his blueprints," Wesley later said. "He would give me horn things to write, but sometimes maybe it would be incoherent musically and I would have to straighten it out, so to speak. When it came out of my brain, it would be a lot of James Brown's ideas and my organization." Wesley even wrote a handful of Brown hits including "Doin' It to Death" and "Papa Don't Take No Mess," and headlined several J.B.'s records including the classic Damn Right I Am Somebody and Breakin' Bread. But creative and financial differences again forced him to part ways with Brown in 1975, this time for good.

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Eddie Henderson Quartet - Echoes

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:00
Size: 175,0 MB
Art: Front

(12:01)  1. On Green Dolphin Street
(12:47)  2. Dubai
(11:20)  3. Oasis
(10:12)  4. Lost
( 9:30)  5. Sand Storm
( 5:57)  6. Tender You
(14:10)  7. Dolphin Dance

Eddie Henderson was one of the few trumpeters who was strongly influenced by Miles Davis' work of his early fusion period. He grew up in San Francisco, studied trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, but was trained to be a doctor when he permanently chose music. Henderson worked with John Handy, Tyrone Washington, and Joe Henderson, in addition to his own group. He gained some recognition for his work with the Herbie Hancock Sextet (1970-1973), although his own records (which utilized electronics) tended to be commercial. After Hancock broke up his group, Henderson worked with Art Blakey and Mike Nock, recorded with Charles Earland, and later, in the 1970s, led a rock-oriented group. In the '90s, he returned to playing acoustic hard bop (touring with Billy Harper in 1991) while also working as a psychiatrist.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-henderson-mn0000169948/biography    

Personnel: Eddie Henderson - trumpet;  Gilles Naturel - double bass;  Laurent De Wilde - piano;  Simon Goubert - drums

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Deborah Lippmann - Vinyl

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:46
Size: 111,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:46)  1. Satisfaction
(4:40)  2. You Give Love A Bad Name
(4:51)  3. Wicked Game
(3:41)  4. Money
(4:43)  5. Message In A Bottle
(3:48)  6. Need You Tonight / Lowdown
(3:19)  7. Fade To Black
(4:34)  8. Make Me Love You
(3:28)  9. This Must Be Love
(3:00) 10. This One's On Me
(3:26) 11. Beautifully Obvious
(4:24) 12. Get Together

"This combo of classic and modern is what Lippman is all about, and with the release of "Vinyl," she's poised to join the girl group that includes such singers as Norah Jones, Dianne Reeves and Diana Krall. Message in a bottle indeed."~ Lisa Robinson, Vanity Fair https://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Deborah-Lippmann/dp/B000NJWTO8

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Lee Ritenour - Friendship

Styles: Guitar Jazz 
Year: 1978
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:56
Size: 89,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:18)  1. Sea Dance
(6:46)  2. Crystal Morning
(7:03)  3. Samurai Night Fever
(6:23)  4. Life Is The Song We Sing
(6:03)  5. Woody Creek
(6:21)  6. It's A Natural Thing

The third of three Lee Ritenour sets originally cut for Japanese JVC and in 1991 reissued domestically on CD matches the studio guitarist with what could be called the "Crossover All-Stars": Ernie Watts (on tenor and soprano), both Dave and Don Grusin on keyboards, electric bassist Abraham Laboriel, drummer Steve Gadd and percussionist Steve Forman. They perform pleasant but somewhat forgettable originals by Rit, Watts and both Grusins, the kind of lightly funky background music that one would expect from expert studio players.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/friendship-mw0000093718

Personnel: Lee Ritenour (electric & acoustic guitars), Ernie Watts (soprano & tenor saxophones), Don Grusin (electric piano), Dave Grusin (electric & acoustic pianos), Abraham Laboriel (electric bass), Steve Gadd (drums), Steve Forman (percussion). 

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Peter O'Mara - Mirage

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:44
Size: 146,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:47)  1. Wang Thang
(5:28)  2. Dark
(7:31)  3. All The Things You Are
(6:57)  4. Mirage
(5:23)  5. For Frank
(6:00)  6. Just One Of Those Things
(6:29)  7. Nowhere Man
(5:27)  8. Another Avenue
(5:39)  9. Countdown
(7:59) 10. Terminal Departure

Born in Sydney, Australia in 1957. Early Studies at Academy of the Guitar under George Golla, Sydney Conservatorium as well as jazz clinics under Aebersold, Dave Liebman, Randy Brecker, John Scofield & Hal Galper. Professional work around Australia 1976-81. Prizewinner for Jazz Composition 1980 & 1982, awarded by the NSW Jazz Action Society. First record album "Peter O´Mara" released 1980, receiving widespread critical acclaim. Awarded the "Don Banks Memorial Fellowship" for overseas study. 1981 studies in New York under Liebman, Scofield, Roland Hanna, Jimmy Raney & Attila Zoller. Moved to Munich, Germany in late 1981 and has since worked with many musicians on the European Jazz scene including... Kenny Wheeler, Jon Christensen, Joe Nay, Maria Joao, Uli Beckerhoff, John Marshall,John Taylor, Anders Jormin, Adelhard Roidinger, Randy Brecker, Rainer Brüninghaus, David Friedman, Peter Herbolzheimer, Charlie Mariano, Benny Bailey, Robben Ford, Mike Nock, Albert Manglesdorf, Ack van Rooyen, Herman Breuer, Johnny Griffin.. 1982-90 "Sundial" trio with US bassist Wayne Darling & drummer Billy Elgart, which recorded 3 albums (South German Radio Record of the Week 1987) as well as three tours & CD with Kenny Wheeler as guest. Festival appearances in Cologne, Munich, Vienna, Aachen, Zurich as well as numerous European tours. 1989 CD release on ENJA Records "Avenue U", featuring Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Adam Nussbaum & Roberto Di Gioia. The French Jazz Magazine called it " a thoroughly passionate recording" and Peter " a glorious player, truly a discovery!" He joined Klaus Doldinger´s "Passport" in 1990 and has toured Europe a number of times with this group, as well as South Africa in 1995. Their 1991 release "Blues Roots" featured Texas Blues singer/guitarist Johnny Copeland The group performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1993 & 1995. In Jan 1991 Peter toured Australia with pianist Mike Nock as well as recording the CD "Kuranda", released in Europe on ITM. This tour was followed up again in 1993. From 1991 on Munich-based quartet "Cross Rhythms" performing at many festivals, clubs & radio recordings. CD released in 1994 on Jazz-4-Ever Records. Widespread critical acclaim for this group. 1992 CD "Stairway" on ENJA records, featuring Russell Ferrante, Anthony Jackson, Tony Lakatos, Alex Acuna & Tom Brechtlein, recorded in Los Angeles at Chick Corea´s Mad Hatter Studio. 3 week European promotion tour with this group.

1995 CD "Symmetry" on GLM Records, featuring Bob Mintzer, Marc Johnson & young German drummer Falk Willis. Tour in March/April with this group to promote the CD. European festival tour with own quartet, performing at Northsea,Munich, Düsseldorf & Wiesen, Austria. , European tour & CD with "Passport". A brief return to Australia end of the year brought him together with Adam Armstrong (bass) & Andrew Gander (drums). This trio was acclaimed by Peter Jordan (SMH) as "scintillating" and O´Mara "one of our less well-known success stories...startling!" 1996-97 formation of quartet with fellow Australian trombonist Adrian Mears (A-STRAIN), a trio with acclaimed bassist Henning Sieverts & Guido May (FIRST FLUSH) as well as various freelance work around Europe. "Passport" Jubilee Tour around Europe in May-July to promote new CD. Passport CD "Move" recorded October 1997. Late 1997 Quintet with Johannes Enders (sax) as well as a new band project PETER O´MARA BAND, which recorded CD now released. This group made it to the finals of the HENNESSY JAZZ SEARCH, 3 groups chosen from 500 entries (German National Jazz Competition for Professional Groups) winning a DM 5,000 prize. January 1999 joined UNITED JAZZ & ROCK ENSEMBLE, contributed 2 arrangements for the legendary group´s new CD. Performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Continuing work throughout Europe with Passport and own groups. Workshop with Norma Winstone & John Taylor. European Tour in November with United..(Albert Manglesdorf, Ian Carr, Barbera Thompson, John Hiseman, Ack van Rooyen) Munich Jazz Orchestra tour December featuring KennyWheeler. 2000...continuing work with Passport & own Quintet "Spheres" CD. Workshops in Trier, Bielefeld & Erlangen. "Passport Live" CD released. Concerts in Düsseldorf, Expo 2000 Hannover..

2001 ...continued work with Passport - Montreaux Jazz Festival, Monte Carlo, WDR Bigband, Guest teacher for the "Bujazzo" (German National Youth Bigband) Munich Jazzfest, Workshops in Erlangen, Bielefeld, Trier. Australian tour with own group "Spheres" in November, sponsored by the German Music Council. 2002...Passport continues averaging 5 concerts per month throughout Europe. Workshops in Erlangen, Luzerne, Bielefeld, Dresden,Trier. German tour with the "Skoda Jazz Ensemble". Wangaratta Jazz Festival Australia in November. In December "Peter O´Mara Trio" tour and CD recording featuring drummer Adam Nussbaum and bassist Henning Sieverts. 2003...New CD "Passport to Brasil" and tour of Brasil in February/March. Workshops in Erlangen, Basel, Mannheim, Trier, Bielefeld. CD release "Mirage" featuring Sieverts & Nussbaum on Pirouet Records. Concert tour "Peter O´Mara and Friends" in Germany and Austria. Awarded "Star of the Week" by the Munich "Abendzeitung". German tour with the "Skoda Jazz Ensemble". 2004 to date: continued activities with own ensemble as well as Passport. Guest teacher for the German National Youth Bigband "Bujazzo". Workshops in Erlangen, Trier, Bielefeld, Udine, Jazz Schule Zürich. German tour with the "Skoda Jazz Ensemble". Teaching activities include, among many workshops throughout Europe, a professorship for Jazz Guitar at the Bruckner University in Linz as well as the University of Music & performing Arts in Munich. He is also author of four highly acclaimed books published by internationally renowned Jazz publishers Advance Music. http://australianjazzrealbook.com/artists/peter-omara/

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