Booker Ervin - Exultation

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1963
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:01
Size: 98,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:18)  1. Mooche Mooche
(6:19)  2. Black And Blue
(8:32)  3. Tune In
(2:29)  4. Just In Time (short take)
(4:55)  5. Just In Time (long take)
(2:38)  6. No Man's Land (short take)
(5:39)  7. No Man's Land (long take)
(4:08)  8. Mour

Booker Ervin's debut for Prestige (which has been reissued on CD with two shorter alternate takes added) matches the intense tenor with altoist Frank Strozier, pianist Horace Parlan, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Walter Perkins for some bop-based music that is actually quite adventurous. Highlights include "Mour" (based on "Four"), "Black and Blue" and Ervin's "Mooche Mooche." Ervin and Strozier made a mutually inspiring team; pity that this was their only recording together. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/exultation%21-mw0000644704

Personnel:  Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone;  Frank Strozier - alto saxophone;  Horace Parlan - piano;  Butch Warren - bass;  Walter Perkins - drums

Exultation

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Gabriela Anders - Eclectica

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:58
Size: 102,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:22)  1. Together Again
(3:37)  2. Pearls And Gold
(4:15)  3. Naufragio
(4:37)  4. What My Dreams Are Made Of
(4:32)  5. Fading Light
(5:30)  6. I Wait
(3:34)  7. Socamerengue
(4:08)  8. Like U Do
(4:46)  9. Far Away
(3:31) 10. Love So Right

Influenced by Brazilian pop and the music of her native Argentina, Gabriela Anders spent much time in America soaking up jazz and R&B sensibilities, all of which inform her singing. The daughter of a jazz saxophone player, Anders studied classical guitar while a child but moved to piano study at a Buenos Aires conservatory. She spent much time in New York as well, soaking up the music of tenor specialists John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Dexter Gordon. She also studied with Don Sebesky and began singing with Grover Washington, Jr. and Tito Puente while going to college. A brief time in Japan resulted in her first album, 1996's Fantasia (recorded as Beleza), though she had returned to New York by 1997. After sending a demo tape into Warner Jazz, Anders signed a contract and released Wanting in August 1998. 

~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gabriela-anders-mn0000155617/biography

Eclectica

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Eddie Harris - Freedom Jazz Dance

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:48
Size: 123,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:30)  1. Freedom Jazz Dance
(6:25)  2. Georgia on My Mind
(9:06)  3. Little Sunflower
(7:53)  4. Stars Fell on Alabama
(7:48)  5. Lisa Marie
(7:54)  6. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
(9:10)  7. For All We Know

Eddie Harris' final "authorized" studio date, like most in the last decade-and-a-half of his life, is a conservative acoustic blowing session, trying one last time to capture the minds and hearts of bop-minded purists. Frankly, he never sounded better on tenor than he does here, his tone luminous, the freak high notes perfectly integrated into his uniquely swinging style, his ballad phrasing infused with an even more poignant singing quality. He had a crack backup piano trio in tow, anchored by his old cohort Billy Hart on drums (who sounds freer than ever), with the emerging Jacky Terrasson on piano and George Mraz on bass. Yet the CD's mainstream idiom is cautious in the extreme "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" à la Trane is about as adventurous as this quartet gets (and Harris was into that style when it was current) and the only Harris original is the title tune, albeit superbly done. As a document of Eddie Harris in full bloom as a hard bopper, Freedom Jazz Dance is marvelous, but reveals only one side of this bewilderingly multi-faceted, innovative musician and as such, it is an incomplete memorial. [A Japanese version adds a bonus track.] ~ Richard S.Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/freedom-jazz-dance-mw0000090767  

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone – Eddie Harris;  Bass – George Mraz;  Drums – Billy Hart;  Piano – Jacky Terrasson

Freedom Jazz Dance

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Dave McMurray - I Know About Love

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:10
Size: 151,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:38)  1. Time #4
(2:57)  2. I Luv You Like Jazz
(5:05)  3. First Night In Africa
(4:27)  4. Precious Memories
(4:04)  5. I'm Coming Up
(4:39)  6. Love Calls
(4:06)  7. Waba Doo Bop
(4:04)  8. One Night In Paris
(4:30)  9. I Know About Love
(4:04) 10. Radio Days
(4:05) 11. Inherit The Wind
(4:58) 12. Beautiful You
(4:34) 13. Naked
(4:18) 14. Break It Down
(1:39) 15. Ma's Song
(2:53) 16. I Luv You Like Jazz / Rollin

Whether as sideman for the likes of Bob James or contributor to albums such as Dylan’s ‘Under The Red Sky’ or the Rolling Stones ‘Voodoo Lounge’ fusion player Dave McMurray can always be relied upon to deliver the goods. This Detroit-based saxophonist made his solo debut in 1995 with ‘The Dave McMurray Show’ and since then has gone on to release four more CDs with the latest being the excellent ‘I Know About Love’. McMurray makes an early statement of intent with the opening track, ‘Time’ which, after a moody intro, evolves into a swaggering streetwise slice of edgy contemporary jazz. Predictably McMurray’s jazzy playing is outstanding and although he retains a similar groove for the aptly named ‘Waba Doo Bop’ much of what this fabulous collection is all about can be typified by two contrasting versions of the intensely foot tapping ‘I Love You Like Jazz’. The initial take has something of an hypnotic urban undertone which in the later rendition gives way to a ballsy rap by Paradime that is right on the money.  When McMurray takes a melodic diversion for the smoky ‘First Night In Africa’, he is still able to inject an urgency that is added to in no small measure by Marcus Miller on bass while the fusion filled ‘I’m Coming Up’ is notable on many counts and not least for fantastic keys from the great George Duke. This jazzy funk fest is wonderful and in delightful contrast to the deliciously relaxed ‘Precious Memories’ which proves to be a first rate slice of mellifluous contemporary jazz. By and large ‘I Know All About Love’ revolves around McMurray’s own excellent compositions but along side thirteen of his own tunes are the sensational ‘Love Calls’ from R & B star KEM (who also features on vocals) and a fine cover of the Wilton Felder composition ‘Inherit The Wind’ which was a massive hit in 1979 for Bobby Womack. The Womack like vocals of Sweet Pea Ackinson (with whom McMurray first collaborated back as 1982) are tremendously faithful to the original while when McMurray gets back to his own songs the reflective title cut is anchored by the distinctly soulful vocals of Herschell Boone who also shares writing credits. McMurray switches to flute for the expansive ‘Naked’ where Al Turner on bass also contributes and as ‘I Know About Love’ glides to a tranquil end the outcome is the mellow yet jazz drenched ‘My Ma’s Song’. Elsewhere ‘Beautiful You’ is another top-notch example of easy grooving urban jazz whilst the mellifluous ‘One Night In Paris’ is embellished by the vocals of TIYI Adjovi and more superb flute from McMurray. This track is right up there with the album’s best and in the good company of both the hugely inviting ‘Radio Days’ (which finds McMurray re-uniting with old pal Bob James) and the wonderfully intense ‘Break It Down’ where vocalist Jessica Wager Cowan vies for the spotlight with more of McMurray’s great playing.‘I Know About Love’ is out now and comes highly recommended. http://smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/02/dave-mcmurray-i-know-about-love.html

I Know About Love

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