Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:18
Size: 71.7 MB
Styles: Country-jazz, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1963/2008
Art: Front

[2:02] 1. Yakety Sax
[2:16] 2. Walk Right In
[2:03] 3. If You've Got The Money
[2:21] 4. Cotton Fields
[2:30] 5. Charlie Brown
[1:57] 6. Cacklin' Sax
[3:15] 7. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
[3:03] 8. I Can't Stop Loving You
[2:28] 9. Lonely Street
[2:23] 10. It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'
[2:33] 11. I Fall To Pieces
[4:22] 12. I Really Don't Want To Know

Boots Randolph's signature tune, "Yakety Sax," was inspired by the sax solo in the Coasters' "Yakety Yak," and is much better known than its modest chart placement might suggest. Randolph had recorded "Yakety Sax" for RCA several years earlier without success, but his Monument recording clicked in 1963 and the accompanying gold-selling album spent nearly a year on the charts. Randolph's unique status as the man who popularized the saxophone in Nashville is reflected in half an album's worth of country songs like "I Fall to Pieces" and "If You've Got the Money." Randolph acknowledges the Coasters again on a version of "Charlie Brown," and gives the commercial folk craze the nod with renditions of "Cotton Fields" and "Walk Right In." "Cacklin' Sax" is a novelty number on which Randolph imitates the sound of a chicken with his versatile horn. The album is split into two halves, with the slow songs grouped on the second side, and the first half is the clear winner of the two. ~Greg Adams

Yakety Sax!

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Bebel Gilberto - All In One

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:52
Size: 98.2 MB
Styles: Brazilian jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:22] 1. Cancao De Amor
[3:55] 2. Sun Is Shining
[2:42] 3. Bim Bom
[3:24] 4. Nossa Senhora
[4:30] 5. The Real Thing
[3:17] 6. Ela (On My Way)
[3:19] 7. Far From The Sea
[4:20] 8. All In One
[2:29] 9. Forever
[3:42] 10. Secret (Segredo)
[3:00] 11. Chica Chica Boom Chic
[3:46] 12. Port Antonio

2009 release, the vocalist's debut album from the Verve Records label. Known worldwide for her ability to connect modern sounds with the heart and soul of Brazilian music, the New York-born Gilberto focuses on the rhythms of her native country, devising a cosmopolitan yet classic sound with the help of a diverse group of collaborators, including Carlinhos Brown (Caetano Veloso), Didi Gutman (Brazilian Girls), Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse), Daniel Jobim (grandson of Antonio Carlos Jobim) and John King (the Dust Brothers). All In One perfectly expresses Gilberto's interest in making music that feels romantic and fluid. In particular, Most of the record is sung in Portuguese, Bebel's native language, and was conceived, developed and recorded in her home studio.

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Lee Konitz, Antonio Zambrini Trio - Comencini

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:04
Size: 135.2 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[5:18] 1. Substitutions
[7:24] 2. Small Ballad
[5:44] 3. Bluesness
[3:00] 4. Giovedì
[5:12] 5. Minor Sequence
[7:06] 6. Arrivederci
[7:31] 7. Melampo
[4:56] 8. Antonia
[5:56] 9. Ritorno
[2:34] 10. Comencini Intro
[4:17] 11. Bluesness (Duo Version)

Jazz pianist and composer from Milan, Zambrini has drawn attention of critics and musicians especially with his “songs”, published his several trio and quartet recordings, as well as reprised and played by various musicians in the jazz area. Mr. Lee Konitz himself recorded a series of Zambrini’s tunes in a sequence of three cds they realized together for label “Phillogy” in 2008

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Greg Murphy - Summer Breeze

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:20
Size: 167.9 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[5:02] 1. Solar
[6:51] 2. Sophisticated Lady
[6:36] 3. No One In Particular
[5:12] 4. A Reason To Smile
[8:45] 5. Cedar Salad
[5:05] 6. Fall
[5:55] 7. Expectations
[4:49] 8. Summer Breeze
[6:44] 9. Solid
[4:49] 10. Leo's Lullaby
[5:45] 11. Tsk
[7:40] 12. Suspended Time

Greg Murphy is a seasoned pianist and composer who has assembled a great team for this, his fourth CD as leader. It’s a mix of jazz compositions by outstanding artists as well as Murphy’s own well-honed compositions. Trio work includes bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Kush Abadey. Wheeler has recorded with vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and jazz musicians, among whom are, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller and Russell Malone. Drummer Abadey is in his early 20s but his resume is outstanding. He has recorded with Wallace Roney, attended Berklee School of Music and had recorded with Terrance Blanchard, Barry Harris and others.

Trumpeter Josh Evans joins the ensemble on most tunes and does an outstanding job. Corey Wilson joins on a Murphy composition, A Reason To Smile. Vocalist Malou Beauvoir is featured on A Reason to Smile, Ellington’s Sophisticated Lady and the Seals and Crofts composition, Summer Breeze. Besides those listed tunes, composition other than Murphy’s are Miles Davis’ Solar, Wayne Shorter’s Fall, Sonny Rollins’ Solid and Leo’s Lullaby by Scott Robert Avedon. The other six tunes, completing the dozen on the album, are Greg Murphy compositions.

To this reviewer, the smooth and tuneful execution and rhythmic piano suggest influence of George Shearing and Dave Brubeck. Well done, Greg Murphy. We look for your next output. ~F. Norman Vickers

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Larry Carlton - Room 335 (2 parts)

Before he transitioned completely to a solo career, Carlton became one of the most in-demand studio musicians of the past three decades. Carlton’s catalog of work includes film soundtracks, television themes and work on more than 100 gold albums. Ultimately, Carlton began scaling back his session work substantially, while continuing to perform and record with the Crusaders. He shifted his emphasis to the challenges of arranging and producing, and built his own studio-Room 335-in his home. During this period he arranged and produced projects for Barbra Streisand, Joan Baez and Larry Gatlin, as well as producing and co-writing the theme for the hit sitcom Who’s The Boss and co-writing (with Michel Columbier) and arranging the acclaimed movie soundtrack for Against All Odds.

As his association with the Crusaders began to draw to a close, Carlton signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Between ’78 and ’84, Larry recorded six solo albums for Warner Bros. Records: Mr. 335: Live In Japan, Friends; Eight Times Up; Sleep Walk; Strikes Twice; Larry Carlton. The latter self-titled album was released hot on the heels of his debut session with rock supergroup Steely Dan. Rolling Stone magazine lists Carlton’s tasty ascent on Steely Dan’s Kid Charlemagne as one of the three best guitar licks in rock music.

With more than 3000 studio sessions under his belt by the early 1980s, Carlton had picked up four Grammy nominations. In addition to winning a Grammy (`81) for the theme to "Hill Street Blues" (a collaboration with Mike Post), he also was voted NARAS’s "Most Valuable Player" for three consecutive years. NARAS then named him "Player Emeritus" and retired him from eligibility.

Album: Room 335 (Part 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 85:42
Size: 196.2 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2018

[5:37] 1. Room 335 (Long Version)
[4:33] 2. Sleepwalk
[5:04] 3. 10 00 P.M
[4:56] 4. You Gotta Get It While You Can
[4:55] 5. Fingerprints
[3:46] 6. Song For Katie
[5:20] 7. Nite Crawler
[5:18] 8. Last Night
[4:29] 9. Blues Bird
[4:56] 10. Point It Up
[4:34] 11. (It Was) Only Yesterday
[5:28] 12. Chicks With Kickstands
[4:56] 13. All Thru The Night
[4:19] 14. Deep Into It
[6:09] 15. Gracias
[4:13] 16. Put It Where You Want It
[7:00] 17. Rio Samba

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Album: Room 335 (Part 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 85:36
Size: 196.0 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:44] 1. Iit's A Groove Thang
[3:46] 2. Closer To Home
[4:46] 3. Silky Smooth
[5:42] 4. Lazy Susan
[7:03] 5. Crying Hands
[7:31] 6. Upper Kern
[6:02] 7. Don't Give It Up
[4:32] 8. Frenchman's Flat
[4:24] 9. I Can't Tell You Why
[5:09] 10. Like Butta'
[4:51] 11. Slave Song
[3:59] 12. Don't Break My Heart
[4:15] 13. Morning Magic
[6:45] 14. The Storyteller
[4:15] 15. 'til I Hurt You
[4:15] 16. I Apologize
[3:28] 17. Where Did You Come From

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Hubert Laws, Earl Klugh - How To Beat The High Cost Of Living

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:30
Size: 72.1 MB
Styles: Crossover jazz
Year: 1980/2017
Art: Front

[2:20] 1. Down River
[5:22] 2. Night Moves
[4:27] 3. Piccolo Boogie
[3:35] 4. Dream Something
[4:04] 5. It's So Easy Loving You
[2:15] 6. The Edge
[2:27] 7. The Caper
[1:35] 8. Ready To Run
[2:13] 9. The Scuffle
[3:07] 10. Song For A Pretty Girl

After a series of low-quality commercial releases for Columbia, Hubert Laws came up with this surprisingly worthwhile album. Featured along with acoustic guitarist Earl Klugh, the flutist performed Patrick Williams' music for the film How to Beat the High Cost of Living, which starred Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, and Jessica Lange. While the light comedy has been long forgotten and none of these ten selections caught on, the music is largely straight-ahead, with some strong melodies, and finds Laws and Klugh playing very well. They are backed by a six-piece rhythm section including keyboardist Michael Lang and both Tim May and Mitch Holder on guitars. This out of print LP (which probably will not get reissued on CD anytime soon) is well worth acquiring. ~Scott Yanow

How To Beat The High Cost Of Living

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Bud Shank - Magical Mystery

Styles: Saxophone Jazz 
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:54
Size: 84,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:33)  1. Blue Jay Way
(2:54)  2. I Am The Walrus
(3:41)  3. The Fool On The Hill
(4:01)  4. Flying
(3:23)  5. Hello Goodbye
(2:46)  6. Your Mother Should Know
(2:59)  7. Paper Cup
(2:53)  8. Windy
(2:56)  9. Never My Love
(2:19) 10. I Wanna Be Free
(3:25) 11. I Say A Little Prayer

By late 1966, Chet’s playing was in such poor shape he asked Dick Bock to pay for him to have dentures fitted. He struggled to play for several months, and eventually emerged one year later, appearing on a handful of songs on Bud Shank’s ‘Magical Mystery’ album. Chet’s playing still sounds extremely tentative at times the first few bars of his playing on ‘Hello Goodbye’ find him struggling to hold a note and it is probably for this reason that a second recording session was arranged with a new band, this time featuring Gary Barone on flugelhorn. The arrangements, still by Bob Florence, are slightly more interesting than on Bud Shank’s previous ‘pop’ albums, suggesting a move away from the ‘easy listening’ market to a more current,‘psychedelic’ sound.http://www.funnyvalentine.org/funnyvalentine.org/Magical_Mystery.html

Personnel: Bud Shank (as, fl), Chet Baker (flh),Gary Barone (flh), Dennis Budimir (g), Herb Ellis (g), Robert West (b), John Guerin (b), Victor Feldman (perc).

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Patrice Rushen - Anything But Ordinary

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:00
Size: 124,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:28)  1. I Do
(4:47)  2. Tell Me
(5:34)  3. Whatcha Gonna Do
(4:19)  4. I Only Think Of You
(5:24)  5. My Heart, Your Heart
(5:59)  6. Anything But Ordinary
(4:57)  7. Top Of The Line
(5:44)  8. State Of Mind
(5:11)  9. Caravan
(5:34) 10. Be With You

In the late 1970s and early to mid-'80s, Patrice Rushen was red hot. Anyone who was seriously into R&B at the time remembers hits like "Haven't You Heard," "Forget-Me-Nots" and "Never Gonna Give You Up." But by the end of the 1980s, the jazz pianist turned R&B singer was in trouble commercially. Switching from Elektra to Arista with 1987's Watch Out! proved to be a mistake, and it wasn't until 1994's Anything But Ordinary on the small Sin-Drome label that Rushen recorded again under her own name. Though this CD isn't in a class with Pizzazz or Posh, sleek R&B/pop tunes like "I Do," "My Heart, Your Heart" and "Tell Me" showed that the L.A. native could still hold her own as a singer, composer and producer. Rushen experiments with hip-hop influences on a few selections, but on the whole, the disc is quite similar to her Elektra output. While Anything didn't return Rushen to the top of the R&B charts, her more devoted fans were glad to see her back in the studio.~ Alex Henderson https://www.allmusic.com/album/anything-but-ordinary-mw0000122797

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Stefano Bollani & Luigi Tessarollo - Homage To Bill Evans & Jim Hall

Styles: Piano And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:17
Size: 134,4 MB
Art: Front

( 5:56)  1. I've Got You Under My Skin
( 4:01)  2. My Funny Valentine
( 4:58)  3. Darn That Dream
( 6:03)  4. My Man Has Gone How
(10:37)  5. Il Mondo Di Fabio
( 5:24)  6. Romaine
( 5:00)  7. Border Line
( 6:36)  8. Turn Out The Stars
( 6:39)  9. Il Barbone Di Siviglia
( 2:57) 10. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

"Stefano Bollani, one of the young stars of Italian jazz-piano, and Luigi Tessarollo, one of the most important guitarists of the Italian scene, take on the repertoire associated with the historic duets of Bill Evans and Jim Hall...An exemplary conversation in music, in which the partnership between the two protagonists recalls the historic sessions of the two American masters..."

Personnel:  Luigi Tessarollo ( Guitar);  Stefano Bollani ( Piano )

Homage To Bill Evans & Jim Hall

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Charlie Byrd - The Great Byrd

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:19
Size: 85,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:47)  1. Wichita Lineman
(2:41)  2. For Once In My Life
(3:01)  3. Those Were The Days
(2:48)  4. Scarborough Fair / Canticle
(3:16)  5. Happy Together
(3:05)  6. Hey Jude
(4:02)  7. Abraham, Martin And John
(3:13)  8. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
(4:28)  9. Lullaby From Rosemary's Baby
(3:12) 10. I Don't Have To Take It
(2:40) 11. Who Is Gonna Love Me

Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences. Born into a musical family, Byrd experienced his first brush with greatness while a teenager in France during World War II, playing with his idol Django Reinhardt. After some postwar gigs with Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala and Freddie Slack, Byrd temporarily abandoned jazz to study classical guitar with Sophocles Papas in 1950 and Andrés Segovia in 1954. However he re-emerged later in the decade gigging around the Washington D.C. area in jazz settings, often splitting his sets into distinct jazz and classical segments. He started recording for Savoy as a leader in 1957, and also recorded with the Woody Herman Band in 1958-59. A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement. Once back in D.C., he played some bossa nova tapes to Stan Getz, who then convinced Verve's Creed Taylor to record an album of Brazilian music with himself and Byrd. That album, Jazz Samba, became a pop hit in 1962 on the strength of the single "Desafinado" and launched the bossa nova wave in North America. Thanks to the bossa nova, several albums for Riverside followed, including the defining Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, and he was able to land a major contract with Columbia, though the records from that association often consisted of watered-down easy listening pop. In 1973, he formed the group Great Guitars with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel and also that year, wrote an instruction manual for the guitar that has become widely used. From 1974 onward, Byrd recorded for the Concord Jazz label in a variety of settings, including sessions with Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank. He died December 2, 1999 after a long bout with cancer.~ Richard S.Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-byrd-mn0000204968/biography

Personnel: Charlie Byrd - guitar;  Mario Darpino - flute;  Bernard Purdie - drums;  Vinnie Bell - electric guitar

The Great Byrd

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