Slide Hampton - Explosion! The Sound Of Slide Hampton

Styles: Trombone Jazz
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:51
Size: 71,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:26)  1. Revival
(2:23)  2. Maria
(3:59)  3. Delilah
(2:33)  4. Begin The Beguine
(3:01)  5. Your Cheatin' Heart
(3:33)  6. Spanish Flier
(2:58)  7. Bye Bye Love
(3:29)  8. Love Letters
(5:26)  9. Slide's Blues

The explosion in the title is definitely well-placed as trombonist Slide Hampton makes his group groove with a tremendous amount of power here all horns focused strongly on the rhythms, which themselves are wonderfully soulful! As with some of Hampton's best from the time, there's some really fresh young players on the set some obscure musicians, mixed with future heavyweights Joe Farrell and Ronnie Cuber on reeds plus piano from the great Horace Parlan! The tunes have a tight focus that really shows off Hampton's arranging skills and titles include "Spanish Flyer", "Bye Bye Love", "Slide's Blues", and "Begin The Beguine". (White label promo. Cover has some wear.)  © 1996-2018, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/33449/Slide-Hampton:Explosion-The-Sound-Of-Slide-Hampton

Personnel:  Slide Hampton - trombone, arranger;  Johnny Bello, Chet Ferretti, Jerry Tyree - trumpet;  Benny Jacobs-El - trombone;  Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone;  Jay Cameron, (1, 3, 5, 7, 8) Ronnie Cuber (2, 4, 6 & 9) - baritone saxophone;  Walter Davis, Jr., (1, 3, 5, 7, 8) Horace Parlan (2, 4, 6 & 9) - piano;  Bob Cranshaw - bass;  Vinnie Ruggiero - drums;  Willie Bobo - congas (2, 4, 6 & 9)

Explosion! The Sound Of Slide Hampton

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Della Reese - On strings of Blue

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1967
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:10
Size: 90,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:39)  1. On The South Side Of Chicago
(3:29)  2. I Had To Know My Way Around
(3:36)  3. Mean To Me
(5:14)  4. Something Cool
(3:04)  5. I Heard You Cried Last Night
(2:45)  6. Walking By The River
(3:28)  7. I Don't Know Enough About You
(3:01)  8. A House Is Not A Home
(2:41)  9. Do I Worry
(2:37) 10. The Show Must Go On
(2:54) 11. Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues
(3:35) 12. I'm Coming Home, Los Angeles

Renowned as both a television star and a top-flight interpreter of jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, and straight-ahead pop music, Della Reese's many talents ensured a long, varied, and legendary show biz career. In addition to being nominated for both an Emmy and a Grammy and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Reese was also an ordained minister in the Universal Foundation for Better Living, an association of churches she helped found in the early '80s.  Born Deloreese Patricia Early on July 6, 1931, the young Reese began singing in the Baptist church choir in her hometown of Detroit at age six. In 1945, having developed quite rapidly, she caught the ear of legendary gospel queen Mahalia Jackson, who invited Reese to join her touring choir; Reese did so for the next five summers. Upon entering Wayne State University to study psychology, Reese formed a women's gospel group, the Meditation Singers, but her college career was cut short by the death of her mother and her father's serious illness. Reese worked odd jobs to help support the rest of her family; she also continued to perform with the Meditation Singers and various other gospel groups. Encouraged by her pastor, Reese began singing in nightclubs in hopes of getting a singing career off the ground; recently married to a factory worker named Vermont Adolphus Bon Taliaferro, her name was too long to fit on marquees, and she eventually arrived at her performing alias by splitting up her first name. After impressing a New York agent, who promptly signed her, Reese moved to New York and joined the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra in 1953. 

A year later, she had a recording contract with Jubilee, for whom she scored hits like "And That Reminds Me," a 1957 million-seller. Switching to RCA Victor, Reese landed her biggest hit in 1959 with "Don't You Know?," a song adapted from Puccini's La Bohème; this cemented her career, leading not only to plentiful appearances on variety shows, but successful nightclub tours of the country and eventually nine years of performances in Las Vegas, as well as recording contracts with a variety of labels over the next few decades. Building on her previous variety show experience, Reese made a small bit of television history in 1969 when she became the first woman to guest-host The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Later that year, she became the first black woman to host her own variety show, the syndicated Della, which ran until 1970. Following its cancellation, Reese returned to her nightclub tours, often putting in guest appearances on television shows like The Mod Squad, Sanford and Son, and Chico and the Man; after three prior failed marriages, Reese also found a lasting relationship with producer Franklin Lett, whom she married in 1978.  On October 3, 1980, while taping a song for The Tonight Show, Reese suffered a brain aneurysm that nearly proved fatal; however, thanks to a successful operation, she was able to make a full recovery. She kept up her singing career and appeared on television shows like Designing Women, L.A. Law, and Picket Fences, as well as the Eddie Murphy films Harlem Nights and The Distinguished Gentleman. Reese also starred in the Redd Foxx sitcom The Royal Family from 1991-1992, and garnered what was undoubtedly her highest level of recognition in the inspirational drama series Touched by an Angel, a quite popular program that ran for nine years, between 1994 and 2003, on the CBS network. After Touched by an Angel finished its run, Reese continued to act intermittently on television through to 2014. She died at her home in Encino, California in November 2017 at the age of 86.~ Steve Huey https://www.allmusic.com/artist/della-reese-mn0000196544/biography

On strings of Blue

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Flip Phillips - Claw: Live At The Floating Jazz Festival

Styles: Saxophone Jazz 
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:16
Size: 173,1 MB
Art: Front

(14:54)  1. Topsy
(13:48)  2. Loose Walk
(14:19)  3. Sm-o-o-o-th One, A
(10:06)  4. Flying Home
(11:27)  5. Claw, The
( 1:28)  6. Closing Comments
( 9:11)  7. Jazzspeak

Veteran tenor Flip Phillips is heard leading a jam session during what was dubbed the 1986 Floating Jazz Festival since the music took place on the S.S. Norway somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Phillips and his fellow tenors Buddy Tate, Al Cohn and Scott Hamilton (along with pianst John Bunch, guitarist Chris Flory, bassist Major Holley and drummer Chuck Riggs) clearly had a good time stretching out on the five pieces (which all sport fairly basic chord changes); fluegelhornist Clark Terry dropped by and joins in on three of the pieces. Unfortunately the liner notes do not tell who solos when but veteran collectors should be able to tell the tenors apart. 

The only minus to this CD is a surprisingly boring monologue by Phillips (one of Chiaroscuro's few unsuccessful "Jazzspeaks") at the conclusion of this disc. However his nine minutes of talking is preceded by 64 minutes of hot jamming, making this CD easily recommended to fans of Jazz at the Philharmonic and straightahead jazz.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-claw-live-at-the-floating-jazz-festival-mw0000614349

Personnel:  Flip Phillips, Buddy Tate, Al Korn, Scott Hamilton (ts);  Clark Terry (tp) John Bunch (p) Chris Flory (g);  Major Horley (b) Chuck Riggs (ds)

Claw-Live At The Floating Jazz Festival

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Herbie Mann - Surprises

Styles: Flute Jazz
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:57
Size: 89,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Draw Your Breaks
(6:07)  2. Cajun Moon
(4:46)  3. Creepin
(4:31)  4. Easter Rising
(3:50)  5. Asa Branca
(2:29)  6. The Sound of Windwood
(4:11)  7. Cricket Dance
(5:15)  8. The Butterfly in A Stone Garde
(3:05)  9. Anata

Herbie Mann played a wide variety of music throughout his career. He became quite popular in the 1960s, but in the '70s became so immersed in pop and various types of world music that he seemed lost to jazz. However, Mann never lost his ability to improvise creatively as his later recordings attest. Herbie Mann began on clarinet when he was nine but was soon also playing flute and tenor. After serving in the Army, he was with Mat Mathews' Quintet (1953-1954) and then started working and recording as a leader. During 1954-1958 Mann stuck mostly to playing bop, sometimes collaborating with such players as Phil Woods, Buddy Collette, Sam Most, Bobby Jaspar, and Charlie Rouse. He doubled on cool-toned tenor and was one of the few jazz musicians in the '50s who recorded on bass clarinet; he also recorded a full album in 1957 (for Savoy) of unaccompanied flute. After spending time playing and writing music for television, Mann formed his Afro-Jazz Sextet, in 1959, a group using several percussionists, vibes (either Johnny Rae, Hagood Hardy, or Dave Pike) and the leader's flute. He toured Africa (1960) and Brazil (1961), had a hit with "Comin' Home Baby," and recorded with Bill Evans. The most popular jazz flutist during the era, Mann explored bossa nova (even recording in Brazil in 1962), incorporated music from many cultures (plus current pop tunes) into his repertoire, and had among his sidemen such top young musicians as Willie Bobo, Chick Corea (1965), Attila Zoller, and Roy Ayers; at the 1972 Newport Festival his sextet included David Newman and Sonny Sharrock. By then Mann had been a producer at Embroyo (a subsidiary of Atlantic) for three years and was frequently stretching his music outside of jazz. As the '70s advanced, Mann became much more involved in rock, pop, reggae, and even disco. After leaving Atlantic at the end of the '70s, Mann had his own label for awhile and gradually came back to jazz. He recorded for Chesky, made a record with Dave Valentin, and in the '90s founded the Kokopelli label on which before breaking away in 1996, he was free to pursue his wide range of musical interests. Through the years, he recorded as a leader for Bethlehem, Prestige, Epic, Riverside, Savoy, Mode, New Jazz, Chesky, Kokopelli, and most significantly Atlantic. He passed away on July 1, 2003, following an extended battle with prostate cancer. His last record was 2004's posthumously released Beyond Brooklyn for Telarc. ~ Scott Yanow https://itunes.apple.com/qa/album/surprises/78974994

Surprises

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Houston Person & Ron Carter - Remember Love

Styles: Saxophone Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:47
Size: 122,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:57)  1. Love Is Here to Stay
(4:37)  2. My One and Only Love
(6:10)  3. Why Not
(5:01)  4. Day Dream
(6:23)  5. Gentle Rain
(4:28)  6. The Way You Look Tonight
(5:43)  7. You Are My Sunshine
(5:32)  8. Blues for D.P
(4:47)  9. Easy to Remember
(3:03) 10. Without a Song

Tenorist Houston Person and bassist Ron Carters started their 60s careers in very different parts of the jazz spectrum but over the years, they've found a way to work together wonderfully in a mode that's created some especially great duo albums like this! There's few folks who could get so much out of just the mix of bass and tenor saxophone – especially without going into any sort of avant or free jazz modes – and the pairing of Person and Carter hardly makes us miss piano, drums, or any other instrumentation as their sense of rhythm and expression is fully formed throughout. 

As you might guess from the title, most tunes are ballads and titles include "Without A Song", "Easy To Remember", "Love Is Here To Stay", "Day Dream", "Gentle Rain", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Blues For DP".  © 1996-2018, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/890371/Houston-Person-Ron-Carter:Remember-Love

Personnel:  Houston Person - tenor saxophone;  Ron Carter - bass

Remember Love

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