Mayte Alguacil - Day by Day

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:42
Size: 111,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:52)  1. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key
(4:16)  2. Little Girl Blue
(3:20)  3. Day by Day
(3:51)  4. East of the Sun
(5:48)  5. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
(5:51)  6. September in the Rain
(4:00)  7. The Thrill Is Gone
(4:05)  8. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
(3:49)  9. Sophisticated Lady
(3:38) 10. I Wish You Love
(6:07) 11. The Nearness of You

Mayte Alguacil began as a flute player at 12, and developed a real taste for singing only in the last few years. She started singing in different projects, until she decided to do her first project as a singer, an album devoted to what she loved the most: the Great American Song Book. And so she did an album of standards. The excellent work of the rhythm section allow things to flow in a relaxed and natural way. The sure, driving drums of Jorge Rossy and the strong bass of Pedro Campos along with the melodic, swinging and great comping and soloingof Michael Kanan are the perfect support to Mayte on the mid and up tempo tunes. On the singer-pianist duets, beauty is the word that best defines what they do in each song. 

Her singing comes out as fresh and pure, straight from the heart, with a close love for the melody and full of the sweetest nuances, structured by her own feeling for simplicity. And to embrace simplicity and make it expressive, lovely and moving is one of the most difficult things for any artist to pull off. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Day-Mayte-Alguacil/dp/B015JMT8G0

Personnel:  Mayte Alguacil (vocals), Michael Kanan (piano), Pedro Campos (bass), Jorge Rossy (drums).

Day by Day

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Illinois Jacquet - Birthday Party

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:57
Size: 89,5 MB
Art: Front

( 4:06)  1. Ebb Tide
(10:37)  2. Birthday Party Blues
( 5:24)  3. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(12:59)  4. On The Beach
( 5:48)  5. Polka Dots & Moon Beams

Recorded to celebrate Jacquet's 50th birthday, this date is an all-star collaboration with some of the greatest names in jazz: Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Joe Newman, Art Farmer, Jimmy Smith (on piano,) Gerry Mulligan, Jack Six, and Roy Haynes. It comes off loose and free, as if no charts were thrown at the musicians and they simply went at these three standards (two being movie-theme ballads), along with two of Jacquet's numbers, completely off the cuff. Moody leads on flute for the sultry bossa "Ebb Tide," with Farmer playing flugelhorn and Jacquet only getting his feet wet later in the bridge; all three counter jab near the end. "The Shadow of Your Smile" is more typical, with Burrell leading, Jacquet's mushy, blues-drenched tenor playing the melody, and Moody's flute filling whatever cracks crop up. The low-down "Birthday Party Blues" ballad is set up by Burrell and Six; Mulligan and Newman traipse through the midsection of this ten-minute jam, while Illinois' woodwind howls and the others chime in a bit. "Polka Dots & Moonbeams" is all Jacquet's, and he takes the baton, although Six goes it alone twice, and Burrell takes the rhythm section on solos. The cover of "On the Beach" is a hard, rip-roaring swinger that runs over 13 minutes, with the birthday boy leading and others to follow. Moody's smoother tenor provides a fine contrast to Jacquet's signature Texas edge; Newman's great muted trumpet with the rhythm trio is only further evidence that he should not continue being an uncrowned king. As short as it is (36 minutes), it's a shame there isn't more material  too bad, for this was an incredible band. ~ Michael G.Nastos https://www.allmusic.com/album/birthday-party-mw0000667247

Personnel: Illinois Jacquet - tenor saxophone; Joe Newman - trumpet; Art Farmer - flugelhorn; Jimmie Smith - piano; Kenny Burrell - guitar; Jack Six - bass; Roy Haynes - drums;  Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone;  James Moody - tenor saxophone, flute.

Birthday Party

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Christopher Hollyday - And I'll Sing Once More

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:20
Size: 141,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:40)  1. Heroes
(4:39)  2. Hate the Roommate
(5:23)  3. The Sound of Music
(4:19)  4. Storm
(9:59)  5. Beyond the Barren Lands
(8:25)  6. Chant
(5:55)  7. Nefertiti
(7:03)  8. Let the Moon Stand Still
(8:51)  9. The Very Thought of You

By the time he recorded his fourth Novus release, alto saxophonist Christopher Hollyday, who often sounded like a particularly abrasive version of his teacher Jackie McLean, was starting to show some individuality. Then 22, Hollyday is heard on this set with a 14-piece group that includes six brass, Scott Robinson on reeds, violinist Mark Feldman and two Indian percussionists. He performs four originals, two by pianist Kenny Werner and three standards, exploring the area between hard bop and post-bop. Shortly after this set, Hollyday was dropped by Novus and began a long hiatus from recording. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/and-ill-sing-once-more-mw0000075218

Personnel:  Christopher Hollyday - alto saxophone;  Scott Robinson - tenor & baritone saxophones, flute, clarinet;  Earl Gardner - trumpet, flugelhorn;  Scott Colley - bass;  Mark Feldman - violin;  Douglas Purviance - bass trombone;  Ed Neumeister - trombone;  Ron Savage - drums;  Joe Mosello - trumpet, flugelhorn;  John Mosca - trombone;  Eric Charry - tanpura;  Janey Haddad - talking drum, caxixi, Indian bells, frame drum;  Kenny Werner - piano

And I'll Sing Once More

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Stevie Wonder - The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie

Styles: Jazz Soul
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:29
Size: 67,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:56)  1. Fingertips
(2:59)  2. Square
(2:18)  3. Soul Bongo
(3:44)  4. Manhattan At Six
(2:44)  5. Paulsby
(5:07)  6. Some Other Time
(2:49)  7. Wondering
(3:15)  8. Session Number 112
(3:35)  9. Bam

Stevie Wonder's debut album, released when he was 11, is still an amazing musical document, showcasing his skills as a percussionist (drums and bongos), chromatic harmonica player, keyboardist (piano and organ), and composer and he was prodigious in all four categories. All of these skills are highlighted throughout this record, and Wonder's youthful, exuberant voice had a maturity suggesting that greatness was around the corner. Perhaps most surprising to contemporary listeners will be the emphasis on instrumentals, which made this a fairly unusual album by Motown standards to begin with. Apart from a few shouts in the background in some of the more free-form tracks, there's not a vocal to be heard here, yet the sounds are rich and diverse enough that one never misses them. What's more, a lot of what's here is extremely sophisticated instrumental music for its time, and the "jazz" reference in the title is not a matter of optimistic convenience or self-aggrandizement a lot of this is legitimate jazz. ~ Bruce Eder https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-jazz-soul-of-little-stevie-mw0000675222

The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie

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