Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis - Conversations In Swing Guitar

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:22
Size: 110,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:45)  1. Flying Home
(7:59)  2. Easin' In
(5:16)  3. Jivin' In Rhythm
(8:49)  4. Just Squeeze Me
(6:31)  5. Avalon
(9:14)  6. Blue Brew
(5:46)  7. Stuffy

This is a not very challenging, but thoroughly charming, summit meeting between a blues guitar master and a jazz guitar legend. Taking four classic swing tunes ("Just Squeeze Me," "Avalon," "Stuffy," and, inevitably, "Flyin' Home"), two Robillard originals, and a jointly composed slow blues, and helped out by bassist Marty Ballou and drummer Marty Richards, Duke Robillard and Herb Ellis deliver a 48-minute swing guitar master class, Conversations in Swing Guitar. Ellis comes from jazz and Robillard from the blues, so their approaches are just distinct enough to keep things interesting; although both play with a clean, fat jazz tone and no one ever really hauls off and shreds, Robillard tends towards bent notes and funky chordal things while Ellis thinks a bit more in terms of long lines and florid ornamentation. Every so often you might find yourself wishing that the edges were just a bit rougher, but both of these guys are clearly having a great old time, and you will too.~ Rick Anderson https://www.allmusic.com/album/conversations-in-swing-guitar-mw0000258558

Personnel:   Lead Guitar [Right Channel] – Duke Robillard;   Lead Guitar [Left Channel] – Herb Ellis;   Bass – Marty Ballou;   Drums – Marty Richards. 

Conversations In Swing Guitar

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Aretha Franklin - The Queen Of Soul Disc 3 And Disc 4 of 4 Discs

Styles: Vocal Soul
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:36
Size: 176,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. Son Of A Preacher Man
(2:31)  2. Try Matty's
(4:42)  3. The Thrill Is Gone [From Yesterday's Kiss]
(4:42)  4. Dark End Of The Street
(3:35)  5. You And Me
(3:30)  6. You're Taking Up Another Man's Place (Spirit In The Dark Outtake)
(3:01)  7. Don't Play That Song
(3:04)  8. Why I Sing The Blues
(4:02)  9. Spirit In The Dark
(4:08) 10. My Way (Spirit In The Dark Outtake)
(2:52) 11. One Way Ticket
(3:37) 12. Pullin'
(3:23) 13. Border Song (Holy Moses)
(4:27) 14. A Brand New Me
(3:37) 15. You're All I Need To Get By
(5:32) 16. Bridge Over Troubled Water
(3:33) 17. Spanish Harlem
(4:40) 18. Lean On Me
(8:13) 19. Spirit In The Dark (Reprise With Ray Charles) [Live At Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971]

The Queen Of Soul Disc 3

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Album: The Queen Of Soul   Disc 4

Time: 79:10

Size: 181,9 MB

(3:14)  1. Rock Steady

(3:34)  2. Young, Gifted And Black

(3:54)  3. All The King's Horses

(3:42)  4. Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)

(4:01)  5. Day Dreaming

(7:09)  6. Mary, Don't You Weep [Live At New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 14, 1972]

(2:45)  7. Climbing Higher Mountains (Live 1972)

(7:21)  8. Precious Memories [Live At New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 14, 1972]

(3:27)  9. Master Of Eyes [The Deepness Of Your Eyes]

(4:29) 10. Angel

(6:19) 11. Somewhere

(4:18) 12. So Swell When You're Well

(2:52) 13. I'm In Love

(3:49) 14. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

(3:28) 15. Until You Come Back To Me [That's What I'm Gonna Do]

(4:03) 16. Look Into Your Heart

(4:13) 17. Sparkle

(6:22) 18. Something He Can Feel

R.I.P.

Born on March 25, 1942

Died on August 16, 2018

The Queen Of Soul Disc 4

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Linda Eder - Retro

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:01
Size: 103,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. Love Is Here at Last
(3:14)  2. In the Stone
(3:09)  3. When the Right Man Comes Along
(3:15)  4. You Never Can Tell
(2:47)  5. I'm Doing Just Fine
(2:24)  6. Someone
(4:27)  7. The One That Got Away
(3:20)  8. Matter of Luck
(1:53)  9. So Young So Beautiful
(3:01) 10. Sweet Surprise
(3:36) 11. Could It Be
(3:01) 12. Easy
(3:37) 13. There Is Love
(4:22) 14. Is This Where Our Story Ends?

Showcasing one of the greatest voices of our time, Linda Eder’s diverse repertoire spans Broadway, Standards, Pop, Country, and Jazz. When she performs “live” in concert, it is amazing to experience the ease with which she moves back and forth from one genre to another as if she were gifted with the vocal ability to perform each genre as well as all the others. Born in Tucson, Arizona and raised in Brainerd, Minnesota, Eder began her career right out of high school singing all around her home state, and she eventually landed a gig at Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. But it was her appearance on the 1987 season of “Star Search,” during which she won for an unprecedented 12 straight weeks, which attracted the attention of audiences and record companies alike.  Eder launched her recording career in 1991 with her self-titled debut album and soon established a vital niche as America’s most popular and acclaimed new interpreter of Pop, Standard and Theatrical genres. She released two more solo albums before starring in the Broadway production of JEKYLL & HYDE beginning on April 28, 1997. As the tragic character “Lucy” in this new musical, Eder blew the roof off New York City’s Plymouth Theatre eight times a week as she belted out her signature songs “Someone Like You” and “A New Life.” Her Broadway debut, for which she was rewarded with a Drama Desk nomination, sent her already rapidly rising star blazing across the sky securing her a spot as one of America’s most beloved singers and dynamic “live” performers. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, “What do we mean when we use the word perfection? The question arises every time I watch the pop singer Linda Eder….”http://lindaeder.com/about/

Retro

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Kenny Burrell - Round Midnight

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:45
Size: 87,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:02)  1. A Streetcar Named Desire
(5:19)  2. Make Someone Happy
(5:13)  3. 'Round Midnight
(5:02)  4. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
(4:48)  5. Since I Fell For You
(6:44)  6. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
(3:35)  7. Blues In The Night

This is a typically tasteful Kenny Burrell record (reissued on CD) with the guitarist mostly emphasizing ballads. Five of the seven songs (which include "Make Someone Happy," "Since I Fell for You" and the theme from "A Streetcar Named Desire") find Burrell assisted by pianist Richard Wyands (who also played electric piano), bassist Reggie Johnson and drummer Lenny McBrowne. "'Round Midnight" is played by Burrell with pianist Joe Sample, bassist Johnson and drummer Paul Humphrey while "Blues in the Night" is an unaccompanied guitar solo. Although the music overall is well-played, no real sparks fly and the results often border on being sleepy.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/round-midnight-mw0000600580

Personnel:  Kenny Burrell - guitar;  Joe Sample (track 3), Richard Wyands (tracks 1, 2 & 4-6) - piano;  Reggie Johnson - bass (tracks 1-6);  Lennie McBrowne (tracks 1, 2 & 4-6), Paul Humphrey (track 3) - drums

Round Midnight

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Lee Konitz & Dan Tepfer - Decade

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:25
Size: 106,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:33)  1. Thrill
(3:49)  2. 9/11 Suite, Part I
(2:39)  3. 9/11 Suite, Part II
(4:26)  4. 9/11 Suite, Part III
(1:34)  5. Pulsing Green
(3:10)  6. Alter Ego
(6:02)  7. Through The Tunnel
(1:08)  8. Egos Alter
(4:25)  9. Rebounds
(2:16) 10. A Place We Know
(1:39) 11. Pulsing Orange
(1:59) 12. Whirlpool
(2:42) 13. Ceaseless
(0:58) 14. Eager Altos
(7:00) 15. Body & Soul

To celebrate a decade of intense musical collaboration and friendship, the masterful 90-year-old altoist Lee Konitz and the resourceful pianist Dan Tepfer, 36, release Decade on Verve Records, an auspicious follow up to Duos With Lee (Sunnyside, 2009). The duo has been performing extensively throughout the years, but their mature sense of impromptu comes bolstered throughout these 15 spontaneous short tunes. In possession of an enviable originality in terms of sound and language, the pair takes the same direction and overcomes any possible generational gap with their modernistic facility. This aspect becomes immediately perceptible on “Thrill”, the illuminated, if enigmatic, opening piece, which shows Tepfer into a fantastic textural work while insisting on a specific note, chromatically bent at regular times. The delicate tension that arrives from it, favors Konitz's cliché-free vocabulary. Comprising three distinct parts, “9/11 Suite” kicks off with introspective piano melodies entering our ears like raindrops on a breezy spring day. The melodic lyricism conducted by the veteran saxophonist frequently takes you to the unexpected. 

If the second part of the suite, marked by scattered call-response actions, points out to an uncertain destiny by carrying a flaring turbulence and an unregulated plasticity typical of the avant-garde genre, then the touching third part is enveloped by a sequence of high-pitched piano swirls whose dreamy tones urge the saxophone to search for a hidden secret with yearning musicality. Three title puns, “Alter Ego”, “Egos Alter”, and “Eager Altos” feature Konitz’ overdubbed sax lines in a merry polyphony, but it’s with “Through the Tunnel”, an overwhelming piece of aurorean transcendence that the duo reaches a subliminal state of unearthly contemplation. If Konitz evokes the melody of “Peacocks” at an early stage and makes use of his unmistakable scat singing by the end, then Tepfer’s improvised lines have prompted responses from a programmed Disklavier piano. The saxophonist repeats the vocalization on Johnny Green’s “Ceaseless”, where circular and arpeggiated movements, typical from classical music, sustain his liberal yet never-misplaced ruminations. There are other moments of extraordinary creativity: “Body and Soul” is completely transformed through a snazzy re-harmonization and entirely fresh melody; “Rebounds” claims a contrapuntal groove that is later expanded into grandiose chords; and “A Place We Know” shapes into a more traditional song format through balladic harmonic progressions flanked by profound saxophone impressions. Wielding a delightfully quirky style, Konitz and Tepfer provide the listener with those truly magical moments that will keep them sigh with pleasure. http://jazztrail.net/blog/2018/7/29/konitz-tepfer-decade-album-review

Personnel:  Lee Konitz - Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Voice;   Dan Tepfer - Piano.

Decade

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