Eric Marienthal - Walk Tall: Tribute to Cannonball Adderley

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:19
Size: 127,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:24)  1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
(4:23)  2. Work Song
(4:39)  3. Walk Tall
(3:31)  4. Skylark
(4:34)  5. Imagine That
(5:30)  6. The Way You Look Tonight
(4:37)  7. Here In My Heart
(4:23)  8. Sunstone
(3:30)  9. If You Need Me To
(5:28) 10. Country Preacher
(5:01) 11. Unit 7
(4:13) 12. Groove Runner

Contemporary sax whiz and Chick Corea Elektric Band veteran Eric Marienthal has been appearing with impressive frequency on other people's sessions, while occasionally releasing his own CDs. Until now, his more memorable performances have been those he's rendered in service to others. He makes good progress in remedying that situation with his latest,Walk Tall, a tribute to Cannonball Adderley. This program has one foot firmly planted on traditional soil (mostly during the tunes from Adderley's repertoire and a few standards) and the other foot on contemporary turf. Despite the fact that varying amounts of keyboard, bass, and drum programming are added even to the Adderley tunes, it's a pleasing mixture of old and new. The disk opens with a live recording of Cannonball introducing Joe Zawinul's "Mercy Mercy Mercy," with the instrumental track then fading out and the new recording fading in, in a not-too-awkward manner. Marienthal expressively caresses the lead lines while the programming churns in the background. "Work Song" and "Walk Tall" follow, then there's a beautiful ballad rendition of "Skylark." Other highlights include a medium-tempo spirited romp celebrating "The Way You Look Tonight" and the foot-tapping, bass-walking easy swing of "Unit 7." All in all, this is a pretty tasty deal. It's similar in aspirations to theTwist of JobimCD which inaugurated the i.e. music label, that is, placing an artist's work from a previous era in a more modern setting. Some of the contempo luminaries who contribute arrangements, performances, and production to the affair include Harvey Mason, Lee Ritenour, Rob Mullins, Russell Ferrante, Jeff Lorber, and John Beasley. ~ Dave Hughes https://www.allaboutjazz.com/walk-tall-eric-marienthal-ie-music-review-by-dave-hughes.php

Personnel:  Eric Marienthal - alto or soprano saxophone;  Lee Ritenour, Alan Hinds, Michael Thompson, Jeff Lorber - guitar Lee Ritenour, Rob Mullins, Harvey Mason Jr., Jeff Lorber - drum, bass, and keyboard programming;  John Beasley, Russell Ferrante, Ronnie Foster - piano, keyboards Melvin Davis, Reggie Hamilton, Chuck Domanico, Stanley Clarke, Vail Johnson - bass;  Harvey Mason - drums;  Chris Botti, Chuck Findley - trumpet;  Ralph Morrison III - violin;  Luis Conte - percussion;  Kevyn Lettau, Philip Ingram, Heather Mason, Michael Mishaw, Stevie Russell - vocals

Walk Tall: Tribute to Cannonball Adderley

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Sacha Boutros - Sacha Live In Hawaii

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:30
Size: 119,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:44)  1. Our Day Will Come
(3:43)  2. I'm Glad There Is You
(3:02)  3. The Glory Of Love
(2:42)  4. Que Rest-T-Il De Nos Amours-I Wish You Love
(6:09)  5. I Thought About You
(6:15)  6. Delirio
(5:15)  7. At Long Last Love
(5:08)  8. Blame It On My Youth
(6:13)  9. Body And Soul
(4:52) 10. The Way You Look Tonight
(3:20) 11. Tres Palabras

Sacha Live in Hawaii Recorded at Hawaii Public Radio on January 28, 2011 with Hawaii's own award winning Honolulu Jazz Quartet leader Bassist John kolivas and Pianist Dan Del Negro and featuring Derek Cannon on the Flugelhorn. https://www.amazon.com/Sacha-Live-Hawaii-Boutros/dp/B005W4S7BI

Sacha Live In Hawaii

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Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool)

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:29
Size: 104,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:33)  1. Sonny's Dream
(4:23)  2. Ballad For Samuel
(5:52)  3. The Black Apostles
(5:10)  4. The Golden Pearl
(7:34)  5. Daughter Of Cochise
(5:26)  6. Sandy And Niles
(5:06)  7. The Golden Pearl [#][*][Alternate Take]
(4:21)  8. Sonny's Dream (alternate)

For Sonny Criss this was an unusual date. The altoist is backed for the set by a nonet arranged by the great Los Angeles legend Horace Tapscott. The arrangements are challenging but complementary to Criss' style, and he is in top form on the six Tapscott originals. The CD reissue includes two additional alternate takes, and is highly recommended for both Criss' playing and Tapscott's writing. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/sonnys-dream-birth-of-the-new-cool-mw0000087973

Personnel:  Sonny Criss – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone;  Conte Candoli – trumpet;  Dick Nash – trombone;  Ray Draper – tuba;  David Sherr – alto saxophone;  Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone;  Pete Christlieb – baritone saxophone;  Tommy Flanagan – piano;  Al McKibbon – bass;  Everett Brown Jr. – drums;  Horace Tapscott – arranger, conductor

Sonny's Dream  (Birth of the New Cool)

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Cat Anderson - Cat Speaks: The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:48
Size: 160,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:24)  1. Good Queen Bess
(6:05)  2. The Cat Hums
(4:14)  3. Stompy Jones
(5:23)  4. The Cat In G Flat
(4:26)  5. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
(5:13)  6. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
(6:13)  7. Black And Tan Fantasy
(4:40)  8. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
(6:14)  9. Cat Speaks
(7:33) 10. What Am I Here For
(5:24) 11. The Cat In G Flat (take 1)
(7:52) 12. Just Squeeze Me

Cat Anderson, 60 at the time of this session, was still at the height of his power at the time. Heading a quintet with fellow former Ellington member Sam Woodyard on drums plus Frenchmen Gerard Badini on tenor and clarinet, pianist Raymond Fol and bassist Michel Gaudry, Cat not only blasts out a few high notes but displays his expertise in the lower registers and with the plunger mute; he even takes a vocal on "The Cat Hums." This small group swing Lp (which has among its more memorable performances spirited renditions of "Stompy Jones" and "The Jeep Is Jumpin'") is one of Cat Anderson's finest and is well worth searching for. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/cat-speaks-mw0000373665

Cat Speaks: The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions

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Jonathan Butler - Close To You

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:11
Size: 104,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:32)  1. Do You Know the Way to San Jose
(3:34)  2. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
(3:29)  3. This Guy's in Love with You
(4:31)  4. Alfie
(3:29)  5. I Say a Little Prayer
(3:45)  6. Walk on By
(4:28)  7. (They Long to Be) Close to You
(3:46)  8. The Look of Love
(3:45)  9. Cape Town
(4:54) 10. What the World Needs Now is Love
(4:53) 11. A House is Not a Home

Dearly Beloved, Jonathan Butler having loudly even hysterically, you might feel proclaimed to the world that he has fallen in love with Jesus, let us consider his latest album and ponder Verse Two of "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" by Messrs. Hal David and Burt Bacharach:  What do you get when you kiss a girl? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. Surely anyone who can turn words like that into a smash hit must be blessed with genius, regardless of what you think of the rest of their oeuvre, which includes "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" and "What The World Needs Now Is Love." South African born singer/guitarist Butler revisits the David-Bacharach songbook for the bulk of Close To You, and also trots out his own "Cape Town," a decidedly ordinary eulogy to the place he calls home. He returns to the David-Bacharach songbook for his final number, "A House Is Not A Home," which oozes sentimentality from every pore and which you might expect to have been rendered obsolete by such modern songs as Stephen Sondheim's "Live Alone And Like It" which laud the benefits of living alone.  Butler has a ready smile and a warm voice which allow him to get away with almost anything, though he wisely treats "I Say A Little Prayer" as an instrumental, apart from a little scatting, which gets him off the hook from singing about putting on his make up. All the same, it can feel strange on occasion hearing a man interpret a song like "Walk On By," which Dionne Warwick so much made her own.  Although in this age of gender bending, as Cole Porter would undoubtedly have said, had he not died in 1964: "Anything Goes." ~ Chris Mosey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/close-to-you-jonathan-butler-jonathan-butler-mack-avenue-records-review-by-chris-mosey.php

Personnel: Jonathan Butler: vocals, guitar, percussion, bass, drum programming; Ramon Islas: percussion; Donald Hayes: saxophones; Cameron Johnson: trumpet; Nadira Kimberly: violin; Dan Lutz: bass; Jodie Butler, Antonio Sol, Francis Benetez, Terry Wood, Sandie Hall Brooks, Francis Livings, Amy Keys, Guy Maeda, Anick Byram, Clydene Jackson, Leyla Hoyle, James Zavaleta, Paulina Aguirre, Aleyna Van Antwerp, Jenny Karr, Sharlotte Gibson, Adrian Brizz, Bianca McClure, Vangie Gunn, Brigette Bryant, Andrea Grossi, Dorian Holley, Fred White, Carlis Murguia, Will Wheaton, Charlean Carmon, Aleta Braxton: background vocals.

Close To You

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