Clark Terry - Summit Jazz Orchestra: The Knight's Golden Trumpet

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:09
Size: 138,9 MB
Art: Front

( 6:25)  1. Walkin Tiptoe
(18:03)  2. Clark (Autumn Leaves - When I Fall In Love - Spaceman)
( 6:12)  3. Two Sides
( 6:17)  4. I Want A Little Girl
( 7:17)  5. Sophisticated Lady
( 8:00)  6. Miles Mode
( 3:24)  7. Just Friends
( 3:28)  8. Mumbles

In April 2000 the not yet five year old Summit Jazz Orchestra, which makes its home in Regensburg, Germany, welcomed 79 year-old jazz legend Clark Terry for a twelve-day tour and recording session that music director/bass trombonist Christian Sommerer describes as “a lifetime experience for every single musician” in the SJO, whose members come from all over the country and whose ages range from 21 to 30. If the tour was anything like the album, audiences must have been blown away by Terry and the orchestra. Although in poor health and suffering from diabetes, Clark is in magnificent form throughout, playing with the energy and enthusiasm of someone many years his junior. Clearly, he was inspired by the SJO, which returns the compliment with spirited blowing of its own. The album’s centerpiece is the eighteen-minute medley “Clark,” which comprises the standards “Autumn Leaves” and “When I Fall in Love” and Terry’s composition “Spaceman.” Clark plays trumpet and flugelhorn (alternating one-handed fours on “Spaceman”), and there are bracing solos by baritone saxophonist Jürgen Zimmermann, guitarist Hanno Busch and tenor saxophonist Hugo Siegmeth. Clark solos as well on Bert Joris’ “Walkin’ Tiptoe,” Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady” (noted here as “Lady Sophie”) and the standard “Just Friends,“ plays and sings on one of his popular specialty numbers, “I Want a Little Girl,” wraps up the session with his classic “Mum-bles” routine (even more hilarious in faux German!) and takes a breather on only two numbers, Eric Veldkamp’s “Two Sides” and John Coltrane’s “Miles’ Mode.” The SJO, whose members earned their stripes in Peter Herbolzheimer’s superb National German Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) and various other regional youth jazz ensembles, is close-cropped unit with remarkable rhythmic power and a number of top-drawer soloists. Besides those already noted, they include altos Ulrich Wangenheim (“Two Sides”) and Markus Lihocky (“Miles’ Mode,” “Mumbles”), pianist Michael Wollny (“Walkin’ Tiptoe,” “Miles’ Mode”), trumpeter Sven Klammer (“Walkin’ Tiptoe”) and trombonist Martin Ostermeier (“Two Sides”). Together with the incomparable and seemingly ageless Clark Terry, they have produced an album of consistently exhilarating big band jazz. 

~ Jack Bowers https://www.allaboutjazz.com/clark-the-summit-jazz-orchestra-edition-collage-review-by-jack-bowers.php

Summit Jazz Orchestra

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Buddy Terry - Pure Dynamite

Styles: Saxophone And Flute Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:41
Size: 104,7 MB
Art: Front

(10:11)  1. Quiet Afternoon
(10:49)  2. Paranoia
(17:32)  3. Baba Hengates
( 7:07)  4. Miscegenation

Edlin "Buddy" Terry (born January 30, 1941) is an American jazz musician and alto/tenor sax player. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. In the 1960s and 1970s Terry made albums for Prestige Records and Mainstream Records. He played with the group Swingadelic from 2000 to 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Terry

Personnel:  Buddy Terry - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute;  Woody Shaw - trumpet;  Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn;  Kenny Barron - piano;  Joanne Brackeen - piano, electric piano;  Stanley Clarke, Mchezaji - bass;  Billy Hart, Lenny White - drums;  Airto Moreira - percussion;  Mtumé - African percussion

Pure Dynamite

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Bobby Previte & The New Bump - Set the Alarm for Monday

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:39
Size: 123,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:28)  1. Set the Alarm for Monday
(5:39)  2. I'd Advise You Not To Miss Your Train
(4:32)  3. She Has Information
(3:43)  4. Where You Followed
(4:29)  5. I'm on to Her
(6:06)  6. There Was Something In My Drink
(5:44)  7. You're In Over Your Head
(5:08)  8. Drive South, Along the Canyon
(8:46)  9. Wake Up Andrea, We're Pulling In

A seminal figure in the Downtown New York scene, drummer and composer Bobby Previte resurrected his Bump the Renaissance ensemble for the cinematic Set The Alarm For Monday. Previte's venerable acoustic group has featured a rotating roster of talent over the years, including Ray Anderson, Curtis Fowlkes, Wayne Horvitz, Lenny Picket, Steve Swallow and Tom Varner. Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Bill Ware (vibes) and Brad Jones (bass) form the current incarnation, with special guests Steven Bernstein (trumpet) and Jim Pugliese (percussion). Conceived as a long form suite, the album opens gradually, working through progressions in mood episodically. Narrative song titles like "She Has Information" and "There Was Something In My Drink," suggest an evocative film-noir atmosphere that unravels like chapters from a pulp novel; each tune is another act in the continuing saga. An aura of suspenseful mystery permeates the session, which unfolds with foreboding drama, intermittently punctuated by rousing anthems. Book-ended by enigmatic tone poems, the core of the record features simmering ostinatos and driving vamps that conjure scenes of shadowy rendezvous at secret after- hours clubs and frenzied chases down seedy back alleys. Driving these pieces, Previte unfurls a multitude of Latinized polyrhythms, with tasteful syncopated accents provided by Jim Pugliese. Bill Ware and Brad Jones, longstanding members of the Jazz Passengers, have ample experience in this milieu. Jones' intricate winding bass lines offer a sinewy foundation for Ware's kaleidoscopic vibes, which stage effervescent tableaus for Ellery Eskelin and Steven Bernstein to explore. A singular stylist, Eskelin's wooly timbre and taut phrases mesh soundly with Bernstein's highly expressive pre-swing aesthetic, which resounds with smears, growls and buzzing mutes. Together they trade sinuous cadences and soaring intervals, uncoiling circuitous refrains and plangent cries. As fellow veterans of the fertile Downtown scene, the sextet delivers these stylish urban panoramas with convincing flair, effortlessly shifting from brooding atmospherics to sultry Latin grooves. Previte's most rewarding acoustic album in years, Set The Alarm For Monday effectively captures the mythic soul of Gotham after dark. ~ Troy Collins https://www.allaboutjazz.com/set-the-alarm-for-monday-bobby-previte-palmetto-records-review-by-troy-collins.php

Personnel: Bobby Previte: drums; Ellery Eskelin: tenor saxophone; Steven Bernstein: trumpet; Bill Ware: vibraphone; Brad Jones: bass; Jim Pugliese: percussion.

Set the Alarm for Monday

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David S. Ware Trio - Passage to Music

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:28
Size: 159,4 MB
Art: Front

( 5:50)  1. An Ancient Formula
( 7:35)  2. Ancient Visitors
(10:51)  3. Passage to Music
(10:52)  4. African Secrets
(13:24)  5. The Elders Path
( 9:06)  6. Phonetic Hymn
(11:47)  7. Mystery

A fiery avant-garde tenor saxophonist, David Ware had recorded two early sets for Hat Hut and Palm during 1977-78; a decade later he had his third opportunity to lead a record session. Joined by bassist William Parker and drummer Marc Edwards, Ware performs five of his free jazz originals, mostly on tenor but also playing one song apiece on saxello and stritch. 

Not for the weak-of-heart, David Ware's searching improvisations reward repeated listenings by open-eared listeners. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/passage-to-music-mw0000256959

Personnel:   David S. Ware - tenor saxophone, producer, saxello, stritch;  William Parker - bass;  Marc Edwards - drums

Passage to Music

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Rebekka Bakken - Things You Leave Behind

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:51
Size: 98,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:53)  1. Closer
(3:27)  2. Black Shades
(4:05)  3. Things You Leave Behind
(3:34)  4. Time After Time
(4:01)  5. Yankee Days
(4:08)  6. Shelter
(4:13)  7. True North
(2:55)  8. Charlie
(4:37)  9. Sound of Us
(3:54) 10. Hotel St. Pauli
(2:56) 11. Dance for You

Nordic folk-jazz chanteuse Rebekka Bakken was the most successful exponent of a new generation of Scandinavian jazz singers that also included Silje Nergaard, Sidsel Endresen, and Solveig Slettahjell. Born in Oslo in 1970, Bakken studied violin and piano as a child, and in 1995 relocated to New York City to pursue a professional music career. There she paired with Austrian-born guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and together they toured the local nightclub circuit as a duo. In time Bakken also befriended German pianist Julia Hülsmann, with whom she recorded the 2003 album Scattering Poems, a collection of jazz performances inspired by the poems of e.e. cummings. Upon completing the project Bakken returned to Europe, settling in Vienna and signing a solo deal with the Universum label. Her debut LP, The Art of How to Fall, followed by year's end, and in 2005 she resurfaced with her commercial breakthrough, Is That You? I Keep My Cool followed a year later. ~ Jason Ankeny https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/things-you-leave-behind/1416650722

Things You Leave Behind

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