Harry Allen & Rossano Sportiello - Conversations

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:03
Size: 144,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:53)  1. Like Someone In Love
(4:33)  2. Imagination
(5:07)  3. It Could Happen To You
(5:23)  4. But Beautiful
(6:37)  5. Personality
(4:37)  6. I Wish You Needed Me
(7:02)  7. Pennies From Heaven
(6:28)  8. Moonlight Becomes You
(5:27)  9. If Love Ain't There
(4:25) 10. Oh! You Crazy Moon
(4:41) 11. Swinging On A Star
(2:45) 12. What's New?

"Conversations" is a duo recording by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and pianist Rossano Sportiello featuring the music of famed lyricist Johnny Burke (most noted for his long-time collaboration with Jimmy Van Heusen). Titled "Conversations" because of the intimate nature of the music… a conversation between two musicians who strive for beauty in the music. Features the great jazz standards "What's New?", "It Could Happen To You", "But Beautiful", "Moonlight Becomes You", "Like Someone In Love", "Swinging On A Star" plus many more. Harry Allen has recorded over 40 CDs as a leader and frequently tours the United States, Europe and Asia performing at the world's best jazz festivals and jazz clubs. Rossano Sportiello has recorded prolifically and is in demand as both a leader and a sideman, touring the globe constantly, headlining at jazz festivals, concerts and jazz clubs. What the critics say: This aptly named album demonstrates the magic that results when two outstanding and simpatico jazz players engage in musical dialogue.  Allen and Sportiello have been playing together frequently, mostly in a quartet format for about two years, and the empathy that has developed between them is immediately evident to anyone who hears this disc.  Both are among the best current players on their instruments, and the pairing of the two a match made in musical Heaven. ~ Joe Lang https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/harryallenrossanosportie

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone  - Harry Allen; Piano – Rossano Sportiello

Conversations

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Francesca Tandoi - Wind Dance

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:15
Size: 139,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:59)  1. I Could Write a Book
(5:27)  2. Magic Three
(3:34)  3. This Can´t Be Love
(6:40)  4. Clair De Lune
(4:58)  5. Thou Swell
(6:07)  6. Where Do You Start
(4:38)  7. Just You, Just Me
(4:03)  8. I'll Be Seeing You
(5:26)  9. Wind Dance
(7:22) 10. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
(5:56) 11. Fried Pies

The 31-year-old Francesca Tandoi has been busy since 2014 with an advance in the jazz world. The originally Italian musician has released two albums on the Japanese jazz label Atelier Sawano and in the country of the rising sun alone 10,000 copies were sold. For jazz concepts no numbers to be ashamed of. Wind Dance is the new CD and it has all the ingredients to make the success grow. To begin with, Tandoi shows impressive piano skills. Her fingers seem to be loose, so smoothly she flies over her keyboard in the swinging tracks. It is striking that, in addition to her virtuosity, she still has a fairly soft massaging touch. That comes into its own in the quiet songs in which romance and melancholy breathe. That atmosphere gets an extra dimension when Tandoi is also blessed with a beautiful singing voice full of warmth and sensuality. Secretly it is a bit of a shame that she sings in only four of the eleven songs. And that is the only comment on Wind Dance. A delightful record on which Tandoi is accompanied by none other than bassist Frans van Geest and drummer Frits Landesbergen. Translate by Google http://www.sergejulien.nl/albumrecensie-francesca-tandoi-trio-wind-dance/

Personnel:  Francesca Tandoi: piano & vocal ;  Frans van Geest: bass;  Frits Landesbergen: drums

Wind Dance

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Christian Scott - Christian Scott Collection

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:44
Size: 173,7 MB
Art: Front

( 5:46)  1. The Uprising
( 5:19)  2. Rewind That
( 5:29)  3. The Eraser
( 6:25)  4. When Marissa Stands Her Ground
( 5:48)  5. Cease Fire
( 6:53)  6. Jenacide (The Inevitable Rise and Fall of the Bloodless Revolution)
( 6:29)  7. Say It
( 4:45)  8. Spy Boy/Flag Boy
( 6:39)  9. Like That
( 3:33) 10. The Red Rooster
( 7:07) 11. The American't
(11:26) 12. Litany Against Fear

Forward-thinking jazz trumpeter Christian Scott has built a career balancing both jazz tradition and commercial expectation with a sound that touches upon modal jazz, contemporary R&B, experimental hip-hop, and ruminative art-rock. The 2014 Scott anthology, Christian Scott Collection, compiles tracks off his various Concord albums including 2006's Rewind That, 2007's Anthem, 2010's Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, 2011's Ninety Miles, and 2012's Christian a Tunde Adjuah. While Scott's overall approach to making jazz is an eclectic cross-genre one, his sound has remained largely cohesive. Working with a regular crew of sidemen, including guitarist Matthew Stevens, keyboardist Lawrence Fields, bassist Kristopher Keith Funn, and drummer Jamire Williams, among others, Scott quickly developed a group concept for his wide-ranging compositions. While his warm, harmonically adventurous trumpet playing brings to mind the influence of such titans as Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, his overall sound is anything but straight-ahead and traditional. Songs like arid "Eraser" and the languid, dramatic "American't," while certainly registering as instrumental, improvisational music, have as much in common with the ruminative, experimental post-rock of bands like Radiohead and Tortoise as they do with any instrumental jazz. Even when Scott delves deep into sultry, laid-back soul-jazz as he does on the half-lidded slow jam, "Like That," it ends up sounding less like a vintage '70s CTI recording (although that does come to mind) and more like a contemporary Christian Scott recording. Ultimately, with Christian Scott Collection, it's evident just how well Scott's highly cross-pollinated jazz holds together from album to album. ~ Matt Collar https://www.allmusic.com/album/christian-scott-collection-mw0002766077

Personnel:  Christian Scott – Trumpet;  Walter Smith III – Saxophone;  Matthew Stevens – Guitar;  Lugues Curtis – Electric Bass;  Milton Fletcher, Jr. – Piano

Christian Scott Collection

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Till Bronner - Blue Eyed Soul

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:11
Size: 131,3 MB
Art: Front

(0:29)  1. Intro
(3:01)  2. Track One
(4:40)  3. Diavolo
(3:59)  4. Blue Eyed Soul
(5:06)  5. No Fusion Generation
(5:22)  6. 42Nd & 6Th
(5:06)  7. Tub Of Love
(5:03)  8. Just The Way You Are
(6:04)  9. Love Somebody
(0:36) 10. Trash (Interlude)
(3:28) 11. Jazz Musician
(4:54) 12. Oscar Said (Feat. David Friedmann)
(0:50) 13. Reverand Henry (Interlude)
(6:52) 14. Dim The Lights (Feat. Mark Murphy)
(1:32) 15. Banizm (Outro)

It may be jazzed again! After an avowed DJ culture has rehabilitated jazz as an important source of inspiration, one may again come out as a jazz listener, without being pushed into the corner of the intellectual head person. Jazz export hit Till Brönner also knows how to play a song. He transports his conception of jazz into a wide variety of genres. A collaboration with Hildegard Knef ("But Beautiful It Was Yet") must be as much as the Veriphoping kölschen Carnival (My Secret Love). With " Blue Eyed Soul " he enters once again unexpected terrain, or, "Till Brönner is always good for a surprise," as half Petgroove tried to make me the slice tasty. I must confess, the last releases of the native Vierseners did not convince me. Neither old UFA hits (German songs) nor shallow smooth jazz (Love) lured me out from behind my central heating system. And now that!  After a short introduction, I find myself in the midst of an ultracool grooving song that turns into a rap through Till's trumpet playing, without any verbiage. I like that when an album with the first title convinces me! "I would call it a good chill-out music, you do not have to buy stress!" Till says. I fully share his attitude and add a triple strong BUY. The mix of R'n'B , Hip Hop, Soul , Blues and Jazz works right away and definitely belongs to the best, which reached my insatiable ears from this unspectacular mix of styles in recent years. Not only Till would "hang it up herself if I had a party", everyone else who can do something with Tab Two , Erykah Badu and the Cafe del Mar samplers will love Blue Eyed Soul . "'Blue Eyed Soul' is originally the term black people in America use a little pejorative when making white soul music, by the way, by the way, George Michael is also considered a representative of 'Blue Eyed Soul', which in my view speaks for a certain respect. Till explains the title choice of the new album. At the same time he has to face the nagging questions of the jazz police, who once put a lot of hope in the apostates: "Is that still jazz or just enjoyable mood music? Is service pop or a daring cosmetic operation on the makeshift improvised music?" ironically asks the open minded jazzthing magazine on behalf of Wynton Marsalis, the police chief. What Till finds at least as casual words as he conjures just such sounds from his trumpet: "I'm just now on things that would drive a pure jazzman the anger in the face". Me too! ~ Kai Kopp ..Translate by google https://www.laut.de/Till-Broenner/Alben/Blue-Eyed-Soul-2233

Blue Eyed Soul

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Scott Hamilton - Meets The Piano Players

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:28
Size: 150,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:06)  1. On The Street Where You Live
(6:33)  2. Casbah
(7:03)  3. O Grande Amor
(7:06)  4. Searchin´
(4:35)  5. Georgia On My Mind
(7:13)  6. Deep Night
(8:17)  7. Nica´s Dream
(6:58)  8. Lotus Blossom
(5:53)  9. Though Swell
(4:39) 10. Luitpold Parker

When Scott Hamilton appeared in the mid-'70s fully formed with an appealing swing style on tenor (mixing Zoot Sims and Ben Webster), he caused a minor sensation few other young players during the fusion era were exploring pre-bop jazz at his high level. He began playing when he was 16 and developed quickly, moving to New York in 1976. Hamilton played with Benny Goodman in the late '70s, but he has mostly performed as a leader, sometimes sharing the spotlight with Warren Vaché, Ruby Braff, Rosemary Clooney, the Concord Jazz All-Stars, or George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars. Other than a few sessions for Famous Door and Progressive, Hamilton has recorded a prolific string of dates for many labels often more than two a year that are notable for their consistency and solid swing. Highlights of his 21st century dates include 2010's Live at Nefertiti with the Scandinavian Five and 'Round Midnight in duo with pianist Harry Allen in 2012. In 2014, Fremeaux & Associes released Scott Hamilton Plays with the Dany Doriz Caveau de la Huchette Orchestra one of five albums issued under his name that year. Scott Hamilton Plays Jule Styne was issued in 2015, which also netted a handful of dates. La Rosita, with Dena DeRose, Ignasi González, and Jo Krause, marked his debut for Discmedi in 2016 it was the third year in a row in which he issued five albums. 2017 was right on pace, with three albums by mid-year including Things We Did Last Summer w/Champian Fulton, Ballads for Audiophiles, and his second date for Discmedi, Shadow of Your Smile. ~ Scott Yanow https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/meets-the-piano-players/1370739416

Personnel:  Scott Hamilton(saxophone);  Thilo Wagner(piano -1,9);  Claus Raible(piano -2,6);  Tizian Jost(piano -3,7);  Bernhard Pichl(piano -4,8);  Joe Kienmann(piano -5,10);  Rudi Engel(bass);  Michael Keul(drums)

Meets The Piano Players

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