Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Debra Mann - A Time For Love

Size: 147,8 MB
Time: 63:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. You're Everything (4:24)
02. Hold On To My Love (6:00)
03. You Can Count On Me (3:08)
04. Agua De Beber (6:17)
05. A Time For Love (6:16)
06. I'm Old Fashioned (2:58)
07. How My Heart Sings (5:19)
08. Love Reborn (5:19)
09. I'm All Smiles (4:11)
10. Don't Go To Strangers (5:38)
11. From The Heart (3:44)
12. Lush Life (6:12)
13. Song For The Vineyard (3:49)

Debra Mann is widely recognized as Rhode Island’s premier jazz pianist and vocalist. She graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music, Boston, studied jazz piano with Jeff Covell, Charlie Banacos, Harvey Diamond, Hal Crook, Diamond Centofanti, and Bob Winter, classical piano studies with Ed Bedner. vocal training with classical voice teachers, Dante Pavone & Annamaria Saritelli, Somatic VoiceWork, the LoVetri Method founder, Jeannie LoVetri, and jazz vocal improvisation with Bob Stoloff.

Since graduating from Berklee, Debra has performed extensively as a solo artist and in various groups throughout the New England area at venues of all sizes, including jazz clubs, concert halls, and festivals, while sharing the stage with well known artists including Dick Johnson, Herb Pomeroy, Gray Sargent, Marshall Wood, Ted Casher, Billy Novick, Greg Hopkins, Greg Abate, John LaPorta, Dave Zinno, Dino Govoni, Jay Azzolina, John Lockwood, Marty Richards, Marty Ballou, Mike Monaghan, Dan Moretti, Ed Tomassi, Oscar Stagnaro, Nanny Assis, Claudio Ragazzi, Bob Gullotti, Jon Wheatley, Jeff Stout, John Allmark, Ed Saindon, and many others.

In 1990 she established the Debra Mann Trio, which has since been expanded to a quintet that features world-class musicians. They perform American Jazz standards, Brazilian jazz music, original compositions, and concerts that feature the music of iconic singer/songwriter, Joni Mitchell, Brazilian composer and national treasure, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and jazz pianist/composer, Dave Frishberg.

Debra has performed at Symphony Hall, Boston, as a featured guest soloist with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra. She had the distinct honor of performing at the request of Frank Sinatra. In celebration of Women’s History Month she performed with her trio on Ron Dellachiesa’s WGBH radio program “Music America”.

Debra Mann is a Whaling City Sound recording artist. Her newest recording, Full Circle, features the music of Joni Mitchell, and will be released in early 2018. She has released three CD recordings on her record label, Jobe Records. “From the Heart” was nominated “Best local recording” by the Providence Phoenix. “A Time for Love” was released to a sold out concert at Chan’s, RI’s premier jazz club. “Home” was placed on the Official Ballot for the 2010 Grammy Awards by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in several categories including Record of the Year ('Autumn'), Album of the Year ('Home'), Song of the Year ('Heart of Love'), Best Pop Vocal Album ('Home'), and Best Improvised Jazz Solo (‘Autumn').

Debra is a passionate Jazz educator. She is a member of the Jazz Education Network, as well as the Providence Musicians Union. She is in demand as a jazz voice and piano teacher. She joined the faculty at Brown University in 2014, and Wheaton College in 2015. She is a certified teacher in Somatic VoiceWork, the LoVetri Method. Her approach to teaching is wholistic, encompassing technique, theory, repertoire, improvisation, composition, arranging, performance techniques, and helping students discover and develop their own personal style.

A Time For Love

Stephan Kramer With Sheila Jordan & Chris Lachotta - Thank You Sheila!

Size: 144,6 MB
Time: 61:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. When I Grow Too Old To Dream (3:21)
02. Sheila Introduces The Duo (2:13)
03. Hum Drum Blues (2:13)
04. Like Someone In Love (4:40)
05. Sheila Talks About Bird (0:58)
06. If I Should Lose You (6:29)
07. The Promise Of You (4:39)
08. Stephan Says Thank You (1:02)
09. Look For The Silver Lining (3:15)
10. Yardbird Suite (4:52)
11. Useless Landscape (4:55)
12. Sheila Points Out The Tie (0:56)
13. How Deep Is The Ocean (6:54)
14. Lady Be Good (4:13)
15. Sheila Talks About Nyc (0:22)
16. Autumn In New York (6:48)
17. Estate (3:43)

Sheila Jordan, Stephan Kramer and Chris Lachotta - how can I rewrite this connection? An attempt: the gentle and exhilarating jazz sounds & Latin grooves take the listener into their own magical world of formation. You feel almost as close to the musicians as if you listened to their music in a small New York jazz club and would end the evening in style with a glass of wine.

Sheila Jordan brings along a tremendous scatvocabulary with a rare depth of interpretation, her serene life experience carries the whole thing: fearlessly and casually she creates intricate phrasing and rhythmic specials that one might think were nursery rhymes. Always with you: heart and soul. Every word, every phrase seems to have meaning, is filled with lived life.

Stephan Kramer accompanies to the point, sensitively captures every mood, every note of the singer and complements it with his own jazz language. You could almost be jealous as a singer ... Whether fast, sweeping chord changes or thoughtful Flageolet sounds, this music is still unique. It's nice to hear the change of hands, to experience the handmade music in his guitar playing.

Last but not least there is Chris Lachotta on the bass, who gives the whole a primed frame, sometimes soft and dreamy with the use of the bow, sometimes plucked and striding forcefully. Also one or the other bass solo can be heard. ~Online translation

Thank You Sheila!

Claudio Chiara - Retro Gems

Size: 78,1 MB
Time: 32:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Livietta's Dance (3:04)
02. Look Forward (3:23)
03. The Winter Is Long (3:12)
04. Samba For Me (3:50)
05. The Sun Of Bahia (3:48)
06. Burt's Mood (3:54)
07. Homeward (2:48)
08. Speed Trial (2:16)
09. A Fine Day (3:10)
10. Alida's Dream (3:27)

Claudio Chiara is one of Italy's busiest jazz musicians. The former lead alto saxophone player in Gianni Basso's Big Band, Tullio De Piscopo's Big Band, and Paese Degli Specchi Big Band, Chiara has toured Europe with the Paolo Conte Band since 1995. In addition to recording two albums, Claudio Chiara Quintet and Il Jazz, with his own quintet, Chiara has worked with such stellar jazz musicians as Bob Mover, Benny Bailey, Alvin Queen, Bill Evans, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Riccardo Zegna, Luciano Milanese, Andrea Pozza, Luigi Bonafede, Stefhan Belmando, and Furio Di Castri. Together with the New Generation Band, he recorded two albums, Indian Fire and Modern Word, of big band-influenced original tunes. Since 1995, he has performed in Europe with the Paolo Conte Band. Initially an upright bass player, Chiara studied with Enzo Ferraris at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music. Teaching himself to play alto saxophone, he made his debut on the instrument as a member of Gianni Basso's Big Band in 1986. ~by Craig Harris

Retro Gems

Bobby Broom & The Organi-Sation - Soul Fingers

Size: 136,4 MB
Time: 58:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Guitar Jazz, Easy Listening
Art: Front & Back

01. Come Together (6:02)
02. Ode To Billie Joe (5:44)
03. Do It Again (5:05)
04. Why My Guitar Gently Weeps (6:11)
05. Summer Breeze (6:02)
06. Eyes Of Faith (5:51)
07. Get Ready (6:43)
08. A Whiter Shade Of Pale (4:36)
09. I Can't Help (6:09)
10. The Guitar Man (5:55)

Veteran jazz guitarist Bobby Broom combines his jazz pedigree with his love of the pop tunes he grew up with in the '60s and '70s on his twelfth recording as a leader, the aptly-titled 'Soul Fingers', produced by Steve Jordan.

It's a formula that Broom worked to perfection on 2001's 'Stand!', which had him interpreting songs by The Beatles, The Turtles, The Mamas and the Papas, Johnny Nash, Stevie Wonder and Sly & The Family Stone through a hard-bop lens. This time out he puts his personal spin on some iconic pop tunes from that same golden era in a swinging program with his Organi-Sation, featuring his longtime drummer Kobie Watkins and the Philly-born, Brooklyn-based B-3 ace Ben Paterson.

Together they shuffle and swing their way through pop classics like The Beatles' "Come Together," Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe," Steely Dan's "Do It Again," Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" and others. And Broom, a continuation of that great jazz guitar lineage running from Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery to Grant Green, George Benson and Pat Martino, holds nothing back in his harmonic stretching and fleet-fingered flurries on these familiar vehicles.

'Soul Fingers' also represents a reunion, of sorts, between Broom and drummer-producer Steve Jordan, who played together in Sonny Rollins' band during two different periods.

Soul Fingers

Rich Howard - I Wish You Love

Size: 106,9 MB
Time: 46:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Because Of You (3:21)
02. September In The Rain (3:45)
03. More Than You Know (5:13)
04. An Affair To Remember (3:25)
05. I'll Be Seeing You (Live) (3:55)
06. Where Or When (4:06)
07. When Day Is Done (3:33)
08. My Ideal (3:08)
09. I Wish You Love (3:46)
10. You'll Never Know (5:11)
11. If I Didn't Care (3:44)
12. Without A Song (2:47)

Ballads and love songs from the Great American Songbook make for a soothing experience. For his debut album, Rich had a wonderful group of New York area studio musicians chosen by pianist and producer John Di Martino backing him up.

I Wish You Love

Vickie Van Dyke & Davor Jordanovski - Under The Influence

Size: 113,9 MB
Time: 48:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Just For A Thrill (4:12)
02. Woman Alone With The Blues (3:08)
03. Remind Me (4:17)
04. Moments Like This (2:53)
05. Second Time Around (3:07)
06. I Love Being Here With You (2:49)
07. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (2:36)
08. Darn That Dream (3:55)
09. Black Coffee (3:04)
10. Let's Make The Most Of A Beautiful Thing (4:38)
11. Crazy He Calls Me (3:28)
12. Ole Devil Called Love (3:11)
13. One For My Baby (3:48)
14. Under The Influence (3:39)

I am a DJ and a jazz(ish) singer with a huge love for the classics from Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone and Julie London (to name just a few). Paying tribute to these marvelous women who have influenced my musical sensibilities has long been on my bucket list and now is the time for "Under The Influence". Produced by Davor Jordanovski, and featuring some of Canada's finest players.

Under The Influence

Denny Zeitlin, Charlie Haden - Time Remembers One Time Once

Styles: Piano Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1983
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:45
Size: 123,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:35)  1. Chairman Mao
(9:53)  2. Bird Food
(6:53)  3. As Long As There's Music
(4:27)  4. Time Remembers One Time Once
(7:04)  5. Love For Sale
(6:37)  6. Ellen David
(8:05)  7. Satellite/How High The Moon
(4:06)  8. The Dolphin

Denny Zeitlin and Charlie Haden joined forces for this 1981 date at the Keystone Korner, covering a wide range of material in this exciting duo set. Haden's "Chairman Mao" is a complex number, as Haden opens with an intense repetitious vamp before Zeitlin enters with the delicate Oriental-flavored theme, which sets up Haden's intricate bass solo. The duo has lots of fun with Ornette Coleman's topsy-turvy blues "Bird Food" before reverting to a lovely standard ballad, "As Long as There's Music," with an added emphasis on its lyricism. Zeitlin's intriguing "Time Remembers One Time Once" starts as a waltz but its sudden turns defy prediction. Their laid-back approach to "Love for Sale" is refreshing, especially when compared to the typically uptempo arrangements heard all too often. A medley of John Coltrane's "Satellite" and the old warhorse "How High the Moon" (with Haden coyly interpolating Charlie Parker's "Ornithology," which is based upon "How High the Moon") also works beautifully. The occasional over-modulation in this recording doesn't detract from the outstanding performances. ~ Ken Dryden https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-remembers-one-time-once-mw0000084907

Personnel:  Denny Zeitlin — piano;  Charlie Haden — bass

Time Remembers One Time Once

Woong San - Love Letters

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:32
Size: 116,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:50)  1. I Want To Be Happy
(5:18)  2. Love Letters
(5:26)  3. My Funny Valentine
(6:00)  4. Misty Blue
(5:28)  5. Fever
(4:47)  6. Cry Me A River
(2:59)  7. The Man I Love
(5:32)  8. Superstition
(4:16)  9. Once Upon A Summertime
(4:02) 10. It's Alright With Me
(3:50) 11. Please Send Me Someone To Love

WoongSan (born Kim Eun Young) is an award-winning South Korean musician, actress and TV show host.  She has been a leading figure in the jazz music scene in Korea and Japan for over a decade, having performed live over 500 times since her 1998 Japanese debut. She is the first Korean-born musician to perform at New York City's historic Blue Note Jazz Club and has collaborated with many other well-known jazz musicians including Benny Green, Lonnie Plaxico, Rodney Green, Conrad Herwig and Suzuki Hisatsugu. She is also well known for training Ali (South Korean singer), a popular K-pop singer. When she was 18, WoongSan spent a year and a half at a Buddhist temple in the Korean countryside. During her training she had a powerful realization: her calling in life was music. Initially she played in a college rock band, but after a friend played her a Billie Holiday record, she began to dedicate herself to jazz. She spent several years performing as a solo artist then released her first album accompanied by a jazz ensemble in 1996. By the end of 1998 she was a recognizable figure in both Korea and Japan, and since then, she has released six albums, garnered numerous awards and critical acclaim, and continues to tour prolifically. She has also written many songs for films. Last year, she proved her career was an ongoing path as a music performer on the stage collaborated with Lee Ritenour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoongSan

Love Letters

Rodney Kendrick - The Secrets Of Rodney Kendrick

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:12
Size: 138,3 MB
Art: Front

( 6:56)  1. Slide The World Into Space
(10:04)  2. Ganawa In Paris
( 3:36)  3. The New World Is Ordered
( 7:41)  4. Berkshire Blues
( 6:35)  5. Dig
( 6:22)  6. Sharon
( 4:47)  7. Slick Exit
( 4:54)  8. Takin It With Me
( 9:13)  9. Down Here Below

A member of vocalist Abbey Lincoln's group at the time of this recording, this is pianist Rodney Kendrick's debut as a leader. For this recording he has gathered several musical contemporaries playing in various combinations for a varied program of nine selections, including four written by Kendrick and two written by pianist Randy Weston, the African percussion-driven "Ganawa in Paris" and a beautiful trio reading of "Berkshire Blues." In addition to Weston, Thelonius Monk seems to be Kendrick's other primary influence, as heard in his solos throughout this recording and his playful introduction to Miles Davis' "Dig," a medium swinger based on "Sweet Georgia Brown" that features excellent contributions from alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett and trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Garrett and Hargrove also contribute mightily to Kendrick's "Slide the World Into Place" and "Slick Exit," while cornetist Graham Haynes and tenor saxophonist Houston Person show their stuff on Kendrick and Tarus Mateen's "The New World Is Ordered" and Tyler Mitchell's "Takin' It With Me." This is a very promising debut from an up-and-coming pianist. ~ Greg Turner https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-secrets-of-rodney-kendrick-mw0000109804

Personnel:  Piano, Arranged By – Rodney Kendrick;  Alto Saxophone – Kenny Garrett;  Bass – Tarus Mateen;  Cornet – Graham Haynes;  Drums – Turu Alexander;  Tenor Saxophone – Houston Person;  Trumpet – Roy Hargrove

The Secrets Of Rodney Kendrick

Scott Hamilton - Jazz At The Club

Styles: Vocal, Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:17
Size: 162,7 MB
Art: Front

(10:26)  1. Yours Is My Heart Alone
( 9:09)  2. The Sheik Of Araby
( 5:45)  3. Maybe You'll Be There
( 9:34)  4. Blue 'N' Boogie
( 9:46)  5. How Deep Is The Ocean
( 6:29)  6. Old Folks
( 7:08)  7. Estate
(10:57)  8. I'll Remember April

When, early seventies, Scott Hamilton made his international debut, it was a kind of sensation. On the album cover he looked like a guy from the fifties or even earlier. The music he played also had the taste of yore. Of all those great swingers that preceded him. Scott Hamilton seemed a fad that would fade. Not so with Hamilton. Happily. His style was a matter of pure love. A love to which he stayed faithful. With that ideal mastery of the flowery language of swing and bop. Up to the smallest punctuation marks. Being able to use them fluently in enjoyable stories everyone could like. By lovingly blowing new life into his ‘standards’.  In The Hague’s ‘Literaire Sociëteit De Witte’ the Jazz at the Club- programme brought Hamilton together with Dutch jazzmusicians who could have been his blood relatives, musically speaking. Drummer Frits Landesbergen who as a young musician already gathered all the important jazz prizes in his country and always swings. Bass player Hans Mantel a musician who can caress, swing ánd sing on his instrument. With the youngest of the band, piano player Francesca Tandoi, originally from Rome but living in The Hague, who supports and solos with lots of phantasy and a perfect timing. And whose singing voice is as important. Because of the ear-pleasing intimacy and romance of her expression in ‘Maybe you’ll be there’ and ‘Estate’. ‘Scott Hamilton Live’ offers a delightful journey from what jazz was to what it is. With the ancient ‘Sheik of Araby’ (1921, from a Rudolf Valentino-movie) to Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Blue 'N' Boogie’. From ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’, from the Franz Léhar operetta ‘Das Land des Lächens’, as a jazz piece titled ‘Yours is my heart alone’. To Irving Berlins beautiful ‘How deep is the ocean’ or Gene de Pauls ‘I’ll remember April’.  Welcome to the world of the eternal lover, Scott Hamilton. https://www.oaprecords.com/index.php?id=29&no_cache=1&L=0&tt_products%5Bproduct%5D=139&cHash=d9a0dfbbb676b7dc3af6647ab1c5f965

Personnel:  Scott Hamilton - Tenor Saxophone;  Francesca Tandoi - Piano & vocals (track 3 & 7);  Hans Mantel - Double Bass;  Frits Landesbergen  - Drums

Jazz At The Club

Michael Dease - Bonafide

Styles: Trombone Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:48
Size: 147,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:00)  1. Pearls
(6:05)  2. Theme For Basie
(4:59)  3. Rufus McWhitman
(5:18)  4. Tenor Madness
(4:21)  5. Batista's Groove
(6:00)  6. Coexist
(4:45)  7. Forge Ahead
(6:13)  8. Alpha
(8:55)  9. In Walked Wayne
(6:08) 10. Nós
(5:59) 11. The Real Deal

Michael Dease just seems to grow and grow with each new record  not just in sound and fresh ideas, but also in spirit which is especially the case here, on a set that brings in a few other trombonists to the ensemble! The core group has Michael's tight, soulful trombone in a quartet with David Hazeltine on piano, Todd Coolman on bass, and EJ Strickland on drums a rhythm trio as sharp as you'd imagine and various tracks bring in contributions from Marshall Gilkes and Conrad Herwig on trombones, and Gina Benalcazar on bass trombone! Only one of the album's tracks features four trombones, two more feature three trombonists, and three more feature two trombonists and tenorist Sam Dillon also makes an appearance on two of the tracks that just feature Dease on trombone. Phew that's a lot of musical playbooking from us and it's a lot easier to just let the record spin and enjoy the interaction, which shapes the sound nicely in ways that are different than some of Dease's usual albums. Titles include "Forge Ahead", "Coexist", "The Real Deal", "Alpha", and "Rufus McWhitman" all by Dease plus "Pearls", "Theme For Basie", "Batista's Groove", and "Nos" the bossa classic from Johnny Alf.  © 1996-2018, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/898068/Michael-Dease:Bonafide

Personnel:  Michael Dease - trombone;  Marshall Gilkes - trombone;  Conrad Herwig - t.bone;  Gina Benalcazar - bass t.bone;  Sam Dillon - tenor sax;  David Hazeltine - piano;  Todd Coolman - bass; EJ Strickland - drums

Bonafide