Eric Wyatt - Borough of Kings

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:32
Size: 130,2 MB
Art: Front

( 5:58)  1. The Peoples Champ
( 7:12)  2. One for Hakim
( 7:25)  3. Borough of Kings
( 4:15)  4. Can He Come Out
( 8:10)  5. Ancient Chinese Secrets
(10:19)  6. Quest
( 6:35)  7. Countdown
( 6:35)  8. What Would I Do Without You

The borough of Kings (County) a.k.a. Brooklyn, NY has been saxophonist Eric Wyatt's home base from birth. It was there that he was exposed to jazz, met some of the legends of the music, and began to forge his own voice on saxophone. Here, on his fifth album to date, he delivers an intense brew that speaks volumes about what he's learned during his time in Brooklyn. Wyatt is a no holds barred player with an edge to his work. Thankfully, he found some simpatico quartet mates that are willing and able to match his energy level on this outing. Pianist Benito Gonzalez delivers strong-hammered support, intriguing right hand lines tempered by a firm left hand, and spiky suggestions, playing the post-modern McCoy Tyner role to Wyatt's John Coltrane. Drummer Shinnosuke Takahashi pummels his drums and pushes the band on most occasions, but he's able to adjust to climates that call for a little more restraint without much of a problem. Bassist Ameen Saleem, the final piece of the puzzle, serves as the connective tissue of the band. He bounds along beneath it all, playing around and playing off of Gonzalez and Takahashi. There are a few places where he almost gets muscled out of the aural picture by his heavy-hitting band mates, but it's usually not an issue. Six of the eight tracks on Borough Of Kings are Wyatt originals, with Gonzalez's "Quest" and a slamming-turned-settled take on Coltrane's "Countdown" filling out the program. Wyatt's writing, no surprise, can occasionally fall into the "Coltrane-ish" category note the dark-lined, bluesy "One For Hakim" and the spiritual introduction to the up-tempo title track but he has other tricks up his sleeve. "The Peoples Champ" is a focused and fiery number that balances darkness and light; "Can He Come Out," which features trumpeter Duane Eubanks and has Kyle Poole taking over the drum chair, is pure funky fun; and everybody has a ball on the straightforward-and-swinging "What Would I Do Without You," which brings trombonist Clifton Anderson into the picture. The aforementioned guests help to add another dimension to the music, but this remains Wyatt's show. His stentorian saxophone navigates the ship through some exciting twists and turns, making Borough Of Kings a high-energy thrill ride from start to finish. 

~ Dan Bilawsky https://www.allaboutjazz.com/borough-of-kings-eric-wyatt-posi-tone-records-review-by-dan-bilawsky.php

Personnel: Eric Wyatt: saxophones, flute; Benito Gonzalez: piano; Ameen Saleem: bass; Shinnosuke Takahashi: drums; Duane Eubanks: trumpet (4); Kyle Poole: drums (4); Duane Eubanks: trumpet (4); Clifton Anderson: trombone (8).

Borough of Kings

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Rebecca Hardiman - My Father's Business

Styles: Vocal 
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:10
Size: 93,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:45)  1. Oh Boy, What Joy
(3:54)  2. Lack, You Have to Get Back
(5:18)  3. With the Words of My Mouth
(4:09)  4. What a Great Salvation
(4:10)  5. My Father's Business
(3:49)  6. Your Yoke Is Easy
(6:57)  7. It's In Him / Psalm 116
(3:41)  8. The Joy and the Strength of the Lord
(4:23)  9. I'll Only Believe

Rebecca started her professional career with the Boston based vocal jazz group The Ritz, performing at the 1987 Montreal Jazz Festival as well as jazz clubs throughout the country.  While with The Ritz, she recorded a CD entitled The Ritz for Denon Columbia Records. Rebecca moved to Portland Oregon in 1990 and started the vocal jazz group Euphoria, performing throughout the Northwest for over a decade, most notably opening for Mel Torme’ in 1993 at the Hult Center in Eugene Oregon.  In 2013 she embarked on a solo career and quickly became a favorite vocalist with jazz musicians. 

Rebecca’s style is often compared to Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy, and Doris Day.  Rebecca is also a co-founder of the annual Aurora Colony Vineyards Jazz Festival, and has helped develop several jazz venues in the Willamette Valley area in her home state of Oregon.  She performs throughout the Northwest, as well as jazz clubs and various venues in New England, Hawaii, and California. 

Her CD’s include: The Ritz (1987), My Father’s Business (2009) I’ll Remember April (2013), Easy Living (2015), The Merriest (2016), Honoring Ella:A 100th Birthday Tribute (2017). http://www.rebeccahardiman.com/bio/

My Father's Business

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Horacio Fumero & Albert Bover - Caminhos Cruzados

Styles: Post Bop, Piano Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:28
Size: 129,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. Chimango
(4:43)  2. Fall
(5:09)  3. Monk's dream
(8:10)  4. El corazón al sur
(5:43)  5. Raynald's doubt
(8:19)  6. Virgo
(6:49)  7. The meaning of the blues
(6:43)  8. Caminhos cruzados
(7:08)  9. Carancho

Born in Cañada Rosquín, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1949, he studied at the Manuel De Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires and at the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1973 he traveled to Europe with Gato Barbieri to participate in the Montreux Jazz Festival and make several tours of the main European Jazz Festivals (Warsaw, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, Madrid, Zagreb, Copenhagen). Residing in Geneva, he continued his studies and collaborated with La Orquestre a 'Cordes de Lausanne and with various jazz groups in Switzerland. In 1980 he settled in Barcelona. Since 1981 he was part of the stable trio of Tete Montoliu with whom he worked continuously until his death in 1997. With the trio, or as a freelance also, he worked with, among others, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Horace Parlan, Danilo Perez, Joe Newman, Harry "sweets" Edison, Philip Catherine, Geoge Cables, Idris Muhammad, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Sal Nistico, Jerome Richardson, Oliver Jones, Woody Shaw, Benny Golson, James Moody, etc. He has performed as a soloist with the Orquestra de Cambra of the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona, the Symphony Orchestra of Granada, the ONE (National Orchestra of Spain), the Chamber Orchestra "Andrés Segovia" of Madrid; also with Lalo Schiffrin and the OCB (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra). In the field of Flamenco he has worked with artists such as Chano Dominguez, Martirio, Chicuelo, Mayte Martin, Ginesa Ortega, with Miguel Poveda he recorded the CD "Coplas del querer", awarded as Best Spanish Song Album at the Music Awards 2010 and with the newly released DÚO with Pedro Javier González (guitar). He works regularly with the majority of soloists living in our country: Lluis Vidal, Albert Bover, David Xirgu, Gorka Benitez, Jorge Pardo, Jose Reinoso, Antonio Serrano, Manel Camp, Jordi Bonell, Raynald Colom, etc.  While with musicians from Argentina he usually collaborates with Rodolfo Mederos, Pablo Mainetti, Adrián Iaies, Susana Rinaldi, Horacio Ferrer, Luis Salinas, Liliana Herrero, etc. Since 1999 he has been called by the SGAE to act in the editions of the Concierto Homage to Tete Montoliu. He has received different recognitions such as the prizes for his professional career in the newspaper El Mundo (Madrid), La Bilbaína, Rojales (Murcia) and MiraJazz (Miranda de Ebro); Jazz between friends (TVE) 1989; Enderroc Magazine (Barcelona) Best Jazz Artist 2006; Grammy nomination with Adrián Iaies, Association of Jazz Music of Catalonia and the JazzTerrasMan 2013 of Terrassa. Horacio Fumero lives in Barcelona, is a professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and the Superior Conservatory of the Liceu de BCN. http://horaciofumero.com/web/?page_id=8

Personnel:  Albert Bover (piano), Horacio Fumero (bass)

Caminhos cruzados

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Roy Brooks & the Artistic Truth - Black Survival

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1973
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:13
Size: 67,1 MB
Art: Front

( 5:04)  1. Black Survival
( 4:09)  2. Black Survival - Here and Now
( 7:30)  3. Sahel
(10:15)  4. Relief
( 2:15)  5. Black Survival - Prologue

"Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth's Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world. Black Survival is reissued here, digitally remastered and cased in bespoke original artwork exact reproduction on hardboard Japanese-style box case CD. This album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the Sahel region of Africa (an area covering parts of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Darfur, Sudan and Ethiopia). In his long and distinguished career, the legendary Detroit-born drummer Brooks played with everyone from Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Max Roach, Charles Mingus. From 1959-64 he was in the Horace Silver Quintet performing on classic Blue Note albums such as Song For My Father. During his lifetime Brooks released precious few solo albums. His debut, Beat, was released in 1963 on Motown's then new off-shoot jazz label Jazz Workshop. His connection with his hometown label dated back to his time working with The Four Tops. In 1972, Brooks formed the Artistic Truth. Black Survival, the Sahel Concert at the Town Hall was originally released on the small independent Im-Hotep Records in Harlem in 1974 (which also released Brook's earlier Ethnic Expressions). After many years on the New York jazz scene, Brooks returned to Detroit in 1975, where he continued to perform with the Artistic Truth as well as forming the collective Musicians United to Save Indigenous Culture (MUSIC) along with Strata founder Kenny Cox and members of the Tribe collective, Wendell Harrison and Harold McKinney."

Personnel:  Bass – Reggie Workman;  Congas – Lawrence Williams;  Drums – Roy Brooks;  Oboe – John Stubberfield;  Piano – Joe Bonner;  Saxophone – Sonny Fortune;  Trumpet – Cecil Bridgewater;  Vocals – Dee Dee Bridgewater, JorDora Marshall

Black Survival

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William Ash - Moonlight And Stars

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:33
Size: 163,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:07)  1. Willie's Tempo
(6:45)  2. Moonlight And Stars
(6:43)  3. Soon
(5:14)  4. Caravan
(6:24)  5. Never Let Me Go
(6:09)  6. Joanne
(8:36)  7. Blues For Paul
(4:34)  8. Small Crawl
(6:45)  9. Jump Start
(4:23) 10. Parker's Waltz
(5:22) 11. Song For Mitch
(4:27) 12. Ella

William Ash has been playing guitar most of his young life. He began learning the instrument at the age of nine, and by the time he was twelve he was working hard at mastering Wes Montgomery's style. During his high school years William studied with Barry Harris and Rodney Jones, and won the Young Talent Search of the National Association of Jazz Educators (NAJE), as well as the McDonald's Combo Contest. This led to him performing as a soloist with a big band at the Oakland Jazz Festival at the request of Buddy Montgomery, brother of the late Wes. William has continued to work as a sideman with a host of jazz legends, including Jack McDuff, Cecil Payne, Roy Hargrove, and Larry Goldings. On his own instrument, William acknowledges Wes Montgomery as a major influence, and William has been selected several times to appear in tributes to Montgomery. William's style emerges from his experiences playing with the great bop masters, as well as from playing in hard-driving organ combos with the likes of John Patton and Bobby Forrester, and you can clearly hear how he combines twisting bop melodies with deep groove. William Ash astounds on guitar, performing in a hard-swinging trio setting. William deploys his craft sincerely, and without guile, always drawing on his deep jazz roots. "a soulfully mellow sound with a driving dynamic approach" ~ All About Jazz

Personnel: Acoustic Bass – Paul Gil; Acoustic Guitar – William Ash; Drums – Jimmy Madison , Mark Taylor

Moonlight And Stars

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