Dick Hyman - Brazilian Impressions

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:21
Size: 75,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:29)  1. Sugarloaf
(2:46)  2. A Time for Love
(2:30)  3. Samba de Duas Notas
(2:21)  4. Mas Que Nada
(2:54)  5. A Message to Michael
(2:24)  6. Song of the Jet [Samba do Avião]
(2:36)  7. Jazz 'n' Samba [Só Danço Samba]
(3:13)  8. Insensatez [How Insensitive]
(2:27)  9. Eleanor Rigby
(2:49) 10. Ri
(2:33) 11. A Day in the Life of a Fool [Manhã de Carnaval]
(2:14) 12. O Barquinho

Pianist Dick Hyman wrote the arrangements for this Brazilian-flavored date, which has a fair amount of other high caliber jazz talent: flugelhornists Clark Terry and Joe Wilder, Phil Bodner on flute and piccolo, and a rhythm section that includes Bob Haggart and Bobby Rosengarden. But Hyman's charts aren't aimed primarily at a jazz audience, so they don't have much of the spirit of adventurous improvisation that jazz fans have come to expect of his work. While the music is pleasant and doesn't suffer from the extremely dated sound that many similar recordings done for Command during this era have, it is hardly an essential recording by Dick Hyman. In fact, it is Clark Terry's fat toned, if too brief, flugelhorn solos that tend to steal the spotlight. ~ Ken Dryden https://www.allmusic.com/album/brasilian-impressions-mw0000965437

Personnel:  Arranged By, Piano, Woodwind – Dick Hyman

Brazilian Impressions

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Joani Taylor - The Art of the Jazz Ballad

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:12
Size: 126,8 MB
Art: Front

(8:05)  1. I'm Glad There Is You
(6:25)  2. Forever Eyes
(6:55)  3. Make Someone Happy
(6:30)  4. Yesterday
(6:01)  5. Little Bridge
(3:22)  6. That Night
(8:49)  7. You Don't Know Me
(9:01)  8. 'Round Midnight

Joani taylor is canada's first lady of the jazz ballad. she has legendary status in canada's music circles. joani has practically lived in television and recording studios. she has sung solo and back up on literally thousands of film scores, commercials, and recordings with artists ranging from bryan adams, jon bon jovi, bruce fairburn, david foster, to tom jones and james galway, and producing herself as well as other artists. Joani has flown all over the world for special solo performances appearing in taiwan, san francisco, across canada, the 02/03/o4 vancouver international jazz festival and at the adelaide jazz festival in austraila. joani was nominated for the national jazz awards and the 03 juno awards for her fourth cd "the wall street sessions." the recognition has been earned and well deserved. she is a prolific lyricist and an excellent vocal arranger. sending her on teaching tours three to four times a year, joani's master classes for singers and musicians accompaning singers are compelling, inovative, and very well attended. her students love her approach and she covers areas of performance not delt with by other clinicians.constantly working on stage ms. taylor has opened for and performed with a real range of artists from stevie wonder and little richard, to lenny breau, p.j. perry, cannonball addrley, miles davis. don thompson, fraser macpherson, tommy banks, moe koffman campbell ryga, brad turner, ross taggart, john capon and many other artists. recently, joani recorded the opening song for  a feature film. With influences and encouragement from powerful artists such as ella fitzgerald, frank sinatra, bill evans. thelonious monk and cannonball adderly, joani has become a master of her own style. it has been roumored that joani's music is included in clint eastwood's personal collection. as a matter of fact you can clearly hear the impact and influence she's had on some of canada's best known singers. you can't miss the power of her spirit when deep into a song. joani taylor brings to her audience a truly personal and in the moment experience. this chick singer stirs up a compelling feast of vocal delights that lure and seduce the audience into a jazz buff born again conversion. joani taylor has arrived. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/joani2

Personnel:  Vocals – Joani Taylor;  Piano – Bob Murphy .

The Art of the Jazz Ballad

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - I Want A Little Girl

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1981
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:15
Size: 98,8 MB
Art: Front

( 5:36)  1. I Want A Little Girl
( 4:49)  2. Somebody's Got To Go
( 5:16)  3. Blues In The Closet
( 4:43)  4. No Good For Me
(10:55)  5. Stormy Monday
( 5:46)  6. Straight, No Chaser
( 3:07)  7. Worried Mind Blues

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, 64 at the time of this Pablo recording, is in superior form on the blues-oriented material. With Art Hillery (on piano and organ) and guitarist Cal Green leading the rhythm section, and trumpeter Martin Banks and the tenor of Rashid Ali offering contrasting solo voices, this is a particularly strong release. It is true that Vinson had sung such songs as "I Want a Little Girl," "Somebody's Got to Go," and "Stormy Monday" a countless number of times previously but he still infuses these versions with enthusiasm and spirit, making this set a good example of Cleanhead's talents in his later years. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-want-a-little-girl-mw0000649768

Personnel: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - alto saxophone, vocals; Rashid Jamal Ali - alto saxophone; Martin Banks - trumpet;   Art Hillery - piano;  Cal Green - guitar; John Heard - bass;  Roy McCurdy - drums.

I Want A Little Girl

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Esko Linnavalli Sextet - Finnish Design

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:08
Size: 90,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:53)  1. On The Hills Of Carelia
(3:18)  2. Polska From Savitaipale
(2:57)  3. The Rose In The Valley
(2:45)  4. Polska From Koivisto
(1:14)  5. Strawberry - Take One
(1:23)  6. Strawberry - Take Two
(3:39)  7. There's My Sweetheart
(4:43)  8. Early In The Morning
(0:59)  9. Old Dance
(3:14) 10. Shepherd Song
(1:45) 11. Old Polska
(2:14) 12. Wedding Song

You might imagine that a set titled "Finnish Design" might be all cold and modern but the sound here is anything but and instead comes across in a really warm blend of creative percussion, unusual rhythms, and some especially great work on horns! The set was put together by Esko Linnavalli who plays a fair bit of acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes on the session but the record also draws from strong work by Eero Koivistoinen on tenor and soprano sax, and some rich trumpet lines from Bertil Lofgren who's got a way of stepping out in the lead, but with a fragile, human quality that really moves us. 

Jukka Tolonen plays guitar on the record too sometimes in ways that are a fair bit more subtle than his own records and other musicians include Seppo Paakkunainen on flute and recorder, Lars Urban Helje on bass, and Esko Rosnell on drums and percussion. Titles include "On The Hills Of Carelia", "Polska From Koivisto", "Strawberry Take One", "Early In The Morning", and "Wedding Song".  © 1996-2018, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/809199/Esko-Linnavalli-Sextet:Finnish-Design

Personnel: Conductor, Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Electric Piano] – Esko Linnavalli;  Bass – Lars-Urban Helje;  Drums, Percussion – Esko Rosnell;  Flute, Recorder – Seppo Paakkunainen;  Guitar, Electric Guitar – Jukka Tolonen;   Soprano Saxophone – Eero Koivistoinen;  Tenor Saxophone – Eero Koivistoinen;   Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Bertil Löfgren

Finnish Design

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Noriko Ueda Trio - Debut

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:18
Size: 108,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:36)  1. Bohemia After Dark
(5:11)  2. Blue Sunset
(4:28)  3. Just in Time
(5:12)  4. Forget Me Not
(5:39)  5. Double Vision
(3:59)  6. Parisian Thoroughfare
(5:58)  7. The Loop
(5:38)  8. For All We Know
(5:33)  9. The Touch of Your Lips

Born 14 March 1972, Osaka, Japan. From the age of 14, Ueda studied classical piano and two years later began playing electric bass. Her piano studies continued until she was 20, and in the meantime she had also begun to compose. During the last two years of these studies, she concurrently studied classical singing at Osaka College of Music. It was at this time that she made the change to playing the acoustic double bass, which thereafter became her principal instrument. After leaving Osaka College early in 1992, Ueda began playing at the city’s jazz clubs, work that provided an opportunity to accompany visiting jazz musicians such as Kenny Barron, Joe Chambers, Benny Green, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Smith and Grady Tate. In 1994, she joined pianist Kiyoshi Takeshita for a year and then went to the USA to study at the Berklee College Of Music, where she majored in jazz composition. While at Berklee, she appeared on the 1997 BMG release Summa Cum Jazz: The Best Of Berklee College Of Music. From 1996, she led an all-Japanese, all-female trio, Groovin’ Girls, which has recorded in the studio and also appeared on Black Entertainment Television’s Jazz Central. With her in the group are pianist Takana Miyamoto and drummer Masumi Inaba. Ueda has composed extensively, often for big bands. Several of her pieces were used on Live At TUC, a 2001 radio broadcast on FM Tokyo. In 2000, 2002 and 2003 her compositions were performed at the BMI Annual Showcase Concerts. Her ‘Castle In The North’ won her the 2002 BMI Foundation’s Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize and the following year her ‘Power Of Spring’ was played at the BMI Annual Showcase Concert. This same composition was selected for the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop and was performed at the IAJE (International Association for Jazz Education) Annual Conference in January 2004. Ueda is a member of DIVA, the all-female big band, led by drummer Sherrie Maricle, and she also plays as a member of the DIVA small group, Five Play. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/noriko-ueda-mn0000119737

Personnel:  Noriko Ueda (bass) Ted Rosenthal (piano) Quincy Davis (drums).

Debut

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