Nick Hempton - Odd Man Out

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:05
Size: 147,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:44)  1. Nice Crackle
(5:45)  2. Five Ways Through Harsimus Cove
(4:37)  3. The Winnie Blues
(5:24)  4. Day Dream
(6:37)  5. The Set-Up
(4:55)  6. Fifth Floor Run-Up
(5:58)  7. Nights and Mornings
(7:42)  8. The Slip
(5:33)  9. A Bicycle Accident
(6:48) 10. Streetlight Lament
(5:57) 11. Blue Shadows

So, just who is the Odd Man Out? It's not exactly one of the great enigmas of modern times, but it's something to ponder. Not for too long, though, for time will be much better spent enjoying the music. Odd Man Out is the third album from saxophonist Nick Hempton and his band and it represents a notable step forward for what was already an impressive and hugely enjoyable ensemble. So what's changed since Hempton's second album The Business (Posi-Tone Records, 2011)? In many ways it's business as usual on Odd Man Out: same label, same band, same straight-ahead, swinging, approach, same combination of originals plus two covers. Hempton is once again staring out from the right side of the cover, although he now sports a neatly-trimmed beard and a quizzical eyebrow. But there's a bit more stylistic breadth, a few extra surprises, on album number three. Trombonist Michael Dease is a very welcome guest. Paired with Hempton's tight, dry saxophone tone Dease's open, warm trombone really helps to enrich the sound, whether it's on up-tempo numbers such as "Nice Crackle" or slinky groovers like "The Set-Up," which also features a good-humored Dease solo. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's "Day Dream" written for alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges proves to be a terrific vehicle for Hempton's more considered and reflective side. The ballad is a duet between Hempton and Art Hirahara, with the pianist providing a beautifully judged accompaniment to the saxophonist's melodic interpretation of the tune. Hempton's own "Nights And Mornings" offers another chance for him to show his skills as a balladeer, this time on a film-noirish tune full of images of rainstorms and lonely streets. There are some odd little twists, too. "Five Ways Through Harsimus Cove" sounds at first as though Hempton's soundtracking the progress of a cat burglar in a '60s crime caper. "A Bicycle Accident" has an improvised feel, resolving gradually to the album's more characteristic straight-ahead sound then pausing briefly before kicking in with a selection of moods and grooves a little Latin, a spot of R&B and eventually ending with the plaintive sound of Dan Aran's cymbals. Randy Newman's "Blue Shadows" (from the 1986 movie Three Amigos) adds a bit of country to the mix. Marco Panascia's jaunty bass line and Aran's rat-a-tat percussion set things up for a Roy Rogers vocal, so it's almost a surprise when Hempton's saxophone enters instead. Although it would probably be even more of a surprise if Rogers did suddenly burst into song. ~ Bruce Lindsay https://www.allaboutjazz.com/odd-man-out-nick-hempton-posi-tone-records-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php

Personnel: Nick Hempton: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone; Michael Dease: trombone; Art Hirahara: piano; Marco Panascia: double bass; Dan Aran: drums.

Odd Man Out

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Charmaine Clamor - Jazzi Pino

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:36
Size: 155,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:06)  1. Dahil Sa'yo
(3:26)  2. O, Ilaw
(3:41)  3. Minamahal Kita
(4:28)  4. Lahat Ng Araw
(3:18)  5. Pamulinawen
(3:21)  6. Usahay
(4:59)  7. Sa Ugoy Ng Duyan
(5:06)  8. Pakiusap
(5:03)  9. Minamahal, Sinasamba w/Mon David
(5:13) 10. Matul Nila
(3:37) 11. Dungawin Mo Hirang
(4:55) 12. Ay, Kalisud
(4:32) 13. Panahon Na / Hindi Kita Malimot
(2:26) 14. Harana Sa Dilim
(6:20) 15. My Funny Brown Pinay (My Funny Valentine)

Charmaine Clamor is a Filipina jazz singer based in Hollywood, California best known for melding traditional Filipino folk songs and instruments with American jazz and blues in a newly developed musical genre called "Jazzipino" Born in Subic-Zambales, Philippines, Charmaine Clamor began her singing career at age 3, entertaining passengers in the back of buses traveling to Manila. As she grew, she began providing piano accompaniment while her mother sang kundiman (Filipino torch songs) and English language classics. She didn't move to the United States until she was 16, and grew up speaking Tagalog, singing karaoke, and eating lumpia. Still maintains family connections in Luzon Province, where she visit every year. Has a master's degree in physical therapy and worked full-time as a physical therapist in hospitals and clinics. Volunteers for environmental organizations that promote 'green' living and is a pesco-vegetarian. Originator of Jazzipino, a genre of music utilizing American jazz, blues, soul, Filipino folk music, and other musical forms. She has simultaneously made the top 5 on both JazzWeek’s World (#2) and Traditional Jazz (#4) charts and is the first Filipino-American artist to place two consecutive recordings in the World Music top 10. Has been profiled on NPR's "Weekend Edition" and BBC's "The World." Records in North America under Michael Konik's independent recording company FreeHam Records, which includes the Tony-Award winning Blues great, Linda Hopkins. Charmaine performs at America's leading jazz clubs, performing arts centers, and concert halls. She frequently top bills Filipino cultural celebrations, such as the San Francisco Filipino-American Jazz Festival and the Filipino Library's annual gala in Los Angeles. On September, 2007, at her New York City show, she launched her second album, "Flippin' Out", at the Iridium Jazz Club, with "My Funny Brown Pinay" (to the tune of "My Funny Valentine"). On April 15, 2008, at her Brooklyn debut performance, she treated the mixed crowd to this same theme song/anthem ("Look at my skin – it's brown… Look at my nose – it's flat"). May, 2008, Charmaine Clamor and 8 international jazz artists and bands appeared at the 3rd Annual 2008 Miri International Jazz Festival, at ParkCity Everly Hotel, in Sarawak, Malaysia. In November, 2008, Charmaine released My Harana: A Filipino Serenade the follow-up to "Flippin’ Out," touring America and the Philippines in support of the record. 

In September, 2009, "Jazzipino" was launched with a full fledged promotional tour in the Philippines under the Viva Records label. Charmaine is a founding member of JazzPhil-USA, a non-profit organization that promotes jazz artists of Filipino descent in the United States and has been credited with introducing Filipino culture to mainstream audiences. Charmaine was selected by The Filipino Women's Network as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the United States  In May, 2008, Charmaine was noted as a rising jazz star in the United States by LA Weekly’s jazz critic Brick Wahl. Her two-night gig at Hollywood’s Catalina Bar & Grill was Wahl's jazz event Pick of the Week: “She made a big splash with Flippin’ Out its hip mix of beautifully arranged standards and jazzed-up Tagalog love songs took the ‘Filipina Singing Sensation’ into the upper reaches of the jazz and world charts. And no wonder: Her husky, sassy tone, languid moves and unpretentious Pinoy attitude that’s just a tad rebellious have the kind of natural appeal you can’t buy at any music school.” Jazz Times Magazine described her as "a dynamic new compass point in world music." All About Jazz wrote that she is "quite simply one of the finest singers to come around in a long time." Jazz critic Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times stated that “Her debut album, 'Searching for the Soul', announced the arrival of an impressive new vocal artist.” He subsequently wrote that Charmaine is "One of the important and original new jazz singers of the decade." In January, 2009, he selected Charmaine's debut at Yoshi's Jazz Club as the Pick of the Week in San Francisco. Charmaine has headlined the top jazz clubs in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami. Often, she is the first Pinay to perform at the venue  such as at Yoshi's, in SF. In July, 2009, in San Diego, California, she won the 6th Annual Asian Heritage Award in the Performing Arts which recognizes Asian and Pacific Islander leaders in various fields, including Medicine, Education, Government, and the Performing Arts. In October, 2009, Charmaine won the 12th Annual FILIPINAS Magazine Achievement Award in Entertainment. She was also honored with a special FAMAS Award (Filipino Oscar) for her cultural trailblazing. Charmaine has had two consecutive albums in the JazzWeek World Music Top-10. https://www.last.fm/music/Charmaine+Clamor/+wiki

Jazzi Pino

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Ethel Smith - Seated One Day At The Organ

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:50
Size: 109,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:48)  1. The Lost Chord
(3:53)  2. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
(2:54)  3. Cradle Song
(2:37)  4. Mazurka
(3:31)  5. Warsaw Concerto
(1:25)  6. Flight Of The Bumble Bee
(4:00)  7. Ritual Fire Dance
(4:25)  8. Clair De Lune
(4:31)  9. Liebestraum
(4:26) 10. Largo
(2:05) 11. Brahm's Cradle Song
(4:25) 12. Fugue In G Minor
(3:43) 13. Malaguena

Ethel Smith (November 22, 1902,  May 10, 1996) was an American organist who played primarily in a pop style on the Hammond organ. Born Ethel Goldsmith, she performed from a fairly young age and traveled widely, after studying both music and several languages at Carnegie Tech. She became proficient in Latin music while staying in South America, and it is the style of music with which she is now most associated. She was a guitarist as well as an organist, and in her later years occasionally played the guitar live for audiences, but all her recordings were on the organ. She ultimately recorded dozens of albums, mostly for Decca Records. An attractive woman with a preference for colorful outfits, particularly hats, Smith performed in several Hollywood films such as George White's Scandals (1945) and Melody Time (1948). She was married to Hollywood actor Ralph Bellamy from 1945 to 1947, at the height of her fame, and their acrimonious divorce made headlines. She never had children. Her rendition of "Tico Tico" became her best-known hit. She performed it in the MGM film Bathing Beauty (1944), after which her recording reached the U.S. pop charts in November 1944, peaked at #14 on January 27, 1945, and sold nearly two million copies worldwide. "Down Yonder" was her second national hit, reaching #16 on October 27, 1951. Smith's recording of "Monkey on a String" became the theme song for Garfield Goose and Friends, a popular children's television show in Chicago that ran from 1952 until 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smith_(organist)

Seated One Day At The Organ

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Pat Patrick Band - Get Up and Dance

Styles: Vocal, Big Band
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:15
Size: 102,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. September
(3:30)  2. Lady Marmalade
(4:14)  3. Give It To Me Baby
(4:55)  4. All Night Long
(3:36)  5. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
(3:37)  6. I Like The Way You Move
(3:10)  7. Hey Pokey Way
(2:10)  8. This Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof
(5:44)  9. Let's Get It On / Stir It Up
(3:36) 10. KISS
(3:45) 11. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
(2:32) 12. The Letterman Theme

Pat Patrick, like John Gilmore, spent virtually his entire career with Sun Ra's Arkestra, leading to him being somewhat underrated. Patrick had a particularly appealing sound on baritone and, although he did not lead any record sessions of his own, he was one of the better baritonists of the 1950s and '60s. As a child he studied piano, drums, and trumpet before switching to saxophones. 

At Du Sable High School in Chicago he first met John Gilmore. Patrick did record with John Coltrane (Africa Brass), play briefly with Duke Ellington, was a member of a little-known version of Thelonious Monk's quartet (1970), and in 1974 he recorded with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. But otherwise, Pat Patrick from 1954 on and off until his death was closely associated with Sun Ra, where he was a reliable sideman. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pat-patrick-mn0000143284/biography

Get Up and Dance

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Christine Fawson - Sings Jazz

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:45
Size: 98,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:18)  1. Night in Tunisia
(4:13)  2. World on a String
(6:25)  3. It Might as Well Be Spring
(5:02)  4. The Second Time Around
(6:03)  5. I Concentrate on You
(4:57)  6. I Love You
(3:08)  7. Fools Rush In
(3:14)  8. What Is This Thing Called Love
(4:20)  9. Could It Be You

Former Berklee Professor, Christine Fawson has made her fourth album as a leader. Over the years, Christine has played many different styles of music. But old school swinging jazz keeps calling her! On Sings Jazz, she is accompanied by Tim Ray on piano, who penned beautiful arrangements for the album. Also on the album is Dave Zinno on upright bass and Casey Schereuell on drums. Guest Vocalist, David Thorne Scott. 

This is an exciting album full of improvisation and a real live jazz feel. Go see Christine Fawon live to get the true experience of old school jazz singer/entertainer! https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/christinefawson4

Sings Jazz

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