Carmen Bradford - Home With You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:44
Size: 124,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:28)  1. You Can Depend on Me
(5:31)  2. My Shining Hour
(4:25)  3. Home With You
(3:02)  4. Take the "A" Train
(3:05)  5. Five Guys Named Moe, Act I: I Know What I've Got
(4:16)  6. The Boys From Syracuse: This Can't Be Love
(2:51)  7. Be the One
(4:29)  8. Singing in the Rain
(4:35)  9. Street of Dreams
(3:59) 10. Sweet Georgia Brown
(4:29) 11. My Ideal
(3:57) 12. How Sweet It Is
(5:29) 13. Wonder Why

Nine years ago, marvelous Carmen Bradford knocked me sideways with her soaring With Respect, and, in 1997 she made it a one-two punch with the equally sublime Finally Yours, which suggested her as an obvious heir to the Sarah-Ella throne. Then, apart from the odd guest spot here and there, nothing (or at least nowhere near enough). Now, after seven too-quiet years, Bradford is back with the multi-shaded Home With You (Azica), still sounding like a million bucks as she traverses a standards-heavy assortment of 13 tracks in the graceful company of pianist Shelly Berg. From the sweetly contemplative “My Shining Hour” and the gorgeously plaintive “My Ideal” to a peppy reading of the Marvin Gaye anthem “How Sweet It Is” (a terrific showcase for Berg’s elegant artistry) and a blistering ride aboard Ellington’s “A” train, Bradford remains a force to be reckoned with-a virtual tornado of talent and imagination. Most satisfying of all is the gentle title track, with music by Berg and lyrics by the wonderful Lorraine Feather, which is as warm and comforting as cocoa. ~ Christopher Loudon https://jazztimes.com/reviews/vox/carmen-bradford-home-with-you/

Home With You

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Beaver Harris 360 Degree Experience - Safe

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:53
Size: 84,5 MB
Art: Front

(12:06)  1. Boogie On Dawn
( 6:09)  2. J.C. Moses
( 6:05)  3. I Wish I Knew
( 6:27)  4. Don't I
( 6:04)  5. Loving Living

The 360 Degree Music Experience was an American band that performed both traditional and experimental jazz. Active during the 1970s and '80s, the group was initially co-led by drummer Beaver Harris and the pianist Dave Burrell. After Burrell left the group, pianist Don Pullen replaced him. Several other notable musicians were members of the band at one time or another, including Hamiet Bluiett, Cameron Brown, Ron Carter, Ricky Ford, Jimmy Garrison, Grachan Moncur III, Titos Sompa, and Buster Williams among others. The group released two albums for BMG: From Ragtime to No Time and A Well Kept Secret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_360_Degree_Music_Experience

Personnel:  Drums – Beaver Harris; Bass – Cameron Brown; Bass Clarinet – Ken McIntyre; Bassoon – Ken McIntyre; Flute – Ken McIntyre; Oboe – Ken McIntyre; Piano – Ron Burton; Trombone – Grachan Moncur III

Safe

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Mike Nock - Ondas

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1981
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:14
Size: 117,6 MB
Art: Front

(15:58)  1. Forgotten Love
( 9:11)  2. Ondas
(11:35)  3. Visionary
( 7:59)  4. Land Of The Long White Cloud
( 6:28)  5. Doors

At the time of this recording, New Zealand's Mike Nock was one of the great, unsung pianists in European stlyed jazz. His elegant phrasing and wildly inventive melodicism fly in the face of all notions that claim improvisation must be outside Western musical parameters and structures. On Ondas, Nock has assembled a rhythm section that, while never having played together before shared the ability to create the bedrock, however flexible, for the artist's crystalline compositions and solos. Eddie Gomez was a wise choice for this session because of his experience with Bill Evans, who is an obvious influence on Nock's own composing -- as is Keith Jarrett. His pizzicato flourishes and shifting timbres on "Forgotten Love" and "Visionary," while retaining an elemental sense of meter, are remarkable. Christensen is the greatest of all the drummers in the ECM stable. His style is one of paucity and sparse riffs, but his cymbal "dancing" is a trademark favorite of pianists and saxophonists everywhere. He has the ability to open up time, creating a window for improvisers to stretch each note, each interval, each mode, for all it's worth, suspending notions of time and space for the listener. Evidence is on the title track and "Land of the Long White Clouds." For his part, Nock is a magician of lyrical invention. His compositional architecture is created of minor modes and subtle textures. His chords are small enough to be their own rhythm section and large enough to fit all the notes in between them and the next octave in combinatory gestures of shimmering beauty. He does all of this in a manner in which tension and its resolution are in constant flux, never out of balance with one another. His solo on "Forgotten Love," that is based upon Gomez', is a case in point: towering ivy clusters of notes flex over darkened minor chords, up and through the middle and then upper registers of the instrument before inviting Gomez back in. In all, this is a glorious recording by a crack batch of musicians. It is also a stellar example of what Manfred Eicher's label and production offer to the world. ~ Thom Jurek https://www.allmusic.com/album/ondas-mw0000193926

Personnel:  Mike Nock - piano, percussion; Eddie Gómez - bass; Jon Christensen - drums

Ondas

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