Steve Lacy - Steve Lacy Plays Monk

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1969
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:16
Size: 83,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:11)  1. Thelonious
(4:22)  2. Ruby My Dear
(5:56)  3. Light Blue
(2:13)  4. Epistrophy
(6:46)  5. Epistrophy (Part 2)
(3:56)  6. Mysterioso
(5:49)  7. Friday the Thirteenth

This reissue of a 1969 French date makes its very first appearance on CD and its debut as a U.S. release some 25 years after its original issue on the BYG label as Epistrophy. Plays Monk is also the first record Lacy made after taking up residence in Paris. His band for the outing features the legendary Italian drummer Aldo Romano, the pianist Michel Graillier, and bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark. There are five unusually complex Monk tunes here "Thelonious," "Ruby My Dear," "Light Blue," "Mysterioso," and "Friday the Thirteenth" and two versions of "Epistrophy." This is easily Lacy's "straightest" album from the period, and he stays melodically and harmonically close to Monk's original compositions in the heads before taking off somewhere else in the solos. But Lacy keeps to the notion of repetition, syncopation, and melodic invention that Monk did, and the band is nearly symbiotic in its communication around and with him. The music here is a delight and a revelation all at the same time. The sound is warm and full and the transfer is solid. ~ Thom Jurek https://www.allmusic.com/album/plays-monk-mw0000325440

Personnel:   Soprano Saxophone – Steve Lacy;  Bass – Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark; Drums – Aldo Romano;  Piano – Michel Graillier

Steve Lacy Plays Monk

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Peter Skellern - Sentimentally Yours

Styles: Vocal And Keyboards Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:42
Size: 171,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. Too Much, I'm In Love
(3:31)  2. Raining In My Heart
(4:25)  3. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(4:21)  4. Still Magic
(3:23)  5. Love Is The Sweetest Thing
(4:08)  6. Isn't This A Lovely Day
(3:55)  7. Where Do We Go From Here
(4:32)  8. The Continental (You Kiss While You Dance)
(3:27)  9. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
(3:48) 10. Skylark
(3:08) 11. Deep Purple
(3:53) 12. The Way You Look Tonight
(4:28) 13. Over Her
(2:35) 14. Two Sleepy People
(3:53) 15. You And I
(3:36) 16. Cheek To Cheek
(3:15) 17. While I'm Away
(2:44) 18. Sweet Words
(4:14) 19. Put Out The Flame
(2:58) 20. Night And Day

A composer, singer, and musician, Peter Skellern played trombone in a school band and served as organist and choirmaster in a local church before attending the Guildhall School of Music, from which he graduated with honors in 1968. Because "I didn’t want to spend the next 50 years playing Chopin," he joined the vocal harmony band March Hare which, after changing their name to Harlan County, recorded a country-pop album before disbanding in 1971. Married with two children, Skellern worked as a hotel porter in Shaftesbury, Dorset, before striking lucky at the end of 1972 with a self-composed U.K. number three hit, "You're a Lady." The album Not Without a Friend consisted entirely of original material (aside from a rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair"), and another U.K. hit single with the title track to 1975's Hold on to Love established Skellern as a purveyor of wittily observed if homely love songs of similar stamp to Gilbert O'Sullivan. He earned the respect of Beatles fans (already manifested following Derek Taylor's production of Not Without a Friend) when George Harrison assisted on Hard Times and the title number was later recorded by Ringo Starr. A minor hit in 1978, "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" (featuring Grimethorpe Colliery Band) was part of a tribute to Fred Astaire that won a Music Trades Association Award for Best MOR Album of 1979. Skellern subsequently wrote and performed six autobiographical programs for BBC television, followed by a series of musical plays (Happy Endings), and also hosted the chat show Private Lives in 1983. A year later he formed Oasis with Julian Lloyd Webber, Mary Hopkin, and guitarist Billy Lovelady in an attempt to fuse mutual classical and pop interests, but the band's recordings failed to make a major impact. In 1985, Skellern joined Richard Stilgoe for Stilgoe and Skellern Stompin' at the Savoy, a show in aid of the Lords Taverners charity organization. This led to the two entertainers working together on several successful tours and in their two-man revue, Who Plays Wins, which was presented in London's West End and New York City. After becoming disenchanted with the record business for a time, in 1995 Skellern issued his first album in nearly eight years. Originally conceived as a tribute to the Ink Spots, it eventually consisted of a number of songs associated with that legendary group, and a few Hoagy Carmichael compositions "just to break it up." He later wrote sacred choral music and was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Church of England. After developing an inoperable brain tumor, he died in February 2017 at 69 years of age. ~ Rovi Staff https://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-skellern-mn0000687269/biography

Sentimentally Yours

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Greta Panettieri - With Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:40
Size: 122,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:17)  1. Vivere
(6:08)  2. Goodbye Stranger
(4:47)  3. Attimo Per Attimo
(5:11)  4. Easy
(5:15)  5. Anonimo Veneziano
(4:38)  6. Se Io Fossi Un Angelo
(4:42)  7. Never Can Say Goodbye
(4:35)  8. La Voce Del Silenzio
(4:10)  9. Please Don't Go
(3:41) 10. Against All Odds (Take A Look
(4:12) 11. Anima

A real playlist of memories: Friday November 9 comes out "With Love", the new album by Greta Panettieri, one of the best voices on the world scene, which is breaking the box offices of Italian and foreign theaters and festivals. From Vasco to Phil Collins, from Lucio Dalla to Supertramp, from Pino Daniele to Stelvio Cipriani: in the new album the young singer and composer has indulged in arranging with her producer Andrea Sammartino some of her favorite tracks:"The songs we decided to reinterpret are great successes that belong to our past: they have a strong reminiscent power for us and already from the first notes they are able to bring us back in time, like a quantum leap, making us experience the same emotions of those years."After the two tours in Russia, the sold out of the Italian tour and the collaboration with Toquinho who wanted Greta next to him on stage for a long series of concerts, Greta's vision has changed a lot: "I understood how important the elective affinity with my audience: as a girl I was extremely shy, now thanks to the music I can connect with the spectators, who at every concert feel more and more free to go wild, sing and live the live as a moment of great joy and sharing. I dedicate this record to them and to the emotions that make me feel each time, with love, just as the title indicates. " Already with the lucky album "Non Gioco Più" Greta Panettieri had brought to the sounds of jazz so many fans of pop and light music that, fascinated by his voice, they let themselves be conquered by the new arrangements and also by the different moments of improvisation. Thanks also to a band of great musicians and an interplay curated, pressing but at the same time soft and harmonious, even "With Love" is an invitation for the many music lovers to be conquered by the charm of jazz sounds. At the same time, the album is a real more melodic and pop journey in which Greta succeeds in conferring a new, original and refined look, to well-known pieces that have made the history of Italian and international light music.

"At the beginning of the 2000s I was approaching the jazz world as a young promise, but in the United States many producers and record companies, including Larry Williams and David Novik, were convinced that I had a huge potential even in pop. over 10 years I wanted to accept the challenge and have fun making this journey in pop with my musicians. "  In the tracklist of the album: "Vivere" (Vasco Rossi), "Goodbye Stranger" (Supertramp), "Attimo per attimo" (Antonio Amurri), "Easy" (Lionel Richie), "Anonymous Venetian" (Stelvio Cipriani), If I I was an angel (Lucio Dalla) "," Never Can Say Goodbye "(Clifton Davis)," The Voice of Silence "(Mogol / Limiti)," Please Do not Go "(Harry Wayne K. Translate By Google http://www.gretapanettieri.com/with_loveIT.html

Personnel: Greta Panettieri : Voice; Andrea Sammartino : arrangements, piano, organs and guitars; Daniele Mencarelli: Electric bass and Contrabasso; Alessandro Paternesi : Battery; Flavio Boltro: Tromba su "Vivere" e "Anonimo Veneziano"; Itaiguara Brandao: Chitarra su "Goodbye Stranger"

With Love

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Marc Jordan - On a Perfect Day

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:04
Size: 108,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:53)  1. On a Perfect Day
(3:30)  2. I Have No Doubt
(7:41)  3. My TV
(3:54)  4. She Doesn't Mean That Much to Me
(3:55)  5. Avalina
(2:35)  6. Hell of a Ride
(6:38)  7. Too Far to Turn Back Now
(2:42)  8. Wounded
(3:26)  9. Butter Lane
(4:36) 10. I'll Never Love Like That Again
(5:11) 11. The First Time

What is the nature of creativity? Is creativity an attribute, or is it a state of being? What ist the impetus for creative risk and exploration? Is it a problem solving or aesthetic expression?  And can a hindrance eventually become the unique signature of one’s creativity? Perhaps being forced to express oneself in a certain way rather than choosing to do so is, in the end, the thing that metamorphoses creativity into artistry. Marc was born in Brooklyn NY the son of singer Charles Jordan and grew up in Toronto Canada. In 1978 Marc was signed to Warner Music in Burbank California by Steely Dan Producer Gary Katz and signed as a staff writer for Irving Almo pub. , Geffen Pub. and Warner Chappell Music in Hollywood. Jordan spent 16 years in LA writing song for and with Diana Ross, Chicago, Kansas, Manhattan Transfer, Kenny Loggins, Amanda Marshal, Amy Sky, Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, Roch Voisin, Canadian Tenors, Shawn Colvin, Olivia Newton-John, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Raitt, Josh Groban, Cher and Rod Stewart including the worldwide #1 hit Rhythm Of My Heart. Jordan has won numerous ASCAP, Juno, Socan and Smooth Jazz awards over the years. His songs have been on 35 million CD’s and he has recorded 14 CD’s of his own material on various labels including Warner Bros., Atlantic. RCA, and Blue Note. Jordan has numerous film credits and is the chair of the song writing dept at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Center. Marc starred himself opposite Olivia Newton-John in the film SCORE A HOCKEY MUSICAL which opened the Toronto Film Festival. Jordan is currently writing with Rod Stewart for Rods upcoming CD  and is on the advisory board of Humber College. At the request of his estate, Marc has been writing songs using unpublished works of Oscar Peterson and hopes to be finished the new works this year..Marc continues to tour himself and with the writers group Lunch At Allens. https://marcjordan.com/biography/

Personnel:  Marc Jordan: Lead Vocals; Chris Bilton: Piano, Organ, Rhodes, Synths/Programming, Bass, Melodica, Hand Claps; Shane Fontayne: Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar; Mike Francis: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Dobro; Pat Buchanan: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Ukulele; Dan Dugmore: Pedal Steel, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar; Lyle Molzan: Drums; Ricky Fataar: Drums; Michael Rhodes: Bass; Colleen Allen: Saxophone; David Travers-Smith: Trumpet; The Biblical Wasteland Singers: Background Vocals; Ezra Jordan: Background Vocals;
Jerry Bilton: Percussion

On a Perfect Day

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