Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:45
Size: 101,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:24)  1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(3:36)  2. Red Pepper Blues
(5:51)  3. Imagination
(2:55)  4. Waltz Me Blues
(3:58)  5. Straight LIfe
(4:46)  6. Jazz Me Blues
(7:41)  7. Tin Tin Deo
(5:11)  8. Star Eyes
(4:17)  9. Birks Works

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a mythic recording. The circumstances surrounding its genesis were first revealed in Pepper's steely autobiography Straight Life and reproduced countless times in articles and liner notes. Here it goes, one more time. On the morning of the recording session, January 19, 1957, Pepper's then-wife Diane informed him that she had secured an afternoon recording session with the Miles Davis rhythm section who were in Los Angeles appearing with Davis. Unhappily surprised and with a horn in bad need of repair, Pepper fixed an extra large amount of heroin and was off to the session. The music produced from this chaos has been described as "a diamond of recorded jazz history." The material for the session previously selected by the artists. After some discussion, drummer Philly Joe Jones suggested Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" and the historic session was off and running. The date gradually began to take shape. Red Garland provided an original "Red Pepper Blues." The Burke/Van Heusen ballad "Imagination" was included. The quartet mixed things up with the New Orleans classic "Jazz Me Blues" played against Chano Pozo?s Afro-Cubano credo "Tin Tin Deo" (featuring some solid drumming by Jones) A pair of blues juxtaposes as well. "Waltz Me Blues" was a session original composed by Pepper and bassist Paul Chambers. It is lilting and light. It stands in great contrast to John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie?s smoky minor blues "Birks? Works." Perhaps central to the recording was the Pepper original "Straight Life." This Pepper classic is a complex and fast paced piece of West Coast Be Bop. It, along with "Somewhere over the Rainbow," would become his signature song. A brisk "Star Eyes" and bonus track "The Man I Love" round out the collection.  Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is one of those singular events that can only occur in a blaze like reading King Lear by a lightning flash. ~ C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/art-pepper-meets-the-rhythm-section-remastered-art-pepper-contemporary-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Art Pepper: Alto Saxophone; Red Garland: Piano; Paul Chambers: Bass; Philly Joe Jones: Drums.

Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

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Julienne Taylor, Daniele Ferretti - When We Are One

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:57
Size: 115,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:33)  1. Because You Loved Me
(4:42)  2. A Thousand Years
(4:30)  3. Right Here Waiting For You
(4:28)  4. Toybox
(4:14)  5. Stranger In Moscow
(3:42)  6. Dancing For The Oceans
(2:50)  7. Se Mi Vuoi
(3:47)  8. Kiss From A Rose
(4:19)  9. Can't Help Falling In Love
(3:41) 10. Umbrellas In The Rain
(3:32) 11. Dulce Alma
(5:34) 12. When We Are One

After a five year wait, since her last studio album, Julienne Taylor hailed as " Scotland's best female voice since Annie Lennox" is releasing her latest album, a Scottish-Italian collaboration. In 2013 Julienne teamed-up with Italian guitarist and songwriter Daniele Ferretti to work on some original songs, built around Daniele’s latin style guitar arrangements and Julienne’s vocals and lyrics. The project grew into a full album project of original songs and fresh interpretations of classic ballads. The album’s production turned into quite an international affair after first working in the picturesque Le Marche region of Italy for the initial recordings, it later moved to Nashville (USA), then Bath (England) and from there travelled Northwards to Edinburgh (Scotland).  Highlights include the Celtic influenced arrangement of ‘A Thousand Years’ featuring the border pipes and low-whistles of Fraser Fifield, a new bossa arrangement of Julienne’s composition Toybox and the epic new track Dancing With The Oceans. The project was recorded, mixed and mastered in  High Resolution audio (24 bit - 96 KHz) under the guidance of producer Marco Di Giangiacomo in Italy with additional production work in the USA led by Donald Marrow. http://www.evosound.com/audiophile/1603-julienne-taylor-when-we-are-one-cd

When We Are One

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Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds (Remastered)

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1964/2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:32
Size: 155,5 MB
Scans: Front

( 6:02)  1. Man from Two Worlds
( 3:28)  2. Blues Medley
(10:36)  3. Forest Flower
( 3:52)  4. Child's Play
( 4:34)  5. Blues for O.T.
( 4:50)  6. Mallet Dance
( 3:49)  7. Love Song to a Baby
( 8:19)  8. Passin' Thru
( 2:45)  9. Transfusion
(13:18) 10. Lady Gabor
( 5:53) 11. Lonesome Child

This album actually combines two Chico Hamilton releases, namely Man from Two Worlds and Passin' Thru. There is great compositional range on this album, even though nine out the ten tunes were written by a single author (saxophonist Charles Lloyd). Some of these compositions spin off on an avant-garde tangent, while others are more direct and harmonically familiar. The title track is basically an extended jam, though there is a Monk-like main theme that is used to begin and end the tune. Clearly, this piece is influenced by Indian music, and guitarist Gabor Szabo best illustrates the exotic, modal leanings of this composition through his sitar-influenced solo. On the other hand, "Forest Flower" is much more harmonious and easy to follow. Using standard jazz chords and a catchy melody, this tune is much less demanding on the ear. As its the title implies, Man from Two Worlds really does focus on two distinct "worlds" of jazz, and is the perfect listen for all those who crave musical diversity. ~ Rovi Staff https://www.allmusic.com/album/man-from-two-worlds-mw0000098978

Personnel:  Chico Hamilton – drums; Charles Lloyd – tenor saxophone, flute; Gábor Szabó – guitar; Albert Stinson – bass; George Bohanon – trombone (tracks 8-11)

Man From Two Worlds

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