The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Gone With The Wind

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:01
Size: 93,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:52)  1. Swanee River - Live
(7:37)  2. The Lonesome Road - Live
(6:36)  3. Georgia on My Mind - Live
(1:57)  4. Camptown Races - Live - Part 1
(2:07)  5. Camptown Races - Live - Part 2
(2:27)  6. Short'nin' Bread - Live
(4:31)  7. Basin Street Blues - Live
(2:27)  8. Ol' Man River - Live
(6:22)  9. Gone with the Wind - Live

This dynamic quartet, strongly influential during the cool jazz period, performed as a group from 1951 to 1967. Since the 1930s, leader Dave Brubeck received high praise and critical acclaim for his role as bandleader and for his stirring arrangements. At the piano, Brubeck plays along with the accompaniment of Paul Desmond, another timeless jazz legend in his own right. Joe Morello drives the rhythm of the group on drums and percussion with the help of Gene Wright, who shares his talent and pulsating beats on standup bass. Desmond is featured on this collection of standards, jamming along on the alto sax to tunes such as "Swanee River," "That Lonesome Road," and "Basin Street Blues." Brubeck shimmers with radiance and phenomenal craftiness in his piano improvisation at the end of "Georgia on My Mind." Morello gives it his creative all with a rich flair for rhythm during his strong solo performance on the tune "Short'nin' Bread." It is here that a superb call-and-response exchange between Morello's drums and Brubeck's piano is rendered. The song "Camptown Races" is featured here in two takes. Its mood and rhythmic power is intense and uplifting, pulling the listener into its dreamy percussive web. One can almost feel the crowd of thousands cheering a group of racehorses making their way around the turn to a photo finish. The album as a whole is filled with wonderful surprises and contains some of the best that the cool jazz style has to offer. It is written in the record notes that the foursome believed this would be a special session from the very first take. The group played several of these tunes for the first time in the studio, working out the final product spontaneously. This recording is masterful in scope and very stimulating in style and detail. The percussion of Morello and the bass playing of Wright are quite colorful and filled with texture and majestic rhythmic quality. Desmond's lead on the alto sax is compelling and passionate, filled with joyous melodies that would be perfect for a romantic date. His ability to surf up, down, and through scale passages with a sense of effortlessness is certainly full proof as to why he is regarded with such high esteem within the entire spectrum of jazz. Dave Brubeck's proficiency resonates throughout the record as he shows off his classically trained ear. Brubeck is one of the few pianists who, during his day, clearly avoided standard bop melodic conceptions and rhythmic feeling, and played within a unique style very much his own. Gone With the Wind is strongly recommended not only for the seasoned jazz fan, but also for first-time listeners who wish to be thoroughly captivated. ~ Shawn M. Haney https://www.allmusic.com/album/gone-with-the-wind-mw0000187774

Personnel:  Piano – Dave Brubeck; Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond; Bass – Gene Wright; Drums – Joe Morello

Gone With The Wind

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Ella Fitzgerald - 30 By Ella

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:49
Size: 128,6 MB
Art: Front

(12:22)  1. Medley: My Mother's Eyes.....
( 6:21)  2. Medley: Four Or Five Times....
( 7:06)  3. Medley: On Green Dolphin Street.....
(11:09)  4. Medley: If I Give My Heart To You.....
( 6:41)  5. Medley: Candy....
( 9:49)  6. Medley: No Regrets.....
( 2:18)  7. Hawaiian War Chant

Included here are 30 standards arranged into six extended medleys, showcasing Fitzgerald's extraordinary interpretative powers. Benny Carter is in charge of the arrangements with his "Magnificent Seven" providing the faultless backing. Along the way we also hear some fine fills and solo work from Carter, George Auld, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and pianist Jimmy Jones. 

As for Ella, she navigates effortlessly through the material, always swinging and scatting in all the right places and sounding right at home no matter which way the music moves. One of the nicer entries to her latter-day recorded legacy. ~ Cub Koda https://www.allmusic.com/album/30-by-ella-mw0000691329

Personnel:  Ella Fitzgerald – vocals; Jimmy Jones – piano; Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet; Georgie Auld – tenor saxophone; John Collins – guitar; Panama Francis – drums (tracks 3 & 6); Louis Bellson  - drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7); Bob West – bass

30 By Ella

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Humphrey Lyttelton - I Play as I Please

Styles: Trumpet Jazz 
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:22
Size: 119,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:01)  1. Dixie Theme
(2:44)  2. Blues at Dawn
(6:45)  3. Skid Row
(3:14)  4. Manhattan
(3:09)  5. La Paloma
(7:08)  6. Going out the Back Way
(4:15)  7. Mezzrow
(3:09)  8. Singing the Blues
(2:44)  9. Bodega
(6:50) 10. Looking for Turner
(3:17) 11. Sweethearts on Parade
(2:49) 12. Blues in the Afternoon
(2:11) 13. Buona Sera

Topped and tailed by four bonus tracks, this is an otherwise straightforward (and certainly long-awaited) reissue of Humphrey Lyttelton's best-known and most all-pervasively influential album, the 1957 set that he titled, fittingly, after the first volume of his own autobiography. Widely regarded among the most adventurous of all the players bound up in the British trad boom of the mid to late '50s, Lyttelton had already broken any number of seemingly inviolate rules by the time he teamed with producer Denis Preston to cut this set including the addition of a saxophone and the omission of the banjo. Now it was time to push even further. In terms of numerical strength, three bands appear on this album the seven-piece Humphrey Lyttelton Band, an expanded 12 man big band, and the so called Humphrey Lyttelton Paseo Band, a nine-piece that eschewed horns for flutes, then added a riot of percussion to the mix. It's a heady blend that had traditionalists wringing their hands in despair when the album first appeared, but time (and, of course, the eventual acceptance of many of the ideas Lyttelton first posited) readily vindicates the album's audacity. For collectors, meanwhile, the set is bolstered by both sides of two singles recorded by the regular Lyttelton Band around the same time as I Play As I Please came together, the self-explanatory "Dixie Theme" and the sultry "Blues in the Afternoon." ~ Dave Thompson https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-play-as-i-please-mw0001357881

I Play as I Please

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Stan Getz - Live in Paris 1959

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1959/2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:22
Size: 179,9 MB
Art: Front

( 9:00)  1. Cherokee
( 6:11)  2. All the Things You Are
( 4:08)  3. Lover Man
( 3:36)  4. Special Club
( 6:17)  5. Round 'Bout Midnight
(10:04)  6. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
( 5:08)  7. Tenderly
( 5:01)  8. The Squirrel
( 7:20)  9. Yardbird Suite
( 7:08) 10. Too Marvellous for Words
( 7:03) 11. Topsy
( 7:21) 12. Over the Rainbow

A fantastic live performance from Stan Getz recorded in Paris at the end of the 50s, and with maybe a bit more of an edge than some of his other European concerts! One of the key factors here is the budding modernist Martial Solal on piano who makes a nicely surprising partner for Stan  in a group that also features Jimmy Gourley on guitar, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums certainly something of a French pick-up group, but one that's top shelf all the way through! Stan's got a wonderful sharpness to his tone with that growing sense of fullness that would mature in the 60s, but still also this link that maybe goes a bit back towards Lester Young too  spun out on long takes of familiar tunes, very well-recorded as on other selections in this series. Titles include "The Squirrel", "Yardbird Suite", "All The Things You Are", "Topsy", "Tenderly", "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "Round Midnight", and "Special Club".  © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/889508/Stan-Getz:Stan-Getz-Live-In-Paris-1959

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone - Stan Getz; Bass – Pierre Michelot; Drums – Kenny Clarke; Guitar – Jimmy Gourley ; Piano – Martial Solal

Live in Paris 1959

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Liam Sillery - Outskirts

Styles: Trumpet Jazz 
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:17
Size: 102,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:10)  1. Prana
(6:11)  2. An Arm's Length
(9:38)  3. Black Bag
(8:44)  4. Blues For Lifetime
(5:58)  5. Wrong Number
(8:34)  6. Minor Change

For Outskirts, his third release as a leader, New York-based trumpeter/composer Liam Sillery assembles a progressive-thinking quintet to explore six original compositions. Sharing the frontline with alto saxophonist Matt Blostein, Sillery flirts with a free jazz mentality, mixing pre-conceived ideas with wide-open solo sections. The opening "Prana" begins and ends with an interesting form reminiscent of vintage Wayne Shorter, replete with an airy free-form middle section with communicative blowing between trumpet and saxophone. Pianist Jesse Stacken stands out on "An Arm's Length" with expressively frantic runs over the laid-back, deep groove of bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza. Here, Sillery solos with swinging clarity, manipulating the warmth of the middle-register. Stacken takes control of the lengthy "Black Bag" with blunt, shape-shifting ideas. The bouncy, yet edgy "Blues for Lifetime" has a captivating theme that sets up inspired soloing by Sillery, Blostein, Stacken and Sperrazza. The angular "Wrong Number" is characteristic of the underlying urgency heard in Sillery's melodies. For as layered and rhythmically complex as they are, his themes are rather clear-cut and to the point. "Minor Change" the title track to a previous Sillery release comes out swinging and doesn't let up until all have had their say. The disc closer is a well-crafted, satisfying close to an extraordinary session of creative ensemble interplay and free-wheeling improvisations. ~ John Barron https://www.allaboutjazz.com/outskirts-liam-sillery-oa2-records-review-by-john-barron.php

Personnel: Liam Sillery: trumpet; Matt Blostein; Jesse Stacken: piano; Thomas Morgan: bass; Vinnie Sperrazza: drums.

Outskirts

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