Erskine Hawkins Quintet - The Hawk Blows At Midnight

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1961
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:01
Size: 74,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:58)  1. Tuxedo Junction
(3:08)  2. Love Is Here To Stay
(2:40)  3. Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
(2:33)  4. Midnight Stroll
(2:11)  5. Blue Embers
(2:34)  6. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
(2:17)  7. Cherry
(3:34)  8. The Birth Of The Blues
(2:45)  9. Tippin' In
(2:11) 10. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
(2:37) 11. Deep Purple
(2:27) 12. Hawkin' Around

Jazz trumpeter, Erskine Hawkins, was born in Birmingham, Alabama July 26, 1914. A talented high-note trumpeter and a popular bandleader, Erskine Hawkins was nicknamed “The 20th Century Gabriel.” He learned drums and trombone before switching to trumpet when he was 13, and was one of five inaugural inductees into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1978. He also became on of the principal influences on a young rhythm and blues piano player named Ray Charles. While attending the Alabama State Teachers College, he became the leader of the college band, the Bama State Collegians. They went to New York in 1934, became the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, started making records in 1936 and by 1938 were quite successful. The first formal appearance of Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra was in 1938 when the band won a recording contract with RCA Victor. However, the inception of the band had occurred two years earlier when it was known as The 'Bama State Collegians. Hawkins, whose biggest influences were Louis Armstrong records, skipped out on a 'Bama State Collegians band trip to New Jersey so he could play some gigs in New York. At one of these early shows, Armstrong surprised him backstage at the Apollo Theater. From then on, whenever Hawkins came to New York, Armstrong would also take the stage at the Savoy Ballroom, where Hawkins' dance band attracted a loyal following. Hawkins had three major hits (”Tuxedo Junction,” “After Hours” and “Tippin' In”) and was able to keep the big band together all the way until 1953. Hawkins' band was so popular that he was able to retain a permanent roster of players, most of whom were from Birmingham. The style was “down-home” and blues-inspired, but it could still swing and lay down a great dance beat. Two of his chief arrangers were pianist Avery “After Hours” Parrish and trumpeter Sammy Lowe. (See Sammy Lowe's biography, also on this website.) Baritone saxophone soloist Haywood Henry, who stayed with Hawkins until the band broke up in 1953, anchored the music securely in a solid harmony. During the band's heyday, the 1930s and 40s, Hawkins featured vocalists Ida James, Delores Brown and Della Reese. ROCKIN ROLLERS JUBILEE (1938) was ahead of its time, but TUXEDO JUNCTION (1939) became the anthem of American GIs in Europe during the early years of WWII. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/erskinehawkins

Personnel: Erskine Hawkins, trumpet; Bobby Smith, sax; Leroy Kirkland, guitar; Ernest Hayes, piano; Lloyd Trotman, bass; Shep Sheperd, drums

The Hawk Blows At Midnight

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Dinah Lee - The Sound of Dinah Lee

Styles: Vocal 
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 26:25
Size: 61,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:12)  1. What Kind of Love Is This?
(2:22)  2. What Did He Say?
(1:58)  3. Twist and Shout
(2:14)  4. It's for You
(1:46)  5. Oh Boy
(1:59)  6. Hey Chickie Baby
(2:21)  7. I'll Forgive You, Then Forget You
(1:49)  8. He Can't Do the Blue Beat
(2:21)  9. Long Way from St. Louis
(2:41) 10. Shout
(2:14) 11. Hot Spot
(2:23) 12. Is It True?

Dinah Lee has concertized in the US and Europe. She's that rare tradjazz-swing vocalist who respects the song and adds depth and feeling in a special way, transporting you back to the tradition of Margaret Whiting, Ella Fitzgerald.  Jo Stafford and Doris Day with Dinah's own individuality. https://www.mezzrow.com/artists/2479-dinah-lee

The Sound of Dinah Lee

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Francesco Cafiso Quartet - Happy Time

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:52
Size: 137,8 MB
Art: Front

( 5:01)  1. Louisiana
(11:57)  2. She Loves Me
( 7:32)  3. Happy Time
( 5:49)  4. Anabel
( 9:50)  5. Blues For Angel
( 5:40)  6. Sir Charles
( 7:59)  7. Goodbye Elvin
( 6:00)  8. The Bear

Many names come to mind as convenient references for precocious jazz talents: Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, the Marsalises, Bireli Lagrène, Roy Hargrove, etc. With Happy Time Sicilian-born Francesco Cafiso (born in 1989) earns his place amongst such once-profiled wunderkinds. Having won, among many competitions, the International Massimo Urbani Award at age eleven and the EuroJazz Competition at age thirteen, he has also garnered the attention and support of Italy's principal festival organizers and international musicians alike. Even Wynton Marsalis, who called him "the best thirteen-year-old saxophonist he had ever heard, has hired the altoist for his 2002 European tour. Considering he recorded Happy Time at age sixteen, Cafiso's suprisingly mature style testifies that he absorbed Charlie Parker's bebop vocabulary, as well as Phil Woods and Cannonball Adderley's hard bop phrasing, quite naturally. He masters both genres' idiomatic articulations and possesses a wide-ranging bag of tricks (even throwing the occasional growls and hard-tongued thumps). But he also brings out a lot of himself in his solos, especially on ballads, which he plays convicingly. His dead-on time feel and phrasing exudes confidence and just the right dose of extrovertedness. While Cafiso's heartfelt melodies and precise playing will likely please connoisseurs, the elementary forms (slow blues, minor blues, "Impressions -like modal, rhythm changes and free) of his pieces might bore some listeners. The two ballads, "Goodbye Elvin and "She Loves Me, bring elegance and variety with stellar playing from Cafiso and drummer Stefano Bagnoli. The latter's reputed brushes playing add rhythmic depth to the quartet's overall sound. Their introduction to opening track, "Louisiana, keenly borrows, in spirit, the aforementioned Elvin Jones' famous duos with John Coltrane. ~ Martin Gladu https://www.allaboutjazz.com/happy-time-francesco-cafiso-cam-jazz-review-by-martin-gladu.php

Personnel: Francesco Cafiso: alto saxophone; Riccardo Arrighini: piano; Aldo Zunino: bass; Stefano Bagnoli: drums.

Happy Time

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Don Patterson - Goin' Down Home

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop 
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:27
Size: 100,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:42)  1. Little Duck
(4:56)  2. John Brown's Body
(4:35)  3. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
(3:55)  4. Frankie MC
(5:12)  5. It's Magic
(4:19)  6. Goin' Down Home
(5:45)  7. Trick Bag
(4:49)  8. 1197 Fair
(5:11)  9. Work Song

Goin' Down Home is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in Chicago in 1963 and released on the Cadet label in 1966. Although it is the earliest recordings led by Patterson it as not released until after he had produced several albums for Prestige Records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27_Down_Home

Personnel:  Don Patterson - organ; Paul Weedon - guitar; Billy James - drums

Goin' Down Home

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Jakob Bro - Daydreamer

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:07
Size: 101,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:01)  1. Philadelphia
(4:43)  2. Countryside
(5:35)  3. Daydreamer
(4:38)  4. The Time Is Always Now
(4:46)  5. Highpoint
(6:00)  6. Optimistic
(6:30)  7. Everything All at a Time
(4:50)  8. Unfolded

Jakob Bro (1978) is a Danish guitar player and composer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently leading a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan and a quartet with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan and Jon Christensen. In the spring of 2018 the quartet released a highly acclaimed album Returnings through ECM Records. In October 2018 the trio will be releasing a new ECM album, Bay Of Rainbows, recorded at the Jazz Standard in New York. Bro is also working with his tentet with Jesper Zeuthen, Peter Laugesen, Andrew D’Angelo, Chris Speed, Kresten Osgood, Jakob Høyer, Thomas Morgan, AC, Nikolaj Torp-Larsen and Søren Kjærgaard and he is currently composing music for a new choir project together with his long time friend and associate trumpet player Jakob Buchanan. Jakob Bro is a former member of Paul Motian & The Electric Bebop Band (Garden of Eden, ECM – 2006) and of Tomasz Stanko’s Dark Eyes Quintet (Dark Eyes, ECM – 2009). He has released 15 records as a bandleader including musicians like Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Bley, Chris Cheek, Thomas Morgan, Ben Street, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andrew D’Angelo, Chris Speed, George Garzone, Craig Taborn, Oscar Noriega, David Virelles, Jon Christensen, Jesper Zeuthen, Anders Christensen, Peter Laugesen, Kresten Osgood, Jakob Høyer, Nicolai Munch-Hansen, Jonas Westergaard, Søren Kjærgaard, Nikolaj Torp Larsen and many more. He has toured in Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, South Africa, USA and most of Europe. http://jakobbro.com/web/2018/09/bio/

Personnel: Jakob Bro (Guitar); Chris Cheek (Tenor Sax); Ned Ferm (Tenor Sax)(; Mads Hyhne (Trombone); Anders Christensen (Bass); Jeppe Gram (Drums)

Daydreamer

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