Art Farmer - The Summer Knows

Styles: Jazz, Bop
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:31
Size: 80,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:42)  1. The Summer Knows
(5:24)  2. Manhã De Carnaval
(4:55)  3. Alfie
(6:13)  4. When I Fall In Love
(4:45)  5. Ditty
(5:30)  6. I Should Care

This relaxed session features fluegelhornist Art Farmer in a quartet with pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Billy Higgins. The material (which includes such tunes as "Alfie," "When I Fall in Love" and "I Should Care") is given lyrical treatment by these masterful players on this ballad-dominated date. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-summer-knows-mw0000649502

Personnel:  Art Farmer - flugelhorn; Cedar Walton - piano; Sam Jones - bass; Billy Higgins - drums

The Summer Knows

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Connie Evingson - Little Did I Dream

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:22
Size: 121,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:04)  1. Little Did I Dream
(4:14)  2. Peel Me A Grape
(3:39)  3. Our Love Rolls On
(3:25)  4. Zanzibar
(3:28)  5. Can't Take You Nowhere
(3:08)  6. Heart's Desire
(3:33)  7. Wheelers And Dealers
(3:46)  8. Zoot Walks In
(4:33)  9. Eastwood Lane
(2:58) 10. You Are There
(3:37) 11. I Want To Be A Sideman
(4:35) 12. My Attorney Bernie
(3:44) 13. Snowbound
(3:32) 14. Listen Here

The late Tip O'Neill once said, .."All politics is local." This certainly can be said for jazz also. All of America's metropolitan areas have a jazz contingency. Chicago has Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber, and Von Freeman; Washington DC has Buck Hill; and New York has who knows how many? The Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul, also has noted jazz talent in Dave Frishberg and vocalist Connie Evingson. Pianist/vocalist Frishberg, a native of St. Paul, has a long jazz résumé that includes School House Rock (Rhino, 1996), as well as having written numerous songs recorded by Blossom Dearie, Mel Tormé, Rosemary Clooney, Diana Krall and Tony Bennett. Frishberg exists in a rarified realm where his only peers in jazz songwriting are the great Mose Allison and Bob Dorough. For her part, Connie Evingson has released a spate of fine recordings that include Let It Be Jazz (Summit, 2003), The Secret of Christmas (Minnehaha Music, 2003) and Gypsy in My Soul (Minnehaha Music, 2005). With the release of Let It Be Jazz, a collection of Beatles tunes, Evingson began a successful run of thematic recordings that addressed holiday fare and Le Hot Club Django. Continuing in this direction, Evingson rolls out a festive collection of Frishberg classics, illustrating why Frishberg and Evingson are such essential fixtures to 21st Century jazz. Frishberg's fresh, smart lyrics are well-delivered by the ultra-hip Evingson, who reveals through her immense talent the diamonds that are Frishberg's lyrics. The title song, as well as the beautifully sexy "Peel Me a Grape," reveals Frishberg as a masterful poet and lyricist in the same vein as Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein, and Lorenz Hart. He is a master of the internal rhyme, an essential component to any successful lyric writing. Evingson's vocals are certain and sure. She deftly navigates the strolling' "Zoot Walks In," joined by Frishberg in the introduction, where the singer's vocalese power is displayed as well as Frishberg's keen pianism. "I Want to be a Sideman" quotes Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" musically and a musician's simple wish to be, not the leader, but a part of a band. "My Attorney Bernie" is great fun. Evingson and Frishberg swing for the fences and knock it out with Little Did I Dream. ~ C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/little-did-i-dream-songs-by-dave-frishberg-connie-evingson-minnehaha-music-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Connie Evingson: vocals; Dave Frishberg: piano (vocal on track 13); Gordy Johnson: bass; Phil Hey: drums; Dave Karr: flute, tenor and baritone saxophone, narration (8); Mark Henderson: tenor saxophone (5, 8).

Little Did I Dream

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Booker Little - How We Do

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 127:48
Size: 294,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:16)  1. Sweet and Lovely
(5:11)  2. If I Should Lose You
(5:35)  3. Milestones
(5:39)  4. Calling Softly
(4:30)  5. Dungeon's Waltz
(6:37)  6. Jewel's Tempo
(5:54)  7. Matilde
(6:45)  8. We Speak
(5:43)  9. Moonlight Becomes You
(6:19) 10. Forward Flight
(4:49) 11. Man of Words
(8:10) 12. Quiet, Please
(4:55) 13. The Grand Valse
(5:31) 14. A New Day
(6:16) 15. Strength and Sanity
(6:51) 16. Life's a Little Blue
(5:57) 17. Victory and Sorrow
(5:16) 18. Booker's Blues
(5:39) 19. Bee Tee's Minor Plea
(5:24) 20. Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)
(5:39) 21. Minor Sweet
(6:41) 22. Opening Statement

The first trumpeter emerging after Clifford Brown's death to gain his own sound, Booker Little had a tremendous amount of potential before his premature death. He began on trumpet when he was 12 and played with Johnny Griffin and the MJT + 3 while attending the Chicago Conservatory. 

Little was with Max Roach (1958-1959) and then freelanced in New York. He recorded with Roach and Abbey Lincoln, was on John Coltrane's Africa/Brass album, and was well-documented during a July 1961 gig at the Five Spot with Eric Dolphy. Little had a memorable melancholy sound and his interval jumps looked toward the avant-garde, but he also swung like a hard bopper. Booker Little led four sessions (one album apiece for United Artists, Time, Candid, and Bethlehem), but died of uremia at the age of 23, a particularly tragic loss. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/booker-little-mn0000097529/biography

How We Do

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Paolo Alderighi, Stephanie Trick - Double Trio Always

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:41
Size: 147,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:45)  1. Always
(4:35)  2. Panama
(5:03)  3. After You've Gone
(4:07)  4. Promenade aux Champs-Elysees
(4:21)  5. Hindustan
(3:04)  6. Truckin'
(4:35)  7. Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)
(5:01)  8. Stradivarius
(3:39)  9. Booogie Wooogie
(5:23) 10. Fig Leaf Rag
(5:18) 11. Whispering
(4:45) 12. New Orleans Function (Flee as a Bird / Oh, Didn't He Ramble)
(3:55) 13. Love Me Tender
(5:03) 14. With a Smile and a Song

The most acclaimed four-hands jazz piano duo presents a studio album with fourteen original arrangements of jazz classics with their Double Trio combo. Paolo Alderighi (from Milan, Italy) and Stephanie Trick (from St. Louis, Missouri) have been working together as a four-hands jazz piano duo since 2011. In this album (their fourth together after "Two for One”, "Sentimental Journey” and “Double Trio Live 2015") they present fourteen original arrangements of jazz classics with their “Double Trio” combo: four-hands piano duo plus rhythm section. This studio recording features their Italian rhythm section and complements the previous Double Trio album. Paolo and Stephanie met at a piano festival in Boswil (near Zürich), Switzerland, in 2008 and started to work together on a four-hands piano project dedicated to classic jazz, preparing arrangements of songs from the Swing Era, as well as drawing from the ragtime and blues repertoire. The convention of four hands on one piano is very common in classical music but a fairly rare occurrence in jazz, due to the fact that jazz is an improvised music. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/paoloandstephanie4

Double Trio Always

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