'Wild' Bill Davison - But Beautiful

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:02
Size: 169,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:55)  1. If I Had You
(4:25)  2. Sunday
(6:34)  3. I Can't Get Started
(5:51)  4. Georgia
(3:32)  5. But Beautiful
(6:51)  6. B Flat Blues
(4:10)  7. Someday You'll Be Sorry
(3:59)  8. Am I Blue
(3:25)  9. You Took Advantage of Me
(3:17) 10. Ghost of a Chance
(4:53) 11. I'm Confessin'
(3:07) 12. A Rainy Day
(4:41) 13. Everything Hapens to Me
(3:54) 14. Memories of You
(4:21) 15. Blue Turning Grey over You
(6:01) 16. Exactly Like You

Cornetist Wild Bill Davison recorded often in 1974-77 during his annual visits to Copenhagen and virtually all of those albums (usually released by Storyville) are recommended to Dixieland fans. For this set, Wild Bill is heard either backed by a rhythm section or by a medium-sized group with a sax section. The repertoire is full of ballads although there is plenty of tempo and mood variation. Davison was in his late prime during the era as can be heard on superior versions of "You Took Advantage of Me," "But Beautiful," "I'm Confessin'" and "Blue Turning Gray over You."~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/but-beautiful-mw0000241151

Personnel: Trumpet – Wild Bill Davison; Alto Saxophone – Per Carsten Petersen; Baritone Saxophone – Flemming Madsen; Bass – Hugo Rasmussen; Drums – Ove Rex; Guitar – Torben Munk; Piano – Niels Jørgen Steen; Tenor Saxophone – Steen Vig,  Uffe Karskov,  Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Jesper Thilo

But Beautiful

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Grace Knight - Keep Cool Fool

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:30
Size: 95,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:09)  1. Your Cheatin' Heart
(2:23)  2. Keep Cool Fool
(3:15)  3. Don't Know Much About Love
(3:33)  4. Am I Blue
(3:33)  5. I'm A Woman
(2:42)  6. I'm Glad There Is You
(3:12)  7. It Ain't Necessarily So
(2:37)  8. Sentimental Journey
(3:31)  9. One I Love
(3:34) 10. Undecided
(2:43) 11. He Needs Me
(2:40) 12. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
(3:32) 13. Down By The Salley Gardens

Grace Knight is one of Australia’s finest vocalists with a stellar career spanning 35 years. Throughout her career Grace has embraced numerous musical genres demonstrating her skill and versatility. She created a storm with the 80’s pop group, Eurogliders, where Grace achieved international success with the summer anthem of 1984 Heaven (Must Be There). Grace’s next musical incarnation had her recording the soundtrack and making an acting appearance in the 1990 ABC TV series ‘Come In Spinner’. Recorded with Australian jazz great Vince Jones, Come In Spinner was an enormous success and went on to achieve triple platinum sales status. Grace’s first solo album Stormy Weather was received with critical acclaim and confirmed Grace Knight as Australia’s first lady of jazz. Now in 2012, Grace Knight once again delivers a sublime album of cool jazz (I’m A Woman, Am I Blue, It Ain’t Necessarily So), classic nostalgia (Sentimental Journey) as well as surprising with divine interpretations of Your Cheating Heart and Down By The Salley Gardens. Grace’s sixth solo album is the perfect cocktail party accompaniment so sit back, sip a cocktail and remember to Keep Cool Fool. https://www.abcmusic.com.au/discography/grace-knight-keep-cool-fool

Keep Cool Fool

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Rodolphe Raffalli - Rodolphe Raffalli en Amérique latine

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:57
Size: 136,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:12)  1. Estoy Contento
(3:26)  2. Amarraditos
(2:41)  3. Ha Mi Corrientes Pora
(3:34)  4. Pájaro Chogüí
(3:02)  5. Tres Palabras
(4:29)  6. Sapy a Raicha
(4:48)  7. El Solitario
(3:21)  8. La Gloria Eres Tú
(4:12)  9. Como Llora una Estrella
(5:49) 10. Que Nadie Sepa Mi Sufrir / La foule
(3:27) 11. La Barca
(4:02) 12. Palomita Blanca
(3:49) 13. Amapola
(4:53) 14. Quiero Ser Tu Sombra la Partida
(4:07) 15. La Bikina

After his wonderful explorations of the repertoire’s classics, Rodolphe Raffalli here returns to his fi rst loves in music, i.e. Latin America. His early haunts were Left Bank Latin clubs where he was the disciple of Martin Torres and a friend of Atahualpa Yupanqui; alongside him in this opus are such unavoidable Argentinean Parisians as Raúl Barboza, Rudi Flores and Miguel Filipini, together with the tandem of David and Sébastien Gastine, his regular accompanists for several years. 

Here the virtuoso guitarist displays the full extent of his remarkable talents playing music from Chile to Cuba via Mexico, Paraguay and, of course, Argentina, causing the repertoire to vibrate with all the sensuality to be found in its mixed race traditions. https://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=64&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1751&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=0

RODOLPHE RAFFALLI GUITARE LEAD SOLO; SÉBASTIEN GASTINE CONTRE BASSE; RAÚL BARBOZA ACCORDEON; RUDI FLORES GUITARE SOLO ET RYTHMIQUE; PAPA, MIGUEL FILIPPINI ET DAVID GASTINE GUITARE RYTHMIQUE.

Rodolphe Raffalli en Amérique latine

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David Friedman - Weaving Through Motion

Styles: Vibraphone Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:39
Size: 132,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:33)  1. Turn Left
(4:45)  2. Two Minds, One Thought
(4:49)  3. 'Round Midnight
(3:18)  4. Confession
(4:21)  5. Ona
(4:12)  6. Almost Blue
(2:28)  7. No (Changes) - With Compliments to the Band 'Yes'
(5:13)  8. Álom
(5:57)  9. Batuna
(3:48) 10. The Guilded Cage
(7:19) 11. The Windmills of Your Mind
(4:50) 12. Waltz for Hannah

An absorbing solo vibraphone session from jazz vet David Friedman, who went twenty years since his last solo outing.  His newest, Weaving Through Motion, is likely to lead to some regret that he doesn’t do the solo thing a bit more often.  Along with a bunch of Friedman originals, there are four covers, including Monk’s “‘Round Midnight” and Michael Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind.”  Just a real intimate, patient set of tunes that gives the listener the sense that they are there in the room as Friedman works through his ideas. Some notable tracks:  “Turn Left” has the dreamy, uneasy stillness of the darkness just before sunrise.  At the other end of the spectrum, “Ona” is all bright eyes and optimism, cheerily rattling of sunny statements.  In like fashion, he takes “Almost Blue” for a spin with a pop music enthusiasm and hammers home the song’s catchy melody with an infectious exuberance.  And though he references a classic-turned-prog-rock band on “No (Changes) With Compliments to the Band ‘Yes’,” the mesmerizing rhythmic attack is more akin to the Krautrock school of ambient music, ala Cluster. https://www.birdistheworm.com/david-friedman-weaving-through-motion/

Personnel:  David Friedman (vibraphone, marimba).

Weaving Through Motion

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Five Play - Five Play (Live from the Firehouse Stage) (Live)

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:29
Size: 156,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:26)  1. T-Bone Special
(6:04)  2. Samba de Sorvete
(6:37)  3. Just Squeeze Me
(5:50)  4. Uneven Pieces
(7:20)  5. The Pilot
(7:05)  6. Nancy with the Laughing Face
(7:57)  7. Circles
(5:47)  8. I Can't Give You Anything but Love
(7:49)  9. Unexpected
(7:29) 10. The Time Being

The latest release from FIVE PLAY features Sherrie Maricle on drums, Janelle Reichman on tenor sax and clarinet, Jami Dauber on trumpet, Tomoko Ohno on piano, and Noriko Ueda on bass. The inspiration to record FIVE PLAY LIVE from The Firehouse Stage was sparked by the joy and success of The DIVA Jazz Orchestra’s 25th Anniversary Project. DIVA is FIVE PLAY’s “Mothership,” and both bands are powered by the same deep sense of tradition and swing, energized and elevated by original compositions and arrangements, and driven by exciting and unique players. My enthusiasm for creating and performing music written exclusively by band members for band members has carried over from jazz orchestra to jazz quintet. All FIVE PLAY members have contributed original compositions and arrangements to this recording. As with our DIVA recording, there is something very special about writing music for your friends. Janelle, Jami, Tomoko, Noriko, and I have been playing together for 13+ years. Our longevity has allowed us to develop many deep, unspoken pathways of musical communication and insight. As composers and arrangers, it has given us an inherent understanding of each other’s musical preferences and strengths. It was also simply time for us to create and share our current quintet passions. Our previous release was in 2015, Live at The Deer Head Inn. As with all jazz souls, we are always morphing into new versions of ourselves. Sharing our various incarnations is a joyful, exhilarating, and sometimes scary part of our creative mission. I grew up in Endicott, New York. It’s near the middle of New York State on the southern border near PA. The Firehouse Stage is in a nearby town called Johnson City, New York. From the moment it opened, I have been a fan of this extraordinary performance space. When I was thinking about where to record FIVE PLAY, and given the fact that I much prefer to record live rather than in the studio, I immediately thought of home. My band members and I have many warm and wonderful fans, friends, and family in the area, and when presenting a program of all new music, it’s heartening to do so surrounded by those who support and encourage your success. Each of these 10 pieces of music is a unique creation from us for our listeners. From my penchant for hard-swinging shuffles like T-Bone Special, barn burners like The Time Being, Basie- inspired arrangements like I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, to Tomoko’s Brazilian-fired Samba De Sorvete and Bop masterpiece The Pilot, Noriko’s contemporary opus Uneven Pieces and bass- centric arrangement of Nancy with the Laughing Face, Janelle’s lyrical waltz Circles and captivating ballad Unexpected, and Jami’s nod to Cootie Williams on Just Squeeze Me, we hope each gets your feet tapping and lips smiling. https://divajazz.com/product/five-play-live-from-the-firehouse-stage/

Personnel:  Sherrie Maricle on drums, Janelle Reichman on tenor sax and clarinet, Jami Dauber on trumpet, Tomoko Ohno on piano, and Noriko Ueda on bass

Five Play (Live from the Firehouse Stage)

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