Mariachi Brass, Chet Baker - A Taste of Tequila

Styles: West Coast Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 25:50
Size: 59,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:21)  1. Flowers on the Wall
(2:09)  2. Tequila
(2:15)  3. Mexico
(2:45)  4. Cuando Calienta El Sol
(2:09)  5. Hot Toddy
(3:12)  6. 24 Hours to Tulsa
(2:36)  7. Speedy Gonzales
(2:53)  8. Come a Little Bit Closer
(3:13)  9. El Paso
(2:12) 10. La Bamba

After returning to the United States in 1964, Chet Baker recorded a fine album for Colpix, two for Limelight, and five (during a busy week) for Prestige. However, after that string, it would be until 1974 before the trumpeter recorded anything else worthwhile. During 1965-1966, he cut six remarkably commercial throwaways for the once viable World Pacific label. A Taste of Tequila was the first, featuring Baker's unenthusiastic solos on ten poppish tunes while joined by the Mariachi Brass, a rather weak derivative of the Tijuana Brass. Jack Nitzsche's arrangements must have sounded a bit corny even at the time. This LP is only recommended to listeners who are curious to hear how Baker (who exclusively played flügelhorn during this period even though he is pictured on the back cover of the album on trumpet) would sound playing "Tequila," "Hot Toddy," and "La Bamba." ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-taste-of-tequila-mw0000865288

A Taste of Tequila

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Jenny And The Mexicats - Jenny And The Mexicats

Styles: Flamenco, Jazz 
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:12
Size: 90,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Verde Más Allá
(3:36)  2. Hunt You Down
(3:26)  3. Starting Something
(3:56)  4. Llueve en el Mar
(3:20)  5. Me Voy a Ir
(4:55)  6. The Song Of The UV House Mouse
(3:35)  7. Heaven Knows
(3:06)  8. Freddy
(3:08)  9. Sin Mirar Atrás
(2:47) 10. Flor
(3:48) 11. Anthem Song

Jenny and the Mexicats is a fusion of nationalities and personalities, a band that has a very particular history more than anything accidental. The band had its beginnings in Madrid as Pachucos and the princess , in June 2008. It all started when Icho (double bass) invites Jenny to live in Madrid. Jenny, 20, had arrived at the right place. Icho called the best guitarist he knew, Pantera a guitarist with a very versatile flamenco technique, Icho and he had played together for many years in a rockabilly and punk group in his hometown in Mexico. Pantera proposed to a colleague who played the drawer instead of drums, and so came David , an extraordinary Spanish drawer, with whom he had already shared the stage in the world of flamenco.This is how the little adventure of an English girl who emigrates to Spain in search of new sounds is born, and gives rise to Jenny and the Mexicats. His first concert was Wonderland , a small festival that generates money to help cancer research in the United Kingdom, in August 2008. The roots that this new sound carried, made Jenny begin to compose a lot and so Jenny and the Mexicats began to rehearse at the place where everyone had met ... a flamenco tablao. Jenny didn't speak Spanish and David didn't speak English, so they only understood each other musically and with a little help from the two Mexicans translating. In England Jenny and the Mexicats began to attract attention and realized that they had created something special. On their return to Spain they realized that the merger also worked very well there, so they started playing on the street and later in all the rooms throughout Spain. After signing with a record label in England, Jenny and the Mexicats decided to choose to be independent to have more control musically of the band's sound and to be able to grow in a more real and natural way. Thus was born MEXICAT RECORDS. They recorded their first album 'JENNY AND THE MEXICATS' in the summer of 2011 in Madrid and moved to Mexico City in 2012. With this production they managed to obtain a Gold record. This record material contains a mix of songs in Spanish and English, classics of his material like Heaven Knows and Starting Something , in addition to three successes in Spanish: Green Beyond, I'm Going to Go and Flor, with which they managed to bring the name of the band to everyone's mouth. In 2014 they released their second album 'OME' and the first single Lips was part of the soundtrack of the movie "Love of my Loves" directed by Manolo Caro. The album has new songs with all the Mexicat spirit and mixes great rhythms, lots of energy and moments of sensitivity. In Frenético Ritmo and Boulevard the Mexican influences are noticed, there is even a song full of energy dedicated to the dogs of the band Sasha and Esteban. David's voice takes on more prominence in songs like, It Hurts when Walking, Lips and Boulevard. The last song of the album 'Back to Basics' demonstrates the simplest and most emotional way to compose Jenny, she alone with her guitar. It should be noted that all the art of the disc was designed by Pantera. A musical combination that mixes rhythms of jazz, rockabilly, folk, flamenco, reggae, are Veracruz, country and cumbia. What gives Jenny and the Mexicats a unique, virtually inimitable personality. Translate By Google http://www.jennyandmexicats.com/#about

Jenny And The Mexicats

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Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles

Styles: Piano Jazz 
Year: 1964
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:51
Size: 124,4 MB
Art: Front

( 7:21)  1. One Finger Snap
( 8:30)  2. Oliloqui Valley
( 5:34)  3. Cantaloupe Island
(14:01)  4. The Egg
( 7:37)  5. One Finger Snap (Alternative Take)
(10:47)  6. Oliloqui Valley (Alternative Take)

As a member of Miles Davis' second quintet during the 1960s, pianist Herbie Hancock rarely performed live under his own leadership, but he did take the time to record. Hancock's 1964 effort, Empyrean Isles, remains one of the most diverse and often challenging records of the pianist's tenure with Blue Note Records. It's a rare jazz record that offers both a hugely popular hit, as well as an outré masterwork of rhythmic repetition and angular melodies. A masterpiece like Empyrean Isles deserves a first-class reissue, and the good folks at Music Matters have undertaken to press the ultimate vinyl version. With access to the original master tapes, some of the finest cutting and pressing equipment available, and a boatload of enthusiasm, they've cut what was a single LP onto two 180g 45 rpm discs that simply smoke any CD version ever released. Packaged with a deluxe, full-color gatefold jacket, and additional Francis Wolff session photographs inside, this pressing is a feast for both the aural and visual senses. Empyrean Isles is best know for the hit "Cantaloupe Island," which alone is worth hearing on this vinyl edition. The sound is large and smooth, and the piano which can sometimes sound boxed in on Van Gelder recordings is almost full-sized. Most importantly the weight of the piano chords come through loud and clear. What is most startling is the amount of additional information revealed through this true analog pressing. Freddie Hubbard's trumpet is brassy and rich, and Ron Carter's bass, which can often lack tone and depth on CD, is plump and three-dimensional. "Cantaloupe Island" has become one of the most ubiquitous jazz songs ever, especially after being sampled by Us3 for their hit 

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)." A pressing like this will make people question whether they've ever really heard it at all. The real meat of Empyrean Islesits adventurous heart lies with "The Egg," A thirteen-minute exploration of the limits of beat repetition that includes some of Hubbard's most restless trumpet playing. He strains his horn against the locked rhythm, looking for a way out that never comes. It's a fascinating juxtaposition of improvisation over rigid reiteration. On this Music Matters pressing, those elements have never been clearer, with the Tony Williams' drums revealing particular snap and scale. Like most albums in the Blue Note catalog of the 1950s and '60s, Empyrean Isles was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. That pedigree leaves a few period sonic fingerprints, but on the whole, with the proper care taken in this remastering, this recording offers a wealth of fresh detail and enhanced musicality. Empyrean Isles has fared well through the Music Matters process, yielding a pressing that will truly augment an understanding of the music. 

~ Greg Simmons https://www.allaboutjazz.com/empyrean-isles-herbie-hancock-blue-note-records-review-by-greg-simmons.php

Personnel: Herbie Hancock: piano; Freddie Hubbard: cornet; Ron Carter: bass; Tony Williams: drums.

Empyrean Isles

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Hossam Ramzy - Rock the Tabla

Styles: Jazz Fusion 
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:02
Size: 123,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:07)  1. Arabantana
(5:50)  2. Cairo to India
(4:30)  3. Six Teens: 6 Teens
(5:29)  4. Ancient Love Affair
(3:52)  5. Shukran Arigato
(5:04)  6. Bluesy Flusey
(4:32)  7. Billy Dancing
(4:04)  8. Sawagy
(3:03)  9. Dom & Doumbia: Dom and Doumbia
(5:33) 10. Rock the Tabla
(5:54) 11. This Could Lead to Dancing

After countless albums under his own name and guesting on other people's, the Egyptian percussionist comes out with something very high profile indeed. With people like jazz drummer Billy Cobham, Bollywood composer A. R. Rahman, and Turkey's Omar Tekbilek on board, it couldn't be anything less than stellar, and Ramzy has pulled out all the stops here. Although Egypt is at the core of everything, Rock the Tabla glides musically into many corners of the world, as on "Cairo to India," which brings two countries together quite naturally (as does the bonus cut, "This Could Lead to Dancing," which goes out on a glorious swirl of strings). In between, there's some stellar jazz-inflected material in "Six Teens," where Cobham offers a reminder of why he's so lauded, a pair of percussion duets (Egypt meets Japanese taiko drums and Egypt goes to Mali), and some Maghrebi pop on "Sawagy." The true highlight, however, is the title track, one of the best pieces of Arab rock to ever come out of a pair of speakers, with Tekbilek bringing the mizmar and a carefully unnamed guitarist who sounds suspiciously like a '70s icon (Ramzy worked on Page & Plant's Unledded), giving the tune some hard electric lines that really power it, and which might just be Ramzy's best composition to date. Unsurprisingly, all the percussion is mixed high, but not at the expense of everything else, and listening to the players is like attending a master class in musicality. It's certainly Ramzy's most inspired release in years. He's working with people he admires and who push him hard. The joy is hearing him and everyone else deliver. ~ Chris Nickson https://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-the-tabla-mw0002189604

Rock the Tabla

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Miryam Latrece - Quiero Cantarte

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:23
Size: 127,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:32)  1. Chega de saudade
(4:52)  2. Drume Negrita
(6:11)  3. Mediterráneo
(4:07)  4. Oh vida
(4:35)  5. Maça
(5:28)  6. Todo es de color
(4:30)  7. Meditaçao
(4:43)  8. Tramontana
(4:24)  9. Jogral
(3:44) 10. Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón
(5:02) 11. Like Someone in Love
(4:09) 12. La Leyenda del tiempo

want to sing to you is Miryam Latrece's second job . This young singer and songwriter from Madrid began to take her first steps in music from an early age. At seventeen he already belonged to a band called Akatupower, with which he would record two albums and participate in various music festivals. From 2013 he began his solo career, with performances in the most emblematic places of the Jazz scene in Madrid. And in 2016 he would publish his first solo work, Una Necessity .I want to sing to you is Miryam Latrece's new album , in which he performs versions of artists such as Tom Jobim , Djavan , Chet Baker or Joan Manuel Serrrat, among others. An album recorded with a trio of great musicians such as drummer and producer Michael Olivera, pianist Marco Mezquida and bassist Pablo Martín Caminero. As proof of the quality that this work treasures, nothing better than watching the video clip of Chega de Saudade , the theme that opens it.  The second album by young Madrid singer Miryam Latrece is the protagonist of this edition. We also review recent releases by Jéssica Pina, Vladimir Cetkar, Marc Jordan, The Rippingtons and Rahsaan Patterson. In the memory block we recover the two most international sound discs of Argentine guitarist Luis Salinas. https://www.cloud-jazz.com/miryam-latrece-quiero-cantarte

Quiero Cantarte

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