Phil Woods, Michela Lombardi - Sing & Play Phil Woods Songbook, Vol. 1

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz  
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:32
Size: 123,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:53)  1. Aimee
(6:43)  2. The Last Page
(4:02)  3. A Man Of Heart And Mind
(3:08)  4. Rain Go Away
(5:36)  5. Without You
(4:42)  6. There Was Once A Man
(5:25)  7. My Man Benny
(6:22)  8. Nicole
(6:39)  9. Sweet Petite Chanson
(6:57) 10. Samba Dubois

Phil Woods, a heavyweight of Alto Sachs, who is also called by Charlie Parker, who is a beautiful European jazz vocalist, who sings Phil Woods' masterpiece . Even today, whether to become 80 years old, there is no decline in the activity. Bap Tune is one of the best woods, but he is also known as a great composer. This album has been reborn as a vocal number by carefully selected 10 songs from Woods' original songs by Michela Lombardi & Phil Woods, the leading jazz singer in Italy. Fortunately, the composer Woods also participates and listens to the play full of singing. It will be a hit since Michela ’s popular work “So April Hearted” (LTCD0164), and for Woods, this album will be a recent masterpiece. (From jazzyell) Translate By Google https://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/detail/W448

Personnel: Michela Lombardi (vo), Phil Woods (sax), Piero Frassi (p, key), Filippo Pedol (b), Andrea Melani (ds)

Sing & Play Phil Woods Songbook, Vol. 1

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Bud Powell Trio - Swingin' With Bud

Styles: Piano Jazz 
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:03
Size: 90,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:27)  1. Another Dozen
(4:57)  2. Like Someone In Love
(2:22)  3. Salt Peanuts
(5:09)  4. She
(3:16)  5. Swedish Pastry
(3:16)  6. Shaw 'Nuff
(2:33)  7. Oblivion
(3:25)  8. In the Blue of the Evening
(3:05)  9. Get It
(4:20) 10. Birdland Blues
(3:09) 11. Midway

The immortal pianist Bud Powell's two RCA sets from 1956-1957 have been unjustly neglected through the years. Superior to his Verve releases from the time (although not on the same level as his Blue Note dates), Powell is in generally good form on this trio session with bassist George Duvivier and drummer Art Taylor. Highlights include "Like Someone in Love," "Salt Peanuts," "Shaw 'Nuff" and "Oblivion" (the latter is one of four Powell originals on the program). The set is not essential but is easily recommended to bop collectors. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/swingin-with-bud-mw0000644656

Personnel: Bud Powell – piano; George Duvivier – bass; Art Taylor – drums

Swingin' With Bud

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Christine Corvisier - Walking Around

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:53
Size: 163,5 MB
Art: Front

( 7:22)  1. Balkan Song
( 4:58)  2. Knuck
( 7:03)  3. La Vie En Rose
( 7:25)  4. Energetic Laziness
( 8:47)  5. Black Sympathy
( 6:06)  6. Common Passion
( 4:17)  7. Spin
(12:40)  8. Le Chocolat - Live
(12:11)  9. Black Sympathy - Live

She started the saxophone at the age of 14 and quickly integrated some bands like the JMSU Big Band (directed by JF. Jacomino) with whom she went on different tours through the years ( Germany, Italy, Paris: in the “Zenith” and the studio of” Radio France», Jazz Festival in Martinique….). She integrated in the same time the Music University and Conservatory of Nice with JM.Baccarini(“ Bacca sax”) where she graduated and obtain her DEM diploma with the mention” Very Good”. She was chosen to play in a band for representing the Conservatory during 2 tours (Nürnberg: Germany and Stockholm: Sweden). She started composing for different projects and different settings: duo, quartet but also larger ensemble like”Kombawa Tentet“ with whom she performed in the prestigious“Jazz in Marciac”. In 2004, she decided to study at the High International Conservatory of Amsterdam with F.Povel and J.Blom where she graduated in 2008 and obtain her “ Bachelor Degree of jazz Music”; she also had private lessons with D.Oatts, R.Margitza, L.Schneider, and master classes with people like: John Taylor, Richard Bona, Terry line Carrington, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Garry Smulyan, Eric Alexander, Chris Potter…In 2006, while playing with lots of different bands, she decided to create her own jazz 5tet : CC5 alias „Christine Corvisier 5tet“ where she fully composed the repertoire. 

They recorded a 1st demo “Melting pot” and after many tours with recorded a 1st album “Walking Around” released in May 2008 on the label EBF. 2008 is also the year where she won the price “Young Talent of Alpes Maritimes” that gave her the opportunity to live in New-York City for 2 months. There she studied with the saxophone masters ( Joshua Redman, Chris Cheek, David Binney and Donny McCaslin and George Garzone) wich considerably accelerated her musical developpement. 

After she moved to Germany in 2010 she founded a new quintet with some of the best musicians of the Cologne jazz scene. She was quickly recognized beyond the borders of the region as a virtuosic but at the same time melodic improviser and composer. Her new album “Reconnaissance” will be released in October 2015 under the swiss label Unit Records. https://www.christinecorvisier.com/?page_id=2

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone – Christine Corvisier; Bass – Petros Klampanis; Drums – Rui Ramos Perreira; Guitar – Eskil Maun Saether; Piano – Sri Hanuraga

Walking Around

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Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk

Styles: Soul Jazz
Year: 1970
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:22
Size: 75,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. Back On The Track
(3:46)  2. Chris Cross
(3:19)  3. Miss Poopie
(4:02)  4. The Bird Wave
(3:29)  5. Spear For Moondog, Part 1
(3:05)  6. Spear For Moondog, Part 2
(3:59)  7. Tight Times
(3:35)  8. Spinning Wheel
(3:45)  9. Funky Junk

This 1969 Sonny Lester production was one nearly hopelessly lost slab of solid funk. It often popped up in cut-out bins when records were still waxed. When used-record stores started disappearing, beauties like this started vanishing too. But Blue Note's blessed Rare Groove series has exhumed all 32 minutes of this hard-hitting fon-kee gem (and, to its credit, retained the original but dated cover art too). Acid jazzers are probably already familiar with "The Bird Wave," which appeared on the Blue Note Rare Grooves compilation issued in 1996. The great news is that the rest of Electric Funk goes like this too. No sap, no frills. Just good true groove. In 1997, nay-sayers accuse this street soul (which prevailed in the early 70s) of being nothing more than TV cop-show music and Blaxploitation soundtrack stuff. Lovers will say that's the point. But in 1969, this was the next step for soul jazz; a genre Jimmy McGriff has always ruled. From his early Sue classics (all of which were recently released on CD by the Collectibles label) to his Solid State records in the 60s and on to his Sonny Lester productions on Groove Merchant and LRC in the 70s, this man has always known how to rock a groove. Unfortunately, credits are limited here to the organ grinder and his arranger (Horace Ott - a staple of the orchestrated groove in the 70s). 

Some sources indicate Stanley Turrentine and Blue Mitchell sit in the orchestra pit (very brief tenor and trumpet features indicate it's certainly possible). It'd be nice, however, to know the identities of the fuzz guitarist heard here and the funky drummer (who has the rhythmic familiarity of Bernard Purdie). Ott's arrangements are riff-oriented and stay out of McGriff's way. They often launch McGriff into one clever line after another and, fortunately, never tempt him to out-modulate the horn section as was so often the case on McGriff's earlier big-band tribute to Count Basie. Here's hoping Blue Note has room left in the budget to bring back the long-lost grooves of McGriff's The Worm (1968) and Black Pearl (1971) too. ~ Douglas Payne https://www.allaboutjazz.com/electric-funk-jimmy-mcgriff-blue-note-records-review-by-douglas-payne.php

Personnel:  Jimmy McGriff – electronic organ; Blue Mitchell – trumpet; Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone; Horace Ott – electric piano, arranger; Chuck Rainey – electric bass; Bernard Purdie – drums

Electric Funk

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Judy Wexler - Crowded Heart

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:49
Size: 110,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. Circus Life
(5:00)  2. Parisian Heartbreak
(5:23)  3. Crowded Heart
(3:51)  4. Painted on Canvas
(4:45)  5. Stars
(4:55)  6. The Last Goodbye
(4:33)  7. Take My Breath Away
(4:17)  8. I Took Your Hand
(4:53)  9. It's Only Smoke
(5:27) 10. And We Will Fly

For her fifth album, Judy Wexler has embraced a concept that's oddly foreign in the jazz vocal realm. Instead of walking her way down the all-too-familiar avenues for singers classic Broadway-cum-jazz material, canonical works written by revered jazz figures, pop tunes reshaped with harmonic facelifts, self-penned originals she takes the road less traveled by focusing on the work of jazz composers thriving in the present. In doing so she magnifies the importance of these artists, highlights material worthy of greater attention, and elevates her own standing as a gifted stylist and interpreter. Wexler winds her way through this series of new jazz standards with comfort and ease, telling stories and shaping melodies with smarts and sophistication. Whether exploring love's various shades and shapes, peeling back the many layers of emotion in the human experience, moving deftly through simile and metaphor, or unpacking day-to-day life in all its turbulence, she remains a font of feeling and truth. Working closely with pianist Alan Pasqua, her longtime musical partner and co-producer/arranger on this project, Wexler manages to inhabit these songs and deal with them on her own terms while still remaining true to the source material. That's apparent right from the start, as she steps into a world of Luciana Souza's making for "Circus Life." The adrenaline rush and buoyancy of the original prove influential, but there's added weight and poignancy in Wexler's performance. She doesn't simply work from the mold here, and this performance is all the richer because of that fact. 

There are times and places where Wexler and Pasqua choose to create by ironing out some aspects of the model Gregory Porter's "Painted On Canvas," for example, is coolly paved in 4/4 here but they're just as quick to uncover or explore an illustrative wrinkle heretofore unseen. That point shows true and clear on "It's Only Smoke," a Larry Goldings original with lyrics penned by Cliff Goldmacher. Rather than wring sentiment from Goldmacher's pen, Wexler lets his words and Goldings' melody shine under the light of their inherent beauty. She reminds us that sometimes a song just needs to be appreciated, not mined. In choosing to explore the work of artists like Porter, Souza, Kurt Elling, and Rene Marie, Wexler shows a fondness for individualism and demonstrates a keen ear for strong material. That gift is not terribly surprising, given her sterling reputation and high standing in the vocal community, but it still deserves to be noted. ~ Dan Bilawsky https://www.allaboutjazz.com/crowded-heart-judy-wexler-jewel-city-jazz-review-by-dan-bilawsky.php

Personnel: Judy Wexler: vocals; Alan Pasqua: piano, melodica , whistling; Larry Koonse: guitar; Josh Johnson: alto saxophone; Bob Sheppard: alto flute; Stefanie Fife: cello; Darek Oles: bass; Steve Hass: drums; Aaron Serfaty: percussion.

Crowded Heart

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