Dan Siegel - Departure

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:02
Size: 113,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:32)  1. Across the Sea
(3:45)  2. Street Talk
(4:37)  3. Mosaic
(4:12)  4. Friends Forever
(5:16)  5. Departure
(4:02)  6. From Here On Out
(4:18)  7. A World Away
(5:08)  8. Soliloquy
(4:35)  9. Shades of Gray
(4:24) 10. Castles in the Sand
(4:09) 11. Alone

A culmination of influences from an illustrious career spanning 25-plus years, Departure is the latest studio recording from pianist Dan Siegel. He brilliantly blends his melodic and rhythmic pop sensibilities with his traditional jazz roots and offers up an amazing acoustic vision of original compositions. This CD is graceful, noble, and reflective, since it transcends categorization as it speaks to earlier times of adult instrumental acoustic music with classic themes that were influenced by the song, its melodies, and its virtuosic musicians. Among Siegel's invitees are several contemporary jazz greats including Brian Bromberg, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Lenny Castro, with special guest performances by saxophonist Bob Sheppard, guitarists Norman Brown and Grant Geissman, and vocalist Bill Cantos. Produced by Siegel and Bromberg, this 11-track offering is ripe with themes that move, groove and appeal to your sense of jazz. The emotionally gripping opening track"Across the Sea" and "Street Talk," which offers the vintage Siegel sound, defines the true stripped down essence that is Departure. The exotic string ensemble heard on "Mosaic" serves to enhance the darker emotional piano and saxophone textures. "Castles in the Sand" features Vince Guaraldi's inimitable influences while "Alone" is a soft-spoken ballad that includes light percussive textures and an irresistible tenderness from saxophonist Bob Sheppard. Overall, Departure is organic, in-the-pocket, and should be in your collection of great piano jazz records.

 ~ Paula Edelstein https://www.allmusic.com/album/departure-mw0000419913

Departure

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Ute Lemper - Rendezvous with Marlene

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:27
Size: 173,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:43)  1. One for My Baby
(3:13)  2. Lili Marleen
(3:13)  3. They Call Me Naughty Lola
(4:34)  4. Blowing in the Wind
(3:55)  5. Marie Marie
(3:51)  6. Ruins of Berlin
(3:41)  7. Und wenn er wiederkommt
(4:56)  8. When the World Was Young
(3:36)  9. Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte
(3:46) 10. Want to Buy Some Illusions
(6:42) 11. Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amour
(2:45) 12. The Laziest Gal in Town
(4:33) 13. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
(3:04) 14. Just a Gigolo
(3:02) 15. Falling in Love Again
(2:06) 16. Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin
(4:53) 17. Allein in einer großen Stadt
(2:52) 18. Dejeuner Du Matin
(3:07) 19. Wenn der Sommer wieder einzieht
(2:44) 20. Sch... Kleines Baby

The new show by Ute Lemper is based on a long telephone conversation between Marlene Dietrich and Ute in Paris in 1988, thirty years ago. After having received the prestigious Molière award for her performance in the musical Cabaret in Paris, Ute sent a card to Marlene, who had moved to Avenue de Montaigne 12 in 1979, apologising for all the media attention at the time which compared her to the great German actress.

Ute was at the beginning of her theatrical and musical career, while Dietrich had a long life of film, music, incredible collaborations, passionate love stories and great fame behind her. In conversation with the young artist, the “Blue Angel” recalled moments from her extraordinary life in cinema and music, spoke of her love for the poet Rilke and her complicated relationship with Germany, as well as her voluntary exile.In 1992, Lemper played the part of Lola in a production of Blue Angel in Berlin. It was the same role that had made Dietrich a star in 1928, transforming her into an icon of sensuality and glamour. Marlene was unable to see the play. She died in Paris just a few days before the Berlin première. This story of encounters, similarities and coincidences that bind the lives of the two artists, both German born but living elsewhere Dietrich in Paris, Lemper in New York - both magnificent singers and actresses, led Ute Lemper to come up with the idea of a recital dedicated to Marlene, in order to tell the story through music and words of an extraordinary actress and woman. https://www.piccoloteatro.org/en/2019-2020/ute-lemper-rendezvous-with-marlene

Rendezvous with Marlene

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The Jimmy Cobb Quartet - Jazz in the Key of Blue

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop 
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:26
Size: 127,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:47)  1. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(5:30)  2. With You I'm Born Again
(5:08)  3. I'll Still Be in Love with You
(4:52)  4. Emily
(5:23)  5. Stairway to the Stars
(4:31)  6. I Had the Craziest Dream
(8:21)  7. Remembering U
(4:12)  8. What Will I Do
(6:25)  9. If Ever I Would Leave You
(4:16) 10. We'll Be Together Again

The 50th anniversary celebrations for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue in 2009 reminded the world that drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving participant from that groundbreaking session. This set is a romantic-standards programme fronted by trumpeter and flugelhornist Roy Hargrove and guitarist Russell Malone, with only the swish of Cobb's understated brushwork testifying to his presence for long stretches. In an era in which such familiar jazz materials are frequently subverted, rhythmically reinvented or morphed into hybrids with other songs, it would be easy to write off this straightahead session as craftsmanlike but out of its time except that something, perhaps respect for Cobb's pedigree, stirs a dazzling inventiveness from the more familiarly funk-and-R&B-inclined Hargrove, and from Malone who sounds like the best of guitarists Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and himself  combined. Hargrove's breathy flugel immediately establishes his captivating poise on Everytime We Say Goodbye over Malone's cushioning chords, and his eruption into a fiercer attack after the delicate opening of With You I'm Born Again is a delicious shock. The trumpeter's New Orleans roots come out over Malone's bent notes and Charlie Christian swing on I Had the Craziest Dream. It shows just how much younger players cherish the standards book, and how unobtrusively a veteran such as Cobb can help them.

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R.I.P.
Born: 20. Januar 1929 in Washington, D.C;
Died: 24. Mai 2020 in New York

Jazz in the Key of Blue

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Angela Davis - Little Did They Know

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:29
Size: 102,5 MB
Art: Front

(6:11)  1. Little Did They Know
(6:57)  2. Our Spanish Love Song
(4:48)  3. Pretty Flowers Were Made For Blooming
(5:48)  4. Circuit For Three
(5:41)  5. The Light Between Us
(5:52)  6. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(7:04)  7. Hymn For Haden
(2:05)  8. Lascia ch’io pianga

Aussie saxophonist Angela Davis arrived just in the nick of time with her third recording Little Did They Know, following up on her introductory The Art of The Melody (Self Produced, 2013) and sophomore effort Lady Luck (Self Produced, 2015). Davis allowed this one to incubate, resulting in a fully evolved project produced by a confident professional who knows exactly what she wants. Opting for the smallest rhythm section possible, bassist Sam Anning and pianist Tony Gould, Davis steers through four original compositions and four pleasant surprises.

The paired-down music frames Davis' warm and delicate alto saxophone tone in a three-dimensional space of quiet where a magical counterpoint takes place. Davis' original title piece is a case in point, where she chooses a simple harmonic scaffolding upon which to hang the subtle filigree of melody, faintly Old-World European and melancholy. 

She addresses Charlie Haden from his collaboration on Ginger Baker's Falling off the Roof (Atlantic, 1996) a humid reading of "Our Spanish Love Song" and Bill Frisell from his Blues Dream (Nonesuch, 2011) on a pastoral "Pretty Flowers Made for Blooming." A brief and beautiful recitation of Handel's "Lascia ch'io pianga" closes this sensitive recital, Davis' tone and approach are effective and direct and it serves her sound. This recording is a quiet interlude in an otherwise busy field. ~C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/ten-artists-june-2019-polly-gibbons-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Little Did They Know

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