Aimee Nolte - Looking for the Answers

Styles: Vocal, Piano, Post Bop
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:33
Size: 123,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:15)  1. The Loveliest Girl
(6:57)  2. Looking for the Answers
(4:57)  3. Falling Snow
(4:44)  4. This One Hurts
(4:45)  5. I Gotta Get
(4:50)  6. Save Me One Last Time
(7:13)  7. Bye Bye Blackbird
(4:51)  8. All Too Soon
(3:41)  9. So in Love
(4:45) 10. You Should've
(2:31) 11. For a While

LA Singer and pianist, Aimee Nolte's new album, “Looking For The Answers”, featuring her quartet (Mike Scott - Guitar, Bruce Lett - Bass, and James Yoshizawa - Drums), is Aimee’s third and most explorative album.

The answers Nolte is searching for are easily discovered and possibilities opened up as she made the decision to unbridle herself from the reigns of "jazz" and compose and play whatever moved her deeply.  With solo numbers, driving latin grooves, intimate duets and elements of folk and popular music, Aimee has indeed, found the answers she set out to find, all-the-while, taking the listener with her. Bassist, John Clayton joins Nolte in a mind-blowing duet, dancing a dance of shared improvisation, and intense awareness. Aimee is not only a talented jazz performer, but she has penned, arranged, and produced most of the new songs from the album. In addition to her original compositions,  jazz standards, such as Duke Ellington’s “All Too Soon” and Cole Porter’s “So In Love" add familiarity and a sense of history to the album. You'll experience exciting, soulful improvisations, beautiful and haunting new melodies, and lyrics that will take you by surprise and remind you of why you love life and music. https://www.aimeenolte.com/recordings/looking-for-the-answers

Personnel: Aimee Nolte vocals, piano, organ, synth bass; John Clayton bass (7); Bruce Lett bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 10); James Yoshizawa drums ; Mike Scott guitar (2, 3, 5, 10); Jason Neubauer guitar (1); Doug Webb woodwinds (1); John Reilly woodwinds (6)

Looking for the Answers

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Klaus Doldinger - Blind Date (Back In New York)

Styles: Saxophone Jazz 
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:31
Size: 128,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:22)  1. Friendship
(5:26)  2. Blue Circle
(6:30)  3. Here to Be
(4:59)  4. East River Drive
(4:51)  5. September Song
(5:26)  6. Hasta manana
(6:20)  7. What's New ?
(6:19)  8. Blind Date
(4:37)  9. Erinnerung
(5:36) 10. Stop and Go

Klaus Doldinger, best-known for leading the excellent fusion group Passport in the 1970s and '80s, has had a diverse and episodic career. He started out studying piano in 1947 and clarinet five years later, playing in Dixieland bands in the 1950s. By 1961, he had become a modern tenor saxophonist, working with such top visiting and expatriate Americans as Don Ellis, Johnny Griffin, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, and Kenny Clarke, recording as a leader for Philips, World Pacific, and Liberty. However, in 1970, he initiated a long series of fusion-oriented sessions for Atlantic that featured his tenor, soprano, flute, and occasional keyboards with an electric rhythm section. In addition to writing music for films (including Das Boot) and television in Europe, Doldinger has remained active as a player who occasionally explores his roots in hard bop into the late '90s, but because he has always lived in Europe, he remains underrated in the U.S.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/klaus-doldinger-mn0000101962/biography

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax], Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax] – Klaus Doldinger ; Bass – Ira Coleman; Drums – Victor Lewis; Featuring [Also Featuring], Percussion – Don Ernesto (tracks: 6, 8); Featuring [Also Featuring], Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Stefon Harris (tracks: 4, 6, 7); Guitar – Peter Bernstein (tracks: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10); Piano – Kevin Hays

Blind Date (Back In New York)

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