Tierney Sutton - Desire

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:35
Size: 132,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:15)  1. It's Only A Paper Moon
(4:52)  2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
(5:45)  3. Long Daddy Green
(4:58)  4. Fever
(4:37)  5. It's All Right With Me
(4:23)  6. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
(5:22)  7. Cry Me A River
(4:54)  8. Love Me Or Leave Me
(3:54)  9. Heart's Desire
(5:38) 10. Whatever Lola Wants
(5:50) 11. Slylark

Dark chocolate is a beautifully nefarious romantic ideal. Rather than possessing the youthful sweetness of milk chocolate, it instead offers a libertine bitterness, a taste that must be acquired to appreciate but once acquired, no other taste can sate. Having to learn to like something so that knowledge will bring added pleasure is an adult concept, perhaps a hedonistic one, that Paul obviously meant to express when he divinely penned to those salacious Corinthians, "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." Dark chocolate has the added decadence of danger. That thing denied that is so coveted because it is denied. It is this dark romance that Tierney Sutton began investigating on her previous effort, On The Other Side (Telarc, 2007), and has continued to cultivate on Desire. 

Where On The Other Side rubbed together the innocent lyrics of "Get Happy" and "You Are My Sunshine" with sensual too-close-for-comfort support, Desire further strips down this tact to the bare essentials. Drummer Ray Brinker and bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt provide Sutton tactile terrain over which the vocalist redevelops these standards anew. "It's Only a Paper Moon" has Brinker quietly brushing double time, just a low hum of anxiety beneath Sutton and pianist Christian Jacob, who rendezvous darkly. Against Kevin Axt's complex bass line and Jacob's piano seasoning, Sutton stretches like Eliot's cat on "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." . Sutton gives a superbly sardonic kiss-off on "Cry Me a River" and "Love Me or Leave Me." Her unique ability to sing words while conveying their exact opposite is the key to what has made these last two albums so artistically successful. Again, it is Henry's bass figure, ascending and descending, that provides the jagged terrain Sutton must travel to thumb her nose at an ex-lover. "Whatever Lola Wants" is delivered with a languid and spoiled attitude. Jacob's solo shards are delivered over a brilliantly off time left hand figure, so menacing that this ballad may best be reserved for Halloween (in the best possible way). The closing "Skylark" is as spooky as they come. With Desire, Sutton tempers her signature sound: edgy, intelligent, and beautiful. ~C. Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/desire-tierney-sutton-telarc-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Tierney Sutton: vocals; Christian Jacob: piano; Trey Henry and Kevin Axt: bass: Ray Brinker: drums.

Desire

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Jan Lundgren, Peter Asplund Quartet - California Connection

Styles: Piano And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:35
Size: 147,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:24)  1. Au Privave - Studio
(4:28)  2. Att Angöra En Brygga
(5:48)  3. Swedish Pastry
(6:51)  4. What is This Thing Called Love
(5:08)  5. Södermalm
(3:22)  6. I Hear a Rhapsody
(5:08)  7. How Deep is the Ocean
(6:44)  8. Stockholm Sweetnin'
(6:34)  9. Indian Summer
(6:13) 10. There Will Never Be Another You
(4:33) 11. When It's Sleepy Time Down Sout
(4:20) 12. Cottontail

The “California connection” on this colorful studio date, recorded in January ’96, is scrupulously forged between two marvelous young Swedish musicians, Asplund and Lundgren, and a duo of long–time West Coast stalwarts, Carpenter and Kreibich. Although Asplund was only 27 at the time and Lundgren 29, they play with an awareness and maturity far beyond their years, while Carpenter (37) and Kreibich (40) balance the scales with the bright eyed energy and enthusiasm of callow apprentices. Asplund and Lundgren met and became friends in ’93 when Jan received Sweden’s prestigious Thore Swanerud Award for young swing/bop musicians (Asplund had earned the award in 1990). After Lundgren was named Sweden’s Jazz Musician of the Year in ’94, he and Asplund decided to record an album of standards. 

The result is California Connection, whose cast was assembled on behalf of Four Leaf Clover by veteran Los Angeles producer Dick Bank. The quartet connects at every conceivable level on eight of the twelve selections, and for variety Lundgren and Asplund play without the rhythm section on Swanerud’s best known composition, “Södermalm,” Lundgren and Carpenter alone interpret Irving Berlin’s “How Deep Is the Ocean,” Lundgren plays with Carpenter/Kreibich on the late Stan Hasselgaard’s “Swedish Pastry,” and Asplund does likewise on “I Hear a Rhapsody.” Asplund’s horn is muted on “Rhapsody,” “Cottontail” and “Stockholm Sweetnin’,” open the rest of the way (and sounds at times like a flugelhorn, even though there’s no mention of that in the notes). In any case, he displays uncommon resourcefulness and superior chops, as does Lundgren, who is beyond any doubt one of the most accomplished young post–bop pianists not only in Sweden, but anywhere in the world. Good as Asplund and Lundgren are, Carpenter and Kreibich have no trouble keeping pace with them, and this is about as commendable a session of modern mainstream Jazz as any quartet is likely to fashion.~ Jack Bowers https://www.allaboutjazz.com/california-connection-jan-lundgren-four-leaf-clover-records-review-by-jack-bowers.php

Personnel: Peter Asplund, trumpet; Jan Lundgren, piano; Dave Carpenter, bass; Paul Kreibich, drums.

California Connection

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David Hobson - Endless Days

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:30
Size: 105,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:38)  1. Ae Fond Kiss
(2:53)  2. The Mountains Of Mourne
(4:46)  3. Carrickfergus
(3:05)  4. Wild Mountain Thyme
(2:45)  5. Spanish Lady
(3:45)  6. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
(2:58)  7. The Maid Of Culmore
(3:44)  8. Shenandoah
(2:23)  9. Suo Gân (Lullaby)
(5:30) 10. Blood Of Eden
(3:04) 11. The Dark Island
(2:35) 12. Show Me The Place
(3:18) 13. 500 Miles

Renowned Australian composer and opera singer David Hobson had his sights set on a career as an economist or lawyer, but the Ballarat native's plans were thwarted by the intervention of the Victoria State Opera. Hobson made his operatic debut as Rodolfo in La Bohéme in 1987, became a company member of the Australian Opera, and was awarded the Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship the following year. He has since starred in numerous productions; composed for television, film, and theater; and received a myriad of awards.~ James Christopher Monger https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-hobson-mn0002223090/biography

Endless Days

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