Thursday, August 20, 2020

Dave Stryker - Nomad

Styles: Guitar Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:52
Size: 141,1 MB
Art: Front

( 7:12)  1. Blues for brother Jack
(10:03)  2. Nomad
( 7:27)  3. Matthew's waltz
( 7:22)  4. Victor strikes
( 7:02)  5. Listen to your heart
( 9:53)  6. 24 for Elvin
( 5:32)  7. Dangerous
( 6:17)  8. First strike

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date),  or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017.  He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time. Dave’s CD “Eight Track III” stayed at #1 on JazzWeek Radio chart for 6 straight weeks. “Strykin’ Ahead” featured the same lineup as “Eight Track II”- Steve Nelson, Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter, and received great reviews. “Messin’ with Mister T”, is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade  Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T” with ten of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks topping off at #3 for 3 weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CD’s of 2014, and ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave.

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date),  or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017.  He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time. Dave’s CD “Eight Track III” stayed at #1 on JazzWeek Radio chart for 6 straight weeks. “Strykin’ Ahead” featured the same lineup as “Eight Track II”- Steve Nelson, Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter, and received great reviews. “Messin’ with Mister T”, is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T”with ten of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks topping off at #3 for 3 weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CD’s of 2014, and ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave. https://www.davestryker.com/wp/biography/

Personnel: Dave Stryker withThe Bill Warfield Big Band featuring Randy Brecker – trumpet

Nomad

Chuck Mangione - An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

Album: An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl Disc 1

Styles: Jazz, Easy Listening
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:18
Size: 116,1 MB
Art: Front

(9:17)  1. Feels So Good
(6:37)  2. The XIth Commandment
(9:38)  3. Chase The Clouds Away
(5:26)  4. Hill Where The Lord Hides
(7:38)  5. Doin' Everything With You
(7:23)  6. Love The Feelin'
(4:15)  7. I Get Crazy


Album: An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl  Disc 2

Time: 50:59
Size: 117,8 MB

(9:09)  1. Land Of Make Believe
(8:39)  2. Hide And Seek
(7:38)  3. The Day After (Our First Night Together)
(6:49)  4. Children Of Sanchez - Main Theme
(5:02)  5. B'Bye
(3:55)  6. Children Of Sanchez
(6:31)  7. Main Squeeze
(3:14)  8. Feels So Good

Recorded at the height of Chuck Mangione's fame when "Feels So Good" was still busting up the charts, this double-LP set attempts to recapture the dynamism of his earlier live albums but falls short on a few counts. For one thing, the sound gives the listener no idea of what it was like to be in the audience that evening; there are only fleeting traces of the live presence and electricity of the event in this tightly mic'ed recording. For another, the sense of fresh discovery of a new voice in the Mercury sets is replaced by a mostly self-congratulatory round of reprises from earlier albums, centered in the jazz-funk idiom of Mangione's then-current quintet (the funkified "Hill Where the Lord Hides" in particular lacks the majesty and tension of the original live version). Mangione and his sidemen (Chris Vadala, winds; Grant Geissman, guitars; Charles Meeks, bass; James Bradley, Jr., drums) are sufficiently pumped up and energetic, sometimes outdoing the studio performances of the material, and there is a 70-piece orchestra of L.A. musicians who mostly form part of the scenery. The only "new" stuff (as of July 1978) is a set of excerpts from the film score to Children of Sanchez  a heavily truncated selection from what was heard that night that comes off pretty well. Of the two live Mangione A&M albums, this one is a more accurate career retrospective, but Tarantella is quirkier and thus more fun. ~ Richard S. Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/an-evening-of-magic-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-mw0000312055

Personnel: Producer, Composed By, Flugelhorn, Electric Piano, Conductor – Chuck Mangione; Performer – Chuck Mangione Quartet; Bass – Charles Meeks; Cello – Ron Leonard; Drums – James Bradley, Jr.; Flute, Piccolo Flute – Adah Mosello; French Horn – Jay Wadenpfuhl, Jerry Peel; Guitar [Classical], Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Grant Geissman; Saxophone, Flute – John Mitchell , Larry Covelli; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto], Piccolo Flute – Chris Vadala; Trombone – Art Linsner, Keith O'Quinn, Richard Chamberlain ; Trumpet [Lead], Coordinator [Brass And Reed] – Jeff Tkazyik Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Frank Szabo, Jeff Kievit; Tuba – John Stevens