Esquire All Stars - The First Esquire Concert Vol.1 1944

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:20
Size: 137,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:06) 1. Esquire Blues
(4:51) 2. Mop Mop
(3:46) 3. Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
(4:18) 4. I Love My Man
(3:41) 5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
(3:52) 6. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
(3:37) 7. Sweet Lorraine
(9:08) 8. I Got Rhythm
(3:09) 9. The Blues
(1:26) 10. We All Drink'Coca-Cola'
(2:00) 11. Esquire Bounce
(3:30) 12. Rockin' Chair
(4:44) 13. Basin Street Blues
(1:44) 14. I'll Get By
(4:19) 15. Tea for Two

The First Esquire Jazz Concert was an all-star event held in 1944 at the Metropolitan Opera House to honor winners (including first and second place honorees) in the magazine's jazz poll. In addition to being broadcast, it was preserved on transcription discs and reissued many times over the years with different excerpts of the evening's program. Some of the highlights include "Sweet Lorraine" (Art Tatum with Al Casey, Oscar Pettiford, and Sid Catlett), "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" and "Billie's Blues" (Billie Holiday), and a lengthy jam on "I Got Rhythm" featuring Red Norvo (on xylophone), Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Barney Bigard, Jack Teagarden, and Roy Eldridge with the rhythm section. At times the piano is not clearly heard and there are brief interruptions by the broadcast host to introduce some of the soloists, but the sound quality is quite remarkable for the period. ~ Ken Dryden https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-first-esquire-concert-vol-1-mw0000236975

Personnel: Bass [String Bass] – Oscar Pettiford; Clarinet – Barney Bigard; Drums – Sidney Catlett; Guitar – Al Casey; Piano – Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson; Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins; Trombone, Vocals – Jack Teagarden; Trumpet – Roy Eldridge; Trumpet, Vocals – Louis Armstrong ; Vibraphone [Vibes] – Lionel Hampton; Vocals – Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey; Xylophone – Red Norvo

Nelson Symonds Quartet - Getting Personal

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:08
Size: 166,5 MB
Art: Front

( 8:49) 1. Domino
( 6:23) 2. Getting Personal
( 4:54) 3. Impromptune
(10:03) 4. My Foolish Heart
( 8:04) 5. Low E
(10:38) 6. CB Blues
(10:10) 7. Yours Is My Heart Alone
( 9:49) 8. Swing Spring
( 3:15) 9. Jean

Nelson Frederick Symonds, jazz guitarist, composer (born 24 September 1933 in Upper Hammonds Plains, NS; died 11 October 2008.
Symonds began playing the banjo at 9 and the guitar at ll, performing first for dances in Halifax with his cousins Ivan and Leo Symonds (both guitarists), then l95l-5 in Sudbury, Ont, and 1955-8 on tour with carnivals in Canada and the USA. Settling in Montreal in l958 and devoting himself to jazz, he performed in various local clubs (eg, the Black Bottom intermittently l963-8, Café La Bohème l968-7l, Rockhead's Paradise 1977-80) and (in a duo 1971-7 with the bassist Charles Biddle, and sometimes accompanied by drummer Norman Marshall Villeneuve) in several Laurentian resort communities. During the 1960s he accompanied such US jazzmen as Art Farmer, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Stanley Turrentine, and Sarah Vaughan in club or concert appearances (eg, at Expo 67) in Montreal.

For many years a legendary figure in Canadian jazz, Nelson Symonds emerged before a wider public during the 1980s as a regular performer in a variety of settings at the FIJM - eg, with his own groups (usually including the pianist Jean Beaudet), as a member in 1985 of the 'Montreal All-Stars' and as a guest in 1988 of the Vic Vogel big band. In 1985 he began to make occasional trips to Toronto, working in clubs there with the tenor saxophonist Dougie Richardson and others. He made his belated record debut in 1990 as a member of the Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble on the CD Reunion (Amplitude JACD-4019). One of the most original of Canadian jazzmen, Symonds plays in an essentially linear style in the tradition of Charlie Christian and of Christian's later, bebop-based disciples, but employs a charged, staccato attack and angular, headlong phrasing. He has been heard on various CBC radio jazz series and was seen in the documentary film Nelson Symonds Jazz Guitarist (Mary Ellen Davis, 1984).
His cousin Ivan (Sterling) Symonds (b Halifax l7 May l933, d Montreal 16 Mar 1991), whose style was more basic, moved to Montreal in l960. Though an auto mechanic by vocation, he worked at Rockhead's Paradise 1971-7 and operated his own club, the Jazzbar C + J on Ontario Street, 1978-84. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nelson-symonds-emc

Personnel: Guitar – Nelson Symonds; Bass – Normand Guilbeault; Drums – Wali Muhammad; Piano – Jean Beaudet

Getting Personal

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