Glenn Crytzer - Uptown Jump

Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:01
Size: 142,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:12) 1. The Savoy Special
(3:08) 2. Hop on the Mop
(3:05) 3. What Did I Do (an Ambiguous Love Song)
(3:42) 4. Uptown Jump
(4:46) 5. Le Fantôme de Saint Bechet
(3:26) 6. Not Far to Fargo
(3:23) 7. It's About Time
(3:44) 8. The Road to Tallahassee
(2:59) 9. Smokin' That Weed
(3:19) 10. Mrah!
(2:58) 11. Downtown Slump
(3:33) 12. Could This Be Love?
(3:17) 13. That Zombie Music
(3:09) 14. Yes, I'm in the Doghouse Now!
(3:33) 15. Glenn's Idea
(3:15) 16. The Lenox
(3:28) 17. Missouri Loves Company
(2:54) 18. Good Night, Good Luck

The first track on Glenn Crytzer's new album literally made me do a double-take: Did I really cue-up an album recorded just a few months ago or did I make a mistake and play a vintage track out of my own swing music library? This first track in question, “The Savoy Special,” has a tone and feeling so terrific with its bounce and that infectious “hep-hep” motif coming from the horns it sounds like you just struck it rich while crate-digging and plucked out a mint 78rpm swing-era record that no one has ever heard before. Welcome everyone to a new milestone in the modern swing era! I am writing this review for you, the readers of Swing DJ Resources which is a bit like preaching to the choir, so let's just cut to the chase and say that if you are a swing DJ, dancer, or music enthusiast, you will want this record. ‘Nuff said. Are we done here? Well, since I'm hoping that this album will find a much wider audience based on it's entertaining musicality, let's continue, shall we Back? Yes! Crytzer has always tried to get a more authentic sound out of his studio recordings. He eschews close-mic techniques the modern methods that attempt to stick a mic in front of everything to isolate the individual players for greater control over the recording process (but which introduce a certain artificiality in the sound.) To achieve the sound he is looking for, Crytzer favors using a vintage pair of microphones placed so as to capture the live sound of the room and the musical interaction between the instruments. Friends, this new album “Uptown Swing,” sets a new standard of excellence in recording for swing bands and demonstrates what can be accomplished with the studied use of old-school microphone techniques.More... https://swingdjresources.com/uptown-jump

New York’s finest: Glenn, guitar, arranger, composer, vocals; Mike Davis, trumpet; Dan Levinson, soprano, alto, tenor saxophone; Evan Arntzen, clarinet, tenor saxophone; Jesse Gelber, piano; Andrew Hall, string bass; Kevin Dorn, drums. Recorded this year at Peter Karl Studios (thanks, Peter, for the lively sound!)

Uptown Jump

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Dusty Springfield - It Begins Again

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1978
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:07
Size: 95,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:28) 1. Turn Me Around
(3:23) 2. Checkmate
(2:53) 3. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love
(3:17) 4. A Love Like Yours
(4:16) 5. Love Me By Name
(4:37) 6. Sandra
(3:18) 7. I Found Love With You
(3:40) 8. Hollywood Movie Girls
(5:00) 9. That's The Kind Of Love I've Got For You
(7:10) 10. That's The Kind Of Love I've Got For You - Extended Mix

It Begins Again is the tenth studio album recorded by Dusty Springfield and the ninth released. Recorded during the middle of 1977, It Begins Again was her first completed and released album since Cameo five years earlier. Two of the album's titles, "Turn Me Around" and "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)", were tracks from the abandoned 1974 Longing sessions and Springfield decided to record new versions of both songs for It Begins Again, placing Chi Coltrane's "Turn Me Around" as the opening track.

It Begins Again, which was Springfield's debut album for the United Artists label in the US and Mercury Records in the UK, was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Englishman Roy Thomas Baker, at the time best known for helping create the four first albums by Queen. Musically It Begins Again was however geared towards the American adult contemporary, pop and disco markets. Contributing on the album were some of the most renowned American session musicians of the era, such as Jay Graydon, Jeff Baxter, Joe Sample, Ed Greene and David Paich and it featured backing vocals by Pattie Brooks, Dianne Brooks and Brenda Russell all acclaimed recording artists and composers in their own right. The songs on the album were also written by a number of notable composers and lyricists, among others Nona Hendryx, Lesley Gore, Ellen Weston, Dean Parks, Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager. Barry Manilow's "Sandra", often singled out as the highlight of the set, is a gentle piano ballad that portrays the life of a suburban housewife who minutely details her daily chores, all the while assuring both herself and the listener that "I swear I love my husband and I swear I love my kids" yet in the last verse she reveals that she one day found herself cutting her wrists "doing the dishes, quite by mistake. It was real touch and go for a while."

Containing a diverse range of styles, It Begins Again was seen as somewhat experimental by Springfield herself, as well as music critics, who generally gave it favourable reviews. Despite the critical reception, the hopeful album title, as well as a series of promotional performances made in both the US and the UK promoting the up-tempo singles "A Love Like Yours" and "That's the Kind of Love I've Got for You", It Begins Again only briefly made the charts in Britain, peaking at No. 41, and did not chart in the US. Springfield stated that she had wanted to try something different, but felt that she now needed to move into a different style, a commercial, lightweight R&B, which resulted in the following album Living Without Your Love.

In 2002, Mercury/Universal Music UK released the album on CD for the first time, then also including Tom Moulton's extended remix of "That's the Kind of Love I've Got for You", originally only released as a promotional 12" single, which took advantage of the popularity of disco at the time. The song which was the closing track on It Begins Again was, however, the only true disco song on the album. The 12" version was somewhat popular with US deejays and the track in fact managed to reach No. 31 in the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. When the Pet Shop Boys in 2005 released their instalment in the mix album series Back to Mine they both included a Dusty Springfield track, Neil Tennant chose her 60s classic "Goin' Back" and Chris Lowe rather surprisingly the ballad "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" from It Begins Again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Begins_Again

Personnel: Dusty Springfield – lead vocals, background vocals, production associate; Michele Aller – background vocals; Dianne Brooks – background vocals; Patti Brooks – background vocals; Brenda Russell – background vocals; Tommy Vig – background vocals, vibraphone; Rick Shlosser – drums; Ed Greene – drums; Oscar Castro-Neves – percussion; Mr. M. – percussion; Jeff Baxter – guitar; Charles Fearing – guitar; Jay Graydon – guitar; Thom Rotella – guitar; David T. Walker – guitar; Keni Burke – bass guitar; Colin Cameron – bass guitar; Bob Glaub – bass guitar; Chuck Rainey – bass guitar; Joe Sample – piano, keyboards; David Paich – piano, keyboards; William D. "Smitty" Smith – piano, keyboards, arranger; Jai Winding – piano, keyboards; John Barnes – synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano, Clavinet; Bill Payne – synthesizer, piano, electric piano, Clavinet; Richard Tee – piano, keyboards; Jerry Jumonville – saxophone, horn arrangements; Sid Sharp – concert master

It Begins Again

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