Colette Wickenhagen - Just Friends Jammin'

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:32
Size: 126,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:13) 1. Agua De Beber
(4:55) 2. More Than You Know
(5:54) 3. Days Of Wine And Roses
(2:10) 4. Just Friends
(6:15) 5. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(3:27) 6. No Moon At All
(4:05) 7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(5:11) 8. What A Difference A Day Made
(5:32) 9. The Nearness Of You
(2:19) 10. 'S Wonderful
(3:37) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(5:01) 12. Jetlag Jam
(2:49) 13. A Night In Tunesia

Trained as a dancer, singer, actress & entertainer in the UK and the Netherlands.Born in a family of music lovers, Colette was brought up with jazz, as her father played and loved it! That love continues into the next generation. Colette has sung many different styles of music as she worked as an entertainer for many years, but singing jazz is like “coming home” to Colette. “One of the greatest gifts my father gave me was his enthusiasm, dedication to and love for music, in particular jazz music. I inherited that love and am forever grateful. We used to listen to Benny Webster, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Bosswell Sisters, Miles Davis and many others and went through all the emotions those fabulous musicians led us through. Once I started singing jazz I found that I just love singing those old wonderful songs with their timeless lyrics.” https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/colettewickenhagen

Personnel: Colette Wickenhagen - vocals; Hans Kwakkernaat - piano; Wiro Mahieu - double bass; Ben Schrder - drums; Clous van Mechelen - tenor saxophone; Saskia Laroo - trumpet; Rinus Groeneveld - tenor saxophone; Frits Kaatee - baritone saxophone; Michael Gustorff - violin

Just Friends Jammin'

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Corey Christiansen Quartet - Outlaw Tractor

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:10
Size: 116,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:58) 1. Down Time
(9:02) 2. Carefree
(7:22) 3. When You Want
(5:09) 4. Starstepper
(7:51) 5. Outlaw Tractor
(5:58) 6. Big Kids
(6:48) 7. The Penguins Deserve Better

The reason behind Corey Christiansen's clinically precise guitar style is his experience with Mel Bay Guitar Instruction. He is fluent in all guitar styles, which fully informs his recording and performing persona. His previous recording, Roll With It (Origin, 2008), employing the same band as on the present Outlaw Tractor, was a sleek funk machine updating the soul jazz of the 1960s. Previous to that, Awakening (Mel Bay, 2004) demonstrated, with a piano quartet, the great (if a bit wordy) promise that Christiansen has brought into sharper focus with his more recent organ quartet releases.

Christiansen tightens things up on Outlaw Tractor, a true feat when considering Roll With It was tight as a drum. The disc opener sets the tone, and that tone is Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd" funky. "Down Time" begins with a brief organ processional that introduces Christiansen's too-funky-to-live subject. His tone remains slightly fuzzy and round, distorted in the middle of the reverberation spectrum. This gives his chording a punchy, bright feel. The first solo out is saxophonist David Halliday, who squeezes notes out like Lee Morgan on The Jazz Messengers' "Moanin,'" redefining the meaning of "bad" in the jazz vernacular. Organist Pat Bianchi plays conservatively, never overwhelming even in his solos. Origin mainstay Matt Jorgensen deftly provides the rhythmic momentum to sent this boat forward. "When You Want" features an equally funky introductory line that evolves into the piece's angular head. Guitar and saxophone double over Bianchi's harmonic support Christiansen's solo pithy with attitude, while Halliday paints outside the lines and the organist plays from the Funky Church of Al Green. This is beautifully conceived soul jazz given a 21st Century spin. All seven selections, Christiansen originals, mine this rich loam of American music and present it in a spic and span modern fashion. The compositions are both immediate familiar and, at the same time, brand new. Outlaw Tractor is an improvement over the excellent Roll With It, and that is saying something.~ C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/outlaw-tractor-corey-christiansen-origin-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Corey Christiansen: guitar; David Halliday: saxophone; Pat Bianchi: organ; Matt Jorgensen: drums.

Outlaw Tractor

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