Tom Harrell - Infinity

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:57
Size: 151,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:38) 1. The Fast
(9:40) 2. Dublin
(7:30) 3. Hope
(6:56) 4. Coronation
(6:03) 5. Folk Song
(5:40) 6. Blue
(7:18) 7. Ground
(8:25) 8. The Isle
(1:41) 9. Duet
(6:01) 10. Taurus

A powerful spirituality illuminates Tom Harrell’s work, but that doesn’t mean that there’s anything pretentious or dogmatic going on. An irrepressible sense of play also abounds; trumpeter/flugelhornist Harrell sounds both delighted by his musical quest and enraptured by what he discovers. “The Fast,” this set’s opener, might easily have been titled “The Feast” it’s a veritable smorgasbord of inspiration, propelled by a surging drive reminiscent of Africa/Brass-era Coltrane. (Johnathan Blake’s drumming, reminiscent of Elvin Jones, accentuates that feel.) Harrell’s solo work summons quickness, precision, and focus along with deep melodicism and tonal surety; saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Charles Altura, even when they ramp down the velocity, are no less rigorous in their imaginative flow, and their timbre is likewise sure yet flexible and expressive.

Myriad moods and references enrich this set, from the Celtic tinge of “Dublin” and “The Isle” through the meld of stateliness and improvisational exuberance in “Coronation” to the dexterous postbop intensity of such offerings as “Blue” and “Ground.” “Taurus,” the concluding number, seems to both encapsulate and summarize the gifts Harrell shares with us here, as his muted trumpet skips with precision, dexterity, and brio, his solos so logically constructed that one could almost believe he’s able to fully imagine each note, each run, each statement in its entirety before playing it. ~ David Whiteis https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/tom-harrell-infinity-highnote/

Personnel: Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell; Tenor Saxophone – Mark Turner ; Bass – Ben Street; Drums – Johnathan Blake; Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Charles Altura

Infinity

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Sue Raney - Rain Songs

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:43
Size: 73,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:11) 1. Rain on the Roof
(2:50) 2. Blue Tears
(2:36) 3. Exactly Like You
(2:32) 4. Wanna' Laugh
(3:18) 5. My Prayer
(2:37) 6. September in the Rain
(2:49) 7. I Get the Blues When It Rains
(2:58) 8. Impossible
(2:09) 9. A Blossom Fell
(2:38) 10. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
(2:12) 11. The Whippoorwill Song
(2:49) 12. Rain

Blessed with a beautiful voice from an early age, Sue Raney has performed music ranging from swinging jazz and ballads to cabaret, middle-of-the-road pop and jingles. Her mother was a singer and a great great aunt had been in German opera. Raney started singing when she was four and a year later she first performed in public, at a party in Wichita, Kansas. Because a voice teacher could not be found for her daughter (because of her extreme youth), Raney's mother took voice lessons herself and then passed down what she learned to Sue. A professional before she was a teenager, Raney worked steadily in New Mexico when her family relocated and took several trips out to Los Angeles during a couple of summer vacations. She joined the Jack Carson radio show in 1954 in L.A. when she was barely 14. Raney then appeared on Ray Anthony's television program and became his band's main vocalist. At 18 she started working as a single. She had already recorded for Phillips and then signed with Capitol, recording several middle-of-the-road jazz-influenced pop dates for the company. In the 1960's Raney often appeared on television variety shows, she led her own group and became very active in the studios where her impressive voice helped sell products. By the early 1980's, she was also working as a voice teacher. In the 1990's Sue Raney has sung with the L.A. Voices and Supersax, the Bill Watrous big band and as a single in addition to staying active as a jazz educator and in the studios. Her main jazz recordings were a trio of albums for Discovery in the 1980's; a VSOP/Studio West CD features the singer on various live performances from the 1960's. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sue-raney-mn0000491082/biography

Rain Songs

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