Jacob Fischer Trio - Black Orpheus

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:32
Size: 121,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:02) 1. Gentle Rain
(3:52) 2. Small Teardrop
(3:22) 3. Triste
(5:39) 4. How Insensitive
(5:18) 5. Sonho Carioca
(4:00) 6. Once I Loved
(4:58) 7. Assanhado
(4:52) 8. Black Orpheus
(4:39) 9. Bole-Bole
(3:47) 10. Desafinado
(3:58) 11. Doce De Coco
(2:04) 12. This Happy Madness

Danish native Jacob Fischer is a rising star and one of the most in-demand jazz guitarists in Europe. Born in 1967, the self-taught guitarist began working as a professional when he was 17 years old, and since then has participated in more than 200 recordings.

Fischer impressed with his debut from the Japanese label Venus Records, a Bill Evans tribute album with a simple trio with bass and drums. Now, he has shown a completely different side with his second release Black Orpheus, playing Brazilian music (bossa nova, samba and choro) with acoustic guitar. His authentic feel comes from his experience of traveling and performing throughout Brazil, and support of the great Brazilian drummer Duduka DaFonseca. https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/116472/Jacob_Fischer_Trio-Black_Orpheus-Single_Layer_Stereo_SACD

Musicians: Jacob Fischer, guitar; Martin Wind, bass; Duduka DaFonseca, drums

Black Orpheus

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Sarah Moule - Stormy Emotions

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:16
Size: 111,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:29) 1. Nothing Is Mine Now
(4:04) 2. Are We Just Having Fun
(5:02) 3. Never That's When
(4:17) 4. Close To Tears
(4:48) 5. A Magician's Confession
(3:23) 6. Truly Unruly
(3:44) 7. After The Fall
(4:14) 8. On Hold Living In Limbo
(3:05) 9. Time Is The Beast
(4:17) 10. The Long Arm Of Love
(4:46) 11. Fool's Gold
(3:02) 12. Stormy Emotions

The lyrics here are by Fran Landesman. If you’ve encountered any of hers before, you’ll know that although they’re entirely at home in jazz, and mainly concern love, they can’t be tossed about like any old standard. They’re wary, suspicious, suggesting that the singer has been around the block too many times to fall for the usual line of chat. Occasionally there’s a secretive backward glance to lost innocence, hastily suppressed. That’s a lot of nuance for a composer to take on board and for a singer to convey. Landesman declared that she’d got lucky when she met Simon Wallace, her songwriting partner for 18 years until her death in 2011, and had collected a bonus when he married the singer Sarah Moule.

Listening to these 12 tracks, 10 of them previously unrecorded, you can hear what Landesman meant. Moule catches the shifting moods, touchingly in A Magician’s Confession, candidly in Are We Just Having Fun?, and always unerringly. Wallace’s music catches the spirit of each lyric, brilliantly played by his small band. The prize there goes to Mark Lockheart’s soprano saxophone throughout Close to Tears, moving from dialogue with the voice to solo and back again.

Personnel: Sarah Moule (vocals); Simon Wallace (piano & keyboards); Mick Hutton, Neville Malcolm (double bass); Paul Robinson, Rob Young (drums); Mark Lockheart (soprano saxophone & bass clarinet); Nigel Price (electric & acoustic guitar); Charlie Cawood (acoustic guitar)

Stormy Emotions

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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Five Guys Named Moe

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:13
Size: 169.9 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Swing, R&B
Year: 1991/2006
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Five Guys Named Moe
[4:23] 2. Pistol Packin' Mama
[1:30] 3. Jubilee Jingle Rap
[4:43] 4. I Can't Get Started
[4:52] 5. Rose Room
[3:21] 6. Nagasaki
[2:29] 7. End Announcements And Jubilee Theme One O'clock Jump
[1:57] 8. Jumpin' At The Jubilee
[2:51] 9. (I'm Gonna Move To The) Outskirts Of Town
[1:35] 10. The End Of My Worry
[2:17] 11. How High Am I
[2:22] 12. Hey Now, Let's Live
[2:29] 13. Slender, Tender And Tall
[2:19] 14. (My Feet Are Killing Me, Marching In) The Infantry Blues
[3:18] 15. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby )
[3:04] 16. Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard)
[2:39] 17. Bahama Joe
[2:50] 18. Nobody But Me
[1:25] 19. Caldonia With Opening Announcements
[3:00] 20. You Was Right, Baby!
[2:34] 21. Ofay And Oxford Grey
[2:23] 22. Reconversion Blues
[2:36] 23. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
[2:23] 24. End Theme Caldonia And Announcements
[3:03] 25. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby ) (#2)
[2:13] 26. Don't Worry 'bout The Mule
[2:20] 27. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

Alto Saxophone, Vocals – Louis Jordan; Bass – "Po" Simpkins*; Drums – Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson; Piano – Arnold Thomas; Trumpet – Eddie Roane.

Effervescent saxophonist Louis Jordan was one of the chief architects and prime progenitors of the R&B idiom. His pioneering use of jumping shuffle rhythms in a small combo context was copied far and wide during the 1940s. Jordan's sensational hit-laden run with Decca Records contained a raft of seminal performances, featuring inevitably infectious backing by his band, the Tympany Five, and Jordan's own searing alto sax and street corner jive-loaded sense of humor. Jordan was one of the first black entertainers to sell appreciably in the pop sector; his Decca duet mates included Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald.

The son of a musician, Jordan spent time as a youth with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and majored in music later on at Arkansas Baptist College. After moving with his family to Philadelphia in 1932, Jordan hooked up with pianist Clarence Williams. He joined the orchestra of drummer Chick Webb in 1936 and remained there until 1938. Having polished up his singing abilities with Webb's outfit, Jordan was ready to strike out on his own. The saxist's first 78 for Decca in 1938, "Honey in the Bee Ball," billed his combo as the Elks Rendezvous Band (after the Harlem nightspot that he frequently played at). From 1939 on, though, Jordan fronted the Tympany Five, a sturdy little aggregation often expanding over quintet status that featured some well-known musicians over the years: pianists Wild Bill Davis and Bill Doggett, guitarists Carl Hogan and Bill Jennings, bassist Dallas Bartley, and drummer Chris Columbus all passed through the ranks. ~partial bio by Bill Dahl

Five Guys Named Moe 

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