Jamie Cullum - Taller

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:36
Size: 138,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:35) 1. Taller
(4:49) 2. Life Is Grey
(4:20) 3. Mankind
(3:33) 4. Usher
(5:24) 5. The Age Of Anxiety
(3:25) 6. For The Love
(3:49) 7. Drink
(3:08) 8. You Can't Hide Away From Love
(4:00) 9. Monster
(3:09) 10. Endings Are Beginnings
(3:38) 11. Love Is In The Picture
(3:47) 12. Work Of Art
(3:34) 13. The Man - From "King Of Thieves"
(3:21) 14. Good Luck With Your Demons
(3:25) 15. Marlon Brando
(2:30) 16. Show Me The Magic

Recording for a legendary jazz label may be fraught with expectations, especially for a contemporary artist with unabashedly eclectic tastes. But at this stage in his career, upwards of 10 million album sales along, Jamie Cullum doesn’t appear the least bit concerned with where his music falls on the pop-jazz spectrum. Arriving five years after his last album and marking his eighth studio release, Taller is Cullum’s most self-assured and least calculated offering to date, engaging for its candor, craft, and dynamic breadth.

The British singer/songwriter and keyboardist can win over live audiences on the strength of his showmanship alone. On recordings, though, his boyish croon isn’t appealing enough to compensate for a throwaway lyric or dull arrangement. Fortunately, the long layoff between releases seems to have sharpened Cullum’s pen and wits. After kicking off with the wry, self-referential title track, Taller delivers a series of strong performances, intimate and expansive by turns. The upbeat tracks, more often than not, leave the most lasting impressions, whether it’s the gospel-charged “Mankind” or the Prince-inflected “Usher.” Of course, the album’s commercial prospects will likely benefit from Cullum’s cleverly rebooted brand of pop and funk.~ Mike Joyce https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/jamie-cullum-taller-blue-note/

Taller

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Kathleen Grace, Larry Goldings - Tie Me to You

Styles: Vocal,Guitar And Piano Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:00
Size: 92,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:29) 1. Tie Me to You
(3:10) 2. Where or When
(3:05) 3. Everywhere
(5:17) 4. John the Revelator
(3:52) 5. Berceuse
(3:53) 6. The Thrill Is Gone
(3:46) 7. Embarcadero
(5:06) 8. Love for Sale
(5:28) 9. What'll I Do
(2:49) 10. I'll Follow the Sun

For singer Kathleen Grace, vulnerability is a crucial virtue. Exploring themes of loss, discovery, love’s impermanence, and the need for personal reconstitution, she brings spare elegance to the fore during these highly affecting performances.

Working closely with pianist/organist Larry Goldings, Grace often strips pieces down to their essence. In many cases, all that remains is the naked heart of a woman in a state of becoming and the primary supports required for her journey. During the intimate title track, co-written by Grace and Goldings, those supports basically amount to some harpsichord-esque tack piano and string atmospherics. For the country-folk of the singer’s “Everywhere,” it’s her guitar and Gabe Witcher’s now-prominent violin. And on Darek Oleszkiewicz’s alluring “Embarcadero” (with lyrics from Grace), it’s the composer’s Argentine bass lines, with some light coloring around the edges.

The remaining songs are mostly familiar, but few appear in expected form. Rodgers & Hart’s “Where or When” delivers a vertiginous high, with Goldings creating live, looping backgrounds on his glimmering pocket piano. The traditional boots-on-the-floor blues “John the Revelator” gets an added touch of swagger and sway. Cole Porter’s “Love for Sale,” anchored by bassist David Piltch’s wide beat and recast in three, markets yearning smartly from its new metric perch. And Lennon & McCartney’s “I’ll Follow the Sun” takes on a different light while serving as a sign of redemption at the end of this hard road. With a defining trait spelled out ever so clearly in her surname, Kathleen Grace offers personal truths with sensitivity and integrity. Her openness breeds absolute respect. ~ Dan Bilawsky https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/kathleen-grace-with-larry-goldings-tie-me-to-you-monsoon/

Personnel: Kathleen Grace – voice, guitar; Larry Goldings – piano, keyboards, organ, pocket piano, glockenspiel; David Piltch – bass; Gabe Witcher – violin ; Darek Oleszkiewicz – bass

Tie Me to You

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Chiara Civello - Eclipse

Styles: Vocal

Year: 2017

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 46:46

Size: 137,6 MB

Art: Front

(4:11)  1. Come Vanno Le Cose

(3:18)  2. Eclisse Twist

(4:25)  3. Cuore In Tasca

(6:35)  4. Qualcuno Come Te

(3:08)  5. Sambarilove feat.Roubinho Jacobina

(4:01)  6. Parole Parole

(3:07)  7. Amore, Amore, Amore

(4:12)  8. La Giusta Distanza

(3:58)  9. Um Dia

(3:26) 10. New York City Boy

(3:02) 11. To Be Wild

(3:18) 12. Quello Che Conta

Three years after the last album, Songs, Chiara Civello is about to return to the record market with a new album called Eclipse coming out in March, but not just ... as of May The artist will return to tour to present live new songs. The new album will be released with Sony Music Italia release on March 31 and will be presented live with four special appointments in some prestigious Italian locations, which will be added to new appointments in the coming months.  Chiara Civello began her record career in 2005 with the album Last quarter moon , the first album of an Italian artist to be engraved with the prestigious label Verve Records . In 2012 he follows The Place of the World , a record containing the same song with which Chiara Civello participates in the Sanremo Festival . During his career, Civello has composed with Burt Bacharach , collaborating with the star of Brazilian pop Ana Carolina and winning the Multishow Award for Best Song in Brazil  Eclipse is the sixth studio record of the singer. http://www.allmusicitalia.it/news/chiara-civello-eclipse.html  (translate by google)

Eclipse

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Norah Jones - ‘Til We Meet Again

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:51
Size: 175,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:24) 1. Cold, Cold Heart - Live
(5:37) 2. It Was You - Live
(4:16) 3. Begin Again - Live
(3:50) 4. Those Sweet Words - Live
(7:33) 5. I've Got To See You Again - Live
(5:33) 6. After The Fall - Live
(4:48) 7. I'll Be Gone - Live
(5:29) 8. Just A Little Bit - Live
(4:35) 9. Falling - Live
(5:04) 10. Tragedy - Live
(4:32) 11. Sunrise - Live
(6:48) 12. Flipside - Live
(5:06) 13. Don't Know Why - Live
(7:11) 14. Black Hole Sun - Live

Norah Jones has released her first-ever full-length live album with ‘Til We Meet Again, a 14-track compilation of performances that took place around the globe between 2017-2019.

The album released via Blue Note Records on Friday (4/16) hears the acclaimed pianist, singer, and songwriter perform a mix of songs spanning her career during world tour stops in the United States, France, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina. The album’s tracklisting includes performances of “Cold Cold Heart”, “Don’t Know Why”, “Those Sweet Words”, “Sunrise”, her Grammy-nominated collaboration with Mavis Staples in “I’ll Be Gone“, new originals from 2020’s Pick Me Up Off The Floor in “Begin Again” and “Just A Little Bit”, and her cover of Soundgarden‘s “Black Hole Sun”.

Hear Jones discuss the new album with Blue Note president and Wolf Bros bassist Don Was on a new episode of the label’s First Look YouTube series below. https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/norah-jones-releases-til-we-meet-again-live-compilation/

‘Til We Meet Again

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Jan Gunnar Hoff - In Town

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:40
Size: 111,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:52) 1. In Town
(6:29) 2. Revamp
(5:57) 3. Promises
(7:24) 4. Your Song
(1:17) 5. Clouds
(5:41) 6. Bits and Pieces
(5:00) 7. Seven Seas
(3:43) 8. The Return
(3:50) 9. Picture I
(3:22) 10. Picture Ii

Jan Gunnar Hoff (born 22 October 1958) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, arranger and professor, living in Bodø, known from cooperations with jazz musicians like Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Lars Danielsson, John Surman, Karin Krog, Maria Joao, Marilyn Mazur, Anders Jormin, Arve Henriksen, Per Jørgensen, Alex Acuña, Mike Stern, Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk, Per Mathisen, Arild Andersen, Nils Petter Molvær, Ståle Storløkken, Audun Kleive and Mathias Eick.

Hoff was born in Bodø. He is a graduate of the Teachers' College in Bodø and Bergen, and was further educated in the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium under Terje Bjørklund (1986–89), and in composition at Norges Musikkhøgskole (2001). He had his jazz debut with his own trio on Ad Lib Jazzklubb (1976). Hoff´s background includes classical piano, progressive rock, pop and jazz. Hoff has released 20 recordings as soloartist and co-leader and he has composed 250 works for different settings. In 2005 he received the prestigious Edvard-prize (named after Edvard Grieg) for his jazz mass Meditatus and the same year he wrote the commission work for Vossajazz. In 2013 Jan Gunnar Hoff and his “Hoff Ensemble” was nominated for US Grammy Awards with their album Quiet winter night. Hoff´s quartet album Fly North with Marilyn Mazur, Anders Jormin and Arve Henriksen was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannpris 2014. Jan Gunnar Hoff has performed in Los Angeles, New York, London, Zagreb, Milano, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Stockholm, Istanbul, Havana, Riga and other major cities.

In January 2014 Hoff received the highest distinction in Norwegian Jazz, the Buddy-award. In May 2014 he was credited internationally as an official Steinway Artist. Hoff´s recent albums include Stories - solo piano 2L 2016, Terra Nova w/mezzo soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, Lawo classics 2017, Polarity with Audun Kleive, Anders Jormin, Morten Lindberg, 2L April 2018, Barxeta II with Per Mathisen and Horacio Hernandez, Losen Records June 2018 and Jan Gunnar Hoff Group feat. Mike Stern on Losen Records November 2018. Hoff is working as a professor at the University of Tromsø and the University of Agder. He co-founded The Groove Valley JazzCamp in Beiarn, and was artistic director for TGV Jazz camp from 2005 to 2009. Hoff also initiated Bodø Jazz Open which was launched in January 2011, where he was artistic leader and festival head until 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gunnar_Hoff

Personnel: Piano, Keyboards – Jan Gunnar Hoff; Guitar – Børge Petersen-Øverleir(tracks 1,5,6); Trumpet – Mathias Eick(tracks 3,8); Bass – Bjørn Kjellemyr; Drums – Audun Kleive; Saxophone [Saxophones] – Tore Brunborg

In Town

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