Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Dick Hyman - Mad About The Boy

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:15
Size: 88,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:14) 1. Dance, Little Lady
(3:14) 2. A Room With A View
(3:24) 3. I'll Follow My Secret Heart
(2:29) 4. Any Little Fish
(2:04) 5. Play, Orchestra, Play
(2:23) 6. Nevermore
(1:45) 7. Mad About the Boy
(2:24) 8. Poor Little Rich Girl
(2:14) 9. Zigeuner
(1:12) 10. Polka
(3:11) 11. World Weary
(3:05) 12. We Were Dancing
(3:47) 13. You Were There
(2:15) 14. Ladies of the Town
(2:27) 15. Twentieth Century Blues

Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early '50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under his own name. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller, which he often features in his frequent recitals. Other solo recordings include the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Duke Ellington. Some of his recordings with combos are From The Age Of Swing, Swing Is Here, Cheek To Cheek, and If Bix Played Gershwin, plus numerous duet albums with Ruby Braff, Ralph Sutton and others. In a different vein, Mr. Hyman was one of the first to record on the Moog synthesizer, and his ?Minotaur? landed on the Billboard charts.

Mr. Hyman's concert compositions for orchestra include his Piano Concerto, Ragtime Fantasy, The Longest Blues in the World, and From Chama to Cumbres by Steam, a work for orchestra, jazz combo, and prerecorded railroad sounds. A cantata based on the autobiography of Mark Twain was premiered with the choral group, Gloria Musicae, in Sarasota. In a growing catalogue of chamber music compositions, his most recent pieces are Dances and Diversions for the Kinor String Quartet, and Parable for a Parrot, a trio for the Palisades Virtuosi. Earlier compositions include a violin/piano sonata, a quintet for piano and strings, and a sextet for clarinet, piano and strings. Mr. Hyman has been heard in duo-piano performances with Derek Smith, in Three-Piano Crossover with Marian McPartland and the late Ruth Laredo, and in pops concerts under the direction of Doc Severinsen. In 2004, after serving as artistic director for the acclaimed Jazz in July series at New York's 92nd Street Y for twenty years, he stepped down, as he has from a similar role in the annual Oregon Festival of American Music. He continues his Jazz Piano at the Y series in New York.

In addition to his activities in the jazz and concert worlds, Mr. Hyman has had a prolific career in New York as a studio musician and won seven Most Valuable Player Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He acted as music director for such television programs as Benny Goodman's final appearance (on PBS) and for In Performance at the White House. He received an Emmy for his original score for Sunshine's on the Way, a daytime drama, and another for musical direction of a PBS Special on Eubie Blake. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies and the New Jersey Jazz Society.

In years past, Dick Hyman was music director for Arthur Godfrey and orchestrator of the hit musical Sugar Babies. He has served as composer/arranger/conductor/pianist for the Woody Allen films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says ?I Love You?, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion and Melinda and Melinda. Other scores have included Moonstruck, Scott Joplin?King of Ragtime, The Lemon Sisters, and Alan and Naomi. His music has also been heard in The Mask, Billy Bathgate, Two Weeks Notice, and other films. He has been music director of the production The Movie Music of Woody Allen, which premiered at the Hollywood Bowl.

In the dance field, Mr. Hyman composed and performed the score for the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet Company's Piano Man, and Twyla Tharp?s The Bum?s Rush for the American Ballet Theater. He was also the pianist/conductor/arranger in Ms.Tharp's Eight Jelly Rolls, Baker?s Dozen, and The Bix Pieces and similarly arranged and performed for Miles Davis: Porgy and Bess, a choreographed production of The Dance Theater of Dallas. A recent premier, a dance based on Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, was presented by the John G. Shedd Institute of Eugene, Oregon, and danced by the Eugene Ballet Company.

Dick Hyman?s 100 Years Of Jazz Piano, an encyclopedic CD-ROM, soon to be available in a set of audio CDs, is based on his frequent recital-lecture. New recordings include three duo-piano albums with Ray Kennedy, Bernd Lhotzky, and Chris Hopkins; a trumpet/piano duet album with Randy Sandke; and Lost Songs of 1936 with Bucky Pizzarelli and Jay Leonhart. Dick Hyman is a Yamaha artist and endorses all of their keyboard products. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/dickhyman

Mad About The Boy

Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton & Friends - Rare Recordings Vol. 1

Styles: Vibraphone Jazz
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:31
Size: 151,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:29) 1. Seven Come Eleven
(6:07) 2. Line For Lyons
(7:27) 3. Cherokee
(4:35) 4. So Long Eric
(4:21) 5. I Know That You Know
(9:22) 6. Stardust
(7:00) 7. Cute
(6:23) 8. Sweet Sue
(5:07) 9. Slop
(7:34) 10. Gerry Meets Hamp

During the mid-to-late '70s, Lionel Hampton sought to recapture the magic of his classic '30s all-star recordings with a series of albums featuring his vibes with musicians who he normally did not encounter in his travels. This particular CD draws one or two selections apiece from seven of these albums (originally on the Who's Who label), all but one from 1977. The lone exception, a version of "Stardust" from 1965, has quite a lineup (trumpeters Clark Terry and Thad Jones, trombonist J.J. Johnson, Lucky Thompson on soprano and tenor great Coleman Hawkins) and is quite listenable but does not live up to its potential.

The same can be said for most of these performances which include meetings with pianists Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson, a workout with baritonist Gerry Mulligan, a version of "Cherokee" featuring Steve Marcus's soprano and drummer Buddy Rich, two selections with Dexter Gordon (who has a rare outing on soprano during "Seven Comes Eleven") and a pair of numbers from what would be bassist Charles Mingus's final recording date. Hopefully, these interesting sessions, even though they do not reach the creative heights of Hampton's earlier recordings, will eventually be reissued on CD complete and in chronological order.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/lionel-hampton-friends-rare-recordings-vol-1-mw0000309774

Lionel Hampton & Friends - Rare Recordings Vol. 1

Sophie Alour - Insulaire

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:08
Size: 156,3 MB
Art: Front + Back

( 6:07)  1. Septembre
( 8:15)  2. Les samourais
( 7:19)  3. Almost Paradise
( 7:42)  4. You've Changed
( 5:41)  5. At First Sight
( 4:31)  6. Doctor C.
( 3:37)  7. Black Narcissus
( 6:43)  8. Cheer Up!
( 6:30)  9. Oraison
(11:37) 10. Dedale

Alour Sophie learns the clarinet from 13 years in a music school in Quimper . Learning saxophone begins later, around 19 years, mainly self-taught in courses taken in the Parisian schools and jazz music, CIM and IACP . The young saxophonist truly begins on the jazz scene in 2000 participating in the new group called the Vintage Orchestra. This year, she is also associated with trumpeter Stephane Belmondo to form a sextet and occurs in various Parisian clubs. It also participates in orchestra Christophe Dal Sasso. Sophie Alour 2004 integrates a quartet of musicians, led by organist Rhoda Scott , along Bilberry Besson and Julie Saury, allowing him to further develop his game to the saxophone. During the year it also attracts the attention of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who chooses to engage his orchestra . It is also asked to participate in a project of drummer Aldo Romano and noted for his interpretation on the big stage of Jazz in Vienna in 2004. The following year she released Islander, a first album as a leader that is well appreciated by critics.

She collaborates again with the Vintage Orchestra group recording the album Thad. In 2006, she participated in the recording of the album Christophe Dal Sasso Opening and Belmondo brothers. In 2007, the quintet saxophonist accompanied by pianist Alexandre Saada when recording his album Be Where You Are. This year, she published her second album Uncaged receiving good evaluations by critics. For 2 years she performed in various cities in France and abroad. In 2010, Sophie Alour presents his third album Opus 3, a trio along with bassist and drummer Yoni Zelnik Karl Jannuska, two musicians on his previous album. The following year she participated in the recording of the album Christophe Dal Sasso pretexts. In 2012 saxophonist released a new album entitled The geography of dreams. Sophie Alour form a new quintet with two musicians she knows well, Yoann Loustallot and Nicolas Moreaux, and two new Frédéric Pasqua on drums and vibraphone Stéphan Carracci. ~ Translate by Google   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Alour

Personnel:  Sophie Alour - tenor saxophone; Huggo Lippi – guitar; Guillaume Naud - piano, Fender Rhodes; Sylvain Romano – bass; David Grebil – drums;  Emmanuel Bex - Hammond B3 organ (#4,8);  Stephane Belmondo - flugelhorn (#9)

Insulaire

Paul Bollenback - Double Vision

Styles: Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:00
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:55) 1. I Am Singing
(5:44) 2. Open Hand
(6:54) 3. Danny
(7:33) 4. Breaking the Girl
(5:07) 5. Reflections of Jaco
(3:16) 6. Lush Life
(6:00) 7. After the Love Has Gone
(6:35) 8. Thank You Mr. Hancock
(6:54) 9. Let Her Cry

Award-winning jazz guitarist Paul Bollenback developed a taste for the exotic over the course of a three-year period when his family lived in India. He was 11 years old when the family traveled to New Delhi, and years later the sounds and experiences of that early journey found their way into his first album from Challenge Records, Original Visions. His next release, Double Gemini, continued to stir up a buzz among critics, and it drew honors as CD of the Month from both WBGO, a Newark jazz station, and 20th Century Jazz Magazine. Bollenback remained with Challenge for his next project, Soul Grooves.

The guitarist first got his hands on an instrument with nylon strings when he was seven years old. The guitar was a gift from his dad, who adored music as much as the younger Bollenback and also played the trumpet. At the age of 14, the budding guitarist headed home to the states with his family, where he discovered the delights of rock & roll. Around this time he started to play the electric guitar, another gift from his dad. When he discovered Miles Davis, it was a major turning point in his musical development.

Bollenback's education includes music studies at the University of Miami. He continued his studies with eight more years of private instruction under the tutelage of Asher Zlotnik in Baltimore. In 1993, the year that he embarked on a European tour, he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, in conjunction with the Virginia Commission on the Arts, for "New Music for Three Jazz Guitars." The Washington Area Music Awards dubbed him Musician of the Year in 1997, the same year that he joined the music faculty at American University. SESAC honored two of his original pieces, "Romancin' the Moon" and "Wookies' Revenge," both of which were included on the album Reboppin' by Joey DeFrancesco, who returned the favor by appearing on Bollenback's Soul Grooves.

The Litchfield Jazz Festival Summer Music School installed Bollenback as artist-in-residence. He also is a featured artist on the bill of the Summer Guitar & Bass Workshop offered by Duquesne University. The guitarist has performed on numerous television programs, among them Entertainment Tonight, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Joan Rivers, and Good Morning America. He has shared the stage with a long list of musical artists, including Charlie Byrd, Arturo Sandoval, Herb Ellis, Stanley Turrentine, Spyro Gyra's Scott Ambush, and Della Reese. ~ Linda Seida https://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-bollenback-mn0000746344/biography

Personnel: Paul Bollenback - guitar; Joey DeFrancesco - organ; Ed Howard - bass; Terri Lyne Carrington – drums

Double Vision