Susan Wylde - Shambhala

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:26
Size: 128,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:05) 1. Fire In My Heart Will Burn Away These Blues
(4:14) 2. Let's Fall In Love
(3:52) 3. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
(3:26) 4. Driven To Shine
(4:00) 5. All Or Nothing At All
(4:01) 6. Nothing Compares To You
(3:55) 7. Fragile
(3:40) 8. Still Believe In Love
(3:25) 9. Eye Of The Hurricane
(4:00) 10. When We Kiss Another Angel Gets Her Wings
(3:47) 11. Miss Celie's Blues
(4:52) 12. Love's Divine
(4:46) 13. Icecream
(3:16) 14. Your Truth

Susan Wylde is a vocalist/songwriter/pianist. She has lived and/or performed in such culturally rich locations as Europe, Thailand, Hawaii, Japan, China, USA, Canada and Cuba. Susan is a classically trained pianist and a graduate of the Western Conservatory of Music. Her love of singing lead her into performing in musical theatre at a young age in Canada. Her new CD, co-written with Eddie Bullen, is called Shambhala. The 14 tracks on this CD draw from pop, traditional and contemporary jazz as well as blues and R&B. Susan’s songwriting and voice speak of clarity, vibrancy, emotional depth and soulfulness. “Not a copy act, she focuses attention on the individuality of her own artistic sensibilities” ~ JAZZ TIMES. Susan has worked with several other artists (vocal, piano, percussion) in the studio and on stage. However, this is her first jazz CD.

Shambhala has been nominated for a jazz award and several jazz festivals in Canada and outside Canada have invited her to perform on their mainstage. Susan’s diverse influences include: Herbie Hancock, Joe Jackson, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Legend, Sting, Spyro Gyra, Steeley Dan, and Joni Mitchell. Susan’s writing partner, Eddie Bullen, is a Juno award-winning producer, writer and performer. In 2008, Eddie was chosen for the job of music director for the Beijing Summer Olympics music gala.

Susan has shared the stage or studio with the following musicians: Charlie Wilson, Julian Fauth, Delfeayo Marsalis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Hilario Duran, Simon Wilcox, Brian Griffith, Danny Lockwood, Emm Gryner, Esthero, Harrison Kennedy, Grace Kelley, Diana Braithwaite, Chris Whiteley, Jack Dekyzer, Jeff Rogers, Marissa Lyndsey, Adam Soloman, Adrean Farrugia, Kate Schutt, Eddie Bullen, Jochim Nunez, Ken Whiteley, Reg Schwager, Don Thompson, Roberto Sibony, Melissa McClelland, Kevin Dempsey, Mark Cashion, Cindy Fairbank. This year has been a great year for Susan Wylde Quartet. Highlights are: performing in Japan, New Orleans, Miami,New York City,Hawaii,China and Cuba, opening for Grammy Award winner Delfeayo Marsalis, working with prolific jazz musicians Reg Schwager and Don Thompson.

Susan is the Creator, producer and artistic director for Goddess Charity Events. These events have raised thousands of dollars for women’s and children’s shelters and have helped World Vision and several environmental charities. Susan has received a nomination for an Ontario Independent Music Award. The awards will take place at the Phoenix Concert Hall - Toronto. www.myspace.com/susanwylde You can join Susan Wylde on TWITTER and FACEBOOK Festival/Club Agents,Promoters, Reviewers,Licensing etc. - Check out Susan Wylde on Myspace and Sonic Bids.com. Radio - Music Directors, Reviewers etc. - Susan Wylde's music is available - Radiosubmit.com and Musicsubmit.com https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/susanwylde

Shambhala

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Paul Warburton & Dale Bruning - Our Delight

Styles: Post Bop, Guitar
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:48
Size: 96,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:40) 1. Our Delight
(4:55) 2. You Go To My Head
(5:03) 3. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You
(6:34) 4. Ill Wind
(3:45) 5. Delaunay's Dilemma
(4:45) 6. You Don't Know What Love Is
(3:35) 7. Limehouse Blues
(6:11) 8. Recado Bossa Nova
(3:17) 9. Grant Street Azure

Here's One Of Those Unknown Gems That Has Everything I Like In An Album: Two Great Musicians Playing Jazz Standards And An Exceptional Recording To Boot. Dale Bruning Plays A D.W. Stevens Guitar And Paul Warburton Plays An 1888 Joseph Bohmann 5 String Bass Recorded Direct To Two-Track Digital. Tunes Are: "Our Delight," " You Go To My Head," "Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You," "Ill Wind," "Delaunay's Dilemma," "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Limehouse Blues," "Recado Bossa Nova" And "Grant Street Azure." "Recado Bossa Nova" Is One Of The Showcase Pieces On The Album. Words Cannot Describe The Brilliance Reflected By Both Players. Warburton's Solos On This Piece Are Astounding. https://www.audiophileusa.com/item.cfm?record=104228

Our Delight

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Bill Evans - On A Friday Evening

Styles: Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:36
Size: 139,1 MB
Art: Front

( 6:54) 1. Sareen Jurer (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 7:04) 2. Sugar Plum (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 7:43) 3. The Two Lonely People (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 5:10) 4. T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune) (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 5:18) 5. Quiet Now (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 6:20) 6. Up With The Lark (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 5:53) 7. How Deep Is The Ocean (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
( 5:26) 8. Blue Serge (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)
(10:44) 9. Nardis (Live At Oil Can Harry's / 1975)

Captured in 1975, On a Friday Evening is an engaging and deeply intimate album that finds pianist Bill Evans and his trio in performance at Oil Can Harry's in Vancouver, British Columbia. Recorded by radio host Gary Barclay, the album was initially broadcast on Barclay's CHQM jazz show before languishing unheard for the next 40 years. Fully restored, this 2021 archival release finds Evans backed by one of his best latter-career rhythm sections featuring bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund. Radio broadcasts of live concerts were not unheard of in the '60s and '70s, and On a Friday Evening works as a nice companion album to the similar 2017 radio restoration On a Monday Evening, which featured the same lineup and some of the same tunes.

That said, On a Friday Evening is an even better sounding restoration and truly represents the intricate group dynamics and virtuosity they'd developed on tour together. While Gomez had been with Evans since 1968, the trio's warm and enveloping style becomes even more impressive when you realize that drummer Zigmund was barely into his first year with the pianist when they hit the stage at Oil Can Harry's in June of 1975. Together, they play with a lithe focus that balances Evans' close-eyed intensity with moments of lively, contrapuntal group interplay. Particularly enrapturing is their take on "Sugar Plum," which Evans kicks off by himself, anchoring his twirling right-hand lines with steady left-hand chords before Gomez takes his own lyrical solo. We also get equally inspired renditions of such Evans' favorites as "Sareen Jurer," "Quiet Now," and "How Deep Is the Ocean."~ Matt Collar https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-a-friday-evening-mw0003518440

Personnel: Bill Evans - Piano; Eddie G¢mez - bass; Eliot Zigmund - drums

On A Friday Evening

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Freddie Redd - Reminiscing

Styles: Piano Jazz
Time: 61:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 141,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:08) 1. Oh! So Good
(7:46) 2. Love Is Love
(7:39) 3. Shadows
(8:30) 4. Blues Extra
(9:15) 5. Once In A Lifetime
(9:28) 6. Reminiscing
(6:19) 7. Blues X
(6:40) 8. There I Found You

Reminiscing is a slate of eight Redd compositions, on which New York ace Matt Wilson plays drums and Baltimorean Michael Formanek takes the bass. (There are also two guest saxophonists tenor Brian Settles on six tracks and alto/soprano Sarah Hughes on two.) Redd’s batch of tunes impress. They’re soulful, swinging, and deceptively lyrical; the phrases are so simple and catchy that the unconventional forms Redd deploys slip right past you. The title tune, for example, stitches together no less than five different four-bar sections; the moody ballad “Shadows” cycles through four. While the opener, “Oh! So Good,” has only two strains, it lures you in with an A so pithy it could be an ostinato, then sends you reeling with a linear, complex B.

It’s Redd’s piano playing, though, that delivers the knockout. There are no breakneck tempos here the leader has nothing left to prove. He doubles down on the melodicism instead. The solo on “Love is Love” is a reduction of the theme (albeit one with dense harmonies), and Redd’s spaces and condensations of the phrases are expressive. Where the speed does ramp up, as on “Blues X,” he takes it in stride, keeping pace through a scorching Settles solo. When it’s his turn, though, you can almost see him pulling the reins: He lets the first four bars go by without a single note, then digs deep into the blues at a leisurely, in-my-own-good-time gait, only to pick up again to comp for Linde’s solo.

Then comes Baltimore Jazz Loft, on which it’s quickly clear that Warren has also turned to making his point without fireworks. It’s Redd who’s the loquacious one on “Among Friends,” in which he unfurls chorus after improvised (if well-crafted) chorus. When Warren takes the spotlight, he doesn’t even break the walking bass cadence, firing off three measured blues choruses that could have been accompaniments. He does the same on “A Little Chippie,” which also has Warren playing the sly lead melody line, making him a bit more forthright here, though that melody is not flashy either.

When he lets loose with a more conventionally melodic solo, on the bossa nova “Barack Obama,” it’s tight, carefully constructed, and succinct. (He audibly says “OK” to the band after one chorus.) It’s also remarkably thoughtful and beautiful. Yet one quickly realizes that Warren expresses himself as clearly in his supporting role as in improvising. As lovely as he can get on “Barack Obama” or the standard “I Can’t Get Started,” there’s something profoundly declarative in the deep, resonant notes he places under Redd and Linde’s work on those same tracks.

Teaching a lesson on mastery through economy doesn’t seem to have been Linde’s goal with the releases. Throughout both albums, he’s not a run-on player, but not taciturn either. All the same, Linde has aged eight years since they were recorded and watched both revered veterans pass away in the meantime. One wonders how he, and his multitudes, will process their legacies in projects to come. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/511940/two-new-releases-keep-freddie-redd-and-butch-warrens-legacies-alive/

Personnel: Freddie Redd - piano; Brad Linde - tenor saxophone; Michael Formanek - bass; Matt Wilson - drums; Sarah Hughes - soprano saxophone (on track 5), alto saxophone (on track 3); Brian Settles - tenor saxophone (on tracks 1,2,4,6-8)

Reminiscing

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