Kathy Sanborn - Small Galaxy

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:14
Size: 86,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:35) 1. Small Galaxy
(4:08) 2. Oh So Real
(3:46) 3. Be Coolin'
(3:50) 4. More Than You
(3:04) 5. Got Me Runnin'
(3:38) 6. Time To Shine
(3:21) 7. Himalaya
(4:02) 8. Lost At Sea
(4:10) 9. Catalunya Breeze
(3:34) 10. Catch The Wave

The record release of the new work by the composer, vocalist and pianist Kathy Sanborn will take place in the first days of April, although it will be from March 15 when radio stations in the United States and Europe begin to program the 10 songs. of which the album is composed. Already in the year 2008, Kathy Sanborn , surprised the specialized critics with a first album full of freshness and good compositions. “Peaceful Sounds” masterfully mixed Kathy Sanborn's velvety voice and musical genres as varied as Jazz , New Age and even Pop.. With this first album, Kathy Sanborn laid the foundations for an excellent artistic career and the new record material that is about to be released has raised real expectations, both among specialized critics and the general public. "Small Galaxy" will be released by Pacific Coast Jazz Records and we are sure that it will be an album that will give a lot to talk about. We cannot forget that Kathy Sanborn is well known for her silky and pleasant vocal range.

In this new job, Kathy SanbornHe is going to be fully involved, both in the composition of the lyrics and in the musical arrangements. And it is that once again, as he did in his previous record work, he mixes Latin sounds and rhythms with musical genres such as R&B and Jazz , adding, as expected, that Pop ingredient , which makes the songs melt. listen with real interest. In addition to her contribution as a composer, we must not forget that we are dealing with an excellent musician. Kathy sanbornThroughout the ten themes of the album, he reliably plays keyboards, piano, bass, drums, percussion and everything related to programming, without forgetting that he also deals with choirs and integrates the album production. In this new musical adventure, Mrs. Sanborn will be accompanied by musician and trumpeter Wayne Ricci . Kathy Sanborn's new work starts with the title track of the album; we will also find songs like "Oh So Real" , "More Than You" , "Himalaya" or the one dedicated to Spain and entitled "Catalunya Breeze" . The common denominator in all the songs ofKathy Sanborn will be, without a doubt, her excellent voice, which alternates with fresh and well-constructed compositions. In short, a good option for those who like quality music. Translate By Google https://www.nosolosmoothjazz.com/2010/03/14/kathy-sanborn-small-galaxy/

Personnel: Kathy Sanborn (vocals); Wayne Ricci (trumpet)

Small Galaxy

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Enric Peidro & Richard Busiakiewicz - On The Move

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz, Swing
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:16
Size: 97,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:59) 1. You'd be so nice to come home to
(6:10) 2. Dainty
(4:45) 3. Nancy (With the laughing face)
(6:26) 4. Sunday
(7:30) 5. Love me or leave me
(4:01) 6. If I had you
(6:21) 7. Just squeeze me

Second album as a duo by Enric Peidro and Richard Busiakiewicz, This new Cd is also recorded live (as was their first Cd,entitled "Make someone happy") over two conscutive live performances in Nov 2015. In this relesase,the two players keep swingin' in their characteristic classy.easy-going way and displaying a great deal of musical rapport between them along the way. https://enricpeidro.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-move

Personnel: Enric Peidro - Tenor sax; Richard Busiakiewicz - Piano

On The Move

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New York Jazz Ensemble, Woody Allen - The Bunk Project

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:34
Size: 143,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:25) 1. In The Sweet By'n'By
(3:47) 2. The Old Rugged Cross
(3:18) 3. Margie
(5:19) 4. Mecca Flats Blues
(5:55) 5. Over In The Gloryland
(3:14) 6. Algiers Strut
(6:04) 7. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
(4:27) 8. Sobbin' Blues
(3:05) 9. Bogalusa Strut
(4:05) 10. Black Cat Blues
(5:22) 11. Red Light Blues
(3:23) 12. All The Whores Like The Way I Ride
(5:06) 13. Burgundy Street Blues
(4:57) 14. Weary Blues

For a bunch of players from New York, this ad hoc group does a pretty solid job of assaying New Orleans jazz circa the 1920s especially the amateur clarinetist, a balding, bookish-looking guy with red hair and glasses. Actually, no matter how well they played, this record probably would never have been released were it not for the participation of Woody Allen, who’s been spending his Monday nights for the last couple of decades playing just this kind of stuff at Michael’s Pub in Manhattan. But it’s no ego-induced star turn--Allen really does function as just one member of this band assembled by banjo player Eddy Davis. The album gets its name from one of the great early New Orleans cornet players: Bunk Johnson. It was Johnson and his peers--players such as Sidney Bechet and George Lewis who inspired Allen to try his hand as a jazz man. It’s not technically complicated music, but it can be emotionally rich. To play it correctly requires more heart than chops, and in that department, Allen is well suited to the task

As a soloist, he’s less assertive to the point of sounding timid occasionally than the other front-line players, trumpeters Simon Wettenhall and Peter Ecklund and trombonists Dan Barrett and Graham Stewart. But he has the right sound: his clarinet playing teeters on that edge between a cry and a squawk as the band moves from dirges to hymns to street-parade rave-ups. When I saw Allen play at Michael’s several years ago, I wondered how he could look so pained while playing music that’s so joyful. Here, only in the final cut, “Weary Blues,” does Allen sound like he’s given himself over to the spirit of the music. Then again, that state of musical nirvana is something that amateur and professional alike struggle to achieve. As for the sonic quality, the sessions were recorded in what must have been a cavernous room at the Harkness House in New York with what sounds like a single microphone placed, at times, at the far end of that room. In other words, no audiophiles allowed. Like the music itself, it all but shouts: “Strictly for fun.”By Randy Lewis https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-05-ol-20439-story.html

The Bunk Project

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Jessica Williams - With Love

Size: 131,9 MB
Time: 56:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Piano Jazz, Straight-Ahead/Mainstream
Art: Front

01. For All We Know (5:24)
02. My Foolish Heart (9:36)
03. I Fall In Love Too Easily (6:05)
04. Summertime (5:53)
05. But Beautiful (6:32)
06. When I Fall In Love (6:15)
07. Paradise Of Love (9:28)
08. It Might As Well Be Spring (4:06)
09. Somewhere (3:33)

Successful musicians play "the truth." If you want to hear some truth there are certain artists you can seek out. Thelonious Monk couldn't play anything but the truth, right from the beginning. Pianist Jessica Williams came upon the truth—a purer form of it, at least—after experiencing "the fix of Illness" that she has discussed on her website and in interviews. Her first "fix" came about via her struggle with hypothyroidism, and resulted in a string of gorgeous recordings on Origin Records: Songs for a New Century (2008), Art of the Piano (2009), Touch (2010), and Songs of Earth (2011).

Williams' second fix came about with the deterioration of the lumbar region of her spine and the surgery to ameliorate the problem—again, well-documented on her website. The malady and the subsequent surgery sidelined her. With Love is her first post-surgery release. It is all ballads—mostly show tunes, familiar and encoded in the jazz canon: "For All We Know," "My Foolish Heart, " "I Fall In Love too Easily, " Gershwin's "Summertime."

Williams, in the past, has been capable of impressive pyrotechnics, displayed up front on her marvelous Tatum's Ultimatum (Red & Blue Records, 2008) set, a tribute to the exuberant Art Tatum. And she's also capable of deep spiritual and musical depth as she is on her previous Origin Records outings. This time out that flash, and her enormous technique, take a big back seat. The music on With Love is about simplicity, melodic purity and the emotions—mostly love—contained in the lyrics to these enduring movie/show and standards.

This straight ahead approach, this marinating in the melody without artifice, without flash or a hint of pretention, reveals the human side of the lyrical content of these songs—the truth of these songs. And Williams offers up one of her own compositions, "Paradise of Love," that fits in with the familiar, a lovely, human, truthful tune. ~By Dan McClenaghan

With Love

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