The Heath Brothers - Brotherly Love

Styles: Jazz, Hard Bop
Year: 1982
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:18
Size: 86,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:10) 1. A Sound For Sore Ears
(5:49) 2. Autumn In New York
(6:40) 3. No End
(6:53) 4. Life In The City
(6:08) 5. Homes
(4:36) 6. Rejoice

By their sixth album, the Heath Brothers (consisting of Jimmy on tenor and soprano, Percy Heath on bass, keyboardist Stanley Cowell, guitarist Tony Purrone and drummer Akira Tana) were sticking to their basic hard bop format, with an occasional poppish tune tossed in to give the group variety and possible commercial potential. This excellent set finds the band performing Kenny Dorham's "No End," "Autumn In New York," Percy's "Rejoice," and three originals by Jimmy. With eight years of constant playing, the Heath Brothers had developed into a solid working group with a sound of its own; Jimmy Heath's writing and solos gave the band its own personality. This Antilles set, which has been reissued on CD, is an excellent example of their playing.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/brotherly-love-mw0000651137

Personnel: Bass – Percy Heath; Drums – Akira Tana; Guitar – Tony Purrone; Keyboards – Stanley Cowell; Saxophone – Jimmy Heath

Brotherly Love

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Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:26
Size: 157,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:08)  1. K.K.P.D.
(5:30)  2. The Eraser
(7:55)  3. After All
(6:16)  4. Isadora
(8:40)  5. Angola, LA & the 13th Amendment
(5:48)  6. The Last Broken Heart
(6:50)  7. Jenacide
(7:08)  8. American't
(9:42)  9. An Unending Repentance
(3:25) 10. The Roe Effect

Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, all welded together by the New Orleans-born player's alternately caressing and searing horn, and by his most tightly focused band to date. Scott's very modern approach to jazz gains added weight from the album's close embrace of the stylists of the mid- to late-1960s. References to trumpeter Miles Davis' second quintet, saxophonist John Coltrane's classic quartet and bassist Charles Mingus' contemporaneous bands abound. As though to emphasise the provenance, the album was co-produced by the veteran Blue Note engineer, Rudy Van Gelder, in whose studio it was recorded. Other 1960s resonances can be heard: the electric acid blues of Jimi Hendrix (guitarist Matthew Stevens is also adept in fluid, Pat Metheny-like lyricism), and, though Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is an instrumental album, the protest movement led by singers such as Bob Dylan and Curtis Mayfield. "I wanted to create a musical backdrop," says Scott in the publicity material accompanying review copies, "that referenced everything I liked about the music of the 1960s."  Fast forward 40 years, and it's what Scott has done with the backdrop that matters. The track titles give a clue. "K.K.P.D.," the ramped-up tune which kick starts the album, has a title which stands for Klu Klux Police Department, and refers to what Scott calls the "phenomenally dark and evil" attitude of the local police toward the African-American citizens of New Orleans. "Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment," its episodic ebb and flow steered by Scott's by turns melancholy and incandescent trumpet, equates aspects of the prison system with slavery. "The American't" targets the same depressingly enduring racism referenced by "James Crow, Jr. Esq." on Live At Newport (Concord, 2008). "Jenacide" needs no explanation. The mood endures, other than on the emollient "The Eraser" (written by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and the only non-original on the album), and two gorgeous ballads, "Isadora," from Live At Newport, and "The Last Broken Heart." Still only 26, Scott has decades of further development to look forward to. Meanwhile, this is his first landmark album, and one to make you feel good about the future of jazz. ~ Chris May https://www.allaboutjazz.com/yesterday-you-said-tomorrow-christian-scott-concord-records-review-by-chris-may.php

Personnel: Christian Scott: trumpet; Matthew Stevens: guitar; Milton Fletcher Jr.; piano; Kristopher Keith Funn: bass; Jamire Williams: drums.

Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

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Kyle Asche Organ Trio - Blues For Mel

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:22
Size: 145.1 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[5:56] 1. Blues For Mel
[5:57] 2. Gentle Rain
[3:50] 3. Snapshot
[5:26] 4. I Thought About You
[5:07] 5. Nite Vidual
[7:04] 6. Killer Ray
[5:58] 7. Watch What Happens
[5:37] 8. Swedish Schnapps
[5:51] 9. Too Late Now
[5:09] 10. Forget New York
[3:21] 11. Who Can I Turn To
[4:01] 12. Killer Ray (Bonus Radio Edit)

Kyle Asche: guitar; Melvin Rhyne: organ; George Fludas: drums and percussion.

Chicago-based guitarist Kyle Asche opens his sophomore release, Blues for Mel, with the set's title tune, a tribute to Melvin Rhyne, the organist who most famously played with guitarist Wes Montgomery on four stellar Riverside releases in the late fifties and early sixties. The tune is a cool Montgomery-ish ride, drenched in the organ trio tradition. Asche's licks are clean and concise. The drummer, George Fludas, accents the trio sound with finesse and subtle flourishes, a polished energy, and the organist injects an assured, sometimes percussive bounce to the sound, much in the Montgomery Trio mode. No surprise there, because the guy on the organ is the very man who accompanied Montgomery on those legendary Riverside dates, Melvin Rhyne himself. ~Dan McClenaghan

Blues For Mel

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Jean Frye Sidwell - Here Comes the Sun - Vocal Chill

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:46
Size: 96,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:33) 1. Here Comes the Sun
(2:45) 2. Blackbird
(4:00) 3. You've Got a Friend
(3:42) 4. If It's Magic
(3:28) 5. What the World Needs Now Is Love
(3:30) 6. House at Pooh Corner
(3:20) 7. My Favorite Things
(3:22) 8. Let It Be
(3:07) 9. A Love Song
(3:15) 10. Close to You
(3:29) 11. Sweet Baby James
(4:11) 12. The Circle Game

With her rich contralto voice and smooth, soulful phrasing, Jean is truly a jazz singer's jazz singer. The consummate performer, she beams with honesty and passion, delivering silky nuance and vocal shadings that captivate even the most sophisticated music lovers.

Jean’s dramatic vocal expression renders new shape and meaning to some of our most beloved classic jazz treasures, be it Gershwin, Ellington, or Jobim. Jean is a Southern California native and received music, voice, and dance training in Los Angeles. Her professional singing career has spanned 30 years and culminated in the recording of six self-produced CDs.

Jean is co-creator and co-owner of Pacific Coast Music, an independent record label. Thanks to the overwhelming success of her CDs, Jean is recognized today as an international recording artist. https://pacificcoastmusic.com/jazz-musicians/

Here Comes the Sun - Vocal Chill

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