Charlie Ventura With Mary Ann Mccall - Another Evening With Charlie Ventura And Mary Ann Mccall

Styles: Vocal, Hard Bop
Year: 1954
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:09
Size: 93,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:43) 1. Soft Touch
(4:07) 2. We'll Be Together Again (Voc)
(3:30) 3. There'll Be Some Changes Made (Voc)
(2:48) 4. The Breeze And I
(3:16) 5. Charlie's Venture
(3:06) 6. Swingin' On A Star
(7:36) 7. It Don't Mean A Thing
(2:49) 8. Deep Purple
(3:14) 9. Jersey Bounce
(2:28) 10. Lover
(3:28) 11. Yesterdays

Tenor man Charlie Ventura was was a prominent fixture on the jazz scene during his era. Born Charles Venturo he was one of thirteen children from a musical family who went on to become a jazz legend, and was named “Number One Tenor Saxophonist” by Down Beat Magazine in 1945. In the summer of 1942, Charlie got a call at his day job at the Philadelphia Navy yard to join Gene Krupa's band. Unwilling to relinquish the security of a paycheck, he turned them down. Then came the second phone call and before long, Charlie was on the road with the band becoming a featured soloist, along with trumpet star, Roy Eldridge and singer Anita O'Day. Throughout the forties, fifties and sixties, Charlie Ventura and Gene Krupa made music history together as America's leading jazz greats. Ventura was one of the first jazz musicians to make the transition from swing to be-bop. In 1946, he formed his own “Bop for the People” band, playing a commercially-oriented form of be-bop. Continuing to play with The Gene Krupa Trio, he cut “Dark Eyes,” which led to over a dozen released albums, including “Charlie Ventura With Special Guest Charlie Parker”(1949) “Bop For The People”(1949-53) and “Charlie Ventura And His Orchestra.”(1954-55) Many fans will remember the succession of great jazz groups, fronted by Charlie, that appeared at The Open House nightclub he owned in Lindenwold, New Jersey. Playing Las Vegas with Jackie Gleason, and Atlantic City, New York and Philadelphia, Charlie Ventura was the consummate jazzman. “Jazz is maturing and maturity carries responsibilities. I feel that I'm supposed to make people laugh, make them cry, make them day dream and give them some excitement,” Charlie explained. His lifetime of musical achievement ended in January, 1992, but his legacy to the world of jazz lives on. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/charlie-ventura

Personnel: Vocals – Mary Ann McCall; Saxophone – Charlie Ventura; Bass – Bob Carter; Drums – Sonny Igoe; Piano – Dave McKenna

Another Evening With Charlie Ventura And Mary Ann Mccall

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Charlie Ventura With Mary Ann Mccall - An Evening With Charlie Ventura And Mary Ann Mccall

Styles: Vocal, Hard Bop
Year: 1954
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:22
Size: 63,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:14) 1. Charlie's Parley
(2:58) 2. Careless (Voc)
(5:42) 3. Get Happy
(3:13) 4. Sam And Don
(3:23) 5. Detour Ahead (Voc)
(3:53) 6. Basin Street Blues
(2:57) 7. Please Be Kind (Voc)

Mary Ann McCall was a fine singer who started out singing middle-of-the-road pop, yet grew as a well-respected jazz singer during her episodic career. She began as a singer and dancer with Buddy Morrow's Orchestra in her native Philadelphia and was with Tommy Dorsey briefly in 1938. McCall had her first stint with Woody Herman in 1939 and she was Charlie Barnet's vocalist during a period of time (1939-40) when his band was attracting attention. McCall then dropped out of music, but when she returned it was for a high-profile position with Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946 and Second Herd from 1947-50. McCall was married to Al Cohn for a time, had a solo career and sang with Charlie Ventura from 1954-55. She gradually faded away from the scene, singing in Detroit from 1958-60 and then moving to Los Angeles where she was active on a part-time basis. McCall re-emerged to sing and record with Jake Hanna in1976 and Nat Pierce in 1978, still sounding close to prime form. As a leader, McCall recorded four songs for Columbia in 1947, six for Discovery in 1948, four for Roost in 1950; she recorded albums for Regent in 1956, Jubilee in 1958 and Coral in 1959. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mary-ann-mccall-mn0000370718/biography

An Evening With Charlie Ventura And Mary Ann Mccall

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Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Legends Of Acid Jazz: Soul Flowers

Styles: Hard Bop, soul Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:21
Size: 162,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:23) 1. Theme From N.Y.P.D.
(5:00) 2. Dirty Apple
(3:20) 3. Days Of Wine And Roses (Instrumental)
(3:16) 4. Ode To Billy Joe
(3:11) 5. You'll Never Walk Alone
(3:05) 6. Alfie
(2:56) 7. Tara's Theme (My Own True Love)
(3:25) 8. Here's That Rainy Day
(5:27) 9. I Got A Woman
(3:01) 10. Dirty Grape
(8:09) 11. Animal Farm
(3:07) 12. Black Strap Molasses
(3:29) 13. She's Gone Again
(5:43) 14. Hi Heel Sneakers
(3:30) 15. To Sir With Love
(3:42) 16. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing
(5:30) 17. Please Send Me Someone To Love

Prestige's second volume of Johnny "Hammond" Smith's recordings in their Legends of Acid Jazz series contains two full original albums: 1967's Soul Flowers and its 1968 follow-up, Dirty Grape. Both sessions were recorded within four months of each other with the same sextet, featuring guitarist Wally Richardson, tenor saxophonists Houston Person and Earl Edwards, bassist Jimmy Lewis, drummer John Harris, and Richard Landrum on conga. On both records, he basically tackles modern pop songs that were hits on the pop and R&B charts and songs from movies and TV. This could have been predictable, lightly swinging jazz-pop, like so many soul-jazz records of its ilk in the late '60s, but what makes both sessions so enjoyable is that the band is lively, gritty, and clearly having fun with this material. Of the two, Soul Flowers is a little more satisfying, but both are highly enjoyable and they make for a great two-fer one that's the equal of Smith's first edition of Legends of Acid Jazz.~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine https://www.allmusic.com/album/legends-of-acid-jazz-vol-2-mw0000050217

Personnel: Organ – Johnny "Hammond" Smith; Congas – Richard Landrum; Drums – John Harris; Electric Bass [Fender] – Jimmy Lewis; Guitar – Wally Richardson; Tenor Saxophone – Earl Edwards, Houston Person

Legends Of Acid Jazz: Soul Flowers

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Mose Allison - The Word From Mose

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:55
Size: 68.5 MB
Styles: Bop, Jazz-blues
Year: 1964/1998
Art: Front

[2:23] 1. Fool Killer
[2:59] 2. One Of These Days
[2:11] 3. Look Here
[2:50] 4. Days Like This
[2:12] 5. Your Red Wagon
[1:53] 6. I'm The Wild Man
[2:58] 7. Rollin' Stone
[3:01] 8. New Parchman
[2:44] 9. Don't Forget To Smile
[2:30] 10. I'm Not Talking
[4:09] 11. Lost Mind

This iconoclastic performer has sometimes been described as a country blues player, perhaps leading to images of a blind man standing on a corner playing a guitar with a bottleneck slide. In reality, Mose Allison is from a much more cosmopolitan tradition, and the country blues adage comes from attempts to describe the sound he gets playing light, swinging jazz with a distinctly rural, Southern influence. This album, from one of many he recorded for Atlantic, actually contains examples of him taking material from the real country blues heritage and reworking it into his own style, to brilliant effect. His "New Parchman Farm" is a fantastic piece, as he changes what was once a stark, depressing prison blues into something else again. Perhaps this version would be more suited to white-collar criminals such as the Watergate mob, basking in upper-class prisons complete with tennis courts. At any rate, this is a performance that only the most hardened individual would be able to listen to without a smile cracking their face. Like most of Allison's releases, this one suffers from a handful of tracks that although not quite throwaway, surely lack the substance of the best songs here. ~Eugene Chadbourne

The Word From Mose

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Teodross Avery - The Diva's Choice

Styles: Saxophone Jazz

Year: 2009

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 61:51

Size: 142,0 MB

Art: Front

(7:06)  1. Tryin' To Find The Light

(6:24)  2. The Dreamer (Vivo Sonhando)

(5:00)  3. Type Of Girl (Feat. Leela James)

(7:40)  4. Love With Respect (Instrumental)

(5:20)  5. She Doesn't See

(0:09)  6. Interlude: In Portuguese

(4:13)  7. Journey To Paradise

(6:16)  8. Never Let You Go

(6:25)  9. Adult Music (Feat. Roy Ayers)

(5:33) 10. A New Beginning

(7:41) 11. Love With Respect (Feat. Shannone Holt)

Teodross Avery is a saxophonist to watch, as evidenced by many of today’s biggest names in music relying on his wide musical reach. While growing up in Oakland and Vacaville, California, his parents exposed him to a broad range of music including traditional African music, Soul, Rock, and Jazz. At ten, his father started him with classical guitar lessons. Jolted by the sound of John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps,’ he switched to the saxophone. As a testament to his young promise, the great Wynton Marsalis purchased a saxophone for him. He eventually won a full music scholarship at 17 to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. While at Berklee, renowned A&R exec, Carl Griffin of GRP/Impulse Records, heard of Avery’s new cutting edge sound and signed him at 19, stating, “I was so thoroughly impressed with his lyricism and writing talent”. In 1994, Avery launched his first album “In Other Words”, which was welcomed by critical acclaim, including a rave review in USA Today, which praised its “mature sense of composition, swing, and improvisation.” After tackling New York City, Avery landed a performing role in the successful film Love Jones in 1995. He then launched his second album, “My Generation”, under the GRP/Impulse label, in 1996. He has also performed and/or recorded with the likes of Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Leela James, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Shakira, Joss Stone, Roy Hargrove, Roy Ayers, Pat Monahan (lead singer of Train), Mos Def, Lauryn Hill, Matchbox Twenty, Talib Kweli, and Betty Carter. Avery holds a Masters degree in Music from the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, and is the recipient of multiple awards, including The Sony Innovator Award (1992), The NFAA’s Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship (1992), and The NAACP ACT-SO Award (1991). https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Teodrossavery

The Diva's Choice

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Jesse Van Ruller - Spirits High

Styles: Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:36
Size: 214,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:56) 1. Tideline
(4:40) 2. Bye, Bye, Big City, Bye
(3:34) 3. Drops
(3:54) 4. Sonder
(5:40) 5. Spirits High
(5:34) 6. First Steps, Born Again
(5:13) 7. Apollo
(5:06) 8. Robin
(2:33) 9. First Steps (reprise)
(4:24) 10. Fantail
(2:55) 11. Into Silence

Van Ruller was born in Amsterdam on 21 January 1972. He started playing the guitar at the age of seven. "He continued his studies at Miami University, Ohio (MM 1995), and in 1995 won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition in Washington, DC." Van Ruller recorded two quintet albums for Bluemusic: European Quintet in 1996 and Herbs, Fruits, Balms and Spices two years later. He went on to record three albums for Criss Cross Jazz. These were Here and There and Circles in 2002, and Views in 2005. The guitarist composed almost all of the pieces played on the last two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_van_Ruller

Personnel: Alto Saxophone – Maarten Hogenhuis; Electric Guitar – Jesse Van Ruller

Spirits High

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