Sonny Stitt, Don Patterson - Legends Of Acid Jazz vol 2

Styles: Saxophone Jazz, Hard Bop
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:36
Size: 166,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:54) 1. Ratio And Proportion
(4:33) 2. Airegin
(6:15) 3. Little Angie
(4:43) 4. My Man String
(5:24) 5. Funk In 3/4
(6:05) 6. It's You Or No One
(6:02) 7. All The Things You Are
(3:29) 8. Lover Man
(5:39) 9. P.S. I Love You
(5:25) 10. Stella By Starlight
(5:34) 11. Bye Bye Blackbird
(4:01) 12. Over The Rainbow
(5:53) 13. Candy
(3:33) 14. Strike Up The Band

Two-fer CD reissue combines two 1968 sessions, both featuring Stitt and Patterson, that were recorded on consecutive days (September 23-24, 1968), although one was issued under Patterson's name and the other under Stitt's. The first six songs were issued as the Patterson LP Funk You!, on which Patterson leads a date that also has Sonny Stitt and Charles McPherson on saxes and Pat Martino on guitar. The other players get about as much space as Patterson, and as 1960s jazz with organ goes, this is pretty straight-ahead and boppish, rather than soul-jazz (as so much organ jazz from that decade was). For the bop factor, listen especially to the cover of Sonny Rollins' "Airegin," on which Martino in particular shines. Patterson does get in a more soulful mood on his composition "Little Angie," which has an elegiac mood somewhat similar to occasional slow instrumentals cut by Booker T. & the MG's during that period. The other eight songs were issued as the Stitt LP Soul Electricity!, an album that got its name because, for this session, Stitt plugged his alto and tenor saxophones into a Varitone attachment. What came out, though, was not fusion by any means, but a pretty straight-ahead session that found Stitt his usual competent self. The program is actually on the conservative side, leaning toward standards. Stitt's quartet is rounded out by Don Patterson on organ, Billy Butler on guitar, and Billy James on drums. This isn't the most logical package Stitt's half is more straight-ahead in flavor and, more importantly, neither album fits too well into the soul-jazz or acid jazz category but for fans of either artist, the material is worth hearing.~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/legends-of-acid-jazz-sonny-stitt-don-patterson-vol-2-mw0000602490

Personnel: Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Stitt; Organ – Don Patterson; Alto Saxophone – Charles McPherson; Drums – Billy James; Guitar – Billy Butler, Pat Martino.

Legends Of Acid Jazz vol 2

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Sophie Alour - Uncaged

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:04
Size: 113,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:26) 1. Uncaged
(4:11) 2. Comptine
(4:07) 3. Haunted Part 1
(3:57) 4. Haunted Part 2
(6:49) 5. Sparkling Water
(2:45) 6. Snow In May
(4:24) 7. Sadrak
(5:26) 8. Nos cendres
(1:56) 9. Guerrier
(4:26) 10. Addict
(4:32) 11. Goodbye

Sophie Alour was born in 1974, she learned the saxophone by herself after she studied the clarinet at Quimper Music School in France. She learned jazz "on stage". In 2004, Rhoda Scott approached her to form her lady quartet, and the same year she played in the Wynton Marsalis' Big Band. She recorded her first album in 2005 'Insulaire', in 2007 she recorded 'Uncaged' with pianist Laurent Coq, double bass player Yoni Zelnik and drummer Karl Jannuska. She won several awards for this album and got the "Young Talent Django D'Or 2007". She has performed all around the world, exploring her repertoire, looking for its limits. She came back with 'Opus 3' in 2010 , closer to the jazz tradition. For her last album 'Géographie des rêves', Sophie Alour has decided to play with Yoann Loustalot (tp and flugelhorn), Nicolas Moreau (double bass), Stéphan Caracci (vibraphone) and Frederic Pasqua (drums). https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/sophie-alour

Uncaged

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Steve Kuhn - At This Time

Styles: Piano Jazz 

Year: 2016

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 58:50

Size: 137,3 MB

Art: Front

(6:32)  1. My Shining Hour

(9:19)  2. Ah Moore

(6:10)  3. The Pawnbroker

(7:33)  4. All the Rest is the Same

(5:48)  5. The Feeling Within

(5:51)  6. Carousel

(5:47)  7. Lonely Town

(5:44)  8. This is New

(6:02)  9. I Waited for You

The wonderful and deeply satisfying At This Time... brings together pianist Steve Kuhn leading a trio comprised of electric bassist Steve Swallow and the ubiquitous (and always smiling drummer) Joey Baron. The immediate impulse for the recording was an extended set by this trio at Birdland, in New York City in 2015. Swallow and Kuhn go back forty years to Kuhn's ECM debut, Trance, with Kuhn knowing Baron for more than twenty years. This trio also recorded Kuhn's latest ECM release, Wisteria in 2012. The set list comes from the tunes played at the gig, and, even though these players all know each other very well, this very feeling of familiarity is enhanced by the fact that they had just played together. Granted, pros can be called together on short notice to play live or record and perform admirably, but there is an ineffable something about the atmosphere created by this album that gives it its special sound. The nine tracks are mostly in the six-minute range, with Kuhn's "All The Rest Is The Same" taking seven and a half minutes, and "Ah Moore" by Al Cohn reaching over nine minutes, so there is quite enough room for stretching out. However, the record feels as if it flies by, primarily because of the multitude of details that fit together perfectly and which flow ever forward. There is not a moment of fluff or indecision; each tracks sounds like first take, spontaneous creation with nothing to improve upon by trying again. This feeling of spontaneous perfection is only enhanced by the quality of the recording itself -the piano is crystalline (as is Kuhn's touch), Swallow's amazingly smooth electric bass sound is centered and full, but soft on the edges, while Baron knows exactly what to do and when to do it. The tunes themselves range from the well known opener, "My Shining Hour" to lesser known standards such as Kurt Weil's "This Is New," "Lonely Town" by Leonard Bernstein and Quincy Jones' "The Pawnbroker" among others. The Kuhn originals are placed in the middle of the set, with the perfect choice of "The Feeling Within" being performed solo, adding just the right touch of intensity. At This Time... will command attention without demanding it, and the attentive listener will find much in which to revel many times over. ~ Budd Kopman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/at-this-time-steve-kuhn-sunnyside-records-review-by-budd-kopman.php

Personnel: Steve Kuhn: piano; Steve Swallow: electric bass; Joey Baron: drums.

At This Time

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