Wardell Gray & Dexter Gordon - The Chase and the Steeplechase

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:57
Size: 114,6 MB
Art: Front

(11:35)  1. The Chase
(13:52)  2. The Steeplechase
( 6:58)  3. Milt to the Hilt
( 7:56)  4. Homecoming
( 3:27)  5. Swootie Patootie
( 3:15)  6. Sweet Lorraine
( 2:51)  7. Goodbye

A classic bit of aggressive bop from the team of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon famous in the LA scene for their fierce playing in competitive cutting contests! The album features the classic long reading of "The Chase", cut by Gordon and Gray at a GNP concert in 1952 backed by the similar "Steeple Chase", which grooves out in a similar format with very long tenor solos. The rest of the group features Conte Candoli on trumpet, Chico Hamilton on drums, Bob Tucker on piano, and Don Bagley on bass. The second part of the CD features classic early work from Tony Scott a set of clarinet tracks performed with a quartet featuring Dick Katz on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, and Sid Bulkin on drums. The style's a great mix of bop and swing in that mode that Tony always brought to his best work of the time, and which pushed an understanding of the clarinet in jazz long past the swing years. Titles include the original "Homecoming", "Sweet Loraine", "Goodbye", and "Swootie Patootie".  

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Personnel:  Wardell Gray tenor saxophone;  Dexter Gordon tenor saxophone;  Bobby Tucker piano; Don Bagley bass; Chico Hamilton drums

The Chase and the Steeplechase

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Boogaloo Joe Jones - Legends Of Acid Jazz Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol 2

Styles: Soul-Jazz, Funk
Year: 1970
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:34
Size: 172,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:20) 1. No Way
(4:52) 2. If You Were Mine
(6:02) 3. Georgia On My Mind
(7:12) 4. Sunshine Alley
(4:05) 5. I'll Be There
(6:49) 6. Holdin' Back
(5:37) 7. Ain't No Sunshine
(6:15) 8. I Feel The Earth Move
(7:02) 9. Fadin'
(7:06) 10. What It Is
(5:51) 11. Let Them Talk
(6:16) 12. Inside Job

A CD reissue that combines Jones' fifth and sixth Prestige LPs, Noway! (1970) and What It Is (1971), onto one disc. Grover Washington, Jr. (tenor sax) and Bernard Purdie (drums) are the key accompanists on both sessions. Noway! is a set of pretty funky early-1970s soul-jazz, though the covers of fairly straight pop numbers ("Georgia on My Mind," the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There") are kind of undistinguished. Better are the originals "No Way" and "Holdin' Back" (by Jones) and "Sunshine Alley" (by organist Butch Cornell), which have a more convincing groove. "No Way" is the toughest, with funk guitar lines betraying some influence from James Brown; "Holdin' Back" sounds a bit like a jazzy instrumental treatment of the kind of songs Marvin Gaye used to record in his early Motown days. Using the same personnel, Jones offers more good-natured funk-soul-jazz on What It Is. After getting a couple of contemporary pop covers (of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" and Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move") out of the way, it's mostly Jones originals. On his slower moments, as in "Fadin'" and Sonny Thompson's "Let Them Talk," he shows the influence of straight jazz players such as Wes Montgomery; "What It Is" and "Inside Job" are more cut-to-the-chase funk riffs. Jones has his cult following, but as soul-jazz goes, this is kind of run-of-the-mill: good for background, but not captivating foreground listening.~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/legends-of-acid-jazz-vol-2-mw0000047953

Legends Of Acid Jazz: Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol 2

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Joey DeFrancesco - More Music

Styles: Jazz, Hard Bop
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:26
Size: 152,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:39) 1. Free
(5:41) 2. Lady G
(6:41) 3. Just Beyond the Horizon
(7:29) 4. In Times of Reflection
(5:44) 5. Angel Calling
(7:24) 6. Where to Go
(4:38) 7. Roll With It
(4:14) 8. And If You Please
(6:05) 9. More Music
(7:10) 10. This Time Around
(6:37) 11. Soul Dancing

The mega-faceted jazz musician Joey DeFrancesco celebrated his 50th birthday in April, and has quite a résumé to show for it. More Music is his 39th studio album as a leader. Characteristically, he has delivered an effusive mainstream hard-bop/soul-jazz effort.

DeFrancesco plays organ, piano, keyboards, trumpet and tenor saxophone often more than one on the same track. That’s not doubling, that’s quintupling. And that doesn’t count his laid-back, everyman vocals on the standard-in-waiting, “And If You Please.” For good measure, DeFrancesco wrote and arranged all the material. Two highly simpatico players are all the support he needs. Lucas Brown plays organ, keyboards, acoustic and electric guitar. His comparatively restrained organ work countervails the leader’s unbridled effervescence. Drummer Michael Ode drives the entire affair with muscular swing. His 25-second solo intro to “Just Beyond the Horizon” is straight-up wild. No bassist necessary, by the way.

DeFrancesco plays his trumpet with spark (“Free”) and his tenor sax with warmth (on the ballad “Lady G” and the near-ballad “Angel Calling”), but no surprise it’s on Hammond B-3 that he shines brightest. He showcases that instrument on “Just Beyond the Horizon,” “Roll With It,” “Soul Dancing” and the title track, his fingers dancing across the keys with boundless swagger. https://www.jazziz.com/joey-defrancesco-more-music-mack-avenue/

More Music

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Silje Nergaard - Houses

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:38
Size: 125,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:59) 1. His house
(3:19) 2. Window bird
(4:51) 3. A crying shame
(1:56) 4. Rain roofs
(5:46) 5. The ballet boy
(3:19) 6. I knew that I loved you
(3:27) 7. Night street
(4:33) 8. Candle in the window
(6:14) 9. Velvet curtains
(1:18) 10. Balcony ladies
(2:35) 11. My neighbour's cat
(3:57) 12. My crowded house
(3:42) 13. A long winter
(5:34) 14. One year

Multi-award-winning Norwegian jazz singer Silje Nergaard is a well-established artist with the world as her playground. She has released 16 albums since her debut in 1990. Her musical career got off to a flying start when she, at only 16, got up on stage in an impromptu jam session with Jaco Pastorius Band at Molde International Jazz Festival. The legendary jazz music critic Randi Hultin was in the audience and the result was next-day newspaper reviews announcing Norway’s new big jazz discovery. Silje’s debut single Tell me Where You’re Going recorded with guitar legend Pat Metheny was released in 1990 and instantly became an international success. It went straight to the top of the Japanese charts (where they even named a wine after her!)

Her album At First Light (2001) is to this day the best-selling jazz album of all times in Norway, selling more than 140.000 copies and spending 17 weeks on the charts. The single Be Still My Heart became Silje’s signature hit and from then on, she has been a household name in the international jazz scene. In 2008, she recorded the album A Thousand True Stories with the Metropole Orchest in Holland, under the baton of Grammy Award-winning composer Vince Mendoza. The title track received a Grammy Nomination in the US.

Silje is a pioneering artist in the international jazz scene and has developed her own unique sound and style both as a singer and a composer. She has toured worldwide with her music, performing and collaborating with the likes of Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Kurt Elling, Toots Thielmans and Morten Harket. Manhattan Transfer is one of many acts that have covered Silje’s music. Alongside composing, Silje frequently tours both domestic and internationally, and Germany is to date her biggest market.

In 2020, Silje Nergaard will be celebrating her 30-year anniversary as an artist by releasing two new albums, which will be followed up by international touring. https://www.siljenergaard.com/bio

Houses

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