Francesca Leone Quartet - Racing Against Time

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:45
Size: 117,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:18) 1. Eu Preciso Aprender a Ser Só
(3:23) 2. Fascinating Rhythm
(4:53) 3. Composed on Piano for Mal Waldron
(4:52) 4. Wide Awake
(4:48) 5. Emily
(5:37) 6. Funk in Deep Freeze
(5:00) 7. 16 Tuxedos over a Blue Curtain / From Mingus to Duke
(7:41) 8. So in Love
(6:31) 9. Que reste-t-il de nos amours
(4:35) 10. Racing Against Time

Francesca Leone (born in Bari in 1974) is an Italian jazz singer. In 1993 she began studying singing at Il Pentagramma (The Pentagram), a music school in Bari, with Mariella Carbonara. She deepened her study of jazz singing and improvisation with Paola Arnesano, and also became a member of a female vocal quartet called The Four Sisters. Over the years, she has furthered her training by participating in events such as the Umbria Jazz Festival, seminars with Tiziana Ghiglioni, Sheila Jordan, at the seminar on vocal harmony with Charles Lomanto and Voicecraft techniques with Roberto Demo. She has also participated in workshops with Dado Moroni, Roberto Gatto, Gilson Silveira, Bobby Durham, and Irio De Paola, and won a scholarship in 2007 at the Spoleto Vocal Jazz Workshop that is held each summer in Spoleto, Umbria, under the tutelage of Michele Hendricks.

Leone teaches vocal jazz at Il Pentagramma. Her singing style is inspired by singers of the 50s, and the Francesca Leone Quartet release, A Tribute To Chet Baker, is a tribute to the great singer and trumpet player who performs with his quartet. Leone also collaborates with Pippo Lombardo in his project, Marchio Bossa, and has appeared on several of the group's albums, including Italian Lounge Music, No Bossa No Party, Best Of Lounge - Fantasy, and Colorando under the Azzurra Music label. All the Way: The Jimmy Van Heusen Songbook (2006) is Leone's first CD as leader with Guido Di Leone, Teo Ciavarella, and Aldo Vigorito for the jazz records label, fo(u)r.

Sensitive to the Brazilian sounds and rhythms inspired by João Gilberto, she formed the Francesca Leone Quartet together with Guido Di Leone, Giuseppe De Lilla and Fabio Delle Foglie, and the foursome recorded Bossa na minha casa ("Bossa in my house") in 2008. In 2004, Leone had also formed the vocal quintet Mezzotono, and together they won the prize for best a cappella group at the 2008 Solevoci Festival in Varese, and in June 2008 released their album, Mezzotono. https://www.last.fm/music/Francesca+Leone/+wiki

Racing Against Time

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Ches Smith and We All Break - Path of Seven Colors

Styles: Latin Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:41
Size: 160,5 MB
Art: Front

( 2:41) 1. Woule Pou Mwen
( 9:05) 2. Here's the Light
( 9:39) 3. Leaves Arrive
( 6:07) 4. Women of Iron
(13:35) 5. Lord of Healing
( 7:05) 6. Raw Urbane
( 8:57) 7. Path of Seven Colors
(11:29) 8. The Vulgar Cycle

Drummer/percussionist Ches Smith, an acclaimed bandleader and seasoned Tim Berne sideman, is also a devoted student of Haitian music and traditional drumming. Path of Seven Colors is the culmination of a long and immersive process, essentially a dream come true for this son of Sacramento based in New York. Collaborating with Haitian singer/lyricist and percussionist Daniel Brevil, Smith formed We All Break, which started as a unique four-piece with Brevil on vocals and tanbou drum, Markus Schwartz on tanbou as well, Smith on drum set, and Matt Mitchell (Smith’s Tim Berne bandmate) on piano. In 2017, that group quietly made an eponymous album, now being offered as a bonus disc to accompany the new, more expansive Path of Seven Colors.

Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, whose own work has explored connections between cutting-edge jazz and traditional Puerto Rican idioms, broadens the palette of Path of Seven Colors with his beautifully centered tone and flawless melodic execution at all speeds. Nick Dunston adds bottom on upright bass while driving the rhythm and filling an ensemble role with subtle notated parts, bowed passages, and other curveballs. Schwartz, the Danish-born, Brooklyn-based master of traditional Haitian drums, returns on tanbou and also joins the choral circle for spellbinding vocal chants in Haitian Creole with Brevil, Sirene Dantor Rene, and Fanfan Jean-Guy Rene (who plays tanbou as well). Smith joins the Creole chanting circle himself, as can be seen in Mimi Chakarova’s beautiful 50-minute documentary on the making of the album.

Mitchell’s piano provides harmonic density and dreamlike dissonance, locking in rhythmically at every juncture. He and Zenón improvise like fiends, the tanbou drums groove and ring out, the massed voices rise to sing Brevil’s gorgeous original melodies and traditional Haitian ones as well. Demanding and highly virtuosic in character, the music has a strong African imprint and an inescapably emotional pull — not least because this album release coincides with a new period of political dislocation in Haiti. Smith’s approach is ambitious yet humble and highly personal, a gesture of support to the Haitian people and a love letter to the musical culture they’ve made. https://music.apple.com/us/album/path-of-seven-colors/1554582490

Personnel: Ches Smith: drums, percussion, vocals; Miguel Zenón: alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell: piano; Nick Dunston: bass; Sirene Dantor Rene: vocals; Daniel Brevil, Markus Schwartz and Fanfan Jean-Guy Rene: tanbou, vocals.

Path of Seven Colors

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Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey - Swingin' In Hollywood

Styles: Jazz, Swing, Big Band
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:14
Size: 176,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:13)  1. We'll Get It
(2:53)  2. Song Of India
(5:52)  3. So Long, Sarah Jane
(3:28)  4. If I Had You
(3:19)  5. Thunder And Blazes
(3:52)  6. Katie Went To Hati
(3:17)  7. Hawaiian War Chant
(2:38)  8. You Dear
(3:52)  9. One O'Clock Jump
(2:50) 10. Noche De Ronda
(3:06) 11. Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet
(2:58) 12. I Know Its Wrong
(2:29) 13. Battle Of The Balcony Jive
(3:23) 14. I Should Care
(3:01) 15. National Emblem March
(3:16) 16. John Silver
(3:16) 17. The Guy With The Slide Trombone
(3:25) 18. Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!
(5:06) 19. Star Eyes
(5:26) 20. Fascinating Rhythm
(3:23) 21. Opus One

Although credited to the Dorsey Brothers, this is not a collection of collaborations or duets, just an anthology of tracks that one or the other of the brothers filmed and recorded for MGM soundtracks in 1942-1945. It's actually much more weighted toward Tommy (who has 13 of the 21 sides) than Jimmy; it's mostly instrumental, but vocalists like Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell, and Nancy Walker are featured on some of the selections. The sound is good, and as a dozen of the items were previously unreleased (with 13 appearing for the first time in stereo), Dorsey collectors will consider this indispensable. For the more general fan, it's not the first place to get acquainted with their work, but it's quite respectable early-'40s swing. In general, it's more effective the harder and faster it swings  as on Jimmy's extended version of "One O'Clock Jump," and Tommy's "Battle of the Balcony Jive" and "Opus One"  and the less it resembles movie musicals.~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/swingin-in-hollywood-mw0000599571

Swingin'In Hollywood

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Lina Nyberg & Jacob Karlzon - Temper

Styles: Vocal

Year: 1997

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 46:35

Size: 106,8 MB

Art: Front

(3:53)  1. One More Hymn

(4:30)  2. It Might As Well Be Spring

(4:49)  3. Sometime Ago

(5:06)  4. Invitation

(5:18)  5. Embraceable You

(4:28)  6. What If

(3:53)  7. On What A Beautiful Morning

(5:36)  8. CC Rider

(5:17)  9. Now At Last

(3:40) 10. Still Alive

Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home. She discovered jazz at age 14 and at 18 years of age Lina began singing with Swedish senior jazz stars such as Bernt Rosengren, Nisse Sandström, Fredrik Norén Band, and others. In 1990 Lina built her own first constellation “Lina Nyberg Kvintett” consisting of Per “Texas” Johansson, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Mikel Ulfberg. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Master of Fine Arts in 1993 she released her first CD- Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic. This was also the beginning of a very fruitful cooperation with the brilliant producer and owner of Prophone records, late Erland Boëthius. Lina and her quintet received the prestigious Swedish Grammis award for her CD “when the smile shines through” in 1995. “OPEN” released in 1998 and recorded with bassist Palle Danielsson and pianist Anders Persson, among others, was nominated for a Swedish Grammis and received raving reviews. More ..http://www.linanyberg.se/?page_id=45

Temper

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