Laura Fygi - Gold

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:36
Size: 166,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:14)  1. Take A Bow
(4:52)  2. Lately
(3:36)  3. How Insensitive (Insensatez)
(2:46)  4. Let There Be Love
(3:38)  5. Dream A Little Dream
(3:26)  6. Sabor A Mi
(4:01)  7. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
(4:07)  8. Good Morning Heartache
(3:53)  9. Still Crazy
(4:18) 10. Still
(3:59) 11. Triste
(3:38) 12. For Once In My Life
(4:03) 13. You Do Something To Me
(4:14) 14. Dindi
(4:05) 15. It's Crazy
(4:21) 16. Disse Alguém (All Of Me)
(5:00) 17. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
(4:23) 18. How You Gonna See Me Now

Everywhere that Laura Fygi visits, she is a veritable vision of exotica. In her home country of the Netherlands, they know her as the woman who was raised in Uruguay as the daughter of an Egyptian belly dancer; in the Far East she is the emancipated Western lady who many others aspire to be. But wherever she may be, there is one common factor in all of those locations: that instantly recognisable voice which has won her hearts all over the globe. Since her dance hits with the girl group Centerfold in the early 1980s, Laura has travelled down numerous musical pathways, such as jazz, Latin, and chansons, not shying away from any genre or style. That wilful quest for renewal has rendered collaborations with such music luminaries as the late Toots Thielemans, Michel Legrand and Michael Franks. Laura has also been presented with various gold and platinum discs and awards, as well as playing the lead role in Singapore of her favourite musical Victor/Victoria.

Laura has performed throughout Europe, South America and Asia. As a Dutch singer, she even managed to conquer the Chinese market, a unique achievement! In 2012 she signed a contract with one of China’s largest record companies and recorded the CD Flower specifically for the Asian market. It contains original Chinese compositions that Laura had arranged in her own style. Some songs were translated into English and French, but she also sang four songs in the original Chinese! What is the secret of her success? It is the combination of a number of things. First of all she has a husky voice with a beautiful diction and great timing, which has already been compared to that of Peggy Lee, and the intimacy of Julie London . She has an international appearance  which enables her to perform in Ronnie Scott ‘s Jazz club in London’s Soho with the same ease as on the biggest stages in most of the world cities.  She looks beautiful and is as Latin as Jazzy . But the most important thing Laura is a storyteller, someone who knows how to turn a song into a story that touches you directly from her heart to yours. While it still swings like crazy! In 2015 Laura celebrated her 25th anniversary as a solo artist but there is no way of stopping her! Previously being under contract with Universal Music Netherlands, her career has moved to the Asian part of the world so the next step was a logical one… She recently signed a worldwide record deal with Universal Music in Asia and this year a brand new CD will be released titled Jazz Love. Laura selected a number of popular pop songs and had arrangements written in her own unique style. Bossa, swing, soft jazz, songs from Sade, the Beatles, Alicia Keys and Don McLean gain a whole new dimension! The jazz diva still has many plans of which performing is her favorite activity. She will make sure people have a good time and that is what she does best, entertaining! https://www.laurafygi.com/biography/

Gold

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Amy McConnell & William Sperandei - Accomplice

Size: 130,2 MB
Time: 55:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Where Do I Begin (6:03)
02. L-O-V-E (5:04)
03. Dance Me To The End Of Love (3:41)
04. Wild Is Love (4:21)
05. Ne Me Quitte Pas (3:23)
06. On The Street Where You Live (4:25)
07. If I Fell (3:58)
08. Petite Fleur (3:26)
09. Charade (4:49)
10. Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (4:01)
11. Don’t Forget Me (2:18)
12. I Wish You Love (4:11)
13. Une Histoire D’amour (6:05)

Jazz singer Amy McConnell and trumpet player William Sperandei have followed up their JUNO nominated debut album Stealing Genius with an even more arresting offering, Accomplice.

Accomplice sees the pair taking on repertoire from composers of the 60s and 70s like Legrand, Brel, Loewe & Mancini. McConnell and Sperandei push the stylistic boundaries of jazz by taking these much loved, complex melodies and putting them in a fresh context influenced by the sound of vintage French pop and electronica. Their groovy takes on favourites like L-O-V-E, Where Do I Begin? and Wild Is Love embrace non-traditional jazz rhythms and instrumentation to dramatic and compelling effect.

Accomplice

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Billy Larkin & The Delegates - Pigmy

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1964
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:41
Size: 88,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:43)  1. The Peeper
(3:01)  2. Foxy Little Ghoul
(4:38)  3. There Is No Greater Love
(4:32)  4. Cristo Redentor
(3:15)  5. Hainty
(2:23)  6. Pigmy
(3:43)  7. Ice Water
(5:18)  8. Grooveyard
(3:12)  9. Old Country
(4:51) 10. Watch Your Motives

Organist Billy Larkin and The Delegates immediately came to the attention of the Los Angeles jazz audience when their first record was released, but they also picked up a larger audience when the teenagers discovered they could dance to it. Just as Ramsey Lewis, they had an appeal that far exceeded just the jazz listener. Basically a jazz trio with heavy emphasis on the blues, Billy Larkin and The Delegates was a versatile and dynamic group that reached into all corners of music to come up with a style and an approach that is both fresh and distinctive.

Personnel:  Billy Larkin (org), Hank Swarn (g), Mel Brown (d), Clifford Scott (sax, fl)

Pigmy

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Youn Sun Nah - Immersion

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:19
Size: 101,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:53)  1. In My Heart
(3:05)  2. The Wonder
(3:38)  3. Isn't It a Pity
(3:41)  4. Here Today
(2:47)  5. Mystic River
(3:00)  6. Sans toi
(3:22)  7. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(2:58)  8. God's Gonna Cut You Down
(3:57)  9. You Can't Hurry Love
(3:28) 10. Asturias
(1:45) 11. I'm Alright
(3:36) 12. Invincible
(6:02) 13. Hallelujah

K-Music, London’s annual celebration of Korea’s dance, theatre, music and contemporary warpings of traditional arts, opened this week and runs for a month with the launch gig fittingly delivered by a style-blending star, the astonishing Seoul-born singer Youn Sun Nah. The show was a startling fusion of her homeland’s traditions, remoulded Latin scat, chanson, petrifying abstract noise, and personal angles on western icons such as Tom Waits and Randy Newman. Its power spectacularly contrasted with this inimitable performer’s shy demeanour and the simple duo format of her regular partnership with Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius. Youn Sun Nah opened with the Nine Inch Nails classic Hurt, her pealing voice sometimes nuanced by delicate vibrato, sometimes taking on a silvery tingle like a metal-stringed instrument. Her own Lament (from 2013’s Lento) joined ballad sonorities and dramatic diva power over Wakenius’s punchy strumming, while on two Latin-improv scat duets, in unison with a flying guitar line, she resembled Flora Purim in hyperdrive. On My Favourite Things, she simmered slowly and unaccompanied, amiably slipping “fish and chips” into the traditional list. On A Sailor’s Life, she harmonised electronically with herself in flawlessly inflected English-folk mode, and caressed the reticent, silvery melody of a traditional song she called a Korean blues. She delivered Tom Waits’ Jockey Full of Bourbon through cupped hands in a staggering low rasp, and brought the crowd to its feet with her casually reverential Randy Newman encore, Same Girl. A discreet, diminutive vocal giant, Youn Sun Nah keeps insisting on an agenda that’s always her own. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/22/youn-sun-nah-review-korea-singer-union-chapel-london

Immersion

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Andrea Caparros Quartet - Piece Of Mind

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:53
Size: 121.1 MB
Styles: Latin jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[3:33] 1. Canção Da Sedução
[4:24] 2. Walking Alone
[5:45] 3. Holding The Tears In
[3:41] 4. Samba Para Paulinho
[7:19] 5. Peace Of Mind
[3:53] 6. Dream Of
[3:51] 7. Nosso Som
[8:31] 8. Les Pieds De Pia
[5:33] 9. Berimbau
[2:33] 10. Noa
[3:44] 11. Peace Of Mind (Radio Edit)

Born from a Brazilian mother and a musician father Andrea Caparros is rocked from a very young age by the rhythms of samba and bossa-nova. She studied jazz at the Conservatoire Régional de Toulon and the Institute of Professional Music Training (IMFP) of Salon de Provence. The pianist singer sharpens her sense of harmony and improvisation to write her own repertoire. While browsing the scenes she meets the musicians who accompany her today: Emile Melenchon, gold medalist in classical guitar and Jazz at Toulon Conservatory. We could hear him alongside rising artists of the new generation of French jazz like Laurent Coulondre, Gautier Garrigue, Bastien Ribot, Jérémy Bruyère. Arnaud Pacini, self-taught bassist and bassist with Jazz and African-American influences. Jessy Rakotomanga, drummer who turned early to improvised music and drummer, graduated at the Marseille Conservatory. (Translated from French.)

Piece Of Mind

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Harold Land - Westward Bound

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:13
Size: 168,2 MB
Art: Front

( 6:17) 1. Vendetta
( 9:20) 2. Beep Durple
( 8:38) 3. Happily Dancing Deep Harmnoies Falling
(10:38) 4. My Romance
(11:07) 5. Triplin' The Groove
(11:27) 6. Autumn Leaves
( 4:54) 7. Who Can I Turn To
( 7:07) 8. Beau-Ty
( 2:43) 9. Blue 'n' Boogie

Contains previously un-issued live recordings of unsung tenor saxophone hero Harold Land from The Penthouse in Seattle from 1962, 1964 and 1965 with stellar musicians including Hampton Hawes, Carmell Jones, Buddy Montgomery and Philly Joe Jones. Released in partnership with the Harold Land Estate, the remastered audio was captured from direct transfers of the original Penthouse's tape reels. Westward Bound! includes an extensive booklet with rare photos; essays by jazz historian Michael Cuscuna, co-producers Zev Feldman and Cory Weeds, and pianist Eric Reed; plus interviews with tenor saxophone giant Joe Lovano and the legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

About the Artist: Harold Land was a legendary hard bop/post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band. His first recording was as the leader of the Harold Land All-Stars, for Savoy Records in '49. In '54 he joined the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet, with whom he was at the forefront of the hard-bop/bebop movement. He moved to Los Angeles in '55 and co-led groups with Bobby Hutcherson, Blue Mitchell, and Red Mitchell. In the early '80s through to the early '90s he worked regularly with the Timeless All Stars; a group sponsored by the Timeless jazz record label.

The group consisted of Land on tenor, Cedar Walton on piano, Buster Williams on bass, Billy Higgins on drums, Curtis Fuller on trombone and Bobby Hutcherson on vibes. Over his career he was a sideman on albums from Roy Ayers, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Hubbard, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Donald Byrd, Dinah Washington and countless others. Land was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the UCLA Jazz Studies Program in 1996 to teach instrumental jazz combo. ''Harold Land was one of the major contributors in the history of the jazz saxophone,'' said jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell, founder and director of the UCLA Jazz Studies Program.~Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Westward-Bound-Harold-Land/dp/B08X5GPPV7

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone – Harold Land; Bass – Monk Montgomery; Drums – Joseph Rudolph Jones, Mel Lee; Piano – Buddy Montgomery, Hampton Hawes, John Houston; Trumpet – Carmell Jones

Westward Bound

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