Friday, December 3, 2021

Antonella Vitale Quartet & Friends - Raindrops

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:41
Size: 163,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:31) 1. What The World Needs Now Is Love
(6:12) 2. Walk On By
(5:12) 3. The Look Of Love
(6:01) 4. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
(6:04) 5. I Say A Little Prayer
(6:14) 6. Alfie
(3:30) 7. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
(5:26) 8. (They Long To Be) Close To You
(5:36) 9. Do You Know The Way To San Jose
(7:03) 10. This Guy In Love With You
(4:56) 11. Tra La Sabbia E Il Mare Aperto
(3:31) 12. La Mia Ombra
(5:20) 13. Gabi

She sang in various trio and quartet formations with Andrea Beneventano, Massimo D'Agostino, Andrea Avena, Pietro Ciancaglini, Lorenzo Tucci, Francesco Puglisi, Stefano Sabatini, Nicola Stilo, Claudio Colasazza, Gianni Savelli, Mauro Verrone, Mauro Battisti, Carlo Battisti. She now teaches singing at the New Mississippi Jazz School in Rome. Previously, she studied singing and piano at the Scuola Popolare di Musica Testaccio in Rome, where she followed Nicola Stilo's workshops and where she joined Danilo Terenzi's big band as the solo singer.

In 2003, her first solo album is released by Alphamusic; in support she has Andrea Beneventano, Francesco Puglisi, Lorenzo Tucci and Aldo Bassi. In 2001 and 2002, she realised a CD-Test for the magazine Audio Car Stereo, with songs written, composed and sang by herself. In 1999, she participated at the Ciampino Jazz Festival in duet with the guitarist Andrea Memeo under the name JAZZ TANDEM. Luigi Onori from the pages of the Il Manifesto: ...the duet Jazz in Tandem composed by Antonella Vitale and Andrea Memeo warmed up the spectators with the enthusiasm and warmth of their approach.

Vitale has an excellent voice and a charisma that flows from a ductile and personal voice in any language she sings in. Italian, English or Brazilian...". In 1998, she came first in the modern singing section of the contest Concorso Nazionale Musicisti Citta` di Latina and won an award in the Ciampino Jazz Festival contest (guitar and voice duet). In June, 1997 she took part to the prize contest Citta` di Colleferro, where she came third in the jazz section. In 1996, she took part in the realisation of a soundtrack CD for Primrose Music, recording choirs and solo vocals. https://www.womex.com/virtual/alfamusic_label/antonella_vitale

Raindrops
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Roy Hargrove - Public Eye

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:32
Size: 155,5 MB
Art: Front

(6:52) 1. Public Eye
(6:21) 2. Spiritual Companion
(7:33) 3. September In The Rain
(4:47) 4. Lada
(5:38) 5. Once In A While
(5:08) 6. Hartbreaker
(8:01) 7. End Of A Love Affair
(6:14) 8. Night Watch
(6:24) 9. You Don't Know What Love Is
(5:16) 10. Little Bennie (Crazeology)
(5:15) 11. What's New

Roy Hargrove's second recording as a leader features the 21-year-old trumpeter in late 1990 essentially playing bebop. Joined by altoist Antonio Hart, pianist Stephen Scott, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Billy Higgins, Hargrove shows why he was so highly rated from the start of his career. On such numbers as "September in the Rain," "End of a Love Affair," "Crazeology," and four of his straight-ahead originals, Hargrove plays in a style not that different from Lee Morgan but with his own soulful sound, revitalizing the jazz tradition with his enthusiastic ideas. A fun set.~Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/public-eye-mw0000674417

Personnel: Trumpet – Roy Hargrove; Alto Saxophone – Antonio Hart; Double Bass – Christian McBride; Drums – Billy Higgins; Piano – Stephen Scott

Public Eye
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Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller - In Harmony Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: In Harmony Disc 1

Styles: Trumpet And Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:56
Size: 119,3 MB
Art: Front + Back

(9:09) 1. What Is this Thing Called Love
(8:24) 2. This Is Always
(8:36) 3. I Remember Clifford
(8:36) 4. Triste
(8:04) 5. Invitation
(9:44) 6. Con Alma
Album: In Harmony Disc 2

Time: 50:51
Size: 116,9 MB

(8:29) 1. Never Let Me Go
(9:12) 2. Just In Time
(6:58) 3. Fungii Mama
(5:57) 4. Monk's Dream
(7:27) 5. Ruby My Dear
(7:36) 6. Blues For Mr. Hill
(5:10) 7. O.W. (Encore)

In ballet, a "pas de deux" is a dance or figure for two performers. In jazz, the concept of two musicians playing together called a duo, has been a fairly familiar concept and undertake by the likes of Stan Getz and Kenny Barron, Chick Corea and Gary Burton as well as pianist Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. Trumpeter Roy Hargrove and pianist Mulgrew Miller have now added their names to this construct with the issuance of In Harmony which captured these now deceased giants in a previously unreleased live recordings from 2006 and 2007. Co-produced by Zev Feldman and Larry Clothier with executive producer George Klabin, Resonance Records is offering a deluxe limited edition (7000 units) 180 gram hand-numbered 2-LP set, made available in co-operation with the Hargrove and Miller estates.

In this lip smacking thirteen composition recital, Hargrove and Miller take full advantage of those familiar melodies from the American Standards Songbook or jazz touchstones, both of which provide those in attendance with the comfort of acquaintanceship. From the very first notes of the opening track, Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love," it is apparent that Hargrove and Miller were musicians who appreciated and supported each other through their creative efforts. On the following track "This Is Always," Hargrove picks up the flugelhorn to deliver a melodically mellow sound that is seamlessly supported by Miller's sympathetic piano gradations and subtleties. Although Hargrove arrived on the jazz scene several generations removed from Clifford Brown, he did view him as his idol and so it was not surprising that Benny Golson's "I Remember Clifford" was included in this release. With the clarity and brightness of his tone, Hargrove offers a very sensitive ballad reading of the number, while Miller's technical skills are fully and aptly blended in offering support.

This duo effort by Hargrove and Miller was for the most part a step out of character for both musicians, as Hargrove had never recorded an album without a drummer, although Miller had done a duo effort with the Danish bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen. But duos can work, much like children playing in a schoolyard, with a give and take that does not attempt to crowd out each other. Two instances of this are Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Triste" and the standard "Invitation." On the former, Miller opens the number by laying down a bossa nova beat, which Hargrove uses to develop some sharp punchy phrasing, that leads to some musical banter between the players at a high level of inventiveness. The latter tune sparkles along in a cheerful way with Miller developing long melodic lines indicating that each note matters as part of the flow. Hargrove demonstrates his silky flair overlaying Miller's note striking.

When the needle drops on any track in this session, listeners are treated to pristine sound restoration and the understanding that the principals did not "mail in" their performances. For example, on the Blue Mitchell number "Fungii Mama" Miller establishes the underlying calypso beat over which Hargrove prances and dances through the melody as the audience provides enthusiastic encouragement. Finally, since Hargrove came from Texas and Miller from Mississippi, the blues and soul tradition moored their upbringing, Hargrove's own composition "Blues For Mr. Hill" is a solid reminder of these roots. Built on a twelve bar blues theme established by Miller, he puts a floor under Hargrove as he develops his ideas based on the structure of the piece.

When Miller loads up for his intervention, he knows the path he wants to take with scale fragments, as well as ascending and descending chords, to arrive at his destination. Complementing this stellar release is an excellent booklet containing rare photos, an essay by Ted Panken, along with interviews and statements from Sonny Rollins, Christian McBride, Ron Carter among others~Pierre Giroux https://www.allaboutjazz.com/in-harmony-roy-hargrove-mulgrew-miller-resonance-records

Personnel: Roy Hargrove: trumpet; Mulgrew Miller: piano.

In Harmony Disc 1, Disc 2
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