Sunday, December 19, 2021

Buddy Rich, Harry 'Sweets' Edison - Buddy And Sweets

Styles: Swing, Bop
Year: 1955
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:54
Size: 90,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:35) 1. Yellow Rose Of Brooklyn
(8:20) 2. Easy Does It
(2:13) 3. All Sweets
(4:07) 4. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(9:43) 5. Barney's Bugle
(4:43) 6. Now's The Time
(5:10) 7. You're Getting To Be A Habbit With Me

The powerhouse drums of Buddy Rich together with the understated trumpet of Harry "Sweets" Edison? Seems like an odd pairing, but they really clicked on this 1955 quintet session-this is small-group swing at its liveliest and most captivating: Yellow Rose of Brooklyn; Easy Does It; Now's the Time; Nice Work if You Can Get It , and more!~Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Buddy-Sweets-Rich-Harry-Edison/dp/B0000ACAJJ

Personnel: Harry Sweets Edison – trumpet; Buddy Rich – drums; Jimmy Rowles – piano; Barney Kessel – guitar; John Simmons – bass

Buddy And Sweets

Jan Lundgren - Lonely One

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:25
Size: 132,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:02) 1. Will You Still Be Mine
(4:12) 2. The Lonely One
(5:11) 3. Jitterburg Waltz
(5:01) 4. When Sunny Gets Blue
(6:54) 5. Blues For Jesper
(5:47) 6. Trubbel
(4:54) 7. Caravan
(5:13) 8. A New Town Is A Blue Town
(4:35) 9. Falling In Love With Love
(4:50) 10. One For My Baby
(5:41) 11. Who I Can I Turn To

A fine bop-based pianist, Jan Lundgren has visited the United States several times since the mid-'90s and been gradually gaining a very strong reputation. Even while undergoing extensive classical piano training, Lundgren was playing jazz locally and by the time he was 20, he had begun working with Arne Domnérus and Putte Wickman. Lundgren has picked up valuable experience accompanying many visiting Americans (including Herb Geller, Johnny Griffin, and Mark Murphy). In 1994, he recorded his debut as a leader for the Four Leaf Clover label. Since then, Lundgren has recorded separate sets with Herb Geller and Bill Perkins for Fresh Sound and led further albums for Alfa and Four Leaf Clover. https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/jan-lundgren

Personnel: Jan Lundgren (piano); Jesper Lundgaard (bass); Alex Riel (drums)

Lonely One

Roger Kellaway - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 11

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:24
Size: 140,8 MB
Art: Front

(0:12) 1. Introductory Announcement
(9:04) 2. How Deep Is The Ocean
(6:03) 3. I'm Still In Love With You
(4:47) 4. Love Of My Life
(7:23) 5. Close Your Eyes
(9:44) 6. New Orleans
(9:12) 7. My One And Only Love
(7:58) 8. Creole Love Call
(6:58) 9. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Leave it to Roger Kellaway to come up with one of the most strikingly individual editions of the exhaustive Live at Maybeck series. Overall, the disc captures a more reflective side of Kellaway in a typical Maybeck program of mostly standards mixed with a pair of originals. Yet Kellaway's stride-grounded manner still veers off unpredictably and delightfully into the ozone, sometimes invoking Debussy-like whole-tone scales and skirting the lower orbits of bitonality and atonality before neatly extricating himself. His own shuffling stride tune, "I'm Still in Love With You," is a match for any of the standards, and he's not afraid to take it outside with flashes of bitonal color. He also gives "Creole Love Call" a similar treatment which fits the rhythm of the tune with a rumbling, murky intro deep in the bass. Though this is not one of his more endearingly off-the-wall recordings, it is one of the best listeners have that is still widely available.~Richard S. Ginellhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-maybeck-recital-hall-vol-11-mw0000675314

Personnel: Roger Kellaway – piano

Live at Maybeck Recital Hall,Vol. 11

Monica Mancini - The Dreams Of Johnny Mercer

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:20
Size: 101.5 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz, Standards
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[3:36] 1. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
[3:21] 2. Something Tells Me
[2:26] 3. Skylark
[3:24] 4. The Weekend Of A Private Secretary
[3:55] 5. With My Lover Beside Me
[5:32] 6. When October Goes
[4:39] 7. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
[4:27] 8. When The Meadow Was Bloomin'
[3:18] 9. It Had Better Be Tonight
[2:27] 10. Love Is Where You Find It
[2:55] 11. At Last
[4:14] 12. Just Remember

Vocalist Monica Mancini follows up her chart-topping self-titled debut with an outstanding collection of 12 songs written by one of America's greatest songwriters, Johnny Mercer. The Dreams of Johnny Mercer features the stunning vocalist performing seven songs with previously unpublished lyrics written by Mercer with great new music by Barry Manilow. Great American Songbook standards like an Italian version of "It Had Better Be Tonight," one of many Mercer and Henry Mancini collaborations, and the guest appearance of Alvin Chea, the bass singer of Take 6, on an excellent a cappella arrangement of "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" adds to the beauty of this insightful and intimate collection of songs. The lush orchestral arrangements by Patrick Williams, Randy Waldman, and David Torres on "Just Remember," "At Last," and "Love Is Where You Find It" unfold to provide a layer of musical precision that expand the lovely, warm, and supple vocals of Mancini. Her voice is irresistible and her mastery of these melodies is a sure sign that she feels what she is singing. The Dreams of Johnny Mercer are sung with tender passion in a voice that tells their innermost stories. ~Paula Edelstein

The Dreams Of Johnny Mercer