Sunday, January 23, 2022

Matt Dusk - JetSetJazz

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:33
Size: 72,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:20) 1. Let’s Hop On A Plane!
(2:42) 2. Lo Siento
(2:24) 3. Kicks In The 6ix
(4:01) 4. Nothing On You
(2:50) 5. Lovers Lane
(3:27) 6. Four Seasons
(2:28) 7. My Paris Is You
(2:55) 8. Rich In Love
(2:47) 9. I’ll Find You
(3:35) 10. All Because Of You

Multi-award-winning, Platinum-selling artist Matt Dusk has been enthralling audiences around the world for years, leaving in his wake a series of radio hits, acclaimed albums, and a loyal fan base that continues to grow with every passing year. He has had three number one radio hits: All About Me, Back in Town and Good News, is an alumnus of the St. Michael’s Choir School and studied under jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson at York University. Dusk has been awarded three GOLD albums: Two Shots, Good News and JetSetJazz and three PLATINUM albums: My Funny Valentine, Just The Two of Us and Old School Yule! Notable award nominations include, five JUNO awards, one ADISQ, one Róze Gali: Muzyka and a Dimond from Trójka PR3 in Poland. https://www.mattdusk.com/#Discography

Crooners like Toronto’s Matt Dusk has taken what he has learned from the greats and molded it for a modern audience.~ LA Times

Blending distinctly Sinatra-esque swagger, Dusk is waist deep in grandiose arrangements that are dripping with Sin City excess and turns the clock back some four decades with excellence Jazz Times
Matt Dusk impressively brings Las Vegas back to the glory days as the standards singer sounds remarkably like Rat Packer Frank Sinatra.~ Billboard

JetSetJazz

Joe Venuti - S' Wonderful - 4 Giants Of Swing

Styles: Crossover Jazz
Year: 1976
File: MP3@VBR ~256K/s
Time: 38:34
Size: 87,2 MB
Art: Front

(12:04)  1. Medley-'A' Train, Satin Doll, Soph Lady, 'C' Jam Blues
( 3:24)  2. There Will Never Be Another You
( 3:43)  3. Lime House Blues
( 2:44)  4. S' Wonderful
( 5:15)  5. Summertime
( 3:20)  6. Lady Be Good
( 4:05)  7. Rhapsody In Blue/I Got Rhythm
( 3:55)  8. Caravan

For this session, the veteran jazz violinist Joe Venuti is teamed with a top-notch group of country players including mandolinist Jethro Burns, Curley Chalker on steel guitar and guitarist Eldon Shamblin. The repertoire is strictly jazz and these diverse players (who are backed by a conventional rhythm section) find plenty of common ground on the veteran standards, most of them from the pens of Ellington or Gershwin. Venuti sounds inspired by the unusual setting. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/s-wonderful-4-giants-of-swing-mw0000675636

Personnel: Joe Venuti (violin); Eldon Shamblin (guitar); Curly Chalker (steel guitar); Jethro Burns (mandolin); Robert Hoban (piano); Angelo Varias (drums).

S' Wonderful - 4 Giants Of Swing

Dan Nimmer - All the Things You Are

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:02
Size: 125,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:50)  1. Alone Together
(4:12)  2. It's a Sin To Tell a Lie
(4:27)  3. Moon River
(3:41)  4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(5:11)  5. Misty
(5:59)  6. Night And Day
(5:17)  7. So In Love
(5:09)  8. Lullaby of Birdland
(5:56)  9. Fly Me To the Moon
(4:59) 10. The Shadow of Your Smile
(4:17) 11. All the Things You Are

Dan Nimmer was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An old soul in a young body, Mr. Nimmer plays with the spirit, the passion and the soul of someone who has been on the planet much longer. With prodigious technique and innate sense of swing, his playing often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner and Art Tatum. As a young man, Mr. Nimmer's family inherited a piano and he started playing by ear; he was, if you will, “called” by the instrument. Soon, he asked his parents for some piano lessons. He then began to study classical music with pianist Barbara Bunge. It wasn't long before he was studying with jazz pianist Mark Davis at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. At the same time, he began playing gigs in Milwaukee with renowned saxophonist Berkley Fudge. Upon graduation from high school, Mr. Nimmer left Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois University. It didn't take him long to become one of Chicago's busiest piano players. He was making his mark on the scene playing with all of the Chicago heavyweights. It was because of this that Mr. Nimmer decided to leave school following his second year and make the big move to New York City where he immediately emerged into the New York scene. After being in New York for about a year, playing with many different musicians, Mr. Nimmer got a recommendation to play in Wynton Marsalis' band. In 2005, Wynton heard him and hired him to become a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, both in which he has been member ever since.. In addition to Wynton Marsalis, Mr. Nimmer has performed and or recorded with Jimmy Cobb, Norah Jones, Dianne Reeves, George Benson, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Cassandra Wilson, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington, Ed Thigpen, Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Fareed Haque and many more. Nimmer has appeared numerous times on television including the The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno, The Late Show w/ David Letterman, The View, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Kennedy Center Honors, Live From Abbey Road, Live From Lincoln Center-PBS. You can also catch him in Apple's video I-pod commercial “Sparks”. He has released four of his own albums on the Venus label. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/dannimmer

Personnel:  Dan Nimmer (piano);  David Wong (bass);  Pete Van Nostrand (drums)

All the Things You Are

Boris Kozlov - First Things First

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:30
Size: 153,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:18) 1. Page One
(4:01) 2. Flow
(5:35) 3. The More Things Change
(6:51) 4. I.S. Adventure
(7:53) 5. Aftermath
(5:49) 6. Second Line Sally
(5:45) 7. Viscous
(7:13) 8. Mind Palace
(6:49) 9. Warm Sand
(7:39) 10. Once A Fog In Babylon
(2:32) 11. Eclipse

Two-time Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer and arranger, Boris Kozlov has been on New York and international jazz scene for the past 20 years. Currently serving as a Bassist, Arranger and Musical Director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean-Michel Pilc and many others.

Boris Kozlov was born in Moscow ,USSR on December 5, 1967 . Having a chance to go to Children's Music School to study piano for 7 years, he fell in love with the bass and won Gnesin Music Academy competition to enter college at the age of 15 on electric bass guitar. While being influenced by rock and classical music, he took interest in jazz at 17 and went on to study acoustic bass with a notable bassist Anatoly Sobolev. Upon graduation in 1987 with Diploma of Honor at the age of 19, he served mandatory 2 years in the Soviet Army, where he had to play tuba and other brass instruments besides basses in the military band.

Once out of the Army, he was hired by the State owned 'Melodia' Studio Ensemble in 1989 and proceeded to record more than 40 albums with them as well as many other Soviet jazz artists. At the same time he continued his studies at The State Academy of Music. At the First USSR Competition of Jazz Soloists in 1990 he won The Grand Prix as well as a special prize for his original composition. After winning the first spot in Young Musician category in USSR Jazz Journal in 1991 he moved to New York.

The self-study continued in a specific NY jazz environment ,where he was eventually hired by Hassan Williams and Terry Gibbs/Buddy De Franco Band and later by saxophonists Bobby Watson, Bob Berg , Benny Golson, James Moody, Ronnie Cuber, John Stubblefield, Ravi Coltrane, Seamus Blake, Donny McCaslin; trumpeters Dizzy Reese, Phillip Harper, Brian Lynch ( Grammy 2007), Alex Sipiagin,Ray Vega pianists Eddie Palmieri, Walter Bishop Jr., Michel Petrucciani, Arturo O'Farrill, Michel Legrand, Stanley Cowell, Jon Ballantyne, George Colligan, Orrin Evans, Edward Simon, Helen Sung, Joey Calderazzo; vibraphonists Joe Locke, Bill Ware; guitarists Mark Whitfield, David Gilmore, Adam Rogers, Jack Wilkins, Ximo Tebar drummers Tommy Campbell, Victor Jones, Marlon Simon, Victor Lewis, Jonathan Blake, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Ali Jackson, Antonio Sanches; vocalists Jay Mc Govern, Urszula Dudziak, Monday Michiru; trombonists Conrad Herwig, Robin Eubanks, Andy Hunter; trombonist/vocalist Frank Lacy’s Experience and the funk-jazz band NewHypeJazz .

After sharing a stage with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Smith, Henry Butler, Toots Thielemans & Clark Terry on multiple occasions and playing on 9 Grammy nominated albums plus the Grammy winning 'Simpatico' -in addition to the other 160 albums, having few of his Scores published, Boris continues to serve as an MD for all of the Mingus Dynasty projects( winning his 2nd Grammy with them in 2010) ,touring and recording extensively with multitude of different other bands ,as well as doing international work with his own “Malfunction Alibi”. He also performs solo bass and teaches master classes around the world following the release of his acoustic solo album “ Double Standard”. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/boris-kozlov

First Things First