Friday, February 18, 2022

Jack Jezzro - Best Of Green Hill Music: The 50s Collection

Styles: Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:25
Size: 173,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:11) 1. Only You
(3:48) 2. My Special Angel
(4:07) 3. Theme From 'A Summer Place'
(3:31) 4. Put Your Head On My Shoulder
(3:58) 5. Love Letters In The Sand
(4:08) 6. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
(3:18) 7. The Great Pretender
(4:19) 8. All I Have To Do Is Dream
(4:25) 9. Dream Lover
(4:53) 10. I Only Have Eyes For You
(4:50) 11. Donna
(4:12) 12. Blueberry Hill
(4:19) 13. Twilight Time
(4:21) 14. In The Still Of The Night
(4:06) 15. Secretly
(4:15) 16. Young Love
(3:43) 17. Since I Met You Baby
(3:54) 18. True Love Ways

Jack Jezzro is a musician and producer who has enjoyed a long and successful career as a studio musician, accompanying a wide variety of major artists on their recordings, as well as crafting his own albums in which he shows off his talent and versatility as a guitarist. Jezzro was born in Rivesville, West Virginia on December 2, 1957. He had a keen interest in music from an early age, starting to play the piano when he was just three. He taught himself to play guitar from listening to records by Chet Atkins, and in his teens, he learned to break down the individual parts from songs he loved by Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, and the Doobie Brothers. After high school, Jezzro studied at West Virginia University; their music school didn't have a program for the guitar, but Jezzro could also play the bass, and his skills on the instrument led to him to a membership in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra while still attending WVU.

Jezzro went on to attend the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he was mentored by noted bassist James VanDemark. Just as he did at WVU, Jezzro soon joined the local symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, as a bassist, while also honing his chops as a jazz guitarist. In 1981, he relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where he became the bassist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for ten years. In the mid-'80s, he made his way into the prestigious world of session work when he became part of the Nashville String Machine, a string section for hire that regularly appeared on recordings by some of the major stars of country and pop music, from Garth Brooks and Faith Hill to Bruce Springsteen and Matchbox 20. In 1988, Jezzro stepped out as a solo artist with the release of his first album as a headliner,

Step on It,which was released in Japan by Pony Canyon Records.(A revised edition of the disc was released in the United States as A Day's Journey.) Over the next 30 years, Jezzro would release a steady stream of jazz, country, pop, Latin, and inspirational albums (most through the Green Hill label) that focused on his tasteful but expert guitar work and his interplay with other musicians. Jezzro also continued to work steadily as a session player and a producer, overseeing his own sessions as well as those of other Green Hill artists. His work as an artist and producer has earned him one Grammy nomination and seven Dove Award nominations to date. The prolific bassist has played on or produced over 300 albums, and in 2017 alone, he produced By Request: Most Requested Songs for jazz pianist Beegie Adair, released his own album Sinatra on Guitar, and brought out a sequel to his 2010 album Christmas Jazz titled Christmas Jazz 2.~Mark Deming https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-jezzro-mn0000779112/biography

Best Of Green Hill Music :The 50s Collection

Nancy Wilson - Live At The Syracuse Jazz Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: Live At The Syracuse Jazz Disc 1
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:18
Size: 116,9 MB
Art: Front

(16:30) 1. Night in Tunisia
(16:00) 2. Manteca
( 7:36) 3. Things To Come
( 3:32) 4. Strike Up The Band
( 6:37) 5. More Love

Album: Live At The Syracuse Jazz Disc 2
Time: 40:10
Size: 94,1 MB

( 4:10) 1. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
( 5:49) 2. I Can't Make You Love Me
(10:09) 3. It Don't Mean a Thing If it Ain't Got that Swing
( 5:09) 4. All Of Me
( 8:34) 5. You'll See-My Funny Valentine
( 6:16) 6. False start-Announcements-Day in, Day Out

American jazz singer Nancy Wilson, an award-winning singer whose beguiling expressiveness in jazz, R&B, gospel, soul and pop, made her a crossover recording star for five decades and who also had a prolific career as an actress, activist and commercial spokeswoman. Wilson resisted the label of “jazz singer” for much of her career, although jazz was the form to which she returned time and again and in which she had her greatest critical and popular success. She considered herself above all “a song stylist,” she once told The Washington Post. “That’s my essence,” she said, “to weave words, to be dramatic.”

She sought to meld the seemingly incongruous styles of her two greatest influences: the ethereal Jimmy Scott and the penetrating and sultry Dinah Washington. Wilson’s singing was at once regal and vulnerable, and she inspired two generations of singers, including Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker and Nnenna Freelon. “She has such a classy sound, but she’s never afraid to be a woman, or to tell it like it is,” Freelon once told the San Jose Mercury News.

Jazz historian and critic Will Friedwald, in his volume “A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers,” called Wilson a formidable presence in pop, jazz and blues - “the most important vocalist to come along after these three genres were codified and move freely among them.” She passed away in 2018 at the age of 81.http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=5343

Live At The Syracuse Jazz Disc 2

Roland Hanna - Swing Me No Waltzes

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:33
Size: 157,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:10) 1. I Hear You Knockin' But You Can't Come In - Blues
(1:59) 2. Some Kind Of Folk Song
(3:40) 3. A Little Sweetnin' For Sweden
(4:38) 4. Free Spirit - Free Style
(4:19) 5. Everything But You
(4:04) 6. Swing Me No Waltzes
(4:22) 7. Lullabye For Cedric
(4:35) 8. Antecipacion
(7:08) 9. Roses Not Mums
(2:27) 10. Love For Sale
(3:09) 11. Blue Lou
(5:23) 12. Afterglow
(1:26) 13. Blue Lilly
(3:37) 14. Miles Ahead
(7:00) 15. Autumn Leaves
(4:30) 16. Pastel

This CD reissue brings back the original LP (recorded in 1979) plus seven compatible selections from 1973 that were previously unreleased. Throughout, Hanna (who is usually heard in a trio) plays unaccompanied piano solos. Of the 16 selections, ten are by Hanna, and he proves to be an underrated composer whose songs deserve to be covered by others. Hanna's roots are in swing and Duke Ellington, and that aspect of his musical personality is here, along with some more adventurous moments. A strong outing by a brilliant and distinctive pianist.~Scott Yanowhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/swing-me-no-waltzes-mw0000609492

Personnel: Piano – Sir Roland Hanna

Swing Me No Waltzes

Melissa Errico - Sondheim Sublime

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:55
Size: 138,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:34)  1. Sooner or Later
(3:49)  2. Loving You
(4:27)  3. I Remember
(3:56)  4. No More
(4:05)  5. The Miller's Son
(4:50)  6. Losing My Mind
(4:06)  7. Send in the Clowns
(3:42)  8. Not While I'm Around
(4:32)  9. Not a Day Goes By / Marry Me a Little
(4:16) 10. Children Will Listen
(3:35) 11. Isn't He Something
(3:39) 12. Move On
(2:36) 13. Goodbye for Now
(3:20) 14. With so Little to Be Sure Of
(5:21) 15. Children and Art

In Sondheim Sublime, Melissa Errico shows us a side of Stephen Sondheim’s music that no singer has explored so completely before. It’s not the satiric or slyly disillusioned Sondheim – it’s the soulful Sondheim, the heartfelt, hungering Sondheim, author of songs of aching love and slowly dawning wisdom, the exalted, and reflective Sondheim: Sondheim Sublime. Accompanied by pianist Tedd Firth, Errico sings in a tone by turns hushed, electric and ecstatic, giving us a new understanding of the emotional intensity that has always equaled Sondheim’s virtuosic verbal magic. It’s a program of songs of love and life lessons, including a perfectly protective mother’s version of “Not While I’m Around” – while still having time for a provocative “Sooner or Later.” An album to place alongside her earlier Legrand Affair and Lullabies & Wildflowers as part of a uniquely lyrical and romantic library, Sondheim Sublime is an Errico album meant for the three-o-clocks in the mornings of the soul, when love is lost and wisdoms sought from one wise friend. Bio: Melissa is best known for her starring roles on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, Anna Karenina, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas and Amour, which won her a Tony nomination for “Best Actress” and began a longtime association with its composer Michel Legrand. She has also been a recording artist and concert singer, releasing several solo albums and working with some of the world’s best symphonies and in jazz and cabaret spaces. More recently, she has been establishing a reputation as a writer, publishing essays in The New York Times and beyond. Television roles include the series Central Park West by Darren Star, recurring roles on Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, and Showtime’s Billions. Melissa has also recently finished shooting a role in The Magnificent Meyersons, an Eric Oppenheimer film with Kate Mulgrew. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Sondheim-Sublime-Melissa-Errico/dp/B07HC5H94C

Sondheim Sublime