Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Michela Lombardi & Renato Sellani - Moonlight Becomes You (Thinking Of Chet, Vol.1)

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:46
Size: 120,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:32) 1. Aren't You Glad You're You?
(5:46) 2. The Nearness of You
(4:39) 3. Moon and Sand
(3:02) 4. Violets for Your Furs
(3:13) 5. Tis Autumn
(5:06) 6. Star Eyes
(5:01) 7. My Foolish Heart
(1:13) 8. I'm Old Fashioned
(4:07) 9. For All We Know
(4:57) 10. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(2:22) 11. Moonlight Becomes You
(4:41) 12. My Foolish Heart
(1:15) 13. I'm Old Fashioned
(3:45) 14. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Elegant, delicate, intense. The Tuscan Michela Lombardi is among the top ten Best Italian Jazz Vocalists according to the "Jazzit Award 2011", she has often been mentioned in the "Best Voice" section in the Top Jazz polls of the "Musica Jazz" magazine and the Jazz Magazine Italia has dedicated her the cover of February 2008 with Tierney Sutton and Anne Ducros.

He has recorded two discs with Phil Woods also composing some lyrics, he has signed a song with Burt Bacharach, he teaches jazz singing in three Italian conservatories, in his last two discs - "Solitary Moon" with the Piero Frassi trio together with Gabriele Evangelista and Andrea Melani , and “Live To Tell” with the Riccardo Fassi trio together with Luca Pirozzi and Alessandro Marzi - Steven Bernstein, Emanuele Cisi and Don Byron play as special guests.

He presented "Live To Tell" at the "jazzahead!" 2017 in Bremen (Germany) with the Riccardo Fassi trio and Alex Sipiagin special guest obtaining a final standing ovation, won the Ciampi 2010 prize and obtained the Special Mention at the 2007 Crest Jazz Vocal Concours, sang in duo with Danilo Rea, inaugurated the 2009 jazz season at the Tel Aviv Opera House with Nicola Stilo 5tet, she sang at the Duc des Lombards in Paris with her 4tet guest Nico Gori, she won the audience award as composer at the Piacenza Jazz Note di Donna 2009, she composed lyrics for a song by Kenny Wheeler who wanted her to sing it with him on stage (Bargajazz 2007), was conducted in bigband by Massimo Nunzi with the Operaia Orchestra (Arezzo, December 2014) and performed with the Barga Jazz Big Band,

He has sung / collaborated, among others, with: Kelvin Sholar, Byron Landham, Philip Harper, Matt Garrison, Michael Baker, Alex Sipiagin, Tom Kirkpatrick, Gabriele Evangelista, Bernardo Guerra, Andrea Tofanelli, Fabio Morgera, Riccardo Arrighini, Aldo Zunino, Massimo Faraò, Francesco Ponticelli, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Stefano Nunzi, Andrea Nunzi, Carlo Battisti, Alberto Marsico, Alessandro Minetto, Francesco Puglisi, Pietro Tonolo, Mattia Barbieri, Petra Magoni, Stefano Bollani, Marco Tamburini, Danilo Rea and many others. https://www-michelalombardi-it.translate.goog/singer/biography/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Personnel: Michela Lombardi(vo); Renato Sellani(p); Massimo Moriconi(b); Stefano Bagnoli(ds)

Moonlight Becomes You (Thinking Of Chet, Vol.1)

Ketty Lester - When a Woman Loves a Man

Styles: Vocal, Soul
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 23:07
Size: 53,2 MB
Art: Front

(1:55) 1. Love Me
(2:00) 2. In Time
(2:16) 3. We'll Be Together Again
(2:08) 4. Til The End of Time
(2:36) 5. When a Woman Loves A Man
(3:00) 6. It Hurts So Bad
(2:32) 7. Nice and Easy
(2:14) 8. The Shadow of Your Smile
(2:13) 9. You Always Hurt The One You Love
(2:09) 10. Are You Ready For A Woman

Singer Ketty Lester has a career that spans music, TV, film, and stage. Her cover of Dick Haynes' 1945 hit "Love Letters" went to number five pop and number two R&B on Billboard's charts in the spring of 1962. The tune was originally the title theme from the 1945 Jennifer Jones movie.

Ketty Lester was born Revoyda Frierson on August 16, 1934, in Hope, AR. She was one of 15 children born into a farmer's family. After winning a scholarship in 1955, she moved to California and attended San Francisco City College, majoring in nursing. Lester sang in church and the school choir, and performed in summer stock theater. She also appeared as a contestant on the classic '50s game show You Bet Your Life. Meeting country singer/comedienne Dorothy Shay at the Purple Onion club (where she was performing), Lester was introduced to producers Ed Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga. Herb Newman's Era Records released the resulting single, "I'm a Fool for You" b/w "Love Letters." DJs and listeners preferred the sparse, steamy B-side, making it a Top Five pop hit. The follow-up single, a cover of George Gershwin's "But Not for Me" from the musical Girl Crazy, peaked at number 41 pop during summer 1962.

Ketty Lester was issued that same year. It featured two singles, "You Can't Lie to a Liar" and a cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Another Era single was "Fallin Angel" b/w "Lullaby for Lovers." She also recorded the upbeat "West Coast" b/w the ballad "I'll Be Looking Back" for Capitol, "I Said Goodbye to My Love" b/w "Queen for a Day" for Everest, and "Measure of a Man" b/w "Cracker Box Livin'," "Show Me" b/w "Since I Fell for You," and the LP Same for the Pete label.

Lester recorded for RCA (Soul of Me, Where Is Love, the singles "Better World," "Roses Grow With Thorns," "You Go Your Way," "Some Things Are Better Unsaid," "The Luck of Ginger Coff") and for Tower (When a Woman Loves a Man, "Love Me Just a Little Bit"). She also recorded a Christian album, I Saw Him, for Mega Records.

Originally offered the lead role in Julia, starring Diahann Carroll, Lester appeared in the films Just for Fun, Up Tight, Uptown Saturday Night, The Terminal Man, Street Knight, House Party 3, and Blacula, and the TV movies Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style and Percy and Thunder. She also guest-starred on TV series like Sanford and Son, Laugh-In, Quantum Leap, Hill Street Blues, Love American Style, The FBI, Harry 0 (the 1975 episode with Maureen McCormick), That Girl, Marcus Welby, and Lou Grant. She became a regular on Little House on the Prairie (as Hester Sue Terhune) and the soap operas Days of Our Lives (as Helen Grant) and Rituals. The singer won an Off-Broadway Theater Award for her performance in a revival of A Cabin in the Sky. Lester also had a recurring role as Vivica A. Fox's grandmother on the 1998 sitcom Getting Personal.~ Ed Hoganhttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/ketty-lester-mn0000079654/biography

When a Woman Loves a Man

Kenny Shanker - Beautiful Things

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:08
Size: 171,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:47) 1. Cool Mint
(3:35) 2. Prestissimo
(7:29) 3. It Never Entered My Mind
(5:33) 4. Mirth
(5:48) 5. L'Impossible
(7:54) 6. Orange and Gray
(8:40) 7. Without a Song
(6:55) 8. I'm Old Fashioned
(7:11) 9. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
(5:35) 10. Like Someone in Love
(4:56) 11. In Walked Bud
(5:40) 12. Beautiful Things

Kenny Shanker is back with an exciting program of original compositions and jazz standards for his second release on Wise Cat Records. The common element that appears throughout this diverse set is a search for beauty in all of its various forms. Some highlights include the blazingly fast “Prestissimo,” inspired by the early bebop recordings that Shanker grew up listening to, and the catchy, spirited original composition “Cool Mint.”

Other standouts include straight-ahead renditions of several jazz classics, the spontaneous freedom of “Orange and Gray,” and the classically influenced “Beautiful Things.” He is joined by his longtime rhythm section of Mike Eckroth, Daisuke Abe, Yoshi Waki, and Brian Fishler, along with Bill Mobley on Trumpet. https://kennyshanker.com/music

Personnel: Kenny Shanker - Alto Saxophone; Bill Mobley - Trumpet; Daisuke Abe - Guitar; Mike Eckroth - Piano; Yoshi Waki - Bass; Brian Fishler – Drums

Beautiful Things

Tape Five - Soiree Deluxe

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:06
Size: 133.0 MB
Styles: Retro swing
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Step Into My Time Machine
[3:47] 2. Hush Hush Magazine
[3:22] 3. Love Gun
[3:37] 4. Get Down To Luna Park
[3:26] 5. I Like Stepping Out
[3:48] 6. Good Girl Bad Woman
[0:14] 7. Interlude At Roadhouse Eleven
[3:33] 8. The Magic Slapstick
[3:43] 9. I Like The Twilight
[3:37] 10. She's Undressed To Kill
[2:17] 11. Do The Hobo Shuffle
[3:41] 12. Nowhere's End
[0:29] 13. Interlude Paradise Lost
[3:56] 14. Burn The City
[3:56] 15. Topanga Valley
[0:40] 16. Interlude Sophisticated Simplicity
[3:49] 17. Crazy World Crazy World
[3:10] 18. Codeword Marlene
[3:14] 19. Love Me All Around The World

Welcome to Soiree Deluxe! You'll get in if you´re fancy, free and selected. Step into our Time Machine to experience new music in the style of the early and mid-20th century. Get down to the Luna Parks of your mind, and with a wave of The Magic Slapstick, be ready to draw your Love Gun. But be discrete, it might be the exclusive in Hush Hush Magazine the very next day!

TAPE FIVE co-invented the electro swing genre. But they do not play just one style, TAPE FIVE is a brand - a style in itself! The message is a light, positive vibe! Brought to you with elements of swing, electro swing, jazz, dixie, latin, funk, hip-hop, reggae, dub and tango. Everything combined with a strong retro attitude. You'll hear all the usual suspects in the skilled TAPE FIVE horn section, and singers Dionne Wudu, Henrik Wager, Brenda Boykin, Iain Mackenzie, Yuliet Topaz and Maria Maschenka appearing as “Marlene”. All combined with that special TAPE FIVE production style to serve you something to move to – and something to listen to. Beside some strong and up-tempo TAPE FIVE styled classics, be open for some experiments in sound: a swinging roots reggae against the babylon system, a funny tango with german lyrics, chilled vibes from the Topanga Valley or a message rap about this crazy, Crazy World!

This is the 6th studio album of the German based project, that started in 2003... and has since toured from Brazil via Europe to Russia and Korea, with songs selected for TV shows and ads around the globe. That’s the story, believe it... and step right into Soiree Deluxe... Welcome!

Soiree Deluxe