New York Swing - Live At The 1996 Floating Jazz Festival

Styles: Piano And Guitar Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:54
Size: 181,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:37)  1. Till Tom Special
(6:48)  2. The Song Is You
(6:32)  3. Dot's Cheesecake
(6:36)  4. Have You Met Miss Jones?
(8:31)  5. Always
(4:21)  6. All Too Soon
(3:57)  7. Benny's Bugle
(3:31)  8. Nobody's Heart Belong To Me
(6:38)  9. What Is This Thing Called Love
(6:32) 10. I'll Wind
(7:41) 11. Stars In My Eyes
(8:38) 12. If I Had You
(3:27) 13. Wholly Cats

Consisting of pianist John Bunch, guitarist John Pizzarelli and bassist Jay Leonhart, New York Swing is an acoustic trio that pretty much lives up to its name all three are New York-based, and they favor what is essentially '40s-type swing. The trio uses the same combination of instruments as the Nat King Cole Trio of the '40s (piano, guitar, and bass, but no drums), and their repertoire is pretty much what one would have expected from a swing-playing small group of that era. Enjoying a nice rapport on these intimate live performances (all of them from a Caribbean "jazz cruise" aboard the S.S. Norway), the trio turns its attention to the music of Benny Goodman ("Benny's Bugle," "Wholly Cats"), Duke Ellington (the lovely "All Too Soon"), Rodgers & Hart ("Have You Met Miss Jones?," "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me"), and others with pleasing results. Although neither earth-shattering nor terribly original, this is a decent, if conventional, CD that lovers of small-group swing will enjoy. ~ Alex Henderson  http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-96-floating-jazz-festival-mw0000039314

Personnel:  John Buch – Piano; Bucky Pizzarelli – Guitar; Jay Leonhart – Bass.

Live At The 1996 Floating Jazz Festival

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David Hazeltine - The Time is Now

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:20
Size: 151,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:45)  1. The Time is Now
(5:25)  2. The Odd Couple
(5:44)  3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
(6:45)  4. Cabin in the Sky
(5:08)  5. Blues for Eddie
(5:09)  6. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
(5:35)  7. When I'm Here with You
(4:41)  8. The Parlayer
(7:47)  9. In a Sentimental Mood
(6:24) 10. Muse of Montgomery
(4:53) 11. Signals

If you’re going to put together a rhythm section for a piano trio date, you could certainly do a lot worse than Ron Carter and Al Foster. Although the two gentlemen are getting up there in the years (bassist Carter is 81, drummer Foster 74; pianist David Hazeltine himself just turned 60), both are still sharp, instinctual players who adapt easily to any given situation. Hazeltine and Foster first did some gigs together at Smoke in New York in 2016 and with Carter aboard, cut the 11 tracks on a single date in the spring of this year it was the trio’s first time playing together.Unsurprisingly, the music flows easily. Save for a few adventures that take him off the beaten path his “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” here takes some thrilling detours Hazeltine is a relatively conventional, albeit outstanding pianist who prefers to keep his melodies in check. Six of these songs are self-penned, the others come from sources ranging from Duke Ellington to James Taylor, and while all musicians demonstrate superior technique and confidence as a leader, Hazeltine is largely content to keep the arrangements and performances within bounds. 

No one here needs to strut the liner notes indicate that it’s his 34th leader session, after all and the music is better for it. One place the trio does toy with the formula is with its reading of the Neal Hefti/Sammy Cahn theme from The Odd Couple. Slowed to a shuffling pace, it provides an opportunity for the trio to rethink a familiar tune from the inside out, and both Hazeltine and Carter enjoy seeing how far they can go without losing sight of the original intent. “Blues for Eddie,” meanwhile (a nod to Eddie Harris), is all about Carter, and who’s gonna complain about that? ~ Jeff Tamarkin https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/david-hazeltine-time-is-now-smoke-sessions/

Personnel: David Hazeltine - Piano; Ron Carter - Bass; Al Foster - Drums

The Time is Now

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Alexis Cole - Close Your Eyes

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:17
Size: 139,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:50) 1. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
(4:50) 2. I've Got You Under My Skin
(4:31) 3. Teach Me Tonight
(4:39) 4. Cry Me a River
(4:52) 5. In the Still of the Night
(4:23) 6. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:54) 7. Small Fry
(5:23) 8. Witchcraft
(5:41) 9. You and the Night and the Music
(5:22) 10. Close Your Eyes
(3:01) 11. Sway
(7:46) 12. Lover Man

Called “one of the great voices of today,” by Jonathan Schwartz, Alexis Cole has been compared to classic jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. She's performed with the Boston Pops and New York Philharmonic on stage at venues from Avery Fisher Hall to the Kennedy Center. She records for Motéma Music, NY, Chesky Records, NY and Venus Records, Japan. Her nine recordings, which feature musical luminaries such as Fred Hersch, Eric Alexander, Matt Wilson, Harry Pickens, Don Braden and Pat LaBarbara, have received high praise in the jazz press and are spun on radio world-wide. In addition to her many performances on great stages, Alexis can be seen at top jazz venues like Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, The Jazz Standard, Blues Alley, and Billboard Live, Tokyo. Cole is the recipient of a Swing Journal Gold Disk award, and was a winner of the NY Jazzmobile and Montreux Jazz Festival vocal competitions, and a finalist of the Sarah Vaughan Competition. Alexis studied voice and piano at the University of Miami and William Paterson University, and holds a Masters of Music from Queens College. She has also trained in Indian Classical singing at the Jazz India Vocal Institute in Mumbai. She heads the Jazz Voice Program at SUNY Purchase. She performs and conducts master classes around the world.

Awards & Grants 2007 New York City Jazzmobile Vocal Competition 1st Place Winner 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition, 3rd Prize Winner 2003& 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition finalist 2004 Council for Arts and Humanities on Staten Island Emerging Artist Grant 1998National Endowment for the Arts Charles Cinnamon Grant 1994 National Endowment for the Arts A.R.T.S. Scholarshiphttps://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/alexis-cole

Personnel: Alexis Cole (vocal); John di Martino (piano); James Cammack (bass); Daduka Da Fonseca (drums)

Close Your Eyes

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Shorty Rogers & Andre Previn - In Collaboration

Styles: Trumpet And Piano Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:53
Size: 140,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:37)  1. Heat Wave
(3:35)  2. Everything I’ve Got
(3:00)  3. It Only Happens When I Dance With You
(2:24)  4. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
(3:00)  5. General Cluster
(2:41)  6. 40º Below
(3:23)  7. Claudia
(3:22)  8. Some Antics
(2:26)  9. It’s Delovely
(2:45) 10. Porterhouse
(3:06) 11. You Do Something To Me
(2:16) 12. Call For Cole
(3:00) 13. Lullaby Of Birdland
(2:50) 14. You’re Driving Me Crazy
(3:25) 15. Tomorrow Mountain
(2:47) 16. Treat Me Rough
(2:33) 17. Mountain Greenery
(2:47) 18. You Took Advantage Of Me
(2:30) 19. Sidewalks Of Cuba
(3:23) 20. My Man’s Gone Now
(2:53) 21. Island In The West Indies

This is a really unusual and outstanding album. It presents two of the most celebrated and creative personalities of the Hollywood jazz and studio fields in collaboration. In the early Fifties, trumpeter, bandleader, composer and arranger Shorty Rogers was the head of the flourishing West Coast school of jazz, and André Previn was one of the most gifted pianists, conductors and composers of the scene; he wielded an awesome command of almost every kind of music. In addition to writing the challenging instrumental sides, they also wrote together the scores for André’s wife Betty Bennett, a respected well-known jazz & pop singer who never had had a chance to show how she really sanguntil Shorty’s Giants backed her, that is. 

Featuring: Shorty Rogers (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino (tb), Bud Shank (as, fl), Harry Klee (as), Bob Cooper (ts), Jimmy Giuffre (bars), André Previn (p), Al Hendrickson, Jack Marshall, Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragón, Curtis Counce, Ralph Peña (b).

In Collaboration

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