Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Oh-By The Way

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1982
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:08
Size: 101,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:30)  1. Oh-By The Way
(6:01)  2. Duck Soup
(4:54)  3. Tropical Breeze
(5:20)  4. One By One
(7:09)  5. Sudan Blue
(8:15)  6. My Funny Valetine
(5:56)  7. Alicia

When the Marsalis Brothers left The Jazz Messengers in early 1982, Wynton suggested that Art Blakey take a close listen to trumpeter Terence Blanchard (then 19) and 21-year old altoist Donald Harrison. The drummer took his advice, and after also adding young pianist Johnny O'Neal, Blakey soon had an exciting new version of The Jazz Messengers. Tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce and bassist Charles Fambrough were still present from the older band for this excellent LP. In the Blakey tradition, this set has five new compositions from bandmembers in addition to Wayne Shorter's "One by One" and the standard "My Funny Valentine"; the music is a fine example of high-quality hard bop.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/oh-by-the-way-mw0000526449

Personnel: Art Blakey (drums); Donald Harrison (alto saxophone); Bill Pierce (tenor saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Johnny O'Neal (piano).

Oh-By The Way

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The Time Jumpers - Jumpin' Time (2-disc set)

Although western swing is a genre that will hopefully never die, it's rare that a new band comes along anymore that breathes as much new life into it as the Time Jumpers do. Not since the emergence of Asleep at the Wheel in the early '70s, in fact, has a group provided as much hope for the continuing vitality of this venerable all-American institution. Well, sort of new, that is: the band, whose membership has shifted considerably but settles in at 11 here, has been at it since 1998. Their weekly gigs at Nashville's Station Inn are legendary around Music City, and it's easy to see why: the Time Jumpers don't attempt to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak; instead, they get to the core of the music, brush off the dust, and remind us why it's been so universally loved for so long. Their repertoire is impressively considered -- along with purebred originals, they cover classics penned by everyone from Fats Waller to George & Ira Gershwin to Mickey Newbury and, of course, Bob Wills. Standards such as Cindy Walker's "Cherokee Maiden" and Bobby Troup's "Route 66," despite having been covered by countless predecessors, don't sound tired by the Time Jumpers, but ready to be rediscovered. The double-CD was wisely recorded in front of an appreciative audience at the Station Inn, and both the vocalists -- Carolyn Martin, Dawn Sears, and Ranger Doug Green, in particular -- and the pickers are on from the git-go. Fiddler Aubrey Haynie and accordionist Jeff Taylor slay on Duke Ellington's "Caravan," and lead guitarist Andy Reiss puts in a solo in his own show-opening "Stompin' at the Station" instrumental that sets the bar high right away. A companion DVD offers the same 26-song set list. ~Jeff Tamarkin

Label: Crosswind
Styles: Country-pop, Western Swing
Year: 2007
Art: Front

Album: Jumpin' Time (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 128K/s
Time: 56:49
Size: 130.1 MB

[4:51] 1. Stompin' At the Station
[4:44] 2. Honeysuckle Rose
[3:58] 3. Sugar Moon
[4:46] 4. Write Myself a Letter
[4:26] 5. Along the Navajo Trail
[3:11] 6. It's All Your Fault
[5:21] 7. Pig Dog Hop
[3:28] 8. Leavin' and Sayin' Goodbye
[4:24] 9. Blues for Dixie
[2:42] 10. Fidoodlin'
[4:16] 11. Bring It On Down to My House
[6:11] 12. Route 66
[4:24] 13. Smile

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Album: Jumpin' Time (Disc 2)
Bitrate: 128K/s
Time: 58:47
Size: 134.6 MB

[2:46] 1. Roly Poly
[3:58] 2. South of the Border
[4:40] 3. Jumpin' Time
[3:13] 4. Bonaparte's Retreat
[2:57] 5. My Confession
[4:02] 6. Give Me a Pinto Pal
[6:13] 7. Embraceable You
[3:53] 8. Cherokee Maiden
[4:17] 9. My Weakness Is Too Strong
[4:42] 10. All of Me
[5:04] 11. Caravan
[7:02] 12. Sweet Memories
[5:55] 13. My Window Faces the South

Jumpin'Time(Disc 1)(Disc 2)

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Judy Carmichael - High On Fats... And Other Stuff

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:30
Size: 115.6 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Gladyse
[5:03] 2. A Smo-O-Oth One (Take Two)
[4:33] 3. Riverboat Shuffle
[6:13] 4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
[4:48] 5. You Took Advantage Of Me
[4:52] 6. Airmail Special
[5:16] 7. I've Got A Feelin' I'm Falling
[4:31] 8. Sugarfoot Strut
[2:43] 9. Thou Swell
[5:04] 10. A Smo-O-Oth One (Take One)
[3:52] 11. Dinah

Grammy nominated pianist Judy Carmichael is one of the world’s leading interpreters of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her “Stride”, acknowledging the command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano style.

A native of California, Judy Carmichael moved to New York in the early 80’s and has maintained a busy concert schedule throughout the world ever since. She has toured for the United States Information Agency throughout India, Portugal, Brazil and Singapore. In 1992 Ms. Carmichael was the first jazz musician sponsored by the United States Government to tour China. The musician that critics have referred to as “astounding, flawless and captivating” (The New York Times) has played in a variety of venues from Carnegie Hall, to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice (the first concert ever presented by the museum) to programs with Joel Grey, Michael Feinstein, Steve Ross and the Smothers Brothers. In addition, Ms. Carmichael has done comic skits and performed her music on radio and TV and performed private recitals for everyone from Rod Stewart and Robert Redford to President Clinton and Gianni Agnelli.

Judy Carmichael is one of a handful of musicians who approach jazz from a perspective of its entire history. Choosing to study jazz piano from its early roots on, she explores the music deeply, infusing it with a “fresh, dynamic interpretation of her own” (Washington Post ). The National Endowment for the Arts rewarded Carmichael’s knowledge of jazz piano with a major grant to present early jazz greats on film and to discuss the history and development of jazz piano with college students across the country. Judy Carmichael’s Grammy-nominated recording “Two Handed Stride” teamed her with four giants of jazz from the Count Basie Orchestra, Red Callendar, Harold Jones, Freddie Green and Marshall Royal.

High On Fats... And Other Stuff

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