Stefanie Schlesinger - Angel Eyes

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:06
Size: 133,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:04)  1. Say That You Love Me
(4:55)  2. Stay
(3:25)  3. Welcome Back
(3:34)  4. The Way He Makes Me Feel
(8:05)  5. When Sunny Gets Blue
(4:52)  6. Four Sweet Words
(4:40)  7. Angel Eyes
(4:28)  8. L'amore Che Non C'e
(4:19)  9. No Reason For Spring
(4:33) 10. Hoffnung
(2:04) 11. Close Your Eyes

Stefanie Schlesinger - vocal, Wolfgang Lackerschmid- vibes / gramorimba, Bob Degen - piano, John Lee - bass, Karl Latham - drums, Roger Squitero - percussion, Slide Hampton - trombone, Hendrik Meurkens - harmonica, Johannes Faber - trumpet on her new album "Angel Eyes" Schlesinger goes a step further than most of her singing colleagues.

It presents not only promising new songs (most composed by her musical director and vibraphonist, Wolfgang Lackerschmid), but provides the "standards" in unusual and highly surprising arrangements. Or who would ever "Angel Eyes" heard as bluesy 5/4 strokes and Michel Legrand's "The Way He Makes Me Feel" (from the movie "Yentl") as R & B Waltz? Anyway: "Angel Eyes" is not just the album a good singer plus band. It is also an album full of great solos and brilliant instrumental moments.Including the trombone Champion Slide Hampton, piano wizard Bob Degen and harmonica master Hendrik Meurkens - For the combined forces of some live jazz legends care. There are a lot of music to be discovered between the singing verses. Translate by google  http://hipjazz.net/angeleyes

Angel Eyes

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Introducing Kristin Korb With the Ray Brown Trio

Styles: Vocal, Bop, Swing
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:54
Size: 112,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:40) 1. A Night in Tunisia
(5:30) 2. Peel Me a Grape
(3:06) 3. Whirlybird
(4:33) 4. Fever
(2:34) 5. Straight No Chaser
(4:09) 6. Black Orpheus
(4:36) 7. Yeh Yeh
(3:36) 8. Ain't Misbehavin'
(6:02) 9. These Foolish Things
(3:53) 10. Funky Tune for Ray
(5:11) 11. Take the "A" Train

Originally from Montana, but now living, performing, and teaching in San Diego, this is Kristin Korb's first album. Not possessed with an especially powerful set of vocal chords, Korb nonetheless weaves delicate figures with a clear, cool, almost vibrato-less voice. Scatting, but not to the point where lyrics are entirely ignored, she's a pleasant, if not overwhelming, addition to the world of jazz vocals. Korb is joined on this session by the dean of bass players, Ray Brown, and his trio that features the outstanding, hard driving piano player Benny Green, an outstanding soloist in his own right. The trio is augmented by two veterans, Plas Johnson on tenor sax and Conte Candoli on trumpet. Johnson, unfairly, is pretty much known for his work on Henry Mancini's Pink Panther. He has done much more and better work, such as with T-Bone Walker, Lou Rawls, and others. His swinging, boppish sax drives "Yeh Yeh."

Conte Candoli has been on so many albums, he's likely lost count, but he hasn't lost his touch of waxing lyrically behind a singer in the tradition of fellow Stan Kenton player, Don Fagerquist. Guest guitarist, the Brazilian Oscar Castro-Neves, takes center stage in Latin-tinged tunes like Luis Bonfa's "Black Orpheus." "Peel Me a Grape" is done, appropriately, in an Anita O'Day style and there's a very delicately delivered "These Foolish Things" and an almost hymn-like "Take the "A" Train." These slower tunes are balanced by a winging version of Neal Hefti's "Whirlybird." A nice program of varied tunes offered by top professionals provides a little more than 45 minutes of pleasant entertainment.~Dave Nathan https://www.allmusic.com/album/introducing-kristin-korb-with-the-ray-brown-trio-mw0000081031

Personnel: Kristin Korb - vocals; Ray Brown Trio - Bass; Plas Johnson - tenor saxophone; Conte Candoli - trumpet; Oscar Castro-Neves - guitar; Benny Green - piano; Gregory Hutchinson - drums

Introducing Kristin Korb

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Bill Evans Trio - Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1 And Disc 2

Album: Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1

Styles: Piano Jazz 

Year: 2015

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 42:23

Size: 97,8 MB

Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Re: Person I Knew

(6:46)  2. Midnight Mood

(4:56)  3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams

(3:58)  4. Theme From MASH

(6:09)  5. A Sleepin' Bee

(5:51)  6. I Do It for Your Love

(9:48)  7. My Romance

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Album: Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 2

Time: 50:33
Size: 116,6 MB

( 3:13)  1. Noelle's Theme
( 6:43)  2. I Loves You Porgy
( 6:37)  3. Up with The Lark
( 5:26)  4. Turn out The Stars
( 5:10)  5. Five
( 4:22)  6. Spring Is Here
(15:21)  7. Nardis
( 3:37)  8. But Beautiful

Casale Monferrato is a town and commune in the Piedmont region of Northwest Italy, which is part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the vast plain of the Po valley. The pianist played there with his last trio, which included the aforementioned Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera, who were both very young musicians. According to LaBarbera, the pressure of playing with the celebrated Bill Evans fell mostly on the trio’s bassist, who always had the shadow of the late Scott LaFaro looming over him: “My opinion was that the only stigma placed on a member of Bill’s trio was on the bass player, because of Scott’s legacy. Bill had great drummers over the years, but they never shaped what the trio was doing the way Scott did.

I wanted to be Scott LaFaro, though, I wanted to have that thing going with Bill in every possible way, to have some of that thing for me. I found out later that Bill had no preconceived ideas of what you should do. His bass preferences, for instance, were as diverse as Scott and Percy Heath. He definitely was not looking for people to emulate his earlier groups.” This release presents a beautiful never before released complete live performance by the last incarnation of the Bill Evans Trio. Taped in Italy just a few months before the pianist’s untimely death, its highlights include beautiful solo piano versions of Michel Legrand’s “Noelle’s Theme” and George Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy”.https://jazzmessengersblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/all-tracks-previously-uni/

Personnel: Bill Evans -  piano;  Marc Johnson - Bass;  Joe LaBarbera - Drums

Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1, Disc 2

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