Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Sinne Eeg - Waiting For Dawn

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:18
Size: 128.9 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. What It Means To Me
[4:19] 2. Let's Stay Awake
[5:29] 3. Waiting For Dawn
[4:22] 4. My Treasure
[4:45] 5. Sudden Change Of Weather
[6:17] 6. Snow
[5:05] 7. Stuck
[5:46] 8. Hours Of Ours
[4:59] 9. Better Than Anything
[5:35] 10. Brief Hesitation
[5:56] 11. Detour Ahead

Sinne Eeg (V); Lars Jansson (Pno); Morten Lund (Dr); Mads Vinding (B).

Sinne Eeg (born in Lemvig, Denmark in 1977) is a Danish jazz vocalist and composer. Sinne Eeg was admitted at the Academy of Music in Esbjerg in 1997, from where she graduated in 2003. She has received a number of positive reviews in the national and international press, and is considered among the best female jazz vocalists currently in Scandinavia. She has composed many of her own songs, and although she usually sings in English, she has also performed and recorded songs in Danish. As part of her musical studies, Sinne studied with American singer Janet Lawson in New York.

Sinne Eeg has won the Danish Music Awards prize in the category Best Danish Vocal Jazz Album of the Year three times: in 2007, 2010 and 2014, for her albums Waiting for Dawn, Don't Be So Blue and Face the Music. She also received the Ben Webster Prize on 28 March 2014, as the first vocalist ever. The Webster Foundation describes her as "a true jazz singer, who both shows sensitivity, improvisational skills, maturity, broad range and timing in her singing.". Sinne has toured Europe, Japan, China and the United States. The 26th of January in 2012, she sang in Brussels, accompanied by the Danish Radio Big Band, at the celebration for the beginning of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In Denmark, she regularly performs at the jazz venue of La Fontaine in Copenhagen.

Waiting For Dawn

John Funkhouser Trio - Time

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 73:01
Size: 67,7 MB
Art: Front

( 9:55) 1. Green Dolphin Street
( 8:59) 2. Ellipse
( 2:22) 3. Prelude and Fugue in A Minor: Prelude (More Cowbell!)
( 5:43) 4. Prelude and Fugue in A Minor: Fugue
( 3:17) 5. Dyin' Nation
( 7:41) 6. Emancipation
( 6:20) 7. Eleventy One
( 7:08) 8. Come Rain or Come Shine
( 6:54) 9. Alone Together
(10:09) 10. Ode to a Lame Duck
( 4:29) 11. Kelp

A sad indictment of much contemporary music is that it has been over-intellectualized. With fun expunged from the soul of music, it becomes so wooden and hard to enjoy that it may as well never have been released even made at all. However, on the occasion when intellect and soul meet, music of exceptional beauty and exceedingly important value is made, and it is possible to simply shut the eyes and enjoy it. Such is the impact of the music of John Funkhouser and his trio on Time.

It is easy to gloss over much of the impact of the music by suggesting that it fuses the rhythms of jazz and the forthright emotion of rock. But that would be shortchanging the music and the musicians alike. Like the fine trios of Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre, Funkhouser's music is rich in melodic invention, even when he is re-casting standards such as "Green Dolphin Street," "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Alone Together." Funkhouser also employs such complex rhythms in deploying the melodies especially his own compositions "Ellipse," "Prelude & Fugue," "Eleventy One," "Ode to a Lame Duck" and "Kelp" that the music begins to live on several planes at once.

There is the extremely lyrical, literary plane, which appeals to the inner ear of the mind. "Ellipse" takes on the life of a geometric shape, and life is infused and breathed into it so it becomes at once gnomic and delightfully grotesque in a way that recalls Federico Fellini's film La Strada. "Prelude & Fugue" is a smarmy "yes-we-dare" play on Bach; but it is a study that combines Bach's patrician technicality with plebian frolic in a glorious manner. The first movement, "More Cowbell," becomes more than a perfunctory musical gesture, but revels in gamboling pastoral imagery. And the second movement, "Fugue," is performed as if the doors of the Prussian palace were thrown open to invite a Brazilian Carnival in.

"Dyin' Nation/Emancipation" is a lofty and damning comment on the state of social graces in the allegedly "developed world." There can be no doubt that Gustav Mahler envisioned dark thoughts about where the world was going in his Ninth Symphony. John Funkhouser, in no less a significant manner, sees the same social decay very similarly and employs dark tones and colors in viscous, wet paint on a musical canvas. "Ode to a Lame Duck" drips with dramatic irony, almost as if "Götterdämmerung" was returning to haunt the erstwhile predecessor of Barack Obama. Funkhouser employs a Wagnerian palette with a touch of Grecian pathos too. And, of course, "Kelp" is a splendid, murmuring suggestion of a sub-aquatic waltz.

Bassist, Greg Loughman and percussionist Mike Connors are simply superb on this record. Loughman plays arco con brio on "Ellipse" with sublime authority. His pizzicato playing especially on the ostinato passages of "Green Dolphin Street" is superb too. Connors excels as well. Both musicians are full participants in this memorable musical adventure with John Funkhouser.~ Raul d'Gama Rosehttps://www.allaboutjazz.com/time-john-funkhouser-self-produced-review-by-raul-dgama-rose

Personnel: John Funkhouser: piano; Greg Loughman: bass; Mike Connors: drums.

Time

Alan Broadbent Trio - Like Minds

Styles: Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:34
Size: 136,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:24) 1. This I Dig of You
(8:25) 2. Prelude to Peace
(7:18) 3. With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
(5:16) 4. Dance Only with Me
(5:58) 5. Airegin
(8:19) 6. Stairway to the Stars
(4:45) 7. Blue Pearl
(6:42) 8. This Is New
(6:25) 9. Yardbird Suite

Out today is Alan Broadbent's new trio album, Like Minds (Savant), with Harvie S on bass and Billy Mintz on drums. It's a terrific trio recording, featuring Alan's elegant piano and superb conversational interactions with Harvie and Billy. I've known Alan for many years, and it's always a joy to hear his new releases, see him live and catch up. I first fell in love with his playing on his duo albums backing vocalist Irene Kral Where Is Love (1974) and Gentle Rain (1977). By then, my ear was grooved to the piano articulation of Bill Evans, and Alan's playing shared many similar traits, including the swing, the gentle quality, the pedal tones and chord voicings.

Alan's new album is terrific, with songs ranging from Hank Mobley's This I Dig of You, Bud Powell's Blue Pearl and Sonny Rollins's Airegin to Clara Edwards and Jack Lawrence's With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair and Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's Dance Only With Me. Harvie S is also such a gorgeous player, running sensitive, meaty lines behind Alan while Billy is right there with splashy but tender cymbals and drum figures. So great to hear a trio that's so in sync and in the pocket. https://www.jazzwax.com/2022/05/alan-broadbent-like-minds.html

Personnel: Alan Broadbent, piano; Harvie S, bass; Billy Mintz, drums.

Like Minds

Jo Ambros, Dieter Fischer, Johann Polzer - How Many Times

Styles: Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 24:04
Size: 55,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:47) 1. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
(3:39) 2. El Quinto Regimiento
(2:43) 3. Strange Fruit
(2:59) 4. Blowin' in the Wind
(2:32) 5. Give Peace a Chance
(3:42) 6. Danser Encore
(4:40) 7. A Change Is Gonna Come

Jo Ambros (born September 3, 1973 in Böblingen ) is a German jazz musician and guitarist. Jo Ambros at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2016.

Jo Ambros learned the guitar from Philipp Konowski and studied jazz and popular music at the music academies in Würzburg and with Werner Acker at the music academy in Stuttgart (graduating in 2002 with distinction). He received a scholarship for New York from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2001 he received a grant from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg . At the invitation of the Society for New Music in Cologne , he performed with the Ensemble Modern as part of the "Live and Electronics" competition . He also plays to surreal silent films (by Georges Méliès , Virgil Widrich ,Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí ) with drummer Jogi Nestel live music.

In addition to concerts with Helen Schneider , Marcia Haydée , Giora Feidman , Les McCann and the Pointer Sisters , he also worked on radio plays (with Patrick Bebelaar and Frank Kroll ), on sound installations with the visual artist Eva Paulitsch (SoundCities, 1998) and in the theater ( Theresa's dream, Museumsquartier Wien). In 2004 his solo CD "wanderlust" was released. He can also be heard on the CDs "Reality Music" by Torsten Krill 's frimfram collective (Vol. 1 nominated for the German Record Critics' Prize 2004, Vol. 2. 2006). With the Danish-German jazz quartet moldIn 2002 he recorded the CD "republic of" (nominated for the Danish Jazz Prize 2003). Further CDs were made with David Orlowsky's Klezmorim.

Jo Ambros is considered one of the most interesting and versatile jazz guitarists of the younger generation. In 2004 he received the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize for "his great stylistic breadth and the expressiveness of his artistic work". https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jo_Ambros

How Many Times