Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Barbara Rosene and Her New Yorkers - Moon Song

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 78:18
Size: 144,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:34)  1. Get Under the Moon
(4:51)  2. Moonglow
(3:02)  3. Me and the Man in the Moon
(3:49)  4. Moon Song
(2:18)  5. I Never Knew What the Moonlight Could Do
(4:09)  6. Under the Moon (You-oo-oo-oo)
(4:00)  7. Moonlight Becomes You
(3:16)  8. Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight
(4:30)  9. It's Only a Paper Moon
(2:21) 10. Me and the Moon
(5:01) 11. Moonlight and Roses
(3:24) 12. (There Ought to Be a) Moonlight Saving Time
(4:18) 13. The Moon Got My Eyes
(2:51) 14. On a Chinese Honeymoon
(3:32) 15. Moonburn
(3:43) 16. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain
(3:15) 17. I Thank You, Mr. Moon
(3:45) 18. Sheltered By the Stars, Cradled By the Moon
(3:49) 19. Moonstruck
(3:21) 20. Shine On Harvest Moon
(5:20) 21. I Wished on the Moon

Barbara Rosene has built an unequalled reputation for interpreting the great music of the 1920s and 30s and 40s. She is a passionate vocalist whose interpretations uncover the richness of jazz classics through the subtle, skilled delivery of one truly in love with the genre she sings. Rosene gives voice to songs in ways that are both gracefully provocative and warmly welcoming. Few singers have her feel for classic material, from all eras of Jazz, interpreting the music with not only a full understanding and love of the original time period but with the rare ability to make the material sound fresh and emotionally relevant today. In her established career she has shared stages with jazz icons, performing internationally with The Harry James Orchestra, Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, the late Les Paul at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club, The Woody Allen Band, at The Carlyle Hotel, as well as directing her own New Yorkers, and as guest artist with orchestras and in festivals across the world. She has played such venues as The Iridium, Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, The Montreal Jazz Festival,  Night Town (Cleveland), Blues Alley (DC), The Arizona Music Festival, Jazz Amarinois, and The Hotel Villa Flori, Lake Como. Barbara has been featured on Judy Carmichael’s NPR program  ”Jazz Inspired”, and recently on NPR’s “Hot Jazz Saturday Night.” She has been recognized by Backstage Magazine (Bistro Award, 2006), “Jazz Improv Magazine”, and is featured in Scott Yanow’s “Great Jazz Singers.” Rosene is personally committed to the significance of jazz music in American Popular Song and in America’s roots and spirit. Finding the soul of a song and linking its heart and expression with her own story brings this seductive blonde singer the satisfaction of a career well-spent. Recently she has begun lecturing on The Tin Pan Alley composers and early women jazz singers. “Do what thrills you. Do what has meaning,” says Rosene, genuinely. “One thing I know is that it really is a privilege to perform. When someone is touched or broadened by something you have given them it is a gift to be able to give back to the world in that way.” Barbara’s CDs include several on the Stomp Off label, all of which pay homage to the great composers and vocalists of the 1920s and 30s. Including  “Nice and Naughty”, a collection of double entendre tunes, which features Conal Fowkes who’s voice and piano stylings as Cole Porter, were featured in “Midnight In Paris”.  Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks ( Boardwalk Empire) collaborated on Barbara’s first CD entitled “Deep Night”. Will Friedwald, author of Jazz Singing and Sinatra! has written: “No one evokes more vividly the music of the great singers of the 1920s than Barbara Rosene.” Barbara’s CDs include releases on the Blues Back, Arbor’s and Azica labels. http://barbararosene.com/biography/

Moon Song

Olivia Trummer Trio - Nach Norden

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:07
Size: 123,9 MB
Art: Front

(8:45)  1. Eternal Dance
(7:09)  2. Leaving Earth
(7:40)  3. Rostock
(7:23)  4. Nach Norden
(8:17)  5. Last Tango
(3:45)  6. Restless
(7:47)  7. A Hint Of Sorrow
(3:17)  8. A Hint Of Sorrow (Solo Version)

The young piano trio around Olivia Trummer is the new sensation! The three award-winning newcomers act in a laid-back and relaxed manner on their debut album in harmonic interplay and in an animated communication. They are instrumental and compositionally mature as their role models, but make their own music. All pieces are taken from the musical (and pretty) head of Olivia Trummer. She describes her jazz pieces as "melodic and modern, young and dreamy and always original and lively" and assigns them stylistically to the mainstream. Again and again she lets her penchant for swing, funk and Latin flash through. https://www.amazon.de/Nach-Norden-Olivia-Trummer-Trio/dp/B000ION58C

Personnel:  Piano, Composed By, Arranged By – Olivia Trummer;  Contrabass – Joel Locher;  Drums – Marcel Gustke

Nach Norden

Evan Christopher, Spanky Davis, Wycliffe Gordon - Times Like These: Jam Session Concert

Styles: Clarinet,Trumpet And Trombone Jazz
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 98:09
Size: 225,7 MB
Art: Front

( 9:02) 1. Deed I Do
( 9:13) 2. Blues in the Air
( 4:38) 3. Blues in Thirds
( 7:38) 4. Basin Street Blues
( 5:15) 5. Rosetta
( 4:41) 6. Passport to Paradise
( 4:05) 7. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
( 9:06) 8. St. Louis Blues
(11:06) 9. Si Tu Vois Ma Mère / Petite Fleur / Summertime / Mood Indigo
( 9:05) 10. Royal Garden Blues
( 5:22) 11. Just One of Those Things
( 7:54) 12. Basin Street Blues II
( 4:42) 13. Passport to Paradise II
( 4:00) 14. Georgia Cabin
( 2:14) 15. Times Like These

"This is a rollicking session that will delight both traditional jazz fans and those with ears inclined to more modern sounds ... Gordon shines here and is clearly having a ball."~ Cadence

"My goal is to maintain the integrity of early jazz styles, its structure, but move forward so that it's speaking to an audience of today instead of being something bottled and preserved."~ Evan Christopher

"The high technical quality of this recording and the creative music, featuring compositions by Sidney Bechet and songs he recorded, is intended to serve the memory of the great Wizard and afford joy to the listener. Vive Bechet!~ Eric D. Offner, President of the Sidney Bechet Society

Personnel: Evan Christopher - clarinet; Spanky Davis - trumpet; Wycliffe Gordon - trombone; Jack Lesberg - bass; Mark Shane - piano; Jackie Williams - drums

Times Like These: Jam Session Concert

Seth MacFarlane - Blue Skies

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:58
Size: 97,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:49) 1. It's You or No One
(2:22) 2. No Moon At All
(2:45) 3. You'll Get Yours
(3:00) 4. A Hundred Years From Today
(2:22) 5. If I Were A Bell
(3:12) 6. Out of Nowhere
(3:05) 7. On Green Dolphin Street
(2:49) 8. That Old Feeling
(3:14) 9. Blue Skies
(2:53) 10. It Could Happen to You
(3:37) 11. I Didn't Know About You
(3:13) 12. You Turned The Tables On Me
(3:42) 13. Never In A Million Years
(2:46) 14. Unless I Do It All With You

For Seth MacFarlane, “blue” means less balladic. He’s announcing a new album on the way, “Blue Skies,” and says it marks a return to a more swinging style than the softer approach he employed on his last record. Out May 20, the seventh album from the “Family Guy” creator and jazz cat will again see him working with a catalog of classics, and again see him working closely with arranger and conductor Andrew Cottee. Still, it’ll mark a turnaround from their previous release.

“I have long been a fan of Andrew Cottee’s supremely artful and buoyant orchestrations,” MacFarlane tells Variety. “So after our last collaboration, ‘Once in A While,’ a ballad-themed record, I really wanted to hear what he could do with an up-tempo album. As always, Andrew did not disappoint. His arrangements of these 14 songs, carefully selected by the two of us, are yet another shining example of the expertise with which he handles both melodic interpretations and orchestral dynamics.”

Cottee speaks in terms of raising the bar. “This is the album I’ve always wanted to make,” he says. “The chance to collaborate with an artist like Seth MacFarlane and work with such a high calibre of players is a dream for any arranger.”

The first single from the Verve/Republic release, “No Moon at All,” is out today, and ironically, perhaps, given the album title, it’s about enjoying the favors of a black sky. The song a jazz standard written in 1947 by David Mann and Redd Evans has previously been recorded by artists including Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London and Diana Krall… and for some reason has been favored largely be female vocalists over the year, although men like Mel Torme have put their hands on it too. Who’s to say why it has so often been women jumping at the chance to sing lines like “It’s so dark / Even Fido is afraid to bark / What a perfect chance to park”? MacFarlane, for his part, is not afraid to go there.

Together, MacFarlane and Cottee wrote one new song for the album, “Unless I Do It All With You,” which closes the collection. Otherwise it’s reliant on some of the less over-familiar pages from a songbook handed down from songwriters like Irving Berlin (who co-wrote the 1926 title song), Frank Loesser, Sammy Cahn and Edward Heyman. Musicians recruited for the project include Chuck Berghofer (bass), Peter Erskine (drums), Larry Koonse (guitar), Dan Higgins (alto sax) and Tom Ranier (piano). Back on board from past projects are producer Joel McNeely and engineer Rich Breen. Cottee’s credits include arrangements on films including “Sing” and “Beyond the Sea,” orchestrating Paul McCartney’s “Ocean Kingdom” ballet and composing music for McFarlane’s Hulu series “The Orville.” Seth MacFarlane - Blue Skies 2022 https://variety.com/2022/music/news/seth-macfarlane-new-album-blue-skies-1235237598/

Personnel: Chuck Berghofer (bass), Peter Erskine (drums), Larry Koonse (guitar), Dan Higgins (alto sax) and Tom Ranier (piano).

Blue Skies