Tierney Sutton - Something Cool

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:57
Size: 149,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:41) 1. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66!
(4:29) 2. Something Cool
(3:35) 3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
(6:26) 4. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
(3:07) 5. Show Me
(5:51) 6. Comes Love
(5:37) 7. Reflections
(4:13) 8. Alone Together
(6:06) 9. Out Of This World
(5:30) 10. All Or Nothing At All
(3:03) 11. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
(3:00) 12. Walkin' After Midnight
(3:40) 13. Crazy
(4:34) 14. The Best Is Yet To Come

Tierney Sutton warms the soul with Something Cool. This offering, her third as a leader for the Telarc label, finds the vocalist using an array of vocal techniques, jazz styles, and formats on 14 great songs by several Great American Songbook composers, Bobby Troup, and the masterful Duke Ellington. Sutton is accompanied by her longtime trio of Christian Jacob on piano, Trey Henry on bass, and Ray Brinker on drums. The lovely vocalist/educator charms her listeners with elongated phrasings, a strong rhythmic sense, and amazing improvisational abilities on three Lerner & Loewe themes from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. In addition to the outstanding vocal treatments she offers her listeners on these classic songs, Sutton scats and swings through an amazing "Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead."

This song not only shows her versatility with tempo changes and range, but also displays her unique talent for selecting songs commonly associated with another musical style and improvising them in a jazz context. She garnered international critical acclaim for this technique on her 1999 release titled Unsung Heroes. Additional highlights include Howard Dietz's "Alone Together," on which she duets with bassist Trey Henry, and her exceptional rendition of "The Best Is Yet to Come," which features her cool jazz vocal skills. Tierney Sutton is at her finest on this program and offers an impeccable selection of songs that showcase her distinct musical personality and quality sound.~ Paula Edelstein https://www.allmusic.com/album/something-cool-mw0000229587

Something Cool

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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Misty for Direct Cutting

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:19
Size: 77,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:51) 1. Misty
(6:31) 2. Midnight Sugar
(7:48) 3. The In Crowd
(5:21) 4. Girl Talk
(5:27) 5. The Folks Who Live on The Hill
(2:19) 6. Yesterday

“MISTY for Direct Cutting” was recorded in May 2021 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Errol Garner’s birth. For this album of Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, direct cutting was used for both analog and digital. For Direct Cutting in analogic, the recorded sound is engraved on a lacquer board in real time. For the digital, the recorded sound is recorded in DSD 11.2 MHz. The both records are realised without the editing, mixing and mastering steps. The goal is to go directly from the music to the recording without any intermediate processing.

We will review 5 editions (Vinyl analog Direct cutting, Vinyl from DSD , MQA-CD in PCM mode, MQA-CD with MQA decoded, Streaming Amazon UltraHD) of this album. https://magicvinyldigital.net/2022/01/30/tsuyoshi-yamamoto-trio-misty-for-direct-cutting-review-lp-mqa-cd/

Personnel: Piano – Tsuyoshi Yamamoto; Bass – Hiroshi Kagawa; Drums – Toshio Osumi

Misty for Direct Cutting

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Ada Bird Wolfe - Birdie

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:45
Size: 117,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:38) 1. Lover Man
(2:45) 2. Doralice
(4:29) 3. All Blues
(5:37) 4. How I Wish (Ask Me Now)
(4:53) 5. Mon Fantôme
(2:42) 6. Monk's Dream
(6:34) 7. Round Midnight
(4:59) 8. Four
(4:56) 9. Valerie
(5:46) 10. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
(3:22) 11. Every Time I Sing the Blues

Unique soulful jazz vocals Ada Bird Wolfe – BIRDIE: What a splendid set of unique & soulful jazz vocals to wake up to on a rainy Great Northwest morning… this is my first listen to Ada’s fine jazz vocal work, but as you listen to tunes like the 4:40 opener, “Lover Man“, you’ll know right away why my ears are strongly attracted to her style.

There’s an excellent introductory trailer that will give you some very intimate insights into Ada’s mighty mellow personality… …as you’ll see & hear, she’s simply delightful, and her co-players (Jamieson Trotter (piano/musical director), Dan Lutz (bass), Mike Shapiro (drums), Scott Mayo (tenor saxophone), Jamelle Adisa (trumpet), Nathaniel LaPointe (guitar), Hideaki Tokunaga (guitar), Kleber Jorge (guitar) really help her spice it up. Of course, since you’re there already, be sure you SUBSCRIBE to her YouTube channel (I did), where you’ll find many highly spirited live videos to watch.

Ada’s vocal rendition of Mile’s “All Blues” will have those “jazz chills” runnin’ up & down your spine, I’ve no doubt… I do believe this is the most unique version of this jazz classic I’ve ever listened to!

Ada is a fan of Monk, and you’ll hear her talent just shining through on her 5:38 rendition of his “Ask Me Now“… laid-back, & the ultimate in cool… you’ll be hitting “replay” on this one often, and I can easily see it hitting the charts in a very big way.

It’s another Monk tune that got my vote for personal favorite… “‘Round Midnight” gives you a totally new perspective on this fine song… lush and mighty mellow, and I totally loved Jamieson’s keyboard on this one!

I give Ada and her players a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an “EQ” (energy quotient) rating of 4.98 for this superb jazz vocal adventure… get more information about this fascinating artist at Ada’s website. https://contemporaryfusionreviews.com/unique-soulful-jazz-vocals-ada-bird-wolfe-birdie/

Birdie

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Angela Verbrugge - Love for Connoisseurs

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:25
Size: 113,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:24) 1. Love for Connoisseurs
(3:37) 2. Enough's Enough
(3:44) 3. This is Manhattan
(4:13) 4. Je Ne Veux Pas Te Dire Bonsoir
(4:08) 5. Cold and Hot Blues
(4:16) 6. Corn on the Cob
(3:47) 7. Mr Right
(5:26) 8. Jive Turkey
(3:43) 9. Not Here, Not Now
(3:40) 10. Twentieth Century Fox
(4:33) 11. Quarantine
(3:48) 12. Maybe Now's the Time

Based in British Columbia’s picturesque capital of Victoria, jazz vocalist and songwriter Angela Verbrugge introduced herself with 2019’s captivating debut The Night We Couldn’t Say Goodnight. That project covered a lot of ground, leading off with two originals that, in hindsight, offered a telling glimpse of her prowess and ambition. Focusing entirely on original material, written mostly in collaboration with veteran musicians, her second album Love for Connoisseurs establishes Verbrugge as a jazz artist mining everyday life for lyrical nuggets.

Well integrated into her capable band with pianist Miles Black, bassist Jodi Proznick, drummer Joel Fountain, and saxophonist Dave Say, she applies her considerable wit and winsome sound to songs that tend to focus on the vicissitudes of romance. She turns pianist Ray Gallon’s intricate tune “Enough’s Enough” into an exasperated list of offenses by a slobby housemate. One hopes that their collaboration detailing the exploits of a boorish cad, “Jive Turkey,” refers to someone else. On the all-too-topical “Quarantine” they take a left turn from an “All Blues”-like intro into a forbidding portrait of life in the pre-vaccination phase of the pandemic.~ Andrew Gilbert https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/angela-verbrugge-love-for-connoisseurs-gut-strings/

Love for Connoisseurs

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