Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:09
Size: 161,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:10) 1. When It's Sleepytime Down South
(6:23) 2. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:11) 3. Indelible And Nocturnal
(8:34) 4. I'll Remember April
(7:16) 5. Embraceable You
(3:04) 6. Crepuscle With Nellie
(6:29) 7. What Is This Thing Called Love?
(3:12) 8. The End Of A Love Affair
(5:16) 9. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
(5:06) 10. Lover
(9:36) 11. Yesterdays
(5:47) 12. Bourbon Street Parade

Wynton Marsalis's second of three standard albums was actually released after the third volume. On most of the selections, the brilliant trumpeter is heard in excellent form with his quartet (comprised of pianist Marcus Roberts, bassist Reginald Veal or Robert Hurst and either Herlin Riley or Jeff Watts on drums); tenorman Todd Williams helps out on "I'll Remember April" and altoist Wes Anderson is also added to "Crepuscule with Nellie." Marsalis's tone really makes the ballads worth hearing, and his unusual choice and placement of notes keeps the music stimulating. This mostly bop-oriented set is rounded off by a jaunty version of "Bourbon Street Parade."
~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/standard-time-vol-2-intimacy-calling-mw0000691696

Standard Time, Vol.2: Intimacy Calling

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Lauren Meccia - Inside your eyes

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:36
Size: 115,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:48) 1. Butterfly
(4:35) 2. Inside your eyes
(3:21) 3. How high the moon
(2:35) 4. One note samba
(6:14) 5. If you can fly
(3:36) 6. Cheek to cheek
(4:07) 7. The look of love
(2:33) 8. What the world needs now
(4:13) 9. You don't know what love is
(4:51) 10. I can't make you love me
(4:57) 11. Atlantis
(4:40) 12. Over the rainbow

Lauren Meccia is an instructor of Jazz Studies at the University of South Carolina. She was formerly the director of jazz ensembles at UofSC and UofSC Aiken. She is the founder of the CSRA (Central Savannah River Area) New Horizons Band for senior adults in Aiken, SC. Lauren is co-director of the Congaree New Horizons Band in Columbia, SC.

Lauren earned a Bachelor of Music in Education with a Certificate in Saxophone Performance and a Master of Music in saxophone performance from the University of South Carolina. She has performed jazz and music festivals throughout the Southeast and across the US.

Lauren Meccia is a member of the South Carolina Jazz Masterworks Ensemble as well as the Charleston Jazz Orchestra. Lauren was twice a featured performer at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show in Anaheim, CA. She has been featured as a soloist with several symphony orchestras and concert bands throughout the US. Lauren has appeared in concert with Kenny Barron, Chris Potter, Jeff Coffin, Wycliffe Gordon, Tommy Igoe, Veronica Swift, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Temptations, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, and Jesse Colin Young.

Lauren released her debut vocal album, Inside Your Eyes, in 2015, receiving positive reviews in jazz publications throughout the United States, Russia, and Japan.

Inside your eyes

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Alba Esteban - Joan Chamorro presenta Alba Esteban

Styles: Vocal, Saxophone Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:21
Size: 183,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:54) 1. These Foolish Things
(4:49) 2. Day Dream
(2:40) 3. A Sleepin' Bee
(4:56) 4. Festive Minor
(5:09) 5. A Handful of Stars
(4:36) 6. Along Came Betty
(4:03) 7. Chessman's Delight
(3:48) 8. Lullaby of Birdland
(2:50) 9. September Song
(4:42) 10. Upper Manhattan Medical Group
(4:13) 11. A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
(2:46) 12. I Never Had a Chance
(5:53) 13. For Sentimental Reasons
(7:38) 14. Alone Together
(6:03) 15. Tenderly
(2:58) 16. This Time the Dream's on Me
(7:13) 17. Darn That Dream

Alba Esteban presented her first album as a singer on June 21 at Jamboree, accompanied by maestro Joan Chamorro and his quartet with Joan Monné (piano), Giuseppe Campisi (double bass) and Arnau Julià (drums).

This is the eighteenth album in the collection that the founder and director of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band (SAJB) has produced since he began this recording project to promote the musical careers of young performers such as Andrea Motis (2010), Magalí Datzira (2014), Èlia Bastida (2017) or Marçal Perramon (2020), among others.

Alba Esteban is a saxophone lover – she plays them all: soprano, alto, tenor and baritone –, clarinettist and vocalist. On May 11, she offered her end-of-grade recital at the Liceu Superior Conservatory, with a repertoire inspired by Gerry Mulligan and her quartet. After being part of the SAJB for twelve years, performing at the main festivals at home and abroad, as well as recording more than thirty CDs as a sidewoman –including "La Magia de la Voz & Jazz Ensemble" (2016)–, Alba Esteban signs a work in which she shines for her lyricism, her creative capacity and her musical taste.

It's been a while since the singer decided that her voice would be baritone. In fact, her style is influenced by the great baritone saxophones she admires: the aforementioned Mulligan, Harrie Carney, Pepper Adams and Serge Chaloff. As a singer, Alba Esteban makes her instrument sound melodic, both from a timbre point of view and when she does solos.

Joan Chamorro presenta Alba Esteban

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