Regina Belle - Love Forever Shines

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:47
Size: 168,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:25) 1. Love Forever Shines
(4:13) 2. Can't Nobody
(4:38) 3. Who Touched Me
(7:53) 4. God Is Good
(5:37) 5. Almost Slipped
(4:34) 6. I Hope He Understand
(5:26) 7. Victory
(3:47) 8. God Said
(5:08) 9. Good To Be Loved
(6:25) 10. Come Into This Place
(4:28) 11. Coming Out Of This
(6:21) 12. I Call On Jesus
(3:34) 13. My Destiny
(6:11) 14. I'll Never Leave You Alone

Like a lot of R&B luminaries, Regina Belle cut her teeth on gospel. And like dozens of her contemporaries who set it aside when Grammys and gold records started trickling in, she rediscovered it at a point in her career when the pop charts seemed less scalable. But Love Forever Shines, the throaty singer's debut gospel album, proves it's never too late to return to the sound that gave you liftoff. "God Is Good," the first single from this hefty batch, will have doubters swaying in their seats, arms up-stretched, and believers belting in the aisles. Like Melvin Williams of The Williams Brothers, who guests here throughout, Belle busts out a spiritual certainty that benefits from maturity.

She's an artist who's been there, seen that, and she's saved some of her boldest, most bewitching moments see "Almost Slipped," "Can't Nobody" and "Who Touched Me"for this record. Jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul make appearances, but at the end of a long set of praising, cherishing and reaching for the vocal rafters this is a pure contemporary gospel project. Fans of the genre will wish she had abandoned her days of Peabo Bryson and Johnny Mathis duets for a walk down this path decades ago.~Tammy La Gorcehttps://www.allmusic.com/album/release/love-forever-shines-mr0000981296

Love Forever Shines

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Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Scott Hamilton - Sant Andreu Jazz Band & Scott Hamilton (Compilation)

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 158:25
Size: 364,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:49) 1. Jim
(5:36) 2. Shiny Stockings
(5:49) 3. Laura
(4:20) 4. September in the Rain
(4:23) 5. Eu sei que vou te amar
(5:54) 6. It's De-Lovely
(4:22) 7. As Long as I Live
(3:53) 8. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
(4:27) 9. Águas de Março
(5:46) 10. Falling in Love with Love
(6:40) 11. Insensatez
(5:15) 12. Nobody Else but Me
(4:09) 13. Vip's Boogie
(5:04) 14. Makin' Whoopee
(4:06) 15. My Baby Just Cares for Me
(6:59) 16. Meditaçao
(5:38) 17. I Could Write a Book
(5:30) 18. Everything Happens To
(6:41) 19. A Secret Love
(5:35) 20. China Boy
(3:57) 21. Georgia on My Mind
(4:22) 22. Ill Wind
(4:10) 23. Love You're Spell
(6:13) 24. Chelsea Bridge
(4:10) 25. Day Dream
(4:02) 26. A Kiss to Build a Dream
(5:03) 27. Minor Swing
(3:51) 28. When You're Smiling
(5:44) 29. Jump for Joy
(5:57) 30. You Go to My Head
(5:45) 31. He's My Guy

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a youth jazz band from Barcelona, featuring 7- to 20-year-olds. The bandleader is Joan Chamorro. The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia, and other regions of Spain as well as in neighbouring countries. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances at more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing vol.2.

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts. The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin, Texas, US in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Andreu_Jazz_Band

Musicians: SAXOS: Sander Theuns, Shanti Ming, Elian Sabogal, Koldo Munné, Lola Peñaranda, Alba Esteban

TROMPETES: Martí Costalago, Max Munné, Gerard Peñaranda, Elsa Armengou , Martha Vives, Alba Armengou

TROMBONS: Hugo Vlach, Luc Martín, Perot Rigau, Clàudia Rostey, Max Tato

BASE RÍTMICA: Anna Ndiaye (piano), Jordi Herrera (contrabaix), Nils Theuns (bateria)

Van formar part de la big band:Abril Saurí (bateria i veu), Andrea Motis (trompeta, saxo i veu),Arnau Julià (bateria), Arnau Sánchez (trombó), Carla Motis (guitarra), Carles Vázquez (saxo), Dani Téllez (trombó), Eduard Ferrer (saxo), Èlia Bastida (violí, saxo tenor i veu), Eva Fernández (saxo i veu), Eva Garín (trombó), Helena Pañart (saxo i veu), Irene Mata (saxo i flauta), Irene Reig (saxo), Iscle Datzira (saxo), Iván Cervantes (bateria), Jan Domènech (piano), Jan Rodríguez (contrabaix), Jaume Ferrer (saxo), Joan Aleix Mata (bateria), Joan Codina (trombó), Joan Mar Sauqué (trompeta), Joan Martí (saxos, flauta, clarinet i veu), Joana Casanova (saxo i veu), Magalí Datzira (contrabaix i veu), Marc Ferrer (piano), Marc Martín (piano), Marçal Perramon (saxo i clarinet), Martí Ibáñez (trompeta), Max Salgado (trompa), Max Vernet (trombó), Miquel Casanova (contrabaix), Miranda Fernández (piano i veu), Nil Galgo (saxo i clarinet)Noa Galgo (trompeta)Pablo Fernández (trompeta)Pablo Ruiz (bateria)Pau Galgo (contrabaix)Paula Berzal (trombó)Paula Esteban (trombó i veu)Raul Castro (trombó)Rita Payés (trombó i veu), Ruth Margüenda (trompeta i veu), Simon Palazzi (piano), Ton Felices (contrabaix), Víctor Carrascosa (trompeta).

Sant Andreu Jazz Band w/Scott Hamilton

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Cyrus Chestnut - My Father's Hands

Styles: Piano Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:53
Size: 112,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:24) 1. Nippon Soul Connection
(5:19) 2. Thinking About You
(4:05) 3. Cubano Chant
(4:42) 4. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
(4:14) 5. Yesterday
(3:23) 6. I Must Tell Jesus
(6:31) 7. Working Out Just Fine
(4:15) 8. There Will Never Be Another You
(2:58) 9. But Beautiful
(5:57) 10. Epilogue

Cyrus Chestnut is a mainstreamer, his straightahead sound owing a good deal to gospel and the blues as main building blocks and you find all the ingredients of his sound here. Swing is to the heart of it all and to the fore straight off. I'm thinking in my head from yesteryear John Hicks and Oscar Peterson as simpatico to the Chestnut sound. And if you dig Ronnie Scott's musical director pianist James Pearson you will also get what Chestnut does if so far unfamiliar with this fantastic instrumentalist. Bassist Peter Washington, a straightahead legend of the music (like his generation's very own Ron Carter and brilliant last year with Bill Charlap), is on most of the tracks and the fine drummer Lewis Nash likewise.

The classic 'Cubano Chant' introduced to jazz by its writer Ray Bryant on a 1956 recording (and followed up the same year by Cal Tjader) really exposes us to the touch of Nash. And that is just one superb highlight of a record that is all about supreme musicianship, refinement and the art of the trio. It isn't going to change the world but will warm your soul whether on the Paul McCartney classic 'Yesterday' or the melting balm of Jimmy Van Heusen's 'But Beautiful.' What a tender tribute to Cyrus' dad McDonald Chestnut from his son. My Father's Hands so very winningly is.https://www.marlbank.net/posts/cyrus-chestnut-my-father-s-hands-high-note.

Personnel: Cyrus Chestnut (p); Peter Washington (b, except track 6); Lewis Nash (ds,except track 6)

My Father's Hands

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