Rick Fay & Friends - Rolling On

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:05
Size: 140,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:14)  1. I Double Dare You
(5:09)  2. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
(3:04)  3. In the Dark
(5:20)  4. Somebody loves me
(2:47)  5. Ballad For Eddie
(5:04)  6. Can't We Be Friends?
(4:07)  7. Roll on, Mississippi, Roll On
(6:30)  8. Possum Jump
(4:31)  9. Tishomingo Blues
(5:26) 10. Manoir De Mes Reves
(3:38) 11. Plain and Simple
(2:24) 12. Echoes of Spring
(3:35) 13. Day Dream
(4:10) 14. Come Back Sweet Papa

Rick Fay's series of Arbors releases, which really got going in 1991, are superior examples of Dixieland and small-group swing. On this set Fay sticks to tenor and soprano (leaving his clarinet in the case), welcoming such major players as trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, trombonist Dan Barrett, clarinetist Chuck Hedges, pianist-arranger Dick Cary and guest-guitarist Howard Alden (who makes a couple of rare appearances on banjo) to his octet. 

The music is played with plenty of spirit and, although all of the music but three originals was already quite vintage at the time, the musicians come up with many fresh statements. Among the highlights are "I Double Dare You," a Dick Cary arrangement of Bix Beiderbecke's "In The Dark," "Somebody Loves Me," "Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On," and "Come Back Sweet Papa." ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/rolling-on-mw0000026400

Personnel: Rick Fay (vocals, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Howard Alden (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo); Paul Scavarda (guitar, banjo); Chuck Hedges (clarinet); Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet); Dan Barrett (trombone); Dick Cary (alto horn, piano); Joe Ascione (drums).

Rolling On

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Juan Dhas - Embracing Clarity

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 52:49
Size: 49,0 MB
Art: Front

( 8:53) 1. Free
( 7:10) 2. Motive
( 5:13) 3. Premonition
( 6:20) 4. Light in the Dark
( 7:22) 5. Wired
( 6:21) 6. Let Go
(11:26) 7. Andean Sky

Guitarist Juan Dhas's full name is Juan Diego Chandra Dhas which gives some idea of his initial life influences through his Colombian mother and Indian father. After getting a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in 2010, and graduating in 2014, Dhas recorded Embracing Clarity, which is only available digitally due to financial constraints.

Blessed with seemingly endless guitar technique in both hands (see here), Dhas can do whatever he wishes technically. However, on his seven original compositions he frequently underplays the technical and emphasizes emotion and story telling.

Dhas and his highly sympathetic band (pianist Benjamin Furman, bassist Alex Gorchesky and drummer Aaron Lawson), all of whom participated in the arrangements, have created music that floats over an inner core of intensity and fire. The "clarity" of the album's title is immediately evident both in Dhas' guitar lines and the way the very tight band's individual parts fit together -and the sum is much more than the parts.

The overall effect is very attractive and more than a bit mesmerizing, while the music seems to fly by as it ebbs and flows while always moving forward. There is a gloss and sheen to Dhas' music, caused partly by his physical guitar sound, but also by the ethereally ambiguous harmony that is many times coupled with a driving groove. Guiding the beautiful sounds and emotions is an intelligence which can be clearly sensed.

As a début effort, Embracing Clarity is very impressive in that Dhas exhibits a distinct musical personality at such an early stage of development. From the musical evidence, he knows what he wants to say and how he wants to say it, and there is no doubt that Dhas will continue to grow, but always from this solid and joyful musical core -and it is this core which reaches out and touches.~Budd
Kopman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/embracing-clarity-juan-dhas-self-produced-review-by-budd-kopman

Personnel: Juan Dhas: guitar; Benjamin Furman: piano/keyboards ; Alex Gorchesky: Bass; Aaron Lawson: drums
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Embracing Clarity

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Pearl Bailey - Pearl Bailey at Her Best

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:42
Size: 73,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:12) 1. Come Rain or Come Shine (St. Louis Woman)
(3:00) 2. Takes Two to Tango
(2:17) 3. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(2:43) 4. The Man That Got Away
(3:04) 5. Fifteen Years
(2:40) 6. I've Got the World on a String
(3:08) 7. Love for Sale
(1:44) 8. There's a Little Bit of Bad on Every Good Little Girl
(3:02) 9. Solid Gold Cadillac
(2:23) 10. That Certain Feeling
(2:35) 11. Hit the Road to Dreamland
(2:48) 12. Zing Went the Strings of My Heart

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer, and author After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale. Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.

In 1976, she became the first African-American to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988. Bailey was born in Newport News, Virginia to the Reverend Joseph James and Ella Mae Ricks Bailey. She was raised in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in nearby Norfolk, the first city in the region to offer higher education for black students. Blues singer Ruth Brown was one of her classmates. Bailey later moved to Philadelphia with her mother and siblings.

Bailey made her stage-singing debut at the age of 15. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap dancer and suggested that she enter an amateur contest at the Pearl Theatre in Philadelphia. Bailey won and was offered $35 a week to perform there for two weeks. However, the theater closed during her engagement and she was not paid. She later won a similar competition at Harlem's famous Apollo Theater and decided to pursue a career in entertainment. She was also known to have performed in the church choir at St Peter Claver Catholic Church in Brooklyn, at the behest of Msgr Bernard J. Quinn, More..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Bailey

Pearl Bailey at Her Best

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