Lorez Alexandria - Chicago Jazz Festival'80

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1980
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:33
Size: 91,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:09) 1. Michael Cuscuna interviews Lorez Alexandria
(1:40) 2. Introduction
(2:04) 3. On a Clear Day
(6:44) 4. Something Cool
(2:09) 5. Satin Doll
(5:18) 6. Don't Explain
(2:41) 7. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
(5:43) 8. But Beautiful
(1:19) 9. Introduction
(2:39) 10. Little Boat
(3:02) 11. Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)
(1:01) 12. Billy Taylor comments

Lorez Alexandria concert at Grant Park at the Chicago Jazz Festival on 8/30/1980. Broadcast on WBEZ FM, Chicago's NPR station. Commentary by Billy Taylor and Michael Cuscuna, of NPR's Jazz Alive series. This was the 4th set of the evening's Jazz Alive broadcast. This evening was dedicated to Chicago Jazz Heritage. Thanks to Mark Rabin for sharing this recording and the festival flyer.
https://archive.org/details/lorez-alexandria-1980-chicago-jazz-fest-npr

Musicians: Lorez Alexandria-Vocals; Willie Pickens-Piano; Dan Shapira-Bass; Robert Shy-Drums

Chicago Jazz Festival'80

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Friedrich Gulda - Ineffable: The Unique Jazz Piano Of Friedrich Gulda

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1965
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:38
Size: 90,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:02)  1. I Only Have Eyes For You
(2:04)  2. Prelude
(4:34)  3. Ineffable
(5:41)  4. The Horn And I
(4:33)  5. Plant Some Flowers (Plantem und Blomen)
(3:57)  6. I'll Remember April
(4:30)  7. Riverbed
(5:02)  8. Lament
(3:11)  9. Quartet

Classical and jazz pianist and composer, Friedrich Gulda was one of Austria's premiere pianists. Born in Vienna in 1930, Gulda started piano lessons at the age of seven. When he was 12, he enrolled in the Vienna Music Academy, and four years later received first place in the Geneva International Music Festival. In 1949, Gulda toured Europe and South America, earning international acclaim for his treatments of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, and the following year he successfully debuted at Carnegie Hall. Gulda became more involved in jazz from 1951 on, when he improvised with Dizzy Gillespie following a performance with the Chicago Symphony. Five years later, Gulda played his first American jazz concert at Birdland (N.Y.C.), followed by a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. 

After this, Gulda formed the Eurojazz Orchestra, a jazz combo and big band which drew from both jazz and classical compositions. In 1966, ten years after his Birdland appearance, Gulda organized a modern jazz competition in his native city. He was awarded the Vienna Academy's Beethoven Ring in 1970, but later returned it to protest what he regarded as a constricting educational system. This only reinforced the public's perception of Gulda as an eccentric. This reputation was not helped when he abruptly called off major performances more than once. A 1988 incident occurred in reaction to objections to his program for a Salzburg music festival that included jazz musician Joe Zawinul; he made another last minute cancellation by faking his own death with a phony obituary only days before a scheduled performance of Mozart. On January 27, 2000, Friedrich Gulda died of an apparent heart attack in Vienna, the city of his birth.
~Joslyn Layne https://www.allmusic.com/artist/friedrich-gulda-mn0000207805/biography

Ineffable: The Unique Jazz Piano Of Friedrich Gulda

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Denise Jannah & Wolf Martini - Live In Johannesburg

Size: 168,5 MB
Time: 72:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. There Will Never Be Another You (3:43)
02. Announcement (0:50)
03. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (5:01)
04. Skylark (4:45)
05. I Thought About You (4:55)
06. Syen (Shame) (4:00)
07. Wys My Die Plek (3:52)
08. Twisted (2:59)
09. My Funny Valentine (6:30)
10. Sondongo (Sunset) (4:51)
11. I'm In The Mood For Love (0:16)
12. Like A Lover (O Contador) (7:09)
13. There Is No Greater Love (3:31)
14. She Walks The Streets (3:32)
15. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (5:32)
16. How Do You Keep The Music Playing (4:57)
17. Moenie Weggan Nie - Ne Me Quitte Pas (5:41)

For more than a decade, the classic honeyed voice of jazz vocalist Denise Jannah has been heard on her solo albums in the U.S., but she has been singing much, much longer. After a childhood spent alternately in Surinam and Holland, she attended the Hilversum Conservatory, graduating in 1971. Her first American release was in 1991 with her album, Take It From the Top. Two others followed, A Heart Full of Music and I Was Born in Love With You. In 2000, Jannah became the first Dutch solo artist to release an album on Blue Note with The Madness of Our Love.

Live In Johannesburg

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