Tony Lakatos - I Get Along With You Very Well

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:45
Size: 155,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:30) 1. Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
(6:14) 2. Skylark (feat. Jimmy Scott (Vocal))
(4:37) 3. I Get Along With You Very Well
(5:34) 4. Georgia On My Mind
(3:03) 5. The Nearness Of You (feat. Jimmy Scott (Vocal))
(5:23) 6. Skylark
(5:52) 7. April In My Heart
(7:49) 8. Stardust (feat. Jimmy Scott (Vocal))
(5:32) 9. Little Break From Hoagy (feat. George Mraz, Adam Nussbaum)
(7:05) 10. The Nearness Of You
(3:10) 11. Heart And Soul
(4:39) 12. Big Breath
(3:11) 13. A Woman Likes To Be Told

Tony Lakatos,the great Hungarian jazz saxophone player was born on 13th November, 1958 in Budapest.His father was a fantastic Hungarian musician, a violinist.His brother, Roby Lakatos is a great violinist living in Brussels.

As for a start, Tony, then Tónika /Antal/ started learning to play the violin, as it was traditional in his family.To my knowledge,their family is one of the most outstanding gypsy musician families of Hungary, his ancestors can be traced back as belonging to the best violinist family, the Bihari family./I'm not quite sure of the name, though./ The little Tony got to like the saxophone,but his parents didn't approve of him changing his musical instrument.

At last, he still started playing, and he appeared at one of Hungary's jazz festivals at the age of 17 as a great talent and surprise for everyone. Eversince then he has played with all the most renowned Hungarian musicians like Szakcsi Lakatos Béla /piano/,Dresch Mihály /saxophone/,Pecek Lakatos Géza /drums/,Balázs Elemér /drums/,Lattmann Béla /bass guitar/ and numerous others.

He moved to Germany in 1985 /or so/ and has been living there since then, in Stuttgart.He has played with numerous American, German and European jazz musicians.He has had concerts all around Europe,USA and even in Japan. Tony Lakatos returns to Hungary quite often, so we are lucky to be able to listen to his inventive music.He does not only play jazz standards but also a great composer in his own right. Tony is married with two daughters, a good hearted, very nice person.
https://www.last.fm/music/Tony+Lakatos/+wiki

Personnel: Tony Lakatos - Tenor & Soprano Saxophones; George Mraz - Bass; Tim Lefebvre - Electric Bass; Adam Nussbaum - Drums; Jimmy Scott - Vocals

I Get Along With You Very Well

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Andy Laverne - Severe Clear

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:36
Size: 146,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:23) 1. Severe Clear
(8:39) 2. No Guts, No Glory
(9:10) 3. Plasma Pool
(6:13) 4. Fact or Fiction
(6:31) 5. Rick's Trick
(7:59) 6. Trajectory
(9:16) 7. Three Times Twice
(8:20) 8. Ethereal Spheres

Augmented by trumpeter Tim Hagans, this recording finds Laverne in top gear playing some of the most incredible chord voicings. Rick Margitza (ts) is also prominently featured.
By Paul Kohler https://www.allmusic.com/album/severe-clear-mw0000415916

Personnel: Andy LaVerne – piano; Tim Hagans – trumpet; Rick Margitza – tenor saxophone; Steve LaSpina – bass; Anton Fig – drums

Severe Clear

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Rosemary Clooney - The CBS Radio Recordings 1955 - 61 Disc 4, Disc 5

Album: The CBS Radio Recordings 1955 - 61 Disc 4
Styles: Vocal, Swing, Ballad
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:45
Size: 119,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:21) 1. There Goes My Heart
(2:23) 2. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
(2:25) 3. Love Letters
(2:40) 4. Too Close For Comfort
(2:09) 5. This Can't Be Love
(2:23) 6. We'll Be Together Again
(2:24) 7. You Took Advantage Of Me
(2:35) 8. Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town)
(2:27) 9. Blue Moon
(2:21) 10. There Will Never Be Another You
(2:20) 11. That Old Black Magic
(2:33) 12. Love, Look Away
(2:23) 13. I Wish I Were In Love Again
(2:07) 14. What Did We Do Last Night?
(2:09) 15. You Ol' Son Of A Gun
(2:15) 16. Sing, You Sinners
(2:36) 17. Tenderly
(2:28) 18. I Should Have Told You Long Ago
(2:55) 19. Goodbye Blues
(2:40) 20. You Got
(3:02) 21. Harbor Lights

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Album: The CBS Radio Recordings 1955 - 61 Disc 5
Time: 54:02
Size: 124,7 MB

(1:49) 1. Everything's Coming Up Roses
(2:05) 2. I Love You (My Every Thought Is You)
(2:20) 3. Where Or When
(2:09) 4. Danny Boy
(2:48) 5. Give Me The Simple Life
(2:30) 6. Bye Bye Blackbird
(2:21) 7. Anyone For Love
(2:59) 8. How Will I Remember You?
(2:20) 9. Get Me To The Church On Time
(2:39) 10. Love Among The Young
(2:34) 11. The Best Thing For You (Would Be Me)
(3:05) 12. Every Time I See You I'm In Love Again
(2:21) 13. A Lot Of Livin' To Do
(3:18) 14. If I Ever Love Again
(2:46) 15. With A Dream Of Love
(2:31) 16. I'm Losing Control
(3:48) 17. My Old Kentucky Home
(3:16) 18. Don't Blame Me
(2:48) 19. (Why Don't You Give Yourself) Half A Chance
(3:25) 20. Can't Get Out Of This Mood

The CBS Radio Recordings 1955 - 61 Disc 4, Disc 5

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Mark Winkler - Late Bloomin' Jazzman

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:20
Size: 117,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:32) 1. It Ain't Necessarily So
(3:25) 2. Don't Be Blue
(4:43) 3. When All the Lights in the Sign Worked
(4:27) 4. Late Bloomin' Jazzman
(3:43) 5. In Another Way
(5:01) 6. Bossa Nova Days
(3:17) 7. Old Devil Moon
(3:44) 8. I Always Had a Thing for You
(4:01) 9. Before You Leave
(4:33) 10. Old Enough
(5:36) 11. Marlena's Memories
(4:13) 12. If Gershwin Had Lived

Anyone who can hold their own on a stage on in a studio with Cheryl Bentyne cannot be all bad, right? Even if one's taste runs more to Harry Connick, Jr than to Mark Murphy, it is difficult not to get seriously into Mark Winkler. Oh, he can sing, for sure, but even if he could not carry a tune, he is a lyricist for the ages. Not all ages, mind you. But for those of a certain age, sensibility, and experience. As people are wont to say of life, "tell me your truth," not tell me the truth. Winkler tells the audience his truth. And more than a few will nod in agreement. Winkler may be a romantic, but he is no fool.

"You're playing better than in your well-regarded youth...the prodigies come and go, don't they?" If there is a mirror image to "September Song," "Late Bloomin' Jazzman" must be it, and Brian Swartz' tart trumpet adds the exclamation point. Yeah, novelty is sometimes confused with talent, or youth with beauty. Is it not, one thinks, the truth of the well-traveled?

"Bossa Nova Days" really drives it home. "I wasn't born for these times, music's not musical, and words don't even rhyme." Winkler remembers being lost in those bossa nova days, "singing of lost romance, sand beneath my feet." You, too, brother? "Take me back," he intones. Well, maybe not to Brazil, but some less exotic shore worked just as well. There were wars in 1967, too, but they had not visited one's doorstep yet. Not better times, but memory convinces otherwise. "Old Enough" explains it all. With ironic good humor. "I'm old enough not to be fooled by the lights and the show." "This time the clever is gone." And one gets it, including, "too many notes and too little feeling." Rueful, but funny. "I'm still young enough to know that I don't know that much." Point taken.

Too sentimental? Maudlin? Then try "Old Devil Moon." Winkler can swing, and he does not try too hard. The musicians are especially well placed here: Rich Eames on piano; Bob Sheppard on tenor sax; Christian Euman on drums; Gabe Davis on bass; and Grant Geissman on guitar, with Brian Swartz playing a solid backup line. Players of this caliber make it easier for a singer to sound good.

"Marlena's Memories" is almost too painful to hear, but a good reminder of how ordinary are the sources of pain. Winkler confesses he once wrote bad songs. Somehow, that seems implausible.

There are twelve tracks here. It really is not possible to write about all of them. And probably not necessary. To paraphrase a Founding Father, "If you have to ask, you will never know." A memorable performance indeed in a most memorable career.
By Richard J Salvucci https://www.allaboutjazz.com/late-bloomin-jazzman-cafe-pacific-records

Personnel: David Benoit: Piano; John Clayton: Drums; Jamieson Trotter: Piano; Bob Sheppard: Saxophone, Tenor; Nolan Shaheen: Flugelhorn; Kevin Winard: Drums; Jon Mayer: Piano; Gabe Davis: Bass, Acoustic; Clayton Cameron: Drums; Brian Swartz: Trumpet; Grant Geissman: Guitar; Christian Euman: Drums; Mark Winkler: Voice / Vocals.

Late Bloomin'Jazzman

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