Sasha Dobson - Girl talk

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:15
Size: 107,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:27) 1. Better days
(5:27) 2. Sweet and lovely
(4:22) 3. Girl talk
(3:35) 4. Perhaps perhaps perhaps
(4:19) 5. You're the death of me
(4:08) 6. The great city
(5:04) 7. Softly as in a morning sunrise
(6:18) 8. Time on my hands
(4:48) 9. Autumn nocturne
(4:41) 10. The boots are made for walking

Sasha Dobson is an American jazz singer from Santa Cruz, California, now based in New York City. Dobson comes from a musical family. Her father, Smith Dobson was a pianist who recorded with Mark Murphy and played with Bobby Hutcherson and her mother Gail is also a singer, and her brother Smith is a tenor saxophonist, drummer, and vibraphonist. The family performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1991 when Dobson was twelve. Her debut album, Modern Romance, was released in August 2006 by Jesse Harris's Secret Sun Recordings label. Dobson participated in the Norah Jones The Fall tour, providing guitar, percussion, and vocal harmonies and she was the opening act on the tour. Her album Aquarius was released in 2013 and another Into The Trees was released in 2014. In 2020, she released an EP https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/sasha-dobson

Personnel: Sasha Dobson (vocals); Peter Bernstein (guitar); Ian Hendrickson-Smith (alto sax); Steven Bernstein (trumpet, flugelhorn, slide trumpet); Smith Dobson (vibes); Mauro Refosco (perc.); Neal Miner (bass); Dred Scott (drums) + Kenny Wollesen (drums - 2 tks); Norah Jones (backing vocal on Girl Talk).

Girl talk

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Allison Miller & Jane Ira Bloom - Tues Days

Styles: Bop, Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:48
Size: 133,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:43) 1. Tues Days
(5:36) 2. Technicolor
(5:26) 3. Rowing In The Dark
(3:16) 4. This Is It
(2:16) 5. Five Bells
(8:30) 6. The Wild Frontier
(5:59) 7. Light Years Away
(4:16) 8. A's & J's Test Kitchen
(6:13) 9. Crayola
(4:19) 10. On Seeing JP
(6:08) 11. Walk Alone

The story goes that, during spring 2021, on five consecutive Tuesdays in March and April, soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and drummer Allison Miller recorded a handful of improvised sax and drum duets just to see what might happen and evolve. Well, a lot does because with Tues Days both Miller and Bloom cut their inner hippie loose to gambol out in the fields with flowers in their hair and their skirts all a-billow.

It is not all fun and games, as any ageing hippie learns, but still you have gotta get out in the sunshine, air it out and bond; close the chasm that technology, in equal terms ,either helps us cross or broadens, and jam merrily on. Even if it is remotely, you are never alone.

So we have the title track, a true reversal of fortune given the last two years of our human story, opening a dance fest of ideas. "Technicolor" vaunts and veers into the thoughtful and sparing "Rowing in the Dark." Pensive yet hopeful, the duo share epiphanies that last long after something proves otherwise.

"This Is It" sets the foot tapping once again while "The Wild Frontier" beckons in its own obstinate, oblique way. Bloom screams, Miller skitters and somehow everything is right with world. "Light Years Away" is that quieter moment everyone needs. "A's and J's Test Kitchen" is the duo's (and listeners') just reward for the unbridled, pure human engagement that Tues Days swears by. By Mike Jurkovic https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tues-days-jane-ira-bloom-outline-supaphine

Personnel: Allison Miller: drums; Jane Ira Bloom: saxophone, soprano.

Tues Days

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Various - Capitol Sings Harry Warren

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:33
Size: 127.2 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Vocal
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Nat King Cole - I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
[2:36] 2. Ray Anthony & His Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo
[2:53] 3. Bobby Darin - You'll Never Know
[2:22] 4. Dakota Staton - September In The Rain
[2:39] 5. Helen Forrest - I Had The Craziest Dream
[3:07] 6. The Four Freshmen - Lulu's Back In Town
[3:09] 7. Ethel Ennis - Serenade In Blue
[2:59] 8. Chet Baker - There Will Never Be Another You
[2:12] 9. Nancy Wilson - The More I See You
[3:10] 10. Nat King Cole Trio - I'll String Along With You
[3:02] 11. Al Belletto - Jeepers Creepers
[2:56] 12. Ann Richards - Lullaby Of Broadway
[3:01] 13. Time-Life Orchestra - At Last
[2:09] 14. June Christy - I Know Why (And So Do You)
[1:32] 15. Count Basie - With Plenty Of Money And You
[3:35] 16. Dinah Shore - I Only Have Eyes For You
[2:26] 17. The Four Freshmen - On The Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe
[2:41] 18. Peggy Lee - You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[3:00] 19. Nat King Cole - An Affair To Remember
[3:06] 20. Dean Martin - That's Amore

If this era and genre of music is your taste then you will love this collection. The various singers add a wonderful blend of variety and the orchestrations are time capsules of a day long gone by. (Sad). But this music will bring you back and make you appreciate popular music again. ~Aurexia

Capitol Sings Harry Warren

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Kevin Eubanks, Orrin Evans - EEE (Eubanks-Evans-Experience)

Styles: Piano And Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:51
Size: 110,2 MB
Art: Front

( 6:53) 1. Novice Bounce
( 4:41) 2. Dreams Of Loving You
( 5:27) 3. I Don't Know
( 3:35) 4. And...They Ran Out of Bisquits!
( 5:18) 5. Dawn Marie
(13:02) 6. Variations on The Battle (Live)
( 8:51) 7. Variations on Adoration (Live)

Guitarist Kevin Eubanks and pianist Orrin Evans joined forces for a sympathetic duo offer designated as EEE - Eubanks-Evans Experience. These two musicians with strong ties to Philadelphia spent years honing their crafts, revealing a proclivity to expand horizons beyond pure jazz. Besides leaders in their own right, the twosome contributed as sidemen on albums of each other (Evans’ #knowingishalfthebattle; Eubanks’ East West Time Line). The guitarist is commonly associated with the bassist Dave Holland and the singer Diane Reeves, while the pianist was a member of the Ralph Peterson Quintet and groups led by trumpeter Sean Jones. He also replaced Ethan Iverson in the newfangled trio The Bad Plus.

Flowing with a relaxed vibe, “Novice Bounce” opens the record with smooth touches on jazz-funk and bossa. Written by Eubanks, this opening number collected from his first record, Guitarist (Discovery, 1982), finds him tackling it with half the tempo and electric guitar instead of the acoustic. If the ballads “Dreams of Lovin’ You” (composed by Tom Browne) and “Dawn Marie” (a tribute from Evans to his wife) - breathe and never rush, then other pieces make our heartbeat increase during their musical route by going in different directions.

The improvised “I Don’t Know” seems to squeeze two different worlds into the same sonic bubble. The artists treat their instruments with a newly discovered freedom, and the initial sense of bluesy dispersion is eased when Eubanks starts to work on the lower register, fulfilling bass duties. There are a couple more spontaneous numbers, but those don’t reach the heights of the two last tracks, both recorded live at Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia. They are variations of Evans’ “Half the Battle” and Eubanks’ “Adoration”. The former is transformed into a mercurial fusion work by the addition of often-bluesy rock licks, a spiritual harmonic progression evocative of Pharaoh Sanders, and a groovy funk-rock strut that contracts and expands with multiple levels of intensity. The latter piece, instead, arrives in triple time, spreading out a beautiful energy.https://jazztrail.net/blog/eee-eubanks-evans-experience-album-review

Personnel: Kevin Eubanks: guitar; Orrin Evans: piano.

EEE (Eubanks-Evans-Experience)

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