Sherry Dyanne - Let It Glow

Styles: Vocal, Holiday
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:58
Size: 86,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:21) 1. Christmas Is Everywhere
(2:33) 2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
(3:05) 3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
(2:53) 4. The Christmas Song
(3:18) 5. Silent Night
(4:09) 6. All I Want For Christmas Is You
(3:10) 7. This Christmas
(3:43) 8. My Grown-Up Christmas List
(2:48) 9. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
(3:22) 10. Santa Baby
(1:57) 11. Jingle Bell Rock
(2:32) 12. Santa I

Jazz singer Sherry Dyanne is known for her powerful performance. She performs with her own band across the world in clubs and festival stages, received a Edison Award nomination for her debut album ‘Sing me a Song’ and sold over 38.000 albums of her latest christmas album ‘Let it Glow’ in the USA.

In 2001 Sherry performed in the Dutch TV talent show The Soundmixshow and became runner up in the finals. Sherry shared the stage with George Duke, Michael Franti, Candy Dulfer, Trijntje Oosterhuis and Michiel Borstlap. Sherry performed at the prominent jazzfestivals like North Sea Jazz and The Hague Jazz and also performed several times on Holland’s prime time TV shows such as: De Wereld Draait Door, Koffietijd and Max with her own band, Candy Dulfer and Sven Hammond Soul.

In 2011 she released her debut album ‘Sing me a Song’ with guestplayer Candy Dulfer which became a big succes. The album received nominations by Dutch radio and got 4 star reviews by Holland’s leading press such as Jazzisme, Grazia and Nu.nl. Since the release of ‘Sing me a Song’ Sherry has appeared in various national newspaper and magazine’s such as Parool, NRC Handelsblad, NRC Next, Marie Claire, Viva and Veronica magazine. After and before the Album release Sherry played festivals and venues across Europe, The USA, South America, Turkey and Israel.

In 2015 and 2016 Sherry and award winning jazz pianoplayer Michiel Borstlap toured with a theatershow about the life of Billie Holiday. 2016 has been an exciting year for Sherry. She started a close collaboration with leading retail brand Crate and Barrel, releasing the exclusive Christmas album Let it Glow produced by Sherry herself. She also played special in-store shows at their stores across the USA. Thanks to the album Let it Glow Sherry and Crate and Barrel donated 4,6 million meals to the chartiy Feed America. https://www.sherrydyanne.com › epk-1

Let It Glow

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Marlene VerPlanck - The Title Tracks

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:24
Size: 102,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:23) 1. (I Think Of You) With Every Breath I Take
(2:38) 2. You'd Better Love Me
(2:57) 3. South To A Warmer Place
(2:37) 4. I Like To Sing!
(3:37) 5. A Quiet Storm
(4:13) 6. What Are We Going To Do With All This Moonlight?
(4:35) 7. Speaking Of Love (Feat. Roy Babbington)
(3:59) 8. It's How You Play The Game
(3:26) 9. My Impetuous Heart (Feat. Hank Jones, Gary Mazzaroppi & Joe Cocuzzo)
(2:43) 10. Once There Was A Moon
(3:10) 11. One Dream At A Time
(3:21) 12. I Give Up, I'm In Love (Feat. Warren Vaché & Glen Francke's Big Band)
(3:39) 13. The Mood I'm In

Marlene Paula VerPlanck was an American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret.

VerPlanck was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey Her father, Anthony J. Pampinella (1908–1993), operated a gasoline station there, and her mother, Pauline A. Biase (1913–2008), whose family ran an Italian restaurant. She married trombonist, composer, and arranger J. William "Billy" VerPlanck (1930–2009) in 1955, and he became her musical collaborator and champion. They were married for 52 years, until his death in 2009.

VerPlank graduated from Bloomfield High School, and considered a career in journalism. She began performing as a teenager at the age of 19, at a nightclub in Newark, the Well. Her debut album, I Think of You with Every Breath I Take, was released in 1955 when she was 21, and featured Hank Jones, Joe Wilder, Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke, and Herbie Mann (uncredited). VerPlanck then went to work as a vocalist for Charlie Spivak's band, and later sang with the Tommy Dorsey band and with Tex Beneke's band.

VerPlanck was a prolific studio vocalist for commercial jingles during the 1960s and 1970s, and by the 1960s became known as the "New York jingle queen." She recorded thousands of jingles, often for low pay, although her fortunes changed when she sang an arrangement of the 1930s Campbell's Soup "M'm M'm Good" song, which became widely known. Other notable jingles she recorded included "Nationwide is on your side" for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and "Weekends were made for Michelob" for Anheuser-Busch's Michelob beer. She later told the press that the latter was highly lucrative for her, because she put a "Yeah!" at the end of the jingle that was used over and over again in versions of the jingle recorded by Billy Eckstine, Vic Damone, and Brook Benton, earning her continued royalties. Her jingle work allowed her to hone the clarity of her diction when singing, and she became known for her ability to enunciate the lyrics of songs clearly even while investing them with emotion. Although she toiled largely in obscurity, her voice became widely known to millions of people during the 1960s and 1970s through the familiarity and popularity of her jingles.

VerPlanck also sang backup for Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Mel Torme, and she performed around the United States and internationally as a cabaret singer. Despite her long and successful career in jingles and as a studio backing vocalist, her second solo album, Marlene VerPlanck Loves Johnny Mercer, was not recorded until 1979, 24 years after her first album. Her solo career then began in earnest, and she released more than 20 albums, mostly on the Audiophile label, and toured extensively as a soloist. She specialized in the Great American Songbook, especially the works of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, and gained a reputation as one of the most accomplished interpreters of the genre.

In January 1983, VerPlanck took part in recording In the Digital Mood, an early all-digital recording of the music of Glenn Miller by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The album included two vocal tracks – "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", and VerPlanck was invited to sing the female vocals in a recreation of the singing group The Modernaires, which consisted of one female and four male vocalists, and to bring four male colleagues with her to sing the four male vocal parts. The album's producers expected her to bring unknown session and back-up singers with her, but she surprised and delighted the producers and the orchestra by arriving with Julius LaRosa, Mel Torme, Michael Mark, and Marty Nelson for the recording session on January 20, 1983.

VerPlanck last performed in December 2017 at a jazz club in New York City. She died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Manhattan, New York City on January 14, 2018, aged 84 and was buried at Mt. Olivet cemetery in Bloomfield.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/marlene-verplanck

The Title Tracks

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Akiko Tsuruga - Equal Time

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:59
Size: 108,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:57)  1. Mag's Groove
(5:09)  2. Orange Coals
(5:32)  3. Osaka Samba
(6:42)  4. A Baptist Beat
(5:08)  5. Moment's Notice
(6:25)  6. Lion's Gate
(4:59)  7. I Remember You
(7:03)  8. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big

These three are all leaders of their own bands in different places. Here they combine to form what used to be called a super group. The music is all in the blues and bop domain, with easy swing, crisp, inventive solos and a solid rhythmic pulse throughout. Ms Tsuruga and guitarist Dechter play in solo mode and quickly revert to rhythmic duties when their own solos end. Hamilton is the only one whose duties are solely to provide a solid beat on every track and this he does handsomely. His own solos are well structured with attention to the contours of each piece of music. The three kick off with a solid blues, Mag’s Groove, that gives all three players a chance to shine. Orange Coals is a faster blues written by Dechter. He takes the first extended solo with the other two in full flow behind him. Akiko provides stimulating Hammond organ solos and also manages to keep a solid bass line going at all times, whether she is in the spotlight or not. The Osaka Samba is an attractive line from the organist, a sort of Japan embraces the samba but it all sounds very Latin and has a cracking beat. Still on the blues and gospel trail the trio next tackle A Baptist Beat, Hank Mobley’s funky line. Taken at much the same tempo that Hank used in the 60s, the piece is very downhome. Dechter manages an original solo spot here; this is very much his own take on the material. Akiko digs in too and there is much of the American bop and blues flavour in her solo and virtually nothing Oriental. There is a personal approach to Coltrane’s Moment’s Notice although the trio keep very much to the spirit of the composition in their straightahead, uptempo reading. Lion’s Gate is a gentle ballad by Akiko with singing guitar and organ and drums offering flowing rhythm. The set finishes with two hardy standards. Hamilton kicks off I Remember You with crisp brushwork and keeps it moving throughout in the same manner. Fine, well thought out solos from Dechter and Tsurugo follow on. Finally we have This Could Be The Start Of Something Big and who knows, maybe it can at that. ~ Derek Ansell https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/08/11/akiko-hamilton-dechter-equal-time/

Personnel: Akiko Tsuruga -organ; Jeff Hamilton - drums; Graham Dechter - guitar

Equal Time

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Denise King & Hammond Groovers - Tell Me When

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:24
Size: 102,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:12)  1. I Only Have Eyes for You
(5:01)  2. Quando, quando, quando
(2:59)  3. Avalon
(8:04)  4. Polkadots and Moonbeams
(7:24)  5. Just Friends
(5:29)  6. Georgia on My Mind
(6:01)  7. Sweetie Pie  Private Matters
(4:10)  8. Body and Soul

Friday, March 17 back to Summarte of Somma Vesuviana appointment of a new music festival " Jazz  & Codfish" curated by Elio Coppola drummer in collaboration with the Association Musicology. To get on the stage of Via Roma will be Denise King & Hammond Groovers ( Denise King, voice; Daniele Cordisco, guitar; Antonio Caps, Hammond; Elio Coppola, drums) . For the occasion will be presented the new album entitled "Tell Me When".

"Jazz  & Codfish", now in its third year, this year is enriched by the new point radio collaboration, media partners of each event. The purpose of the evening is to combine good music played by big names in the panorama of  jazz  to the taste of the culinary tradition. To the rhythm of " Jazz & Codfish", they return to the table also the chef's dishes of 800 Bourbon, all made from salt cod, as dictated by tradition Sommese.Delicacies that the audience will taste the coffee Chantal before each performance. The pictures of all events will be made by Spectrafoto. Dinner at 21, start at 22:15 concert.

Denise King - His concerts are a full immersion of jazz, rithm & blues, gospel soule. His voice wonderfully harmonious, refined, elegant notes of all, produces an intense musical energy charge of an overwhelming feeling and capable of fusing different styles in perfect Afro-American tradition. Discovered by Dexter Wansel, producer, arranger and director of the Philadelphia International Records, Denise King has conquered the public with four CDs of success and masterful live show in the most prestigious jazz clubs, festivals and Philadelphia theaters, Atlantic City and New York. Among the many projects and collaborations are international musicians such as Bobby Durham, Archie Shepp, Mickey Roker, Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Orrin Evans, Uri Caine, McCoy Tyner and the big stars of Ruth Brown blues and Koko Taylor to the pop star's likes of Billy Paul and Céline Dion. Denise likes to swing and is able to engage the audience with his music, especially when singing ballads. The last project he is currently working on is a tribute to the singer who most inspired her, Sarah Vaughan. For Jazz & Codfish will be accompanied by HAMMOND Groovers that the talented and award-winning DANIELE CORDISCO on guitar, Hammond organ virtuoso ANTONIO CAPS and talented rummer ELIO COPPOLA. The group will celebrate the release of the album "Tell Me When" of which will be possible to purchase an autographed copy.
http://www.terranostranews.it/2017/03/15/al-summarte-denise-king-hammond-groovers-presentano-tell-when/

Personnel:  Denise King, voice; Daniele Cordisco, guitar; Antonio Caps, Hammond; Elio Coppola, drums

Tell Me When

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