Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The Pointer Sisters - Greatest Hits

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:04
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: R&B/Pop-Rock
Year: 1989/1999
Art: Front

[6:26] 1. Jump (For My Love)
[5:32] 2. Neutron Dance
[6:16] 3. Dare Me
[3:27] 4. Fire
[6:05] 5. Automatic
[5:38] 6. I'm So Excited
[3:37] 7. He's So Shy
[3:51] 8. Slow Hand
[5:49] 9. I Need You
[6:11] 10. If You Wanna Get Back To Your Lady
[6:19] 11. Freedom
[3:58] 12. American Music
[7:19] 13. Baby Come And Get It

This "Greatest Hits" CD is unlike any of the others that are out by the Pointer Sisters and there are many. This CD gathers all of their biggest hits for Planet/RCA (1978-1985 on this disc). There are only 13 tracks because 8 of the 13 are extended remixes. The material presented here is overall great. The disc only clocks in to 71 minutes because in the late 80s' CDs could only fit a total 74 minutes worth of music. ~Amazon

Greatest Hits

Judith Lorick - The Second Time Around

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:34
Size: 96,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:42)  1. Why Did I Choose You
(3:22)  2. Lucky to Be Me
(4:54)  3. Wild Is the Wind
(4:38)  4. For All We Know / I'll Be Seeing You
(5:00)  5. He Needs Me
(3:59)  6. If You Could See Me Now
(4:10)  7. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life
(5:08)  8. When I Look in Your Eyes
(2:54)  9. Hymne à L'amour
(2:41) 10. The Second Time Around

Lovely sophisticated jazz vocals Judith Lorick – Second Time Around:  An absolutely splendid lineup of players has a lot to do with total success on a new release, and Judith’s got it Down on this one… in addition to her comforting vocal work, you’ll hear piano from Eric Reed, trumpet by Jeremy Pelt, drums from McClenty Hunter, bass by Kiyoshi Kitagawa and tenor saxophone from Chris Lewis… songs like the jaunty “Wild Is The Wind” will make you a believer in Judith’s album, I’ve no doubt – just splendid! (no samples are up yet, since this doesn’t go HOT until the 28th of September; I’ll come back and add them in when it’s live). One thing that would be nice as it gets closer to the official date is a live performance video trailer of Judith’s excellent jazz talent… in the meantime, I can tell you that if it’s “sophisticated” you’re looking for, you’ll find “I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life” very attractive… what’s most unique about Judith’s singing is that she’s (unquestionably) “got the magic”… total groove, as you listen to a piece of her soul not to mention that Eric’s keyboard on this one is pure perfection! If you’ve been feeling “down” or “out”, you won’t be for long when you scope out Judith’s performance on “Lucky To Be Me” her joy simply shines through each and every note on this tune. Of the eleven songs offered up, it’s definitely the classic piece “For All We Know/I’ll Be Seeing You” that is my personal favorite… Judith’s passion in this vocal will dig down deep into your core & bring back memories you’d thought long lost. I give Judith and her fantastic players a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an “EQ” (energy quotient) rating of 4.98 for this excellent vocal jazz adventure. http://contemporaryfusionreviews.com/lovely-sophisticated-jazz-vocals-judith-lorick-second-time-around/
 
Personnel:  Vocals - Judith Lorick;  Piano - Eric Reed;  Trumpet - Jeremy Pelt;  Drums - McClenty Hunter;  Bass -  Kiyoshi Kitagawa;  Tenor Saxophone - Chris Lewis.

The Second Time Around

Aga Zaryan - Sara

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:33
Size: 112,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:18) 1. Central Park At Dusk
(4:52) 2. Blue Squills
(5:38) 3. Barter
(4:23) 4. Coney Island
(4:37) 5. The Mystery
(5:15) 6. A Little While
(2:19) 7. Summer Night, Riverside
(4:33) 8. Spring Rain
(6:38) 9. Jewels
(5:08) 10. Winter Noon
(4:27) 11. Dzien I Noc.mp3
(0:46) 12. Autumn Dusk

I have been gathering for a few days to write a few words about the new, 11th album in Aga Zaryan's career, because this is not music that is easy to perceive, which can be the background for everyday, prosaic home activities. You have to sit down to listen to this music, just as you sit down in a dark theater hall to watch a performance.

Aga Zaryan, is a Polish jazz vocalist, thanks to her parents (her mother - the author of English textbooks, father a classical concert pianist) part ofShe spent her childhood traveling around Europe and completed her primary education in Great Britain. After returning to Poland permanently, she practiced competitive tennis, winning the Warsaw Championship in the junior category at the age of 14.

Aga Zaryan gained her vocal skills at the State Secondary School of Music. Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw and in the Policealne Studium Jazzu under the direction of Ewa Bem, obtaining a diploma with honors. As part of the received scholarship, she also participated in jazz workshops at Stanford and Jazz Camp West in the United States.

As the first Polish artist, she can boast of releasing albums under the banner of the legendary label Blue Note Records from New York. She received the Fryderyk Award twice.

Her debut album, My Lullaby , released in 2002, consisted of jazz standards that she sang with the accompaniment of a classic jazz quartet. An important moment in her career was the opening performance of the 2006 Branford Marsalis concert, which took place as part of the JVC Jazz Festival. In the following years, Zaryan performed in numerous clubs and festivals in Poland, Great Britain, USA, Israel, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Turkey, Portugal, Russia and Iceland.

The album titled Sara was inspired by the timeless poetry of Sara Teasdale, an American poet living at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918 for her collection of poems Love Songs . This is not the first time that the singer is inspired by poetry when recording an album ( A Book of Luminous Things to the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, Jane Hirshfield and Denise Levertov)

The authors of the music on the album, apart from Zaryan, are two outstanding guitarists - Szymon Mika and David Doružka from the Czech Republic. Both musicians are the only ones who performed next to the singer on this extremely intimate album. This unusual instrumental composition makes us deal with a multitude of colors, musical colors, sound spaces, and the musicians themselves play with different styles. In their playing you can hear Pat Metheny, John Scofield or Bill Frisell. Both guitarists have a fascinating dialogue with each other, sometimes even bantering and competing. For me, an unfulfilled guitarist, this instrumental composition provides a completely unusual aesthetic experience.

The voice of Aga Zaryan on the album sounds noble and intimate, and at the same time extremely light. There is a touching sadness in her singing and at the same time a magic difficult to describe, which I absolutely succumb to with each subsequent release of the singer.I definitely recommend Aga Zaryan-Sara's album.>By Jack Bulak
https://wkulturalnysposob-com.translate.goog/2022/12/12/aga-zaryan-sara-intymnie-i-lirycznie/?_x_tr_sl=pl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Sara

Tom Cabrera - A Standard Afternoon

Styles: Straight Ahead Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:11
Size: 150,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:31) 1. This Thing Is
(4:20) 2. This Thing Is (Take Two)
(6:12) 3. Just Us
(5:59) 4. Smiling
(5:35) 5. It's A Mystery
(4:28) 6. Buzz
(7:38) 7. All You Are
(4:51) 8. Fog
(4:23) 9. Fog (Take Two)
(5:27) 10. Especially
(6:09) 11. The Quarter
(5:33) 12. The Wrap

Tom Cabrera’s Unseen Rain recordings include Julie (UR9957) with the Julie Lyon Quintet, the trios Lion Hearted (UR9980) and Sumari (UR9962) and his duo with the quintet’s guitarist Jack DeSalvo have released several albums, among them are Tales of Coming Home(UR9986), Libra Moon (UR9978) and Juniper (UR9966). In addition to being an incomparable jazz drummer, Cabrera is an adept world percussionist, often adding to the proceedings instruments from all over the planet, particularly the middle-east. A Native of Long Island, NY, drummer and multi-percussionist Tom Cabrera began his career in local rock, folk-rock and country bands, but his love of jazz percolated and took over his music making.

Early on both a musician and visual artist/painter, Tom was drawn into the world of graphic arts but music soon took over his life and he became a mainstay on the Hudson Valley NY scene. Cabrera relocated to Orlando, FL, but not before acquiring a frame drum, an event that would prove auspicious to his future work. In Florida Tom gigged constantly, establishing himself as one of the most respected players on the jazz scene there. After meeting his future wife, singer Julie Lyon, they went on to form the Julie Lyon Quartet, a swinging ensemble and released their live album Between Then and Now. Tom and Julie pulled up stakes, settled back up in the New York metropolitan area and assembled a quintet of remarkable musicians for their Unseen Rain Records release Julie (UR9957).
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/tom-cabrera

A Standard Afternoon