Suzanne Cabot - Fine & Mellow

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:32
Size: 121,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:21) 1. Fine And Mellow
(6:25) 2. The Very Thought Of You
(6:48) 3. Crazy He Calls Me
(4:45) 4. Don't Explain
(2:58) 5. Them There Eyes
(5:13) 6. Vivo Sonhando
(6:17) 7. One Meatball
(6:50) 8. Dream Dancing
(3:55) 9. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
(2:54) 10. Gotta Have Me Go With You

Suzanne Cabot reveals her sweet and bluesy style in her debut CD, 'Fine and Mellow' with the ever unique improvisations of pianist Pamela Hines and bassist David Clark. There's plenty of Lady Day tunes and it's clear that Cabot is a Holiday fan from the first track, 'Fine and Mellow.'

This Boston-based trio offers a very intimate take on ten tunes without drums. The fresh improvisations in this close setting make you feel as though the stage is three feet away. Hines and Clark offer strong solos to make this CD a three-way creative journey that you'll want to listen to over and over. By Product Description
https://www.amazon.ca/Fine-Mellow-Suzanne-Cabot/dp/B008IG0B8O

Fine & Mellow

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The Boswell Sisters - Jazz Age Scattin'

Styles: Vocal, Swing
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:17
Size: 92,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:51) 1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
(3:14) 2. Shuffle Off To Buffalo
(3:14) 3. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
(3:17) 4. Shout, Sister, Shout!
(2:53) 5. If I Had A Million Dollars
(3:06) 6. Dinah
(3:04) 7. Shine On, Harvest Moon
(2:59) 8. Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
(2:39) 9. Heebie Jeebies
(3:24) 10. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
(2:48) 11. Rock And Roll
(3:22) 12. Forty-second Street
(3:21) 13. The Object Of My Affection

Definitely the most talented and arguably the all-around best jazz vocal group of all time, the Boswell Sisters parlayed their New Orleans upbringing into a swinging delivery that featured not only impossibly close harmonies, but countless maneuvers of vocal gymnastics rarely equaled on record. Connee (sometimes Connie), Helvetia (Vet), and Martha Boswell grew up singing together, soaking up Southern gospel and blues through close contact with the Black community. They first performed at vaudeville houses around the New Orleans area, and began appearing on local radio by 1925. At first, they played strictly instrumentals, with Connee on cello, saxophone, and guitar; Martha on piano, and Vet on violin, banjo, and guitar. The station began featuring them in a vocal setting as well, with Connee taking the lead on many songs (despite a childhood accident that had crippled her and left her in a wheelchair).

Word of their incredible vocal talents led to appearances in Chicago and New York, and the Boswell Sisters began recording in 1930 for Victor. By the following year, they'd moved to Brunswick and reached the Hit Parade with "When I Take My Sugar to Tea," taken from the Marx Brothers' film Monkey Business and featuring the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in support. The trio continued to work with many of the best jazzmen in the field (including Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Bunny Berigan), and appeared in the 1932 film extravaganza The Big Broadcast with Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway. The Boswell Sisters hit the top of the Hit Parade a second time in 1935 with "The Object of My Affection" from the film Times Square Lady. One year later, however, both Martha and Vet retired from the group in favor of married life.

Connee had already made a few solo sides for Brunswick as early as 1932, and she continued her solo career in earnest after the Boswell Sisters parted. She hit number one twice during the late '30s, with the Bing Crosby duets "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and continued recording into the '60s.By John Bush
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-boswell-sisters-mn0000521942/biography

Jazz Age Scattin'

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Rex Stewart - Solid Rock - Swingin' Cornet

Styles: Cornet Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:07
Size: 87,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:20) 1. Solid Rock
(2:47) 2. Rexatious
(2:33) 3. Tea And Trumpets
(2:46) 4. Without A Song
(2:59) 5. Lazy Man's Shuffle
(3:10) 6. My Sunday Gal
(3:04) 7. Mobile Bay
(3:25) 8. Linger Awhile
(4:15) 9. Diga Diga Doo
(4:23) 10. Cherry
(4:18) 11. Bugle Call Rag

Rex Stewart (1907–1967) was an American jazz cornetist best known for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra.

After stints with Elmer Snowden, Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and Luis Russell, Stewart joined the Ellington band in 1934. Ellington arranged many of his pieces to showcase Stewart's half-valve effects, muted sound, and forceful style.

Stewart co-wrote "Boy Meets Horn" and "Morning Glory" while with Ellington, and frequently supervised outside recording sessions by members of the Ellington band. After eleven years Stewart left to lead his own groups. He also toured Europe and Australia with Jazz at the Philharmonic from 1947 to 1951. From the early 1950s on he worked in radio and television and published highly regarded jazz criticism. Jazz Masters of the Thirties is a selection of his criticism.
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/rex-stewart

Solid Rock - Swingin' Cornet

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Gary Versace - Time Frame

Styles: Post Bop
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
oyston Time: 59:37
Size: 136,9 MB
Art: Front

(8:38) 1. Cold Duck Soup
(9:32) 2. Distant Call
(7:14) 3. Red Cross
(6:51) 4. Faro
(8:52) 5. Panda Blue
(7:49) 6. Sweet Surprise
(3:56) 7. Evidently
(6:41) 8. One Year From Today

Since basing himself in New York City in June of 2002, jazz organist, pianist, and accordionist Gary Versace has quickly become one of the busiest and most versatile musicians on the scene, often featured in bands led by musicians such as John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Maria Schneider, Matt Wilson, Lee Konitz, Eliot Zigmund, Scott Wendholt, Joe Magnarelli, Danny Gottlieb, Seamus Blake, John Hollenbeck, Andy LaVerne, Adam Nussbaum, Brad Shepik, Ingrid Jensen, Tim Ries and many others.

Versace was voted a "rising star" on the Hammond organ in the last three Downbeat critics polls, and was the subject of a feature article in the July 2004 issue of Keyboard magazine.

Versace has been a featured soloist on several critically acclaimed recordings of recent years: accordionist on Maria Schneider's Grammy-winning recordings "Concert in the Garden" and "Sky Blue" and as the pianist on John Hollenbeck's Grammy-nominated large ensemble recording, "A Blessing."

Over the past five years, Versace has appeared as a leader for the Criss Cross and SteepleChase labels, and as a sideman on over 50 recordings with artists on various labels including Palmetto, ACT, Omnitone, Songlines, Pirouet, High Note, Justin Time, ArtistShare, Fresh Sound, Kind of Blue, and many others.

As a pianist, Versace performed in a two-piano recital with Marian McPartland, and in April of 1999 appeared on her acclaimed National Public Radio program, "Piano Jazz." McPartland has called him "...endlessly inventive...(Versace) really has an extraordinary talent."

Gary Versace has a masters degree in music performance from the Eastman School of Music, and spent eight years as a tenured associate professor in the jazz studies department at the University of Oregon. He remains active as a clinician and guest soloist both nationally and around the world.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/gary-versace/

Personnel: Piano – Gary Versace; Bass – Jay Anderson; Drums – Rudy Royston

Time Frame

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