Hot Lips Page - Feelin' High and Happy

Styles:Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:28
Size: 65,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:15) 1. Feelin' High And Happy
(2:06) 2. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
(2:24) 3. Skull Duggery
(2:34) 4. Will You Remember Tonight Tomorrow
(2:31) 5. Small Fry
(2:29) 6. Pied Piper
(2:47) 7. Jumpin'
(2:40) 8. At Your Beck And Call
(2:54) 9. Down On The Levee
(2:52) 10. Rock It For Me
(2:48) 11. He's Pulling His Whiskers

One of the great swing trumpeters in addition to being a talented blues vocalist, Hot Lips Page's premature passing left a large hole in the jazz world; virtually all musicians (no matter their style) loved him. Page gained early experience in the 1920s performing in Texas, playing in Ma Rainey's backup band. He was with Walter Page's Blue Devils during 1928-1931, and then joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City in time to take part in a brilliant 1932 recording session.

Page freelanced in Kansas City and in 1936 was one of the stars in Count Basie's orchestra but, shortly before Basie was discovered, Joe Glaser signed Hot Lips as a solo artist. Although Page's big band did alright in the late '30s (recording for Victor), if he had come east with Basie he would have become much more famous. Page was one of the top sidemen with Artie Shaw's orchestra during 1941-1942 and then mainly freelanced throughout the remainder of his career, recording with many all-star groups and always being a welcome fixture at jam sessions.By Scott Yanow
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hot-lips-page-mn0000825032/biography

Feelin' High and Happy

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Paolo Fresu - Ferlinghetti

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:08
Size: 125,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:11) 1. I Was An American Boy
(3:16) 2. Ferlinghetti
(3:23) 3. The Macaronis Scene
(6:13) 4. Hill Of Poetry
(4:33) 5. Obscene Boundaries
(2:49) 6. Endless Life
(5:30) 7. Island Of The Mind
(4:21) 8. I Am The Man
(3:23) 9. Too Young To Die
(4:35) 10. Tyrannus Nix
(4:25) 11. Where Books Were Trees
(2:52) 12. Back Roads To Far Places
(2:30) 13. Eponymous Epitaph

The musical analysis of the trumpeter alongside his now trusted new trio with Dino Rubino and Marco Bardoscia manages to offer especially on live occasions profound perspectives around such a beautiful and discussed theme as that of the much loved beat generation. To widen the sound plateau was then called Daniele Di Bonaventura whose bandoneon manages to give deep pictorial nuances.

From San Francisco to Sardinia, passing through Rome: it is the parable between music and poetry that he ideally draws Paolo Fresuprotagonist on trumpet and flugelhorn with his new trio – Dino Rubino on piano, Marco Bardoscia on double bass, Daniele Di Bonaventura on bandoneon – of the concert “Ferlinghetti”, named after the poet and editor of the beat generation Lawrence Ferlinghettian American with an Italian father (who died before he was born), to be precise Lombard, and a Franco-Portuguese mother (hospitalized in an asylum when he was only a few months old), a life between France and the USA, before moving permanently to California.

Fresu, ‘king’ of Italian jazz, creator in his Sardinia of the ‘Time in Jazz’ review starting tomorrow, proposes this evening at the House of Jazz in Rome a concert in which the soundtrack of the docufilm ‘The last beat’ by director Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, signed by the Sardinian musician. The feature film was designed to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Ferlinghetti, born in March 1919 and passed away in February 2021 on the eve of his 102 years. A long and even ‘wide’ life, marked by his poems and the activity of his publishing house, City Lights, which gives Allen Ginsberg a Jack Kerouac made the literature of the beat generation.
https://jazzbluesnews.com/2022/10/20/cd-review-paolo-fresu-ferlinghetti-2022-video-cd-cover/

Personnel: Paolo Fresu – trumpet, flugelhorn, effects; Dino Rubino – piano; Marco Bardoscia – double bass; Daniele Di Bonaventura (or Carlo Maver) – bandoneon

Ferlinghetti

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Ed Cherry - Peace

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:03
Size: 144,7 MB
Art: Front

( 8:33) 1. In A Sentimental Mood
(12:22) 2. Kojo No Tsuki
( 8:03) 3. Tres Palabras
( 8:29) 4. Edda
( 6:32) 5. Peace
( 7:37) 6. Road Song
( 3:25) 7. Ugly Beauty
( 7:59) 8. Comin' Home Baby

"An expressive instrumentalist, Cherry has a hip, melodic approach that is a refreshing contrast to guitarists who frequently resort to playing 'finger music', the execution of rapid streams of notes that serve no musical purpose other than to fill space"- Jim Ferguson: Jazztimes - 06/02

Born in New Haven,Connecticut, Ed moved to New York in 1978 to play guitar with Dizzy Gillespie from 1978 to 1992 performing in Gillespie's quartet, big band and with The United Nation Orchestra which recorded the Grammy Award-winning Live at Royal Festival Hall (Enja). Gillespie died in 1993, and Cherry released his first recording as a leader, 'First Take' (Groovin' High). That same year, Ed recorded with Paquito D'Riveras' small group which recorded "Havana Cafe" (Chesky Records). Ed also worked with composer/saxophonist Henry Threadgill for two years and recorded three cds with Henry's 'Very Very Circus' group.

In 1995, Cherry released his second project as a solo artist, entitled A Second Look (Groovin' High Records). During that same period Ed worked with Hammond organist John Patton recording three critically acclaimed cds with Patton's quartet-'Blue Planet Man','Minor Swing' and 'This ones for Jah'(DIW). From 1997 to 1998, Cherry worked in Roy Hargrove's “Crisol” Latin jazz band, which performed in Havana, Cuba. During this same period, he also worked w/baritone saxophonist, Hamiett Bluiett, recording Bluiett's cd 'With Eyes Wide Open' on Justin-Time records.In 2001, Cherry toured Europe for the first time with his own group. He also released his cd, 'The Spirit Speaks' on the Canadian Justin Time Records label, inspired by the great jazz organist Jimmy Smith with whom he had also recently worked.Ed was asked to perform at the 'Vodaphone Madarao Jazz festival'in 2002 in Madarao Japan with his quartet featuring trumpeter Jon Faddis.

More recently , Ed toured with the great Hammond organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, recording one critically acclaimed cd, 'In The Beginning' on Pilgrimage Records in 2012. Currently Ed has a brand new second recording released on Posi-Tone Records. ('It's All Good' his first release in 2012 for Posi-Tone stayed in the JazzWeek charts for 3 months) his second recording for the label is titled "Soul Tree" ( release date February 19 2016 ) featuring Kyle Koehler on Hammond B3 organ and drummer Anwar Marshall. As of this pre release date, it's already gathering rave reviews. Ed continues to work nationally and internationally ; concerts, workshops, jazz clubs.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/ed-cherry

Peace

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Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - The Dean of Recorded Music

Styles: Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:27
Size: 81,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:50) 1. Steppin' In Society
(3:02) 2. Brezzin' Along
(3:09) 3. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
(3:05) 4. Spanish Shawl
(2:47) 5. Charlestonette
(2:42) 6. The Original Charleston
(3:09) 7. There'll Be Some Changes Made
(2:55) 8. Susquehanna Home
(3:20) 9. Dinah
(2:49) 10. I Can't Realise
(2:52) 11. Suite 16
(2:43) 12. Does My Sweetie Do

By many accounts the most recorded bandleader of all time with as many as 13,000 recordings to his credit, Ben Selvin led a variety of studio groups and society orchestras from 1910 into the '30s, recording endless novelties for prime commercial crossover, many of which featured future big bandleaders Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Jack Teagarden, Red Nichols, and Bunny Berigan. Among the most popular of Selvin's thousands of sides were "Dardanella" (the first recording to sell five million copies), "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," "Yes! We Have No Bananas," "Manhattan," "Happy Days Are Here Again" (best known as a theme song for President Franklin D. Roosevelt), and "When It's Springtime in the Rockies." In addition to his own sides, Selvin also led backing groups for vocalists Ethel Waters, Kate Smith, and Ruth Etting.

Selvin began his career as a violinist in Charles Strickland's orchestra. Not yet out of his teenage years, he launched his own society dance band in 1917 and began a seven-year residency at the Moulin Rouge club in New York. He recorded his first hit, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," for Victor in July 1919 at his first recording session. During the next few years, he led studio ensembles for labels including Vocalion, Brunswick, Okeh, Paramount, Lyric, Emerson, and Arto (many of them recorded under aliases, from the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra to the Broadway Syncopators). Just as on his recording dates, Selvin was able to lead a variety of society orchestras at performance dates, even on the same night. What was then common practice might result in dozens of orchestras playing weekend gigs all over New York, each one under the banner of Selvin (or Lester Lanin or Meyer Davis or any other popular bandleader of the day).

By the late '20s, Selvin was recording exclusively for Columbia. He continued to issue side after side into the mid-'30s. After retiring from performing in 1934, he went to work as a vice president of recording and programming at the newly formed Muzak company, using his connections to convince prominent bandleaders to record for the company anonymously. He became A&R director of Columbia Records in 1947 and supervised recording sessions for such singers as Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. In 1952, he moved to RCA Victor, where he worked until he retired in 1963, after which he was a consultant to 3M. He was also a co-founder of Majestic Records. He lived to see his ninth decade before dying of a heart attack in 1980. By John Bush
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ben-selvin-mn0000794156/biography

The Dean of Recorded Music

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