Tim Hagans Quintet - Eternal Forge

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:14
Size: 147,9 MB
Art: Front

( 6:52) 1. Adam's Calendar
(14:12) 2. Not Yet
( 9:54) 3. Concord
(10:48) 4. Deva Uma
( 7:26) 5. Space Dozen
( 9:37) 6. That Is What Happens When You Leave The Door Open
( 5:22) 7. Stella By Starlight

Eternal Forge is a new digital release from Tim Hagans' European Quintet. It is available on Amazon in June 2019.

The Tim Hagans Quintet has performed extensively in Europe at jazz festivals, concert venues and jazz clubs. Tim Hagans writes: "Anders Mogensen, Carl Winther and Johnny Åman create a supremely burning and churning, swinging pulse. Their astounding ability to play the entire spectrum of dynamics keeps listeners in suspenseful anticipation.”

The music on this recording is intended to conjure for the listener the wondrous palette of human emotion, from jubilation of the life's joyous moments to the deep hope of the blues.

Space Dozen, Not Yet and That’s What Happens When You Leave The Door Open by Tim Hagans offer cosmic swing, contemplative groove and relentless action. Deva Uma and Adam’s Calendar by Carl Winther take us from introspective beauty to rhapsodic swing. Concord by the great trumpeter Jens Winther, imbues an adventurous forward motion which embodies the idea behind the release's title: Eternal Forge. These five musicians channel their collective energy and breath to propel them ever forward on the journey of creating exciting new music.
https://www.timhagans.com/news

Personnel: Tim Hagans - trumpet; Anders Mogensen - drums; Johnny Aman - bass; Carl Winther - piano; Marek Konarski tenor saxophone

Eternal Forge

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Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 12 vol 1

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 93:39
Size: 217,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:51) 1. Stardust
(5:06) 2. I Can’t Get Started
(4:27) 3. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
(5:18) 4. Willow Weep For Me
(3:03) 5. From This Moment On
(4:52) 6. All The Things You Are
(4:38) 7. Muskrat Ramble
(7:38) 8. Green Dolphin Street
(3:10) 9. It’s All Right With Me
(5:17) 10. Wave
(6:42) 11. Nobody Else But Me
(3:19) 12. Blue Skiesv (6:29) 13. Taking a Chance in Love
(3:58) 14. Georgia On My Mind
(2:59) 15. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
(5:32) 16. Na Baixa do Sapateiro
(5:08) 17. I’m Confessin'
(6:50) 18. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(4:12) 19. Lotus Blossom

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a youth jazz band from Barcelona, featuring 7- to 20-year-olds. The bandleader is Joan Chamorro.

The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia, and other regions of Spain as well as in neighbouring countries. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances at more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing vol.2.

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts. The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin, Texas, US in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Andreu_Jazz_Band

Jazzing 12 vol 1

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Wycliffe Gordon - Dig This!!

Styles: Trombone Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:14
Size: 156,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:02) 1. Dig This!!
(7:58) 2. Mahajual
(8:21) 3. Old Man Blooz Take 2
(7:24) 4. Limehouse Blues
(4:20) 5. The Beautiful Souls
(5:07) 6. Jookin' The Blooz
(7:32) 7. Lonnie's Lament
(5:23) 8. I can't Get Started
(5:22) 9. Cone's Tune
(2:52) 10. Blues Etude #2
(7:47) 11. Old Man Blooz Take 1

Wycliffe Gordon is a trombone player who knows his instrument from the primordial playing of Kid Ory and Honore Dutrey through giants like Jack Teagarden and J.J. Johnson up to and including today's best like Steve Turre. This ability is nowhere better illustrated than on this new CD covering music as classic as "Limehouse Blues" and "I Can't Get Started" and as new as the originals composed for this late 2002 recording date.

As a jazz historian/antiquarian, I admit that my taste runs to the familiarity of the standard chestnuts that greet me like an old friend even when dressed up in the latest style, yet there are still contemporary composer/arranger/players such as Wycliffe Gordon whose modern masterpieces could well qualify as tomorrow's classic staples. "Dig This" and "Old Man Blooz" (which appears here in two takes) are prime examples of the best of 21st century jazz standards in the making.

Again, given my taste for the early giants of this music, it's no surprise that leader/trombonist Gordon and guitarist Peter Bernstein are familiar names. Maybe this also accounts for the fact that I find the Hammond B-3 organist Sam Yahel a fascinating revelation. While too many of the "jazz electric organ" players I hear today are leaning on the bassist and/or drummer for rhythmic impetus, Yahel makes proper use of the Hammond's pedal board to underlay the bass line. Other players, tenor sax man Seamus Blake and drummer Bell Stewart, while not as startling on first listening as Yahel, fulfill their function in the ensemble.

Certain to cause comment and interest is Gordon's unaccompanied trombone solo, "Blues Etude #2." Gordon, like Anthony Braxton before him and Johann Sebastian Bach before him, has shown the power of an unaccompanied line supplying its own melody, harmony and rhythm.

Yet the track I'll keep returning to is Wycliffe Gordon's statement of "Limehouse Blues," which alternates between single and double time. In his distinctive arrangement of this hit tune of 1924 imported from the United Kingdom and defined in recordings by the Benny Goodman Sextet and by the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Gordon has given new life to a classic which now becomes part of the contemporary repertoire.By Joe Klee. ttps://www.allaboutjazz.com/dig-this-wycliffe-gordon-criss-cross-review-by-joe-klee

Personnel: Wycliffe Gordon - Trombone; Peter Bernstein - Guitar; Seamus Blake - Tenor Sax; Bill Stewart - Drums; Sam Yahel - Hammond Organ.

Dig This!!

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Gene Ammons - Nice An' Cool

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1961
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:56
Size: 91,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:10)  1. Till There Was You
(4:38)  2. Answer Me, My Love
(4:02)  3. Willow Weep for Me
(4:59)  4. Little Girl Blue
(7:43)  5. Something I Dreamed Last Night
(3:05)  6. Something Wonderful
(4:22)  7. I Remember You
(3:52)  8. Someone to Watch over Me

A 1961 set of standards heavy on the ballads, Nice 'n Cool is prime Gene Ammons. In front of a sympathetic piano-bass-drums trio (Richard Wyands, Doug Watkins, and the great J.C. Heard, respectively), Ammons' brilliantly soulful tenor saxophone really stretches out on the familiar melodies, but the relatively concise arrangements (all of the eight tracks are between three and eight minutes, with most hovering around the five-minute mark) don't allow him to wander too far afield as he occasionally does on less structured sessions. Nice 'n Cool is first and foremost a mood album, with the unity of sound more important than the individual performances, but Ammons particularly shines on the extended opener, a tender, restrained version of The Music Man's "Til There Was You" that sidesteps the mawkishness of many interpretations in favor of a dignified grace. The backing trio is excellent throughout, although Wyands' too-brief solo passages do make the listener wish that the pianist had been given more of a chance to shine. ~ Stewart Mason https://www.allmusic.com/album/nice-an-cool-mw0000868722      

Personnel:  Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone;  Richard Wyands - piano;  Doug Watkins - bass;  J.C. Heard - drums

Nice An' Cool

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