Manhattan Trinity - Sunflower

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:23
Size: 141,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:09) 1. The Pink Panther
(5:35) 2. Sunflower
(6:31) 3. Mr. Lucky
(6:08) 4. Whisling Away The Dark
(7:04) 5. Dreamsville
(5:32) 6. Moment To Moment
(5:37) 7. Days Of Wine And Roses
(4:38) 8. Two For The Road
(5:43) 9. Moon River
(7:22) 10. Autumn Kisses

This all-star ensemble featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Lewis Nash, and George Mraz has been performing and recording off and on since the mid-90s. The musical inspiration for the band is "The Great Trio" from the 70s featuring Hank Jones, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. This ensemble has such a tight connection, that the performances can only be described as sublime. Eric Alexander sometimes joins the group as a special guest.https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/manhattan-trinity

Personnel: Cyrus Chestnut (piano); George Mraz (bass); Lewis Nash (drums)

Sunflower

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Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 12 Vol 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 94:19
Size: 217,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:48) 1. Easy Money
(5:12) 2. Wave
(6:24) 3. What's New
(4:55) 4. Baby, You've Got What It Takes
(2:56) 5. 'S Wonderlul
(8:08) 6. Recado Bossa Nova
(4:04) 7. Just You , Just Me
(5:12) 8. My One and Only Love
(5:08) 9. Stéphane
(2:46) 10. I Like Yo Hear It Sometimes
(3:36) 11. That's a Plenty
(6:25) 12. My Blue Heaven
(4:22) 13. Since You've Been Gone
(3:56) 14. Night and Day
(6:02) 15. From This Moment On
(4:41) 16. Feeling Good
(7:26) 17. Moanin'
(6:08) 18. Pyramid

A great party, yes, that is what the concert at the Palau de la Música was on December 10, 2021 as part of the Barcelona Jazz Festival. This concert is the one you have in your hands, on two CDs, because it was a musically generous concert, where we managed to bring together practically all the musicians who had gone through the project plus those who were part of it at that time.

In total, 64 musicians, plus regular guests: Ignasi Terraza, Josep Traver and Esteve Pi. It was really wonderful to be able to come together and make music again and recreate some of the most popular songs from all these years (plus 3 new songs that we had never recorded before). A jazz party in style, where it was exciting to hear the evolution of many of the musicians I hadn't heard for years. Many of them have their own projects and play an important role in the current jazz scene.

This recording is really very special, both emotionally and musically. In some of the songs we can practically hear two big bands playing at the same time, with two drummers, two bassists, two guitars, 10 saxophones, 6 or 7 trombones, 6 or 7 trumpets, choirs of more than 10 people, etc. It wasn't easy, but we made it possible. Because, as I already said back in 2009, in the first JAZZING: the Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a dream come true. And we are in 2022 (the year in which this 2021 recording appears) and we continue dreaming.
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Jazzing 12

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Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - Boss Tenors

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 79:49
Size: 184.8 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1961/2012
Art: Front

[4:22] 1. Red Sails In The Sunset
[5:13] 2. My Foolish Heart
[6:34] 3. Autumn Leaves
[6:31] 4. There Is No Greater Love
[3:19] 5. A Mess
[8:48] 6. Blues Up And Down
[2:37] 7. Headin' West
[4:38] 8. A Pair Of Red Pants
[4:17] 9. But Not For Me
[3:56] 10. New Blues Up And Down
[7:12] 11. The One Before This
[4:33] 12. We'll Be Together Again
[9:39] 13. Counter Clockwise
[3:54] 14. Time On My Hands
[4:11] 15. Autumn Leaves (Alternate Take)

This encounter between tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt (who doubles on tenor and alto) is a true classic. Ammons and Stitt teamed together many times over a three-decade period, including co-leading a band during 1950-1952, but Boss Tenors is arguably their finest recording. Backed by pianist John Houston, bassist Buster Williams, and drummer George Brown, Ammons and Stitt battle it out on "There Is No Greater Love," Ammons' "The One Before This," "Autumn Leaves," "Blues Up and Down," and Stitt's "Counter Clockwise." This is competitive bebop at its best, with Stitt and Ammons proving to be equal matches. Essential music for all jazz collections. ~Scott Yanow

Boss Tenors

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Shirley Jones - Richard Rodgers Songbook With Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:01
Size: 76,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:08) 1. Wish I Were In Love Again
(3:18) 2. It Never Entered My Mind
(3:00) 3. Isnt It Romantic
(4:29) 4. Spring Is Here
(3:14) 5. Where Or When
(2:47) 6. I Have Dreamed
(3:28) 7. Blue Moon
(4:15) 8. It Might As Well Be Spring
(2:05) 9. Falling In Love With Love
(4:14) 10. Bewitched

Named after child star Shirley Temple, Shirley Jones started singing at the age of six. She started formal training at the age of 12 and would dream of singing with her idol, Gordon MacRae. Upon graduating from high school, Shirley went to New York to audition for the casting director of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Taken by Shirley's beautifully trained voice, Shirley was signed as a nurse in the Broadway production of "South Pacific". Within a year, she would be in Hollywood to appear in her first film Oklahoma! (1955) as Laurey, the farm girl in love with cowboy Gordon MacRae. Oklahoma! (1955) would be filmed in CinemaScope and Todd-AO wide-screen and would take a year to shoot.

After that, Shirley returned to Broadway for the stage production of "Oklahoma!" before returning to Hollywood for Carousel (1956). But by this time, musicals were a dying art and she would have a few lean years. She would work on television in programs like Playhouse 90 (1956). With a screen image comparable to peaches-n-cream, Shirley wanted a darker role to change her image. In 1960, she would be cast as the vengeful prostitute in the Richard Brooks dramatic film Elmer Gantry (1960). With a brilliant performance against an equally brilliant Burt Lancaster, Shirley would win the Oscar for Supporting Actress. But the public wanted the good Shirley so she was cast as "Marion", the librarian, in the successful musical The Music Man (1962). Robert Preston had played the role on Broadway and his performance along with Shirley was magic.

Shirley would again work with little Ron Howard in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). But the movies changed in the 60's and Shirley's image did not fit so she would see her movie career stop in 1965. There were always nightclubs, but Shirley would be remembered by another generation as "Shirley Partridge" in the television series The Partridge Family (1970). While the success of the show would do more for her stepson, teen idol David Cassidy, it would keep her name and face in the public view for the four years that the series ran. The show still plays in reruns. After the show ended, Shirley would spend the rest of the 70's in the land of television movies.

The television movie The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) would be made as a pilot for a series that was not picked up. In 1979, Shirley appeared in a comedy show called Shirley (1979), but the show lasted only one season. Shirley would appear infrequently in the 80's and in video's extolling fitness and beauty at the end of the decade.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429250/bio?ref_=nm_ql_1#mini_bio

The Richard Rodgers Songbook With Love

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