Anne Ducros - Ella...My Dear

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 42:40

Size: 97.7 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz

Year: 2010

Art: Front

[2:42] 1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

[5:51] 2. Laura

[3:44] 3. Save Your Love For Me

[4:57] 4. Stardust

[3:09] 5. Lullaby Of Birdland (Feat. Dany Brillant)

[2:38] 6. Ella… My Dear

[5:39] 7. Come Rain Come Shine

[5:31] 8. Bewitched

[4:14] 9. Fascinating Gershwin

[4:11] 10. Dindi

Native of the Pas de Calais, Anne Ducros began her classic training (musical and vocal) within the conservatoire of Boulogne Sur mer with Lyne Durian. Then at the same time she is studying law at the University of Lille, she completes and refines her vocal mastery thanks to the education of Yuri Anoff and Maddy Mespley. Afterward she has a practice of baroque music within training course at the University and investigates Couperin, Rameau or Bach’s music.

Introduced to the vocal jazz from 1986, she sets up her first quartet of jazz with which she gains various international competitions (Price for better soloist and first vocaliste in the festival of jazz of Dunkerque; First price of soloist and vocalist in the festival of jazz of Vienne in 1989). This growing recognition will stimulates her of an inexhaustible will to sing always more by accumulating concerts in France and specially by publishing her first album of vocal jazz, "Don't you take a chance" at JTB in 1989.

Ella... My Dear

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Stan Getz - Apasionado

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:41
Size: 116,7 MB
Art: Front

(8:06) 1. Apasionado
(7:06) 2. Coba
(6:07) 3. Waltz For Stan
(4:15) 4. Espanõla
(5:26) 5. Madrugada
(4:59) 6. Amorous Cat
(9:00) 7. Midnight Ride
(5:39) 8. Lonely Lady

In the liner notes to this album, Stan Getz comments about how producer Herb Alpert showed him aspects of recording he had never experienced before. In this case, it's how to over-produce without overwhelming a lead soloist, as Alpert loads up this date with synthesizer players, electric instruments, and effects as a backdrop for the ultra-cool tenor of Getz. While not going overboard, it would have been nice to hear this music without the caramel-thick arrangements, leaving just Getz and a rhythm section to play sans the unnecessary sugarcoating.

Initially released about a year before Getz passed away, the end result is a lazy and far too sweet group of pieces that muck up romance in a smothering fashion. Where string arrangements can sound beautiful, the sleepy synths on "Waltz for Stan" and echoplexed sax during "Madrugada" and especially the nine-minute ambling "Midnight Ride" are not just a trifle overbearing. Eddie del Barrio's "Coba" fares better in a fusion-on-the-rock-side mode mixed with Brazilian tropicalia, while the title track utilizes an acoustic big band mixed with synths and electric piano in a ballad-to-light-samba-to-heavy-beats sauce.

"Española" starts with an out of tune electric bass guitar followed by some clichéd electric guitar from Michael Landau, while "Amorous Cat" reflects its title in a light funk rhythm. Some very good players are included, like drummer Jeff Porcaro (Toto), percussionist Paulinho Da Costa, acoustic guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, and keyboardist Kenny Barron, with George Bohanon and Oscar Brashear in the big-band horn section. Otherwise, this recording is far from essential music made by Stan Getz, more suitable for mood music elevator wallpaper than a substantive listening experience. By Michael G. Nastos
https://www.allmusic.com/album/apasionado-mw0000655019

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone – Stan Getz; Bass – Jimmy Johnson ; Drums – Jeff Porcaro; Electric Guitar – Michael Landau; Oscar Castro Neves; Piano – Kenny Barron; Saxophone – William Green; Synthesizer, Electric Piano – Mike Lang; Trombone – George Bohanon, Reginald Young; Trumpet – Noland Smith Jr., Oscar Brashear, Rick Baptist; Tuba – Tom Johnson

Apasionado

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Paul Horn - Brazilian Images

Styles: Brazilian Jazz,  World Fusion
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:02
Size: 124,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:48)  1. Streets of São Paulo
(5:48)  2. Parque do Flamengo (Flamingo Park)
(6:40)  3. Vida Noturna (Night Life)
(4:07)  4. Ana
(5:22)  5. Som do Rio (The Sound Of Rio)
(6:06)  6. Brazilian Images
(5:37)  7. Amazônia
(5:02)  8. Funky Town
(6:17)  9. Mulher Solitária (Lonely Woman)
(3:10) 10. Sambinha (Little Samba)

A magnificent collaboration with guitarist Andre Geraissati and percussionists Airto Moreira and Joao Parabyba creates this lush and intimate musical experience from the ultimate world musicain, Paul Horn. Paul Horn is the ultimate world musician, a sound traveler without peer.

By 1989, when Paul Horn recorded Brazilian Images, people were beginning to realize that he was no longer ahead of his time. In the 1960’s Horn began a quixotic musical journey that opened a whole world of places and people to him. He spent the 1970s and 80s playing in some of the worlds great sacred spaces, and collaborating with musicians from many traditions. As far back as the 60s he unwittingly anticipated the ‘World Music’ and ‘New Age’ trends; during the next two decades, he helped to define them. By the time he made this album at the dawn of yet another decade, the times had pretty well caught up to him.

“I love Brazil,’ says Horn, “even as a child. When I first had the opportunity to go there in 1970, I knew why. The atmosphere is charged with music, dance, sunshine and beautiful women. Paradise. It is also a country of paradoxes. From some of the worst slums of the world, the Favelas, comes the happiest music in the world, the samba. On a tour of Brazil in 1990 with guitarist Andre Geraissati, “I found the gentler side of Brazil through his writing and the unique voices he uses. We recorded this album in Sao Paulo at the completion of our tour.” His Brazilian music is among his most beautiful; and Brazilian Images, a collaboration with guitarist Andre Geraissati and percussionists Airto Moreira and Joao Parabyba, is music of unusual lushness and intimacy. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/paulhorn6

Personnel: Paul Horn (flute, alto flute, bansuri, soprano saxophone); André Geraissati (guitar); Joao Parahyba, Airto Moreira (percussion).

Brazilian Images

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Claire Martin, Scott Dunn & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - I Watch You Sleep

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:04
Size: 167,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:30) 1. I Watch You Sleep
(5:37) 2. Autumn in New York
(4:25) 3. It's Only a Paper Moon
(3:34) 4. For Ev'ry Man There's a Woman / It Was Written in the Stars
(5:35) 5. Round About
(4:32) 6. I'll Always Leave the Door a Little Open
(4:59) 7. I Wish I'd Met You
(5:13) 8. Don't Play Games with Love
(4:30) 9. Goodbye for Now
(3:27) 10. Early to Bed
(4:06) 11. I Never Went Away
(2:53) 12. Let's Go and Live in the Country
(4:24) 13. Not Exactly Paris
(3:59) 14. My Ship
(4:01) 15. I Wonder What Became of Me
(5:13) 16. It Was Written in the Stars

A flawless song list comprising Richard Rodney Bennett originals plus some of his favourite standards, stunning arrangements by conductor Scott Dunn, plus the unfailingly mellifluous vocals of Claire Martin, combine to produce an extraordinarily beautiful tribute to Bennett which marks the tenth anniversary of his death.

Whether it's the majestic sound of the RPO strings in the Bennett/Siegel opener ’I Watch You Sleep’ – an utterly gorgeous song in the hands of Bennett's great friends and erstwhile musical partners Martin and Dunn which, aside from Shirley Horn's exquisite version on her 1988 trio album, Softly, has been covered remarkably infrequently the iridescent vibraphone which introduces a deluxe arrangement of Vernon Duke's ‘Autumn in New York’ with its vivid imagery of “glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel”; the clarion call of Ryan Quigley's flugel in ‘Round About’ (another overlooked gem from the team of Duke and lyricist Ogden Nash which seems to hover atmospherically in the air); or the adroit splicing together of a brace of Harold Arlen/Leo Robin songs,

‘ For Ev’ry Man There's a Woman/It Was Written In The Stars’, penned for the 1948 US film noir Casbah, the 16-track album presents an incredibly touching statement from the heart. Whether navigating through the elegiac orchestral textures of ‘I Never Went Away’ or intimate duo and trio versions of ‘I Wonder What Became Of Me’ and ‘I Wish I’d Met You’, Martin's enormous gifts as a storyteller have never sounded more potent.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/scott-dunn-with-claire-martin-and-the-royal-philharmonic-orchestra-i-watch-you-sleep-scott-dunn-celebrates-richard-rodney-bennett

Personnel: Claire Martin - vocals; Rob Barron - piano; Matt Skelton - drums; Jeremy Brown - double bass; Ryan Quigley - flugelhorn; Scott Dunn - conductor, arranger, piano on tracks 15&16; and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

I Watch You Sleep

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