Tap That Jazz - Respect - Sing That Fight

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:58
Size: 156,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:41) 1. Respect
(4:41) 2. Strange Fruit
(6:24) 3. Caro Nome - Rigoletto
(4:39) 4. Decolonise (Don't Just Recognise)
(7:40) 5. E Strano!/ah, Fors 'É Lui/follie, Follie! - La Traviata
(4:48) 6. Sodade
(4:32) 7. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
(5:43) 8. Arnaq
(4:46) 9. Casta Diva - Norma
(4:34) 10. Les Tringles Des Sistres Tintaient - Carmen
(5:53) 11. Une Sorcière Comme Les Autres
(4:05) 12. Piece Of My Heart
(5:28) 13. Mississippi Goddam

Jazz (formerly known as Les Oignons), features songs performed by the group in a stage show, Sing That Fight, which celebrated in vintage jazz style the lives and songs of an eclectic range of female vocalists, many outside the jazz idiom, whose careers had been affected by sexism and racism. The belittling of female jazz and blues musicians, rife in the past, has been a cause commendably flagged up by Frémeaux on other albums. Names mentioned in this album’s notes range from Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin and Maria Callas.

The basic quintet’s instrumentation, with banjo, sousaphone and washboard as rhythm, suggests archaic New Orleans style, but the group’s musical aims are more ambitious and far reaching. Carefully planned arrangements tackle, with varying degrees of success, repertoire from operatic arias, soul, pop ballads, Latin and blues. Billie’s Strange Fruit is the only familiar jazz classic.
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2022/05/17/tap-that-jazz-respect/

Personnel: June MILO (chant vocals); Cajoune GIRARD (Washboard | choeurs backing vocals); Julien VARDON (claquettes tap dance); Julien SILVAND (Trompette trumpet | choeurs backing vocals | direction | composition & paroles lyrics (4) | arrangement); Dominique MANDIN (Sax ténor tenor sax | choeurs backing vocals); Rémi OSWALD (Banjo | choeurs backing vocals); Raphaël MARTIN (Soubassophone sousaphone)

Respect - Sing That Fight

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Swing Shift Big Band - Full House

Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:09
Size: 108,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:47) 1. Speak No Evil
(4:15) 2. Triste
(3:32) 3. Singin' In The Rain
(3:45) 4. Afternoon
(4:20) 5. Walk On By
(4:06) 6. From Now On
(5:11) 7. Sweet Chaos
(3:21) 8. Mary Ann
(4:16) 9. The Look Of Love
(5:18) 10. Dream Of The Return
(3:11) 11. The Magic Of Christmas (Bonus Track)

This is the home of Canada’s Premier Big Band - Jim John's Swing Shift Big Band. From the band’s beginning in 1996 it quickly became apparent that this was a band intent on preserving the sounds and quality of the big band era a band that has since been recognized as one of the top big bands in the country.

With 17 talented musicians, male and female vocalists and optional dancers and female vocal trio, this band can entertain audiences of all ages. From dances, corporate galas, and jazz festivals to weddings, theatre shows and everything in-between, Swing Shift has the variety to suit any occasion. We can also provide smaller groups, ranging from solo piano, trio, quartet and right up to our very popular 11 piece group a versatile band that specializes in music for all ages. Leader Jim John has twenty years of leadership experience he knows how to make your event a big success.
https://swingshiftbigband.com/s3/

Full House

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Richie Beirach - Leaving

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:53
Size: 177,2 MB
Art: Front

( 7:51) 1. Nardis
(14:17) 2. What Is This Thing Called Love / Alone Together / Blue In Green
( 5:04) 3. Round Midnight
( 4:53) 4. On Green Dolphin Street
( 7:35) 5. Some Other Time
( 6:10) 6. Solar
(13:49) 7. Spring Is Here / Maiden Voyage / Monk´S Drem / You Don´T Know What Love Is
( 3:42) 8. Footprints
(13:29) 9. Leaving / Sunday Song

On Leaving, recorded in France in 2022, Richie Beirach revisits thirteen evergreen standards, seven of them grouped together in two medleys, and two of his own compositions ("Leaving," "Sunday Song") written in the 1970s. The album is Beirach's first live solo recording since 1981.

All of the material is more than familiar to Beirach and will be equally well known to seasoned jazz fans. In his liner note, Beirach says that this was intentional. He wanted to roam freely over material that he knew as well as the backs of his hands, taking whatever twists and turns flashed into his mind on the hoof, and he wanted the audience, too, to be so at home with the tunes that they would have a frame of reference for every diversion, digression and discursion that he embarked on. Composers include Miles Davis, Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Full track listing below.

Beirach also says that he did not approach the performance with a setlist. Instead he made a long list of many tunes he considered playing that evening and at the top of the list wrote: "Choose from." At this point in his life as a pianist, he says, he has put aside intellectual considerations such as consciously thinking about the music at hand or preparing a programme in advance. He is instead wholly concerned with expressionism and being in the moment. (He expounds further on this in the YouTube clip below).

What results are not definitive, or even necessarily substantial, reimaginings of the thirteen warhorses, but rather the spontaneous musical equivalent of a word association game.

The more familiar the listener is with the source material, the more compelling they are likely to find Beirach's expositions. Non-sequiturs abound, as do rococo embellishments and, frankly, melodramatic flourishes. The prevailing mood is rhythmically intense and the only sustained moments of reflection come with the closing "Leaving" and "Sunday Song." But the overall effect is as Beirach intended, and seventy-five unpredictable minutes fly. By Chris May
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/leaving-richie-beirach-jazzline-records

Personnel: Richie Beirach: piano.

Leaving

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