Claude Tissendier Quintet & Teddy Edwards - Three Tenors Session

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 38:45

Size: 88.7 MB

Styles: Saxophone jazz

Year: 2008

Art: Front

[6:04] 1. Sunset Eyes

[3:51] 2. Wheelin' And Dealin'

[7:13] 3. Midnite Creeper

[5:06] 4. Number One

[5:03] 5. Lovin' It, Lovin' It

[4:44] 6. T'n't' (Tiss And Teddy)

[6:43] 7. If I Had You/That's All/Tenderly

Claude Braud, Claude Tissendier (tenor saxophone) Philippe Milanta (piano) Pierre-Yves Sorin (bass) Vincent Cordelette (drums) and Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone).

Featuring the French swinging bop tenor Claude Tissendier & 'the first' bop tenor Teddy Edwards. Features seven tracks recorded in 2002 in Paris, France, this is warm, soulful, & swinging jazz music!

Three Tenors Session

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Billie Holiday - The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters Cd 1, Cd 2, Cd 3

Size: 117,5+134,6+122,0 MB
Time: 50:44+58:05+52:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Strange Fruit (3:11)
02. Yesterdays (3:24)
03. Fine And Mellow (3:16)
04. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (2:49)
05. How Am I To Know (2:43)
06. My Old Flame (3:01)
07. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) (2:57)
08. I Cover The Waterfront (3:29)
09. I'll Be Seeing You (3:29)
10. I'm Yours (3:15)
11. Embraceable You (3:14)
12. As Time Goes By (3:10)
13. He's Funny That Way (3:14)
14. Lover, Come Back To Me (3:19)
15. Billie's Blues (3:06)
16. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (3:01)

CD 2:
01. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) (Single Version) (3:15)
02. No More (Single Version) (2:46)
03. That Ole Devil Called Love (Single Version) (2:52)
04. Don't Explain (Single Version) (3:20)
05. You Better Go Now (Single Version) (2:29)
06. What Is This Thing Called Love (Single Version) (3:08)
07. Good Morning Heartache (3:05)
08. No Good Man (Single Version) (3:04)
09. Big Stuff (2:29)
10. Baby, I Don't Cry Over You (1991 Box Set Version) (3:09)
11. I'll Look Around (Edit) (3:13)
12. The Blues Are Brewin' (Single Version) (3:02)
13. Guilty (3:11)
14. Deep Song (Single Version) (3:10)
15. There Is No Greater Love (Single Version) (2:56)
16. Easy Living (Single Version) (3:10)
17. Solitude (Single Version) (3:07)
18. Weep No More (Single Version) (3:19)
19. Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys (Single Version) (3:12)

CD 3:
01. I Loves You Porgy (Single Version) (2:54)
02. My Man (Mon Homme) (Single Version) (2:55)
03. 'tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Single Version) (3:18)
04. Baby Get Lost (Single Version) (3:13)
05. Keeps On A Rainin' (Papa He Can't Make No Time) (Single Version) (3:14)
06. Them There Eyes (Single Version) (2:49)
07. Do Your Duty (Single Version) (3:14)
08. Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer (Single Version) (2:42)
09. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart (Single Version) (3:13)
10. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash (Single Version) (3:18)
11. Now Or Never (Single Version) (3:15)
12. You're My Thrill (Single Version) (3:21)
13. Crazy He Calls Me (Single Version) (3:01)
14. Please Tell Me Now (Single Version) (3:12)
15. Somebody's On My Mind (Single Version) (2:55)
16. God Bless The Child (Single Version) (3:08)
17. This Is Heaven To Me (Single Version) (2:50

Although many of Billie Holiday's recordings for Commodore and Decca are often overlooked -- at least in comparison to the songs that bookend her career (for Columbia and Verve) -- they include some of her best work, beginning at the end of the '30s with "Strange Fruit" and stretching to the end of the '40s with "God Bless the Child." In 1939, Billie Holiday was a jazz sensation without a hit record. She gained that hit record, and began her journey to musical immortality, when her label Columbia refused to record "Strange Fruit," and jazz fan Milt Gabler welcomed her to his aficionado label, Commodore. Gabler recorded Holiday often over the next ten years, both at Commodore and through his work at Decca in the mid-to late '40s. While on Commodore, Holiday focused on downcast ballads, including "I Cover the Waterfront" and "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (dubbed "loser" songs by Gabler), but she also excelled with warm and affectionate material too, "Embraceable You" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street." Regardless of the material, her backing consisted of small groups usually led by a pair of saloon-sound maestros: Doc Cheatham on trumpet and Eddie Heywood on piano. That sound was in for a switch when Holiday moved to Decca, however, beginning with another big hit, "Lover Man," a pop ballad with the full crossover treatment -- strings and all. (Gabler had no compunction about false notions of purity, and he happily recorded Holiday with strings and backing choruses whenever the song demanded it.) Even more than her work for Commodore, Holiday's work for Decca was melancholy and resigned in the extreme, with sterling treatments of yet more loser songs: "Don't Explain," "Good Morning Heartache," "You Better Go Now," and "What Is This Thing Called Love." Individually, the songs are excellent, and as a package, The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters can hardly be beat. It's a splendid accompaniment to similar sets devoted to Billie Holiday's Columbia and Verve output, and while completists will bemoan the lack of the many alternate takes -- most of the Commodore sides have two alternate takes for each master recording, available elsewhere -- this is all the war-years Billie Holiday one could hope for. ~Review by John Bush

The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters Cd 1, Cd 2, Cd 3

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Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal - Bossa Got The Blues

Styles: Brazilian Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:54
Size: 32,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:10) 1. 1937
(2:42) 2. Mandacaru
(3:21) 3. Train To Ipanema
(4:18) 4. Sambalaya
(2:06) 5. Blues Bossa
(3:41) 6. Laudi's Theme
(3:00) 7. Bossa Got The Blues
(3:16) 8. Kalunga Rocket
(3:07) 9. Vou Nessa
(4:08) 10. Galeria Menescal

Listening to BossaCucaNova creates the impression that you're driving an exquisite Italian sportscar on a leisurely and sunny Sunday afternoon. You can hear the smooth purr of the engine powering your rhythm, soft but ferocious, a napping tiger, through the open window. Slicing through the breeze moderates its temperature so that it feels both warm and cool simply perfect on your skin. You turn to the left and the right and smile to return the greetings extended by the colorful and inviting scenery bathing in the golden light of that friendly sun above. Bossacucanova makes every day feel better than a good day feel like a simply perfect day for a nice ride.

Bossa Got The Blues maintains the preeminence of Bossacucanova Alex Moreira on keyboards, Marcelinho Da Lua on scratches and samples, and Marcio Menescal on Fender and keyboard bass among contemporary Brazilian bands whose sound springs from filtering traditional bossa nova through modern production and electronica. It also showcases one of the founding fathers of bossa nova guitar: guitarist, composer, and producer Roberto Menescal, who wrote the famous "O Barquinho (Little Boat)" and happens to be father of Bossacucanova bassist Marcio. (Father also joined son and crew for the band's 2001 global debut Brasilidade [Zuirigiboom/Six Degrees].)

Thanks to Papa Roberto, Bossa Got The Blues and some sweet, swinging Grant Green jazz guitar, too, all wrapped up in Bossacucanova's trademark luxurious 1960s production and presentation. Flavio Guimarães' harmonica leads "Laudir's Theme" out from a Brazilian jungle into an acoustic blues, his howls and wails pouring down on the guitar hook like sweet and sticky syrup. Leo Gandleman, whose saxophones have graced recordings by Gilberto Gil and other Brazilian stars for four decades, also climbs onboard to sing the blues.

These ten tracks would split and retrofit quite nicely into two sides of a vinyl LP, and Gandleman plays on the songs that would close side one (track five, "Blue Bossa") and two (track ten "Galeria Menescal"). "Blues Bossa" cribs the melody to "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" before opening up a dance floor jointly rocked by Menescal's electric guitar chords and Gandelman's moaning and groaning baritone and tenor saxophones. Gandelman adds tenor, baritone and flute in a lovely dance with acoustic guitar and vibraphone to "Galeria Menescal" (which opens, in case you missed all the old school, with the sound of a needle coming down on a vinyl album).

Yes, you could downshift and grind your Bossacucanova sportster into a deeper, harder and more powerful gear. But when you feel as good as the sound of Bossa Got the Blues!, why mess with simply perfect?By Chris M. Slawecki
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bossa-got-the-blues-bossacucanova-e-roberto-menescal-six-degrees-records

Personnel: BossaCucaNova: arranger; Alex Moreira: keyboards; Marcelinho Da Lua: producer; Marcio Menescal: bass; Roberto Menescal: guitar.

Additional Instrumentation: Cris Delanno: vocals; Laudir DeOliveira: percussion; Renato Endrigo: percussion; Leo Gandelman: saxophones, flute, horn arrangements; Flávio Guimarães: harmonica; Carlos Malta: bass flute, piccolo; Jota Moraes: vibraphone; Ian Moreira: percussion; Sidinho Moreira: percussion; Rio Maracatu: percussion; Paulinho Trompete: flugelhorn, horn arrangements, trombone, trumpet.

Bossa Got The Blues

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Hazel Scott - Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57 Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3

Album: Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57 Disc 1
Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:00
Size: 167,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:51) 1. Calling All Bars
(2:53) 2. Mighty Like The Blues
(2:41) 3. You Gave Me The Go-By
(2:37) 4. Why Didn't William Tell?
(2:46) 5. Ritual Fire Dance
(2:12) 6. Two-Part Invention In A Minor
(2:53) 7. Country Gardens
(2:22) 8. Prelude In C Sharp Minor
(3:04) 9. Valse In D Flat Major
(3:21) 10. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
(2:20) 11. Hazel's Boogie Woogie
(2:49) 12. Blues In B Flat
(2:58) 13. Embraceable You
(2:36) 14. Three Little Words
(3:13) 15. Dark Eyes [Otchitchornyia]
(3:04) 16. Hallelujah
(3:27) 17. People Will Say We're In Love
(4:03) 18. Honeysuckle Rose
(4:06) 19. Body And Soul
(3:45) 20. C Jam Blues
(3:18) 21. Take Me In Your Arms
(3:17) 22. I'm Glad There Is You
(2:28) 23. Fascinating Rhythm
(2:45) 24. The Man I Love

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Album: Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57 Disc 2
Time: 73:00
Size: 170,1 MB

(3:25) 1. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
(3:02) 2. Valse In C Sharp Minor
(3:38) 3. Fantasie Impromptu
(3:26) 4. Nocturne In B Flat Minor
(3:02) 5. A Rainy Night In G
(2:41) 6. How High The Moon
(1:21) 7. Sonate In C Minor - Toccata
(3:06) 8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
(2:34) 9. I've Got The World On A String
(2:34) 10. Butterfly Kick
(3:08) 11. Ich Vill Sich Spielen
(2:50) 12. Soon
(3:05) 13. Love Me Or Leave Me
(2:43) 14. Emaline
(2:49) 15. Love Will Find A Way
(2:41) 16. Mary Lou
(2:55) 17. Dancing On The Ceiling (He Dances On My Ceiling)
(3:13) 18. Nightmare Blues
(2:54) 19. Brown Bee Boogie
(2:39) 20. That Old Black Magic
(3:04) 21. For All We Know
(2:56) 22. Tinkerbell Blows Again
(2:56) 23. Soothe Me
(3:02) 24. Un Gamin De Paris
(3:03) 25. Whatever Happened To Captain Hook

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Album: Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57 Disc 3
Time: 73:32
Size: 170,7 MB

(3:14) 1. J'aime Bien Paris
(3:50) 2. Like Someone In Love
(4:04) 3. Peace Of Mind
(4:45) 4. Lament
(3:58) 5. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
(4:28) 6. Git Up From There
(6:07) 7. A Foggy Day
(4:46) 8. Mountain Greenery
(3:03) 9. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
(3:26) 10. It's You Or No One
(4:17) 11. It's Easy To Remember
(2:54) 12. Just Imagine
(3:11) 13. Lucky To Be Me
(3:00) 14. 'Round Midnight
(3:01) 15. I Wish I Didn't Love You So
(3:05) 16. For You, For Me, For Evermore
(3:09) 17. Ev'ry Time
(2:49) 18. Maybe
(2:54) 19. Love Is The Thing
(3:24) 20. Warm All Over

Hazel Scott was a jazz pianist and singer, about whom we hear very little these, but who was a stylish and respected performer, especially known for her jazz interpretations of classical pieces and styles, but also a noted composer as well as a fine vocalist with a sophisticated approach to the Great American Songbook. This 69-track 3-CD collection brings together a significant proportion of her recordings during the primary era of her career, before she largely relocated to France in the wake of McCarthy-ite persecution as a committed civil rights activist.

It features solo piano recordings, plus piano and vocal performances with small groups and orchestras, so offers an entertaining cross-section of her output for the Bluebird, Decca, V-Disc, Signature, Columbia, Capitol and Debut labels. It includes most of the titles from her albums Swinging The Classics, A Piano Recital, Great Scott, Grand Jazz, Relaxed Piano Moods and Round Midnight, and features recordings with Charles Mingus, Max Roach, J.C. Heard, Sidney Catlett, Toots Camarata, Charlie Shavers, Ernie Caceres, Red Callender, Everett Barksdale and many others. It's a substantial and enjoyable showcase for a talented artist whose work deserves a much higher profile than she has generally enjoyed.By Editorial Reviews
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Scott-Collected-Recordings-1939-57/dp/B0BTTRLGNJ

Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57 Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3

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