Miles Davis - Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1956
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:07
Size: 97,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:24) 1. It Never Entered My Mind
(7:13) 2. Four
(5:43) 3. In Your Own Sweet Way
(1:59) 4. The Theme (take 1)
(8:33) 5. Trane's Blues
(7:24) 6. Ahmad's Blues
(4:46) 7. Half Nelson
(1:02) 8. The Theme (take 2)

Trumpeter Miles Davis led several sessions for Prestige Records between November 1955 and October 1956 with his legendary "first" quintet, featuring tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. The sessions represent an incomparable musical legacy. Impeccably engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, the music was released on five albums that provide a unique glimpse at how five brilliant instrumentalists coalesced into one of the most extraordinary ensembles in modern jazz.

Workin' presents an easy going program that balances ballads with the blues and includes quintet performances of originals by Davis ("Four," "Half Nelson"), Coltrane ("Trane's Blues"), and Dave Brubeck ("In Your Own Sweet Way"); an interpretation of the standard "It Never Entered My Mind" without saxophone; and a piano-trio version of Ahmad Jamal's "Ahmad's Blues." Coltrane's melancholy solo on Brubeck's tune and Garland's spry excursion on Coltrane's are two of this classic's many highlights. By Mitchell Feldman https://www.amazon.com/Workin-Miles-Davis-Quintet/dp/B000000YGI

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

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Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz - Fairytales

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:11
Size: 95,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:14) 1. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
(3:25) 2. Come Down In Time
(4:23) 3. Lost In The Stars
(4:22) 4. Mystery Man
(5:53) 5. My Funny Valentine
(5:47) 6. Nature Boy
(4:14) 7. Long Daddy Green
(5:10) 8. Wasted
(2:29) 9. Before Love Went Out Of Style
(2:10) 10. I Read My Sentence

Chances are you have neither heard of this album or Radka Toneff. But the album is recognised as a jazz classic in Scandinavia, is Norway's best-selling jazz album of all time and was voted Norway's Best Album of All Time in a poll of Norwegian musicians in 2011. Toneff graduated from the Oslo Musikkonservatorium in 1975.

Seven years later she was dead from an overdose. A highly original singer, she made an enormous impression on Norwegian (and Scandinavian) jazz during her brief lifetime, and her influence still continues to be felt through singers such as Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and Torun Eriksen. This is her finest work, and when it was originally released it became something of an audiophile classic, since it was recorded on one of the first digital tape machines.

Remastered using MQA technology from the 16-bit/50.35 kHz master-tapes, it appears here as a 16-bit Hybrid SACD (meaning Super Audio CD), the combination of piano and voice captured with astonishing clarity. Many pundits have described these performances as breathtaking and it is hard to disagree; the grain of Toneff's voice combined with a less-is-more delivery beguiles with its intimacy and enjoys a second life in the memory long after the CD has been played.

Ultimately, it is limiting to call this remarkable album ‘a classic of Norwegian jazz’; quite simply it is a contemporary jazz classic.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/radka-toneff-and-steve-dobrogosz-fairytales

Musicians: Steve Dobrogosz (p), Radka Toneff (v)

Fairytales

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