Mike Gibbs With The NDR Big Band Feat. Norma Winstone - Here's A Song For You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:23
Size: 113,4 MB
Art: Front


(4:12) 1. Blue
(3:33) 2. So In Love
(3:01) 3. Soldier’s Things
(5:31) 4. Riverman
(3:03) 5. I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
(3:33) 6. Jitterbug Waltz
(6:04) 7. A Thousand Years
(4:47) 8. Caravan
(4:04) 9. Daydream
(3:04) 10. Here Comes The Honeyman
(4:39) 11. Some Shadows
(3:47) 12. You Go To My Head

The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone has just passed her 70th. Having spent much of her career working with composers who've used her range and precision as a texture, she has blossomed in recent years, with the superb Grammy-nominated 2008 album Distances. Winstone takes on classic pop songs here – including Joni Mitchell's Blue, Tom Waits's Soldier's Things, and Nick Drake's Riverman – with arrangements by Mike Gibbs for Hamburg's NDR Big Band, and Mark Mondesir on drums. Gibbs's low brass parts, riffy sideswipes and Latin grooves transform Cole Porter's So in Love. Soldier's Things has a film noir feel, and Winstone is quietly soulful against the musicians' roar on Riverman. She doesn't quite manage to be playful, raunchy and emotional all at once on Jitterbug Waltz, but Sting's A Thousand Years is perfect for her. A spooky, echo-laden Caravan is startling, and Here Comes the Honeyman balefully bluesy. The reworking of Gibbs's 1970s theme Some Shadows – with a brass/reeds arrangement of Kenny Wheeler's original improvised solo is a bonus.By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/27/mike-gibbs-norma-winstone-review


Personnel: Arranged By, Directed By [Musical Director], Conductor – Mike Gibbs; Bass – Dave Whitford; Cello – Vytantas Sondeckis (tracks: 11); Drums [Drum] – Mark Mondesir; Guitar – Stephan Diez Percussion – Marcio Doctor; Piano – Mischa Schumann (tracks: 10), Vladislav Sendecki; Saxophone [Saxophones], Woodwind – Christof Lauer, Fiete Felsch, Frank Delle, Lutz Büchner, Matthias Erlewein (tracks: 10), Peter Bolte; Trombone – Dan Gottshall, Klaus Heidenreich, Steve Trop; Trombone [Bass Trombone], Tuba – Ingo Lahme; Trumpet – Claus Stötter, Ingolf Burkhardt, Michael Leuschner, Reiner Winterschladen, Thorsten Benkenstein; Voice – Norma Winstone

Here's A Song For You

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Radka Toneff - Live in Hamburg

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:36
Size: 151,6 MB
Art: Front

(8:06) 1. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
(5:20) 2. Never Letting Go
(7:32) 3. Lonely Woman
(6:01) 4. A Certain Peace
(5:00) 5. Antonio's Song
(4:33) 6. Set It Free
(5:28) 7. Just Like a Woman
(5:12) 8. Rest Enough
(9:35) 9. Bulgarian Folksong - Fire
(3:33) 10. Havana Candy
(5:11) 11. We'll Be Together

'Live in Hamburg' by vocalist/composer Radka Toneff (alongside ECM legend Arild Andersen) must be one of the finest Norwegian concert albums ever made - regardless of genre. Now this classic is being released on vinyl for the first time, in a 180g 2LP edition with a gatefold cover.

At the same time a new CD edition with an updated cover is being released. 'Live in Hamburg' was released over ten years after Radka Toneff passed away, and shows a side of her that had never before been documented on a recording. The album won a Spellemannspris, the Norwegian Grammy award, in 1993. The material on the album comes from a concert the Radka Toneff Quartet held at the legendary jazz club Onkel Pös Carnegie Hall in Hamburg on 10 March 1981.

The German radio station NDR broadcast an hour of the concert live, and an edited version of the recording became this album, a modern classic. Arild Andersen and sound technician Jan Erik Kongshaug went through the tapes from NDR and edited the record, which was released in 1993 as the fourth recording released under Radka Toneff's name. The album provides a welcome and unsentimental snapshot of a unique artist's voice that became silent too soon, but that had a profound impact on Norwegian music history.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Live-Hamburg-Radka-Toneff/dp/B01EWZ0WQK

Personnel: Vocals [Vocal] – Radka Toneff; Piano – Steve Dobrogosz; Drums – Alex Riel; Bass – Arild Andersen

Live in Hamburg

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Sant Andreu Jazz Band, Joan Chamorro - Jazzing 8 Vol. 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:54
Size: 177,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:50) 1. Portrait of Louis Amstrong
(4:41) 2. Mood Indigo
(5:40) 3. I've Never Been In Love Before
(3:55) 4. Que Reste Till De Nos Amours
(5:11) 5. After You've Gone
(5:12) 6. Vivo Sonhando
(4:15) 7. Bunny
(4:30) 8. One More Once
(4:53) 9. Egyptian Fantasy
(5:24) 10. Lover Come Back To Me
(2:37) 11. If I Had You
(4:49) 12. Jazz Goes to Siwash
(4:49) 13. Embraceable You
(4:00) 14. Theme from Picnic
(5:32) 15. Nap's Dream
(8:27) 16. Blues Generation

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/sant-andreu-jazz-band

Jazzing 8 Vol. 2

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Lee Konitz meets Antonio Zambrini Trio - Comencini

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:02
Size: 135,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:17) 1. Substitutions
(7:23) 2. Small Ballad
(5:44) 3. Bluesness
(3:00) 4. Giovedì
(5:12) 5. Minor Sequence
(7:06) 6. Arrivederci
(7:31) 7. Melampo
(4:56) 8. Antonia
(5:56) 9. Ritorno
(2:34) 10. Comencini intro
(4:17) 11. Bluesness (Duo Version)

Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form its name.

Konitz has also been repeatedly noted as one of the few jazz saxophonists of the late 1940s and 1950s who did not seem imitative of the massively influential Charlie Parker. In the early 1950s, Konitz recorded and toured with Stan Kenton's orchestra.

In 1961, he recorded Motion with Elvin Jones on drums and Sonny Dallas on bass. This spontaneous session, widely regarded as a classic in the cool genre, consisted entirely of standards. The loose trio format aptly featured Konitz's unorthodox phrasing and chromaticism.

In 1967, Konitz recorded The Lee Konitz Duets, a series of duets with various musicians. The duo configurations were often unusual for the period (saxophone and trombone, two saxophones). The recordings drew on very nearly the entire history of jazz, from a Louis Armstrong dixieland number with valve trombonist Marshall Brown to two completely free duos: one with a Duke Ellington associate, violinist Ray Nance, and one with guitarist Jim Hall.

Konitz has been quite prolific, recording dozens of albums as a band leader. He has also recorded or performed with Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Elvin Jones and others.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/lee-konitz

Personnel: Lee Konitz - Alto Saxophone; Antonio Zambrini - Piano; Ares Tavolazzi - Double Bass (1-9); Massimo Manzi - Drums (1-9)

Comencini

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Ron Blake - Shayari

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:21
Size: 159,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:39)  1. Waltz For Gwen
(8:41)  2. Atonement
(6:03)  3. Come Sun
(5:54)  4. Hanuman
(4:30)  5. What Is Your Prayer For?
(6:45)  6. Of Kindred Souls
(6:04)  7. Please Be Kind
(7:15)  8. 76
(2:00)  9. Remember The Rain
(7:23) 10. The Island
(4:52) 11. Teddy
(1:01) 12. Abhaari (Pt. I)
(3:08) 13. Abhaari (Pt. II)

There's an attention to sonic detail and aural space on tenor saxophonist Ron Blake's Shayari that would be more expected from the ECM label than from Detroit's Mack Avenue Records. But Mack Avenue, through Blake and his producer/pianist Michael Cain, has given us a CD strong on tone and mood, intimate and introverted without being lightweight or insubstantial. The intimacy flows from the instrumentation: All the tracks are trios save for three duos, and all but one scant-minute track feature tenor sax and piano. There is a lived-in feel about this record as well, as Blake revisits some of his earlier compositions in a more ruminative frame of mind, such as "Waltz for Gwen," with hand percussion (Jack DeJohnette or Gilmar Gomes) shading the leader's dry, urbane sax tone.

"Of Kindred Souls," originally recorded with Roy Hargrove's band, becomes a conversational trio with Regina Carter's violin joining tenor sax and piano. A heavier spiritual vibe informs "Atonement," tenor soloing over a fraught piano ostinato and DeJohnette's bundled sticks on cymbals, and "Hanuman," where Blake's tenor becomes surprisingly staccato over toms and rumbling piano. But for the most part, Blake's tenor is dry and airy, with a yearning tone akin to polite Coltrane. Emotions here are definitely subdued. Ivan Lins' "The Island," with Gomes punctuating on frame drum, is breezily seductive; Christian McBride's bass brings smooth swing to Bobby Hutcherson's "Teddy and the tenor/piano duet on "Please Be Kind the only American pop standard is a model of easy grace.By George Kanzler
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/shayari-ron-blake-mack-avenue-records-review-by-george-kanzler.php


Personnel: Ron Blake: tenor saxophone; Michael Cain: piano; Regina Carter: violin (6); Jack DeJohnette: drums (2, 4, 8, 12, 13); Gilmar Gomes: percussion (1, 3, 10); Christian McBride: bass (5, 11).

Shayari

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