Dutch Swing College Band - 60 Years Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: 60 Years Disc 1
Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:44
Size: 170,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:29) 1. You made me love you
(3:43) 2. On the banks of the wabash
(3:51) 3. Hindustan
(4:46) 4. Just a closer walk with thee
(3:33) 5. Dixieland boogie
(2:32) 6. Walzing mathilda
(2:37) 7. When the saints come marching in
(3:57) 8. Coal black shilne
(2:47) 9. Heebiejeebies
(4:42) 10. Back home again in indiana
(4:51) 11. Canal street blues
(8:48) 12. Moten swing
(3:52) 13. Prelude to a kiss
(5:09) 14. Do nothing till you hear from me
(3:52) 15. Take the a train
(4:43) 16. East st louis toodle oo
(4:24) 17. Cotton tail

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Album: 60 Years Disc 2
Time: 71:04
Size: 163,7 MB

(7:53) 1. Basin street blues
(5:58) 2. Stealing apples
(4:44) 3. Just squeeze me
(5:25) 4. Someday you'll be sorry
(9:25) 5. Mood indigo
(6:06) 6. Swing that music
(3:37) 7. The sheik of araby
(4:02) 8. Copenhagen
(3:01) 9. Up a lazy river
(3:56) 10. Strike up the band
(4:55) 11. On the sunny side of the street
(5:02) 12. Sweet georgia brown
(2:20) 13. St'louis blues boogie
(4:35) 14. Bel ami so do i

The Dutch Swing College Band has endured numerous personnel changes in its more than fifty-year history as one of the Netherlands' top jazz ensembles. Although no members remain from the original group, the latest lineup continues to honor the tradition-rooted approach of the founders.

Bob Kaper (1939- ) replaced clarinet player Peter Schilperoort during an illness in 1966, and remained with the band; he has led the Dutch Swing College Band since Schilperoort's death in 1990. The fourth leader in the group's history, Kaper succeeds Frans Vink, Jr. (1945-46), Joop Schrier (1955-60), and Schilperoort (1946-55; 1960-1990). Kaper previously led the Beale Street Seven, a group he founded in 1957.

An amateur group from 1945 until turning professional in 1960, the Dutch Swing College Band reached their early peak in the late '40s, when they were tapped to accompany such jazz musicians as Sidney Bechet, Joe Venuti, and Teddy Wilson.

The New Melbourne Jazz Band recorded an album, A Tribute to the Dutch Swing College Band, featuring music associated with the Holland-based group.by Craig Harris
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dutch-swing-college-band-mn0000130996/biography

Personnel: Bass – Adrie Braat; Clarinet – Bob Kaper; Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Frits Kaatee; Cornet – Bert de Kort; Drums – Bob Dekker; Guitar – Ton Van Bergeijk; Piano – Marcel Hendricks; Trombone – George Kaatee

60 Years Disc 1,Disc 2

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Katie Noonan - Late Night Tunes With Noons

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:17
Size: 72,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:09) 1. I Found You
(3:47) 2. Choirgirl
(4:39) 3. Wish you Well
(3:59) 4. Do you Remember
(4:27) 5. Nerve
(3:11) 6. The Day You Come
(4:15) 7. Throw Your Arms Around Me
(3:47) 8. Dance Monkey

Katie Noonan’s new mini-album ‘Late Night Tunes with Noons’, showcasing her interpretation of iconic Australian songs as well as featuring a new original song ‘I Found You’. The idea started when Katie posted a short video on Instagram of her learning a Hunters and Collectors classic for an upcoming event.

After garnering such a strong response from fans, Katie created a late-night video series where she interprets some of her favourite Aussie songs from across multiple decades in her intimate and dynamic style.

The eight track mini-album really showcases Katie’s magical interpretation of classic’s new and old taking on Tones and I, Emma Louise, Jarryd James, Jordan Rakei, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel and Powderfinger.
https://www.katienoonan.com.au/shop/late-night-tunes-with-noons

Late Night Tunes With Noons

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The Verve Jazz Ensemble - All In

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:45
Size: 120,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:39) 1. All In
(3:28) 2. Midnight In The Air
(7:34) 3. The Odd Couple Theme
(3:40) 4. Pensive Miss
(5:16) 5. Ain't That A Kick In The Head
(3:56) 6. Once I Loved
(5:56) 7. Studio J
(5:23) 8. What I Meant To Say Was
(4:39) 9. Bluesette
(6:11) 10. Dolphin Dance

It takes a bold, knowledgeable, and inventive group to call itself The Verve Jazz Ensemble. The moniker Verve conjures the legendary jazz label Verve Records: once home to the greatest pioneering names in the artform from Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and Ella Fitzgerald to Bill Evans, Count Basie, and Buddy Rich. It is in the spirit of the Verve label’s 1950s - ‘60s hard bop heyday that The Verve Jazz Ensemble composes, arranges, and performs jazz of a timeless quality. Across eight albums and counting the latest entitled All In the “VJE” has been satisfying the cravings of critics and audiences alike, consistently placing near or at the very top of the JazzWeek radio chart for the past decade. No less than Ellis Marsalis, the late, revered patriarch of the highly distinguished Marsalis Family that gave us Wynton, Branford, Jason and Delfeayo Marsalis, observed, “The VJE is the new MJQ,” referring to the fabled Modern Jazz Quartet.

Drummer Josh Feldstein founded The Verve Jazz Ensemble in 2006 as a band that paid homage to the past while vehemently establishing newer, younger audiences for the now vintage sound. “Part of the band’s mission,” said Feldstein, “is to expand the audience of classic instrumental jazz, to identify melodies that pop audiences can easily relate and groove to but not need a degree in music to dig.”

The Verve Jazz Ensemble is a band that “chooses to move in a musical direction that’s appealing to radio as well as our broad base of US and international listeners,” Josh added. “Our mission is to bring forward the acoustic jazz artform in a way that both veteran listeners and newcomers to Jazz easily appreciate.”

Feldstein’s passion for acoustic jazz stems back to when he was 11 years old and living with his family in Queens, New York. He was taking drum lessons at the time from a teacher who turned him onto the volcanic Gene Krupa. “One day my teacher told me I sounded like Krupa,” Josh recalled. “Well, I don’t think that was remotely true, but I dug Gene’s drumming intensely and couldn’t stop listening.” The LP he pointed Josh to was “Verve’s Choice: The Best of Gene Krupa.” Josh was hooked

. “I spent the next 10 years grabbing up all of the jazz albums recorded for Verve Records that I could,” he states. “I hung out listening to Papa Jo Jones and the Countsmen at the West End Café on Broadway and 113th street in Manhattan. I’d catch the incredible Buddy Rich and his big band, and legends like Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Count Basie. Any given month would bring into town the best of the best like (saxophonist) Stan Getz, (pianist) Monty Alexander, and on and on.

“I put music on the backburner once I entered college, however, because I didn’t think I could make money as a jazz musician,” Josh said. “While I kept practicing and did play from time to time I even toured for a while with a big band in the mid-Atlantic area it was part-time stuff by and large.

“Some years later, when I was living in Connecticut, I came across the playing of a young saxophonist / keyboardist named Jon Blanck. He really impressed me as a young cat who could really play in the authentic hardbop idiom, which is my foundation. I approached him to play locally just for fun. We ended up booking restaurants and country clubs and becoming close friends. The band developed a strong reputation and a faithful following. Once the VJE started playing clubs throughout Connecticut and eventually in New York proper, things started happening.”

The VJE was a quintet when it first ventured into the studio to record its debut album, It’s About Time (2012), followed by East End Sojourn (2014) which featured guest Peter Bernstein on guitar. Both charted Top 10 on the JazzWeek radio charts. Those albums were followed by top 25 Perimeter (2016) and yet another top 10 album, Swing-A-Nova (2017), recorded by the rhythm section as a trio album.

For 2018, Feldstein expanded the tenor sax, trumpet, piano, bass and drums quintet into a septet with alto / flute and trombone for the VJE’s fifth album, Connect The Dots, a change that shot the band to the #1 position atop the JazzWeek chart for two weeks. Next came Night Mode (2019) another top 10-charter followed during the Covid lockdown by The VJE: Very Live! (2021) recorded at a pre-pandemic benefit concert in Hadley, MA which kept the VJE brand alive and well.

For VJE’s eighth and latest album, All In, the septet joyfully explores the theme of “Mid-20th century Americana” via two original compositions and eight arrangements of some classic and other little-heard material. The band consists of Tatum Greenblatt on trumpet, Willie Applewhite on trombone, Alexa Tarantino on alto sax / flute, Jon Blanck on tenor sax, Matt Oestreicher on piano and guitar, Elias Bailey on bass, and VJE leader Josh Feldstein on drums.

Highlights of the album include the Tatum Greenblatt original title track, “All In;” an Afro Cuban approach to Neal Hefti’s beloved “The Odd Couple Theme;” another Greenblatt original entitled “What I Meant to Say Was,” set up as a musical conversation between trumpet and alto sax; and a piano trio whirl through Jean “Toots” Thielemans “Bluesette.”

All this music, along with the rest of “All In,” is in passionate keeping of The Verve Jazz Ensemble’s sworn mission to expand the audience of instrumental jazz in the United States and worldwide. “This is very important to all of us,” Feldstein shares. “My daughter is in high school, and she and her friends like our music. There are listeners everywhere of all ages who don’t know any jazz history. But when they hear our approach to jazz, they soak it in. Identifying and performing jazz melodies that pop audiences can relate to catchy yet legitimate music, with a pulse that’s our target.”
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/the-verve-jazz-ensemble

All In

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Massimo Faraò - Beauty And Funky

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:49
Size: 152,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:45) 1. When A Man Loves Woman
(5:31) 2. Naima Love Song
(5:10) 3. The Shout
(5:53) 4. Good Groove
(5:00) 5. This Here
(6:26) 6. Dat There
(5:08) 7. Just A Gigolo
(7:12) 8. Hymn To Freedom
(5:47) 9. Them That ’s Got
(8:07) 10. Poinciana
(3:45) 11. Ancora

"The blackest of Italian pianists" was born May 16th, 1965, in Genoa. He studied piano with Maestro Flavio Crivelli and began his career collaborating with musicians from the Genoa Area, especially with the bassist Piero Leveratto. In 1993 he was invited for the first time in the USA. He plays with Red Holloway and Albert "Tootie" Heath on a tour on the West Coast.

In the same year he founded "We love Jazz" Workshop, now become one of the biggest events in Europe for jazz teaching. In 1994 he was hired by "Monad Records" in New York and back in the United States as pianoplayer and music director of Shawnn Monteiro's band, with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham. He has played in several european tours with the Nat Adderley Quintet, composed by Antonio Hart, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb.

In 2001 he joined the Archie Shepp's "Just in Time" Quartet with Wayne Dockery and Bobby Durham. Since 2001 he is the artistic director for the jazz division of AZZURRA MUSIC label. In 2003 he played at "Jazz Piano Festival" in Lucerne. In November 2004 he played in Japan, where his albums have become bestsellers.

He played in Italy, France, Germany, Corsica, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Dubai, Luxembourg, Spain, Japan, Yugoslavia,Canada. From 2014 he recorded 12 cd for Venus Records the famous japanese jazz label. He has recorded more than 2 hundred Cds with many Italian and foreign musicians. from www.massimofarao.com
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/massimo-farao

Beauty And Funky

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