Barb Jungr - Barb Jungr sings Leonard Cohen

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:43
Size: 63,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:20) 1. So Long Marianne
(4:51) 2. Happens To The Heart
(3:15) 3. Bird On The Wire
(4:25) 4. You Want It Darker
(8:49) 5. The Future/Dance Me To The End Of Love

Leonard Cohen is a an extraordinary artist. He is a challenging poet/songwriter whose works do not give up their meanings easily and his themes can be dark and sometimes disturbing. His commentary on both politics and relationships is usually stark and unsentimental. "Everybody Knows" and "First We Take Manhattan" challenge, and almost threaten, the listener politically.

The 'love' songs "Suzanne" and "So Long Marianne" are wistful and tinged with disappointment. Indeed, Cohen's world is haunted by broken relationships and betrayal, but there is also a promise of reconciliation and redemption. Barb Jungr does an extraordinary job of presenting the poet's musical musings, and it is always a joy to hear her interpret these works.

She does so with skill and intelligence, and she brings drama and clarity to the complex emotions that Cohen conjures up in songs like "Bird on The Wire" and "You Want It Darker." She finds the meaning in Cohen's lyrics and lays it bare for the audience to savour and share. Barb Jungr really is one of our premier interpreters of this amazing writer.

However, if you missed this show, there are three others coming up. On October 14th Barb Jungr presents her interpretation of the works of Nobel Prize winner, Bob Dylan, and on November 18th she is back with her trio in a show called My Marquee. Then, on December 23rd, she will be appearing in two shows with Dillie Keane. Definitely, take advantage of one of these opportunities to appreciate the artistry of Barb Jungr.br /> By J.C.http://www.londonlivinglarge.com/2022/09/barb-jungr-sings-leonard-cohen-crazy.html

Barb Jungr sings Leonard Cohen

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Brook Benton - Best Of Brook Benton

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:37
Size: 72.4 MB
Styles: R&B
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[2:26] 1. It's Just A Matter Of Time
[2:19] 2. Endlessly
[2:28] 3. Thank You Pretty Baby
[2:33] 4. So Many Ways
[2:47] 5. Baby (You've Got What It Takes)
[2:40] 6. Kiddio
[2:29] 7. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
[2:26] 8. Fools Rush In
[2:38] 9. The Boll Weevil Song
[2:13] 10. Lie To Me
[2:42] 11. Hotel Happiness
[3:49] 12. Rainy Night In Georgia

This collection contains most of Brook Benton's biggest hits, including the later "Rainy Night In Georgia", a late 60's soul classic that cemented his place in the genre. The few that are missing aren't nearly as significant as the classics that are here. This a disc made to push play on and listen to all the way through. Not a substandard tune anywhere to be found. The sound quality is admirable. No sonic wonder, it is remastered and certainly and improvement over what came before. So buy it, play it, and be prepared to sit back and snap your fingers. ~Jack the Beatlegeezer

A dozen selections, each of which was a Top 15 pop hit, and six of them reached #1 on the R&B charts! Hear these silky-smooth favorites: The Boll Weevil Song; Hotel Happiness; It's Just a Matter of Time; Rainy Night in Georgia; Kiddio; Lie to Me; Fools Rush In; Baby (You've Got What it Takes) (with Dinah Washington), and more.

Best Of Brook Benton

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Harry Allen - Jazz For The Heart

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:09
Size: 165.2 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[5:22] 1. (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance With You
[5:34] 2. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
[5:54] 3. September Song
[8:08] 4. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
[3:11] 5. Mona Lisa
[5:23] 6. Skylark
[5:01] 7. Teach Me Tonight
[4:39] 8. Moonlight In Vermont
[6:22] 9. Night Train
[5:07] 10. If There's A Sky Above
[3:45] 11. You Go To My Head
[4:54] 12. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
[4:35] 13. In The Wee Small Hours (Of The Morning)
[4:08] 14. I'll Be Seeing You

Harry Allen: tenor saxophone; John Bunch: piano; Joe Cohn: guitar; Joel Forbes: bass; Chuck Riggs: drums.

Harry Allen is not exactly a new act. Yet, after some 26 albums under his own name and sideman dates on many others, the saxophonist is hardly a recognizable name to the general public. Too bad, since this recording is among his best and certainly most evocative of a protracted ballad session by Stan Getz. Thematically, the album is perfect for a romantic evening, covering a lengthy 72 minutes. My one reservation is that midway through the album, the Jimmy Forrest standard "Night Train" is played as a mid-tempo blues (as it should be) and damages the mood that the preceding tracks had established.

Harry Allen was a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1989 with a music degree and found himself immersed in the New York recording scene with an unexpected opportunity to sit in for Zoot Sims at a session. He has been recording for independent labels like Nagel-Heyer, Progressive and Audiophile, and he's been an RCA recording artist for the past eight years. Now he primarily works within the Harry Allen and Joe Cohn Quartet, a group that was awarded the New York City Nightlife Award for Outstanding Jazz Combo in January, 2006.

Allen's latest release is a followup to last year's Jazz for the Soul and his musical colleagues here are truly veterans of the jazz scene: pianist John Bunch, guitarist Joe Cohn, bassist Joel Forbes and drummer Chuck Riggs. The album is a tribute to the ballads of the Great American Songbook, with one Allen original included ("If There's A Sky Above"). Some of the titles include the Washington/Crosby/Young piece "I Don't Stand A Ghost of a Chance," Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark" and Hilliard/Mann's "In The Wee Small Hours (Of The Morning)," featuring Joe Cohn's tasty inclusion of the rarely heard verse.

The above reference to Stan Getz is not meant in any way to imply that Allen's music is derivative. Rather, it is an affirmation of this artist's mastery of a style that has been recognized as a significant achievement. Hopefully, some of that will rub off, belatedly, on Allen's career. ~Michael P. Gladstone

Jazz For The Heart

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Wynton Marsalis - Plays Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives - Hot Sevens

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:43
Size: 169,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:48) 1. Potato Head Blues
(4:01) 2. Twelfth Street Rag
(5:48) 3. Skid-Dat-De-Dat
(4:00) 4. Jazz Lips
(6:31) 5. St. James Infirmary
(3:56) 6. Weary Blues
(4:07) 7. Melancholy Blues
(5:52) 8. Heebie Jeebies
(6:11) 9. Once In A While
(4:05) 10. Ory's Creole Trombone
(7:58) 11. Basin Street Blues
(6:33) 12. Savoy Blues
(3:59) 13. Cornet Chop Suey
(5:46) 14. Fireworks

Wynton Marsalis with Vince Giordano pay tribute to the enduring legacy of Louis Armstrong’s “Hot Five and Hot Seven”

Louis Armstrong achieved fame as a trumpeter, but is also known as one of the most influential singers in jazz. His musical presence, technical mastery and imaginative genius so overwhelmed jazz musicians of his day that he became their principal model, leaving an indelible imprint on the Cadillac is the Lead New York Sponsor of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly acknowledges its 2006-07 sponsors: Altria Group, Inc., Bank of America, Bloomberg, The Coca Cola Company, Time Warner Inc., XM Satellite Radio.

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The improvisations, which he made on these records of New Orleans jazz standards and popular songs of the day, transformed jazz. Hits from these recordings which include “Potato Head Blues,” “Muggles” and “West End Blues” set the standard and the agenda for jazz for many years to come.
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Personnel: Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Wycliffe Gordon, trombone; Vincent Gardner, saxophone, clarinet; Victor Goines, saxophone, clarinet; Walter Blanding, piano; Don Vappie, piano; Jon Batiste, piano; Carlos Henriquez, drums; Ali Jackson, drums

Plays Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives - Hot Sevens

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Thomas Enhco & Stéphane Kerecki - A Modern Songbook

Styles: Piano Jazz, Bop
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:14
Size: 175,0 MB
Art: Front

(1:23) 1. Reverie (Kinderszenen Op. 15 n°7- Traumerei)
(6:46) 2. Danny Boy
(6:01) 3. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
(4:02) 4. Wasting My Young Years
(6:51) 5. Fields of Gold
(2:40) 6. Day Is Done
(6:53) 7. Gary
(6:34) 8. Oleo de Mujer Con Sombrero
(5:40) 9. Ya Balad
(8:50) 10. Halfway to Japan
(4:25) 11. Lean on Me
(7:21) 12. Libera Me
(3:20) 13. Epilogue
(5:21) 14. Oh Shenandoah

On March 31st the live album "A Modern Songbook" by Thomas Enhco and Stéphane Kerecki was released by Sony Music a summit meeting of two virtuosos.

The album "A Modern Songbook" by Thomas Enhco and Stephane Kerecki is the story of a friendship and successful collaboration between two French jazz virtuosos. What connects the pianist and double bass player is the search for a balance between virtuosity and emotionality, reduction and depth. "We wanted to explore the space between the notes and play with the silence," explains Thomas Enhco. The basis for this musical exploration are pieces from pop, classical, jazz, gospel and folk and music by Aretha Franklin, Nick Drake, Sting, London Grammar, Fauré or Schumann.

Thomas Enhco (1988) continues the work of the artist and musician dynasty Casadesus in the fifth generation. He started playing the violin at the age of three. The piano was added when I was six. From a very young age he was on stage with famous jazz musicians. In France, he is one of the few artists to be celebrated equally by the classical and jazz worlds - he has played and written with/for the Capuçon brothers, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, Khatia Buniatishvili, Lise de la Salle, among others or the Orchester National de France as well as with the jazz musicians Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jack DeJohnette or Mike Stern.

Stéphane Kerecki (1970) is known for his various collaborations, which have received multiple awards. While studying economics, he began playing the double bass, but then decided to devote himself entirely to this instrument and entered the Paris Conservatory. His first engagements took him to Steve Potts' quartet and to the first bassist of the Paris Jazz Big Band. For about twenty years, Stéphane Kerecki has performed in the bands of Denis Colin, Guillaume de Chassy, Yaron Herman, Daniel Humair, François Jeanneau, Sheila Jordan and Steve Lehman, among others. In 2015 he was a prizewinner at Talents Jazz ADAMI and his album Nouvelle Vague received the "Victoire du jazz du Meilleur Disque de l'Année 2015".https://www-jazz--fun-de.translate.goog/thomas-enhco-stephane-kerecki-a-modern-songbook.html

A Modern Songbook

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