Friday, August 25, 2023

Chris Connor - The Rich Sound Of Chris Connor

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1967/2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:19
Size: 163,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:18) 1. Jeepers Creepers!
(2:39) 2. If I Should Lose You
(2:40) 3. And The Bull Walked Around, Olay!
(2:50) 4. All About Ronnie
(2:42) 5. I Get A Kick Out Of You
(3:25) 6. Where Flamingos Fly
(2:44) 7. Miser's Serenade
(2:44) 8. Ask Me
(2:47) 9. Chiquita From Chi-Wah-Wah
(2:43) 10. Blue Silhouette
(2:16) 11. Everything I Love
(2:18) 12. Gone With The Wind
(2:32) 13. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(2:27) 14. Stella By Starlight
(2:23) 15. Lullaby Of Birdland
(2:20) 16. I Hear Music
(2:55) 17. Out Of This World
(2:54) 18. Lush Life
(2:29) 19. From This Moment On
(3:07) 20. In Other Words
(2:35) 21. A Cottage For Sale
(2:53) 22. Spring Is Here
(2:56) 23. Indian Summer
(2:32) 24. Goodbye

Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 - August 29, 2009) was an American jazz singer known for her distinctive style and expression. Born in Kansas City, her father was an eminent musician and Chris soon studied and became proficient in the clarinet. Chris joined the "Snowflakes", a vocal group of Claude Thornhill's band, and moved on to become Stan Kenton's lead singer. She recorded for Bethlehem records originally and then began a long association with Atlantic records. Her trademark songs are well known to most people familiar with jazz of the 50s and 60s; among them are "Lullaby of Birdland" and "All about Ronnie."
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/chris-connor

The Rich Sound Of Chris Connor

Martina DaSilva - Living Room 2

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:38
Size: 103,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:57) 1. It's My Party
(3:04) 2. Bim Bom
(4:26) 3. I'll Never Be Free
(5:19) 4. God Bless The Child
(3:37) 5. Say You'll Be There
(3:03) 6. Tennessee Waltz
(3:02) 7. Big Stuff
(4:19) 8. Este Seu Olhar
(2:00) 9. Carinhoso
(4:12) 10. Can't Find My Way Home
(4:20) 11. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
(4:13) 12. Young At Heart

Jazz vocalist Martina DaSilva, a New York City native, captivates audiences with her signature blend of daring technical virtuosity and expressive emotional sensitivity. Drawing equally from the styles of early jazz, opera, and chamber music, her musicality transcends conventional genre labelling.

As a Brazilian-American, Martina also has a passion for performing the works of Brazilian composers. DaSilva actively performs with her own group in addition to leading the jazz vocal harmony group, The Ladybugs. Martina has received high praise for her performances at the Kennedy Center, the Bern International Jazz Festival, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, the NYC Hot Jazz Festival, Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Generations in Jazz Festival, and the NY Winter Jazzfest.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/martina-dasilva/

Living Room 2

Peter Leitch Quintet - Portraits and Dedications

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:47
Size: 139,2 MB
Art: Front

( 5:56) 1. Pepper
( 5:25) 2. Visage De Cathryn
( 4:36) 3. Modes for Wood
( 4:38) 4. Warm Valley
( 5:35) 5. Colorado
( 6:21) 6. Portrait of Sylvia
( 2:46) 7. The Winter of My Discontent
( 7:18) 8. A Blues For 'Nita
( 5:45) 9. The Bulldog
(10:22) 10. Shades of Stein

It often seems like the Dutch label Criss Cross is much more enlightened when it comes to recording talented young American jazz musicians than major labels within the U.S.A. Such is the case with guitarist Peter Leitch, who's heard leading this 1988 session.

With alto saxophonist Bobby Watson, pianist James Williams, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Marvin Smitty Smith added to the mix, great music was the only possible result. Leitch's "Pepper," a tribute to the late Pepper Adams (who gave him his first job in New York), is a brisk affair with sterling solos by all parties.

His easygoing samba "Portrait of Sylvia" adds Jed Levy's alto flute. Duke Ellington's "Warm Valley" is a soulful duet with Watson that is full of fun and features great interplay as well. Leitch captures the moody air of Alec Wilder's infrequently performed ballad "The Winter of My Discontent" in his solo interpretation. Recommended. By Ken Dryden
https://www.allmusic.com/album/portraits-and-dedications-mw0000429152

Personnel: Peter Leitch (Guitar); Jed Levy (Alto Flute); Bobby Watson (Alto Saxophone); Ray Drummond (Bass); Marvin "Smitty" Smith (Drums); James Williams (Piano).

Portraits and Dedications

Massimo Faraò, Emanuele Cisi - The Music of Archie Shepp

Styles: Bebop
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:16
Size: 123,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:21) 1. Une petit surprise pour mam'selle
(4:32) 2. Hope #2
(4:28) 3. Ujaama
(4:18) 4. Lush Life
(7:36) 5. The Stars Are in Your Eyes
(6:20) 6. Steam
(5:26) 7. Deli Blues for Blakey
(5:56) 8. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
(6:21) 9. Wise One
(3:54) 10. Tomorrow Will Be Another Day

Born in Torino, Italy, in 1964, self-thaugt musician, he’s one of the most representative voices in the european jazz scene. His unique tone, along with a deep knowledge of the tradition mixed with a personal taste for composition, are became a landmark for jazz lovers. Since he won the Musica Jazz magazine critic’s prize in Italy as New Best Talent back in 1995, he recorded 12 cd’s as a leader or co-leader (the last one, “Homecoming”, for the japanese label AlbòreJazz ), and more than 50 as a sideman.

During his career, he played and recorded with many great artists like Clark Terry, Jimmy Cobb, Albert Tootie Heat, Walter Booker, Joe Chambers, Ron Carter, George Cables, Nat Adderley, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Owens, Billy Hart, Cameron Brown, Billy Cobham, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Wheleer, Aldo Romano, Daniel Humair, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Sting and many many others.

He has toured extensively in Europe, U.S., China, Oceania, South America. In spring 2011, the world première of the Detroit Torino Urban Jazz Project (a multimedia project he founded in and co-leaded since 2006 with the Detroit born tenor player Chris Collins) took place at Torino’s Opera House along with the Symphonic Orchestra. In last years he also recorded and toured as a jazz soloist with the baroque ensemble “La Venexiana”, consisered as a world preminent interpreter of Monteverdi’s music. He’s visiting more and more the U.S. scene, and he’s planning to record in New York his next album. He teach Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of Torino.
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/emanuele-cisi

The Music of Archie Shepp

John Tchicai's Five Points - One Long Minute

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:31
Size: 91,6 MB
Art: Front

(9:47)  1. Venus
(7:02)  2. Anxiety Disorder
(1:35)  3. Yojimbo
(7:05)  4. Glass Houses and Gift Horses
(5:37)  5. One Long Minute
(3:13)  6. Spectronomous
(5:08)  7. Parole Ambulante

Saxophonist John Tchicai was best known for his time in New York during the height of the '60s free jazz explosion, but he actually spent the majority of his career advancing the cause of avant-garde jazz in Northern Europe. Tchicai was born April 28, 1936, in Copenhagen to a Danish mother and Congolese father; he began playing violin at age ten, switched to both clarinet and alto sax at 16, and focused on the latter at Denmark's Conservatory of Music. In the late '50s, Tchicai began making the rounds of the North European jazz scene, which was quick to pick up on the early innovations of the American avant-garde. In 1963, he moved to New York City to immerse himself in the epicenter of free jazz. He hooked up with Archie Shepp and Don Cherry, eventually co-founding the New York Contemporary Five with them; he was also a founding member of the New York Art Quartet with Roswell Rudd and Milford Graves. Tchicai also recorded with Albert Ayler (on New York Eye and Ear Control), the Jazz Composers Guild, and John Lennon (Life with the Lions), and most importantly appeared on John Coltrane's legendary free jazz landmark Ascension. After a whirlwind three years, Tchicai returned to Denmark in 1966 and founded a large workshop ensemble called Cadentia Nova Danica, which he led until 1971. Shortly thereafter, he cut back on performing to concentrate on teaching full-time. In 1977, he returned to the studio, leading a fairly steady series of recording dates into the '80s, when he switched to tenor sax and joined Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra. 

In 1990, Tchicai received a lifetime grant for jazz performance from the Danish Ministry of Culture; and the following year he relocated to California's Bay Area, where he and his keyboardist wife Margriet founded John Tchicai & the Archetypes and the John Tchicai Unit, which both recorded during the '90s. After the turn of the millennium he returned to Europe and moved to Southern France; in June 2012 Tchicai suffered a brain hemorrhage, and although he reportedly began physiotherapy, he died in Perpignan, France in October of that year. John Tchicai was 76 years old. ~ Steve Huey http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-tchicai-mn0000814077/biography

Personnel:  John Tchicai (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet);  Alex Weiss (tenor saxophone; alto saxophone; percussion);  Garrison Fewell (guitar, percussion, bow);  Dmitry Ishenko (bass);  Ches Smith (drums)

One Long Minute

14 Jazz Orchestra, Ed Calle - The Future Ain't What It Used to Be

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:50
Size: 138,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:31)  1. Armando's Rhumba
(4:35)  2. Firewater
(4:41)  3. Blue Miles
(5:41)  4. Triste
(6:44)  5. Dance Cadaverous
(6:09)  6. Pandamanium
(4:46)  7. 16 Tons (Give or Take)
(7:11)  8. Seventh Sign
(4:44)  9. Rice Pudding
(5:28) 10. Ruth
(5:16) 11. I'll Be Seeing You

The 14 Jazz Orchestra is comprised of 13 of South Florida’s premier Jazz and studio musicians. Under the direction of Dan Bonsanti, the ensemble includes distinguished Jazz educators currently on the music faculties of Miami Dade College, Barry University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Miami. Individually, the members of “THE 14” have recorded, toured, and/or performed with many of the greatest Jazz and Pop artists of our time, from the big bands of Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Mercer Ellington, and Woody Herman to such Jazz artists as Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Jon Hendricks, Mel Torme, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Turrentine, The Brecker Brothers, Eliane Elias, Bob Mintzer, Bob James, and Arturo Sandoval, just to name a few. Their collective resumes also include Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Ray Charles, and Pop/Rock artists as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Marvin Gaye, and The BeeGees. The ensemble takes a Contemporary Jazz approach to a wide assortment of styles, performing compositions from Jazz composers such as Billy Strayhorn, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, John Scofield, and Wayne Shorter and pop/rock artists such as Paul McCartney and John Lennon. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/the14jazzorchestra2

MUSICIANS: Special Guests: Randy Brecker, Mark Colby, Mark Egan, Danny Gottlieb, Marko Marcinko, Rick Margitza, Lee Levin, and Featured Soloist, Ed Calle, and each member of the orchestra, are former students, graduates, and/or faculty from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, touching 7 decades.

The Future Ain't What It Used to Be