Lloyd Arntzen - Lloyd Arntzen Salutes Johnny Dodds

Styles: Clarinet Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 77:42
Size: 72,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:43) 1. Canal St Blues
(3:54) 2. Perdido St Blues
(2:18) 3. Oriental Man
(3:31) 4. Melancholy
(4:40) 5. Big Butter And Egg Man
(3:14) 6. Wild Man Blues
(3:56) 7. High Society
(6:48) 8. Born Forty Years Too Late
(4:40) 9. Mabel's Dream
(3:29) 10. Weary City
(2:44) 11. Piggly Wiggly
(2:50) 12. Lonesome Blues
(4:34) 13. Oh Daddy
(3:52) 14. Wolverine Blues
(4:30) 15. Loveless Love
(3:11) 16. Gatemouth
(4:40) 17. Someday Sweetheart
(3:34) 18. Riverside Blues
(3:44) 19. Struttin' With Some Barbeque
(2:40) 20. After You've Gone

Lloyd Arntzen (born 19 September 1927) is a jazz clarinetist, folk singer, and soprano saxophonist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Arntzen has been an active participant on the New Orleans jazz scene, forming the New Orleans North Traditional Jazz Band along with members Alan Matheson, Grant Simpson, Craig Scott and Graeme Peters. Arntzen is also a member of the band Sweet Papa Lowdown, featuring band members Jeff Schucard, Dan Marcus and Craig Smith.

Arntzen's family is a particularly musical one. In 2006, Gwendoline Records issued a live CD titled 3 Generations in Jazz, featuring Arntzen along with his two sons and two grandsons, recorded at Vancouver's Cellar Jazz Café.

In 2013, his group Blackstick released a CD that had been crowdfunded by fans. Other musicians on the disc include his grandsons Evan and Arnt Arntzen on reeds and banjo/guitar respectively, Don Ogilvie on guitar, Jen Hodge on bass, and Benji Bohannon on drums, and it was engineered by Dave Henderson. Including an original tune by Evan Arntzen, the album was recorded in Lloyd's basement over a period of three days in September.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Arntzen

Lloyd Arntzen Salutes Johnny Dodds

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Annabelle Chvostek - Burned My Ass

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 21:05
Size: 48,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:15) 1. Devil's Paintbrush Road
(3:57) 2. Moya Hlava
(3:11) 3. Food On My Face
(3:23) 4. A Ja Taka Dzivocka (Slovak trad.)
(2:18) 5. The Fool
(4:59) 6. Slaves

Annabelle Chvostek is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter, composer and producer whose musical achievements range from folk to jazz to indie pop. She has composed music for dance and film, co-written songs with Bruce Cockburn, and was once in the band The Wailin' Jennys.

Born in Toronto, Annabelle began her career as part of Montreal's eclectic arts scene in the 90's and early 2000's, performing regularly at Le Boudoir, a queer, feminist 1920s-inspired cabaret series, and self-releasing four full-length albums between 1997-2003. In 2004 Annabelle joined The Wailin’ Jennys and wrote four songs on the multiple award-winning album Firecracker, which was on the Billboard Bluegrass charts for 69 weeks, peaking at #2.

After departing from the Jennys, she released the album Resilience (2008), produced by the Grammy-nominated Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson) and Vivian Stoll, Rise (2012), co-produced with Don Kerr (Rheostatics, Ron Sexsmith), and Be The Media (2015), co-produced with Jeff Oehler of Beehive Productions. Rise was nominated for a Juno Award in the Roots and Traditional Album of the Year category, and both Rise and Resilience were nominated for Contemporary Album of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Annabelle also co-wrote two songs with Bruce Cockburn for his Juno-winning album A Small Source of Comfort (2011).

In 2015, Annabelle was forced into a slower and quieter pace due to a series of health crises, including an ongoing struggle with severe hearing loss and tinnitus in her left ear triggered by a feedback blast during a soundcheck in England in 2008. Wth support from Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, she became the artist-in-residence at Toronto's community-based Echo Women's Choir between 2016-18. During this time, she developed skills in choral arrangement, composition and conducting under the mentorship of choral directors, Alan Gasser and Becca Whitla.

In 2017, Annabelle played her first gigs in Montevideo with Fernando on bass and Arturo Chilindron on drums. Annabelle's music was well-received by Uruguayan audiences, inspiring the newly-formed ensemble to deepen their collaboration from within Fernando's diverse musical community. Fernando's arrangements for the upcoming album draw from Uruguayan tango and early jazz-inspired winds. His lyrical orchestral instrumentations on “Walls” and “Halfway Through” were inspired by Canadian producer Bob Ezrin's work on Lou Reed's “Berlin” and Pink Floyd's “The Wall”.

Combining Canadian and Uruguayan songwriting traditions with the nostalgia for eras gone by was a fascinating place for Annabelle, and she believes that there is an openness and desire for a diversity of cultural inputs within the world of roots music. “This tapestry of interweaving cultural histories is very much tied to my own experience growing up in Toronto in an intercultural family, and raising my own daughter in two distinct cultural settings. My experience is by no means unique, and I think the universality of this experience, a very Canadian one, will resonate with a broad audience across cultures and age groups. I think music has the potential to tap into an openness that allows us to listen to new perspectives in unconventional ways, and it is my goal as an artist to think and rethink the ways in which this could be possible.” https://annabellemusic.com/about

Burned My Ass

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The Full Circle Quartet - The South Downs Suite

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 76:59
Size: 72,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:23) 1. Oasis
(5:59) 2. Pathways
(6:44) 3. The Dance of the Dragonfly
(5:36) 4. River Runs
(6:04) 5. Amberley
(3:44) 6. Cathedral
(7:31) 7. Chalk and Flint
(4:28) 8. Selborne
(6:47) 9. One January Morning
(6:50) 10. For Now / Jack and Jill
(8:20) 11. La Belle Dame de Belle Tout
(5:06) 12. Seven Sisters
(5:20) 13. A Walk In The Woods

There is a happy tradition of pastoral celebration not just in British classical music, but in jazz as well. Recently we’ve had James Kitchman evoking his beloved Northumberland on Rain Shadows with Bruno Heinem, while Kate Westbrook’s Granite band is embued with the soul of Dartmoor and the West country. The Full Circle Quartet takes the concept several steps beyond, however.

Poetry and books of painting are hard behind this release plus a follow up of ensemble pieces. And all based on a vivid vision of the sights, sounds and nature of the South Downs. There are generic songs, such as the subtle awakening of ‘Oasis’ or the fittingly flighty ‘Dance of the Dragonfly’ by Davies. But there’s site specific songs too, like the moodily beautiful ‘Seven Sisters’ inspired by the chalk cliffs of the East Sussex coast.

But the suite’s not all bucolic romanticism. Indeed, much of the music was born from the band’s experiences of lockdown, a mix of isolation, awe and awareness of nature’s indifference to humanity. All the members compose, and the band plays with great service to the music. But it’s hard not to single out Davies, nightingale blithe on soprano and variously dark toned, even vicious on tenor. We’re lucky to be witnessing a generation of saxophonists like Davies, Trish Clowes, Tori Freestone and newer stars like Emma Rawicz and Asha Parkinson bringing a fresher sensibility to Adolphe’s invention.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/the-full-circle-quartet-the-south-downs-suite

Personnel: Josephine Davies - Soprano and Tenor Saxophones; Joss Peach - Piano, Percussion and Voice; Terry Pack - Double Bass and Voice; Angus Bishop - Drums and Percussion

The South Downs Suite

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JoosTVD - Put Your Fake In It

Styles: Jazz Funk
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:43
Size: 89,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:26) 1. Living Is Instant
(3:34) 2. Put Your Fade In It
(3:55) 3. Hear The Sunshine Play
(3:12) 4. Up Up
(1:24) 5. The Shit Hits The Band
(2:43) 6. Hang On
(2:51) 7. Sentimental Overload
(3:14) 8. Careful
(2:55) 9. Agree To Disagree
(2:59) 10. Ennio
(2:45) 11. Move U
(1:43) 12. Mister Jump The Gun
(1:18) 13. Agnes Magnus Populess
(1:38) 14. Hear The Sunshine 2

The album has a great diversity of sounds. But the basis is a funky swinging touch with a basic singing beat. It's the sounds with which you can't sit on your lazy ass. It has a South American touch that touches on the African. By incorporating the horns into the songs, it gets a jazz moment. But above all are the catchy repetitive lyrics of, among other things, the title track and the opening track 'Living is Instant' with which you are sucked into the album.

‘Hear the Sunshine Play’, ‘Careful’ with a nice bass line and the piano track ‘The Shit Hits the Band’ sound like crooners with a weed, but certainly entertaining. The laid back songs 'Ennio' and 'Sentimental Overload' are the highlights of the album for me. From that perspective, a full album in a line would be most desirable to me. But the more people the more joy there are more flavors. By Roelof Noorda
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joostvdutchman_joostvd-put-your-fake-in-it-de-muziekplank-activity-7097524447087071233-csDo

Put Your Fake In It

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