Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 13 Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: Jazzing 13 Disc 1
Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:14
Size: 107,1 MB
Art: Front

(1:56) 1. Easy To Love
(5:57) 2. Sweet Georgia Brown
(7:25) 3. Midnight Blue
(4:25) 4. In A Mellow Tone
(3:11) 5. Prelude To A Kiss
(5:06) 6. Recordame
(2:57) 7. You Make Me Feel So Young
(5:07) 8. Laverne Walk
(3:46) 9. When Sunny Gets Blue
(2:44) 10. People We Say We're In Love
(3:35) 11. Go To Hell

Album: Jazzing 13 Disc 2
Time: 52:19
Size: 121,1 MB

(3:37) 1. A Tisket A Tasket
(4:20) 2. Blue Moon (2:21) 3. It's A Lovely Day Today
(4:22) 4. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
(4:24) 5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
(4:25) 6. Sunny
(4:43) 7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(3:48) 8. The Last Time I Saw Paris
(4:25) 9. I Wish I Knew How It Would To Be Free
(4:57) 10. Just A Closer with Thee
(5:42) 11. Corner Pocket
(5:09) 12. Tain't What You Do

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a youth jazz band from Barcelona, featuring 7- to 20-year-olds. The bandleader is Joan Chamorro.

The band was founded in 2006 at Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. The band has performed at numerous concerts and festivals in Catalonia, and other regions of Spain as well as in neighbouring countries (for example France, Switzerland, Denmark).. They released their first live CD/DVD Jazzing: Live at Casa Fuster in 2009, featuring alongside established jazz musicians, the precocious 14-year-old, Andrea Motis among other young talents.

2010 was a breakthrough year for the band, with appearances at more than 20 festivals including Valls, Terrassa, Girona, Barcelona, Platja d'Aro, and venues like el Jamboree, Palau de la Música Catalana, JazzSi, Hotel Casa Fuster, featuring international performers like Dick Oatts, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Gordon, Perico Sambeat, Ignasi Terraza, Matthew Simon, and Esteve Pi. The band also released their second recording Jazzing vol.2.

In 2012 the film director Ramón Tort made the documentary A film about kids and music based on the band's work and efforts. The film was awarded best feature film at the Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin, Texas, US in 2013.

In 2021, Sant Andreu Jazz Band celebrated their 15-year-anniversary with concerts during the Barcelona jazz festivals. They received the 2021 Alícia prize "for the Educational Project", awarded by the Acadèmia Catalana de la Música.

Small combos of older members perform worldwide, for example with WDR Big Band in Cologne and in Bengaluru (India) Several band members have contended in international jazz after their time in the band, particularly Motis and Rita Payés.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Andreu_Jazz_Band

Jazzing 13

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Sal Salvadore - Tribute To Gerry Mulligan

Styles: Guitar Jazz, Cool Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:32
Size: 86,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:52) 1. Bernie's Tune
(4:12) 2. Five Brothers
(3:58) 3. Song For Stray Horn
(4:14) 4. Elevation
(5:06) 5. Walkin' Shoes
(3:16) 6. Lime Light
(3:50) 7. Walk On The Water
(6:00) 8. Line For Lyons

Gerry Mulligan, in addition to being one of the top jazz baritonists ever, was a major if underrated composer. On this set, guitarist Sal Salvador, in groups ranging from a sextet to a quartet, interprets eight of Mulligan's better songs, including "Bernie's Tune," "Song for Strayhorn," "Walkin' Shoes," and "Line for Lyons."

With fine playing from the supporting cast (trumpeter Randy Brecker, baritonist Nick Brignola, vibraphonist Paul Johnson, bassist Gary Mazzaroppi, and drummer Butch Miles), Salvador is heard in top form throughout the consistently inspired and swinging effort. Highly recommended.By Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/plays-gerry-mulligan-mw0000897373#

Tribute To Gerry Mulligan

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Lisa Hilton - Twilight & Blues

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:33
Size: 115,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:57)  1. Pandemonium
(6:31)  2. Woodstock
(4:44)  3. What's Going On (Extended Take)
(6:11)  4. City Streets
(3:03)  5. Turbulent Blue
(5:20)  6. Twilight
(5:31)  7. Kozmic Blues
(4:58)  8. Blue for You
(6:36)  9. Moon River
(3:38) 10. What's Going On

Acclaimed Jazz pianist/composer Lisa Hilton's 11th release features in her band top jazz musicians, all current DownBeat Magazine Critic's Choice winners: Lewis Nash (drums), Larry Grenadier (bass), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), and J.D. Allen (tenor sax). Recorded at the famed Avatar Studio in NYC by 18-time Grammy Award-winning engineer/ producer, Al Schmitt. Hilton's own piano shimmers throughout on five originals and five iconic covers by artists such as Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye and Henry Mancini. Hilton continues to receive outstanding reviews, strong radio play, and has developed a broad fan base for her melodic instrumental Jazz approach.

"The whole disc has an ambience that draws you in while swinging with emotion. Thoughtful and well crafted from start to finish, this is a must have for jazz fans." ~ George Harris, All About Jazz

"Hilton uses blue notes to create an intimate world of beauty that is true to the artist she is. Hilton's originality of vision is her strength, and her light touch is a lovely as she is and as addictive as the waves breaking near her Malibu home." ~ Brad Walseth, JazzChicago.net

"Exciting for the listener...hot stuff." ~ Chris Spector, Midwest Record  

http://www.amazon.com/twilight-blues-Lisa-Hilton/dp/B002AR24AA

Twilight Blues

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Gemma Sherry - Songs I Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:48
Size: 131,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:51) 1. Some Other Time
(4:20) 2. You Don't Know What Love Is
(3:10) 3. I Fall in Love Too Easily
(3:37) 4. Satin Doll
(3:11) 5. Here's That Rainy Day
(5:39) 6. Lush Life
(6:08) 7. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
(5:11) 8. When Sunny Gets Blue
(3:56) 9. Blame It on My Youth
(3:23) 10. Peace
(3:39) 11. You Go to My Head
(5:19) 12. Round Midnight
(4:18) 13. Save Your Love for Me

Is it remotely possible that we need yet one more collection of standards from the Great American Songbook? Are computer servers not clotted to the point of infarction with the detritus of recordings by everyone who thinks he or she is a jazz singer? But here is a recording that reminds us why a collection of old songs, performed true to the melody, is so important to American music and her sacred Songbook. Gemma Sherry's Songs I Love is such a recording. With a bell-like coquettish, yet wholesomely scrubbed clarity, Sherry polishes the best that Tin Pan Alley has to offer, returning it as an integrated collection and informative whole. For this recording, Sherry is backed by the rhythm section of pianist Billy Woodman and bassist Mike Waite, the two sharing a solid musical empathy. They are in the mix, neck-and-neck, just behind Sherry. It is a warm and comfortable setup.

Hailing from Down Under and presently calling Philadelphia, PA home, Sherry approaches her performance with a refined understatement that translates into a true affinity for melody and the composers' intentions. Her recital of this baker's dozen standards is similarly fashioned. What is not here? Gratefully, "My Funny Valentine," "Feelings" and "The Man I Love." What is here orbits "love" in all of its grandeur, excitement, misery and longing. The enduring loss of "Some Other Time" with the optimism of "Satin Doll," the bookend double-barrel schizophrenia of "You Don't Know What Love Is" with "I Fall in Love Too Easily," and the perfectly in tune triptych of "Here's That Rainy Day," "Lush Life" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" all act as miniature suites highlighting the challenge and triumph of love. But Sherry does not stop there. She is in cahoots with Woodman, who has arranged all of the material simply and with grace. These are head arrangements that feature the familiar introduction-vocals-piano solo-vocals-coda format. All effort is saved to the melodies as conceived by their composers and words, their lyricists. It is bliss. The disc ends with another triptych made up of "You Go to My Head," "'Round Midnight" and "Save Your Love for Me." It is the lifespan of love: heady excitement, heartbreak and memory, prayer for reconciliation.~C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/songs-i-love-gemma-sherry-tunley-records

Personnel: Gemma Sherry: voice / vocals; Billy Woodman: piano; Mike Waite: bass; Patsy Gamble: saxophone.

Songs I Love

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Keyon Harrold - The Mugician

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:40
Size: 115,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Voicemail
(6:12)  2. The Mugician
(5:04)  3. MB Lament
(1:38)  4. When Will It Stop?
(6:14)  5. Wayfaring Traveler
(5:15)  6. Stay This Way
(0:28)  7. Lullaby
(4:34)  8. Her Beauty Through My Eyes
(4:27)  9. Ethereal Souls
(0:53) 10. Broken News
(4:21) 11. Circus Show
(5:48) 12. Bubba Rides Again

The sophomore album from Keyon Harrold, 2017's ambitious, socially conscious The Mugician, finds the New York-based, Ferguson, Missouri-raised jazz trumpeter laying out an intensely felt, genre-bending vision of jazz in the 21st century. As the title somewhat cheekily implies, Harrold is not simply a musician, but also a magician, or "mugician"; a notion evoked by director Don Cheadle when trying to describe the trumpeter's spellbinding work on the 2016 Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead. Just as Davis broke down musical boundaries throughout his career, Harrold works to bridge genre gaps here, crafting expansive, often cinematic soundscapes that are equal parts improvisational jazz, psychedelic hip-hop, ruminative R&B balladry, and pointed social critique.

It's an approach one might expect from a musician who counts both post-bop trumpeter Charles Tolliver and rapper Common as major influences. Joining Harrold on The Mugician are several longtime associates like guitarist Nir Felder, saxophonist Marcus Strickland, bassist Burniss Travis, drummer Mark Colenburg, and others. There are also a handful of special guests, including acclaimed pianist Robert Glasper and vocalists Jermaine Holmes and Georgia Anne Muldrow, all of whom commune on the atmospheric, '70s soul-infused "Wayfaring Traveler." Similarly, idiosyncratic R&B singer Bilal helps the trumpeter evoke the woozy '90s trip-hop of Massive Attack on "Stay This Way," and rapper Pharoahe Monch applies his acute wordplay to the sultry, minor-key grooves of "Her Beauty Through My Eyes." Also making notable contributions are singers Gary Clark, Jr., actor/comedian Guy Torry, reggae vocalist Josh David Barrett, and more.

Harrold even makes room for a heartfelt, motivational voicemail from his mom that he frames with Darin Atwater's wide-screen orchestration. Along the way, he touches upon a bevy of timely, thoughtfully rendered topics from racism and bigotry to romantic fidelity and the environment. Throughout all of The Mugician, Harrold lives up to the album's title, conjuring rounded, clarion trumpet lines, spinning off his collaborators one second, and commanding the spotlight the next with an alchemical swagger. ~ Matt Collar https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-mugician-mw0003099629

The Mugician

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