Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby Sings & Swings Love Songs 1

Styles: Swing
Year: 2023
Time: 74:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 172,2 MB
Art: Front

(1:34) 1. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Alternate Take) (Feat. The Buddy Cole Trio)
(2:27) 2. I Get A Kick Out Of You
(2:49) 3. Almost Like Being In Love
(2:48) 4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
(2:31) 5. People Will Say We're In Love (Version 2)
(2:46) 6. La Borrichita (I'll Never Love Again)
(2:00) 7. The Lady Is A Tramp
(2:19) 8. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
(2:56) 9. That's Amore
(2:03) 10. Where Or When
(2:01) 11. Love's Old Sweet Song
(2:37) 12. Isn't This A Lovely Day?
(1:59) 13. C'est Magnifique / Taking A Chance On Love (Mono)
(2:35) 14. You're Just In Love (Version 2)
(2:34) 15. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(2:35) 16. All The Way
(2:29) 17. Pagan Love Song / Cuban Love Song
(1:50) 18. Everybody Loves My Baby
(2:23) 19. Love And Marriage
(3:27) 20. P.s. I Love You (1953 Version)
(2:42) 21. No Te Importe Saber (Let Me Love You Tonight)
(2:06) 22. Taking A Chance On Love
(2:00) 23. All My Love (Bolero)
(2:18) 24. Papa Loves Mambo
(3:35) 25. South Of The Border
(2:22) 26. I Love Paris
(2:56) 27. Medley: I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore / I Wish I Were In Love Again (Live) (Feat. Maurice Chevalier)
(1:35) 28. Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me
(2:06) 29. Pledging My Love
(3:32) 30. I'm Through With Love

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality and businessman. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. Crosby was a leader in record sales, network radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global cultural icons. Crosby made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs.

Crosby’s early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed, such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon. Yank magazine said that Crosby was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.: 6  In 1948, Music Digest estimated that Crosby’s recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in America.

Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way (1944) and was nominated for its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), opposite Ingrid Bergman, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. Crosby was the number one box office attraction for five consecutive years from 1944 to 1948. At his screen apex in 1946, Crosby starred in three of the year's five highest-grossing films: The Bells of St. Mary's, Blue Skies and Road to Utopia. In 1963, he received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. Crosby is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with his friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to ... films from 1940 to 1962.

Crosby influenced the development of the post–World War II recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, Crosby invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows and became the first performer to prerecord his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Crosby has been associated with the Christmas season since he starred in Irving Berlin's musical film Holiday Inn and also famously sang "White Christmas" in the movie.

Through audio recordings, Crosby produced his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became the industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, Crosby helped finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, during which time the team won two World Series (1960 and 1971).https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2437980f-513a-44fc-80f1-b90d9d7fcf8f

Bing Crosby Sings & Swings Love Songs 1

Tony Lakatos - Nothing Like a Ballad

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 53:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:31) 1. More Than You Know
(6:01) 2. What´s New
(3:44) 3. Tenderly
(5:09) 4. Chelsea Bridge
(5:12) 5. My Little Brown Book
(6:22) 6. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
(5:26) 7. Infant Eyes
(6:50) 8. When We Were One
(4:29) 9. It Might As Well Be Spring
(6:23) 10. Sunday Afternoon

In these times, it is not easy to find anything that permits us to foresee with clarity the direction in which jazz is evolving. . For this reason, let us forget for a moment questions such as “should art advance or not ?”. This could be an option that would allow us to enjoy music in all of its splendor.

In this context it is very comforting to run into recordings like “Nothing Like a Ballad” by Gypsy saxophonist Tony Lakatos, whose proposal would draw as much interest three decades ago as in the remote future. However, since we are asking these questions, one would ask what is the necessity of recording a handful of ballads that have already been recorded and are amongst the favorites of any serious jazz fan. I don’t think that there is any answer to this question and perhaps it’s probably not even worth trying to find one. After listening to “Nothing Like a Ballad”, I would prefer to write about the enormous beauty of this recording.

Situated in a very comfortable space-time frame, Lakatos proposes his conception of ten ballads such as the mysterious “What’s New”, the atmospheric “Chelsea Bridge” , or to mention one more , his version of “Infant Eyes” which in my judgement would serve to fully defend the meaning and the function of the ballad in all of its power of expression and emotion in the heart of afro-american music.

Accompanied by an excellent rythmn section that have been playing together for many years in different projects, the saxophonist revindicates such essential values in jazz music as are individuality and leadership. His warm and profound sound flows with the tightly knitted accompaniment provided by the pianist Fabio Miano, the bassist Ignasi Gonzalez and the drummer Jo Krause.

My opinion is that “Nothing Like a Ballad” is one of those necessary records, not only to emphasize the importance of the ballad as a classical and timeless art form, but also to allow us to become travelers , taking us on beautiful journeys which will inevitably affect our emotions. By Josep Ramon Jové
https://discmedi.com/en/disco_new/14125/nothing-like-a-ballad

Nothing Like a Ballad

The Gerry Beaudoin Trio - Just Among Friends

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:34
Size: 108.9 MB
Styles: Swing, Guitar jazz
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[3:39] 1. Just Among Friends
[4:14] 2. St. Thomas
[5:01] 3. Nashville Nod
[5:30] 4. My Romance
[3:58] 5. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
[6:03] 6. All Blues
[4:29] 7. Misty
[6:11] 8. The Girl From Ipanema
[8:26] 9. Mood Indigo

This second acoustic recording featuring the Gerry Beaudoin Trio with jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli and mandolin titan David Grisman was " ..submitted for consideration for a Grammy nomination." Award winning jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin, (1992 National Association of Independent Record Distributors Award for best jazz recording and 1993 and 1995 Cadence Magazine Editors Choice Award)has performed on over 22 recordings in his career. A guitarists guitarist Gerry has performed or recorded with the cream of jazz and blues guitarists including Duke Robillard, Howard Alden, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Jimmy Bruno, Jack Wilkins, Ronnie Earl, Hubert Sumlin,and rock guitar legend turned jazz guitarist Jay Geils from the J.Geils Band. He is also a featured performer on the Mel Bay Productions DVD,Cafe Benedetto. Gerry was recently contracted by Hal Leonard Publishing to write a book/CD project on acoustic jazz guitar.

A chance meeting with mandolinist David Grisman in 1990 led to their 1992 all acoustic recording, Minor Swing, with Duke Robillard sitting in on second guitar. Just Among Friends is the follow up to that first recording and jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli lent his talents to this recording. To quote David Grisman" ..Gerry Beaudoin is one of the finest guitarists and composers I know. I am looking forward to more musical adventures with Gerry and his trio in the future." The Boston Globe called Gerry ".." A swing guitar master." and blues guitar legend Duke Robillard stated,"..Gerry can play anything from swing to bop and is one hell of a blues guitarist."

Gerry also performs in the concert attraction New Guitar Summit, featuring Gerry with Duke Robillard and Jay Geils. In 2003 Gerry was invited to headline the Ottawa International Jazz Festival.

Just Among Friends

Mike Nock - Hearing

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 50:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 117,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:19) 1. Prologue
(4:34) 2. Sunrise
(1:42) 3. Conundrum
(6:19) 4. Vale John
(1:03) 5. Re-Affirmation
(7:16) 6. And In The Night Comes Rain
(1:24) 7. Jacanori
(1:30) 8. Accessing the Flow
(6:55) 9. Spirit Song
(1:02) 10. Square Circles
(4:04) 11. Waltz For My Lonely Years
(6:36) 12. Journey Through An Imaginary Landscape
(5:49) 13. Windows Of Arquez

Mike Nock has had a varied sixty-five-year musical journey, receiving many awards and honours. It has been thirty years since he released his celebrated solo piano album Touch, recorded at the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Eugene Goossens Hall in Sydney in 1993. Hearing has him returning to the same hall for another solo album and, as the title indicates, it is all about the facility of perceiving sounds aptly and interpreting them in a particular way on a range of his compositions and tunes from a few of his favourite musicians, Bryce Rohde, Bernie McGann and Jonathan Zwartz.

A spontaneously delicate bijou of an opener, "Prologue," is followed by " Sunrise," from Nock's first solo album in 1978. The improvisation, "Conundrum" then leads to "Vale John," a work in progress at the time, which celebrates the life and friendship the pianist experienced with the drummer & bandleader John Pochée who sadly died unexpectedly a day before the recording.

A brief stellar Nock reimagining, "Re-Affirmation" leads on to a delicate interpretation of Jonathan Zwartz's, "And in the Night Comes Rain" which he originally wrote for the pianist, proves sonically blissful, as does the other brief improvisation "Jacanori." Bernie McGann's iconic "Spirit Song," now almost an Australian standard, is interpreted sensitively to the original. "Journey through an Imaginary Landscape" meanders towards a personal favourite on the album, the pianist's interpretation of the Bryce Rohde composition, "Windows of Arquez."

The atmosphere of quiet which runs right through this recording is reason alone to recommend it. More space is given between notes than is expected from a solo piano recording. This recording is all about becoming cognisant of sound. Finally, it is not what you play but how you play. This is a recording of virtuosic and introspective pianism, with occasions of playfulness and melody. Mike Nock's session of interpretations and improvisations gives the feeling of a continuation of an intimate, unique, and personal musical adventure from a master of his craft.
By Barry O'Sullivan https://www.allaboutjazz.com/hearing-mike-nock-abc-jazz

Personnel: Mike Nock - piano

Hearing