Carl Winther & Jerry Bergonzi - Tetragonz

Styles: Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2013
Time: 54:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 126,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:10) 1. Tetragonz
(4:34) 2. Somewhere
(6:35) 3. Dawn
(6:12) 4. Spectre
(4:32) 5. Neverland
(9:08) 6. Like Judas
(7:13) 7. Gabriella
(6:04) 8. Triotone
(5:22) 9. Domolian Mode

Carl Winther is a well-known Danish pianist. He is the son of Jens Winther who was a world-famous composer and trumpet player. He began touring as a child. He has performed with many famous musicians, including Bill Evans, Jerry Bergonzi and Bill Evans, as well as Bill Evans, Bill Evans, Daniel Humiar and Till Broenner.

His performances are breathtaking and impressive. He can improvise fluently. He is a Jazz and Classic musician with a deep love for Latin and African rhythms. All of these influences have influenced his compositions, which also include the funky sounds of Herbie Hancock’s 70s music as well as avangardistic ideas. Winther was awarded for his elaborate and precise compositions as well as his incredible performance skills. from www.oneworldsmusic.com https://jazzinfo.org/artist/carl-winther

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone – Jerry Bergonzi, Piano – Carl Winther, Bass – Johnny Åman; Drums – Anders Mogensen

Tetragonz

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Ted Nash, Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison - Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
Time: 49:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 115,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:36) 1. Jet Song
(4:47) 2. A Boy Like That
(4:04) 3. Maria
(4:00) 4. One Hand, One Heart
(4:00) 5. Tonight
(5:18) 6. America
(3:19) 7. I Have a Love
(6:09) 8. Something's Coming
(4:16) 9. Cool
(5:21) 10. Somewhere
(2:55) 11. Somewhere (Reprise)

When NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter was asked why he so often plays standards when so many musicians insist on writing their own tunes, he was typically succinct. “Artists are not necessarily the best writers, and the proof of that is that the only people who play their material is them. When the new guys write better tunes, then maybe I’ll play them.”

Multireedist Ted Nash, it should be noted emphatically, is a highly accomplished composer and arranger for ensembles both large (the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; his own big band) and small (his quintet and trio). His gorgeous 2016 Presidential Suite deservedly won him two Grammy Awards.

With no pressure to prove himself as a composer, Nash now takes on the daunting challenge of interpreting one of the 20th century’s greatest musical treasures, West Side Story. The songs that Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote for it, steeped in the sounds of New York jazz and Latin music, have been played in jazz interpretations before, but the creativity that Nash and his trio-mates guitarist Steve Cardenas and bassist Ben Allison bring to the task are exceptional. They transform this passionate material into both a tribute to and a meditation on the songs’ surpassing beauty and power.

With just guitar, bass, and Nash alternating between tenor saxophone and clarinet, the trio deftly captures the expressive power of the Bernstein orchestrations with a few bold strokes, then riffs organically off them in constantly surprising ways. Whether it’s the relative complexity of the improvised, three-voice counterpoint with which they open “Tonight,” or the simplicity of Cardenas wrapping gorgeous improvised lines around Nash’s pure statement of the melody on “One Hand, One Heart,” the album is a revelation; three superlative musicians reveling in the Bernstein score’s most emotional moments with tenderness and candor. One has to believe the maestro, who loved the kind of jazz energy and imagination on display here, would have approved.
By Allen Morrison https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/somewhere-else-west-side-story-songs

Personnel: Ted Nash: saxophone; Steve Cardenas: guitar; Ben Allison: bass.

Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs

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Ian Roller - Rollercoaster

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 43:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 100,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:15) 1. Get It
(4:14) 2. Rise
(3:38) 3. Reflect
(3:01) 4. Kick It
(4:57) 5. Yuki and the Ox
(6:30) 6. Textures
(3:16) 7. Something New
(3:03) 8. Perspective
(1:52) 9. I Hate Technology
(3:33) 10. Weight of the World
(2:33) 11. What About
(1:05) 12. Please Hold (Interlude)
(3:05) 13. Dancing in the Sunshine

"Rollercoaster" is not about Ian Roller. At least, not entirely. With 50 collaborators and 10 featured vocalists, it is a thoughtful collection of perspectives on the human experience, which merge to form a cohesive story that we can all relate to/empathize with. Music can give us insightful talking points, and it can also itself be the conversation. Each vocalist and instrumentalist adds deeper perspective, taking the good with the bad, venting frustrations, offering encouragement, making us question the status quo, making us laugh a little, and reminding us of the things in life that inspire peace, joy, and unity.

Ian Roller is a Los Angeles native multi-instrumentalist, writer and producer. Classically trained since he was 8 years old, his artistic curiosity led him into all kinds of situations from Punk shows to Jazz clubs, electronic concerts, comedy clubs and more at an early age, later to focus his studies in Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop music. After graduating from college, he was introduced to a whole other world of creativity in exploring LA's R&B/Soul scene.

Now, approaching 35 years of age, Ian has reached a point of reflection, and of determination to culminate his experiences and influences. To connect the dots, and bring like-minded people a little bit closer together. For Ian, "Rollercoaster" is that culmination, and the marking of a new chapter of service to music...
https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/314284/ian-roller-rollercoaster

Rollercoaster

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