Scott Hamilton, Dena DeRose - The Shadow of Your Smile

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:13
Size: 83,8 MB
Art: Front

(10:18) 1. Blue Hodge
( 6:28) 2. The Shadow of Your Smile
( 8:22) 3. How Deep Is the Ocean
( 7:06) 4. Summer Wind
( 3:58) 5. La Rosita Ii

As you well know, last May we launched Scott Hamilton's album; La Rosita. Well, we have a surprise for Scott Hamilton fans, and that is that we had an ace up our sleeve: a second part of that wonderful concert that was recorded live at the Espai de la Música Mestre Vila de Benicàssim during the Seminar Jazz International held in December 2015.

We present you “The shadow of your smile”, a work that is undoubtedly at the level of his partner “La Rosita”, and that forms a perfect tandem with him. Both collect together the exquisite concert of the great Scott Hamilton, which was accompanied by Dena DeRose on piano, Ignasi González on double bass and Jo Krause on drums. ~ Translate By Google http://blaurecords.com/discos/lanzamiento-the-shadow-of-your-smile-scott-hamilton/

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone – Scott Hamilton; Piano – Dena DeRose; Bass – Ignasi González; Drums – Jo Krause

The Shadow of Your Smile

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Nicole Glover - Strange Lands

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2021
Time: 50:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 117,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:15) 1. Strange Lands
(5:47) 2. Hive Queen
(7:07) 3. The Twilight Zone
(6:39) 4. Dindi
(3:42) 5. Parks
(4:56) 6. The Switch
(6:01) 7. Notturno
(5:07) 8. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
(8:17) 9. I Concentrate on You

Time was when a jazz trio without a piano or guitar was a rare occurrence. But once Sonny Rollins went chordless at the Vanguard the die was cast and, though the instrumentation is still not exactly thick on the ground, it is an important subset in the list of saxophone-fronted jazz groups. For the last three years tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover has embraced this format with her regular band featuring colleagues Daniel Duke (bass) and Nic Cacioppo (drums).

Here, for her first album with the group and her Savant Records debut, she has attracted the attention of keyboard great George Cables, who appears on four tracks of the recording. Michael J. West points out in the album's liner notes that to Glover, "Cables represents the continuum of the music, its past, present and future; she wanted that wisdom and energy to manifest itself and inform the band's work."

In the trio numbers, mostly originals, the musicians display a unity of thought that goes far beyond the notes, one that takes the freedom of a chordless ensemble and runs with it. Their music is full of strength and power, challenging but communicative with a sly sense of playfulness peeking out occasionally all providing a memorable musical experience that is at once high-spirited and deeply felt. https://propermusic.com/products/nicoleglover-strangelands

Personnel: Nicole Glover (tenor saxophone), Daniel Duke (bass), Nic Cacioppo (drums) with special guest: George Cables (piano)

Strange Lands

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Ann Burton - It Might As Well Be Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
Time: 33:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 76,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:55) 1. Sooner Or Later
(2:41) 2. This Is New
(4:50) 3. Nobody's Heart
(2:04) 4. What'll Do
(3:50) 5. I Like You, You're Nice
(3:35) 6. Humpty Dumpty Heart
(4:43) 7. After You
(3:24) 8. You Fascinate Me So
(3:59) 9. It Might As Well Be Spring

Ann Burton (March 4, 1933 - November 29, 1989, Amsterdam) is the pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz (between 1938 and 1971: Johanna de Paauw), a Dutch jazz singer.

Ann Burton started her career as a singer in a quintet in Luxembourg and she started off by singing in the Doris Day style. Records of Billy Holiday drastically changed her style. Back in Holland she performed in a jazz repertoire with the trio of Frans Elsen. When Ramses Chaffy founded his “Shaffy Chantant” , Ann Burton was one of the first whom he contracted as a singer. In a long engagement in this group Ann became known at a larger audience.

Her breakthrough came in 1968, working with John J. Vis with whom she made her debute as Blue Burton, accompanied by the trio of Louis van Dijk. With John Vis she also made the albums Ballads and Burton and Ann Burton sings for lovers and other strangers. Further success had to wait till 1973, when she went to Japan, which was the land of the rising sun for her, because in Tokio, Ann Burton became the second most loved Jazz-singer, next to Ella Fitzgerald.https://www.last.fm/music/Ann+Burton/+wiki

It Might As Well Be Love

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Melissa Aldana - Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 42:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 98,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:57) 1. Echoes Of The Inner Prophet
(6:49) 2. Unconscious Whispers
(6:08) 3. A Story
(6:08) 4. The Solitary Seeker
(4:02) 5. Ritual
(4:59) 6. A Purpose
(5:18) 7. Cone of Silence
(6:29) 8. I Know You Know

Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana was all of maybe 21 going on 22 in 2010 when her Inner Circle Records arrival, Free Fall, caught many a discerning ear with its surprisingly earthy and assured lines and tangents. Her first for Blue Note, 2022's 12 Stars, displayed much the same but with a more resolute, restorative, established tone.

As exhibited on such artistic statements as 12 Stars and 2019's Visions (Motema Music), Aldana relishes her sojourns and residencies in the inner world. Echoes Of The Inner Prophet is the next chapter in the journey. But it is not just a step or a stride but a leap. Amorphous, calligraphic, and bursting with ideas that are given breadth to blend and clash, color and collaborate, music like the luxurious, collective narrative "A Story" comes into clear, clean view. Taking its drive and tempo shifts from the concentrated yet open-ended interplay of pianist Fabian Almazan and guitarist/co-producer/arranger Lage Lund (with whom Aldana enjoys an especially keen symbiosis) her tenor vibes and calls bask in joy interspersed with a common sadness.

But before that and before the tightly woven leadoff single "The Solitary Seeker," Echoes Of The Inner Prophet breaks to the surface with its title track rippling like breezes across a still lake. As if summoning Wayne Shorter, who was one of the judges (along with Branford Marsalis and Jane Ira Bloom) who awarded Aldana first prize in the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, Aldana's true proven tenor vibes sound warm and decisive amid Almazan and Lund's electronics, drummer Kush Abadey's concerted participation and bassist Pablo Menares' nimble reverberations.

Aldana's "Unconscious Whispers" follows. It is a five-way conversation where everyone is heard and no one's voice is turned away or interrupted. Sure, Almazan and Abadey mix up the dance steps here and there, but that by no means interrupts or sidetracks Lund, Menares, and Aldana, who find their footing and hold the center. The saxophonist's sound, rich and radiant, equal parts Sonny Rollins, Shorter, and the soulful party blues of Cannonball Adderley's alto, grows more and more familiar, distinct and, much more importantly, her own. It is rigorous but not without smudges and blurs of composition and style, "A Purpose," with its punchy, kinetic grace; "Cone of Silence," its closing time melodics falling fondly upon the ear; and Lund's quirky, reminiscent-of-something-you-may-have-heard-before closer "I Know You Know" make Echoes Of The Inner Prophet a sure-fire best of '24 contender. Listen closely. By Mike Jurkovic
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/echoes-of-the-inner-prophet-melissa-aldana-blue-note-records

Personnel: Melissa Aldana - (tenor saxophone); Fabian Almazan - (piano); Lage Lund - (guitar); Pablo Menares - (bass); Kush Abadey - (drums)

Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

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