Carol Welsman - Memories Of You

Styles: Piano And Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:51
Size: 139,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:49)1. Don't Be That Way
(2:45)2. Why Don't You Do Right
(3:28)3. Moonglow
(3:10)4. Stompin' At The Savoy
(5:47)5. As Time Goes By
(4:49)6. When You're Smiling
(4:10)7. Johnny Guitar
(4:02)8. Fever
(2:53)9. Goody Goody
(3:08) 10. The Very Thought Of You
(2:39) 11. On A Slow Boat To China
(4:50) 12. Memories Of You
(3:03) 13. Sing Sing Sing
(3:50) 14. Where Or When
(4:15) 15. More Than You Know
(4:06) 16. The Glory Of Love

Carol Welsman is a talented singer/pianist who hails from Canada and now spends much of her time in Los Angeles. Her numerous achievements include five Juno (Canadian Grammy) Award nominations and several CDN Smooth Jazz Awards. Like bossa nova icon Joao Gilberto and his guitar, Carol's honey-and-whiskey voice and her crisp, rhythmically articulate piano lines seem an integral part of each other. Also possessing wonderful arranging skills, she's an authentic vocal/instrumental artist who brings an irresistible blend of musicality and lyrical insight to everything she touches.

Memories of You is a special project she did in partnership with Producer Takao Ishizuka, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his company, All Art Promotion. For the past 50 years, Ishizuka and All Art Promotion have been a major driving force in bringing jazz musicians to Japan. The year 2009 also was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benny Goodman, so they decided to join forces with Ken Peplowski the best jazz clarinet player in the world now in my opinion to do a Benny Goodman tribute album. They also wanted to include vocal numbers popular in Japan, and found the tunes made famous by Peggy Lee a perfect fit.

Thus, the program consists of well-known tunes associated with Goodman and songs associated with Peggy Lee. Her Los Angeles-based regular band (Pierre Coté on guitar, Rene Camacho on bass and Jimmy Branly on drums) is augmented by Brazillian percussionist Cassio Duarte, and legendary drummer Frank Capp, who used to play with Peggy Lee, appears on two tracks as guest drummer. This is a wonderful jazz vocal album, full of wonderfully inventive arrangements, superb singing, and musicianship of highest order. Pressed on the superior-sounding HQCD, the sound quality of this CD is so good that it received the highest honor from the Jazz Critique Magazine of Japan, the 2009 Jazz Disc Gold Award in the vocal album category. It means that the magazine recognized it as the best-sounding jazz vocal album released in 2009. Recommended!
http://www.eastwindimport.com/product-info.asp?CategoryName=HQCDProductID=1584

Personnel: Carol Welsman (piano, vocal); Ken Peplowski (clarinet); Pierre Conté (guitar); Jimmy Branly (drums); Cassio Duarte (percussion); Frank Capp (drums)

Memories Of You

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Charlie Barnet - The Capitol Big Band Sessions

Styles: Big Band, Jazz
Year: 1998
Time: 67:38
File: MP3 @ 192K/s
Size: 93,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:28) 1. Redskin Rhumba
(2:30) 2. Eugipelliv
(3:11) 3. Lonely Street
(2:57) 4. Cu-Ba
(3:08) 5. Charlie's Other Aunt (1st Version)
(3:10) 6. Easy Living
(3:07) 7. Charlie's Other Aunt
(2:49) 8. Overtime
(3:02) 9. O'henry
(5:27) 10. Portrait Of Edward Kennedy Ellington
(2:47) 11. Be-Bop Spoken Here
(3:22) 12. Gloomy Sunday
(3:14) 13. Over The Rainbow
(3:11) 14. All The Things You Are
(2:47) 15. Pan Americana
(3:08) 16. Ill Wind
(3:12) 17. Claude Reigns
(2:21) 18. Really?
(2:40) 19. Spain
(3:10) 20. My Crime
(2:53) 21. Theme For Cynthia
(2:55) 22. (I'm A Dreamer) Aren't We All?

Although Charlie Barnet will always be best known for his popular swing band of 1939-1942, he continued leading orchestras throughout the 1940s. In 1949 he temporarily embraced bebop, with his band being full of modernists (some of which were Stan Kenton's sidemen, since Kenton was taking a year off).

At one point his trumpet section had three screamers (Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, and Ray Wetzel) in addition to the fine bop soloist Rolf Ericson. Other musicians who played with Barnet in 1949 included pianist Claude Williamson, bassist Eddie Safransky, altoist Vinny Dean, Dick Hafer on tenor, and trombonist Herbie Harper, with some of the arrangements provided by Manny Albam, Gil Fuller, and Pete Rugolo.

This CD has all of Barnet's bop recordings, plus a version of "Redskin Rhumba" from mid-1948 and a dance band date with a different orchestra in 1950. Among the highlights are "Cu-Ba," "Charlie's Other Aunt," "Overtime," "Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington," "Bebop Spoken Here" (featuring singing from Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart), "Claude Reigns," and "Really." Particularly highly recommended to bop fans who would never have associated Charlie Barnet with that style.By Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-capitol-big-band-sessions-mw0000042401#review

Personnel: Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Barnet; Alto Saxophone – Art Raboy (tracks: 2 to 10), Dick Meldonian (tracks: 19 to 22), Frank Pappalardo (2) (tracks: 1,), Ruben Leon (tracks: 13 to 18), Vinnie Dean (tracks: 2 to 18), Walt Weidler (tracks: 1); Baritone Saxophone – Bob Dawes (tracks: 1, 19 to 22), Danny Bank (tracks: 2 to 12), Manny Albam (tracks: 13 to 18); Bass – Ed Mihelich (tracks: 19 to 22), Eddie Safranski (tracks: 2 to 18), Iggy Shevak (tracks: 1); Bongos – Diego Ibarra (tracks: 4, 5), Diego Iborra (tracks: 2 to 5); Bongos, Congas – Ivar Jaminez (tracks: 6 to 10); Congas – Carlos Vidal (tracks: 2, 3, 11 to 18); Congas, Bongos – Francisco Alvarez (2) (tracks: 4, 5); Drums – Cliff Leeman (tracks: 4 to 12), Dick Shanahan (tracks: 1), John Markham (tracks: 19 to 22), Tiny Kahn (tracks: 13 to 18); Piano – Claude Williamson (tracks: 1 to 18), Donn Trenner (tracks: 19 to 22); Tenor Saxophone – Bill Holman (tracks: 19 to 22), Bud Shank (tracks: 1), Dave Matthews (2) (tracks: 2 to 10), Dick Hafer (tracks: 6 to 18), Jack Laird (tracks: 19 to 22), Kurt Bloom (tracks: 2 to 18); Trombone – Dick Kenney (tracks: 2 to 22), Harry Betts (tracks: 13 to 18), Herb Harper (tracks: 1, 13 to 18), Karl De Karske (tracks: 1), Kenny Martlock (tracks: 2 to 22), Obie Massingill* (tracks: 2 to 12), Phil Washburne (tracks: 1,); Trumpet – Al Del Simone (tracks: 19 to 22), Carlton McBeath (tracks: 19 to 22), Dave Burns (tracks: 2, 3), Dave Nichols (6) (tracks: 1), Doc Severinsen (tracks: 2 to 18), Fern Caron (tracks: 4, 5), Irv Lewis (tracks: 1), Jack Hanson (tracks: 1,), John Coppola (tracks: 19 to 22), John Howell (tracks: 2 to 18), Lamar Wright (2) (tracks: 1 to 10), Ray Wetzel (tracks: 13 to 18), Rolf Ericson (tracks: 6 to 18), Tony Di Nardi (tracks: 2 to 10); Vocals – Buddy Stewart (tracks: 11), Dave Lambert (3) (tracks: 11), Trudy Richards (tracks: 6, 12, 16)

The Capitol Big Band Sessions

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Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton - Every Now And Then

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 48:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 130,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:53) 1. Boss Tutch
(5:15) 2. It's Alright with Me
(5:47) 3. Too Marvelous For Words
(4:21) 4. Linger In My Arms a Little Longer Baby
(5:32) 5. The Best Things In Life Are Free
(4:20) 6. Carry Me Back to Old Manhattan
(3:49) 7. That's Not Your Donut
(7:21) 8. Every Now & Then
(6:57) 9. The Snapper

Cory Weeds saxophonist with an expressive sound rooted in Jazz tradition, a label owner tirelessly documenting unsung Jazz heroes, one of Canada’s most important Jazz impresarios, the hardest-working man in Jazz business Cory Weeds is all of these things, and much more.

Weeds may be best known as the founder and owner of Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver, which he successfully ran for more than 14 years. Weeds built the Cellar to become one of North America’s best Jazz clubs, where masters such as George Coleman, Jeff Hamilton, Louis Hayes, David “Fathead” Newman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the finest Jazz musicians from Vancouver and across Canada and the U.S. performed before it closed in February 2014.

But he wasn’t just the club owner. As a saxophonist who studied at the University of North Texas and Capilano University, Weeds spent many nights on the Cellar bandstand as a leader and sideman. He held his own when performing with icons like Joey DeFrancesco and Christian McBride. Weeds has also recorded twenty albums as a leader, including his latest Home Cookin' Just Coolin' (with Tilden Webb, John Lee and Jesse Cahill), What Is There To Say? (with Phil Dwyer and a 12 piece string section), O Sole Mio (with Eric Alexander, Mike LeDonne, Peter Bernstein and Joe Farnsworth), Day By Day (with David Hazeltine, Ken Lister and Jesse Cahill), Live at Frankie’s (with Terell Stafford and Harold Mabern) Explosion (with Gary Smulyan, PJ Perry, Steve Davis and Joe Magnarelli), Let’s Groove (with Mike Ledonne), Dreamsville (with The Jeff Hamilton Trio), It’s Easy To Remember (with David Hazeltine, Joe Magnarelli, Paul Gill and Jason Tiemann, reached #1 on the Jazz Week Charts) This Happy Madness, (with The Jeff Hamilton Trio, reached #1 on the Jazz Week Charts), Condition Blue, The Music Of Jackie McLean (with Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, and Joe Farnsworth)., As Of Now (with the Harold Mabern Trio), Let’s Go (with Steve Davis), the Juno-nominated Up A Step (Cory Weeds Quartet), With Benefits (with Lewis Nash and Peter Washington), Just Like That (with the Tilden Webb Trio), The Many Deeds of Cory Weeds (with Joey DeFrancesco), Everything’s Coming Up Weeds (with Jim Rotondi), and Big Weeds (with Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, and Joe Farnsworth).

While the Cellar is now a happy memory, the record label Weeds established in 2001 is alive and well. Rebranded in 2018, The Cellar Music Group has put out over 350 recordings, including many that have spent extensive time on the JazzWeek charts, been reviewed in acclaimed print publications and been featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Weeds has also served as producer on more than 200recordings. In 2017 Weeds celebrated a win at the 2017 Juno Awards when Metalwood won for Jazz Album Of The Year: Group. Another Weeds-produced album w Brad Turner Quartet with guest Seamus Blake - Jump Up was nominated in 2019 and The Ostara Project in 2023.

2023 has been a watershed year for Weeds and the label. In March pf 2023 Weeds and the label were awarded a Grammy for The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra in the large ensemble category. Weeds was also recognized as a #2 Rising Star Producer in Downbeat Magazine and Cellar Music was #8 in Record Label Of The Year.
https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/7mdjn6/cory-weeds-champian-fulton-every-now-and-then

Personnel: Cory Weeds – Alto Saxophone; Champian Fulton – Piano, Vocals

Every Now And Then

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Bill Frisell - Orchestras

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 86:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 198,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:15) 1. Nocturne Vulgaire
(5:09) 2. Lush Life
(4:47) 3. Doom
(4:25) 4. Rag
(6:01) 5. Throughout
(5:56) 6. Electricity
(5:58) 7. Sweet Rain
(7:03) 8. Richter 858, No. 7
(3:50) 9. Beautiful Dreamer
(7:11) 10. Lookout for Hope
(4:28) 11. Levees
(6:24) 12. Strange Meeting
(6:32) 13. Doom
(4:09) 14. Electricity
(6:48) 15. Monica Jane
(4:47) 16. We Shall Overcome

The influential American guitarist Bill Frisell and the innovative English composer and arranger Michael Gibbs go back a long way. Frisell first heard Gibbs’s ingenious writing for the vibraphonist Gary Burton when he was a teenager in the 1960s; in the mid-1970s he studied composition with Gibbs at Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Since then the guitarist has played in Gibbs’s stellar big bands, and the composer has arranged many of Frisell’s compellingly unconventional tunes in 2015 they collaborated on an album with the NDR Bigband. A longstanding ambition to record with an orchestra, however, has eluded them.

Until now. In fact, on this double release of concert-hall recordings with his regular trio of Thomas Morgan, on bass, and Rudy Royston, on drums, Frisell gets to play Gibbs’s orchestrations with two large ensembles: the 59-strong Brussels Philharmonic and the 11-piece Umbria Jazz Orchestra. “To say this is a dream come true would be an understatement,” Frisell writes in a short liner note.

Far from being a predictable soloist-with-strings project, Orchestras fully integrates guitarist, trio and ensembles into one multifaceted whole. Not all of the 16 selections are Frisell originals there are striking explorations of two famed Gibbs themes, Sweet Rain and Nocturne Vulgaire, and supersmart orchestrations of timeless songs such as Lush Life and Beautiful Dreamer. On Frisell standards that include Strange Meeting, Lookout for Hope and his masterpiece Throughout, however, the arrangements seem to take on an entirely different dynamic and dimension; it’s as if they are projections of Frisell’s searching and sometimes mysterious musical imagination itself.

It is also fascinating to compare and contrast: the philharmonic sounds lush, cinematic and darkly romantic; the jazz orchestra feels more earthy and laidback there is a kind of easy dissonance to its mood. A triple-LP version, which includes a bonus album of additional concert material, mostly featuring the trio alone, is available for completists.
.https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/04/18/bill-frisell-orchestras-guitarist-trio-and-ensembles-become-one-multifaceted-whole/

Personnel: Bill Frisell: guitar; Thomas Morgan: bass; Rudy Royston: drums + Brussels Philharmonic and Umbria Jazz Orchestra.

Orchestras

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