Kelly Eisenhour - Seek and Find

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:57
Size: 139,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:14)  1. Moment To Moment
(3:06)  2. Confession on Love
(3:35)  3. I Didnt Know What Time It Was
(6:03)  4. Rising As The Sun
(6:00)  5. Too Late Now
(5:07)  6. Seek and Find
(2:54)  7. Lonely Woman
(5:14)  8. Wheelers And Dealers
(4:44)  9. My Man´s Gone Now
(6:49) 10. I Only Have Eyes For You
(5:23) 11. Better Days Ahead
(6:42) 12. Soul Eyes

Another member of the too-large club of superior jazz vocalists deserving of widespread popularity, Tucson, Ariz.-born Kelly Eisenhour boasts a seductive voice that is at once cognac-smooth and espresso-rich. The Berklee grad, now based in Salt Lake City, has been singing, writing, arranging and teaching for a quarter-century, and the depth of her experience shows throughout this, her third album. Saxophonist Bob Mintzer is given co-credit on the disc’s cover, but his involvement in these dozen consistently fine tracks is no less praiseworthy than that of pianist Steve Keen, guitarist Kenji Aihara, bassist Matt Larson or percussionist Jay Lawrence (all of whom contributed, as did Eisenhour, to gorgeously understated arrangements that echo the dusky beauty of Bill Charlap and his trio mates).

As demonstrated here by stunning readings of “Too Late Now,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “My Man’s Gone Now,” Horace Silver’s haunted “Lonely Woman” and a gently bossa-spiced “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” Eisenhour is a sublime standards-bearer. She also handles “Wheelers and Dealers” with a subtlety that appreciably heightens the bite of Dave Frishberg’s lyric. But the track that stands head and shoulders above the estimable rest is “Confession of Love,” a vocalese reinterpretation of “I’m Confessin’” shaped by Eisenhour from a transcription of a Lester Young recording.~Christopher Loudon

Seek and Find

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Barbara Dennerlein - 10th Anniversary: It's Magic

Styles: Swing
Year: 2006
Time: 75:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 172,4 MB
Art: Front

( 8:37) 1. In the House
(12:02) 2. Longing
( 7:22) 3. Swing the Blondes
(13:05) 4. Change of Pace
(14:05) 5. The Long Way Blues
(11:04) 6. Make It Spicy
( 9:01) 7. Rankett Blues

Her CDs have won numerous awards, including the German Record Critics Award. Her CD "Take Off" (Verve/Universal) even reached number 1 in the jazz charts and was the best-selling German jazz album of the year. Barbara Dennerlein belongs to the small circle of German artists of international repute. On her recordings and in her concerts, she stands out as a member of a new generation of jazz musicians, and is regarded by her peers and her audiences alike as one of the leading representatives of her instruments: the legendary Hammond B3, and the mighty pipe organ.

It is an awe-inspiring experience to watch Barbara live on stage. As the most important and most successful German jazz export, she is familiar with large international festival stages and intimate clubs alike. A list of venues where she has wowed audiences is as varied as it is long: the "Blue Note" and the "Sweet Basil" in New York, "Ronnie Scott's Club" and the "Jazz Café" in London and the "Blue Note" in Tokyo; Philadelphia, Berkley, San Jose, San Diego; the Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, and Victoria jazz festivals; European festivals in The Hague, the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, the Molde Jazz in Norway, the Arhus Jazz Festival in Denmark, the Maastricht-Kortrijk Festival in Belgium, the Vitoria Festival de Jazz in Spain, and German festivals in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Nuremberg, Vilshofen, Burghausen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover and many others. Besides her nearly endless live performances, Barbara has made numerous appearances on both domestic and international radio and TV.

Both with her own "Bebab" group and solo, Barbara is equally celebrated by critics and audiences alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The name "Bebab" is a play on "Bebop" and "Barbara" and indicates something unique for which there is no established term, no pigeonhole. She knows the value of tradition but is also at home in modern jazz, in the here and now. She is one of the few musicians who can make the connection between different styles and audiences, building bridges between the musical past and present. She is just as familiar with the grooves of youth culture as with the listening experiences of a generation that grew up with the Hammond organ boom of the fifties.

Swing, bebop, blues, soul, latin and funk - for Barbara there are no rigid boundaries, only fluid transitions. Audiences are captivated by her talent, her absolute mastery of the instrument, her taste, and not least, her warm personality. The B3, it would seem, is a seamless extension of herself. She understands better than anyone how to exploit her instrument to the full, creating a sound and a musical style that is unmistakably "Barbara Dennerlein". Her brilliant technique has breathed new life into the venerable Hammond organ, an instrument long neglected in modern jazz. She can rightfully claim to have paved the way for the organ's current renaissance in jazz.

Born in Munich in 1964, she fell in love with one sound at an early age. While others were practicing "Für Elise" or strumming "All You Need Is Love" on the guitar, Barbara was fascinated by the sound of the Hammond organ.More..https://www.barbaradennerlein.com/e/biografie.php

10th Anniversary: It's Magic

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