Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra - Round Midnight Disc 1 And Disc 2

Album: Round Midnight Disc 1

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:31
Size: 138,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:53)  1. What's New
(3:29)  2. I've Got A Crush On You
(4:14)  3. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
(3:35)  4. Crazy He Calls Me
(4:12)  5. Someone To Watch Over Me
(4:10)  6. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
(4:09)  7. What'll I Do
(4:21)  8. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
(4:50)  9. Good-Bye
(2:27) 10. When I Fall In Love
(3:11) 11. Skylark
(4:23) 12. It Never Entered My Mind
(4:13) 13. Mean To Me
(4:23) 14. When You Lover Has Gone
(4:53) 15. I'm A Fool To Want You

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Album: Round Midnight Disc 2

Time: 61:31

Size: 141,0 MB

(2:25)  1. You Took Advantage Of Me

(3:42)  2. Sophisticated Lady

(2:33)  3. Can't We Be Friends?

(3:27)  4. My Old Flame

(2:39)  5. Falling In Love Again

(3:54)  6. Lush Life

(3:50)  7. When You Wish Upon A Star

(4:27)  8. Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered

(3:37)  9. You Go To My Head

(5:28) 10. But Not For Me

(3:01) 11. My Funny Valentine

(4:19) 12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

(2:59) 13. Am I Blue

(3:44) 14. I Love You For Sentimental Reasons

(2:15) 15. Straighten Up And Fly Right

(4:36) 16. Little Girl Blue

(4:27) 17. Round Midnight

Round Midnight is a two-disc box set that compiles all three of the traditional pop albums Linda Ronstadt recorded with Nelson Riddle (What's New, Lush Life, and For Sentimental Reasons). Only dedicated fans will need to own all three of the albums, and, for those listeners, this is a classy way to purchase them.

Credits of 'Round Midnight with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra: Bob Magnusson Bass;  Bob Mann Guitar;  Johnny Mercer Composer;  Nelson Riddle Arranger, Performer, Conductor;  Tommy Tedesco Guitar;  Ray Brown Bass;  Dennis Budimir Guitar;  John Guerin Drums;  Jim Hughart Bass;  Linda Ronstadt Vocal;  Louie Bellson Drums.

Round Midnight Disc 1, Disc 2

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Karen Souza - Suddenly Lovers

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
Time: 40:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 95,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:37) 1. Love Is Never Too Late
(3:45) 2. One Night in NY
(3:05) 3. Ay Amor
(2:57) 4. I Am Naked
(2:47) 5. Morning Coffee
(4:15) 6. On a Clear Day
(3:19) 7. Embrujo
(3:37) 8. How Did You Get in My Dreams?
(3:38) 9. Suddenly Lovers
(3:10) 10. Show Me the Way to Go Home
(3:06) 11. Laisse Tomber Les Filles
(3:34) 12. The Way You Look Tonight

Although Karen Souza’s voice seems to be made for Jazz, her career began under different pseudonyms, writing songs and providing vocals to several electronic music producers, which made her part of many House hits, included in numerous records as prestigious as Pacha Ibiza, FTV (Fashion TV), Paris Dernier, Hotel Costes and Privé, among others.

Karen started flirting with Jazz when she was invited to participate in the first album of the Jazz & 80's series. Back then, no one could imagine how successful these series would become overnight. Her producer saw in Karen the ideal voice for this project. They worked together enthusiastically, making Karen Souza and her unique voice the core of each album in these series. This granted Karen an active participation in these bestselling and successful albums. She went on to record vocals continously for the series Jazz & 70's, Jazz & 80's and Jazz and 90´s, which bring together great pop songs from all these eras in a jazz/bossa/blues format. To the surprise of the entertainment business, these albums have earned an amazing fan base in many countries and within different age groups, which resulted in almost every record label trying to recreate the concept. Essentials, her first album, compiles Karen’s best renditions from the albums previously mentioned. It was released in march 2011, and it immediately became a sales success, to the point it was tagged as “New and Noteworthy” on iTunes.

By the middle of 2011, Karen and a classic jazz trio, began to perform all around the world. That gave the audience the chance to meet her in person. With Music Brokers, her record label, they thought it was the right time to produce new material. As a result, she went to Los Angeles to work with some of the world’s greatest songwriters, such as Pamela Phillips Oland (pamoland.com), a multiple Grammy nominee lyricist who has worked with artists as important as Whitney Houston, Earth, Wind & Fire and Aretha Franklin, among others.

In 2012, Karen Souza released Hotel Souza, an album that brings Karen back to the composition sessions, but this time her new record was produced by Joel McNeely, famous for his work with Tony Bennet and Peggy Lee. The album was a total surprice given its originality and beauty. About this album, Karen said “it’s been a pleasure working with Joel, this record represents that magical time”. Shortly after its release, HOTEL SOUZA reached the first positions in the Top 10 of the most popular record stores in Latin America, staying for months. It also reached the #10 position in the Top Jazz Albums in the US.

Because of Karen’s constant evolution and requests from her fans on her social networks, Karen embarked on a new version album. Essentials II was recorded in the city of New York and the vocals were produced by the famous songwriter, record producer and co-founder of The Orchard, Richard Gottehrer.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/karen-souza/

Suddenly Lovers

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Art Pepper - So in Love

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1980
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:48
Size: 109,5 MB
Art: Front

( 6:26)  1. Straight No Chaser
( 6:49)  2. Blues for Blanche
(11:42)  3. So in Love
(12:17)  4. Diane
(10:33)  5. Stardust

This deluxe release from the classy (but long defunct) Artists House label, as with all of Art Pepper's recordings of his comeback years, is easily recommended. Actually all of the music on So in Love has been reissued in greatly expanded form in Pepper's massive 16-CD Galaxy box set. The original LP has lengthy versions of "So in Love," "Stardust," "Straight No Chaser" and two Pepper originals ("Diane" and "Blues for Blanche"). 

Assisted by two equally talented rhythm sections (pianists Hank Jones and George Cables, bassists Ron Carter and Charlie Haden, and drummers Al Foster and Billy Higgins), Pepper is in excellent form throughout the album, giving these songs heart-wrenching interpretations. 

~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/so-in-love-mw0000622404

Personnel:  Art Pepper - alto saxophone;  George Cables (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Hank Jones (tracks 1 & 4) - piano;  Ron Carter (tracks 1 & 4), Charlie Haden (tracks 2, 3 & 5) - bass;  Al Foster (tracks 1 & 4), Billy Higgins (tracks 2, 3 & 5) - drums

So in Love

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Brad Mehldau - Après Fauré

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 42:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 98,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:28) 1. Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 (1921)
(6:39) 2. Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36 (c. 1884)
(6:20) 3. Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107 (1915)
(3:31) 4. Prelude
(3:40) 5. Caprice
(2:43) 6. Nocturne
(2:03) 7. Vision
(8:39) 8. Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74 (1898)
(2:46) 9. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45 (c. 1887) - III. Adagio non troppo (Extract)

Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau connects the dots as though they were so many 16th notes.

His two new albums, “After Bach II” and “Après Fauré,” use classical music as a foundation for solo explorations that draw a through line from Art Tatum to Thelonious Monk to Bill Evans to Keith Jarrett to Philip Glass. It all sounds like Mehldau, and it all goes back to Bach.

The hybrid sets are out Friday, May 10, and “After Bach II” is a sequel to Mehldau’s absorbing 2018 album, “After Bach.” Once again, interpretations of Bach pieces alternate with original compositions inspired by him. “Après Fauré” follows a similar format, with the French composer’s work bookending four short original Mehldau compositions.

It’s music to delight a church choir or nightclub crowd. And, as Mehldau writes in the liner notes for the Fauré album, “music that breathes austerity and weirdness.”

The Fauré set includes his final two nocturnes, minor-key pieces written in 1915 and 1921. Their restless, romantic melancholy inspires dark, discordant elements in Mehldau’s own pieces, which are filled with percussive, searching music that underscores how Fauré’s work anticipated jazz.

There’s also a link between Jelly Roll Morton and J.S. Bach, which Mehldau has long embraced and celebrated. The new Bach album features graceful, persuasive interpretations of familiar material, including five pieces from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Mehldau describes the Fugue in A minor as an exploration of Bach’s funkiness, and it unspools as freely as a jazz solo, while the familiar melody of the Prelude in E major breaks out like sunshine.

Bach was an acclaimed keyboard improviser, so it’s fitting his Goldberg Variations are treated to Mehldau’s improvised variations. The seven include two in a 5/8 time signature and one in 7/4, creating a weird and wild flow that is very 21st century.

Mehldau’s variations are bracing and daring, breathtaking and beautiful, spiritual and psychedelic. Blue notes emerge from the contrapuntal complexity as he tests the limits of Bach’s music, showing there are none. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/music-review-brad-mehldau-connects-bach-faur-jazz-109958966

Après Fauré

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