Saturday, June 22, 2024

Cybill Shepherd - Live at the Cinegrill

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
Time: 53:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:19) 1. That Old Black Magic
(5:19) 2. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
(2:20) 3. Menopause Blues
(2:02) 4. Walking the Dog
(1:31) 5. Talk Memphis to Me
(3:26) 6. Belle of the Blues
(1:37) 7. Moonlighting
(1:14) 8. I Told Ya I Love Ya Now Get Out
(2:18) 9. Blue Moon
(2:29) 10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(7:12) 11. Kitchen Man
(0:44) 12. Just in Time
(2:12) 13. Long Before I Knew You
(2:20) 14. The Party's Over
(3:23) 15. I'm Going Back
(3:59) 16. She Must Be Beautiful
(4:37) 17. S'Wonderful
(1:18) 18. For All We Know
(0:34) 19. Bows-Playout

Cybill Shepherd is a one-of-a-kind steel magnolia, a Southern beauty queen who looks soft as a flower petal but who in reality is anything but soft on the inside. Her patrician looks and bombshell figure generated modeling and acting careers while her saucy attitude and flair for comedy won fans for her as well. Most interesting of all, behind the beautiful façade is a woman with brains and talent. She always spoke her mind, as evidenced by a tell-all memoir in 2000 in which she didn't hesitate to spill the beans and name which male co-star failed to finish a horizontal tango, which one tangoed too fast, and who was best equipped for the encounter. In addition to modeling, acting, writing, and producing, Shepherd also sings. She has released seven albums and has performed live in cabarets and other nightspots in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and London.

Like many vocalists, Shepherd began with a stint in the church choir as a child. She started taking voice lessons when she was 16 years old. Her repertoire is a mixture of standards, blues, rock, and ballads. Peabo Bryson appears on her Somewhere Down the Road album. Stan Getz joins her on Mad About the Boy, and Phineas Newborn Jr. appears on Vanilla. Another album, Songs From the Cybill Show in 1999, is a tie-in to her similarly named television comedy series which launched in 1995.

A Tennessee native, Shepherd twice took the title of Miss Teenage Memphis, first in 1966 and again two years later. She was named Model of the Year by Stewart Models in 1968. Her photo has graced the covers of such magazines as Vogue, Life, People, and Glamour. One of those covers sparked Peter Bogdanovich's interest in Shepherd, leading to a long-term relationship and a starring role in his 1971 film, The Last Picture Show. The Heartbreak Kid followed the next year.

Other films include Texasville, Married to It, Daisy Miller, and Taxi Driver. Her awards include four Golden Globes and an equal number of People's Choice Awards. The Hollywood Radio and Television Society dubbed Shepherd and Bruce Willis, her co-star in the Moonlighting television series during the late '80s, Woman and Man of the Year in Broadcasting.

Shepherd was married twice. Her 1978 marriage to David Ford ended in divorce in 1982. In 1987 she wed Bruce Oppenheim, but that union, too, ended in divorce in 1990. She has three children. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cybill-shepherd-mn0000149345#biography

Live at the Cinegrill

Bill Barron - Essential Jazz Masters

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 139:34
Size: 323,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:06)  1. Groovin'
(3:05)  2. Billie's Bounce
(4:36)  3. A Cool One
(6:23)  4. Oriental Impressions
(4:49)  5. Jelly Roll
(6:17)  6. Nebulae
(6:49)  7. Bill's Boogie
(7:32)  8. Ode to an Earth Girl
(5:23)  9. Desolation
(4:31) 10. Self Portrait
(6:59) 11. Duality
(5:45) 12. Back Lash
(9:04) 13. Now's the Time
(5:04) 14. Work Song
(4:08) 15. Persian Street Scene
(5:52) 16. Noodlin'
(9:37) 17. Blast Off
(5:21) 18. Playhouse March
(7:07) 19. Fox Hunt
(6:43) 20. Modern Windows Suite: Men At Work
(7:40) 21. Modern Windows Suite: Tone Colors
(4:09) 22. Modern Windows Suite: Dedication to Wanda
(6:23) 23. Modern Windows Suite: Keystone

Bill Barron was an advanced and adventurous tenor saxophonist (doubling on soprano) who never compromised his music or received much recognition. He spent his formative years and beyond in Philadelphia, not moving to New York until 1958. Barron first came to the jazz world's attention through his participation on a Cecil Taylor date in 1959. After recording with Philly Joe Jones, Barron co-led a fine post-bop quartet with Ted Curson. However, Barron spent much of the remainder of his career as an educator, directing a jazz workshop at the Children's Museum in Brooklyn, teaching at City College of New York, and becoming the chairman of the music department at Wesleyan University. His "day job" made it possible for him to consistently record non-commercial music for Savoy (in 1972 he made that label's last jazz record), Dauntless, and Muse. Every one of Bill Barron's recordings as a leader uses brother Kenny Barron (16 years his junior) on piano. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-barron-mn0000059950/biography

Essential Jazz Masters

Eartha Kitt - Shorty Rogers And His Giants - St. Louis Blues

Styles: Vocal, Big Band
Year: 1958
Time: 35:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 91,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:45) 1. St. Louis Blues
(3:12) 2. Beale Street Blues
(2:53) 3. Chantez-les bas
(3:29) 4. Hesitating Blues
(2:36) 5. Steal Away (Negro Spiritual)
(3:13) 6. Careless Love
(2:40) 7. Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor)
(3:44) 8. Long Gone
(1:57) 9. Hist the Window, Noah
(2:24) 10. Yellow Dog Blues
(2:49) 11. Friendless Blues
(3:24) 12. The Memphis Blues

Eartha Kitt was an international star who gave new meaning to the word versatile. She distinguished herself in film, theater, cabaret, music and on television. Miss Kitt is one of only a handful of performers to be nominated for a Tony (three times), the Grammy (twice), and Emmy Award (twice). She regularly enthralls New York nightclub audiences during her extended stays at The Cafe Carlyle and these intimate performances have been captured in her newest recording, Eartha Kitt, Live at The Carlyle.

Miss Kitt’s distinctive voice has enthralled an entirely new generation of fans. Young fans loved her as YZMA, the villain, in Disney’s animated feature The Emperor's Groove, (2001 Annie Award for Best Vocal Performance / Animated Feature). Miss Kitt was also featured in the sequel, The Emperor's New Groove II and reprised the role in the popular Saturday morning animated series The Emperor’s New School (2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and 2007 Annie Award for Best Vocal Performance in an Animated Television Production).

Eartha Mae Kitt was ostracized at an early age because of her mixed-race heritage. At eight years old, she was given away by her mother and sent from the South Carolina cotton fields to live with an aunt in Harlem. In New York her distinct individuality and flair for show business manifested itself, and on a friend’s dare, the shy teen auditioned for the famed Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe. She won a spot as a featured dancer and vocalist and before the age of twenty, toured worldwide with the company. During a performance in Paris, Miss Kitt was spotted by a nightclub owner and booked as a featured singer at his club.

Her unique persona earned her fans and fame quickly, including Orson Welles, who called her “the most exciting woman in the world”. Welles was so taken with her talent that he cast her as Helen of Troy in his fabled production of Dr. Faust. Back in New York, Miss Kitt was booked at The Village Vanguard, and soon spotted by a Broadway producer who put her in New Faces of 1952 where every night she transfixed audiences with her sultry rendition of Monotonous. Her show stopping performance in New faces, which ran for a year, led to a national tour and a Twentieth Century Fox film version. Broadway stardom led to a recording contract and a succession of best- selling records including Love for Sale, I Want to Be Evil, Santa Baby and Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa, which earned her a Grammy nomination.

During this period, she published her first autobiography, Thursday's Child. Miss Kitt then returned to Broadway in the dramatic play Mrs. Patterson and received her first Tony nomination. Other stage appearances followed, as did films including The Mark of Hawk with Sidney Poitier, Anna Lucastra with Sammy Davis, Jr. and St Louis Blues with Nat King Cole. In 1967, Miss Kitt made an indelible mark on pop culture as the infamous Catwoman in the television series, Batman. She immediately became synonymous with the role and her trademark growl became imitated worldwide.

Singing in ten different languages, Miss Kitt has performed in over 100 countries and was honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. In 1966, she was nominated for an Emmy for her role in the series, I SPY. In 1968, Miss Kitt’s career took a sudden turn when, at a White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, she spoke out against the Vietnam War. For years afterward, Miss Kitt was blacklisted in the U.S. and was forced to work abroad where her status remained undiminished. In December 2006 she returned to Washington and light the National Christmas Tree alongside President and Mrs. George W. Busch In 1974, Miss Kitt returned to the United States, with a triumphant Carnegie Hall concert and, in 1978, received a second Tony nomination for her starring role in the musical, Timbuktu. Miss Kitt’s second autobiography, Alone With Me, was published in 1976 and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten was released in 1989. Her best- selling book on fitness and positive attitude, Rejuvenate! (It's never Too Late), was released by Scribner in May 2001.

Live theater is Miss Kitt’s passion. In 2001, Broadway critics singled her out with a Tony and Drama Desk nomination for her role as Dolores in George Wolfe’s The Wild Party. Over the last few years, she has starred in National Tours of The Wixard of Oz and Rogers & Hammerstein’sCinderella. In December 2003, Miss Kitt dazzled Broadway audiences as Liliane Le Fleur in the revival of Nine, The Musical.In December 2004, she appeared as The Fairy Godmother in The New York City Opera production (Lincoln Center) of Cinderella. Most recently, she starred in the off-Broadway production of Mimi Le Duck (2006) and The Westport County Playhouse production of The Skin of Our Teeth (2007). Miss Kitt remainrd devoted to performing in front of live audiences, from intimate cabarets to concert halls with local symphonies.

Recent appearances include appearances at Detroit’s Music Hall, Washington, D.C.’s Blues Alley, Seattle’s Jazz Alley, Palm Beach’s Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, The Mohegan Sun Casino’s Cabaret Showroom, Sarasota’s Van Wetzel Center for the Performing Arts Festival. She is especially proud to have brought her one-woman show to the 51st Annual JVC Newport Jazz Festival and the Miami Beach JVC Jazz Festival. In February 2007, British audiences welcomed Miss Kitt back to London for a special series of eight sold-out performances at The Shaw Theater. Eartha Kitt passed on Christmas Day, 2008.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/eartha-kitt/

St. Louis Blues

Mary Lou Williams - A Keyboard History

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1955
Time: 68:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 156,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:08) 1. Fandangle
(3:28) 2. Mama, Pin a Rose On Me
(3:38) 3. Roll 'em
(3:34) 4. Sweet Sue
(5:17) 5. Lullaby of the Leaves
(2:19) 6. Taurus
(3:32) 7. Jericho
(4:46) 8. I Love Him
(4:02) 9. Amy
(4:42) 10. It's the Talk of the Town
(3:32) 11. I Love You
(4:00) 12. Easy Blues
(2:17) 13. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(3:12) 14. There's a Small Hotel
(3:21) 15. En Ce Temps-la
(3:04) 16. Lover
(2:40) 17. Carioca
(3:31) 18. Nicole
(2:35) 19. Tire Tire L'Aguielle
(2:31) 20. Autumn in New York

Mary Lou Williams’ difficult to find 1955 LP A Keyboard History (Jazztone J1206) in its entirety. Williams is showcased here in both a trio setting with bassist Wendell Marshall and drummer Osie Johnson on some tunes, as well as solo piano on many selections. As a bonus, another complete album by the pianist recorded the previous year in Paris.

All ten tracks on Mary Lou (Emarcy LP MG26033) are trio performances featuring Buddy Banks on bass, and Jean-Louis Viale on drums. Both albums received a five-star rating in Down Beat magazine https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/9374/mary-lou-williams/mary-lou-williams

Personnel: Mary Lou Williams, piano; Wendell Marshall, bass (out on 2, 4, 6 & 10); Osie Johnson, drums (also congas on 7; out on 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10)

A Keyboard History