Lena Horne - New York Jazz Club

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 91:56
Size: 213,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:40)  1. There's a Boat That's Leavln' Soon for New York
(2:57)  2. You Don't Have to Know the Language
(2:49)  3. I'll Do Anything
(2:45)  4. Maybe
(2:40)  5. Take It Slow, Joe
(6:21)  6. Frankle and Johnny
(3:18)  7. Love Is the Thing
(3:12)  8. Then I'll Be Tired of You
(3:10)  9. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(2:13) 10. It's Love
(2:36) 11. Just My Luck
(2:53) 12. Get Rid of Monday
(3:11) 13. A Friend of Yours
(2:21) 14. It's Anybody's Spring
(3:24) 15. Sleigh Ride In July
(1:56) 16. My Heart Is a Hobo
(2:57) 17. It Could Happen to You
(3:11) 18. Call Me Darling
(4:35) 19. Mood Indigo, I'm Beginning to See the Light
(2:40) 20. It's All Right With Me
(3:15) 21. How Do You Say It
(2:06) 22. Day In, Day Out
(3:07) 23. New Fangled Tango
(3:14) 24. Honeysuckle Rose
(4:19) 25. I Love to Love
(2:01) 26. You Do Something to Me
(1:55) 27. From This Moment On
(3:02) 28. Like Someone In Love
(3:32) 29. You're the One
(3:26) 30. Fun to Be Fooled

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American jazz and pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the 1943 films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her political activism, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Her career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television, and on Broadway. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.


Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, both sides of her family were a mixture of European American, Native American, and African-American descent, and belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated people. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne, Jr. (1893–1970), a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class black community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. For several years, she traveled with her mother.

From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, Dean of Students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, who would later serve as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old. She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved in with her father in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others...More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne

New York Jazz Club

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Ruby Braff - Braff Plays Wimbledon (Second Set)

Album: Braff Plays Wimbledon (Second Set)

Styles: Cornet Jazz
Size: 146,8 MB
Time: 63:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Year: 2007
Art: Front

1. Rockin' Chair ( 4:29)
2. When A Woman Loves A Man ( 5:09)
3. I Cried For You ( 9:26)
4. Pennies From Heaven ( 6:03)
5. Jive At Five (13:30)
6. I'm Pullin' Through ( 5:54)
7. Miss Brown To You ( 5:59)
8. I Know That You Know ( 8:44)
9. Save It, Pretty Mama ( 4:35)

Although cornetist Ruby Braff is joined on this set by flügelhornist Warren Vaché, trombonist Roy Williams, guitarist Howard Alden, pianist Brian Lemon, bassist Dave Green, and drummer Allan Ganley, Vaché's role is, in reality, minor (mostly just ensemble parts with a few short solos), and Williams is only on a few numbers, although he plays very well.

Fortunately, Braff is in prime form throughout, even better here than on The First Set; the phrase "adoration of the melody" (which he coined a few decades ago) perfectly fits his lyrical improvisations. The repertoire consists of veteran standards and the highlights include "I Cried for You," "Pennies from Heaven," and "I Know That You Know," although all nine selections are quite enjoyable.

Braff, a master at utilizing his lower register, sometimes has a musical conversation with himself, jumping between registers. Swing pianist Lemon sounds inspired throughout, while guitarist Alden has a few good spots. A typically rewarding Ruby Braff session. By Scott Yanow
https://www.allmusic.com/album/braff-plays-wimbledon-the-second-set-mw0000441662

Personnel: Ruby Braff - cornet; Brian Lemon - piano; Warren Vaché - flugelhorn; Roy Williams - trombone; Howard Alden - guitar; Dave Green - bass; Allan Ganley - drums

Braff Plays Wimbledon (Second Set)

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Ruby Braff - Braff Plays Wimbledon (First Set)

Album: Braff Plays Wimbledon (First Set)

Styles: Cornet Jazz
Size: 132,2 MB
Time: 57:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Year: 2007
Art: Front

1. Someday Sweetheart ( 4:20)
2. The Very Thought Of You ( 7:42)
3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly ( 5:10)
4. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling ( 5:14)
5. Take The A Train (14:45)
6. This Is All I Ask ( 5:30)
7. It's The Same Old South ( 3:30)
8. When I Fall In Love ( 5:37)
9. China Boy ( 5:40)

Cornetist Ruby Braff sound fine on this set for the British label Zephyr. Most of the selections find him taking passionate and typically lyrical solos on swing standards in a quintet with pianist Brian Lemon, guitarist Howard Alden, bassist Dave Green and drummer Allan Ganley.

A few numbers add Warren Vache on flugelhorn and trombonist Roy Williams, but perhaps due to too much mutual respect, few fireworks fly. One would hope that Braff and Vache would match wits against each other, but this is largely Braff's show.

Still, the music overall (which is highlighted by "Someday Sweetheart," "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" and "China Boy") should please trad jazz and mainstream collectors. By Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/braff-plays-wimbledon-the-first-set-mw0000434487#review

Personnel: Ruby Braff - cornet; Brian Lemon - piano; Warren Vaché - flugelhorn; Roy Williams - trombone; Howard Alden - guitar; Dave Green - bass; Allan Ganley - drums

Braff Plays Wimbledon (First Set)

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Karin Krog, Georgie Fame - On a Misty Night: The Songs of Tadd Dameron

Styles: Vocal
Size: 153,8 MB
Time: 66:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Year: 2018
Art: Front

1. On a Misty Night (7:17)
2. I'm Never Happy Anymore (5:59)
3. If You Could See Me Know (7:49)
4. Accentuate the Bass (5:35)
5. That´s the Way It Goes (4:11)
6. Take a Chance on Spring (5:00)
7. Dig It (3:52)
8. The Happy Heart (4:06)
9. Never Been in Love (5:21)
10. Good Bait / Ladybird (6:31)
11. Fointainbleau / Trane (5:16)
12. That´s the Way It Goes - Alternative Version (5:36)

Jazz connoisseurs know all about the magic of Cleveland born pianist, composer and arranger Tadd Dameron, best known perhaps for his tune ‘On A Misty Night’. One of Dameron’s biggest advocates is national treasure George Fame. Georgie has recorded ‘Misty Night’ on at least two occasions and regularly features it in his live shows, so when he was invited to join a musical tribute to Dameron, he jumped at the chance.

The invite came via Norwegian jazz pianist Per Husby who was persuaded by jazz chanteuse Karin Krog to investigate the oft-neglected work of Dameron. This was back in 1983 when Husby and Krog recorded four Dameron songs that, sadly, were never released at the time. The duo presented the songs at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1984 and despite a tape running, the live recording was deemed poor quality and never issued. Then ’85 a CD, ‘Dedications’, was finally released by Hot Club Records. By this time George Fame had come on board after Husby had asked him to add lyrics to a number of the tunes and the album eventually won a Norwegian Grammy.

In 1996 the Husby/Krog pairing was resurrected by record label owner Bjørn Petersen who had the team record more Dameron songs in New York but after a “soft” and critically acclaimed release the project floundered.

Ms Krog, though, is nothing if not dogged and last year managed to persuade Odin Records that there was just too much good music in the can to lay unappreciated. So the label team put together this “new” Todd Dameron tribute album which contains recordings from 1984, ’85 and ’96.

The album is named for Dameron’s best-known song and this 7 minute plus version of ‘On A Misty Night’ opens proceedings. On it Fame and Krog share the vocal as they do on other Dameron classics like the sprightly ‘Dig It’, ‘That’s The Way it Goes’ and the clever medley of ‘Good Bait’ and ‘Ladybird’. Georgie’s out on his own on ‘Accentuate The Bass’ while Ms Krog enjoys five solos including the surprising ‘I’m Never Happy Anymore’. She also features on the medley of ‘Fontainebleau’/’Trane’ and ‘That’s The Way It Goes’. Both those tracks, from the live Molde Jazz Festival recording, have never been issued in any format before.

It all sounds very confusing, doesn’t it? At last, though, more jazz fans can enjoy more of the artistry of Georgie Fame and Karin Krog, the arranging skills of Per Husby and, above all, the wonderful tunes of Tadd Dameron.
https://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/reviews/karin-krog-a-georgie-fame-on-a-misty-night-odin-records/

Personnel: Vocals – Georgie Fame, Karin Krog; Alto Saxophone – Guttorm Guttormsen, Vidar Johansen; Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Jerome Richardson; Baritone Saxophone – John Pål Inderberg , Scott Robinson ; Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – John Surman; Bass - Jay Leonard, Terje Venaas; Drums – Egil Johansen, Grady Tate; Flute – Vidar Johansen; French Horn – Odd Ulleberg , Peter Gordon ; Guitar – Bucky Pizzarelli; Orchestra – Per Husby Orchestra; Piano – Egil Kapstad , Ted Rosenthal; Soloist [Trumpet Solo] – Atle Hammer, Michael Leonhart; Soprano Saxophone – Vidar Johansen; Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Guttorm Guttormsen; Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Frank Wess , Knut Riisnæs; Trombone – Frode Thingnæs, Jim Pugh; Trumpet – Atle Hammer , Earl Gardner, Jan Allan, Martin Drover, Michael Leonhart , Petter Kateraas; Tuba – Howard Johnson , Stein Erik Tafjord

On a Misty Night: The Songs of Tadd Dameron

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Jan Lundgren - Blue Lights

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:57
Size: 136,1 MB
Art: Front

(6:19) 1. Take Me In Your Arms
(4:35) 2. Blue Lights
(5:53) 3. Love Of My Life
(5:10) 4. Easily Found
(5:33) 5. Stranger In Paradise
(4:59) 6. Winter Moon
(6:47) 7. A Sunny Rain
(5:34) 8. Fair Weather
(4:51) 9. Skylark
(4:57) 10. Out Of The Past
(4:13) 11. We could Make Such Beatiful Music Together

Lundgren, born in Kristianstad in southern Sweden on March 22nd 1966, and raised in Ronneby, Blekinge, had his first piano lessons at age five. He was soon discovered to have an exceptional musical talent. After a long period of classical training, he discovered jazz more or less by chance in the late 1980’s. He was instantly hooked, rapidly absorbed the jazz piano tradition from Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner to Bud Powell and Bill Evans, and acquired a depth of knowledge of the Great American Songbook like possibly no other European jazz pianist.

While sailing through his studies at the renowned Royal College of Music in Malmö, he also took up a busy schedule as a professional musician that quickly helped to build his reputation in Sweden. Discovered by Swedish bebop legend Arne Domnérus, he frequently played with other Swedish stars like Putte Wickman and Bernt Rosengren.

Lundgren’s debut album “Conclusion” was released in 1994, and propelled his career firmly forward. The following year saw the formation of the Jan Lundgren Trio with long time student associates Mattias Svensson (bass) and Rasmus Kihlberg (drums), who was replaced in the beginning of the year 2000 by the Dane Morten Lund. This steady band recorded seven well-received and commercially very successful albums for the Swedish label “Sittel” in the period up to 2003.

The album “Swedish Standards”, released in 1997 even became a bestseller and reached a place in the Swedish pop charts. But the album “Landscapes” (2003) sold comparably and both releases soon became classics due to their linking Swedish folk music and jazz. The band’s intense tour schedule founds a temporary peak in a concert at Carnegie Hall as part of “Swedish Jazz salutes the USA”.

As a sideman, Lundgren has accompanied such greats as Johnny Griffin, Benny Golson, Herb Geller, James Moody, or singer Stacey Kent. He has also shared the stage with ACT-artist Ulf Wakenius a number of times.

Jan Lundgren has been awarded a number of prizes since the early 90’s: In 1997 “Swedish Standards” became “best jazz album of the year”. He was nominated for the “Swedish Grammy” in 1995, 1997 and 2008 and the “Swedish Django d’Or Prize” in 1998, 2001 and 2002.

Having visited a long list of European territories and venues, Lundgren has also been on extended tours of Australia and Japan. He has visited the USA about 15 times and recorded some well-received albums for the label “Fresh Sound”.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/jan-lundgren

Personnel: Piano – Jan Lundgren; Bass – Jesper Lundgaard; Drums – Alex Riel

Blue Lights

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