Syd Lawrence Orchestra - Strictly Big Band

Styles: Big Band
Year: 2008
Time: 59:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 137,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:04) 1. Lover
(3:37) 2. Basin St Blues March
(3:33) 3. Autumn In New York
(4:12) 4. Before The Parade Passes By
(2:54) 5. My Hero
(3:11) 6. Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
(3:31) 7. Maybe September
(3:00) 8. Cherokee
(3:35) 9. Girl Talk
(4:23) 10. Lullaby Of Broadway
(3:57) 11. Just In Time
(3:03) 12. Under A Blanket Of Blue
(2:50) 13. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
(2:36) 14. Hallelujah
(2:36) 15. I Dream Of Jeannie
(2:23) 16. One
(6:34) 17. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue

Do you like dates I know I do. One of my favourite dates was 22 September 1958, when Stan Kenton recorded all twelve titles for his terrific Stage Door Swings album. How did they manage to do that And now, another favourite date is 4 March 2008, when Chris Dean's Syd Lawrence Orchestra recorded all seventeen titles for this album. How did they manage to do that Well, for starters, you have to have a band which is on a roll', a band which is disciplined, confident, tackling some fresh material, stuffed with talent and keen to strut its stuff.

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra is on such a roll....The Orchestra's latest album Stricly Big Band features 17 tuneful and swinging numbers unique to the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Nobody else plays 'em! There are Syd's original charts the perfect tempo and loose swing of Basin Street Blues March, Girl Talk written and played as if it came straight off Count Basie's Atomic Mr. Basie album (which it didn't, of course), the high-kicking writing for the whole band on One from A Chorus Line, the adapted transcriptions of Glenn Miller's I Dream Of Jeannie which he never recorded commercially, of Ralph Flanagan's Miller-styled My Hero, and of Frank Comstock's dynamic arrangement of Slaughter On Tenth Avenue for Les Brown.

Then there's Roland Shaw's take on Cherokee (Ray Noble wrote it, Charlie Barnet had a hit with it, but Roland updates it and throws in a touch of Miller-ish voicings for the saxes), an up-tempo Lover and a swinging Hallelujah where the chart has Syd's pencilled scribbles all over it but to my ears the overall voicings suggest Roland's hand. NDO arranger Alan Roper is represented by Autumn In New York and Lullaby Of Broadway an intricate and fascinating arrangement he wrote originally for Geraldo. Then there are a couple of little gems. First, the late Ronnie Hazlehurst is represented by Bill B.By Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Big-Band-Lawrence-Orchestra/dp/B001J662W4

Jon De Lucia Octet - Live at The Drawing Room

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
Time: 68:30
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 63,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:03) 1. Somp'm Outa' Nothin'
(7:44) 2. Smog Eyes
(6:07) 3. The Song is You
(5:50) 4. Venus de Milo
(6:04) 5. I Resemble You
(6:48) 6. Jazz of Two Cities
(5:58) 7. Darn That Dream
(4:57) 8. Preservation
(5:38) 9. Palo Alto
(8:35) 10. Sextet
(5:41) 11. BONUS: The Sheepherder

Saxophonist Jon De Lucia met the great tenorist Ted Brown in 2014, and got to play with him soon after. He was and is struckby the pure lyricism and honesty in his improvising. One of the original students of forward thinking pianist Lennie Tristano in the 1940s, Brown, along with Lee Konitz, is among the last of this great school of players. Later, when De Lucia discovered some of Jimmy Giuffre’s original scores from the Lee Konitz meets Jimmy Giuffre session of 1959, which Brown and Konitz both participated in, he knew he wanted to put a band togetherto play this music with Ted.

Thus the Jon De Lucia Octet was formed. A Five Saxophone and Rhythm lineup with unique arrangements by the great clarinetist/saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre. The original charts featured Lee Konitz on every track, and the first step in 2016 was to put a session together reuniting Brown and Konitz on these tunes. An open rehearsal was held at the City College of New York, Lee took the lead and played beautifully while Ted took over the late Warne Marsh’s part. This then led to the concert you have here before you.

De Lucia steps into Lee’s shoes, while the features have been reworked to focus on Brown, including new arrangements of his tunes by De Lucia and daughter Anita Brown. The rest of the band includes a formidable set of young saxophonists, including John Ludlow, who incidentally was a protege of the late Hal McCusick, who also played on the original recording session of Lee Konitz meets Jimmy Giuffre, and plays the alto saxophone, now inherited, used in the session. Jay Rattman and Marc Schwartz round out the tenors, and Andrew Hadro, who can be heard to great effect on Venus De Milo, plays the baritone.
In the rhythm section, Ray Gallon, one of NYC’s most swinging veterans on the piano, Aidan O’Donnell on the bass and the other legend in the room, the great Steve Little on the drums. Little was in Duke Ellington’s band in 1968, recording on the now classic Strayhorn tribute …and His Mother Called Him. Bill, before going on to record all of the original Sesame Street music and much more as a studio musician.
More.....https://jondelucia.bandcamp.com/album/jon-de-lucia-octet-featuring-ted-brown-live-at-the-drawing-room

Live at The Drawing Room

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Lucy Woodward - Stories From The Dust

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 35:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 81,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:31) 1. Fray
(3:34) 2. City Girls
(4:34) 3. Love Never Leaves
(4:40) 4. Clenched Fists
(2:53) 5. Rocketeer
(5:18) 6. Lady in Waiting
(4:05) 7. The Letter
(2:56) 8. Old To You (Live from Sonic Ranch)
(2:43) 9. Put Down The Bottle

Lucy Woodward releases her 7th studio album, Stories From The Dust (April 5, 2024). It is perhaps her most personal album yet, as crafted with GRAMMY Award-winning co-producer and co-writer of most of the songs on the album David Garza (Fiona Apple, Gaby Moreno).

The tracks and melodies pull you toward Lucy’s poignant insights of matters of the heart in the world’s fragile present. David and Lucy spent several weeks in downtown LA writing these stories about women, the ones she grew up with the fiercely independent and unconventional women who raised herand those she merely observed from afar, whether in the sandbox or on the subway. Lucy soon found herself writing songs like she’d never written before, or had never even thought about writing before. Lucy says, “a different kind of songwriter in me snuck up on me and hit me hard.”

Recorded at Sonic Ranch on the border of Mexico and Texas, Dust features longtime friend and bass extraordinaire Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie, Rudder, Tedeschi Trucks) and keyboardist Larry Goldings (James Taylor, Maceo Parker, John Mayer) who wrote with Lucy for the album. Bill Withers and Nina Simone a few artists she already loved were her touchstones, and she added inspiration from the deep rivers of Americana, blues, flamenco singing and the sounds of the female voices from Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66.

Stories From The Dust is rootsy and melodic, continuing a decades-long streak of craft oriented, critically acclaimed full length albums from the New York native.
https://lucywoodward.bandcamp.com/album/stories-from-the-dust

Stories From The Dust

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Rhoda Scott - Fly Me To The Moon (Live in Eaubonne)

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2024
Time: 67:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 155,4 MB
Art: Front

(8:11) 1. Fly Me To The Moon
(5:50) 2. Hippest cat in Hollywood (Live)
(4:45) 3. I got my mojo working (Live)
(6:03) 4. Angel Eyes (Live)
(3:55) 5. Chitlins con carne (Live)
(7:07) 6. This masquerade (Live)
(6:10) 7. One mint julep (Live)
(4:04) 8. Life is just a bowl (Live)
(6:07) 9. Impressions (Live)
(5:55) 10. Stormy weather (Live)
(7:17) 11. Watch what happens (Live)
(1:55) 12. Lil' darlin (Live)

Who can pass Rhoda Scott? But what's the matter with? The one that was very (too much for some) media we didn’t use the term on television in the '60s and '70s, the one that accompanied the Choeurs de France playing Gospel, the iconic leader of the Lady Quartet and the Ladies All Stars who have been filming for 20 years, the organist with bare feet and the absolute toe to the inimitable sound, or It is in this last formation that we find him here in a very recent recording of 7 May 2024 at the Orangerie d’Eaubonne. With her faithful stagemate, drummer Thomas Derouineau and the elegant guitarist Nicolas Peslier. A reduced training that highlights this great lady of jazz so pleasant and simple when you have the chance to meet her.https://lagazettebleuedactionjazz.fr/rhoda-scott-et-le-lady-quartet/

So this is Rhoda's nectar and the Hammond organ, so this sound so taking and enveloping, these deep bass, this energy alternating with softness. You have to see Rhoda in concert to measure the fusion with her instrument, how sometimes she shakes him or after the caress, a visual show as well.

Rhoda chose a repertoire of standards that she had never recorded before. The contrasting dialogues of the organ with Nicolas Peslier's guitar arbitrated by Thomas Derouineau's subtly drumming are sublime clear and make us rediscover certain standards that are still not worn and here regenerated. A weak concern me for "This Masquerade" with the cheerful energy contained and for "Impressions" by John Coltrane in a tonic version. Beautiful trio really. Pure jazz to put in all ears, a gift to the Audience of Aug., and I hope will be shared with many others. By Philippe Desmond https://blog.lagazettebleuedactionjazz.fr/rhoda-scott-trio-live-in-eaubonne/
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Fly Me To The Moon (Live in Eaubonne)

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