The Harry Allen Duo & Trio - I'll Never Be the Same

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1995
Time: 70:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 161,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:20) 1. All Through the Night
(6:09) 2. I Won't Dance
(2:52) 3. I'll Close My Eyes
(5:19) 4. I'm Gonna Sit Down and Write Myself a Letter
(5:33) 5. Avalon
(5:15) 6. Estate
(5:40) 7. Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
(5:42) 8. I'll Never Be the Same
(4:37) 9. It's Alright with Me
(3:00) 10. Shining Sea
(4:51) 11. Waltz for Debbie
(5:03) 12. Roses of Picardy
(6:41) 13. Fascinating Rhythm
(4:05) 14. If I Love Again

Gene Lees writes, "Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen."

BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine‚s reader‚s poll.

Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others.

Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.

Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/harry-allen/

I'll Never Be the Same

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Rolf Ericson - Stockholm sweetnin'

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:43
Size: 139,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Bird song
(4:15)  2. Squeeze me
(4:57)  3. Evelyn
(5:41)  4. Broadway
(5:41)  5. Little man, you've had a busy day
(4:42)  6. Stockholm sweetnin'
(4:35)  7. Nancy with the laughing face
(4:43)  8. Mel's bells
(5:25)  9. In a sentimental mood
(4:49) 10. Without a song
(4:14) 11. What am I here for
(4:54) 12. Thou swell

Trumpeter Rolf Ericson was 62 when he made this recording (only his second as a leader in 13 years and third in 28 years), but he was still in his prime. Teamed up with drummer Mel Lewis and three fellow Swedes (tenor saxophonist Nils Sandstrom, pianist Goran Lindberg, and bassist Sture Nordin), Ericson's cool bop style is well featured on five standards, Nordin's "Mel's Bells" (based on "If I Were a Bell"), Thad Jones' catchy "Bird Song," and Ericson's jazz waltz "Evelyn." A pretty definitive sampling of Ericson in his later years with plenty of fine straight-ahead swinging. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/stockholm-sweetnin-mw0000233638

Personnel: Rolf Ericson (trumpet, flugelhorn); Nils Sandstrom (tenor saxophone, piano); Claes Crona, Göran Lindberg (piano); Sture Nordin, Mel Lewis (drums).

Stockholm sweetnin'

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Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca (Remastered)

Styles: Bebop
Year: 2024
Time: 82:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 190,2 MB
Art: Front

(10:44) 1. Night in Tunisia
( 4:39) 2. Yo No Quiero
( 4:55) 3. Whisper Not
( 3:38) 4. Tangorine
( 4:58) 5. Hallelujah
( 3:45) 6. Wonder Why
( 3:17) 7. Annie's Dance
( 2:52) 8. Lovely One In The Window
( 5:10) 9. Doodlin
( 3:47) 10. Flamingo
( 3:12) 11. Yesterdays
( 5:10) 12. Tour De Force
( 2:39) 13. My Reverie
( 3:54) 14. I Remember Clifford
( 2:10) 15. Left Hand Corner
( 4:09) 16. Tin Tin Deo
( 3:35) 17. Jordu
( 9:48) 18. Manteca

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No venue too big or too small, Hieder painstakingly amassed a collection of silky-smooth recordings of huge historical significance that were decades ahead of the audio capture of the time, many of which provide some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements by these legendary artists. Now forming the basis of the Hindsight Records catalogue these ‘Wally Hieder Library of Congress’ recordings are newly remastered and proudly presented here for your listening pleasure.

Next up: One of the most prolific and virtuosic Jazz musicians of the era Dizzy Gillespie, takes you through a collection of his biggest hits and well-loved tunes on the double album ‘Manteca’, with tracks including ‘Night in Tunisia’, ‘Lovely One in the Window’ and ‘Wonder Why’."
https://dizziegillespie.bandcamp.com/album/dizzie-gillespie-manteca-the-wally-heider-recordings

Manteca

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Nicki Parrott - Feelin' Groovy

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 52:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 121,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:58) 1. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
(5:44) 2. He Called Me Baby
(4:21) 3. Everybody's Talkin'
(4:16) 4. These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
(5:46) 5. Mas Que Nada
(3:26) 6. Catch The Wind
(4:02) 7. Pure Imagination
(4:25) 8. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
(3:50) 9. If I Fell
(3:44) 10. Up On The Roof
(4:43) 11. Both Sides, Now
(4:30) 12. What The World Needs Now Is Love

Australian-born Nicki Parrott emigrated to the USA in 1994 and after studying with Rufus Reid and Ray Brown she soon acquired a reputation in New York circles as a stellar, big-toned bass player. She has become even better known as a high-quality vocalist with an intimate delivery, perfect intonation and exquisite taste in material. She reminds me a little of Blossom Dearie and her Dear Blossom album is well worth tracking down.

She has revisited the older songbook repertoire on her 27 recordings so far and Black Coffee, which won the Golden Disc Award in 2010, is one I often return to. It has numbers you don’t hear every day, such as Don’t Smoke In Bed, Go Slow and Just One More Chance. In recent years she has found inspiration performing songs of a slightly newer vintage on her Carpenters Songbook, the Burt Bacharach Songbook and Great 70s albums.

This release with an all Australian personnel is a follow-up to If You Could Read My Mind and she opens with Paul Simon’s laid-back hymn to the 59th Street Bridge aka Feelin’ Groovy. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton sat alongside that bridge in one of the standout scenes from Allen’s 1979 masterpiece Manhattan.

Mas Que Nada finds Nicki singing in what sounds like authentic Portuguese. It was Sérgio Mendes’ first hit just after Herb Alpert’s wife Lani Hall had joined Brazil ’66. Todd Hardy (trumpet and flugelhorn), Shane Hannan (trombone) and Martha Baartz (tenor) help create a raunchy, foot-tapping groove on He Called Me Baby and These Boots Were Made For Walkin’. As an aside, West Coast bassist Chuck Berghofer played the bass on Boots, Nancy Sinatra’s big 1965 hit, including inventing its distinctive descending chromatic riff.

Ballads such as Everybody’s Talkin’ and the lovely Pure Imagination provide a welcome change of pace. Nicki’s sensitive reading of the latter is a delight. By Gordon Jack
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/08/21/nicki-parrott-feelin-groovy/

Feelin' Groovy

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