Bud Shank - New Gold!

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:43
Size: 142,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:45)  1. Port Townsend
(4:52)  2. Alternate Root
(5:56)  3. Let Me Tell You Why
(5:41)  4. Straight No Chaser
(6:25)  5. Perkolater
(6:15)  6. Grizzly
(5:13)  7. Finger Therapy For Sherman
(6:35)  8. Linda
(4:58)  9. Killer Joe
(4:59) 10. Funcused Blues
(5:00) 11. Little Rootie Tootie

Bud Shank assembled a pianoless sextet made up of West Coast musicians for this 1993 studio date, including a front line consisting of the alto saxophonist and leader with trumpeter Conte Candoli, tenor and soprano saxophonist Bill Perkins, baritone saxophonist Jack Nimitz, and a rhythm section that includes bassist and composer John Clayton and drummer Sherman Ferguson. The playing is crisp, the ensembles are a joy to hear, and the solos are consistently adventurous. "Port Townsend" is a lively post-bop vehicle that opens the session, featuring a strong solo by Candoli. The leader contributed the somewhat exotic "Perkolator" (a feature for Perkins' soprano sax) and the pretty ballad "Linda." But it is Clayton's charts that threaten to steal the show, including the strutting "Alternate Root," the bittersweet "Let Me Tell You Why," which has some almost mournful solos by Shank, and the funky blues "Funcused Blues." There are also impressive performances of jazz standards by Thelonious Monk and Benny Golson. Unfortunately, this CD was deleted with the demise of the initial revival of the Candid label. ~ Ken Dryden https://www.allmusic.com/album/new-gold-mw0000177457

Personnel:  Bud Shank (alto saxophone);  Conte Candoli (trumpet);  Bill Perkins (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone);  Jack Nimitz (baritone saxophone);  John Clayton (bass);  Sherman Ferguson (drums)

New Gold!

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Tatiana Eva-Marie, Avalon Jazz Band - I Wish You Love

Styles: Vocal, Jazz Band
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 24:53
Size: 57,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:45) 1. Ménilmontant
(2:51) 2. I Love Paris
(2:09) 3. Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?
(2:22) 4. Zou Bisou Bisou
(2:44) 5. Runnin' Wild
(3:47) 6. Que reste-t-il de nos amours?
(2:05) 7. Ah, dis! Ah, bonjour!
(2:42) 8. Bonjour sourire
(2:24) 9. Fit as a Fiddle

Beautiful things happen in Paris. The musicians in Avalon jazz band met somewhere between music schools and bohemian cafés, and decided to bring back French and American Swing Jazz. They are currently in New York, rewinding the musical clock in some of the hottest spots in the city. https://www.reverbnation.com/avalonjazzband?popup_bio=true

Avalon Jazz Band is a French - American vintage jazz band - orchestra , based in Paris and originally from New York . It was formed in 2012 by jazzmen Tatiana Eva-Marie and Adrien Chevalier. His favorite repertoire of compositions and covers is inspired by vintage standards of French chanson and American jazz standards ( Great American Songbook ) from the Jazz Age , New Orleans Jazz , hot jazz , French- swing - Parisian zazou , or emblematic gypsy jazz of the 1930s and 1940s , with covers, among others, of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (founders of the Hot Club de France ), Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess, Yves Montand, Henri Salvador, Ray Ventura, Jean Sablon, Juliette Gréco, Lucienne Delyle, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, or Cole Porter.https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Avalon_Jazz_Band

Members: Tatiana Eva-Marie — vocals; Adrien Chevalier — violin; Vinny Raniolo, Agan Koran, Duved Dunayevski — guitar; Roberto Gervasi, Kate Dunphy — accordion; Oran Etkin — clarinet; Stéphane Séva — keyboard; Julian Smith, Eduardo Belo, Leigh Barker — double bass

I Wish You Love

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Gene Krupa - Big Noise from Winnetka

Styles: Jazz, Swing
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:39
Size: 112,2 MB
Art: Front

( 4:24)  1. Big Noise from Winnetka
( 5:32)  2. Take the "a" Train
( 5:48)  3. Some of These Days
( 5:46)  4. Sweet Georgia Brown
( 3:01)  5. Petite Fleur
( 4:08)  6. Lonesome Road
( 8:33)  7. Don't Be That Way
(11:25)  8. Drum Boogie

The first drummer to be a superstar, Gene Krupa may not have been the most advanced drummer of the 1930s but he was in some ways the most significant. Prior to Krupa, drum solos were a real rarity and the drums were thought of as a merely supportive instrument. With his good looks and colorful playing, he became a matinee idol and changed the image of drummers forever. Gene Krupa made history with his first record. For a session in 1927 with the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans, he became the first musician to use a full drum set on records. He was part of the Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s before moving to New York and worked in the studios during the early years of the Depression. In December 1934 he joined Benny Goodman's new orchestra and for the next three years he was an important part of Goodman's pacesetting big band. Krupa, whose use of the bass drum was never too subtle, starred with the Goodman Trio and Quartet, and his lengthy drum feature "Sing, Sing, Sing" in 1937 was historic.

After he nearly stole the show at Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, Krupa and Goodman had a personality conflict and the former soon departed to form his own orchestra. It took the drummer a while to realize with his band that drum solos were not required on every song! Such fine players as Vido Musso, Milt Raskin, Floyd O'Brien, Sam Donahue, Shorty Sherock, and the excellent singer Irene Daye were assets to the Krupa Orchestra and "Drum Boogie" was a popular number but it was not until 1941 when he had Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge that Krupa's big band really took off. Among his hits from 1941-1942 were "Let Me Off Uptown," "After You've Gone," "Rockin' Chair" and "Thanks for the Boogie Ride." Krupa made several film appearances during this period, including a very prominent featured spot in the opening half-hour of the Howard Hawks comedy Ball of Fire, performing an extended version of "Drum Boogie" (with Roy Eldridge also featured), and William Dieterle's faux jazz history, Syncopation. Unfortunately, Krupa was arrested on a trumped-up drug charge in 1943, resulting in bad publicity, a short jail sentence, and the breakup of his orchestra. In September 1943 he had an emotional reunion with Benny Goodman (who happily welcomed him back to the music world). Krupa also worked briefly with Tommy Dorsey before putting together another big band in them middle of 1944, this one with a string section. 

The strings only lasted a short time but he was able to keep the group working into 1951. Tenor saxophonist Charlie Ventura and pianist Teddy Napoleon had a trio hit in "Dark Eyes" (1945), Anita O'Day returned for a time in 1945 (scoring with "Opus No. 1") and, although his own style was unchanged (being a Dixieland drummer at heart), Krupa was one of the first swing big bandleaders to welcome the influence of bebop into his group's arrangements, some of which were written by Gerry Mulligan (most notably "Disc Jockey Jump"). Among the soloists in the second Krupa Orchestra were Don Fagerquist, Red Rodney, Ventura, altoist Charlie Kennedy, tenorman Buddy Wise, and in 1949 Roy Eldridge. After breaking up his band in 1951, Krupa generally worked with trios or quartets (including such sidemen as Ventura, Napoleon, Eddie Shu, Bobby Scott, Dave McKenna, Eddie Wasserman, Ronnie Ball, Dave Frishberg, and John Bunch), toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic, ran a drum school with Cozy Cole and had occasional reunions with Benny Goodman. In 1959, Columbia Pictures released The Gene Krupa Story, a biographical drama based on Krupa's life starring Sal Mineo in the title role and Red Nichols in a supporting part. Gradually worsening health in the '60s resulted in him becoming semi-retired but Krupa remained a major name up until his death. Ironically his final recording was led by the same person who headed his first appearance on records, Eddie Condon. Gene Krupa's pre-war big-band records are gradually being released by the Classics label. ~ Scott Yanow https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-noise-from-winnetka/id376420584

Personnel:  Leader, Drums – Gene Krupa;  Bass – Jimmy Gannon;  Piano – Ronnie Ball; Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Eddie Wasserman

Big Noise from Winnetka

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