Deborah J. Carter - Girl-Talking! Live in Concert

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:17
Size: 157,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:39) 1. My Favourite Things
(3:14) 2. Sister Sadie
(5:57) 3. New York State Of Mind
(6:24) 4. Yesterday
(5:09) 5. Red Top
(4:47) 6. Girl talk
(4:11) 7. Perfect Stranger
(4:14) 8. The Whistle Man
(5:40) 9. Ten Minutes Till The Savages Come
(3:48) 10. Between The Raindrops
(5:15) 11. Ahmad's Blues
(5:32) 12. You've Proven Your Point (Bongo Beep)
(3:43) 13. Ten Minutes In Paris
(3:38) 14. Sabado (Barri Sa Coma)

Deborah J. Carter is the epitome of a world class jazz singer. Born in the U.S. with ties in Hawaii and Japan, her home now is in Europe. Her current concert schedule agenda is a global itinerary of performances from Cristofori, Amsterdam to Madrid Spain. Her new recording, Girl-Talking!, highlights one of her live performances at the Pannonica jazz club in Hague, Holland in 2003. The concert features Carter with her working trio performing a variety of popular covers and jazz influenced songs. From her first note it's evident that Carter is a pro. With a polished and elegant voice and diva-like skills, Carter gives the audience an entertaining performance. The first set begins with a version of the classic "My Favorite Thing," which gives light to Carter's panache as she sings with playful exuberance while the band delivers equally engaging music. She's in total control when she scats, chats, and vocalizes on Horace Silver's "Sister Sadie." The modern classic "New York State of Mind" is refreshingly smooth as the trio swings along with Carter's lithe lyrics.

Other gems include a moving version of John Lennon's timeless "Yesterday" where Carter soulfully expresses the haunting melody. The second set begins with the colorful "Whistle Man" as Carter's range stretches boundaries with ease. The trio aptly accentuates the singer with solid playing that leaves ample room for discovery on each tune. On the blues-themed "Ten Minute Till the Savage Comes," pianist Colen Molenaar and bassist Mark Zandvald share impressive solos and drummer Enrique Firpi displays crisp rhythmic skills on the bonus track "Sabado (Barr Si Coma)." With captivating vocals, good music, and the right atmosphere, Girl-Talking! is yet another entertaining glimpse of a jazz songstress who deserves a wider audience. It's easy to hear why Deborah Carter is popular with our fellow jazz fans across the ocean.By Mark F. Turner https://www.allaboutjazz.com/girl-talking-deborah-j-carter-timeless-records-review-by-mark-f-turner.php

Girl-Talking! Live in Concert

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The Full Circle Quartet and The South Downs Ensemble with Mandy Pannett - Meanders In The South Downs

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 130:30
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 120,1 MB
Art: Front

(35:32) 1. Part 1 - Meanders In The South Downs
(33:06) 2. Part 2 - Meanders In The South Downs
(27:14) 3. Part 3 - Meanders In The South Downs
(34:38) 4. Part 4 - Meanders In The South Downs

With over 2 hours of content in 4 parts of around 30 minutes each (download); 38 tracks (Double-CD), this album includes twelve new arrangements for Quartet with The South Downs Ensemble alongside ten of the original pieces recorded by The Full Circle Quartet on their album “The South Downs Suite”, all put into context by Mandy Pannett's recordings of her poems from the book of the same name and field recordings of the sounds of the South Downs.

The titles of the new pieces refer to the poems by Mandy Pannett and to the paintings of Polly Dutton that are also featured in the book. Book available separately on The South Downs Suite page.

The collaboration comes full circle.

The South Downs Ensemble has The Full Circle Quartet at its core, with additional parts written for flutes, clarinets, cornets, flugelhorns, trombones, euphoniums and percussion, both tuned and untuned.

New arrangements for the Ensemble expand the music already composed and recorded by the Quartet creating companion pieces for many of the Quartet tunes. Each arrangement contains elements borrowed and/or adapted from the music on the Quartet album. The sound of the Ensemble refers back, nostalgically, to the many village silver bands heard growing up in Sussex in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Full Circle Quartet:

Josephine Davies - soprano and tenor saxophones
Joss Peach - piano, keyboards, percussion, voice
Terry Pack - acoustic and electric basses, voice
Angus Bishop - drums and percussion

The South Downs Ensemble:

Kate Hogg - concert and alto flutes
Michelle Andrews - clarinet and bass clarinet
Mike Hext - trombone, flugelbone and euphonium
Nick Trish - cornet, flugelhorn, soprano cornet and piccolo trumpet
Richard Horne - glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, timpani, tenor drum, tambourines
Mike Saunders - sound design

Meanders In The South Downs

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Thomas Marriott - Constraints & Liberations

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:12
Size: 124,4 MB
Art: Front

( 4:14)  1. Diagram
(10:46)  2. Up From Under
( 7:33)  3. Constraints and Liberations
( 6:56)  4. Waking Dream
( 9:35)  5. Early Riser
(10:43)  6. Clues
( 4:22)  7. Treadstone

Trumpeter Thomas Marriott keeps growing as an artist. He has released CDs at a healthy pace since 2005: an introduction for many perhaps unwary jazz fans to some warped country western flavor on Crazy: The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008); cranking an all-star quintet up in a modern mainstream mode on Flexicon (Origin Records, 2009); and letting it rip on a two-trumpet blow fest with fellow brass man Ray Vega on East-West Trumpet Summit (Origin Records, 2010). Constraints and Liberations ups his output to two releases in 2010. Spontaneity has always been a big part of Marriott's jazz game, but with Constraints and Liberations, it seems he has gone deeper into that mode. The set opens with his original "Diagram." A bright splendor of two-horn harmony introduces the tune with a teaming of the leader's open horn and Hans Teuber's haunting tenor saxophone, leading to a shift into brass/reed conversation, with Teuber telepathically finishing Marriott's opening statement. Here, and throughout the set, the rhythm team pianist Gary Versace; bassist Jeff Johnson, and drummer John Bishop maintains a low key tumult that keeps things on edge.

The sound of Constraints and Liberations is often moody and atmospheric, giving the impression of a soundtrack from a movie dealing with impending danger. Marriott is in excellent form, his tone by turns bright or dark, clean or murky, and sometimes anguished, always telling an eloquent story.

Teuber's tenor has a distinctive sound, cool and hollow, and somehow diaphanous, like a saxophone played by a disconcerted ghost, while the versatile Versace who has contributed brilliantly to Maria Schneider's orchestra on accordion, and on organ, piano and accordion on numerous sideman dates including drummers John Hollenbeck and Matt Wilson, well as his own discs as leader slips into any accompanist/soloist task at hand, with a fluid sparkle on the title tune, or a quirky solo aside on "Diagram." "Waking Dream" opens with piano teardrops accompanied by a gorgeously introspective muted trumpet. Johnson's bass looms in and lies low, adding, with Bishop's whispering drums, a foundation to the abstraction. "Clues" introduces, in its inception, a late night, foreboding dark alley feeling, bass and drums lurking in the shadows, Marriott and Versace trying to shine a light. Thomas Marriott keeps moving the art forward. Constraints and Liberations may be his best so far.
By Dan McClenaghan https://www.allaboutjazz.com/constraints-and-liberations-thomas-marriott-origin-records-review-By-Dan-Mcclenaghan.php


Personnel: Thomas Marriott: trumpet;  Hans Teuber: tenor saxophone;  Gary Versace: piano;  Jeff Johnson: bass;  John Bishop: drums.

Constraints & Liberations

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