Francesca Tandoi - Bop Web

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 37:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 87,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:07) 1. Bop Web
(5:59) 2. You and the Lake and the Moon
(3:23) 3. Agua De Beber
(4:39) 4. Overjoyed
(4:57) 5. Ninaom
(5:00) 6. Lethargy
(4:09) 7. Right On
(5:32) 8. Pink Walker

Italian pianist and vocalist Francesca Tandoi shines brightly on the international jazz scene, hailed by critics and audiences alike as a musician of rare note. Energetic, agile and elegant at the same time, with her warm jazz vocals and terrific swing lines à la Oscar Peterson - virtuoso almost takes on a new meaning when Tandoi sits behind the piano.

She has already toured the USA, Asia and all over Europe, and recorded seven albums with her own trio - and now she is finally coming to Trondheim for the first time!

This is jazz that is guaranteed to swing you off your chair.
https://www.jazzfest.no/en/arrangement/2024/francesca-tandoi-bop-web

Personnel: Francesca Tandoi - piano; Stefano Senni - bass; Giovanni Campanella - drums

Bop Web

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Art Pepper/Chet Baker - Playboys

Styles: Saxophone And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 40:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 93,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:04) 1. For Minors Only
(6:46) 2. Minor Yours
(5:45) 3. Resonant Emotions
(5:35) 4. Tynan Tyme
(6:48) 5. Picture of Heath
(6:29) 6. For Miles and Miles
(5:12) 7. C.t.a.

These 1956 Pacific Jazz sides appeared in 1961 under the title Playboys. Myth and rumor persist that, under legal advice from the publisher of a similarly named magazine, the collection would have to be retitled. It was renamed Picture of Heath, as more than half of the tracks are Jimmy Heath compositions. Regardless, the music is the absolute same. These are the third sessions to feature the dynamic duo of Art Pepper (alto sax) and Chet Baker (trumpet).

Their other two meetings had produced unequivocal successes. The first was during a brief July 1956 session at the Forum Theater in L.A. Baker joined forces with Pepper's sextet, ultimately netting material for the Route LP. Exactly three months to the day later, Pepper and Baker reconvened to record tracks for the Chet Baker Big Band album. The quartet supporting Baker and Pepper on Playboys includes Curtis Counce (bass), Phil Urso (tenor sax), Carl Perkins (piano), and Larance Marable (drums).

Baker and Pepper have an instinctual rapport that yields outstanding interplay. The harmony constant throughout the practically inseparable lines that Baker weaves with Pepper drives the bop throughout the slinky "For Minors Only." The soloists take subtle cues directly from each other, with considerable contributions from Perkins, Counce, and Marable.

With the notorious track record both Baker and Pepper had regarding other decidedly less successful duets, it is unfortunate that more recordings do not exist that captured their special bond. These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners.By Lindsay Planer https://www.allmusic.com/album/playboys-mw0000196883#review

Playboys

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Harry Allen, Randy Sandke - Turnstile: Music of the Trumpet Kings with the RIAS Big Band

Styles: Saxophone And Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:14
Size: 136,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:13)  1. I Love Louis
(5:21)  2. Cloudy
(4:22)  3. Echoes of Harlem
(3:28)  4. Little Jazz Boogie
(4:31)  5. I Can't Get Started
(3:43)  6. Melancholy Rhapsody
(2:31)  7. Randy's Rolls Royce
(5:28)  8. Shaw'Nuff
(6:12)  9. All Blues
(3:08) 10. Turnstile
(6:17) 11. Relaxin' At Clifford's
(4:07) 12. The Moontrane
(4:47) 13. Birdlike

Most of the recordings put out by the German Nagel Heyer label are pre-bop, ranging from Dixieland to mainstream. This outing stretches the boundaries a little, for trumpeter Randy Sandke (who is joined by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and a big band led by Jiggs Whigham) pays tribute to a variety of great trumpeters ranging from Louis Armstrong to Woody Shaw ("The Moontrane") and Freddie Hubbard ("Bird Like"). Sandke contributed a pair of originals, arranged all 13 pieces, and helped bring a forgotten (and only partly composed) Bix Beiderbecke composition ("Cloudy") to life. In addition to those mentioned, Sandke pays tribute to Cootie Williams, Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Buck Clayton, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Clifford Brown. He hints at their styles without actually copying them, and has a flexible enough approach to sound comfortable in all of the idioms. Recommended. By Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-music-of-the-trumpet-kings-mw0000732284

Personnel: Randy Sandke - (trumpet), Harry Allen - (tenor sax) with the RIAS Big Band Berlin led by Jiggs Whigham

Turnstile: Music of the Trumpet Kings with the RIAS Big Band

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