Adia Ledbetter - Adia First Take

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:50
Size: 93,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:43)  1. Route 66
(4:50)  2. You Don't Know Love Is
(7:10)  3. Teardrops On My Letter
(3:24)  4. Al Humduhlah
(2:01)  5. Avalon
(3:43)  6. Bitter Lips
(3:25)  7. My Romance
(3:21)  8. The Lion And The Saint
(5:04)  9. Beautiful Love
(4:05) 10. Moon Child

Be the first on your block to own a copy of this CD featuring the beautiful and talented vocalist, Adia Ledbetter, daughter of my favorite bass violinist. I call him Doc because of his many talents, biochemist, architect, and stellar jazz bassist; I am referring to my main man Freeman Ledbetter. I vividly recall the day we went to TGS studios in Chapel Hill to record. We were blessed to have the best musicians available. On drums we had one of the tastiest percussionist in the world formally from Betty Carters band, Will Terrell, a natural rhythm machine. 

We had master trumpeter and flugelhornist Raymond Codrington. I (Bro Yusuf Salim) arranged and composed about 6 of the tunes and played this beautiful Baby Grand piano. A combination of all of the above-mentioned elements resulted in a session that I was personally well pleased with. This session was truly a labor of love. As a blessed connoisseur of this great American art form called Jazz, I suggest that you put on your kimonos and slippers, sit back, relax, and prepare for the Spiritual experience in store for you. Come along with me on this musical journey. You will not regret the trip; believe me. Peace and Love Always ~ Your Brother Yusuf Salim   http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/adia

Adia First Take

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Adia Ledbetter - Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterdays

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:10
Size: 98,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:27)  1. Closer/ You and the Night and the Music
(4:33)  2. Darn that Dream
(4:38)  3. Beautiful Love
(5:42)  4. Can't Help Lovin Dat' Man of Mine
(2:52)  5. I Can't Give You Anything but Love
(4:24)  6. Lady Bird
(5:29)  7. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life
(5:05)  8. Rendezvous with Yesterdays
(4:05)  9. These Foolish Things
(2:52) 10. Only One

...Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterday, the sophomore effort by Adia Ledbetter, returns to the spotlight one of the most gifted young vocalists in jazz today. Following up on the alluring promise of her well-received debut disc, First Take, Ledbetter demonstrates her continuing development not only as a superb singer, but as a talented lyricist/arranger/composer as well. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Adia began her love affair with music, like many jazz greats, singing in her church choir and developed her God given talents in school, receiving her BA from North Carolina Central University and finally earning a Masters Degree in the Queens College Jazz Studies program founded by NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath (then headed by Heath’s successor trumpeter Michael Mossman), studying improvisation with saxophonist Antonio Hart. Further tutelage with young veterans Lenora Zenzali Helm and J.D. Walters has invested her sound with a new found maturity that is sure to garner her the attention she now so richly deserves.

Following recognition as an outstanding performer by Downbeat magazine in 2006, Ledbetter was chosen to participate in the Kennedy Center Jazz Ahead International Jazz Residency and Performance Program. She has since gone on to spread her sound in concert and club appearances in New York City, Washington, DC. and various venues in her home state of North Carolina. The album First Take featured the singer with Generations, a straight ahead quartet that included veteran artists, bassist Freeman Ledbetter and the late pianist Yusuf Salim (an important mentor to Ledbetter and many other young Durhamites). On Take Two the vocalist fronts a new group with pianist Ed Paolantonio, drummer Orlandus Perry and Freeman Ledbetter back on bass. In addition there are two intimate duet performances with guitarist Justin C. Martin.

Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterday opens with a medley of Ledbetter’s own composition “Closer” and the Great American Songbook classic “You And The Night And The Music” -- an ingenious bringing together of the old and the new that is at the very heart of Adia’s musical personality. Opening with “Closer,” a seductive tome that begins as an enticing voice-bass duet with the composer singing over a Latin tinged habanera rhythm before becoming a soulfully intoned straight ahead swinger that segues seamlessly into the Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz standard with the shared message of two people brought together by the sounds of music. The rhythm section cooking, Ledbetter sings with accomplished authority, sharing the spotlight with pianist Paolantonio, who solos convincingly.........More  http://www.katesmithpromotions.com/artists/AdiaLedbetter.html

Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterdays

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