Gato Barbieri - Che Corazon

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:06
Size: 132,1 MB
Art: Front

(0:37)  1. Introduction
(5:01)  2. Cristiano
(5:05)  3. I Want You
(4:02)  4. Seven Servants
(5:24)  5. Blue Eyes
(5:34)  6. Eclipse
(4:31)  7. 1812
(4:41)  8. The Woman On The Lake
(5:49)  9. Rosa
(3:50) 10. Sweet Glenda
(5:00) 11. Encounter
(4:15) 12. Auld Lang Syne
(3:12) 13. Finale

When Gato Barbieri re-emerged on Columbia in 1997 after a long hiatus from recording, long-time followers wondered whether he would record straight-ahead jazz or embrace the type of lush pop-jazz he had recorded for A&M in the late 1970's. The distinctive tenor saxman opted to go the commercial route, but he kept his dignity intact. 1997's Que Pasa picked up where Barbieri's A&M output left off, and he has a very similar CD in Che Corazon. With guitarist Chuck Loeb producing, he delivers another album of sleek, romantic mood music. To be sure, pop-jazz instrumentals like "Blue Eyes," "Sweet Glenda" and "The Woman on the Lake" aren¹t in a class with Barbieri's challenging, often brilliant post-bop and avant-garde jazz of the 1960s and early 1970s. But they're tastefully done, and they demonstrate that commercial mood music doesn't have to be elevator music. You can think of Che Corazon as "smooth jazz with a brain."~ AAJ Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/che-corazon-gato-barbieri-columbia-records-review-by-aaj-staff.php

Personnel: Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone); Chuck Loeb (conductor, guitar); Frank McComb (vocals); Mitchel Forman, Bill O'Connell (piano); Mike Ricchiuti (keyboards); Will Lee, Ron Jenkins, Mark Egan, Mario Rodriguez, John Beale (bass); Lionel Cordew, Wolfgang Haffner, Robbie Gonzalez, Dave Rataczek (drums); David Charles, Sam Figueroa, Richie Flores (percussion); Carmen Cuesta, Peter Valentine (background vocals).

Che Corazon

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Sarah Menescal - My World

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:52
Size: 75,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:19)  1. Cryin'
(2:49)  2. Hunting High and Low
(3:32)  3. What's up?
(3:20)  4. I Don't Want Your Love
(3:12)  5. Where is My Mind?
(3:02)  6. Used to Love Her
(3:37)  7. High and Dry
(3:04)  8. Oh L'amour
(3:27)  9. 19th Nervous Breakdown
(3:26) 10. Out of Touch

Sarah Menescal is the singer who has brought the bossa nova till an absolutely new place. Owner of a gorgeous voice and surrounded of an incredible crew of producers and musician she has arrived to the record studios with a solid career on her back. (Vintage Café, Jazz and 80s series, etc) On our artistic profit they have recorded this, her second album: "Consequence of Love" giving extremely sensitive versions of pop hits like Adventure of a Lifetime, Shout, Free Fallin´, Mercy, Mercy Me and Lanterna dos Afogados, among many others.

My World

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Ligia Piro - Las Flores Buenas

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:30
Size: 126,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:04)  1. El Surco
(2:42)  2. Drume Negrita
(2:39)  3. Odiame
(4:29)  4. La Llorona
(3:54)  5. La Jardinera
(2:34)  6. El Monigote
(3:15)  7. Las Flores Buenas de Javier
(4:43)  8. Zamba para Olvidarte
(3:37)  9. Lluvia y Rio
(4:03) 10. Cinco Siglos Igual
(4:22) 11. Coronita de Flores
(3:23) 12. Pétalo de Sal
(4:00) 13. Construcción
(3:55) 14. Una Palabra
(3:43) 15. Nada

This new album overwhelmingly reverts beautiful melodies of the most important Latin American authors and composers of recent decades, which have influenced the Argentine singer for a large part of her life. Among them, Chabuca Granda, Chico Buarque, Violeta Parra, Julio Jaramillo, Carlos Varela and León Gieco, to name just a few, are part of a brand new and fresh proposal that has the collaboration of the excellent musical director Gustavo ¨Popi¨ Spatocco. "Las Flores Buenas" are the songs that are part of this album. To interpret the works of these authors is to reproduce the sensations that different aspects of life cause me. And sharing it with you fills me with happiness and it is my greatest wish that we agree on the feeling. Translate By Google http://www.partedelshow.com.ar/noticia/las-buenas-flores-lo-nuevo-de-ligia-piro

Las Flores Buenas

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Lalo Schifrin - There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1968
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:50
Size: 68,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:27)  1. Secret Code
(2:29)  2. Dissolving
(2:41)  3. Machinations
(2:35)  4. Bride of the Wind
(2:07)  5. Life Insurance
(2:59)  6. How to Open at Will
(2:12)  7. Vaccinated Mushrooms
(2:41)  8. Two Petals a Flower and a Young Girl
(2:42)  9. Wheat Germ Landscapes
(3:29) 10. Gentle Earthquake
(2:25) 11. Hawks vs. Doves

Though it may seem unlikely that Frank Zappa had much of an influence on the work of Lalo Schifrin, one can detect some cultural crossover on There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On. Schifrin was as much a jazz-pop genius as ever, but on this album rock rhythms, musical satire, sound effects, and exotica are all used as camp in a way that is eerily reminiscent of Zappa's more thoughtful efforts. Schifrin being Schifrin, every cut has a distinct and catchy melody, but there are whimsical and satirical themes embedded in the music. Nowhere is this more obvious than in "Hawks Vs. Doves," in which a cheery carnival-like theme is played in counterpoint to a martial air, each interfering with the other. Elsewhere, Schifrin uses unusual percussion, dissonance, and tense, sonically fragmented piano to create soundscapes that are unlike most of the rest of his work. "Secret Code" integrates tabla drums, not a common instrument in American jazz of the time, with a cold, flute-like synthesizer  probably the first time those two instruments were used together. 

This album was ahead of its time in terms of instrumentation, but was a product of its time in that established ways of doing things were being challenged. Fans of Lalo Schifrin's work will find this to rank with his best, and those not familiar with anything but the Mission Impossible theme will be drawn in further by the eccentric genius displayed here. Note: Like many of Schifrin's albums of the period, there is no listing of musicians on the album cover, so it is difficult to know who is responsible for the marvelous performances here, except for Schifrin's own contributions. ~ Richard Foss https://www.allmusic.com/album/theres-a-whole-lalo-schifrin-goin-on-mw0000771728

Personnel:  Lalo Schifrin - piano, synthesizer, arranger, conductor; Tony Terran, John Audino - trumpet; Lloyd Ulyate, Barrett O'Hara - trombone; John Johnson - tuba; Vincent DeRosa - horn; Bud Shank, Ronnie Lang, Sam Most - reeds; Arnold Kobentz - oboe, English horn; Ralph Grierson, Artie Kane, Roger Kellaway, Mike Lang - keyboards; Paul Beaver - keyboards, synthesizer, stereo harp; Carl Fortina - accordion; Howard Roberts, Dennis Budimer, Bill Pitman, Louis Morell - guitar; James Bond, Ray Brown - bass; Carol Kaye, Max Bennett - electric bass; Shelly Manne - drums, percussion; Earl Palmer, Ken Watson, Joe Porcaro, Emil Richards - percussion; Milt Holland - tabla; Bonnie Douglas, Sam Freed, Anatol Kaminsky, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Marvin Limonick, Erno Neufeld, Paul Shure - violin; Myra Kestenbaum, Allan Harshman, Robert Ostrowsky, Virginia Majewski - viola; Raphael Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin - cello; Catherine Gotthoffer - harp; Robert Helfer - orchestra manager

There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On

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Sofia Rei Koutsovitis - Ojalá

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:29
Size: 114,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. Ojala
(4:21)  2. Gatito E Las Penas
(4:37)  3. Gris
(4:32)  4. Dança Da Solidão
(4:20)  5. Silence 1
(3:51)  6. Silence 2
(5:49)  7. La Nostalgiosa
(3:07)  8. Alma Del Pueblo
(5:50)  9. El Suicida
(5:21) 10. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:45) 11. El Silbador

On her debut recording Ojalá, Argentinean singer Sofia Koutsovitis fuses several Latin American rhythms with a post-bop aesthetic to create a fresh and innovative sound. Koutsovitis belongs to a new generation of Latin musicians who in the last fifteen years or so, have created diverse blends of jazz styles with several South American musicians  enriching their language as they integrate different musical traditions. Despite the long relationship between jazz and Latin music (some scholars trace the “Latin tinge to early expressions); Argentinean, Peruvian and other Latin rhythms are relatively new to the jazz vocabulary, since musicians have focused primarily on Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian styles.On this record, Koutsovitis, a skillful singer in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, is knowledgeable of many folkloric musical traditions as well as jazz and experimental music idioms. She presents a balanced feel and leads an octet that performs sophisticated arrangements of her own compositions and songs by Argentinean, Brazilian and Cuban composers.Eclectic, exciting, and aesthetically coherent, the recording shows the many faces of Koutsovitis’ influences. The opening track “Ojalá”, (a song by Cuban Nueva trova icon Silvio Rodriguez), features an arrangement with a Peruvian festejo rhythm. Other rhythms include “Gatito e la penas” (gato), and “Alma del pueblo” (chacarera) in duo with bassist Jorge Roeder, and “La Nostalgiosa”, which has a strong Argentinean feel. “Gris”, “Danca da Solidao”, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”, and “El Silbador” feature Koutsovitis as a more straight-ahead singer, with the swing incorporating ethnic rhythms. “Silence 1”, “Silence 2”, and “El Suicida” (based on the words by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges) are more jazz oriented tracks featuring Koutsovitis as a more adventurous composer and singer playing with dissonances, rhythm changes, and her voice as an additional instrument of the ensemble. Ojalá exemplifies the recent trends in Latin Jazz and Latin American music in general, and proves why Sofia Koutsovitis is one of the most versatile and in-demand singers in the New York music scene. http://sofiamusic.com/2007/06/sofia-koutsovitis-ojala/

Personnel: Sofia Koutsovitis: vocals, arranger; Jason Palmer: trumper; Adam Schneit: alto saxophone, clarinet; Daniel Blake: tenor,soprano saxophone; Leo Genovese: piano; Jorge Roeder: bass; Richie Barshay: drums; Jorge Perez Albela: percussion; guests: Jamey Haddad: percussion; Reynaldo de Jesus: percussion; Felipe Salles: soprano saxophone.

Ojalá

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Lalo Schifrin - Jazz Meets The Symphony 6 - Kaleidoscope

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:12
Size: 157,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:12)  1. Paraphrase
(5:53)  2. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
(9:14)  3. Jazzette
(9:21)  4. Peanut Vendor
(5:05)  5. Pavane
(8:41)  6. To Be Or Not To Bop
(6:42)  7. El Salon Mexico
(3:59)  8. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
(5:10)  9. Prelude No. 2
(6:51) 10. The Cincinnati Kid

"Schifrin has scored so many movies that he can probably come up with luminous orchestral textures and ear-tingling timbral effects in his sleep." ~ JazzTimes 

"The immovable objects of symphony orchestra and jazz group are getting more closely in sync, thanks to the irresistible forces of Schifrin's long experience in both camps and his own luscious personal orchestral signatures." ~ All Music Guide 

The latest edition in the Grammy-nominated series featuring new works by Lalo Schifrin. From the outset, Jazz Meets the Symphony testified to Schifrin's sparkling vision as well as his genius, and this sixth incarnation offers newly resplendent proof of both. 

From France to South America via New York and Mexico, from ballet to film via chamber music and bop, Kaleidoscope recorded in the Sydney Opera House is "jazz symphonic" at its finest. https://www.amazon.com.br/Kaleidoscope-Jazz-Meets-Symphony-6/dp/B000AAF1UY

Personnel: Lalo Schifrin (piano, composer);  James Morrison (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone);  Christian McBride (acoustic bass);  Gordon Rytmeister (drums);  Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Jazz Meets The Symphony 6 - Kaleidoscope

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Juan Carlos Caceres - Gotan Swing

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:53
Size: 91.3 MB
Styles: Tango
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. Bailando En El Alvear
[2:14] 2. Isidoro C
[2:35] 3. Independencia Rag
[3:42] 4. Volve Con Tu Mama
[2:23] 5. Paseando Por Santa Fe
[2:52] 6. Tango Reo
[3:48] 7. Esa Locura
[3:46] 8. Adios
[3:48] 9. Habanera Elegante
[2:40] 10. Harold Philips
[3:52] 11. Milonga Trucha
[4:16] 12. Murga Triste

Juan Carlos Caceres: Piano, Trombon, Kazoo, Voz; Frederic Truet: Flauta, Clarinete, Saxo; Didier Schmitz: Banjo Guitarra, Contrabajo; Guillermo Venturino: Cajon, Bombo,Washboard, Congas.

Those who enjoy authenticity, passion and passionate inspiration are in for a treat. Cáceres is unique and returns like a whirlwind, opening the spectrum of his music as much as the urgency of his pulse demands. Cáceres returns more personal than ever, pure present and all roots.

Tango, milonga, candombe and murga - the styles of the Rio de la Plata - are added, among a sea of ​​influences, swing, dixieland and charleston, which is not surprising knowing that Cáceres was a trombonist of jazz in the existentialist Buenos Aires. In "Gotan Swingl" there is no bandoneon, the most characteristic instrument of tango, instead he has used clarinet, trombone, piano, flute, tenor sax, banjo, guitar, double bass, cajón and bass drum among others, to lay the foundations of the songs . Notorious sensitivity for the new Argentine music, for the tango and its succulent derivatives, for the fusion of the old and the modern. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Gabriela Anders - Wanting

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:51
Size: 131,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:17)  1. Fire Of Love
(4:24)  2. The Girl From Ipanema
(4:39)  3. Wanting
(5:00)  4. Forever
(4:44)  5. You Know What It's Like
(5:41)  6. Seven Days
(6:03)  7. Just An Hour
(5:07)  8. Fantasia
(4:12)  9. I'll Be Loving You
(3:48) 10. Love Is So Unkind
(5:11) 11. Feels So Good
(3:39) 12. Brasileira

Gabriela Anders got her big break singing a duet with soft jazz giant Michael Franks, and like that new age patriarch, Anders wraps laid-back vocals around even more tranquil rhythms. It's all very calming and proficient and breezy. And also bland as hell. Like her mentor, Anders has a hard time injecting any soul into her work. Wanting, her debut album, mixes bits of her Argentine heritage with late-'70s California jazz; so, Brazilian music coasts along with soft and hazy saxophone fills and tapping percussion leads. It all can be very pretty the opening "Fire of Love" represents Anders at her most relaxed and relaxing but boring if you're expecting tempo shifts or even minor vocal inflections. Anders merely settles for a place next to the band to drift along. 

Yet, no one seems to be going anywhere or really caring about their passivity. ~ Michael Gallucci https://www.allmusic.com/album/wanting-mw0000041583  

Wanting

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Gabriela Anders - Eclectica

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:58
Size: 102,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:22)  1. Together Again
(3:37)  2. Pearls And Gold
(4:15)  3. Naufragio
(4:37)  4. What My Dreams Are Made Of
(4:32)  5. Fading Light
(5:30)  6. I Wait
(3:34)  7. Socamerengue
(4:08)  8. Like U Do
(4:46)  9. Far Away
(3:31) 10. Love So Right

Influenced by Brazilian pop and the music of her native Argentina, Gabriela Anders spent much time in America soaking up jazz and R&B sensibilities, all of which inform her singing. The daughter of a jazz saxophone player, Anders studied classical guitar while a child but moved to piano study at a Buenos Aires conservatory. She spent much time in New York as well, soaking up the music of tenor specialists John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Dexter Gordon. She also studied with Don Sebesky and began singing with Grover Washington, Jr. and Tito Puente while going to college. A brief time in Japan resulted in her first album, 1996's Fantasia (recorded as Beleza), though she had returned to New York by 1997. After sending a demo tape into Warner Jazz, Anders signed a contract and released Wanting in August 1998. 

~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gabriela-anders-mn0000155617/biography

Eclectica

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Tango Negro Trio - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:32
Size: 111.1 MB
Styles: Latin jazz, Tango
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[5:00] 1. La Retirada
[4:31] 2. Que Lindo
[3:01] 3. Quere Partir
[4:47] 4. Viva El Candombe Negro
[2:32] 5. Serafin
[3:36] 6. Tango Que Me Hiciste Mal
[2:54] 7. Bar Florida
[2:26] 8. Vendras
[2:30] 9. Este Tango
[5:35] 10. Que Es Lo Que Queda
[3:03] 11. Suenos
[3:22] 12. Ciudad De Mi Corazon
[2:47] 13. El Choclo
[2:20] 14. La Retirada (Piano Solo)

J.C. Caceres is a well known Argentinian composer, singer and pianist and a master of modern Tango. His conception of art and music make him an extremely unconventional artist, one almost impossible to classify, though there are many who regard him as South America's answer to Paolo Conte. Accompanied by Marcello Russillo on drums, Carlos "El Tero" Buschini on double bass and special guest Daniel Binelli on bandoneon. The music flows along both mysterious and concrete, evocative yet earthy, fiery and glacial at the same time, in a perfect balancing act between tradition and innovation.

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Jairo - Jazziro

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:05
Size: 123.8 MB
Styles: Chanson, Smooth jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:53] 1. Le Métèque
[5:04] 2. Nada
[6:10] 3. Avec Le Temps
[4:40] 4. Qui
[4:26] 5. Les Paradis Perdus
[4:50] 6. Alfonsina Y El Mar
[3:21] 7. La Foule (Amor De Mis Amores)
[3:50] 8. Que Reste-T-Il De Nos Amours
[3:35] 9. Et Maintenant
[5:10] 10. Balderrama
[2:54] 11. Elisa
[5:07] 12. Ne Me Quitte Pas

Contrabass – Carlos “El Tero” Buschini; Guitar – Leonardo Sanchez; Percussion – Minino Garay; Piano – Baptiste Trotignon; Vocals – Jairo.

Almost three years ago, we wondered what was happening to JAIRO. Well, it's in an intimate setting, both jazz and powerfully rooted in his land in Argentina, that JAIRO legendary singer revealed in Paris in the 70s, will make his comeback. "Jazziro" will take back the biggest French songs, reorchestrées by the musicians Minino GARAY on the percussions, Baptiste TROTIGNON on the piano, Carlos "El tero" BUSCHINI on the bass, and Leonardo SANCHEZ on the guitar. From "What's left of our love?" from Charles TRÉNET (recently taken over by Julien DORÉ) to "And now" by Gilbert BÉCAUD, via "Elisa" by Serge GAINSBOURG, "Do not leave me" by Jacques BREL, "Lost paradises" by CHRISTOPHE (recently taken by CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS), "With the time" by Léo FERRÉ, "Le métèque" by Georges MOUSTAKI or "La foule" by Edith PIAF - here in its Spanish version "Amor de mis amores" (popularized by PACO in 1988) . "Do not forget to share it with all your friends, by email, on social networks, such as streams to flood the internet with this wonderful news of the return to France of a legendary singer with an album both unexpected and wonderful to all points of view "can you read on his official Facebook page. "See you soon to hear it, listen to it loop on your sonos, in your digital portable players, and share a jazz evening with all your loved ones, thank you for your loyalty".

Remember in 1980 "Gardens of Heaven", it was him. Mario GONZALEZ, of his patronymic (in Aramaic, the inspired faithful), Argentine singer born on June 16, 1949, decides at the end of the 70s (during the military dictatorship in Argentina) to try his luck in Europe. Direction Spain first, then France. After a few 45 laps signed at RCA, from 1977 to 1980, it is finally the consecration that year with the French adaptation of a hit of the German group Goombay Dance Band, which will rank No. 1 in the Rhine for nine weeks in 1979. "Sun Of Jamaica" becomes "The Gardens of Heaven", and offers JAIRO, in the spring of 1980, its biggest success - with over a million and a half copies sold over the summer period. (Translated from French.)

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Eduardo Blanco - Childhood Memories

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:35
Size: 111.2 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[6:47] 1. Larambebere's Message
[6:35] 2. The Lamp Is Low
[5:56] 3. Antigua
[6:34] 4. For Eternity
[7:02] 5. Childhood Memories
[6:02] 6. Blues For You
[9:36] 7. King Solomon & Princess Isabella

Childhood memories is the first Cd recorded by the Eduardo Blanco International Quartet. Childhood Memories pictures the musical life of Eduardo Blanco in seven tunes consisting of five original compositions by Eduardo and two standards.

Every musician has his dreams. A lot of those dreams are about having all harmonic and instrumental skills or playing with famous musicians that often are our great heroes. When a musician gets matured, a good sound is the thing we dream of and that will get more important through the years. With bringing the International Quartet together Eduardo Blanco makes some of his dreams come through! Says Eduardo: “For me, a good jazz band plays with intensity but without the use of excessive volume, has a proper use of dynamics, shows respect for the rich jazz tradition and performs with a high sense of groove. This quartet has that all and adds a fresh approach on top of that. For me, this is a dream band”.

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Ligia Piro - Baby!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:46
Size: 107.1 MB
Styles: Latin jazz vocals
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Love Me Or Leave Me
[4:26] 2. You Don´t Know What Love Is
[4:41] 3. Pra Machucar Meu Coracao
[2:47] 4. Call Me Irresponsible
[6:03] 5. P. S. I Love You
[3:05] 6. About A Girl
[5:06] 7. Round Midnight
[4:10] 8. At Last
[6:26] 9. Put Your Head On My Shoulder
[3:45] 10. The Man I Love
[3:48] 11. Samba De Orly

Ligia Piro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the national music conservatory López Buchardo. As an actress, she trained at the theater school of Agustín Alezzo. She worked in different plays and musicals such as "Vino de Ciruela" (directed by Rubén Pires) "Nine" (directed by David Leveaux), "Gotán" and "The Romance of Romeo and Juliet" (directed by Manuel Gonzáles Gil) among others, those that earned her the nominations for the ACE award in 1996, -revelation- for Gotán and in 2003, -better actress- for Vino de Plum.

Avocado to jazz and bossa nova in its beginnings, Piro today is considered one of the best artists of popular music and the voices of Argentina. Under her own label GatoPop, she edits his albums "LP", "Baby!" And "Trece canciones de amor", also released in Japan and the album "Strange Fruit", recorded with Juan Cruz de Urquiza and orchestra. With a presentation in 2010/11, the show "As Passing Years" at the Maipo theater, gives rise to a new live album that goes to the bateas together with its first Latin American music label "Las Flores Buenas".

Ligia Piro, Konex 2005 merit award, has an immense versatility when it comes to tackling different genres and continues her artistic career with her performances in the great theaters of Buenos Aires, Argentina and abroad. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Maria Estela Monti - Solo Piazzolla

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:20
Size: 124.4 MB
Styles: Latin jazz, Tango
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Balada Para Mi Muerte
[4:04] 2. Mi Loco Bandoneón
[4:45] 3. Los Paraguas De Buenos Aires
[3:59] 4. Vals Del 18
[4:43] 5. La Ultima Grela
[3:44] 6. Campo, Camino Y Amor
[2:21] 7. El Títere
[4:48] 8. Oblivion
[3:53] 9. Poema En Si Mayor
[2:58] 10. Siempre Se Vuelve A Buenos Aires
[5:05] 11. Violetas Populares
[4:38] 12. Alienación
[3:07] 13. Milonga De La Anunciación Yo Soy María
[2:05] 14. Palabras Para Astor

She began her professional career in 1985, forming part of different groups and is also a singing teacher. Her style moves away from the tango stereotypes, highlighting the richness of melodic and poetic lines that the genre possesses. In her repertoire she tackles classic tangos and also works of recent promotion.

From 1998 to 2000, she joined the tango trio Alma Bohemia, with which she performed at the San Martín Cultural Center, and at the Recoleta Cultural Center. In November of that year, the group's recording material was recorded live. From the year 2000 she began her work as a soloist, accompanied by the guitars of Gustavo Fernández and Pepe Listorti. Since then she has developed an extensive activity, highlighting his presentations at the Café Clásica y Moderna and at the Buenos Aires Tango 2001 Festival, organized by the city government.

In 2003 she recorded Ciudadana, his first solo album, edited by Gobi Music. In 2005 she edits Ciudad secreto, his second solo album, accompanied by the most renowned musicians of our musical environment. At the beginning of 2009 she released her fourth album Solo Piazzolla (EPSA Music), in which she presents a wide repertoire of the great Argentinean composer and bandoneonist, including two unreleased tracks and "Campo camino y amor", the only one that she composed with the famous Atahualpa Yupanqui. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Otros Aires - The New Sound Of Tango

Styles: Tango 
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:26
Size: 131,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:53)  1. Sin Rumbo
(5:00)  2. Percanta
(3:17)  3. Otro Puente Alsina
(5:43)  4. La Pampa Seca
(2:43)  5. Los Vino
(4:41)  6. Barrio De Tango
(3:55)  7. Un Baile A Beneficio
(3:56)  8. Milonga Sentimental
(3:58)  9. Aquel Muchacho Bueno
(3:53) 10. Rotos En El Raval
(4:10) 11. Amor Que Se Baila
(4:12) 12. En Direccion A Mi Casa

Passion. Music. Emotion. Dance. .Tango. Never before has a dance been so closely identified with the concept of the Tango. They say it takes two to Tango and this is very true within the sounds of Otros Aires' New Sound Of Tango- Modem Tango For the 21st Century. The music is a perfect blend of the classic sounds meets the new modern textures. Otros Aires blend modem ambient rhythms mixed with the classic sultry sounds of Argentine Tango. You can play this record at a party, at home alone, while drinking coffee on Sunday morning or when you and your lover are about to Tango! ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/New-Sound-Tango-Otros-Aires/dp/B008646038

Personnel: Miguel Di Genova (vocals, guitar, programming, sampler); Hugo Satorre (bandoneon); Pablo Lasala (keyboards); Emmanuel Mayol (percussion).

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Otros Aires - Otros Aires

Styles: Tango
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:18
Size: 100,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:53)  1. Sin Rumbo
(5:00)  2. Percanta
(5:43)  3. La Pampa Seca
(4:41)  4. Barrio de Tango
(3:56)  5. Milonga Sentimental
(3:58)  6. Aquel Muchacho Bueno
(3:53)  7. Rotos en el Raval
(3:48)  8. De puro Curda
(4:10)  9. Amor que se Baila
(4:11) 10. En Dirección a mi Casa

Otros Aires is an Argentine XXI century Tango music project, founded in 2003 in Barcelona by Argentine musician/architect Miguel Di Genova.Otros Aires mixes the first tangos and milongas structures from the beginning of the last century (Gardel, Razzano, D'Arienzo, etc.) with electronic sequences, melodies and lyrics of the 21st century.This project counts with many collaborators like: Diego Ramos (Piano & arragements), Chloë Pfeiffer (Piano), Lalo zanelli (Piano), Martin Bruhn (Drums), Martin Paladino (Drums), Manu Mayol (Drums & production) Pablo Potenzoni (Drums), Javier Saume Mazzei (Drums), Christian Maturano (Drums), Carlos Ocorso (Percussion), Hugo Satorre (Bandoneon), Lisandre Donoso (bandoneon), Herve Esquis (bandoneon), Emmanuel Trifilio (bandoneon), Simone Van Der Veerden (bandoneon), Joe Power (Harmonica), Nick Wadlew (Cover Drawings), Pablo Meketa (Cover Drawings), Marcelo Sofia (Cover Arts), Charly Fiorentino (Cover Arts) Miru Trigo (Photography) and Santiago Saponi (Video Director) between others.

On December 11, 2004, known as "Tango day", Otros Aires presented its first CD at the Carlos Gardel's House Museum, commemorating the birthday of the singer.

With about 40 tours around, including more that 200 cities of Europe, North America and South America, Otros Aires was presented in some of the most important venues and world music festivals of the world like: Lincoln Center (NYC), Dublin National Concert Hall, Bardentreffen Festival (Nuremberg), Amsterdam Roots Festival, Greensound Festival (Bucharest), Pirineos Sur Festival (Spain), between others and also at the most relevant tango festivals of the planet including Buenos Aires Tango Festival several times. Otros Aires songs are featured in TV shows like ¨Dancing with the Starts¨ and ¨America´s got talent¨ in US and ¨Strictly Come Dancing¨ in UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otros_Aires

Otros Aires

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Otros Aires - Perfect Tango

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:33
Size: 74.5 MB
Styles: Pop, Tango
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Amor O Nada
[3:05] 2. Like A Tango
[3:10] 3. Bailando Sin Paraiso
[3:09] 4. Solo Esta Noche (Feat. Meghan Kabir)
[3:14] 5. The Perfect Tango
[3:34] 6. Todo Baila
[3:20] 7. Perro Viejo
[3:04] 8. Digital Ego
[3:47] 9. Un Matecito Y Un Beso
[3:07] 10. I´ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)

The new album by the Argentinian band Otros Aires is called “Perfect Tango“. Reading the title one might think, that they state to have found a way to write a perfect tango. But actually it is meant as a self-ironic and funny statement. The album can be characterized as the Otros Aires album with the strongest Pop influence, that the band has ever written. The idea and work on the album started when the band leader Miguel Di Genova was invited by the legendary producer Miles Copeland, who has produced stars such as The Police and Sting. It is due to Miguel Di Genova's openness, that “Perfect Tango“ incorporates very different musical styles to form excellent Electro Tango Pop music. The album stands out with catchy pop structures and singableness. It impresses with the creative combination of modern genre sounds, such as Hip Hop Leads or Electro samples with more traditional genres such as Blues or Tango. “Perfect Tango” is a sensational fresh and catchy Tango album, that invites you to flip, to put your hands up or simply to dance Tango!

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Gabriela Diaz - A Case Of Joni

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 91.3 MB
Styles: Folk/Jazz vocals
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[3:42] 1. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
[2:44] 2. Court And Spark
[5:51] 3. River
[2:50] 4. The Fiddle And The Drum
[5:10] 5. Blue Motel Room
[3:02] 6. Twisted
[2:44] 7. Carey
[4:21] 8. A Case Of You
[2:21] 9. Big Yellow Taxi
[4:35] 10. Both Sides Now
[2:28] 11. You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio

Gabriela Díaz Voces; Hernán Jacinto Piano y teclados; Oscar Giunta Batería; Miguel Tallarita Trompeta; Nico Rainone Contrabajo; Jorge Armani Guitarras.

This album compiles a small collection of the most beautiful songs from Joni Mitchell's repertoire. Gabriela Díaz, exquisite jazz singer, carefully selects a variety of songs from the different periods of Joni's discography, albums, which are today Jewels of contemporary music: from Hejira to Blue, from Mingus to Court and Spark, from For the roses to clouds, etc. A new opportunity to listen to these songs by one of the most important artists of the 20th century, the Canadian composer and artist Joni Mitchell. Very rarely versioned, can be heard in these renewed versions as an original point of view of the work of this very personal artist, but also as a respectful tribute. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Akira Tana - Jazzanova

Size: 137,3 MB
Time: 58:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Braizilian Jazz, Bossa Nova, Samba
Art: Front

01. Aguas De Março (Feat. Claudia Villela & Claudio Amaral) (4:13)
02. Love Dance (Feat. Carla Helmbrecht) (5:52)
03. Chega De Saudade (Feat. Maria Volonte & Jackie Ryan) (4:52)
04. Bilhete (Feat. Sandy Cressman) (4:12)
05. Corcovado (Feat. Carla Helmbrecht) (5:43)
06. Condename A Callar (Feat. Maria Volonte) (3:26)
07. Waiting For Angela (Feat. Branford Marsalis & Claudia Villela) (3:51)
08. Jangada (Feat. Claudia Villela) (5:33)
09. Caminhos Cruzados (Feat. Sandy Cressman) (4:51)
10. Aquele Frevo Axe (Feat. Claudio Amaral) (3:45)
11. Por Causa De Voce (Feat. Jackie Ryan) (3:45)
12. Diride (Feat. Claudia Villela & Ricardo Peixoto) (4:26)
13. La Gloria Eres Tu (Feat. Arturo Sandoval & Maria Volonte) (4:20)

With Special Guests Branford Marsalis and Arturo Sandoval and a Dazzling Cast Of Singers, Including Rio-Born Claudia Villela, Viva Brazil’s Claudio Amaral, Argentine Tango Master Maria Volonté, Mexican-American Jazz Diva Jackie Ryan, Thrice-Grammy Nominated Carla Helmbrecht, and Brazilian Jazz Specialist Sandy Cressman.

Akira Tana didn’t have to go looking for Brazilian music as a young musician. An elite jazz drummer since the mid-1970s, he’s been immersed in the verdant hothouse of Brazil’s surging rhythms and sensuous melodies his entire career. His new album JAZZaNOVA, which is slated for release by Vega on March 1, 2018, reflects an abiding passion kindled by his formative experiences with some of Brazilian jazz’s foundational figures. It’s a treasure trove of Brazilian riches, with beautifully crafted arrangements designed to shine a lustrous new light on classic material.

Featuring a cast of top-shelf Bay Area players, JAZZaNOVA was designed to showcase a superlative cast of singers and instrumentalist interpreting some of the Brazilian Songbook’s definitive standards and lesser known gems, with a couple of songs en Español included for good measure. While Tana is best known for the talent-proving band he co-led with bassist Rufus Reid, TanaReid, and as first call accompanist who toured and recorded with jazz legends such as James Moody, Zoot Sims, the Heath Brothers, Art Farmer and J.J. Johnson, he’s collaborated with Brazilian masters from the start of his career.

“It goes back to when I was in school in Boston,” Tana says. “Trumpeter Claudio Roditi was living there after studying at Berklee, and we’d play Brazilian jazz around Boston that sometimes included alto saxophonist and composer Victor Assis Brazil and trombonist Raul de Souza. I met Ricardo Peixoto when I was doing gigs in Nantucket during the summers. I followed his career and am fortunate that he ended up living in the San Francisco Bay Area and was able to be involved in this project.”

Rio-born Peixoto, a Bay Area mainstay who provides the essential pulse throughout the album, is a direct link between Tana’s early immersion in Brazilian music and JAZZaNOVA. Tana’s band also features Peter Horvath on piano and Fender Rhodes, Airto and Flora Purim collaborator Gary Brown on bass, and percussion master Michael Spiro. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis or Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval contribute vivid solos on almost every track, providing incisive commentary for the six extraordinary vocalists. As Andrew Gilbert writes in the liner notes, “the album’s concept is based upon matching singers and songs…an eclectic cast united by the fact that each possesses an utterly personal sound and approach.”

The album opens with Peixoto’s playful arrangement pairing Claudio Amaral and Claudia Villela on “Águas de Março” (Waters of March), a loving hat tip to Jobim and Elis Regina duet on the classic 1974 album Elis & Tom. It’s a welcome spotlight for Amaral, who’s better known as a prolific composer and guitarist via collaborations with vocalist Mark Murphy and Brazilian stars Martinho da Vila, Joao Gilberto, and Airto Moreira. Villela, one of the world’s finest Brazilian jazz singers, also contributes two original pieces, the soaring, Joni Mitchell-esque “Jangaga” and “Diride,” which pairs her with her longtime creative partner Peixoto on acoustic guitar.

Vocalist Sandy Cressman steps forward on a gorgeous version of “Caminhos Cruzados” (Crossroads), one of five classic Jobim songs on the album. Known for her expansive repertoire of MPB (musica popular brasileira), she’s an ideal choice to interpret Ivan Lins and Vitor Martins’s popular ballad “Bilhete,” which features a startlingly beautiful Branford soprano sax solo. Carla Helmbrecht also puts her stamp on Jobim and Lins, delivering supple and emotionally resonant versions of “Corcovado” and “Love Dance” (Lins’s best known jazz standard).

While Helmbrecht isn’t usually associated with Brazilian music, Jackie Ryan has honed a polyglot repertoire encompassing numerous Brazilian standards, and her aching rendition of Jobim’s “Por Causa De Você” (Don’t Ever Go Away) taps into the same bottomless well of desperation that made Frank Sinatra’s collaboration with the composer so powerful. Ryan and the great Argentine vocalist Maria Volonte effectively team up on Peixoto’s sleek and buoyant multi-lingual arrangement of Jobim’s “Chega De Saudade” (No More Blues).

One of Argentina’s most celebrated tango singers, Volonté fits neatly into the JAZZANOVA fold. In addition to “Chega De Saudade,” she performs another duet, joining Sandoval on the album’s closer, the romantic ballad “La Gloria Eres Tu,” indelibly linked to Mexican superstar Luis Miguel. Volonté’s impassioned performance is no surprise, but Sandoval’s potent vocals offer another glimpse at his prodigious musical gifts.

Throughout the session, Tana renders the various grooves with taste and an unerring ear for textural support. As authoritative as he is behind the drum kit, he’s emerged in recent decades as a savvy producer who can turn a concept into a singular musical communion, such as 2011’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Sons of Sound), a session exploring title themes from James Bond films, and 2013’s Otonawa, a strikingly beautiful project marrying traditional Japanese melodies with trenchant jazz improvisation.

Born in San Jose in March 14, 1952 and raised in Palo Alto, Tana played in a rock band as a teenager, and become a devoted jazz convert after acquiring a used copy of Miles Davis’s classic 1966 album Miles Smiles. His father led various Buddhist congregations around the Bay Area and his mother played koto and piano. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard, he continued to play jazz whenever he could. His friendship with budding jazz drum star Billy Hart led to an early epiphany when he had a chance to sit in with Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band in the early '70s. A protégé of the great drum teacher Alan Dawson (whose past students included Tony Williams and Clifford Jarvis), Tana decided to pursue music full time and enrolled at New England Conservatory, graduating with a degree in percussion, still finding time to do tours with Sonny Rollins, Hubert Laws, and the Paul Winter Consort.

Other extracurricular gigs with heavyweight jazz artists like Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt and Helen Humes during his eight years in Boston helped pave the way for his move to New York in 1979. He made a name for himself as a leader with TanaReid, a band he co-founded and led with bassist Rufus Reid. During the course of the 90s the group toured internationally, released six CDs and helped boost the careers of brilliant young improvisers like pianist Rob Schneiderman, and tenor saxophonists Mark Turner and Ralph Moore. With JAZZaNOVA , he’s staked a rightful claim to the Brazilian jazz canon, joined by a cast of redoubtable cast of collaborators. ~Mouthpiece Music

Jazzanova

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Gerardo Gandini - Postangos En Vivo

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:32
Size: 106.5 MB
Styles: Piano, World music
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[ 5:27] 1. Los Mareados
[ 3:54] 2. La Cumparsita
[ 5:23] 3. La Casita De Mis Viejos
[ 4:59] 4. Tema De La Nube
[ 4:14] 5. Chau Paris
[16:59] 6. Gardel X 4 (Soledad)
[ 3:13] 7. Improvisaciones I
[ 2:19] 8. Improvisaciones II

Composer and pianist, were born in Buenos Aires in 1936. He carried out composition studies with Alberto Ginastera and then in the Academy Santa Cecilia from Rome with Goffredo Petrassi. Their piano studies were carried out with the guide of Pious Sebastiani, Roberto Caamaño and Ivonne Loriod. As composer he has received numerous distinctions and scholarships. Among the last ones, that of the Institute of International Education (Young Artist Project"), in New york in 1964-1965, that of the Italian Government, in Rome, in 1966y the Guggenheim in 1982. He/she obtained the Municipal Prize of Composition (Buenos Aires, 1960), the first prize in the international competition organized by the Congress for the Freedom of the Culture (Rome, 1962), the first prize of music of camera of the Argentinean Mozarteum (1963), the Prize of the Musical Youths from Spain (1970), the prize Opera of Camera of the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires (1971); in 1974 it was selected as one of the Ten Young Sobresaliantes of the Aryan in the Argentina and in 1977, it was granted him the Premio Moliére of the government from France for music for theater. They have been commissioned him works for the Asociación Amigos of the Music of Buenos Aires, for the September Musical tucumano", the Paul Fromm music Foundation, Esso Argentina", the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires, etc.

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