Barbara Dane - What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz?

Size: 137,5 MB
Time: 58:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Jazz/Blues Vocals
Art: Front

01. The World's Jazz Crazy (2:42)
02. Jelly Bean Blues (2:56)
03. Ain't Nobody Got The Blues Like Me (3:57)
04. Black-Eye Blues (3:07)
05. Pinchbacks, Take 'em Away (4:17)
06. Besame Mucho (5:32)
07. How Can You Face Me Now (3:51)
08. Blues For The Old Timer (6:11)
09. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime (4:17)
10. Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (6:59)
11. Street Walker's Blues (3:39)
12. I'll See You In C-U-B-A (4:02)
13. My Melancholy Baby (4:20)
14. What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz (3:03)

This is Barbara's mature hot jazz-blues best, recorded in New Orleans (1988) and in Berkeley (2000). Three revered veterans of the San Francisco '50s jazz revival play on both sessions: Bob Mielke (trombone), Richard Hadlock (soprano & alto sax) and Pete Allen (bass). Two brilliant younger players, Clint Baker (guitar) and Marc Caparone (trumpet) animate the California session. The piano chair is shared by two of the greatest in traditional jazz: Ray Skjelbred and Butch Thompson (of Prairie Home Companion fame). There’s a rich mixture of classics like Jelly Bean Blues and Black Eye Blues, prohibition-era tunes like the title song and Irving Berlin's "See you in C-U-B-A," Barbara’s original “Blues for the Old Timer” dedicated to the elders who have inspired her, Yip Harburg's beloved "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", and Fats Waller's "How Can You Face Me Now?", all delivered with a subtext that comments on life in today's uneasy world.

What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz?

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Barbara Dane - Trouble In Mind

Size: 83,1 MB
Time: 35:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1957/2011
Styles: Jazz/Blues Vocals
Art: Front

01. Good Mornin' Blues (3:48)
02. Trouble In Mind (2:57)
03. Mighty Rumbling Blues (2:45)
04. Special Delivery Blues (5:04)
05. Ain't Nobody Got The Blues Like Me (3:22)
06. Misery Blues (3:48)
07. See, See Rider (3:36)
08. Oh, Papa (3:38)
09. Prescription For The Blues (2:52)
10. Muddy Water (3:33)

Personnel:
Vocals – Barbara Dane
Bass – Pops Foster
Clarinet – Darnell Howard
Piano – Don Ewell
Trombone – Bob Mielke
Trumpet – Pete Stanton

Interpretative singer who made series of standard and ballad-laden albums in late '50s, early '60s, including one '59 session for Dot with Benny Carter, Herbie Harper, Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne among the supporting cast. ~by Ron Wynn

Trouble In Mind

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Barbara Dane - Livin' With The Blues/Own My Way

Size: 145,6 MB
Time: 62:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Jazz/Blues Vocals
Art: Front

01. Livin' With The Blues (2:52)
02. How Long, How Long Blues (2:58)
03. If I Could Be With You (3:08)
04. In The Evenin' (When The Sun Goes Down) (2:55)
05. Bye Bye Blackbird (2:27)
06. A Hundred Years From Today (3:27)
07. Mecca Flat Blues (2:59)
08. Why Don't You Do Right (2:45)
09. Porgy (3:50)
10. Since I Fell For You (2:46)
11. Take It Slow And Easy (2:28)
12. I'm On My Way (2:29)
13. Draggin' My Heart Around (2:08)
14. Crazy Blues (3:26)
15. Goodby Daddy Goodby (2:16)
16. Cake Walking Babies From Home (2:16)
17. Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (2:19)
18. This Little Light Of Mine (3:03)
19. Hurry Up Sundown Let Tomorrow Come (3:27)
20. Good Old Wagon (3:25)
21. The Hammer Song (3:06)
22. Mama Don't Allow No Twistin' (2:17)

Personnel on "Livin’ with the Blues":
Earl 'Fatha' Hines and his Orchestra: Benny Carter (tp); Herbie Harper, John Halliburton out on #1 and 8 (tb); Plas Johnson (ts); Earl Hines (p, arr); Leroy Vinnegar (b); Shelly Manne (d)

Personnel on “On My Way”:
Kenny Whitson Quartet: Kenny Whitson (cnt, tp); Wellman Braud (b); Billy Strange (g); Jesse Sailes or Earl Palmer #12, 18 & 20 (d). On tracks #12 & 18, The Andrews Sisters of Berkeley, and Rocco Wilson, conga, added. On track #20, Ray Johnson, piano, added

Barbara Dane (1927) started her musical career in folk music and traditional jazz circles in the mid Forties, first in her native Detroit and then in San Francisco, where in 1954 she came into contact with some local jazz revivalists, including trombonist Bob Mielke and banjo player Dick Oxtot. During her high school years, she had received training as an operatic contralto, but Mielke and Oxtot encouraged her to probe further into the blues with their band, the Bearcats.

From the time she first stirred interest among aficionados and critics in San Francisco, she developed into virtually the only white singer of classic blues at the time. Both albums here, made in Los Angeles, where she moved to in 1958, show her in excellent company. On “Livin’ with the Blues” (1959), she belts out her message in an all-star group conducted by pianist Earl Hines. It is interesting to hear the splendid trumpet work of Benny Carter, Shelly Manne playing traditional drums, and Plas Johnson soloing to good effect in this context.

“On My Way” (1962) also presents a different side of Miss Dane’s expressiveness: a deep and fervent spirituality as fundamental as her blues. Her accompanying group included pianist and cornet player Kenny Whitson, whose performance—simultaneously in both instruments—is astonishing, particularly on cornet. Barbara Dane is more than a singer, she is also a guitarist, passionately dedicated researcher, friend of forgotten pioneers, and sponsor of unpopular causes.

Livin' With The Blues/Own My Way

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Barbara Dane With Earl Fatha Hines - Livin' With The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 30:06
Size: 68.9 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz vocals
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Livin' With The Blues
[2:58] 2. How Long, How Long Blues
[3:07] 3. If I Could Be With You
[2:56] 4. In The Evenin' (When The Sun Goes Down)
[2:27] 5. Bye Bye Blackbird
[3:27] 6. A Hundred Years From Today
[2:59] 7. Mecca Flat Blues
[2:44] 8. Why Don't You Do Right
[3:49] 9. Porgy
[2:45] 10. Since I Fell For You

Barbara Dane (1927) started her musical career in folk music and traditional jazz circles in the mid Forties, first in her native Detroit and then in San Francisco, where in 1954 she came into contact with some local jazz revivalists, including trombonist Bob Mielke and banjo player Dick Oxtot. During her high school years, she had received training as an operatic contralto, but Mielke and Oxtot encouraged her to probe further into the blues with their band, the Bearcats. From the time she first stirred interest among aficionados and critics in San Francisco, she developed into virtually the only white singer of classic blues at the time. On Livin with the Blues (1959), she belts out her message in an all-star group conducted by pianist Earl Hines. It is interesting to hear the splendid trumpet work of Benny Carter, Shelly Manne playing traditional drums, and Plas Johnson soloing to good effect in this context.

Livin' With The Blues

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