Chie Ayado - Forever Young

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:52
Size: 133,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:28)  1. Forever Young
(3:30)  2. Minnie the Moocher
(2:30)  3. Big Spender
(3:37)  4. Delta Lady
(2:51)  5. A Foggy Day
(4:40)  6. That Lucky Old Sun
(2:27)  7. Sway
(3:27)  8. Shenandoah
(2:21)  9. Cotton Fields
(3:50) 10. That's Amore
(3:09) 11. Cycles
(4:49) 12. For the First Time
(3:36) 13. Yesterday I Heard the Rain
(4:03) 14. My Way
(4:17) 15. Forever Young
(4:09) 16. One For My Baby

Influenced by her parents' hobbies, Chie has been surrounded by jazz and Hollywood movies from an early age. She first studied classical piano but soon began to swing, and grew up as a kid that always preferred gospel to psalms. When she was 17 years old, she scraped together all money she had saved with part-time jobs, and left for the land of dreams: the US West Coast.

After moving her bases to NYC, Chie was invited by a record store owner to "visit a church and listen to some gospel". She agreed, and became a member of church's choir on the spot. She married a fellow choir member and gave a birth to a baby , but later she got divorced.

In 1991, the mother and the son returned to Japan, she began to sing in a jazz club in Osaka, and thanks to the quickly spreading rumors of her vocal performance she soon made a name for herself in the local jazz scene.

The June 1998 release "For All We Know" marked Chie's debut as a professional jazz musician at the age of 40. Since then Chie has been touring regularly across Japan in fall and winter, and with the help of fans spreading the word via the Internet
managed to establish a reputation as an outstanding female singer. Soon her concerts were sold out as soon as they were announced. Also her third album "Life" made a big hit in 1999, this her 'standard' album has been sold over 250,000 copies.

In March 2001 Chie received the 51st Ministry of Education and Science Cultural Promotional Award. Harboring an aversion against settling for one thing, Chie has been exploring territories outside the realm of jazz. Her repertory extends 20's swing
jazz to the rock, pop standards.

Chie has released 14 albums, 2 compiled "BEST" albums and 5 DVD-Videos. The number of total sale reaches almost 2,000,000 copies. 

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=artistdetail&id=9283

Forever Young

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Chie Ayado - Chain of Life

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:02
Size: 169,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:56)  1. Georgia On My Mind
(3:46)  2. Fever
(5:32)  3. Mr. Bojangles
(4:16)  4. Stormy Monday
(4:04)  5. Spinning Wheel
(4:35)  6. Trouble In Mind
(6:02)  7. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
(4:16)  8. God Bless America
(3:50)  9. I Can't Stop Loving You
(2:30) 10. Blue Skies
(1:40) 11. Oleo
(4:06) 12. Caravan
(5:39) 13. With a Little Help From My Friends
(4:50) 14. Wonderful Tonight
(4:20) 15. Get Into My Life
(5:54) 16. Take Me Home, Country Roads
(3:39) 17. The Way We Were

Influenced by her parents' hobbies, Chie has been surrounded by jazz and Hollywood movies from an early age. She first studied classical piano but soon began to swing, and grew up as a kid that always preferred gospel to psalms. When she was 17 years old, she scraped together all money she had saved with part-time jobs, and left for the land of dreams: the US West Coast.

After moving her bases to NYC, Chie was invited by a record store owner to "visit a church and listen to some gospel". She agreed, and became a member of church's choir on the spot. She married a fellow choir member and gave a birth to a baby , but later she got divorced.

In 1991, the mother and the son returned to Japan, she began to sing in a jazz club in Osaka, and thanks to the quickly spreading rumors of her vocal performance she soon made a name for herself in the local jazz scene.

The June 1998 release "For All We Know" marked Chie's debut as a professional jazz musician at the age of 40. Since then Chie has been touring regularly across Japan in fall and winter, and with the help of fans spreading the word via the Internet
managed to establish a reputation as an outstanding female singer. Soon her concerts were sold out as soon as they were announced. Also her third album "Life" made a big hit in 1999, this her 'standard' album has been sold over 250,000 copies.

In March 2001 Chie received the 51st Ministry of Education and Science Cultural Promotional Award. Harboring an aversion against settling for one thing, Chie has been exploring territories outside the realm of jazz. Her repertory extends 20's swing
jazz to the rock, pop standards.

Chie has released 14 albums, 2 compiled "BEST" albums and 5 DVD-Videos. The number of total sale reaches almost 2,000,000 copies. https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=artistdetail&id=9283

Chain of Life

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Chie Ayado & Junior Mance - Chie Ayado Meets Junior Mance Trio Live

Size: 102,9 MB
Time: 44:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Jazz/Pop/Blues Vocals, Standards
Art: Front

01. Stormy Monday (Live) (6:54)
02. I'm Walkin' (Live) (3:53)
03. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Live) (4:48)
04. Sunny (Live) (3:58)
05. Summertime (Live) (5:04)
06. Autumn Leaves (Live) (4:06)
07. Route 66 (Live) (5:28)
08. It Don't Mean A Thing (Live) (3:22)
09. Georgia On My Mind (Live) (5:51)
10. Happy Birthday (Live) (0:57)

Influenced by her parents' hobbies, Chie has been surrounded by jazz and Hollywood movies from an early age. She first studied classical piano but soon began to swing, and grew up as a kid that always preferred gospel to psalms. When she was 17 years old, she scraped together all money she had saved with part-time jobs, and left for the land of dreams: the US West Coast.

After moving her bases to NYC, Chie was invited by a record store owner to "visit a church and listen to some gospel". She agreed, and became a member of church's choir on the spot. She married a fellow choir member and gave a birth to a baby , but later she got divorced.

In 1991, the mother and the son returned to Japan, she began to sing in a jazz club in Osaka, and thanks to the quickly spreading rumors of her vocal performance she soon made a name for herself in the local jazz scene.

The June 1998 release "For All We Know" marked Chie's debut as a professional jazz musician at the age of 40. Since then Chie has been touring regularly across Japan in fall and winter, and with the help of fans spreading the word via the Internet
managed to establish a reputation as an outstanding female singer. Soon her concerts were sold out as soon as they were announced. Also her third album "Life" made a big hit in 1999, this her 'standard' album has been sold over 250,000 copies.

In March 2001 Chie received the 51st Ministry of Education and Science Cultural Promotional Award. Harboring an aversion against settling for one thing, Chie has been exploring territories outside the realm of jazz. Her repertory extends 20's swing
jazz to the rock, pop standards.

Chie has released 14 albums, 2 compiled "BEST" albums and 5 DVD-Videos. The number of total sale reaches almost 2,000,000 copies.

Chie Ayado Meets Junior Mance Trio Live    

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Chie Ayado & Junior Mance - Only You

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:24
Size: 145,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:55)  1. All Blues
(3:33)  2. Deed I Do
(3:08)  3. Here's That Rainy Day
(4:33)  4. Only You
(5:51)  5. Dindi
(4:26)  6. That's All
(4:24)  7. Tennessee Waltz
(3:14)  8. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
(6:49)  9. Stormy Monday
(3:33) 10. The End of a Beautiul Friendship
(3:28) 11. His Eyes Is on the Sparrow
(5:19) 12. So What
(4:49) 13. If I Had You
(4:15) 14. Stormy Monday

As this is the case with many international stars, Chie Ayado is not a household name in America. In her native Japan, she's a superstar jazz performer with tens of millions recordings sold. She's so in demand, she continues to play over forty large-venue concerts a year. Her label, EWE, is making a name for itself with Three Blind Mice-style analog recordings of unbelievable accuracy and dimension. Vocals are listening-room immediate and the piano is detailed, full and beautifully balanced. Very little processing is used, so you hear Ayado's unique vocal and piano playing without all the sonic distractions hiding many modern digital recordings. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/chieayado

Junior Mance is well-known for his soulful bluesy style, but he is also expert at playing bop standards. He started playing professionally when he was ten. Mance worked with Gene Ammons in Chicago during 1947-1949, played with Lester Young (1950), and was with the Ammons-Sonny Stitt group until he was drafted. He was the house pianist at Chicago's Bee Hive (1953-1954), worked as Dinah Washington's accompanist (1954-1955), was in the first Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1956-1957), and then spent two years touring with Dizzy Gillespie (1958-1960). 

After a few months with the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin group, Mance formed his own trio and has mostly been a leader ever since. He has led sessions for Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, Capitol, Atlantic, Milestone, Polydor, Inner City, JSP, Nilva, Sackville, and Bee Hive, among other labels.~Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/junior-mance-mn0000252026/biography

Personnel:  Chie Ayado - vocals, piano (#11,14);  Junior Mance – piano;  Satoshi Inoue – guitar;  Calvin Hill – bass;  Akira Tana - drums

Only You

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Chie Ayado - Best II / Live! The Best

Album: Best II
Size: 159,2 MB
Time: 68:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. New York State Of Mind (5:59)
02. Sunny (2:51)
03. Feel Like Makin'love (5:47)
04. 04 - どんなときも (5:02)
05. In My Life (4:18)
06. What A Difference A Day Made (4:05)
07. I Can't Stop Loving You (3:45)
08. The End Of The World (3:12)
09. A Whiter Shade Of Pale (6:00)
10. With A Little Help From My Friends (5:35)
11. Imagine (4:27)
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads (5:49)
13. Mr Bojangles (5:29)
14. Let It Be (4:26)
15. Blowin' In The Wind (7:07)

Influenced by her parents' hobbies, Chie has been surrounded by jazz and Hollywood movies from an early age. She first studied classical piano but soon began to swing, and grew up as a kid that always preferred gospel to psalms. When she was 17 years old, she scraped together all money she had saved with part-time jobs, and left for the land of dreams: the US West Coast.

After moving her bases to NYC, Chie was invited by a record store owner to "visit a church and listen to some gospel". She agreed, and became a member of church's choir on the spot. She married a fellow choir member and gave a birth to a baby , but later she got divorced.

In 1991, the mother and the son returned to Japan, she began to sing in a jazz club in Osaka, and thanks to the quickly spreading rumors of her vocal performance she soon made a name for herself in the local jazz scene.

The June 1998 release "For All We Know" marked Chie's debut as a professional jazz musician at the age of 40. Since then Chie has been touring regularly across Japan in fall and winter, and with the help of fans spreading the word via the Internet
managed to establish a reputation as an outstanding female singer. Soon her concerts were sold out as soon as they were announced. Also her third album "Life" made a big hit in 1999, this her 'standard' album has been sold over 250,000 copies.

In March 2001 Chie received the 51st Ministry of Education and Science Cultural Promotional Award. Harboring an aversion against settling for one thing, Chie has been exploring territories outside the realm of jazz. Her repertory extends 20's swing
jazz to the rock, pop standards.

Chie has released 14 albums, 2 compiled "BEST" albums and 5 DVD-Videos. The number of total sale reaches almost 2,000,000 copies.

Best II

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Album: Live! The Best
Size: 166,7 MB
Time: 72:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Label: Plaza Mayor Company, Ltd.
Art: Front

01. Only You (4:55)
02. Tennessee Waltz (4:39)
03. Georgia On My Mind (5:39)
04. Your Song - For All We Know (7:27)
05. You Are So Beautiful (5:37)
06. Stormy Monday (5:46)
07. For Once In My Life (3:25)
08. Oleo (4:21)
09. It Don't Mean A Thing (4:13)
10. Get Into My Life (5:21)
11. New York State Of Mind 2 (4:34)
12. Yozora No Mukou (5:49)
13. What A Wonderful World (6:04)
14. If You Love Me (Really Love Me) (4:19)

Live! The Best

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