Barbara Knight & The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra - Night & Day

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:37
Size: 102,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:10)  1. The Song Is You
(4:11)  2. Bewitched
(2:50)  3. Bye Bye Blackbird
(5:06)  4. Night And Day
(2:45)  5. Just In Time
(4:33)  6. When You Wish Upon A Star
(4:04)  7. They All Laughed
(2:38)  8. Perdido
(5:17)  9. Like A Lover
(3:26) 10. Teach Me Tonight
(2:20) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(3:12) 12. This Lullaby

Barbara Knight is Northeast Ohio's premier big band jazz singer. She is known for captivating an audience with her tantalizing voice and is recognized by jazz bands and musicians as a truly gifted singer with dynamic stage presence and an intimate knowledge of her repertoire. Her enchanting renditions of the jazz classics will delight you while her melodic vocals will lure you into the song and make listening a truly magical experience. Experience the magic as you discover vocalist Barbara Knight in this exciting debut CD, "Night and Day".

“Barbara Knight's jazz style beautifully combines power and poise. She's a singer's singer, swinging on "Perdido," seductive on "Like a Lover," mysterious on her namecheck tune, "Night and Day," welcoming on "Just in Time." Both queenly and friendly, Knight is particularly comfortable with standards. But she's not afraid to be modern, either. "Night and Day," her CD with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, effectively demonstrates how well Knight and her favorite backup work together. This lush album is a honey, proving how persuasive mainstream jazz can be. Credit Barbara Knight for making the reminder so resonant.” ~ Carlo Wolff, jazz reviewer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and contributor to Billboard online, Goldmine and the Boston Globe.

“There’s a rightness about this CD that is hard to define, one that I haven’t heard on anything I’ve ever been on except this. It’s just on another level. Wow!” ~ Jack Schantz, musical director of Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

“Barbara Knight's "Night And Day" is a refreshing change of pace. Knight shows us her love of the songs she sings, by actually just singing them. No self indulgent, vocal exercises on this session. Just Barbara's warm, crystal clear voice bringing life to a collection of very hip charts. What a delight!” ~ Dan Polletta, jazz host, WCPN - FM 90.3

“Barbara Knight sings with confidence and affection. Her interpretations of the great standards are straight from the heart of the music." ~ Tony Mowod, executive producer / jazz host, WDUQ - FM 90.5 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bkwtcjo

Night And Day

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The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra - Traditions

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:22
Size: 140.5 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:19] 1. Our Delight
[6:19] 2. Days Of Wine And Roses
[4:09] 3. Sometimes I'm Happy/There'll Be Some Changes Made
[6:40] 4. Meeting With You
[9:37] 5. Darn That Dream
[2:21] 6. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
[8:18] 7. 'Round Midnight
[8:57] 8. Thad Type Tune
[5:26] 9. So Many Stars
[6:10] 10. Conversations

Traditions, recorded in June 1999, refers to a nearly century-long tradition of world-class Jazz in that bustling city on the shores of Lake Erie, admirably summarized by Jazz historian and author Joe Mosbrook in an informative booklet that accompanies the CD, as well as to the fact that eight of its ten selections were written and / or arranged by musicians from Cleveland or northeastern Ohio (the exceptions are Slovenian Joze Privsek's breezy "Meeting with You" and Bill Holman's perceptive arrangement of Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight").

Traditions includes compositions by Clevelanders Tadd Dameron ("Our Delight"), Henry Mancini ("Days of Wine and Roses"), CJO bassist Dave Morgan ("Thad Type Tune") and trombonist Paul Ferguson ("Conversations," with its explicit reference to Bill Russo's "Frank Speaking"). Ferguson arranged "Getting Sentimental" (on which he's the featured soloist) and former Ellington vocalist Dolores Parker Morgan's medley, "Sometimes I'm Happy" and "There'll Be Some Changes Made" with other charts by Ohioans Willie Smith ("Our Delight"), Rich Shanklin ("Days of Wine and Roses"), Bill Dobbins ("Darn That Dream") and Chas Baker (Antonio Carlos Jobim's "So Many Stars"). The not-for-profit CJO is comprised of nineteen full-time musicians, several of whom are Jazz educators at area colleges, and their combined experience enlivens every aspect of the ensemble's makeup from snappy section work to clear-eyed soloists, none of whom is less than impressive. Besides Ferguson ("Getting Sentimental," "Conversations"), Morgan ("Darn That Dream") and trombonist Baker ("Days of Wine and Roses"), they include music director / trumpeter Jack Schantz ("Wine and Roses," "Conversations," flugel on "'Round Midnight"), tenors John Klayman ("Our Delight," "So Many Stars"), altos Rich Shanklin ("Our Delight") and Kent Engelhardt ("Meeting with You"), pianist Dan Wall ("Our Delight," "Darn That Dream," "Thad Type Tune"), drummer Mark Gonder ("Meeting with You"), trumpeter Sean Jones and tenor Peter Mills ("Thad Type Tune"). Traditions is a first-class endeavor from start to finish.

Traditions

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The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra (With Sammy Nestico) - Swingin' Together

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:29
Size: 140.7 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Dimensions In Blue
[7:09] 2. Who's Sorry Now
[5:59] 3. The Blues Machine
[6:38] 4. 88 Basie Street
[3:38] 5. Fascinatin' Rhythm
[3:35] 6. Ya Gotta Try
[3:24] 7. Sweet Georgia Brown
[5:41] 8. It's A Wonderful World
[6:59] 9. Smack Dab In The Middle
[6:54] 10. A Warm Breeze
[3:58] 11. The Wind Machine
[5:05] 12. Some Musings By Sammy

Recorded live in Beachwood Ohio, this was a great night performing the compositions of one of the greatest big band composers, Sammy Nestico.

For almost 30 years, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice. Led by Sean Jones, the CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts with gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators in northeast Ohio. The CJO aims for worldwide recognition in cooperation with guest artists, and looks to shepherd young musicians toward the future of jazz. This season exemplifies this mission and vision through a variety of new music, new compositions and arrangements, and a stellar line-up of well-known guest artists and young up-and-coming talent! Enjoy—Hear It! See It! Feel It! -

Swingin' Together

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