Molly Ryan - Sweepin’ the Blues Away

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:01
Size: 106,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:30) 1. Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
(5:37) 2. The Folks Who Live on the Hill
(4:31) 3. I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
(3:57) 4. You and I
(4:33) 5. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
(3:34) 6. I'll Sit Right on the Moon (And Keep My Eyes on You)
(3:09) 7. I Wonder Who's Kissing Him Now
(4:16) 8. You Turned the Tables on Me
(4:15) 9. A Cottage for Sale
(3:16) 10. Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy Day)
(4:19) 11. If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)

New York City jazz vocalist Molly Ryan knows how to swing with the best of ‘em. Hailed as a “critic’s favorite” by author and Wall Street Journal music writer, Will Friedwald, Ryan announces the release of her fifth solo album, Sweepin’ the Blues Away, on Turtle Bay Records, which features 11 jazz classic songs from the swingin’ ‘30s.

Since arriving in 2003 from Roseville, CA, Ryan has established quite a career on the NYC jazz scene. She has performed at prestigious Manhattan venues such as the Café Carlyle, The Rainbow Room, Joe’s Pub, Symphony Space, Birdland Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Iridium Jazz Club, The Player's Club, the Waldorf Astoria, The Cutting Room, and The Town Hall. She has performed alongside such prominent jazz artists as Randy Reinhart, Jon-Erik Kellso, Bria Skonberg, Dan Barrett, Mark Shane and Rossano Sportiello, as well as with the preeminent 1920s-style orchestra, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks.

Ryan has appeared at numerous jazz festivals and jazz parties throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Atlanta Jazz Party, the Central Illinois Jazz Festival, the North Carolina Jazz Festival, the New York Hot Jazz Festival, the Old Jazz Meeting “Zlota Tarka” in Ilawa, Poland and Winter Jazzfest in New York City, among others. In addition, Molly Ryan’s voice can be heard on the Grammy Award-winning HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (Season One). She also has made appearances on the AMAZON PRIME TV series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(Season Three) and in Take Me Back to Manhattan, the Emmy-nominated musical revue celebrating New York and the great American songbook.

WSJ music critic Will Friedwald says, “Molly swings the melody as well as the words without affectation of any kind. She brings a straight-ahead innocence and total believability to the music…She sounds worldly wise beyond her years, wonderfully gentle and lyrical.” Whether you're feeling blue or not, the new jazz swing album by Molly Ryan Sweepin’ the Blues Away, guarantees to lift your spirits! Available now on CD or vinyl at TurtleBayRecords.com. By EMPKT PR https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/nyc-jazz-vocalist-molly-ryan-releases-new-album-on-turtle-bay-records/

Personnel: Molly Ryan (Vocal); Dan Levinson (tenor sax/clarinet), Rossano Sportiello (piano), Rob Adkins (bass), Kevin Dorn (drums)

Sweepin’ the Blues Away

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Dan Levinson's Palomar Quartet & Molly Ryan - Four On The Floor

Styles: Clarinet, Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:42
Size: 82,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:32) 1. In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
(3:27) 2. Silhouetted In The Moonlight
(4:47) 3. Joseph, Joseph
(4:13) 4. Otolaryngology
(3:53) 5. My Ideal
(5:15) 6. Just One Of Those Things
(4:11) 7. Only Another Boy And Girl
(4:22) 8. Fine And Dandy

The 2017 winner of Hot House Magazine’s “NYC Jazz Fans Decision” award for Best Clarinetist, Dan Levinson is equally at home as both leader and sideman, fronting his own groups as well as performing with those led by others. During a 30-year career specializing in traditional jazz and swing music, he has appeared alongside such prominent artists as Mel Tormé, Wynton Marsalis, Dick Hyman, Bria Skonberg, Ed Polcer, Howard Alden, Joe Ascione, Dan Barrett, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Reinhart, Mark Shane, Dick Sudhalter, Frank Vignola, Rossano Sportiello, Nicki Parrott, and Randy Sandke.

Though based in New York City, Dan’s busy schedule often takes him across the continent and around the world. He has performed in Brazil with the Bunk Project, a band organized by Woody Allen and banjoist Eddy Davis, in Italy with the Manhattan Rhythm Kings, in Scotland with David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, in Germany with the Barrelhouse Jazz Band, in Japan with the New York Ragtime Orchestra, in Los Angeles at the Playboy Mansion, and at numerous jazz clubs in Paris, including Le Petit Journal, Caveau de la Huchette, Autour de Midi, Duc des Lombards, and Le Bilboquet.

His numerous music festival appearances include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Sweet and Hot Music Festival in Los Angeles, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport, the Central Illinois Jazz Festival, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the Orange County Classic Jazz Festival, the Sedalia Ragtime Festival, the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival in Essex, Connecticut, the Edinburgh Festival and Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland, and the Brecon Festival in Wales. From 1992-2004 Dan was a regular guest at Dick Hyman’s annual Jazz in July Festival in New York. In 2004 Dan organized and was featured in the JVC Jazz Festival’s centennial tribute to Jimmy Dorsey at NYC’s famed Birdland jazz club.

An ardent Benny Goodman devotee, Dan’s tributes to the clarinet legend have brought him many accolades over the years. In 1996 he gave a televised concert in Reykjavík for the president of Iceland and the prime minister of Italy. Since 1998, his re-creations of Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert have delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, spawning countless command performances in the ensuing years with various big bands. Dan is the clarinet soloist with – and co-founder of – James Langton’s New York All-Star Big Band, NYC’s preeminent swing orchestra, with whom he has appeared at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Midsummer Night Swing series, and with whom he continues to perform regularly at the world-famous Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Since 2003, Dan has toured frequently with Andrej Hermlin’s Swing Dance Orchestra from Berlin, performing tributes to Goodman, Artie Shaw and others in sold-out concert halls throughout Germany and Europe.

Dan’s tremendous respect for songs and lyrics has made him a popular accompanist with vocalists over the years. As reedman with Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos, Dan has performed in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, as well as at clubs throughout New York City. From 1990-2002 Dan toured extensively with singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, with whom he appeared on national television and at the celebrated jazz club Pizza Express in London. Dan has also accompanied vocalists Banu Gibson, Daryl Sherman, Janet Klein, Cynthia Sayer, and, most notably, his wife, the charming and talented Molly Ryan.

Since 1993 Dan has been a member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, with whom he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program, in addition to the band’s bi-weekly appearances at Iguana Restaurant in Manhattan.

Dan’s own ensembles vary considerably in style and repertoire, running the gamut from ragtime-era dance music to early jazz to swing: his Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra specializes in early twentieth century (pre-jazz) popular music; his Roof Garden Jass Band is devoted exclusively to re-creating the earliest jazz recordings, made between 1917 and 1923; his Palomar Quartet is modeled after the renowned Benny Goodman Quartet and features the same lineup of clarinet, piano, vibes, and drums; his gypsy jazz group Fête Manouche honors the rich legacy of guitarist Django Reinhardt; and his New Millennium All Stars brings together a new generation of young and vibrant “torch bearers” who are currently breathing new life into century-old jazz traditions.

Originally from the Los Angeles area, Dan moved to New York in 1983. The following year he met 82-year-old reedman James “Rosy” McHargue, who became Dan’s friend and mentor, and over the next fifteen years taught him most of what he now knows about music and life. During that period Dan also studied with world-class clarinet instructor Leon Russianoff and saxophone virtuoso Al Gallodoro.

In 1990 Dan moved to Paris to join a band formed by American cornetist Dick Miller that featured the up-and-coming vocalist Madeleine Peyroux, then 16 years old. Dan’s wanderlust soon took him across the continent, through 17 European countries, where he earned a living for a year playing on the streets. Shortly after returning to the U.S., Dan temporarily relocated to New Orleans to perform a five-night-a-week engagement at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.

Dan has performed on over 150 CDs, including nine under his own name. He can also be heard on the soundtracks to the films The Cat’s Meow, Ghost World, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, and Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, as well as on all five seasons of the Grammy Award-winning HBO television series Boardwalk Empire and all three seasons of the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Dan’s complete discography, along with his engagement calendar, photos, more information on his ensembles, and samples of his music, are available at www.danlevinson.com

Personnel: Dan Levinson, clarinet; Mark Shane, piano; Matt Hoffmann, vibes; Kevin Dorn, drums; Molly Ryan, vocals

Four On The Floor

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Dan Levinson & His Swing Wing - At The Codfish Ball

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:46
Size: 173.5 MB
Styles: Traditional jazz combo, Swing
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. At The Codfish Ball
[4:49] 2. A Garden In The Rain
[4:02] 3. Old Man Moon
[3:51] 4. Hot Club Stomp
[3:27] 5. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O!
[5:09] 6. Promenade Aux Champs-Elysees
[2:20] 7. Last Night
[4:18] 8. Arabian Rhapsody
[5:24] 9. I Didn't Know About You
[4:34] 10. Keep Smiling At Trouble (Trouble's A Bubble)
[4:35] 11. The Milkman's Matinee
[2:53] 12. Oh Peter (You're So Nice)
[4:47] 13. Mis'ry And The Blues
[5:34] 14. Dr. Heckle And Mr. Jibe
[4:03] 15. Ten Cents A Dance
[4:33] 16. Copenhagen
[4:45] 17. A Brown Bird Singing
[3:06] 18. The Lorelei

"At the Codfish Ball" is the culmination of many years of preparation, during which time producer/arranger/musician Dan Levinson collected material and wrote arrangements. He has brought together an all-star lineup of talent to produce a tour de force that combines driving rhythm, lush harmony, and timeless melodies. Although most of Dan's previous CDs have focused on ragtime and early jazz, "At the Codfish Ball" is decidedly SWING, a prominent aspect of his musical persona virtually unexplored in his own recordings.

PERFORMERS: Dan Levinson, Randy Reinhart, Jim Fryer, Mark Shane, Matt Munisteri, Mike Weatherly, Kevin Dorn, Molly Ryan.

At The Codfish Ball

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Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher - If Bix Played Gershwin

Styles: Piano And Cornet Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:55
Size: 137,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:55)  1. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
(3:51)  2. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
(3:36)  3. Sweet and Low-down
(3:27)  4. I Got Rhythm
(2:58)  5. But Not for Me
(2:56)  6. Kongo Kate
(3:27)  7. I've Got a Crush on You
(3:00)  8. Rialto Ripples
(3:16)  9. The Half of It, Dearie, Blues
(3:20) 10. 'S Wonderful
(2:48) 11. Yankee Doodle Rhythm
(2:54) 12. I Was So Young
(3:01) 13. Fascinating Rhythm
(4:11) 14. In a Mist
(2:43) 15. Sunny Disposish
(4:28) 16. Embraceable You #1
(4:24) 17. Embraceable You #2
(2:30) 18. Somebody Loves Me

Pianist Dick Hyman has to be recognized as one of the foremost students of historical jazz. The authentic-sounding retro background tracks you hear behind scenes in many Woody Allen movies came from bands led by Hyman and his like-minded sidemen. Cornetist Tom Pletcher obviously shares Hyman’s enthusiasm for exploring old works and making them new again, as demonstrated on this joyous paean to two musical geniuses of the early 20th century. The concept and name for the album comes from a 1996 concert Hyman and Fletcher performed at the 92nd Street Y as part of its jazz series. The theme is so appropriate and simple, it’s surprising it hadn’t been done before. Both George Gershwin and Bix Beiderbecke were active in the ‘20s, the former changing the face of American musical theater, the latter changing the face of jazz. Both also died before their time, Gershwin of a brain tumor, Beiderbecke of alcoholism. Left to his own devices, Hyman’s piano playing sometimes suffers from his reverence for the music. This is usually more evident in his solo and duo work. Happily, on this album Hyman is nestled in a wonderful group that demonstrates an appreciation for the music while not displaying it in a museum display case. 

Dan Levinson’s clarinet and C-melody sax, David Sager’s trombone and Bob Leary’s banjo and guitar help maintain the authentic sound. At the same time, modern recording techniques afford them room for nuanced playing and subtlety not possible in the primative studios of the music’s original era. Vince Giordano, himself every bit a musicologist as Hyman, is a rollicking joy on the bass sax while Ed Metz Jr. plays his drums authentically, but with a lighter feel of someone exposed to a later generation of players. Hyman’s arrangements are perfect period pieces. If his chart on “I Got Rhythm” is guaranteed to get toes tapping, “But Not for Me” will conjure up elegant couples out for a night on the town in the roaring ‘20s. He does engage in a little musicologist speculation, playing Beiderbecke’s “In a Mist” as might have been done by Gershwin, with snippets of Gershwin tunes thrown in. ~ Mitchell Seidel  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/if-bix-played-gershwin-tom-pletcher-arbors-records-review-by-mitchell-seidel.php

Personnel: Dick Hyman piano, Tom Pletcher cornet, Dan Levinson clarinet & C-Melody saxophone, David Sager trombone, Vince Giordano bass saxophone, Bob Leary guitar & banjo, Ed Metz Jr drums

If Bix Played Gershwin 

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