Charles Brown - Someone To Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:00
Size: 105.3 MB
Styles: Blues-Jazz vocals/piano
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[4:42] 1. Someone To Love
[7:36] 2. I Wonder How She Knows
[3:59] 3. Don't Drive Me Away
[6:25] 4. Not So Far
[4:50] 5. Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
[5:56] 6. Be Sharp You'll See
[4:33] 7. Every Little Bit Hurts
[3:45] 8. I Want To Go Home
[4:09] 9. I Don't Want To Get Adjusted

Acoustic Bass – Tommie McKenzie; Drums – Gaylord Birch; Guitar – Danny Caron; Producer – Ron Levy; Slide Guitar – Bonnie Raitt (tracks: 7); Tenor Saxophone – Bobby Forté, Clifford Solomon; Vocals – Bonnie Raitt (tracks: 1); Vocals, Piano, Organ – Charles Brown.

Bonnie Raitt, who played such an integral role in Charles Brown's successful comeback, guests on two tracks on the pianist's Bullseye Blues encore, Someone to Love, which isn't quite the tour de force that his previous outing was, but is eminently solid nonetheless. Danny Caron and Clifford Solomon once again shine in support of their leader. ~Bill Dahl

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Charles Brown - So Goes Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 55:11

Size: 126.3 MB

Styles: Urban blues, West Coast blues

Year: 1998

Art: Front

[4:39] 1. New Orleans Blues

[5:28] 2. My Heart Is Mended

[3:24] 3. Oh Oh What Do You Know About Love

[3:57] 4. Money's Gettin' Cheaper

[4:47] 5. She's Gone Again

[3:47] 6. I'll Get Along Somehow

[4:09] 7. So Goes Love

[3:59] 8. Stormy Monday

[4:57] 9. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

[6:06] 10. Ain't No Use

[5:58] 11. You'll Never Know

[3:55] 12. Blue Because Of You

Charles Brown - Vocals; Harvey Wainapel - Sax (Alto); Danny Caron - Guitar; Ruth Davies - Bass; Teddy Edwards - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor); Mary Fettig - Sax (Alto); Allen Smith - Trumpet; Marty Wehner - Trombone; Recorded April 1-4, 1996 at The Plant, Sausalito, California.

Like his previous two efforts for Verve, These Blues and Honey Dripper, So Goes Love doesn't really offer anything new from Charles Brown, but that' hardly a bad thing. Again, he serves up a collection of appealing, laidback blues that often drifts into jazz territory. The repertoire is a tad too predictable ("Stormy Monday," "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"), but the performances are so lovely that there's no reason to complain. So Goes Love is hardly the first album to pick up if you're beginning a Brown collection, but once you've been introduced to his charms, it's quite welcome. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Pamela Rose - Just For A Thrill

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:09
Size: 123,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:03)  1. Just For A Thrill
(4:39)  2. He Knows Me Well
(3:36)  3. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
(5:17)  4. Don't Let The Moment Slip Away
(3:37)  5. Lover Come Back To Me
(3:44)  6. Old Piano Plays The Blues
(4:39)  7. Learning The Blues
(5:02)  8. That's What My Baby Does For Me
(3:49)  9. La Vie En Rose
(5:21) 10. Yes, Yes
(3:44) 11. You Never Remember My Birthday
(4:32) 12. I Surrender Dear

Pamela Rose has a strong and versatile voice that is heard at its best on slower material when she expresses beauty through long notes. However, she also swings well at medium tempos. On Just for a Thrill, a wide-ranging program conceived by Rose and guitarist Danny Caron, she is joined on various selections by two different organ groups, a pair of excellent saxophonists, and a piano trio.

The music ranges from Lil Armstrong's "Just for a Thrill" and "Lover Come Back to Me" to a version of "Learning the Blues" that recalls Dinah Washington, a heartfelt "La Vie en Rose," and some saucier material. The sidemen are uniformly excellent (both Jeff Ervin and Charles McNeil have spots on different selections to take saxophone solos), the organists keep the music grooving, and Pamela Rose shows that she is comfortable in several musical genres. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/just-for-a-thrill-mw0000354967

Personnel: Pamela Rose (vocals); Jeff Ervin, Charles McNeal (saxophone); John Burr (piano); Jason Lewis (drums); Danny Caron (guitar).

Just For A Thrill

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Danny Caron - Good Hands

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 55:43
Size: 127.6 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues guitar
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[4:22] 1. Shaggin'
[7:04] 2. In A Sentimental Mood
[5:09] 3. The Promise
[7:12] 4. Shine On
[5:00] 5. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
[2:48] 6. The Guitar Speaks
[3:11] 7. Gate Walks The Board
[6:17] 8. A Rainy Night In Georgia
[4:28] 9. Hey Jimmy
[5:26] 10. Soul Street
[4:41] 11. With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair

Danny Caron is a soulful and passionate guitarist who has played with some of the best musicians in America. His just released CD entitled "Good Hands" features some of the most soulful musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area including Jim Pugh from the Robert Cray Band on Hammond organ, Ron E. Beck from Tower of Power on drums, and two exquisite previously unreleased Charles Brown trio cuts with the legendary Charles Brown singing and playing piano, and Ruth Davies on bass.In addition you'll find some beautiful acoustic jazz cuts with John Wiitala (bass), Deszon Claiborne (drums), and John R Burr (piano) A couple of those are augmented by a burning horn section, with a few searing sax solos from Jeff Ervin and Charles McNeal. "The tunes on this record are really homages to some of my favorite guitarists", says Caron. "Grant Green, Billy Butler, Johnny and Oscar Moore, Gatemouth Brown, T Bone Walker, and BB King - just to name a few of the obvious ones...I'm not trying to play like them-I never could-I'm just trying to thank them!" Originally out of Silver Spring, Maryland, Danny moved to Austin, Texas and cut his teeth on the Crawfish circuit playing with singer-pianist Marcia Ball. He then worked with Zydeco king Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band with whom he recorded the Grammy Award winning Album I'm Here in 1980. Relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981 he continued to freelance and eventually teamed up with the legendary singer and pianist Charles Brown. Danny served as guitarist and musical director for Charles Brown from 1987 until Brown's death in 1999. He has played on numerous CD's and sessions with Charles Brown, Clifton Chenier, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Ruth Brown, Etta Jones, John Clayton, Teddy Edwards, Gerald Wilson, Donald Fagen, Dr. John, Little Milton Campbell, John Hammond Jr. and many others. *Danny is the featured guitarist on the Van Morrison produced John Lee Hooker album, "Don't Look Back" which won two Grammy Awards - one for Best Traditional Blues Recording, and the other for Best Collaboration, Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker. He keeps up a busy schedule touring and performing most recently with Robben Ford, Barbara Morrison, Maria Muldaur and others. He continues working with Just Say Jazz, a group of Bay Area musicians dedicated to preserving and promoting jazz and blues awareness in primary schools. He is presently teaching courses at The Jazzschool in Berkeley California.

Good Hands

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Danny Caron - How Sweet It Is

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:40
Size: 111.4 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues guitar
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:54] 1. Zydeco Boogaloo
[4:37] 2. The Promised Land
[4:30] 3. One For The Road
[4:19] 4. Grand Lake Shuffle
[4:56] 5. E.S.B. Blues
[6:12] 6. The Chicken
[4:22] 7. Need Your Love So Bad
[4:31] 8. Rock Candy
[7:09] 9. Body And Soul
[3:04] 10. Our Miss Brooks

n his own description, Danny Caron sees How Sweet It Is as an extension of Good Hands, and in many ways it is. But to my ears while Good Hands is about incredible guitar work from an incredible guitarist, How Sweet It Is is about musical choices. Don’t get me wrong, there is still plenty of great guitar work here but the choices make How Sweet It Is the great CD it is.

The first choice, naturally enough, is the music. While mostly slow blues and stylized jazz, there are even a couple of different flavors of zydeco, the jumping Zydeco Boogoloo and the slow, country roots One For The Road. As his bio indicates, this is the range of music Danny has been playing his whole life, and continues to play. All the numbers are beautifully arranged.

The next choice is the musicians. While all the players on this CD are noteworthy, to me the keyboard players deserve special mention: Wayne De La Cruz and Jimmy Pugh driving B-3 and John R. Burr on piano. It doesn’t get better at providing a counterpoint to Caron’s guitar. And though he only appears on a couple of tracks, Jeff Ervin delivers some truly powerful sax.

Did I mention vocals? The late Charles Brown is here; so smooth, like silk, forever. And Barbara Morrison, playful and earthy, like hearing the blues you always knew but never knew you missed quite so much.

For what is primarily an instrumental album, the several vocals on this CD are, on their own merit, worth the price of admission.

In short, How Sweet It Is is a great musical choice. Check it out. ~Karl Cishek

How Sweet It Is

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Danny Caron - Jazz + Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:54
Size: 137.1 MB
Styles: Jazz guitar
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:43] 1. Limehouse Blues
[5:33] 2. Deep River
[4:22] 3. I Don't Want To Know
[4:47] 4. Spiritual
[4:51] 5. Blues Alley [for R.L.J.]
[4:59] 6. Girl Talk
[6:41] 7. Freddie Freeloader
[4:42] 8. Water From An Ancient Well
[4:53] 9. Nuages
[5:04] 10. It Ain't Necessarily So
[5:11] 11. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
[5:03] 12. Gonna Set Down And Rest Awhile

Danny Caron has just released his 3rd solo CD "Jazz and Blues". Danny's beautiful guitar tones and stylings ring clearly throughout this collection of jazz and blues tunes, from the soulful organ trio jazz and gospel inflected tracks, like 'Limehouse Blues' and 'Deep River' (featuring Wayne De La Cruz on Hammond B3 and Kent Bryson on the drums), to more adventurous piano quartet numbers such as the beautiful Spiritual by John Coltrane-(featuring the superb piano work of John R Burr, and great rhythm section with Deszon Claiborne (drums) and John Wiitala (bass)). Also-there is a very special vocal appearance from good friend Maria Muldaur, singing John Martyn's great song "I Don't Wanna Know" which probably sums up a lot of the world's collective consciousness at this very moment-"I Don't Wanna Know About Evil, I only Want To Know About Love!" -Amen. Kudos to Ruth Davies (bass) and Bobby Cochran (drums), presently Elvin Bishops crack rhythm section, for making that one funky good!Beautiful performances from John Hanes (drums), Ruth Davies and John R Burr make Dollar Brand's (aka Abdullah Ibrahim) "Water From An Ancient Well", and the old spiritual "Set Down and Rest Awhile" into great numbers. This is a great CD and all of Danny's fans will love it, as well as music lovers everywhere.

Originally out of Silver Spring, Maryland, Danny moved to Austin, Texas and cut his teeth on the Crawfish circuit playing with singer-pianist Marcia Ball. He then worked with Zydeco king Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band with whom he recorded the Grammy Award winning Album "I'm Here" in 1980. Relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981 he continued to freelance and eventually teamed up with the legendary singer and pianist Charles Brown. Danny served as guitarist and musical director for Charles Brown from 1987 until Brown's death in 1999. He has played on numerous CD's and sessions with Charles Brown, Clifton Chenier, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Steve Miller, Ruth Brown, Etta Jones, John Clayton, Teddy Edwards, Gerald Wilson, Donald Fagen, Dr. John, Little Milton Campbell, John Hammond Jr. and many others.

*Danny is the featured guitarist on the Van Morrison produced John Lee Hooker album, "Don't Look Back" which won two Grammy Awards - one for Best Traditional Blues Recording, and the other for Best Collaboration, Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker. He keeps up a busy schedule touring and performing most recently with Tom Rigney and Flambeau and also with Steve Miller, Plas Johnson, Barbara Morrison, Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, Maria Muldaur and others. He is presently teaching courses at The Jazzschool in Berkeley California.

Jazz + Blues

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