Amy Roberts' Gentlemen Of Jazz - I'm Confessin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:38
Size: 150.3 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[8:35] 1. Runnin' Wild
[7:56] 2. I'm Confessin'
[5:51] 3. Isle Of Capri
[8:16] 4. That Teasin' Rag
[4:30] 5. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
[4:37] 6. Royal Garden Blues
[6:21] 7. Singing The Blues
[6:29] 8. Collegiate
[5:40] 9. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
[7:19] 10. Panama

In today's traditional jazz world there is a handful of talented young musicians - Amy Roberts is one of this select group. She first appeared on the club scene in Cornwall (her home county) as a schoolgirl a few years ago. Now (Autumn 2009) aged 21 she is studying music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and at the same time she is making a name for herself on the jazz club and festival scene. This, the first CD by her own band, was recorded at the 2008 Bude Jazz Festival. The band has a sound reminiscent of the American small bands of the 1930s and '40s and on this CD they work well together to play hot inventive jazz and entertain their audience. The band line-up is Steve Graham trumpet, Amy Roberts alto sax (flute on one track), Roger Heeley piano, John Baker banjo, Andy Craddock double bass, Graham Smith drums.

I'm Confessin'

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Petula Clark - Ultimate Petula Clark

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:38
Size: 143.4 MB
Styles: AM Pop, Sunshine pop
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Downtown
[2:42] 2. I Know A Place
[2:50] 3. You'd Better Come Home
[2:37] 4. Round Every Corner
[2:25] 5. You're The One
[2:45] 6. Call Me
[2:42] 7. My Love
[2:57] 8. A Sign Of The Times
[2:52] 9. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
[2:18] 10. Who Am I
[2:52] 11. Colour My World
[3:15] 12. This Is My Song
[2:54] 13. Don't Sleep In The Subway
[1:55] 14. The Cat In The Window (The Bird In The Sky)
[2:51] 15. The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener
[3:55] 16. Kiss Me Goodbye
[3:04] 17. Don't Give Up
[3:29] 18. Happy Heart
[2:49] 19. Neon Rainbow
[3:55] 20. The Song Is Love
[4:15] 21. I Don't Know How To Love Him

Ultimate Petula Clark is a 21-track collection of British songbird Clark's biggest hits and best songs from the early '60s through the early '70s. Her sophisticated and warm voice was the perfect instrument for the songwriting talents of Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent; many of the songs here are written and produced by the underrated Hatch. The collection leads off with her biggest hit, "Downtown," and includes great songs like "I Know a Place," "Call Me," "Sign of the Times," and "Don't Sleep in the Subway." She split with Hatch in the late '60s and some of the songs she recorded after the split are here: "Kiss Me Goodbye," "The Song Is Love," and "Neon Rainbow," a great track from Memphis, the oft-overlooked classic record that she cut with Chips Moman in 1970. Along with the great music and a very generous track listing, the collection boasts remastered sound and extensive liner notes, making Ultimate Petula Clark the best single-disc Petula Clark disc on the market. ~Tim Sendra

Ultimate Petula Clark

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Martin Speake - My Ideal

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 40:12

Size: 92.0 MB

Styles: Saxophone jazz

Year: 2004

Art: Front

[5:53] 1. Everything Happens To Me

[4:13] 2. My Ideal

[4:06] 3. What Is This Thing Called Love

[4:39] 4. So In Love

[5:40] 5. Loverman

[3:05] 6. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

[3:34] 7. Stardust

[5:36] 8. How Insensitive

[3:22] 9. You Must Believe In Spring

British alto saxophonist Speake duets with a regular Transatlantic associate, the composer and pianist Ethan Iverson - better known as one-third of the lively and now fashionable genre-breakout band the Bad Plus. Although that full-on trio's robust irony, percussion-driven ferocity and raucous reworking of old pop hits is on another, noisier planet to these stripped-down duets exploring standards and ballads, including Michel Legrand's You Must Believe in Spring and a variety of Cole Porters, Jerome Kerns and a Jobim. But Speake's soft tone and undemonstrative audacity found an excellent counterpoise in Iverson, who is as likely to veer off into streams of classical arpeggios as he is to play swing or stride, though he does plenty of those too.

This music was recorded in December 2002 (and produced by Iain Ballamy, no stranger to saxophone understatement) when the pair were touring the UK, and their absorbing live show is recalled by Iverson's technically-sweeping free-classical upsurge after Speake's smoke-rings on Everything Happens to Me, the duo's limping, Monkish arrangement of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and the almost sinister idling saunter of Jobim's How Insensitive. Iverson's powers are probably better revealed in these bare surroundings than they are in the Bad Plus. ~John Fordham

My Ideal

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Norma Winstone - Manhattan In The Rain

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:24
Size: 142.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:19] 1. The Heather On The Hill
[6:15] 2. The Music That Makes Me Dance
[3:33] 3. It Never Was You
[3:58] 4. Two Kites
[5:06] 5. Manhattan In The Rain
[6:13] 6. People Will Say We're In Love
[5:05] 7. I Have Dreamed
[5:44] 8. Retrato Em Branco E Preto
[3:25] 9. Lucky To Be Me
[4:07] 10. Baby Don't You Quit Now
[3:51] 11. Shall We Dance
[4:33] 12. Far Away Places
[6:11] 13. When The World Was Young

Norma Winstone - vocals; Steve Gray - piano, synthesizer; Chris Laurence - bass; Tony Coe - tenor sax, clarinet.

Norma Winstone is one of the most recognizable vocalists from the United Kingdom. During her nearly 50-year career, she has performed in many varieties of situations, from the improvisatory world of avant-garde to the classic tastefulness of the jazz songbook. Recorded in 1997, Winstone’s Manhattan In The Rain found her alongside some longtime companions, pianist Steve Gray (of Sky fame), bassist Chris Laurence and woodwind master Tony Coe performing a wonderful collection of jazz standards, all arranged by Gray.

Manhattan In The Rain

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Ralph Sharon - Portrait Of Harold

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:07
Size: 139,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:01)  1. My Shining Hour
(4:01)  2. Ill Wind
(2:02)  3. Let's Fall In Love
(3:53)  4. This Time The Dream's On Me
(2:32)  5. It's Only A Paper Moon
(5:05)  6. Portrait Of Harold
(2:42)  7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(3:04)  8. It Was Written In The Stars
(3:13)  9. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
(4:07) 10. The Man That Got Away
(3:53) 11. I've Got The World On A String
(4:39) 12. Out Of This World
(3:56) 13. Sing My Heart
(3:42) 14. A Sleepin' Bee
(2:36) 15. Hit The Road To Dreamland
(3:03) 16. Right As The Rain
(3:30) 17. That Old Black Magic

Subtitled "The Harold Arlen Songbook," this 60-minute disc finds the Ralph Sharon Trio with Douglas Richeson on bass and Clayton Cameron on drums highlighting the work of the most jazz and blues oriented of the Broadway and Hollywood composers of the 1940s and '50s. Sharon is typically subtle and swinging, never losing the sense of Arlen's bluesy melodies, but elaborating on them with intricately played figures that never seem to show the effort they must take to achieve. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/portrait-of-harold-mw0000183247

Personnel: Piano – Ralph Sharon; Bass – Douglas Richeson; Drums – Clayton Cameron

Portrait Of Harold

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Simon Spillett - Sienna Red

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:42
Size: 172,1 MB
Art: Front

(8:30)  1. Mini Minor
(9:02)  2. Lifeline
(6:52)  3. Souriya
(6:57)  4. Peace Pipe
(8:15)  5. Rumpus
(7:50)  6. Ricardo
(8:28)  7. Pint of Bitter
(8:43)  8. The Right to Love
(6:19)  9. Sienna Red
(3:42) 10. Oleo

After winning the 2007 Rising Star category in the BBC Jazz Awards, tenor saxophonist Simon Spillett now has this very disc up for public voting in the 2008 Best Album section. Fundamentally, it's a representation of what he does onstage, though the fact that this recording can't possibly scale the heights of an in-person experience is some testament to Spillett's blowing power. His ascension over the last few years has been swift, to the point where he's now a serious challenger to reedsman Alan Barnes for the British hard bop sceptre. Woodville is the latter's record label, so here's an endorsement from a fitting source. Of course, there's Peter King and Don Weller to consider too, but there's something about Spillett's approach that aligns him with Barnes. Spillett is already a veteran of all the prestigious London clubs, and is now throwing himself completely into the establishment of his own quartet's comet-like reputation, boasting the line-up of John Critchinson (piano), Andrew Cleyndert (bass) and Spike Wells (drums). It's impossible to avoid mention of the great Tubby Hayes as Spillett's guiding light in terms of style and attack, but this doesn't mean that he's forsaking the development of a personal vocabulary. This follow-up to 2007's debut album is as swift as Simon's soloing articulation. He absolutely doesn't dally. On the opening Mini Minor, barely is the theme shot out than the tenorman's skating off on a winding solo, the combo coping well with their own solos, the end result being an introductory portfolio of their wares. It's as if Spillett is attempting to cram life itself into each eight minute outburst. That's about the average tune-length, as extended time is needed to accommodate Simon's spillage. When the songs aren't hurtling at high velocity, they adopt a brash swaying motion, and a ballad spot tends to turn up after every third chaser, just to prove that Spillett is also a sensitive breather. Peace Pipe sounds anything but peaceful. In fact, it's rather more agitated than Rumpus, which has its own staccato flourishes. Spillett saves Oleo until last, and it's a rollercoaster that brooks no argument. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3rqv/

Personnel: Saxophone [Tenor], Producer – Simon Spillett; Double Bass – Andrew Cleyndert; Drums – Spike Wells; Piano – John Critchinson

Sienna Red

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Polly Gibbons - All I Can Do

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:06
Size: 157,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:08)  1. Permit Me to Introduce You to Yourself
(6:28)  2. Good Hands Tonight
(4:21)  3. Beautiful Things
(5:21)  4. If You Had the Chance
(6:36)  5. Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues
(4:30)  6. Anything Goes
(5:39)  7. This Is Always
(5:03)  8. All I Can Do
(7:23)  9. Everything Must Change
(5:48) 10. I'm Just a Lucky so and So
(6:24) 11. Nothing Compares to You
(5:20) 12. Sugar in My Bowl

It is enough to listen to some songs by the English Polly Gibbons to let yourself be taken by her exuberant feeling. Nothing to do with the many vocalists who have invaded the scene with a mediocre and plasticized synthesis of pop, jazz and soul. The young woman discovered by producer Ian Shaw is something special. His tone is deep, the vocal technique is sparkling and supported by musical impetus and imagination: qualities that bring him closer to the great jazz vocalists. But the artistic identity of Polly does not belong only to this musical tradition and ranges in balance between past and present. Can make credible soul themes like "Dr. Feelgood" by Aretha Franklin , folk ballad like "All I Want" by Joni Mitchelland ranges from Leonard Cohen , Prince , Marvin Gaye and D'Angelo . Other privileged areas are the blues and the classics of American song. Born into a Suffolk (England) family of farmers, she took her first steps in the colorful London music and her recording debut ( My Own Company , Diving Duck Recordings 2014) recorded it at Ronnie Scott's, with the trio of James Pearson. Soon afterwards, the contract came with George Klabin's Resonance, which is now releasing his third album.In this recording at the New York City Power Studio in front of a small audience, Polly Gibbons ranges between genres with the usual flexibility, in an effective calibration of swinging, intimate or blues-soaked atmospheres. 

The opening song "Permit Me to Introduce You to Yourself" is an incisive soul by Horace Silverand has nothing to envy to the vocal version of Dee Dee Bridgewater ; they follow the warm blues atmosphere "Good Hands Tonight" taken from the repertoire of Al Jarreau and the pop cover "Beautiful Things" of Leslie Bricusse . Having established the first reference coordinates, the singer passionately interprets "If You Had the Chance," a ballad written by her together with James Pearson. Alongside the imaginative exuberance fully evident in "I'm Just Lucky and So-So-So" - it is precisely in the intimate themes that Polly expresses the most intense moments: the ballad "This Is Always" which reminds us of Chet Baker , the poignant torch song "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Prince and the torrid blues "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," a tribute to Bessie Smith and Nina Simone.~ Angelo Leonardi https://www.allaboutjazz.com/all-i-can-do-polly-gibbons-resonance-records-review-by-angelo-leonardi.php

Personnel: Polly Gibbons: vocals; Tamir Hendelman, James Pearson: piano; Shedrick Mitchell: hammond organ; Paul Bollenback: guitar; Richie Goods: bass; Mark McLean: drums.

All I Can Do

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Bryan Ferry - Bitter-Sweet

Styles: Vocal, New Orleans Jazz Revival 
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:52
Size: 99,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Alphaville
(3:42)  2. Reason or Rhyme
(2:30)  3. Sign of the Times
(3:57)  4. New Town
(2:49)  5. Limbo
(3:57)  6. Bitter-Sweet
(2:47)  7. Dance Away
(3:06)  8. Zamba
(3:01)  9. Sea Breezes
(3:11) 10. While My Heart Is Still Beating
(2:26) 11. Bitters End
(3:47) 12. Chance Meeting
(4:40) 13. Boys and Girls

Building upon 2012's The Jazz Age, and his acting turn as a cabaret singer in the 1930s Netflix drama Babylon Berlin, Bryan Ferry returns to his love of urbane classic jazz with 2018's Bitter-Sweet. Recorded with longtime collaborator/pianist Colin Good, Bitter-Sweet finds the Roxy Music frontman once again embracing the vintage 1920s and '30s big-band swing he first explored on 1999's As Time Goes By, and which he and Good brought to fruition with The Jazz Age. However, whereas The Jazz Age featured instrumental reworkings of many of Ferry's best-loved songs, Bitter-Sweet features Ferry singing jazz versions of both Roxy Music songs and songs from his solo career. Featured on the album are the six songs the singer contributed to the Babylon Berlin soundtrack, including "Alphaville," "Reason or Rhyme," "Bitter-Sweet," "Dance Away," "Chance Meeting," and "Bitters End." As arranged by Good and Ferry, these are all wry and romantic productions that evoke the smoky ambiance of Babylon Berlin's Weimar Republic-era setting. Elsewhere, Ferry transforms the new wave sophistication of "While My Heart Is Still Beating" off 1982's Avalon into a slinky, half-lidded crawl, and similarly mutates the pop exotica of his 1985 title track "Boys and Girls" into a slow-burn flamenco fever dream. Particularly compelling is Ferry and his orchestra's snappy rendition of "Sign of the Times" off 1978's The Bride Stripped Bare, in which the original track's driving guitar lines are transposed to a puckered trumpet lead. This is haunting jazz sprinkled with the golden dust of Ferry's glittery rock past. ~ Matt Collar https://www.allmusic.com/album/bitter-sweet-mw0003219669

Bitter-Sweet

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Barb Jungr, John McDaniel - Float Like a Butterfly: The Songs of Sting

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:11
Size: 157,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:12)  1. Wrapped Around Your Finger
(3:45)  2. Englishman in New York
(3:54)  3. Fields of Gold
(5:31)  4. King of Pain
(5:19)  5. Moon Over Bourbon Street
(4:12)  6. Shape of My Heart
(4:37)  7. Roxanne
(4:32)  8. It's Probably Me
(3:44)  9. Until (A Matter of Moments)
(2:31) 10. August Winds
(4:04) 11. Don't Stand So Close to Me
(4:06) 12. Fortress Around My Heart
(3:32) 13. Desert Rose
(2:12) 14. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
(5:07) 15. Fragile
(2:31) 16. Message in a Bottle
(4:15) 17. Every Breath You Take

In her introduction Barb Jungr has pointed out the hurdles of interpreting a singer-songwriter of near legendary status such as Sting who comes with all the trappings of such fame. It has, she suggested, made some folk recoil at the mention of his name even before getting to the essence of what the man is all about. Interpreting and adapting Sting’s songs for herself and her pianist John McDaniel throws up a number of challenges not least how to re-configure songs where the backings by the groups in the original recordings are regarded as an essential part of the package. The 18 songs in this programme cross the decades, the most recent being ‘August Winds’ from the short-lived Broadway musical The Last Ship in 2014 (opening in Newcastle on 12 March 2018, followed by a major UK and Ireland tour.). The hits are here but a number of the lesser-known songs suggest that Jungr has paid careful attention to all the texts, stripping each one down to the bare essentials and singing them with an insight and a rawness and emotional energy that she can truly call her own. Jungr can do fun too, her harmonica interpolations being a joy in their own right. ‘Russians’, a polemic against US/Russian foreign policy of the mid 1980s, is launched on the piano with Prokofiev’s ‘Entry of the Montagues and Capulets’, is a rousing anthem in her hands, as is ‘Fortress Around My Heart’. She lends ‘Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic’ a catchy bounce in contrast to the gentle sway of the tune and accompaniment in her interpretation of ‘An Englishman in New York’, so apt for the figure of Quentin Crisp. I loved her evocation of ‘Fields of Gold’, inspired it seems by a pastoral scene viewed from a window in Sting’s Wiltshire house, and in similar vein, ‘Fragile’, a song addressing green issues, prefaced by her poetic description of walking on her beloved Isle of Skye. Her linking narrative is pithy and sometimes unexpected as in her tale of Hogarthian shenanigans in a gentleman’s club in St James’ where she applied for her first job in London in 1975.She also gives us a little insight into the problems lyrics, as in ‘Desert Rose’, can present to a singer instancing a trait in Sting’s lexicon whereby he’ll alter just one word in a line making it “hideous to learn”. The pianist McDaniel is the accompanist and arranger of the songs, a consummate professional, who is at ease whether singing solo, joining in harmony on the refrains, or adding a few words of his own to the links between the songs. One senses a rare rapport between the two of them and a fervent wish from the audience that they will return before too long. http://musicaltheatrereview.com/barb-jungr-john-mcdaniel-float-like-a-butterfly-the-sting-collection-the-pheasantry/

Personnel: Vocals, Harmonica – Barb Jungr; Vocals, Piano – John McDaniel

Float Like a Butterfly:The Songs of Sting

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Mari Wilson - Pop Deluxe

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:13
Size: 125,0 MB
Art: Front

(0:56)  1. Island of Dreams (Intro)
(3:53)  2. Always Something There to Remind Me
(3:33)  3. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
(4:48)  4. The Look of Love
(4:33)  5. Don't Sleep in the Subway
(4:41)  6. You're My World
(7:06)  7. 24 Hours from Tulsa
(4:32)  8. In Private
(3:45)  9. White Horses
(3:39) 10. Anyone Who Had a Heart
(4:37) 11. I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
(4:54) 12. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
(3:10) 13. Island of Dreams

2016 album from the British vocalist. Regarded by many as one of the UK's best pop singers and interpreters of songs, Mari Wilson (aka The Neasden Queen Of Soul) is releasing an album in which she brings her own unique take to some classic pop songs from British icons including Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw and Cilla Black. The inspiration for Pop Deluxe came from Mari's memories of growing up, listening over and over to these songs on the Dansette in her bedroom whilst daydreaming of one day being on Top Of The Pops herself. Each of the chosen songs means something truly personal to Mari. Her decision to sing the 'White Horses' TV theme is firmly rooted in her childhood: "This song is almost in my DNA. When I would come home from school, my dad and I would always do the Evening News crossword and watch The White Horses TV Show - the theme tune would send shivers down my spine and still does. " 

~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Pop-Deluxe-Mari-Wilson/dp/B01C68SMY4

Pop Deluxe

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Jacqui Hicks with the John Critchinson Trio - A Child Is Born

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:39
Size: 135,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:09)  1. All Or Nothing At All
(4:51)  2. She's Leaving Home
(4:54)  3. Monday Monday
(4:25)  4. I Only Have Eyes For You
(4:20)  5. Autumn Nocturne
(4:19)  6. Wonderful Tonight
(3:56)  7. It Ain't Necessarily So
(3:57)  8. Crazy
(4:30)  9. Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
(2:58) 10. A Child Is Born
(5:40) 11. The Nearness Of You
(6:07) 12. The Frim Fram Sauce
(4:26) 13. For All We Know

Great vocal jazz album from Jacqui Hicks, alongside pianist John Critchinson and special guests trumpeter Martin Shaw and saxophonist Bobby Wellins. Vocalist Jacqui Hicks and pianist John Critchinson have been working together for some 10 years in quartet and duet formats and they share the same quest for quality of music and song arrangements. In 2002, Jacqui joined John's trio of Dave Green and Tristan Mailliot and have been working world wide ever since.

Personnel: Jacqui Hicks (vocals), John Critchinson (piano), Dave Green (double bass), Tristan Mailliot (drums) with guests: Martin Shaw (trumpet & flugelhorn), Bobby Wellins (tenor saxophone)

A Child Is Born

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Jacqui Hicks with the John Critchinson Trio - With A Song In My Heart

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:23
Size: 136,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. This Can't Be Love
(5:04)  2. When Sunny Gets Blue
(4:59)  3. Love For Sale
(4:53)  4. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
(4:18)  5. You Taught My Heart To Sing
(4:00)  6. Night & Day
(4:10)  7. Ticket To Everywhere
(1:24)  8. The Very Thought Of You
(5:10)  9. With A Song In My Heart
(4:41) 10. Invitation
(3:39) 11. (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
(4:39) 12. Where Is Love?
(4:00) 13. That's All
(4:41) 14. Beautiful Love (Live)

Born Featherstone, Yorkshire, England. As a child, Hicks began playing on the recorder before graduating to the clarinet on which she studied classical music. She also played tenor saxophone for a while. Her musical tastes inclined towards the jazzier end of the current pop spectrum, including musicians such as George Benson and Earth, Wind And Fire. At the age of 18 Hicks attended the Leeds College of Music where she was encouraged by Bill Charleson. She sang with the college band, with Brian Layton’s funk band, and with John Brown’s Student Bodies. After Leeds, she went to the Guildhall School of Music in London. In 1989 she sang occasionally with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the following year joined the band on a regular basis. In 1992 she joined and toured the world with jazz funk band Shakatak. Also in the 90s Hicks began a solo career. She has composed songs, including ‘Just A Breath Away’, which she recorded with NYJO. Hicks is a skilled yet unfussy singer with charm and intelligence. https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/with-a-song-in-my-heart/212755890

Personnel:  Jacqui Hicks (vo);  John Critchinson (p);  Dave Green (b);  Tristan Mailliot (ds);  Martin Shaw (tp, flh on 3 tunes);  Tina May (vo on 1 tune)

With A Song In My Heart

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Danny Moss, Roy Williams Quintet - Steamers!

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:09
Size: 173,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:17)  1. Just In Time
(7:39)  2. It's Allright With Me
(5:40)  3. Them There Eyes
(4:57)  4. Too Late Now
(4:36)  5. It's A Wonderful World
(5:58)  6. Li'l Darlin'
(5:24)  7. You're My Everything
(3:46)  8. Isn't It Romantic
(6:48)  9. There Is No Greater Love
(4:38) 10. Mood Indigo
(6:06) 11. Hiya
(8:15) 12. Blues To Be There
(4:58) 13. I've Found A New Baby

Britisher Danny Moss and long time side kick, Roy Williams, with their group carry on in the tradition of small group swing recalling those great combos led by John Kirby, Charlie Shavers, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton and many, many others. The Moss/Williams quintet takes us on a stroll through 13 tunes, all but two of them oft-heard standards. The other two tracks, Johnny Hodges' "Hiya" and Duke Ellington's "Blues to Be". The Ellington tune is from his and Billy Strayhorn's "Newport Suite" which they prepared for the 1958 edition of that festival. Moss, until he retired, was a mainstay of the British jazz scene since the 1950's and has performed with many US jazzers when they visited that part of the world. His approach to the tenor sax has been influenced by the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. The co-leader of the Quintet, trombonist, Roy Williams, is also a jazz veteran starting his professional career in 1960, and over the years has developed a reputation as an unsurpassed sight reader. His trombone recalls the great ones, Carl Fontana, Frank Rosolino and Lawrence Brown. The other members of the quintet, John Pearce on piano, Len Skeat on bass and Charly Antolini on drums have the task of backing Moss and Williams, which they do with fervor and skill. There's nothing earth shattering on this disk, nor do I suspect was there any intention that there should be. 

The album features comfortable and versatile playing in slow, medium and up tempos for the ensemble work and for Moss' and Williams' solos. Pearce and Skeat are given the opportunity to showcase their wares on a pleasant medium tempo "You're My Everything". "Isn't It Romantic" features Williams playing trombone in the style of Frank Rosolino. Danny Moss' tenor turns sultry and the Williams trombone assumes a languid tone on a very slowly navigated "L'il Darlin'". "Just in Time"," I've Found a New Baby" and "There Is No Greater Love" are given a spirited, but not frantic, reading. Moss and Williams combine for a moving version of "Mood Indigo". They kick off the tune together and then each takes an extended solo with some knowledgeable and sophisticated improvisions on the theme of this lovely tune. Steamers! is an album you'll pull out after a hard day at the office, on the freeway or when entertaining in an intimate setting. This one is recommended. ~ Dave Nathan https://www.allaboutjazz.com/steamers-danny-moss-review-by-dave-nathan.php

Personnel: Danny Moss - Tenor Saxophone; Roy Williams - Trombone; John Pearce - Piano; Len Skeat - Bass; Charly Antolini - Drums

Steamers!

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Barb Jungr - Every Grain Of Sand

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:18
Size: 145,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:06)  1. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
(3:09)  2. If Not For You
(4:57)  3. Things Have Changed
(3:14)  4. Ring Them Bells
(4:36)  5. Not Dark Yet
(4:37)  6. Don't Think Twice
(3:29)  7. Is Your Love In Vain
(4:10)  8. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
(3:13)  9. I Want You
(7:40) 10. Sugar Baby
(3:10) 11. Born In Time
(3:58) 12. What Good Am I
(5:33) 13. Tangled Up In Blue
(2:57) 14. Forever Young
(4:22) 15. Every Grain Of Sand

Every Grain of Sand is a breathtaking revelation on several fronts. First, Barb Jungr treats Bob Dylan as one of the great tunesmiths of the American popular tradition. Not merely as rock & roll's preeminent songwriter, the direction from which virtually all others have approached his canon, but as a sophisticated composer the equal of the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, or Cole Porter. Jungr dramatically re-reads that canon and she fearlessly reshapes it in the process. To cite the most radical instances, she turns "Things Have Changed" into an Eastern European jig and "Tangled up in Blue" into a jaunty, jazzy western, while "Born in Time" is a marvel full of Baroque voicings. One may quibble and Dylan fanatics, known to be provincial on occasion, certainly will, perhaps vociferously with an arrangement here or a lyrical interpretation or subtle shading there without and here is the magic of the album in the least invalidating the singer's choices. Indeed, part of the sublime beauty of Every Grain of Sand is that it inspires, even challenges, one to make personal revisions and reinterpretations. Ultimately, Jungr is one of the few artists who has managed to not only come out on the other side of this songbook unscathed, but to actually come out having enhanced its gravity, significance, and unvarnished beauty as well as her own. She is not merely singing, but telling stories. She opens up a window of vulnerability and sensuality that had previously sat stoic beneath the surface of these songs and suffuses them with such a delicate, gauzy luminosity that they seem to glow from the inside out. Her singing is soulful and emotionally naked, and the performances are so expressive that you take something new away with each listen. The treasures ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," "Ring Them Bells," "Not Dark Yet," "Is Your Love in Vain?," and "What Good Am I?") tucked away here are endlessly rewarding. If you think you've heard Bob Dylan or Barb Jungr before Every Grain of Sand, you are, simply put, mistaken. ~ Stanton Swihart https://www.allmusic.com/album/every-grain-of-sand-mw0000661771

Personnel:  Barb Jungr - vocals, harmonica;  Simon Wallace - piano (tracks 1-3, 5-8, 10-12, 14-15);  Russell Churney - piano (tracks 4, 9, 13);  Mark Lockheart - saxophone;  Kim Burton - accordion;  Sonya Fairburn - violin;  Sonia Oakes Stuart - cello;  Julie Walkington - double bass;  Gary Hammond - percussion

Every Grain Of Sand

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Eddie Calvert - The Forgotten Tracks

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:55
Size: 177,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:45)  1. Cry My Heart
(2:17)  2. Spellbound
(2:50)  3. Mystery St
(2:48)  4. Montparnasse
(2:45)  5. Midnight
(2:16)  6. Almost Paradise
(2:31)  7. Cossak Patrol
(2:46)  8. The Man I Love
(2:42)  9. Esther
(2:31) 10. The Rumpty Tumpty Melody
(2:26) 11. Tipsy Tune
(1:57) 12. Turkish Patrol
(2:16) 13. Americano
(2:35) 14. Trumpet Cha Cha Cha
(2:20) 15. Cha Cha In The Rain
(2:35) 16. Angelina
(2:24) 17. Julia
(2:07) 18. Song Of Venice
(2:42) 19. Morgen
(2:18) 20. Gillie
(2:25) 21. Till We Meet Again
(3:29) 22. Wonderland By Night
(2:07) 23. Trumpet Twist
(2:43) 24. Quando Quando Quando
(2:09) 25. Letkiss Jenka
(2:58) 26. Buona Sera (Signorina)
(2:04) 27. Mama (Non Mi Sgridare Piu)
(2:38) 28. Dream Baby
(3:17) 29. Il Silenzio

Eddie Calvert, known as the man with the golden trumpet, was born in Preston, Lancashire on the 15th March 1922 as Albert Edward Calvert. As a child he was exposed to his family's love of brass band music and he learned to play many brass instruments but concentrated on the trumpet. He joined the Preston Town Silver Band at the age of 11 but the war interrupted his musical career and by the late 1940s he returned to play in various amateur brass bands, eventually moving to the professional circuit with the dance bands Geraldo and Billy Ternet. Going solo, he appeared on TV with the Stanley Black Orchestra. He signed to the Columbia label, part of the EMI group and released an instrumental trumpet version of the German song Oh Mein Papa which had most famously been covered in English as Oh My Papa by Eddie Fisher. Calvert's instrumental easily won the chart battle in the UK and it remained at no.1 for nine weeks at the beginning of 1954. Over a year later he was involved in another chart battle for supremacy with the song Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White and this time it was much closer with both his and a very similar trumpet version by Perez Prado reaching no.1 in the Spring of 1955. Several other hits followed including a version of Stranger In Paradise, John And Julie and Mandy, while Little Serenade was his final hit in June 1958. When the 1960s provided no change of fortune, Calvert moved away to settle in South Africa where he lived out the remainder of his life, dying on the 7th of August 1978. 

~ Sharon Mewer https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-calvert-mn0000793645

The Forgotten Tracks

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Eddie Calvert - Tulips From Amsterdam

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:49
Size: 90,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:23)  1. My Love
(2:08)  2. Zambesi
(3:26)  3. Rock Me On A Reinbow
(3:31)  4. Loneliness
(3:01)  5. Mistral
(2:56)  6. Oh,mein Paps
(3:25)  7. If You Wanna See Me Agein
(2:09)  8. Cherry Pink And Apple
(3:08)  9. Plesse Love
(2:39) 10. Nostalgia
(4:36) 11. Sauselito
(3:21) 12. Tulips From Amsterdam

Eddie Calvert, known as the man with the golden trumpet, was born in Preston, Lancashire on the 15th March 1922 as Albert Edward Calvert. As a child he was exposed to his family's love of brass band music and he learned to play many brass instruments but concentrated on the trumpet. He joined the Preston Town Silver Band at the age of 11 but the war interrupted his musical career and by the late 1940s he returned to play in various amateur brass bands, eventually moving to the professional circuit with the dance bands Geraldo and Billy Ternet. Going solo, he appeared on TV with the Stanley Black Orchestra. He signed to the Columbia label, part of the EMI group and released an instrumental trumpet version of the German song Oh Mein Papa which had most famously been covered in English as Oh My Papa by Eddie Fisher. Calvert's instrumental easily won the chart battle in the UK and it remained at no.1 for nine weeks at the beginning of 1954. Over a year later he was involved in another chart battle for supremacy with the song Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White and this time it was much closer with both his and a very similar trumpet version by Perez Prado reaching no.1 in the Spring of 1955. Several other hits followed including a version of Stranger In Paradise, John And Julie and Mandy, while Little Serenade was his final hit in June 1958. When the 1960s provided no change of fortune, Calvert moved away to settle in South Africa where he lived out the remainder of his life, dying on the 7th of August 1978. 

~ Sharon Mawer https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-calvert-mn0000793645

Personnel:  Eddie Calvert - Trumpet;  Francis Goya - guitar;  Yvan De Souter - bass guitar;  Guy Delo - keyboards;  Jean-Pierre Onredt - drums;  Patricia Mersen - vocals

Tulips From Amsterdam

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Jenny Evans - At Lloyd's

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:40
Size: 120,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:04)  1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
(3:30)  2. How High The Moon
(4:52)  3. Stormy Weather
(4:24)  4. Lullaby Of Birdland
(4:12)  5. The Lady Is A Tramp
(3:34)  6. I've Got You Under My Skin
(3:06)  7. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(5:50)  8. Take The A-Train
(4:03)  9. Night And Day
(3:29) 10. Sweet Georgia Brown
(5:46) 11. Summertime
(5:45) 12. Route 66

Born in London, England, in the outskirts of Beckenham, Jenny Evans is an accomplished entertainer in multiple fields. Most recognized as a jazz singer, she's also worked as an actress and lyricist, and at one time ran her own jazz club, Jenny's Place. She's appeared in films, commercials, German TV series, stage musicals, and plays. Born in 1954, Evans moved to Munich, Germany in 1976 to study music and teaching English as a second language. While working toward her degree, she became the lead singer of a band called Old Socks New Shoes. The ragtime numbers they were performing slowly shifted toward classic jazz. Though her recording repertoire spans original tunes and classics ranging from Gershwin to the Beatles, her sultry voice and supple delivery encourage jazz renditions. In 1988, Evans released her debut album, Whisper Not, with ESM Records and Bell Music. The same labels issued At Lloyd's, featuring the Rudi Martini Quartet, in 1993. Her 1997 LP Shiny Stockings arrived via Enja Records, which also released 1999's swing-era celebration Girl Talk, 2001's Gonna Go Fishin', and 2004's Nuages. Keeping busy between recordings with appearances at clubs, festivals, and on tours through Europe, Germany, Australia, Russia, and Japan, she released Christmas Songs in late 2005. With Evans still collaborating with drummer Rudi Martini, Lunar Tunes followed on Enja in 2008. Evans returned to ESM Records and, working with a backing band that included woodwinds specialist Felix Sapotnik and bassist Sven Faller, released Are You the Man? A New Peter Kreuder Song Book in 2010 and The Four Seasons of Love in 2011. She took on British pop/rock, including hits by the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, and Sting, for 2016's Be What You Want to Be, released by Edition Collage. ~ Marcy Donelson & Charlotte Dillon https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/at-lloyds-live/264518219

Personnel:  Jenny Evans (vocal);  Gerry Friedrich (ts, cl);  Otto Weiss (p);  Branko Pejakovic (b);  Rudi Martini (dr)

At Lloyd's

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Robbie Williams - The Heavy Entertainment Show

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:13
Size: 143,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:22)  1. The Heavy Entertainment Show
(3:02)  2. Party Like a Russian
(3:58)  3. Mixed Signals
(3:28)  4. Love My Life
(4:17)  5. Motherfucker
(3:13)  6. Bruce Lee
(3:16)  7. Sensitive
(4:14)  8. David's Song
(2:55)  9. Pretty Woman
(4:25) 10. Hotel Crazy (with Rufus Wainwright)
(3:47) 11. Sensational
(4:20) 12. When You Know
(4:51) 13. Time On Earth
(4:19) 14. I Don't Want to Hurt You (with John Grant)
(3:44) 15. Best Intentions
(3:53) 16. Marry Me

The Heavy Entertainment Show is the eleventh studio album by English recording artist Robbie Williams. It was released on 4 November 2016 through Columbia Records. In May 2016, it was announced that Robbie Williams had signed a recording contract with Sony Music. Robbie Williams said in statement: "They're [Sony Music] inspired, I'm inspired. I'm more ready than I ever have been and I'm totally convinced I'm in the right place. I look forward to working on this album, which is an album I'm immensely proud of, in this exciting new partnership with Sony Music." The track "Mixed Signals" features all four members of the American alternative rock band the Killers performing all the instruments, as well as writing the song. The album was announced on 25 September 2016, and the same day the album's title track "Heavy Entertainment Show" was released on Spotify and as an "instant grat" through iTunes Store. The album's first official single, "Party Like a Russian", was released on 30 September 2016. The second single, "Love My Life", was released on 20 October 2016. 

On 7 November, Williams announced a concert tour titled The Heavy Entertainment Show Tour to promote the album. It began on 2 June 2017 in Manchester, England and is set to end in November 2018 in Mexico City. The Heavy Entertainment Show received a Metacritic score of 59 based on 9 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic was highly positive in his 4-star review, saying "Aptly titled, Williams is entertaining as ever, a consummate showman until the end. The album is a grab bag of ideas, darting here and there in its pursuit of a hit. However, this isn't too much of a distraction, Mr Entertainment and his bombast do not disappoint. The Heavy Entertainment Show is his most invigorated album in years, a truer return to the pop realm than Take the Crown. Here, Williams dresses up his antics in expert production with plenty of cheekiness to spare." Kitty Empire from The Observer gave a mixed three-star review stating, "Cheek, swagger and schmaltz, the tunes that could only come from Williams make this record entertaining, if a little groan worthy. The could-be-anybody songs just don’t stick in the memory." Tim Jonze from The Guardian gave a negative two-star review and said, "A lurching mess of styles, it lurches from one thing to the next, be that MOR balladry, glam rock or orchestral show tunes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heavy_Entertainment_Show

The Heavy Entertainment Show (Deluxe)

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Jane McDonald - Cruising With Jane McDonald

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:55
Size: 116,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Club Tropicana
(4:16)  2. Caledonia
(4:24)  3. Vienna
(3:41)  4. Let It Go
(3:56)  5. The Winner Takes It All
(3:44)  6. Cuba
(2:32)  7. Mambo Italiano
(3:59)  8. Lost In France
(3:45)  9. It's Oh So Quiet
(5:37) 10. (Something Inside) So Strong
(2:42) 11. California Dreamin'
(4:27) 12. Proud Mary
(3:07) 13. Step Back In Time

One of the U.K.'s first successful reality TV recording artists, cabaret singer Jane McDonald became an overnight sensation after appearing in BBC docu-soap The Cruise. Born in Wakefield in 1963, McDonald started her singing career performing at various workingmen's clubs across the North of England, employing her father as her roadie. After working as an entertainer on several cruise ships, she retired from the business for nine months until a call from her agent persuaded her to take up one final job, a residency on The Galaxy. Coincidentally, the BBC was filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the day-to-day running of the cruise liner and asked McDonald if she would like to appear. Thanks to her down to earth nature and Northern sense of humor, she became the show's biggest star, and following its huge ratings success, she was signed to Focus Records. In 1998, her self-titled debut album reached number one in the U.K. charts, where it stayed for three weeks; she performed a sold-out show at the London Palladium, and her televised marriage to Henrik Brixen attracted 14 million viewers. In 2000, she returned with second album Inspiration (number six) and became a TV presenter for the BBC, fronting both The National Lottery and Star for a Night, a talent show which helped launch Joss Stone. A year later, her third album, Love at the Movies, reached number 24 and she appeared in the West End production of Romeo and Juliet: The Musical. In 2005, she released her fourth album, You Belong to Me (number 21) and became a regular panelist on ITV chat show Loose Women. In 2008, following an appearance on a program revisiting the stars of The Cruise, her fifth studio album, Jane, saw her return to the Top Ten for the first time in eight years and she embarked on a sold-out theater tour across the U.K. In 2014, she released the album Singer of Your Song, and the same year embarked on a tour in support of the album. Two years later the singer launched the Making Memories tour, and the popularity of the performance extended the show's run into 2017. That same year, McDonald released her seventh album. Hold the Covers Back featured original material, and a guest spot from Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley. ~ Jon O'Brien https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cruising-with-jane-mcdonald/1387824485

Thank You Dave! 

Cruising With Jane McDonald

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Robin Phillips - Old Street, New Groove

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:14
Size: 103.6 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. It Ain't Necessarily So (Feat. Gareth Lumbers)
[3:30] 2. Just One Of Those Things (Feat. Neil Penny)
[3:44] 3. Cry Me A River
[3:42] 4. But Not For Me
[5:08] 5. God Bless The Child (Feat. Gareth Lumbers)
[6:04] 6. My Foolish Heart (Feat. Tony Royle)
[3:44] 7. Woman (Lover Man)
[3:46] 8. Fever (Feat. Kirsty Jarvis)
[2:52] 9. This Can't Be Love
[5:27] 10. It's Probably Me (Feat. Sarah Ellen Hughes)
[4:04] 11. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

This album is the result of the many varied experiences I have had in my professional life over the past five years as a jazz singer, pianist, and band-leader. The last four of these years have been spent living and working as a full-time performer in central London. The arrangements, feelings, and grooves reflect my experiences both on and off stage living in London: one of the most vibrant and eclectic cities in the world.

I must first and foremost thank all the musicians who collaborated with me on this album; especially Claire and Vilem who continue to be a huge support to my career. The marvellous guest musicians who performed on this CD really helped to take the album to a new level and I am eternally grateful for their involvement. This album is dedicated to everyone mourning the loss of Esbjörn Svensson (Esbjörn Svensson Trio / EST); may we continue to celebrate his life and music.

Robin Phillips is one of London's top male jazz singer/pianists performing most days of the week across the captial. As well as an arranger and performer Robin is also a bandleader of various ensembles, including the Robin Phillips Trio and Pinstripe Suit six-piece swing band. Robin is also a performer and founder member of duel-vocal jazz group Kir Royal Trio and jazz/poetry collective The Jehane Markham Trio.

Old Street, New Groove mc
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