Kyle Eastwood - Metropolitain

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:24
Size: 122,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:35)  1. Metropolitain
(4:53)  2. Bold Changes
(5:01)  3. Hot Box
(6:10)  4. Black Light
(4:33)  5. Bel Air
(7:22)  6. Samba de Paris
(3:24)  7. Song For You
(5:07)  8. Rue Perdue
(4:52)  9. Le Balai
(5:22) 10. Live for Life

Recorded in Paris, Kyle Eastwood's Metropolitain achieves an original jazz sound that combines the tradition of his father, Clint's record collection with a new generation of influences. He hasn't fallen prey to any gimmicks of style and is carving out his own musical voice with elements that combine to appeal to a broad audience. Anyone who has seen a movie recently will realize that modern jazz remains a big partner in bringing emotions to life. Eastwood and writing partner Michael Stevens have contributed to the scores for several of Clint Eastwood's recent films; among them: Changeling (2008), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and Gran Torino (2008). Don't get the idea that Kyle Eastwood is merely riding on his father's coattails. He paid his dues while living in the Los Angeles area for several years and then New York and Paris. Playing live gigs has given the young bassist and composer a wealth of experience upon which he rides comfortably on Metropolitain. The hottest tracks feature Eastwood on electric bass with plenty of energy kickin' around. He solos comfortably on both electric and acoustic models, showing enthusiasm for the creative spirit that derives from a lifetime of listening. "Live for Life," "Rue Perdue" and "Le Balai" stand out as the album's most creative tracks. With trumpet and piano trading fours on "Samba de Paris," Eastwood leads with majestic bass lines that tell a story of celebration and festivities. "Black Light" runs amok in 5/4 part of the time, representing an adventure that sends chills up and down the spine. "Hot Box" sends out a rhythmic message about jazz in today's entertainment world where instrumental music can tell a story completely, conveying an attitude faster than visual images. Metropolitain has one track with lyrics. "Live for Life" allows vocalist Camille to express a poignant message of wishes fulfilled; take interest in yourself and live life as you please. She also raps a chorus in the song's midsection, emphasizing the central thought forcefully. Eastwood's music allows impressions to exist clearly, with a full-body experience that lives on through his jazz ideas. ~ Jim Santella https://www.allaboutjazz.com/metropolitain-kyle-eastwood-candid-records-review-by-jim-santella.php

Personnel: Kyle Eastwood: double bass (2, 5, 6), electric bass (1-4, 7-10); Manu Katche: drums (1, 3, 6-10); Franck Agulhon: drums (2, 4, 5); Till Bronner: trumpet (1, 2, 4, 6-10); Graeme Blevins: tenor saxophone (2, 4, 8, 10); Eric Legnini: piano (1, 5-7), electric piano (1); Andrew McCormack: piano (2, 3), electric piano (2-4, 7-10), organ (4, 9); Camille: vocals (1, 10).

Metropolitain

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Eric Le Lann Acoustic Quartet - Today I Fell In Love

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:53
Size: 165,5 MB
Art: Front

( 9:01)  1. Today, I Fell In Love
( 5:47)  2. Unknown Tower
( 6:35)  3. Is It Wonderland
( 9:55)  4. My Funny Valentine
( 7:05)  5. Le Bleu D'Hortense
( 9:23)  6. 429 Rue Paradis
(11:50)  7. I Fall In Love Too Easily
( 7:13)  8. So What
( 2:55)  9. The Theme
( 1:04) 10. Lola

Born in Brittany , Éric Le Lann moved to Paris in 1977, where he began his career as a professional musician. In 1979 he won the first prize in the national jazz competition of La Défense in Paris . At the age of 11, Eric Le Lann appeared on stage along with Bill Coleman , Claude Luter , and Stephane Grapelli , and was already playing with professional insurance. In April 1978, at the age of 20, he recorded his first LP, Jazz West Coast , Jazz Group of Brittany alongside Christian Hillion (saxophone), Pierre Goasguen (trombone), René Goae (piano), Gilles Gourmelon and Yvon Le Guen (bass) and Philippe Briand (drums), recorded at the Jazz Club La Potinière in Morgat (29) on the initiative of Gérard Le Bourdiec , manager of the establishment. Lann was influenced by Clifford Brown . He performed in René Urtreger's quintet alongside Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano and Jean Louis Chautemps , as well as with the quartet of Henri Texier with Bernard Lubat on drums . He also toured with Henri Salvador , as well as with Bernard Lavilliers (he appears in his live triple disc, Live Tour 80 ). He made a series of concerts with Pepper Adams in 1981 and then joined Patrice Caratini's onztet as well as Martial Solal's big band, where he participated in many jazz festivals in Europe ( The Hague , Prague , Pori , Montreux , Berlin ). He then went on to produce his own quartet with André Ceccarelli , Cesarius Alvim and Olivier Hutman in 1982. The following year he was awarded the Django-Reinhardt Prize by the Jazz Academy and participated in the European Radio Festival in Stockholm . He joins the trio Texier - Jeanneau - Humair during a tour in India . In 1985 he plays in the film of Bertrand Tavernier Around midnight with Dexter Gordon , Herbie Hancock and Billy Higgins . At the same time, he composed the music of Didier Haudepin Elsa, Elsa with François Cluzet and Lio , and then the music of Benoît Jacquot's film Corps et biens with Lambert Wilson and Dominique Sanda . 

He recorded the album I Mist You in quartet with Tony Rabeson on drums and performed in different festivals (Nice, Porto, Lisbon, Nancy, Paris, etc.). In 1989, he created a jazz fusion orchestra, including Louis Winsberg on guitar, Paco Séry on drums and then in New York recording with Mike Stern , Eddie Gómez and Mino Cinelu on New York . Many concerts will take place in France, Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Bali) and in India, Nepal, Algeria, Morocco before recording a disc of songs of Édith Piaf and Charles Trenet with an orchestra composed of 35 musicians, arranged by Martial Solal . From 1992 to 1995, he performed with various ensembles in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) in West Africa (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Togo, Benin) Southern Africa (Rwanda, Mauritius, Seychelles, Abidjan) in Israel (Eilat festival, Tel Aviv) and in Portugal and France. He has been performing since 1998 in duet with Martial Solal, in quintet with Archie Shepp or with his own quartet. With him he played at the European festival in New-Dehli and then a series of concerts in India and the Middle East (Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Jordan). He composed in 1999 the music of the film of Gilles Bourdos Disparus with Anouk Grinberg , then the music of a documentary of Valérie Stroh on Simone de Beauvoir for France 3 in a century of writer. He plays as soloist in the soundtrack composed by Martial Solal of the film of Bertrand Blier The Actors . He founded and directed the École de création musicale in Rennes, then moved it to Dinan in 2003. He participates in the album of Henri Salvador Room with view . In 2001, he participated in the festivals of Abidjan and Tunis with Archie Shepp as well as many concerts in duet with Martial Solal . He participated in the play of Jean-Bernard Pouy 54 × 13 with the actor Jacques Bonnaffé , given at the theater of the Bastille . In June 2001, he won the Critics' Grand Prize for Best Stage Musical Composition of the Year. He composes and arranges Origines , a work for 25 musicians at the Inter Celtic festival in Lorient, which he performed on 3 August 2002, recorded in 2004 with Manu Lann Huel and Marthe Vassallo . In 2007, the year of his fifty years, released Le Lann Top , published on the label Nocturne , fusion of jazz and electro . It is the result of a meeting between the trumpet of Le Lann and rock bass Jannick Top , joined by Lionel Loueke on guitar and Damien Schmitt on drums. In 2007 and 2008, the Lann Top quartet performed on numerous stages, supported by samples and sequences managed by Fabien Colella , the fifth man in the band. Guitarists such as Jim Grandcamp , Jean-Marie Ecay and Nelson Veras , and drummers Damien Schmitt and Thierry Arpino are joined by the two leaders. In 2013, he paid tribute to Chet Baker , and recorded I Remember Chet , along with Nelson Veras and Gildas Boclé , using the trumpet-guitar-double bass trio formula Chet Baker was particularly fond of at the end of his career. In 2015, he released the album Life on Mars with Paul Lay , Sylvain Romano and Donald Kontomanou , he was awarded the Charles Cros Academy Award.

Personnel:  Eric Le Lann (trumpet), Jean-pierre Arnaud (drums), Eric Legnini (piano), Rémi Vignolo (bass),

Today I Fell In Love

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Kellylee Evans - I Remember When

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:07
Size: 106,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:24)  1. My Name Is
(3:48)  2. I Remember When
(3:20)  3. Désolé
(3:45)  4. And So We Dance
(3:45)  5. If I Was Your Woman
(5:42)  6. Lose Yourself
(3:27)  7. Only You
(4:07)  8. Jungle
(4:18)  9. Ordinary People
(3:16) 10. You Got Me
(4:45) 11. Amazing
(2:25) 12. High

For Kellylee Evans fans in her native Canada (and those south of the 49th parallel willing to pay big bucks for import CDs), I Remember When is nothing new. Fifteen months after its Canadian release, the album has finally made its domestic arrival. And patience has its virtues: The U.S. version deletes two of the weaker tracks and adds three stronger originals. Though the disc follows on the heels of Evans’ album-length tribute to Nina Simone, it is closer in sound, spirit and energy to her jazz-soul gem Fight or Flight? from 2007. But scratch the “jazz.” Evans is now a full-fledged soul singer with freshly sharpened hip-hop influences. The album’s backward-glancing title seems odd. With the exception of a wrenching reading of Gladys Knight’s “If I Were Your Woman,” this is a dynamically forward-looking Evans. For additional covers, she draws on an intriguing cross-section of contemporary songwriters, offsetting a caffeinated treatment of Stromae’s “Alors on danse” and astute reading of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” with a prowling take on Kanye West’s “Amazing” and a gorgeous rendition of John Legend’s “Ordinary People.” The eight remaining tracks, all originals, range from the keen self-actualization of “My Name Is” and survivalist fire of “Jungle” to the clever romanticism of the A Tribe Called Quest-inspired list song “You Got Me.” Most impressive, though, is one of the newly added tracks, “Built to Fly,” an homage to the superheroes within us all, artfully built atop Dr. Dre’s “Big Ego’s.”~ Christopher Loudon http://jazztimes.com/articles/138259-i-remember-when-kellylee-evans

Personnel:  Kellylee Evans – vocals;  Eric Legnini - piano, keys, Wurlitzer, compositions;  Boris Pocora - saxophones, flute, bass clarinet;  Raphael Debacker – piano;  Eric Löhrer – guitar;  Sylvain Romano – bass;  Fabrice Moreau – drums;  Stephane Belmondo - bass trumpet, flugelhorn;  Stephane Edouard - percussions

I Remember When

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Eric Legnini - Rhythm Sphere

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:59
Size: 126,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:48)  1. Prima Vista
(7:46)  2. Duke Ellington Sound of Love
(3:07)  3. The Sorcerer
(5:17)  4. For Jan
(2:10)  5. Rhythm Sphere
(6:12)  6. You Don't Know What Love Is
(8:00)  7. Mr The Hipster
(8:18)  8. Inner Urge
(6:17)  9. Le Jardin des Sables

The brainchild of Belgium's most accomplished pianist, jazz outfit the Eric Legnini Trio achieved success across Europe with their acoustic take on various Great American Songbook standards. Born in Huy in 1970, Eric Legnini began playing the piano at age six and, after becoming a teacher of jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the '90s, teamed up with saxophonist Jacques Pelzer to record the debut album Never Let Me Go. Legnini spent the next two decades balancing his own recording career with performing with the likes of Toots Thielemans, Flavio Boltro, and Stefano di Battista before teaming up with bassist Thomas Bramerie and drummer Franck Agulhon in 2012 to record the covers album Ballads under the guise of the Eric Legnini Trio. ~ Jon O’Brien  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-legnini-trio-mn0002890716

Personnel:  Eric Legnini (Piano);  Philippe Aerts (Double Bass);  Joe Lovano (Saxophone);  Félix Simtaine (Drums).

Rhythm Sphere

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Eric Legnini Trio - Miss Soul

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:36
Size: 127,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:26)  1. The Memphis Dude
(3:46)  2. Sugar Ray
(4:00)  3. Home Sweet Soul
(4:49)  4. For all we know
(4:44)  5. Joga
(4:02)  6. Horace Vorace
(5:28)  7. La Strada
(3:56)  8. Miss Soul
(3:32)  9. Daahoud
(5:42) 10. Prelude to a kiss
(4:28) 11. Back Home
(7:41) 12. Lisbon Stomp

Eric Trio Legnigni Soul Miss a Cd that sounds black, the first sense of soul and groove high dose blown. Anchored in jazz blue notes issued by a trio in a deliberately swing angle: admit that today in the orbit of a jazz label Europeanized, keyboard particular issue, we had more or less lost the habit . Belgian pianist revealed in the orchestra of Stefano Di Battista, known as accompanist especially, has just recorded the first album released under his name in the hexagon. The opportunity to prove an undeniable expertise on square binary constructions in the manner of a Horace Silver (Home Sweet Soul). Yet the choice of themes between past and standard song today (Joga Bjork revamped) used as the basis (a delicate touch on innervated ballads blues) indicate a true adaptation talent and a sharpened sense of arrangement (he has already demonstrated with Claude Nougaro particular), Eric Legnini makes reference to both Eroll Garner as Herbie Hanckok pays tribute to Phineas Newborn (Sugar Ray and tasty bluesy version of Back Home). Pianistic personality should therefore be to understand all facets and a European trio first way (belgofranco-Italian) which has a maximum cohesion and a beautiful ensemble sound. If one believes the title Legnini chose to play on the soul spirit distilled in his female attire, with an elegance so-called swing better.

Right balance between groovy and evocations of the most introspective moments without the rhythmic vivacity is neglected. Legnini leads his listener's trio mates to a live jazz, lively, which was dated to be more relevant than the number of projects pioneering --The World There are more than listening to this album fly high once again and discover new shimmering ~ Classica Directory http://www.amazon.fr/Miss-Soul-Eric-Legnini-Trio/dp/B00DSYR5BC

Personnel:  Double Bass – Matthias Allamane (tracks: 1, 2, 12), Rosario Bonaccorso;  Drums – Franck Agulhon;  Piano – Eric Legnini

Miss Soul

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