Showing posts with label Ethel Waters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethel Waters. Show all posts

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Ethel Waters, Horace Silver Quintet - Break City

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:58
Size: 164.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[7:04] 1. Melancholy Mood
[3:02] 2. True Blue Lou
[2:41] 3. Do What You Did Last Night
[4:49] 4. The Baghdad Blues
[2:43] 5. Get Up Off Your Knees
[4:06] 6. The St. Vitus Dance
[3:00] 7. Travlin' All Alone
[3:23] 8. You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You
[3:10] 9. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
[3:14] 10. Porgy
[3:24] 11. St. Louis Blues
[5:59] 12. Peace
[6:15] 13. Sister Sadie
[3:17] 14. Love Is The Thing
[3:12] 15. Don't Blame Me
[2:57] 16. Shadows On The Swanee
[4:40] 17. Blowin' The Blues Away
[4:53] 18. Break City

Ethel Waters was a blues and jazz singer and dramatic actress whose singing, based in the blues tradition, featured her full-bodied voice and slow vibrato.

"From the perspective of the 21st century, it is clear that few jazz musicians had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had yet to be born when the music fell out of critical favor in the '60s and '70s.

Silver's earliest musical influence was the Cape Verdean folk music he heard from his Portuguese-born father. Later, after he had begun playing piano and saxophone as a high schooler, Silver came under the spell of blues singers and boogie-woogie pianists, as well as boppers like Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. In 1950, Stan Getz played a concert in Hartford, Connecticut, with a pickup rhythm section that included Silver, drummer Walter Bolden, and bassist Joe Calloway. So impressed was Getz, he hired the whole trio. Silver had been saving his money to move to New York anyway; his hiring by Getz sealed the deal." ~Chris Kelsey

Break City