Gordon Webster and Hetty Kate - Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:09
Size: 113,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. Button Up Your Overcoat
(2:57)  2. Blitzkrieg Baby
(3:50)  3. Peek-a-boo
(3:22)  4. Shoo Fly Pie & Apple Pan Dowdy
(2:40)  5. How D'ya Like to Love Me?
(4:16)  6. Eight, Nine & Ten
(3:06)  7. There's Frost On The Moon
(2:55)  8. Busy Line
(3:30)  9. Sweet Lover No More
(4:45) 10. I Wanna Be Around
(3:30) 11. Hard Hearted Hannah
(5:43) 12. Besame Mucho
(5:15) 13. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City

Celebrated ‘King of Swing’, New York pianist Gordon Webster, met Melbourne’s Hetty Kate on the bandstand at the swing dance event Jumptown Jam 2013.. amidst a crowded dance hall full of fast footwork, twirling skirts and dapper gentlemen. After this fateful meeting, and thanks to Swing Patrol Australia, Jumptown Swing and Australia's exuberant supportive dancers, Gordon and Hetty successfully fundraised and recorded an album in New York (Sept 2013). Well Gordon barely needs any introduction as he’s lauded as the number one pianist and bandleader for dancers, Gordon Webster regularly tours around the world, often invited to Europe and Asia as well as touring regularly across the USA. Drawing on influences as diverse as Fats Waller, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Gene Harris, Gordon passionately serves up a smorgasbord of styles unified by one characteristic.. irresistible danceability! Gordon has many albums on CDBaby, so make sure to search his name and check out all his music. Pure of tone, sweet sounding and dangerously infectious, Melbourne jazz vocalist Hetty Kate has built quite a career for herself and can often be seen singing for packed dance floors at lindy-hop and blues events around Australia. Born in England, raised in Australia and now based out of Paris Hetty performs as a jazz vocalist at clubs and festivals, and has released 9 albums of her own. "Like Peggy Lee on a Vespa" Marc Myers Jazzwax USA. Hetty also has a few other albums on CDBaby, so please check them out and visit her on facebook whilst you're here! Both Gordon and Hetty would like to thank all the generous supporters, and the welcoming swing community, it's a pleasure to play for you, and keep on dancing. We hope you like the album! https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gordonmeetshetty

Personnel:  Gordon Webster (piano) and Hetty Kate (voice)

Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate

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Hetty Kate - Kissing Bug EP

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 17:38
Size: 40.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. All Of You
[3:11] 2. You Turned The Tables On Me
[3:24] 3. Kissing Bug
[3:21] 4. As Long As I Live
[4:16] 5. Young At Heart

Hetty Kate sings a collection of five of her favourite standards, accompanied by New York Jazz Musicians: Art Hirahara (piano); Tal Ronen (double bass) and Dan Aran (drums). The 'Kissing Bug' EP showcases composers including Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Billy Strayhorn, all revisited and sung from the heart. No overdubs, recorded all in the one room.. the way jazz is meant to be.

Created one snowy afternoon in Brooklyn, NY in December 2009, this is a snapshot into Hetty's larger repertoire and the recording allows each musician to shine.. referencing a sound forged many years ago in the 40's and 50's jazz scene.

Kissing Bug

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The Irwell Street String Band - 11:60 PM

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 41:30

Size: 95.0 MB

Styles: Swing, Contemporary jazz vocals

Year: 2012

Art: Front

[2:43] 1. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart

[3:43] 2. 11 60pm

[3:21] 3. I Love You But I Don't Like You

[3:13] 4. Funny Funny Funny What A Dime Can Do

[2:29] 5. In A Little Spanish Town

[4:21] 6. Underneath The Arches

[3:33] 7. Elmer's Tune

[2:51] 8. Sing You Sinners

[2:52] 9. Riffin' The Scotch

[4:08] 10. You Came A Long Way From St Louis

[3:43] 11. I Go For That

[4:28] 12. The Bluest Kind Of Blue

The sweetest string band in town.. Irwell Street features two guitars, occasionally some ukulele, and of course swinging double bass, led by the delightfully vintage voiced jazz vocalist Hetty Kate.

We play sparkling, sentimental and sassy songs plucked from the scrapbooks of Tinseltown, the well trodden paths of wartime Britain and the colourful beaches of South America – songs you’ll remember, and songs you may not have heard before. Showcasing a beautiful repertoire from the 1930′s to the 1950′s, curated and arranged to be fresh and original, yet staying true to the memory of those that went before.

Always weaving a special magic when they play together, founding members Hetty Kate and Sam Lemann tip their caps to the popular jazz duo’s of the past.. Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour, Julie London and

Barney Kessell, Mary Ford and Les Paul. With two sell out albums under their belts and having performed all over the country, this band is worth a listen – guaranteed to have you smiling and tapping your feet!

11:60 PM

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Hetty Kate & The Twenty 20s - Uh!Oh!

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:50
Size: 105,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:01)  1. Uh!Oh!
(3:55)  2. Raining In My Heart
(4:41)  3. Hymn For Him
(7:00)  4. Clouds
(4:17)  5. I've Got Your Number
(3:48)  6. Workin' In A Coalmine
(5:03)  7. Black Coffee
(4:24)  8. Ever Fallen In Love
(4:37)  9. Close Your Eyes
(5:01) 10. Cellophane

Late summer 2011 has produced two off-piste jazz vocal gems. The first was CTI Masterworks' reissue of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral's A Wilder Alias (CTI, 1974). The second is Hetty Kate and The Twenty 20s' Uh! Oh!. The disc focuses, lovingly, on standards from the 1950s and laces them, bizarrely but immaculately, with vestigial psychedelia, electro-acoustica and surf twangadelica. The result sounds like a David Lynch movie looks, but with a warm embrace replacing Lynch's icy grip on the spine. For Uh! Oh!, Kate British born, Australia based, and until now better known for more straight-ahead performances of the standards songbook is accompanied by a quintet of Melbourne's finest, between them adept in swing, hard bop, lounge/exotica and rhythm-and-roots. Saxophonist Deal Hilson and trumpeter Vinnie Bourke deal out classic era Blue Note sounds with dashes of ska and Stax; bassist Steve Purcell (who also composed three of the album's four originals) and drummer Sharky Ramos keep things lithe and swinging. 

So far, so solid for a group accompanying a charismatic and technically gifted vocalist whose gorgeous timbre carries echoes of Peggy Lee, June Christy and Julie London. The genius instrumental ingredient, however the ace in the hand is tenor guitarist Dale Lindrea. The tenor guitar is a four-string instrument tuned in fifths, a structure which more or less necessitates unusual chord voicings and big interval jumps. To these Lindrea adds psychedelia, blues riffs, surf tropes, loops and a magic bag of electro-acoustic effects. When they first reach the ear, his counterpoints to Kate's vocals may sound startlingly, crazily strange, but, a nanosecond later, they reveal themselves as absolutely on song. It is reality, Jim, but not as we know it. Lindrea's lost in space contributions are empathetically framed by the band's arrangements and post-production. The album was recorded over about a year, all in one room, by Purcell, with tracks collectively reviewed and recalibrated as the project progressed. Instrumental textures were gently twisted, dub effects alluded to, layers added, instruments moved back and forth in the mix. In front of all this, Kate's vocals remained relatively untouched, and the tunes' original melodies and underlying chord progressions left pretty much alone. The effect is hyper-real, sophisticated and quietly, totally, out of its tree. 

The disc opens with the title track, a Top 40 hit in 1959 for scat-singing virtual band/animated cartoon The Nutty Squirrels, whose jazz-informed, speeded-up vocals narrowly predated The Chipmunks' poppier and, ultimately, more successful take on the gimmick. Surreal to start with, by the time The Twenty 20s are through with it rubbing surf guitar up against a Lee Morgan-like trumpet solo "Uh! Oh!" is doubly out there. Three other covers are of songs made totemic by Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan: Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's "I've Got Your Number," Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Webster's "Black Coffee"" and Bernice Petkere's "Close Your Eyes." There is a rock 'n' roll icon, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant's "Raining In My Heart;" a rhythm and blues classic, Allen Toussaint's "Workin' In A Coalmine;" and a British punk rock ballad, Pete Shelley's "Ever Fallen In Love," recorded by his band, The Buzzcocks, in 1978, but sitting comfortably alongside the older material. Purcell's originals are fine fare, particularly the spacey, minor keyed "Clouds," at 7:04 the longest track on the disc. 

But it is the covers and the way they are covered that ultimately lodge deepest in the head. Warning! There is a YouTube clip of "I've Got Your Number," by Kate and the band, which is presented as a taster for Uh! Oh!. It is no such thing. It is a straight-ahead performance of the song, which, though perfectly decent, is several light years away from the version on this album. The clip of "Cellophane" below is a better representation, though you have to penetrate poor audio quality to get the flavor.        ~ Chris May   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-twenty-20s-uh-oh-by-chris-may.php#.U5zrriioqdk

Personnel: Hetty Kate: vocals; Dean Hilson: saxophones; Vinnie Bourke: trumpet, flugelhorn; Dave Lindrea: tenor guitar; Steve Purcell: double bass; Skarky Ramos: drums. Guests: Hugh Harvey: drums (5, 7, 9); Steve Grant: trumpet (4).

Uh!Oh!

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Hetty Kate - Dim All The Lights

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:02
Size: 91.7 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[5:26] 1. The Thrill Is Gone
[6:13] 2. In The Still Of The Night
[4:24] 3. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
[3:42] 4. Answer Me, My Love
[3:32] 5. Why Don't You Do Right
[4:58] 6. Cry Me A River
[5:22] 7. Something Cool
[2:54] 8. Wives And Lovers
[3:27] 9. I Get Along Without You Very Well

An intimate recording showcasing the 1950s songs of Peggy Lee, June Christy and Julie London, Dim All The Lights is Hetty Kate’s debut album.

Favourites from the Great American Songbook, including Cry Me A River and I Get Along Without You Very Well, are brought to life by Hetty’s seductive vocals and a select band of Melbourne’s finest jazz musicians. Produced by Mal Stanley, this classic collection is a tribute to the great singers of the past, from one of the most exciting young singers of today.

Hetty Kate vocals; Sam Keevers piano; Ben Robertson bass; James Sherlock guitar; Danny Farrugia drums

Dim All The Lights

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