Horace Silver - You Gotta Take A Little Love

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1969
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:11
Size: 92,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:24)  1. You Gotta Take A Little Love
(4:37)  2. The Risin' Sun
(6:42)  3. It's Time
(4:14)  4. Lovely's Daughter
(4:30)  5. Down And Out
(7:26)  6. The Belly Dancer
(6:14)  7. Brain Wave

One of the final Horace Silver Quintet Blue Note albums, this somewhat forgotten LP, dedicated to "the Brotherhood of Men," is an instrumental set that introduced six new compositions by the pianist/leader (none of which caught on as standards) along with Bennie Maupin's "Lovely's Daughter." Maupin (on tenor and flute), trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist John Williams, and drummer Billy Cobham comprise Silver's excellent late-'60s hard bop group. [In 2007 Blue Note reissued You Gotta Take a Little Love in a remastered Rudy Van Gelder edition.] ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/you-gotta-take-a-little-love-mw0000559874

Personnel:  Horace Silver - piano;  Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn;  Bennie Maupin - tenor saxophone, flute;  John Williams - bass;  Billy Cobham - drums

You Gotta Take A Little Love

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Cleo Laine, John Williams - Let The Music Take You

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:09
Size: 105.7 MB
Styles: Jazz-pop guitar & vocals
Year: 1983/2004
Art: Front

[3:49] 1. Baby Don't You Cry No More
[3:28] 2. Imagine
[3:34] 3. One
[3:41] 4. Colours Of My Life (From Barnum)
[3:49] 5. I Never Went Away
[3:35] 6. Let The Music Take You
[3:46] 7. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
[4:36] 8. Dreams Of Castilla
[2:57] 9. Without Words (Portrait)
[3:58] 10. It's Not Easy To Say I Love You
[4:13] 11. So Quiet The Night
[4:37] 12. So Many Stars

Rod Argent Keyboards; Kenny Clare Drums; Alec Dankworth Bass; John Mole Bass; John Dankworth Sax & Clarinet; Tristan Fry Percussion; Morris Pert Percussion; Tony Hymas Piano.

John Christopher Williams was born in Melbourne, Australia on 24th April 1941. His father, Leonard Williams, had emigrated to Australia from London in the late 1930s, where he met his wife, Malaan, through a common love of jazz music and political activism. Len was a respected jazz guitarist whose interests had slowly turned towards the classical repertoire, and when John was four years old, he received his first guitar from his father, although John insists that proper tuition did not start for another two or three years. Because of his new-found love for classical technique, Len refused to allow John to dabble in more free-form styles of playing, a fact often regretted by the virtuoso in later life.

Born in a London suburb, Cleo Laine showed early singing talent, which was nurtured by her Jamaican father and English mother who sent her to singing and dancing lessons. It was not, however, until she reached her mid-twenties that she applied herself seriously to singing. She auditioned successfully for a band led by musician John Dankworth, under whose banner she performed until 1958, in which year the two were married.

Then began an illustrious career as a singer and actress. In 1958 she played the lead in a new play at London's famous Royal Court Theatre, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 'fifties - Pinter, Osborne and the like. This led to other stage performances such as the musical "Valmouth" in 1959, the play "A Time to Laugh" (with Robert Morley and Ruth Gordon) in 1962, and eventually to her show stopping Julie in the Wendy Toye production of "Showboat" at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1971.

During this period she had two spectacular recording successes. "You'll Answer to Me" reached the British Top Ten at the precise time that Cleo was 'prima donna' in the 1961 Edinburgh Festival production of the Kurt Weill opera/ballet "The Seven Deadly Sins". In 1964 her "Shakespeare and All that Jazz" album received widespread critical acclaim, and to this day remains an important milestone in her identification with the more unusual aspects of a singer's repertoire.

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Cleo Laine & John Williams - Best Friends

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:52
Size: 98,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:08)  1. Feelings
(2:44)  2. Time Does Fly
(4:39)  3. Killing Me Softly With His Song
(2:21)  4. Before Love Went Out Of Style
(4:11)  5. My Day Has Started With You
(3:18)  6. Wave
(3:34)  7. Eleanor Rigby
(3:09)  8. Awake My Love
(3:42)  9. If
(3:34) 10. Charms
(3:06) 11. Sleep Now
(4:19) 12. He Was Beautiful

With a multi-octave voice similar to Betty Carter's, incredible scatting ability, and ease of transition from a throaty whisper to high-pitched trills, Cleo Laine was born in 1927 in the Southall section of London, the daughter of a Jamaican father and English mother. Her parents sent her to vocal and dance lessons as a teenager, but she was 25 when she first sang professionally, after a successful audition with the big band led by Johnny Dankworth. Both Laine and the band recorded for Esquire, MGM and Pye during the late '50s, and by 1958, she was married to Dankworth. With Dankworth by her side, Laine began her solo career in earnest with a 1964 album of Shakespeare lyrics set to Dankworth's arrangements, Shakespeare: And All That Jazz. Laine also gained renown for the first of three concert albums recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1973's Cleo Laine Live! At Carnegie Hall. She also recorded two follow-ups (Return to Carnegie and The 10th Anniversary Concert) the latter of which in 1983 won her the first Grammy award by a Briton. She has proved a rugged stage actress as well, winning a Theater World award for her role in the Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, (in addition to Tony and Drama Desk nominations as well). In 1976 she recorded a jazz version of Porgy and Bess with Ray Charles, and also recorded duets with James Galway and guitarist John Williams. Laine and Dankworth continued to tour into the 1990s, and she received perhaps her greatest honor when she became the first jazz artist to receive the highest title available in the performing arts: Dame Commander. ~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cleo-laine-mn0000120273/biography

Personnel:  Vocals – Cleo Laine;  Arranged By [Guitar & Rhythm] – John Dankworth;  Arranged By [String] – Paul Hart ;  Bass – Dave Markee, Pete Morgan;  Cello – Kathy Giles;  Drums – Kenny Clare, Tony Kinsey;  Guitar – John Williams ;  Producer, Electric Piano, Violin – Paul Hart ;  Producer, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – John Dankworth;  Viola – Chris Hartley ;  Violin – Celia Mitchell, Gerry Richards, Lorrie Lewis

Best Friends

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John Williams - Jazz Guitar

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:01
Size: 100.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:41] 1. Fall Highway
[3:31] 2. Santa Monica
[2:39] 3. Lost You
[3:26] 4. Kitchen Pass
[3:47] 5. Late Night
[3:37] 6. Blue Medium
[3:18] 7. Beautiful
[5:08] 8. Blues Old
[3:01] 9. Slinky
[3:41] 10. Friday Blues
[3:34] 11. Influence
[3:32] 12. What

I'm a guitar player, mostly electric, steel string acoustic too. I do session work, songwriting, and production projects. I have a well-outfitted home studio for songwriting and some production, and I also work with a nationally acclaimed pro studio here in Seattle. I cover country, country/rock, blues and jazz, both acoustic and electric, solo guitar and full-band arrangements. I like working with songwriters and can take almost any songwriter's demo (even face-to-face), turn it into a full-blown arrangement suitable for any studio in Nashville, select and hire appropriate instrumentation, produce the project, assist with artwork and duplication, and assist with marketing.

I am a tone fanatic. I love Teles and Strats - have several. My main guitar is a late-model Telecaster that has been modified with a humbucker in the neck, a Duncan Nashville Strat pickup in the middle, and a Joe Barden Tele pickup in the bridge. I'm also using a late-model Dobro (for slide and fretted), a Larrivee C-19, a Martin OM28V, a Music Man 6 string bass, an early '60s ES-175, a Music Man ASAT, a Deering 6 string banjo, a Ramirez classical, and a Tacoma Papoose. I have several other guitars but these are the ones that get used the most.

Jazz Guitar

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