Joni Janak - Let's Live Again

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:29
Size: 152,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:37)  1. Let's Live Again
(4:08)  2. S'Wonderful
(3:15)  3. What Is This Thing Called Love
(4:20)  4. Bewitched
(3:44)  5. I Didn't Know What Time it Was
(6:39)  6. Someone To Watch Over Me
(4:47)  7. Night And Day
(2:46)  8. I Could Write a Book/I've Got You Under My Skin
(3:58)  9. For You, For Me, For Evermore
(2:40) 10. Lover
(4:55) 11. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
(3:53) 12. Let's Get Lost
(5:45) 13. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
(3:40) 14. My Romance
(4:48) 15. My Funny Valentine
(3:27) 16. All of You

Born 24 August 1944, Amarillo, Texas, USA. Raised in a very musical family Janak was taught singing, dancing and piano at the Amarillo College of Music which was owned and operated by her parents and grandparents. She gave public recitals from the age of eight and had her first professional singing job at 13. She received a vocal scholarship to Texas Tech University in Lubbock and, after returning to Amarillo, sang with many different bands and performed a concert with the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 22. She went to Houston, Texas, to sing in the Carriage Club at the Sheraton Lincoln Hotel until 1969 when she moved to Denver, Colorado, to further her career. 

In Denver, she sang with many resident and visiting jazz musicians at various clubs, among them Dale Bruning, Ellyn Rucker, Phil Urso, Peanuts Hucko, Bobby Greene, Todd Reid, the Hot Tomatoes Jazz Band, Howard Davis and Jim Riley, recording with both of the last named. It was while Janak was appearing at the El Chapultepec club in Denver, where she has long held a residency, that she met Carl Fontana who invited her to Las Vegas to work with him. In Las Vegas, she also worked with Carson Smith, Tom Montgomery, Vinnie Tano, Bill Berry, Herbie Phillips and Bill Watrous. She also sang on a jazz cruise with the Johnny Carson Tonight Show Allstars. Janak has appeared at many jazz festivals and at concerts, sometimes with Bruning and storyteller Jude Hibler in their theme concerts celebrating the music of significant composers. 

In the early years of the new millennium, her name was beginning to attract attention overseas with appearances in Europe and the release there of her first own name album and a set with Fontana. A dynamic and highly polished performer, owing in large part to her background of training and extensive experience, Janak’s maturity of sound result in highly satisfying performances. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/joni-janak/id45288044#fullText

Let's Live Again

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Joni Janak, Ron Moewes, Ralph Sharon - Always: The Music Of Irving Berlin

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:35
Size: 151,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:10)  1. Always
(6:16)  2. How Deep Is The Ocean
(3:48)  3. The Best Thing For You Could Be Me
(1:23)  4. When I Lost You
(3:31)  5. They Say That Falling Love Is Wonderful
(7:28)  6. All of My Life/Be Careful, It's My Heart
(3:08)  7. Now It Can Be Told
(4:00)  8. I Love a Piano
(4:47)  9. A Pretty Girl
(4:22) 10. Say It Isn't So
(4:44) 11. I Got Lost In His Arms
(3:57) 12. A Berlin Medley
(3:18) 13. Whatll I Do
(5:28) 14. White Christmas
(4:10) 15. A Mr. Sharon Tune

Always, The Music of Irving Berlin is a CD of Berlin tunes featuring the lovely voice of Joni Janak, the drums and vocals of Ron Moewes, and the piano artistry of Ralph Sharon. Mr. Sharon was the piano accompanist for the legendary Tony Bennett for many years. The album also features other instrumentalists on jazz solos. The last song on the CD is an original by Ron Moewes, "A Mr.Sharon Tune" It was written for Ralph Sharon and tells the story of his musical career. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jjrmars

Featuring the lovely voice of Joni Janak, the drums and vocals of Ron Moewes, and the piano artistry of Ralph Sharon.

Always: The Music Of Irving Berlin

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Joni Janak - The Wind

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:50
Size: 165,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:13)  1. The Wind
(3:44)  2. Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)
(6:25)  3. Where Do You Start?
(7:22)  4. I Concentrate on You
(5:35)  5. Night Town
(4:49)  6. With a Song in My Heart
(7:20)  7. Close Enough for Love
(6:49)  8. I Have a Feeling I've Been Here Before
(4:44)  9. The Way You Look Tonight
(6:22) 10. Trouble with Hello Is Goodbye
(3:58) 11. Only You
(3:32) 12. Cinnamon & Clove
(5:51) 13. Music Is Forever

Born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, vocalist Joni Janak attended college at Texas Tech University on a Vocal Scholarship. Her passion for music began when she was a youngster. With the attraction for the vocal style of Doris Day as her early influence, Joni soon journeyed into the world of jazz. Her innate talent was influenced by both belonging to a music-oriented family, as well as listening to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dakota Staton, Ethel Ennis, Irene Kral, June Christy, and other singers - especially those fronting big bands. Her grandparents and parents owned, operated and taught in the Amarillo College of Music. In 1969, she moved to Denver, Colorado and has lived there since. She is considered to be The Song Stylist in that geographic location - and to the ears of many fans, The Singer of Choice throughout the world. 

Her reputation for excellence is heard in her performances, as well as on her recordings as a leader, Let's Live Again (JLECD- 44004), The Wind (JLECD-4123), and on Centerpiece Jazz' Get Outta Here! (JLECD-8400) on the Jazz Link Enterprises label. She is also featured on (drummer) Ron Moewes' CD, Ron Moewes and Friends: All This You Gave to Me (JLECD-6099). Additionally, she is heard on several of KUVO-89.3 FM 24-hour-a-day jazz radio station's live Performance Studio CDs that are compilations of musicians used for fund-raising premiums.

Performing professionally since age 13, she has worked and/or recorded with such notables as Carl Fontana, Stefan Karlsson, Marvin Stamm, Ed Soph, Tom Warrington, Ross Tompkins, Carson Smith, Bill Watrous, Andy Simpkins, Jake Hanna, Bob Cooper and Conte and Pete Candoli. She has worked with many musicians in Colorado, including Ellyn Rucker, Ron Moewes, Ed Stephen, Dean Ross, Dale Bruning, Rich Chiaraluce, Eric Gunnison, Jeff Jenkins, The Gordon Dooley Orchestra, Ken Walker, Roger Campbell, Mark Simon, Colin Gieg, The Hot Tomatoes, Dean Bushnell Big Band, and Paul Romaine.

Her first European tour occurred in Derry, Northern Ireland in 2001, followed by a highly acclaimed appearance during the Derry Jazz Festival in 2002. While there, she was a guest on several television and radio programs. In the United States, her CDs are played by syndicated radio hosts Bob Bednar, Bob Parlocha, Jim Wilke, and Ross Gentile. Collectively, these radio programs are heard in more than 100 cities throughout the United States, as well as being streamed from their websites world- wide. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/janak2

The Wind

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Joni Janak & Centerpiece Jazz - Get Outta Here!

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:53
Size: 140,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:21)  1. Get Outta Here!
(3:28)  2. Route 66
(4:33)  3. In a Mellow Tone
(4:32)  4. Feel Like Makin' Love
(2:30)  5. Dream
(5:36)  6. Sentimental Journey
(4:10)  7. Moondance
(4:27)  8. Once I Loved
(4:59)  9. They Can't Take That Away from Me
(3:17) 10. You Are So Beautiful
(3:27) 11. I'm Walkin'
(3:04) 12. Day by Day
(3:19) 13. We're in This Love Together
(3:03) 14. Bye Bye Blackbird
(4:17) 15. You're in Derry
(1:42) 16. Centerpiece

Born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, vocalist Joni Janak moved to Denver in 1969 where she continues to reside. She has worked and/or recorded with such notables as Carl Fontana, Ralph Sharon, Stefan Karlsson, Marvin Stamm, Ed Soph, Tom Warrington, Ross Tompkins, Carson Smith, Bill Watrous, Andy Simpkins, Jake Hanna, Bob Cooper, and Conte and Pete Candoli. Her Colorado colleagues include Ellyn Rucker, Ron Moewes, Ed Stephen, Dean Ross, Dale Bruning, Rich Chiaraluce, Eric Gunnison, the Gordon Dooley Orchestra, The Hot Tomatoes, and the Dean Bushnell Orchestra.

Her first European tour occurred in Derry, Northern Ireland in 2001, followed by a highly acclaimed appearance during the Derry Jazz Festival in 2002. Her JLE recordings, Let's Live Again, The Wind, and Get Outta Here! can be heard and purchased at www.jazzlinkenterprises.com. They, too, have met with high praise in Jazz Journal (England), Jazzscene of Oregon, International Trombone magazine, The Denver Post, and Jazz Review (Canada), among others. Queens, New York is the hometown of guitarist/arranger/composer stalwart Ed Stephen. Primarily a self-taught musician, he counts Johnny Smith, Howard Alden, George Van Eps, Bill Evans, and Phil Woods, among his influences. "In fact, an on-going goal of mine is to develop a technique like Johnny Smith, while coming up with ideas like Bill Evans!" quipped the gregarious and gracious Ed. After moving to Colorado in 1975, Ed taught Jazz Guitar at the University of Colorado at Denver. He continues to teach the guitar privately; he also teaches reading and English as a second language for the Range View Library District in Adams County. His Colorado playing credentials include the type of diversity strongly associated with such a skilled musician as he is. He has worked with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Pops Concerts. Those concerts featured the likes of Michel Legrand, Carol Lawrence, Oscar Peterson, and Ferrante & Teicher.

He has played in the Walt Smith's Roaring Fork Jazz Party, which featured Harry Allen; the Sacramento Jazz Festival, and the West Coast Jazz Festival, where he worked with the Summit Ridge Jazz Band with Bob Craven as leader. Some of his other playing cohorts include the Gordon Dooley Orchestra, Joni Janak, Dean Ross, Ron Moewes, Vern Baumer, Bob Craven, and Carl Fontana. His first recording on JLE's label is Get Outta Here!

Manzanola, Colorado is the hometown of the intrepid bassist Dean Ross. Except for a stint in the US Army Band, he has lived and worked in Colorado throughout his career. Musicians he has worked with include Ralph Sharon, Ross Tompkins, Billy Eckstine, Dave Grusin, Marlena Shaw, Helen 0' Connell, Steve Allen, Pete and Conte Candoli, Jon Hendricks, Big Tiny Little, Ron Moewes, Ed Stephen, Joni Janak, Ellyn Rucker, Dale Bruning, Spike Robinson, Rich Chiaraluce, and The Hot Tomatoes. He has also worked with Chicago's James Dapogny's Band at the University of Northern Colorado as well as The Sounds of New Orleans. His first recording on the JLE label is Get Outta Here! with Centerpiece Jazz. A native of Denver, Colorado, drummer Ron Moewes (pronounced Mavis) received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Later, he earned his Master's Degree in Creative Arts from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

With his degrees in hand, he began a 31-year career teaching music (orchestra, jazz band) in the Jefferson County school system. While he taught during the day, he gigged at night and on the weekends, making himself an indispensable drumming staple in Colorado. Ron has worked with such notables as Ralph Sharon, Carl Fontana, Clark Terry, Marian McPartland, Herb Ellis, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Pete Christlieb, Sonny Stitt, Jon Hendricks, Al Grey, Buddy DeFranco, Doc Severinsen, and Peter Appleyard. In Colorado, he has worked with Joni Janak, Ed Stephen, Dean Ross, Ellyn Rucker, Rich Chiaraluce, Dale Bruning, The Gordon Dooley Orchestra, Ken Walker, Mark Simon, Eric Gunnison, Jeff Jenkins, Les James, Spike Robinson, and Bud Poindexter, among others. An outstanding composer and lyricist, some of his originals can be heard on his JLE recordings Ron Moewes & Friends: All This You Gave to Me and Get Outta Here! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/centerpiecejazz

Get Outta Here!

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