Kate Ceberano - 19 Days in New York

Styles: Jazz, Vocal, R&B
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:50
Size: 101,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:06)  1. Since I Fell for You
(2:31)  2. At Last
(5:14)  3. Seven Day Fool
(5:37)  4. Higher and Higher
(5:41)  5. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
(3:53)  6. Wanted- Lover, No Experience Necessary
(4:48)  7. A Natural Woman
(4:03)  8. Fever
(4:25)  9. I Had A Talk with My Man
(3:28) 10. Let it Be Me

It May have Only Taken 19 Days in New York, but 1960s Chess Records Legend, Billy Davis, Has Managed to Produce an Album for Kate Ceberano that Will Leave People Begging for More. '19 Days in New York' is a Sublime Album of Classic Soul / R&B Songs, Presenting Ceberano in a Completely New Light. ~Editorial Reviews 

https://www.amazon.com/Days-New-York-Kate-Ceberano/dp/B0002W18AM

19 Days in New York

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Kate Ceberano - True Romantic: The Best of Kate Ceberano

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:27
Size: 160,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:20) 1. True Romantic
(4:22) 2. Pash
(4:31) 3. I Won't Let You Down
(4:09) 4. Calling You
(4:49) 5. Everythings Alright
(4:06) 6. Love and Affection
(4:01) 7. Change
(4:28) 8. Feelin Alright
(5:32) 9. Brave
(3:56) 10. Bedroom Eyes
(4:37) 11. Time to Think
(4:26) 12. I Dont Know How to Love Him
(4:17) 13. Love Is Alive
(3:24) 14. Young Boys Are My Weakness
(4:17) 15. All That I Want Is You
(4:11) 16. See Right Through

True Romantic – The Best of Kate Ceberano is a greatest hits album released by Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano. It was a commercial success, peaking at number 9 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) album chart, and was certified platinum in Australia. The album was re-released in 2004, under the title The Definitive Collection. It includes songs from her time with I'm Talking, tracks from Jesus Christ Superstar, her studio albums Brave, Blue Box and Pash as well as two new tracks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Romantic

True Romantic: The Best of Kate Ceberano

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Kate Ceberano And Her Sextet - Kate Ceberano And Her Septet Live

Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:17
Size: 126,0
Art: Front

(2:30) 1. Im Beginning to See the Light
(3:53) 2. My Baby Just Cares for Me
(3:03) 3. Midnight Sun
(4:56) 4. Love Me or Leave Me
(3:09) 5. Ill Wind
(5:31) 6. Memory Serves
(3:46) 7. Two Sleepy People
(2:43) 8. Heart
(2:44) 9. Im Hip
(6:16) 10. Lush Life
(2:41) 11. One Note Samba
(2:23) 12. And the Angels Sing
(6:05) 13. Im Afraid the Masquerade Is Over
(4:29) 14. Yeah Yeah

One of Australia's most gifted and versatile performers, Kate Ceberano's music crossed several genres and made her one of the most popular female vocalists of the 1980s and '90s. Ceberano first rose to prominence as the teenage lead singer of Australian funk-pop outfit I'm Talking in 1985. Their debut (and as it transpired, only) album, Bear Witness, produced three hit singles, including "Love Don't Live Here Anymore." I'm Talking disbanded in 1987, and Ceberano released her debut solo jazz album in that same year. Kate Ceberano and Her Septet, featuring her brother Phil and veteran session musicians Alex Pertout and Jex Saarelaht, became a huge hit, and was followed in 1988 by You've Always Got the Blues, which featured Ceberano and Wendy Matthews as vocalists. In 1988 the first single from Ceberano's eagerly awaited first pop album was released. "Bedroom Eyes" became the highest-selling Australian single of 1988 and helped Ceberano win two ARIA awards for best female vocalist in 1988 and 1989. The album, Brave, was released in 1989 and went triple platinum. "Young Boys Are My Weakness" was also released as a single from this disc. Another jazz album called Like Now followed in 1990, then her second pop album, Think About It, appeared in 1991. However, it could not build on the success of Brave and failed to produce a strong single. 1992 saw a stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar open in Australia. Ceberano won the part of Mary Magdalene, and performed alongside John Farnham, Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens, and former Rose Tattoo lead singer Angry Anderson in the show. The Australian cast album went four-times platinum and Ceberano's song from the production -- "I Don't Know How to Love Him" -- was released as a single. In 1996, another pop album, Blue Box, was released, and this was followed in 1998 with Pash. The '60s-influenced pop of the title track became her biggest hit since "Bedroom Eyes." A best-of collection entitled True Romantic appeared in 1999. ~ Jonathan Lewis https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kate-ceberano-mn0000363528

Personnel: Vocals – Kate Ceberano; Bass – Stuart Speed ; Drums – Peter Jones ; Guitar– Phillip Ceberano; Piano, Arranged By – Jex Saarelaht; Saxophone [Sax] – Robert Bourke; Trombone – Russell Smith ; Vibraphone [Vibes], Percussion – Alex Pertout

Kate Ceberano And Her Septet Live

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Kate Ceberano - The Dangerous Age

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:29
Size: 98,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:23) 1. All Tied Up
(4:17) 2. Monument City Lights. 1973
(3:51) 3. On Love
(2:51) 4. The Dangerous Age
(3:15) 5. Shot From Memory
(3:17) 6. My Restless Heart
(3:08) 7. Girl On The Highwire
(2:58) 8. So Long Ago
(2:59) 9. Not The Loving Kind
(4:09) 10. The Losing Game
(4:09) 11. Glacial Speed
(3:07) 12. Whatever Happened To Steven Valentine?

This is an extraordinary album for extraordinary times. Initially, I wondered if the title was a reference to the Trump era, the rise of extremism, catastrophic climate change and heightened global tension. These are, after all, dangerous times. Reading the news on my phone has become a daily exercise in existential crisis. Today, the sense of danger all around us has risen exponentially as our seemingly indestructible world shuts down, victim to a menacing, insidious, killer pandemic.It is a most dangerous age.This album is one of those rare but memorable instances where art is created before a significant event occurs but its release coincides with that event and it becomes forever associated with it.

Think of Wilco’s album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It was written and recorded before September 2001, with the cover featuring two towers in Chicago known as the Marina City towers. The album was released seven days after the terrorist attacks on New York’s own twin towers, the World Trade Center. Although the lyrics and music explore personal themes, the album’s feeling, tone and cover represent that moment in time when the world stopped in terror, and then had to cope in the aftermath. It helped people deal with their shock and grief. In the same way, The Dangerous Age will, for me, forever be tied to this moment in time; a symbol of these dangerous times, in which we shelter in our homes to avoid contracting or spreading a deadly virus, and how we cope. This is music as coping mechanism. https://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture/music/2020/03/26/album-review-the-dangerous-age/

Personnel: Kate Ceberano – vocals, Steve Kilbey – vocals, Sean Sennett – vocals, Rod Bustos – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, slide guitar, synth bass, table, drum programming, piano, synthesisers, glockenspiel, Jason Millhouse – guitar, John Salerno – drums, Paul Cecchinelli – piano, keys, cello, Alison Ainsworth – backing vocals

The Dangerous Age

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Kate Ceberano And Paul Grabowsky - Tryst

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:23
Size: 145,9 MB
Art: Front

( 5:20) 1. Wild Is The Wind
( 4:08) 2. Song For You
(13:57) 3. For Cilla - Medley
( 5:10) 4. Make You Feel My Love
( 5:18) 5. Suzanne
( 9:09) 6. Melange D'Amour - Medley
( 6:14) 7. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
( 3:44) 8. I Touch Myself
( 4:54) 9. Forever Young
( 5:23) 10. Skylark

Tryst brings together two Australian musical icons in a fertile collaboration, effectively combining the proven commercial appeal of singer Kate Ceberano with the keyboard mastery of a celebrated jazz musician Paul Grabowsky. Ceberano is not a complete jazz singer she does not improvise, nor indulge in wordless vocals but her considerable strengths are palpable here: a gorgeous voice, authoritative phrasing, and a feel for lyrics that renders them truthful. In Make You Feel My Love, she sings “I could hold you for a million years” so tenderly that one feels she means it. It’s significant that the latter is a big hit from the pop singer Adele. In a repertoire brimming with quality, Ceberano takes on some of the more esoteric songs that have emerged in popular music over recent years, including Wild Is The Wind (previously best-known for versions by Nina Simone and David Bowie); Leon Russell’s A Song For You; Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne; the Divinyls’ I Touch Myself; Bob Dylan’s Forever Young; and others.

Great versions of such songs are already in the collective memory, and only a brave vocalist would take them on in such a highly exposed setting, backed only by solo piano. Still, with nowhere to hide, Ceberano brings the project off with considerable aplomb. The multi-talented Grabowsky is a tower of strength, his accompaniments incisive and sparse when required, and orchestral when passion in the music calls for a fuller sound. Blessed with the keyboard touch and melodic sensibility we associate with great jazz pianists such as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, he provides introductions, interludes and improvisations, where he moves through the harmonic changes in masterly fashion. For the purist jazz fan, he provides the album’s chief interest. While not wishing to snap at the heels of two such distinguished artists, there is an aberration in the medley For Cilla, Ceberano’s tribute to Cilla Black. In Burt Bacharach’s This Girl’s In Love With You the chosen key is a little too high for Ceberano’s voice, and there are uncomfortable moments as she strains to hit the top notes of the melody. I am surprised that the producers (Mal Stanley and Grabowksy himself) did not rectify this admittedly minor oversight.~ Eric Myers https://ericmyersjazz.com/cd-reviews-page-22

Tryst

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Kate Ceberano - So Much Beauty

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:37
Size: 113.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. Suddenly I See
[4:48] 2. Live To Tell
[4:00] 3. She Will Be Loved
[4:28] 4. Avalon
[3:02] 5. So Much Beauty
[4:31] 6. I'll Stand By You
[4:47] 7. Chasing Cars
[4:12] 8. Stars And Satellites
[3:34] 9. Play Me
[3:36] 10. Never Say Never
[4:39] 11. Babylon
[4:04] 12. Bridge Over Troubled Water

After a massive rise to stardom, a mild decline in recognition, and a comeback fueled by semi-celebrity television contests, songstress Kate Ceberano began mixing covers heavily into her releases, starting with 19 Days in New York, moving through Nine Lime Avenue, and culminating with So Much Beauty, a set of covers of modern tracks. The songs themselves are generally good picks, encapsulating the mid- to late 2000s. However, Ceberano treats the songs with a bit too much simplicity, never adding herself to the songs as much as casually laying down the necessary tracks to complete them. She's got a nice voice, but the pieces come out flatly. The Pretenders' "I'll Stand by You" is taken in its Carrie Underwood format and then casually left on the figurative pavement. Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved" is treated tepidly -- a very slight Brazilian beat is added into the mix, but Ceberano's vocals remove nearly all signs of emotion. Even KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" is made somehow less threatening, less exciting. There is a brief bright note on the album -- just as it closes, unfortunately. A rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is done in tandem with a nice slack key backing, and Ceberano's actual abilities briefly come out and make for an interesting sound. If only that had come earlier in the album. ~Adam Greenberg

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Kate Ceberano - Nine Lime Avenue

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:35
Size: 99.8 MB
Styles: Adult contemporary
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[4:31] 1. Heroes
[4:34] 2. Raspberry Beret
[4:44] 3. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
[4:30] 4. Love My Way
[4:16] 5. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
[3:33] 6. Throw Your Arms Around Me
[3:16] 7. Brass In Pocket
[3:58] 8. If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too
[2:32] 9. Roxanne
[3:36] 10. Go Your Own Way
[4:01] 11. It Must Be Love

2007 release from the Australian vocalist, one of the finest female voices to emerge from the Land Down Under. Over two decades in the business, Ceberano is an Aria Award winner, a best-selling artist and even won first place on Australia's Dancing With The Stars in 2006. Nine Lime Avenue is a collection of covers that inspired Kate in the early '80s as she pursued her career in music. Features 11 tracks including the first single, a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way'.

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Kate Ceberano - The Girl Can Help It

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:16
Size: 103,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:52)  1. Beautiful Life
(4:11)  2. Sunburn
(3:47)  3. Yes
(3:43)  4. Pilot
(5:12)  5. I Hope I Never
(3:40)  6. A Good Thing
(3:32)  7. Bring It On
(4:17)  8. Let Me In
(3:39)  9. 3 Small Words
(3:03) 10. Let's All Get Together
(5:16) 11. Cherry Blossom Lipstick

One of Australia's most gifted and versatile performers, Kate Ceberano's music crossed several genres and made her one of the most popular female vocalists of the 1980s and '90s. Ceberano first rose to prominence as the teenage lead singer of Australian funk-pop outfit I'm Talking in 1985. Their debut (and as it transpired, only) album, Bear Witness, produced three hit singles, including "Love Don't Live Here Anymore." I'm Talking disbanded in 1987, and Ceberano released her debut solo jazz album in that same year. Kate Ceberano and Her Septet, featuring her brother Phil and veteran session musicians Alex Pertout and Jex Saarelaht, became a huge hit, and was followed in 1988 by You've Always Got the Blues, which featured Ceberano and Wendy Matthews as vocalists. In 1988 the first single from Ceberano's eagerly awaited first pop album was released. "Bedroom Eyes" became the highest-selling Australian single of 1988 and helped Ceberano win two ARIA awards for best female vocalist in 1988 and 1989. The album, Brave, was released in 1989 and went triple platinum. "Young Boys Are My Weakness" was also released as a single from this disc. Another jazz album called Like Now followed in 1990, then her second pop album, Think About It, appeared in 1991. However, it could not build on the success of Brave and failed to produce a strong single. 1992 saw a stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar open in Australia. Ceberano won the part of Mary Magdalene, and performed alongside John Farnham, Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens, and former Rose Tattoo lead singer Angry Anderson in the show. The Australian cast album went four-times platinum and Ceberano's song from the production "I Don't Know How to Love Him" was released as a single. In 1996, another pop album, Blue Box, was released, and this was followed in 1998 with Pash. The '60s-influenced pop of the title track became her biggest hit since "Bedroom Eyes." A best-of collection entitled True Romantic appeared in 1999. ~ Jonathan Lewis https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-girl-can-help-it/id1150454551

Personnel:  Backing Vocals – Kate Ceberano, Richard Pleasance (tracks: 1 to 7);  Bass – Kevin McCormick (tracks: 8, 11);  Drums – Mauricio Lewak (tracks: 8, 11);  Guitar – Mark Goldenberg (tracks: 8, 11), Phil Ceberano (tracks: 8, 9, 11);  Guitar [All Guitars] – Richard Pleasance (tracks: 1 to 7) Keyboards – Mark Goldenberg (tracks: 8, 11), Richard Pleasance (tracks: 1 to 7);  Piano – Kate Ceberano (tracks: 1 to 7, 9)

The Girl Can Help It

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Kate Ceberano - Kensal Road

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:08
Size: 95,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:30)  1. Garden State
(3:14)  2. You and I
(3:35)  3. So Far From Home
(3:47)  4. Champion
(3:52)  5. Have It All
(3:48)  6. Magnet
(4:22)  7. Louis' Song
(3:21)  8. My Heavy Heart
(3:41)  9. Jez
(3:35) 10. How High
(4:17) 11. The Little Things

Kensal Road is an album by Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano that was released on 26 July 2013. Kensal Road was recorded in the United Kingdom with songwriter/producer James Bryan and marks Kate Ceberano's first recordings of original material since "The Girl Can Help It" in 2003. It contains elements of Ceberano's original pop sound and was announced Kensal Road as "a new chapter" in Ceberano's musical career. Ceberano said about the album: "I think it's one of my favourite albums because of the elements that went into making it, working with some amazing European musicians, having the creative control and the support of Sony Music Australia. Rather than me having to go to them and say I want to do this they said 'we're ready for you to do this now' and that is a beautiful reversal of flow if you know what I mean." Musically, Kensal Road incorporates Kate's early musical influences of Hawaiian folk music and Fleetwood Mac, but was also created to reflect the genres of nu-folk and nu-country, being influenced by such singer/songwriters as Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensal_Road

Kensal Road

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Mark Isham + Kate Ceberano - Bittersweet

Size: 119,6 MB
Time: 51:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. My One And Only Love (4:25)
02. Skylark (4:06)
03. In A Sentimental Mood (4:53)
04. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (4:20)
05. In My Solitude (4:27)
06. Night And Day (5:02)
07. I Wanna Be Loved (6:45)
08. Easy Living (4:14)
09. Lush Life (4:15)
10. Do It Again (4:09)
11. Every Time We Say Goodbye (5:08)

Although best known as a trumpet player, Mark Isham is actually an immensely gifted multi-instrumentalist—a virtual study in contrasts depending on what the musical situation requires. I’d heard of Isham back in the late ‘70s when he’d joined the Rubisa Patrol album with Art Lande. Next thing you know it’s 1980 and Isham had just released the groundbreaking first Group 87 album, an Lp that paved the way for both a new brand of cinematic American rock fusion sound as well as starting a number of new careers for all the members. You can read my interview with Mark Isham from 2000 where he discusses the Group 87 album in depth. And you can also read my liner notes printed with the first ever CD reissue of Group 87 released by One Way Records back in 2000. Now nearly 30 years after the original release of Group 87, Isham picks up his trumpet and returns to his jazzy roots sound with his 2009 CD, Bittersweet—an album that sizzles with a smokey, late night jazz club sound and vibe. Recording with singer Kate Ceberano and jazz legends Alan Pasqua (keyboards), Pete Erskine (drums) and Tom Warrington (acoustic bass), Isham’s horn revisits the golden age of jazz with timeless updates of song classics form the pen of Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Billy Strayhorn—in other words pure jazz classics. Even though she’s being billed as part of the duet album with Isham, the vocals of Ms. Ceberano has a great effect on all these players here, who each really rise to the occasion. Mastered by Bernie Grundman, the CD release on Isham’s Earle Tones imprint presents a state of the art look back at the classic jazz sound of yesteryears. So, you might be thinking, will Mark Isham ever get back to making the kind of music he made his breakthru with on the 1980 Group 87 album? Well part of the answer to that is a resounding yes, especially after giving a good listen to Isham’s 2009 soundtrack to the Crash movie released by Lions Gate Records. This is the kind of experimental neo-rock based album in the guise of a soundtrack that Isham does best. Although missing Group 87 genius guitarist Peter Maunu and New Age keyboardist / bassist Patrick O’Hearn, (not to mention the great G-87 engineer Ed E. Thacker or the budget of Columbia Records producer Bobby Colomby), Crash nevertheless features a fine pairing of Isham and his co-composer on this CD, Cindy O’Connor. Compared to the jazzy vocal vibe of Bittersweet, the Crash CD is a great instrumental electronica album that sounds more like Vangelis or William Orbit than say, Herb Alpert? Anyone who dug the two Group 87 albums should take a listen to Isham’s Crash soundtrack. Though sadly not as well recorded as the trendsetting Group 87 album, (not too many albums comes close) Crash is pretty darn good and is nevertheless a modern masterpiece of instrumental electronic soundtrack music that adds to Isham’s reputation as being among the great soundtrack composers of the past fifty years.

Bittersweet

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