Gregory Tardy - Sufficient Grace

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:00
Size: 130,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:33) 1. The Omnipresent Cardiologist
(6:43) 2. For Deacon Rocky
(5:09) 3. I Choose You
(7:32) 4. A Tree and It's Fruit
(8:47) 5. The Intelligent Design
(4:23) 6. Sufficient Grace
(6:57) 7. Nick Hoot
(9:53) 8. Janel's Love Song

There's way more than sufficient grace going on here and a strongly soulful swing that really has the whole album coming together, right on the money! Maybe that's no surprise, though, given that the set's issued on the excellent WJ3 label from Willie Jones III, who plays drums at the core of the record, next to the bass of Sean Conly while Tardy carves out all these wonderfully fluid, feeling lines next to the trumpet of Marcus Printup who himself sounds better than usual, and makes for a perfect fit for Tardy. Keith Brown handles piano on the quintet session, all tunes are Tardy originals, and titles include "Tree & Its Fruit", "I Choose You", "For Deacon Rock", "The Omnipresent Cardiologist", "Janel's Love Song", and "Nick Hoot". © 1996-2022, Dusty Groove, Inc.https://www.dustygroove.com/item/125727

Personnel: Gregory Tardy - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet and Clarinet; Marcus Printup - Trumpet; Keith Brown - Piano; Sean Conley - Bass; Willie Jones III - Drums

Sufficient Grace

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Gregory Tardy - Standards & More

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:11
Size: 150,1 MB
Art: Front

( 7:49)  1. I See Your Face Before Me
( 6:42)  2. Voyage
( 3:09)  3. How Deep The Father's Love For Us
(10:03)  4. Billie's Bounce
( 6:42)  5. When I Fall In Love
( 6:47)  6. Secret Love
( 5:06)  7. A Prayer for the Preborn
( 5:35)  8. Aural Oasis
( 6:22)  9. How Deep Is The Ocean
( 6:51) 10. Firm Roots

As the title of this new album suggests Gregory Tardy and his excellent ensemble invested their energy in evergreen standards and jazz original classics here to fulfil his musical parents’ requests.“… Not only is he arguably the most original of the band’s improvisers, he’s also the most impassioned. His lines are incisive and hard-edged. Even his most fanciful flights are purposeful. His energetic approach consistently lifts the group’s performance to a higher level….” (Chris Kelsey – JazzTimes on “Steps of Faith” SCCD 31610)“….Of the many stars to have emerged on the jazz horizon during the '90s, one of the most disciplined, emotive and perhaps underrated is the multifaceted Gregory Tardy ….. Tardy takes another step toward establishing himself as one of the most important saxophonists of his generation….” (Matthew Miller - AJJ on “The Truth” SCCD 31583) https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/13122/gregory-tardy/standards-and-more

Personnel: Gregory Tardy - tenor saxophone, clarinet, composer;  Philip Dizack - trumpet; Keith Brown - piano;  Sean Conly - bass; Jaimeo Brown - drums

Standards & More

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Keith Brown - Sweet & Lovely

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:29
Size: 148,6 MB
Art: Front

(1:07)  1. Meudon-by Night
(6:01)  2. The Very Thought of You
(5:03)  3. Golden Lady
(5:01)  4. All of You
(7:18)  5. Lady In Jazz
(5:48)  6. Sweet & Lovely
(4:54)  7. What Is This Thing Called Love
(4:50)  8. J Roll
(5:39)  9. Sophisticated Lady
(4:13) 10. Just Friends
(6:56) 11. Stablemates
(7:34) 12. You Don't Known What Love Is

Keith L. Brown is a pianist, composer, bassist and educator. This son of three-time Grammy nominated jazz pianist/composer Donald Brown was born in Memphis, TN and raised in Knoxville, TN. Keith earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2009 and completed his Masters of Music Degree in May 2011. In 2010, Keith was invited to Meudon, France to record his debut jazz CD entitled “Sweet and Lovely” on the Space Time Records label. CD personnel included Essiet Essiet, Marcus Gilmore, Stephane Belmondo, and Baptiste Herbin. His CD was released world-wide on April 15th, 2011 to rave reviews. Keith’s piano virtuosity has placed him in demand on the international jazz scene. Keith L. Brown began playing piano and bass at an early age. Born into a musical family, both Keith's parents played music and many of his aunts and uncles are exceptionally musically talented as well. His father Donald is a world renowned jazz pianist having performed with many greats and his mother Dorothy is a pianist also and plays various woodwind instruments. Keith first learned to play songs of R&B artists like Stevie Wonder by ear and then started classical piano lessons at 8yrs old. 

Donald Brown nurtured Keith’s musical ambitions by teaching him how to play his original compositions and jazz standards. Keith was also influenced by artists such as Phineas Newborn Jr., James Williams, and Mulgrew Miller. Keith and his brothers, Kenneth (drums) and Donald Brown Jr., were deep into hip-hop and rap music growing up. Keith began to study jazz seriously after he graduated high school. By age 18, Keith was playing piano and bass around Knoxville in a variety of jazz, r&b, funk, and country bands. Since he began playing jazz, at the age of 18, Keith has been fortunate to perform and record with some amazing musicians. Keith has shared the stage with great jazz artist such as Mike Clark, Jeff Coffin, Essiet Essiet, Bill Mobley and his String Orchestra, Billy Pierce, Greg Tardy, Terreon Gully, Warren Wolf, Benny Golson, and Russell Gunn. Keith has also toured with such greats as Bobby Watson, Ray Drummond, and Marvin “Smitty” Smith. In addition, he has also performed with some of the great young musicians of today such as Kenneth Whalum III, Marcus Gilmore, French saxophonist Baptist Herbin and many others. Keith continues to draw inspiration from his roots in R&B, Funk, Classic, Jazz and Hip-Hop and constantly explores new ways of integrating these influences. “I always try to write and perform in a way that is intellectual but that has a strong sense of melody or groove that can touch those who are open enough to listen.” Keith recently completed a new recording project released on August 29, 2015 on the Space Time Record Label. The album features mostly original compositions by Keith and features saxophonist Greg Tardy on tenor, Kenneth Whalum III on tenor and soprano saxophones, Clint Mullican on bass, Jamel Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Mike Seal on guitar, and Grammy Award Winning drummer Terreon “Tank” Gully who also serves as the producer. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/keithbrown

Personnel:  Keith Brown - piano; Essiet Essiet - bass; Marcus Gilmore - drums; Stephane Belmondo - trumpet, flugelhorn; Baptiste Herbin - alto, soprano sax

Sweet & Lovely

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Keith Brown - This Side Of Heaven

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:32
Size: 139,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:34)  1. Wind In The Fire
(4:26)  2. Unto Us
(4:10)  3. Religiously
(3:36)  4. Psalm 100
(4:40)  5. This Side Of Heaven
(3:53)  6. Reason Enough
(4:48)  7. What Kind Of Man
(4:51)  8. If There Ever Was Love
(5:10)  9. Prodigal Heart
(4:53) 10. The Beauty Of Love
(0:27) 11. Keith Talks
(4:59) 12. (You Gotta Put Love First) To Make Love Last

This is different an 11-song CD with tracks numbered 1-10, then 12. The elusive No 11 goes like this: "Hi! My name is Keith Brown and I just want to take this time to thank you for buying my album when I know there are so many great albums out there...". Profuse gratitude perhaps, but it shouldn't be treated too cynically  it's not a disguised apology for a second rate product! With this, his first release, Keith Brown has set out his stall quite convincingly as a would-be Michael (...W Smith, English or even Bolton perhaps) with a varied selection of classy synth pop and MOR ballads. More than just a vocalist, Keith has writing credits on every track, also handling the keyboards and drum programming (Jerry McPherson of Amy Grant fame plays guitar), and co-producing the album with Dez Dickerson. His best vocal performances are on the ballads, while his writing talent comes to the fore in the Caribbean-influenced "Psalm 100" and in the up tempo Christmas song "Unto Us" (are you interested Cliff?). Though possibly lacking in instant "grab you by the throat" appeal, This Side Of Heaven' is nonetheless a promising debut from someone with a lot to offer. Reviewed by Peter Dilley

This Side Of Heaven

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Keith Brown - The Journey

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:02
Size: 156,5 MB
Art: Front

(6:24)  1. 4G
(5:14)  2. Close Your Eyes and Believe
(4:19)  3. Human Nature
(6:13)  4. Capt'n Kirk
(5:48)  5. Prelude for the One
(7:40)  6. The Journey
(4:50)  7. The Narrow Road
(7:33)  8. Ten Years of Turmoil
(6:02)  9. Deception of the Heart
(6:03) 10. F.R.C.
(3:02) 11. The Biscuit Man
(4:48) 12. (I've Got a) Golden Ticket

Son of Donald, one of the countless talents discovered by Art Blakey, and like him pianist, Keith Brown is not a well-known name. He has worked as a session man in various areas of black music, from soul to jazz, and has already recorded a good record in trio a few years ago. With 'The Journey', the young Brown raises the shot and offers us an ambitious job, a real journey through all his experiences as a musician, synthesized in a fresh jazz with a contemporary cut, innervated by soul, neo-soul, funk , hip-hop - colors, melodies, rhythms and arrangements are clear, even if the group is often acoustic. From this point of view, we can think of points of reference such as Lafayette Gilchrist and especially Russell Gunn , two true master predecessors in the synthesis between jazz and the rest of contemporary black music. 'The Journey' is a complex work, but never difficult: on the contrary, the themes are always very catchy, improvisations, certainly imaginative, work within the harmonic outline, unhinging it gradually, almost without attracting attention. Great importance of the prodigious battery of Terreon Gully, which makes an insistent use of rim-shot in short repeated, broken and recombined polyrhythm patterns, reproducing in this way the typical effect of hip-hop rhythms. On the sax we find musicians in the world such as Kenneth Whalum III, Greg Tardy and Jamal Mitchell, while the bass by Clint Mullican and the Mike Seal guitar complete the training by adding jazz-funk pulsations and further colors to the ensemble moments, arranged in a new way. soul. Ah, and Keith Brown? His style, percussive and bluesy, with considerable independence in his hands and a marked taste for melodic ornamentation and chiselling, is the direct son of musicians such as John Hicks and Kenny Kirkland (to whom 'Capt'n Kirk' is dedicated), to the youngest Marc Cary. Almost all the compositions - except for the 'Human Nature', where for the most part the sax repeat the theme while the rhythm section is unleashed, dictating the dynamics and the development of the piece, then releasing the tension at the time of the sax solos, and '(I've Got a) Golden Ticket' (yes, that of the classic 'Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'!), enunciated by the piano that alludes to the stride, slowed in a wrap-around soul jazz by the band and finally closed by a suspended electric piano tail. To have heard it before, 'The Journey' would have finished straight into the top 10 of the past year. Patience. Beautiful album of pure modern jazz at the highest level, excellent also to bring neophytes closer to this music. (Negrodeath) Translate by Google http://freefalljazz.altervista.org/blog/?p=14914
 

Personnel:  Keith Brown on piano;  Terreon "Tank" Gully on drums;  Gregory Tardy on saxophones;  Kenneth Whalum III on saxophones;  Jamel Mitchell on saxophones;  Mike Seal on guitar;  Clint Mullican on bass

The Journey

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