Kenny Poole - Heritage

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:56
Size: 153.2 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Mas Que Nada
[7:44] 2. Django
[4:31] 3. If You Never Come To Me
[5:58] 4. Voce E Eu
[6:24] 5. Our Love Is Here To Stay
[3:39] 6. Little White Lies
[6:27] 7. Jive At Five
[5:33] 8. The Song Is You
[4:03] 9. A Pele Do Martin Skin Of Ivory
[6:06] 10. Where Are You
[4:19] 11. Brazil
[6:33] 12. I Can't Get Started
[1:38] 13. Calcutta

Kenny Poole was a guitarist's guitarist. He never sought the limelight that others with his talents achieved, but his much admired jazz chops attracted musicians in the know. He performed with such luminaries as Jack McDuff, Tal Farlow, Joe Pass, Howard Alden and Jack Wilkins. Sadly, Poole lost his fight with cancer in 2006. But with the release of Heritage, a collection of his live solo performances at Cincinnati's Heritage Restaurant, Poole's soulful and sophisticated finger-style arrangements are available for the everyone to admire. The tracks included on Heritage are a marvelous cross-section of Poole's interest in American Songbook and bossa nova styles.

Heritage

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Gene Bertoncini, Kenny Poole - East Meets Midwest

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:56
Size: 137.2 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[4:09] 1. Tangerine
[3:53] 2. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
[4:37] 3. All The Things You Are
[4:05] 4. The Shadow Of Your Smile
[6:18] 5. Cherokee
[5:59] 6. Estaté
[3:41] 7. How About You
[5:25] 8. Sophisticated Lady
[3:33] 9. Snowfall
[8:51] 10. Willow Weep For Me
[3:46] 11. Woman From Bahia
[5:33] 12. A Sleepin' Bee

Part of the genius of many jazz performers is the ability to set up in a studio, with or without charts, name a tune, decide on a key, roll the tape machine (or boot up the computer) and record a fully unrehearsed session in one take. It preserves the immediacy of the live moment in performing. We get that from two guitarists – Gene Bertoncini and Kenny Poole – in East Meets Midwest, the debut recording for Cincinnati-based JCurve Records.

Bertoncini, a nylon-string guitarist who has performed with Tony Bennett and Lena Horne, teams with Poole on a mellow, 12-track selection of standards, joined on five of them by Bob Bodley on acoustic bass. Bodley plays so discreetly on those selections, though, you can hardly tell he's there.

Among the more outstanding moments on this recording are a spirited renditions of "Tangerine" and "The Shadow of Your Smile." Bear in mind, though, that these and the others are more than just different versions of standards. These are lively, masterful, technically flawless, and entertaining instrumentals. Perhaps the most astounding selection is the duo's brief version of Claude Thornhill's "Snowfall." Bertoncini sets the tempo with a rhythm on his guitar, faster than the song normally takes. Poole plays a brief version of the theme on top of it, then launches right into a solo. At one point, they seem to jump into different keys and rhythms that it becomes a little difficult to tell that it they are playing "Snowfall." But Poole returns to the theme to finish the rest of the selection. ~Tim Roberts

East Meets Midwest

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