Molly Ryan - Sweepin’ the Blues Away

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:01
Size: 106,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:30) 1. Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
(5:37) 2. The Folks Who Live on the Hill
(4:31) 3. I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
(3:57) 4. You and I
(4:33) 5. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
(3:34) 6. I'll Sit Right on the Moon (And Keep My Eyes on You)
(3:09) 7. I Wonder Who's Kissing Him Now
(4:16) 8. You Turned the Tables on Me
(4:15) 9. A Cottage for Sale
(3:16) 10. Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy Day)
(4:19) 11. If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)

New York City jazz vocalist Molly Ryan knows how to swing with the best of ‘em. Hailed as a “critic’s favorite” by author and Wall Street Journal music writer, Will Friedwald, Ryan announces the release of her fifth solo album, Sweepin’ the Blues Away, on Turtle Bay Records, which features 11 jazz classic songs from the swingin’ ‘30s.

Since arriving in 2003 from Roseville, CA, Ryan has established quite a career on the NYC jazz scene. She has performed at prestigious Manhattan venues such as the Café Carlyle, The Rainbow Room, Joe’s Pub, Symphony Space, Birdland Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Iridium Jazz Club, The Player's Club, the Waldorf Astoria, The Cutting Room, and The Town Hall. She has performed alongside such prominent jazz artists as Randy Reinhart, Jon-Erik Kellso, Bria Skonberg, Dan Barrett, Mark Shane and Rossano Sportiello, as well as with the preeminent 1920s-style orchestra, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks.

Ryan has appeared at numerous jazz festivals and jazz parties throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Atlanta Jazz Party, the Central Illinois Jazz Festival, the North Carolina Jazz Festival, the New York Hot Jazz Festival, the Old Jazz Meeting “Zlota Tarka” in Ilawa, Poland and Winter Jazzfest in New York City, among others. In addition, Molly Ryan’s voice can be heard on the Grammy Award-winning HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (Season One). She also has made appearances on the AMAZON PRIME TV series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(Season Three) and in Take Me Back to Manhattan, the Emmy-nominated musical revue celebrating New York and the great American songbook.

WSJ music critic Will Friedwald says, “Molly swings the melody as well as the words without affectation of any kind. She brings a straight-ahead innocence and total believability to the music…She sounds worldly wise beyond her years, wonderfully gentle and lyrical.” Whether you're feeling blue or not, the new jazz swing album by Molly Ryan Sweepin’ the Blues Away, guarantees to lift your spirits! Available now on CD or vinyl at TurtleBayRecords.com. By EMPKT PR https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/nyc-jazz-vocalist-molly-ryan-releases-new-album-on-turtle-bay-records/

Personnel: Molly Ryan (Vocal); Dan Levinson (tenor sax/clarinet), Rossano Sportiello (piano), Rob Adkins (bass), Kevin Dorn (drums)

Sweepin’ the Blues Away

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Dan Levinson's Palomar Quartet & Molly Ryan - Four On The Floor

Styles: Clarinet, Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:42
Size: 82,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:32) 1. In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
(3:27) 2. Silhouetted In The Moonlight
(4:47) 3. Joseph, Joseph
(4:13) 4. Otolaryngology
(3:53) 5. My Ideal
(5:15) 6. Just One Of Those Things
(4:11) 7. Only Another Boy And Girl
(4:22) 8. Fine And Dandy

The 2017 winner of Hot House Magazine’s “NYC Jazz Fans Decision” award for Best Clarinetist, Dan Levinson is equally at home as both leader and sideman, fronting his own groups as well as performing with those led by others. During a 30-year career specializing in traditional jazz and swing music, he has appeared alongside such prominent artists as Mel Tormé, Wynton Marsalis, Dick Hyman, Bria Skonberg, Ed Polcer, Howard Alden, Joe Ascione, Dan Barrett, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Reinhart, Mark Shane, Dick Sudhalter, Frank Vignola, Rossano Sportiello, Nicki Parrott, and Randy Sandke.

Though based in New York City, Dan’s busy schedule often takes him across the continent and around the world. He has performed in Brazil with the Bunk Project, a band organized by Woody Allen and banjoist Eddy Davis, in Italy with the Manhattan Rhythm Kings, in Scotland with David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, in Germany with the Barrelhouse Jazz Band, in Japan with the New York Ragtime Orchestra, in Los Angeles at the Playboy Mansion, and at numerous jazz clubs in Paris, including Le Petit Journal, Caveau de la Huchette, Autour de Midi, Duc des Lombards, and Le Bilboquet.

His numerous music festival appearances include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Sweet and Hot Music Festival in Los Angeles, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport, the Central Illinois Jazz Festival, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the Orange County Classic Jazz Festival, the Sedalia Ragtime Festival, the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival in Essex, Connecticut, the Edinburgh Festival and Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland, and the Brecon Festival in Wales. From 1992-2004 Dan was a regular guest at Dick Hyman’s annual Jazz in July Festival in New York. In 2004 Dan organized and was featured in the JVC Jazz Festival’s centennial tribute to Jimmy Dorsey at NYC’s famed Birdland jazz club.

An ardent Benny Goodman devotee, Dan’s tributes to the clarinet legend have brought him many accolades over the years. In 1996 he gave a televised concert in Reykjavík for the president of Iceland and the prime minister of Italy. Since 1998, his re-creations of Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert have delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, spawning countless command performances in the ensuing years with various big bands. Dan is the clarinet soloist with – and co-founder of – James Langton’s New York All-Star Big Band, NYC’s preeminent swing orchestra, with whom he has appeared at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Midsummer Night Swing series, and with whom he continues to perform regularly at the world-famous Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Since 2003, Dan has toured frequently with Andrej Hermlin’s Swing Dance Orchestra from Berlin, performing tributes to Goodman, Artie Shaw and others in sold-out concert halls throughout Germany and Europe.

Dan’s tremendous respect for songs and lyrics has made him a popular accompanist with vocalists over the years. As reedman with Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos, Dan has performed in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, as well as at clubs throughout New York City. From 1990-2002 Dan toured extensively with singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, with whom he appeared on national television and at the celebrated jazz club Pizza Express in London. Dan has also accompanied vocalists Banu Gibson, Daryl Sherman, Janet Klein, Cynthia Sayer, and, most notably, his wife, the charming and talented Molly Ryan.

Since 1993 Dan has been a member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, with whom he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program, in addition to the band’s bi-weekly appearances at Iguana Restaurant in Manhattan.

Dan’s own ensembles vary considerably in style and repertoire, running the gamut from ragtime-era dance music to early jazz to swing: his Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra specializes in early twentieth century (pre-jazz) popular music; his Roof Garden Jass Band is devoted exclusively to re-creating the earliest jazz recordings, made between 1917 and 1923; his Palomar Quartet is modeled after the renowned Benny Goodman Quartet and features the same lineup of clarinet, piano, vibes, and drums; his gypsy jazz group Fête Manouche honors the rich legacy of guitarist Django Reinhardt; and his New Millennium All Stars brings together a new generation of young and vibrant “torch bearers” who are currently breathing new life into century-old jazz traditions.

Originally from the Los Angeles area, Dan moved to New York in 1983. The following year he met 82-year-old reedman James “Rosy” McHargue, who became Dan’s friend and mentor, and over the next fifteen years taught him most of what he now knows about music and life. During that period Dan also studied with world-class clarinet instructor Leon Russianoff and saxophone virtuoso Al Gallodoro.

In 1990 Dan moved to Paris to join a band formed by American cornetist Dick Miller that featured the up-and-coming vocalist Madeleine Peyroux, then 16 years old. Dan’s wanderlust soon took him across the continent, through 17 European countries, where he earned a living for a year playing on the streets. Shortly after returning to the U.S., Dan temporarily relocated to New Orleans to perform a five-night-a-week engagement at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.

Dan has performed on over 150 CDs, including nine under his own name. He can also be heard on the soundtracks to the films The Cat’s Meow, Ghost World, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, and Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, as well as on all five seasons of the Grammy Award-winning HBO television series Boardwalk Empire and all three seasons of the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Dan’s complete discography, along with his engagement calendar, photos, more information on his ensembles, and samples of his music, are available at www.danlevinson.com

Personnel: Dan Levinson, clarinet; Mark Shane, piano; Matt Hoffmann, vibes; Kevin Dorn, drums; Molly Ryan, vocals

Four On The Floor

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Molly Ryan - Let's Fly Away

Styles: Jazz, Vocal, Swing
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:55
Size: 133,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:01)  1. Wanderer
(3:09)  2. Beyond The Blue Horizon
(3:27)  3. Song Of The Wanderer
(4:41)  4. Far Away Places
(3:08)  5. Let's Fly Away
(2:42)  6. Flying Down To Rio
(4:06)  7. A Rainy Night In Rio
(4:31)  8. South Sea Island Magic
(4:04)  9. The Gypsy In My Soul
(3:40) 10. The Road To Morocco
(5:42) 11. Sous Le Ciel De Paris (Under Paris Skies)
(4:54) 12. Trav'lin' All Alone
(4:09) 13. It's Nice To Go Trav'ling
(5:32) 14. Anywhere I Wander

Originally from Roseville, CA, Molly made her jazz vocal debut at the age of 11 with the Reynolds Brothers’ Rhythm Rascals at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. Since moving to New York City in August of 2003, she has become one of the most sought-after vocalists on the New York jazz scene. She has performed alongside such prominent jazz artists as Randy Reinhart, Jon-Erik Kellso, Bria Skonberg, Dan Barrett, Mark Shane, Rossano Sportiello, as well as with the preeminent 1920s-style orchestra, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. She is a member of Gordon Au’s Grand Street Stompers, and appears on the band’s Christmas album, released in November 2012. Molly also performs periodically with the gypsy jazz group Fête Manouche and with James Langton’s New York All-Star Big Band, both of which spotlight her as rhythm guitarist as well as vocalist.

Molly has appeared at numerous jazz festivals throughout the country including the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival in Essex, CT, the Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival, the Orange County Classic Jazz Festival in Southern California, the Sweet and Hot Music Festival in Los Angeles, and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, at which she has appeared both with her own group and with a band led by her friend and mentor, pianist Bob Ringwald. She has headlined in Paris at jazz clubs such as the famed Le Petit Journal and Autour de Midi, and has been featured as a guest vocalist with Andrej Hermlin’s Swing Dance Orchestra throughout Germany in a monumental tribute to clarinet legend Benny Goodman.

In 2004, Molly took part in a spectacular re-creation of Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, as well as at the JVC Jazz Festival’s centennial tribute to Jimmy Dorsey at New York City’s famed jazz club Birdland. She headlined at Birdland every week last August for the club’s Sunday evening showcase, “Jazz Party.”

Molly’s debut album, Dream a Little Dream, featuring Bob Ringwald, was released in 2002. Her second solo album, Songbird in the Moonlight, featuring Dan Levinson, Mark Shane, Kevin Dorn, and Jon Erik Kellso, came out in 2008. Molly can also be heard on the albums Steppin’ Around with Dan Levinson’s Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra (Stomp Off Records, 2006), At the Codfish Ball with Dan Levinson’s Swing Wing (Loup-garous Productions, 2009), and Four on the Floor with the Palomar Quartet (Loup-garous Productions, 2008). Her album, Swing For Your Supper, came out in 2013 and features Bucky Pizzarelli, Randy Reinhart, Dan Levinson, Vince Giordano, Kevin Dorn, Dan Barrett, Mark Shane, as well as guest vocalists Banu Gibson and Maude Maggart. Molly can be heard on the Grammy Award-winning HBO television series Boardwalk Empire.

“A critic’s favorite,” proclaims The Wall Street Journal columnist Will Friedwald, in reference to Molly Ryan, one of the most sought-after vocalists on the New York jazz scene. She has performed at such prestigious venues as Café Carlyle, The Waldorf Astoria, Rainbow Room, and world-famous jazz clubs Birdland and Iridium. Her latest album, “Let’s Fly Away,” featuring piano legend Dick Hyman, was released earlier this year.  http://jeffandjoelshouseparty.com/musicians/molly-ryan/

 

Thank You my dear Friend!
Let's Fly Away

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Molly Ryan - Songbird In The Moonlight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:43
Size: 168.8 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Hooray For Love
[3:49] 2. These Foolish Things
[3:14] 3. I Take To You
[3:10] 4. Around The World
[4:13] 5. It's Wonderful
[4:21] 6. Put The Blame On Mame
[4:11] 7. There's A Lull In My Life
[4:03] 8. Everybody Loves Somebody
[4:31] 9. You're A Heavenly Thing
[3:29] 10. Like Someone In Love
[4:40] 11. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
[3:30] 12. I Was Lucky
[5:23] 13. By Myself
[4:21] 14. Night Wind
[3:58] 15. All My Life
[3:20] 16. There's Something In The Air
[3:42] 17. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
[5:58] 18. What A Little Moonlight Can Do

Dan Levinson - Clarinet / tenor saxophone; Mark Shane - Piano; Kevin Dorn - Drums; Jon-Erik Kellso - Trumpet.

A critic's favorite" - so proclaims author and music writer for The Wall Street Journal Will Friedwald in reference to Molly Ryan. Indeed, Molly's silvery voice and lush, elegant vocal style evoke the big band singers of the 1930s and breathe new life into familiar old standards.

Songbird In The Moonlight

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Molly Ryan (Feat. Bucky Pizzarelli) - Swing for Your Supper!

Styles: Swing
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:08
Size: 174,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. Say It With a Kiss
(3:25)  2. Where the Morning Glories Grow
(3:24)  3. Hushabye Mountain
(3:04)  4. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
(3:33)  5. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
(3:34)  6. Get Rhythm in Your Feet (And Music in Your Soul)
(4:14)  7. My Dreams Are Gone With the Wind
(3:00)  8. Sing for Your Supper
(2:27)  9. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm / I'm Just Wild About Harry
(4:29) 10. Save Your Sorrow / Look for the Silver Lining
(3:04) 11. Love Is Just Around the Corner
(4:51) 12. I'm Old Fashioned
(4:34) 13. Ready for the River
(5:06) 14. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
(4:18) 15. When My Ship Comes In
(3:37) 16. Was That the Human Thing to Do?
(3:53) 17. A Hundred Years from Today
(3:36) 18. Happy Endings
(3:39) 19. Whispers in the Dark
(3:55) 20. Without a Song

When I first asked "the Dans" (Barrett and Levinson) to write arrangements for my new album, they both wanted to know what kind of "feel" I wanted. I told them "I want it to swing." The masterful arrangements they created swing all by themselves. But performed by the best musicians in the world, they transcend the genre and take on a magical life that can't be defined by a single word.  The vocal duets and trios were certainly inspired by the Boswell Sisters, but are by no means an attempt to re- create what three sisters who had been singing together since early childhood did. Banu Gibson, Maude Maggart and I sung together for the first time at a rehearsal the night before the recording session. They are two of my favorite singers, and it was a real thrill to be together in the recording studio with them.

Diane Naegel may not be a household name, especially to those of you outside New York City. When Diane had a dream, she made it a reality. She conceived and edited Zelda: The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau. Along with her husband Don Spiro, she produced a monthly event in Manhattan called Wit's End, "A Celebration of Jazz Age Lifestyle, Music and Aesthetics," featuring era-appropriate bands. 

Diane asked me to put together a program of songs from Hollywood films for her March 2010 Wit's End event, and requested a little-known song called My Dreams are Gone with the Wind from the 1937 film The Awful Truth. I learned it and performed it. When Diane left us in 2011 at the age of 31, the world lost a beautiful human spirit. This one's for you, Diane. Your dreams live on. I hope you have as much fun listening to Swing for Your Supper! as I had making it. Most vocalists will tell you they prefer to sing later in the day, after their voice has had a chance to warm up. And it's an accepted fact that milk and dairy products don't mix with singing. I prefer to record in the morning and can't sing a note until I've stuffed a bagel and cream cheese down my throat. Perhaps I should have called the album Swing for Your Breakfast! ~ Molly Ryan   http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mollyryan2

Swing for Your Supper!

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