Motoshi Kosako, Paul McCandless - Place in the Heart

Styles: Harp, Post Bop
Year: 2010
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 72:10
Size: 69,3 MB
Art: Front

(7:31) 1. Inner Nature
(6:11) 2. Night Follows the Day
(6:31) 3. Unopened Gift
(6:07) 4. Waltz for Terra
(4:57) 5. Crossroads
(4:55) 6. Babbling of Drunkard
(6:07) 7. Barking At the Moon
(5:22) 8. Idle talk
(6:24) 9. Spanish Stairs
(4:37) 10. No Sure Sense
(4:06) 11. Place in the Heart Part 1 & 2
(9:21) 12. Place in the Heart Part 3 & 4

Born in Matsuyama City, Motoshi Kosako started his musical career playing piano and guitar with professional jazz bands in Japan. In 1997 he moved to the United States, where he is currently the principal harpist of Stockton Symphony Orchestra, and where he received the ''Best of Sacramento''-award from Sacramento Magazine, which described that “Kosako plays with a fluid, modern style that evokes Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.”. Mr. Kosako has released six albums: ''Celestial Harp I'', ''Celestial Harp II'', ''Living Harp'', the jazz trio-album ''Naked Wonder'' with Bill Douglass (bass, Chinese bamboo flute) and Daryl van Druff (drums), the duo-album ''Place In The Heart'' with Grammy-award winning Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn, soprano sax, bass clarinet), and the current release ''On The Way Home''. https://www.musicians-corner.net/Motoshi-Kosako-A-thought-on-musicians-role-in-society/

This album should be one of the most unique duo collaborations in history of Jazz. Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless and innovative harpist-improviser Motoshi Kosako create very fresh sounding ensemble together. All tunes are original compositions and feature lyrical and virtuosic improvisation of McCandless and Kosako. Recorded in 2010. https://motoshikosako.bandcamp.com/album/place-in-the-heart

Personnel: Motoshi Kosako; harp; Paul McCandless; oboe, English horn,soprano sax, bass clarinet

Place in the Heart

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Paul McCandless - Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:08
Size: 150,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:54) 1. All the Mornings Bring
(2:08) 2. Elves Chasm
(3:51) 3. Bright Angel
(4:16) 4. Whooper Dance
(4:10) 5. On The Steppe Of Central Asia
(5:43) 6. Witchi Tai Too
(5:03) 7. Sunset On The Grand Sand Dunes
(3:44) 8. Um Abraco (A Big Hug)
(4:53) 9. Anabela
(5:23) 10. Sunderland
(2:09) 11. Eagle
(3:45) 12. Common Ground
(2:18) 13. Twilight
(4:20) 14. The Last Train
(2:48) 15. Fantasia In G
(6:33) 16. Morning Sun

Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe – Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective is dedicated to McCandless’ fellow oboist, the late Sir George Martin, the famed producer of albums by the Beatles, as well as the Paul Winter Consort’s album, Icarus. In his autobiography, Playback, Martin gave the Consort the accolade of a lifetime, referring to Icarus as “the finest record I have ever made.”

Accompanying the album is a 32-page booklet containing an engaging chronicle by Paul Winter that presents a first-person account of the Paul Winter Consort’s history and the memorable times Winter has shared with Paul McCandless through the years, as well as notes on each track and selected photos.

Notes Paul Winter, “With this anthology, I set out to gather a treasury of Paul McCandless’ masterful playing and found that it also became, quite unintentionally, a retrospective of the Consort the most extensive yet done. Listening through the entire album, I am thrilled with every note.” https://paulwinter.bandcamp.com/album/morning-sun-adventures-with-oboe-2

Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe

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Paul McCandless, John Taylor, Pierluigi Balducci, Michele Rabbia - Evansiana

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:46
Size: 109,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:17) 1. Very Early
(5:18) 2. Re: Person I Knew
(5:33) 3. Time Remembered
(4:52) 4. Turn out the Stars
(3:28) 5. B Minor Waltz - For Elaine
(4:43) 6. Children Play Song
(7:20) 7. Some Other Time
(6:26) 8. Sweet Dulcinea Blue
(2:47) 9. Blue in Green
(2:58) 10. Epilogue

Evansiana is a jazz album by a quartet with Paul McCandless, John Taylor, Pierluigi Balducci and Michele Rabbia. The album is an anthology of compositions by the pianist Bill Evans. It was released in February 2017 by the Italian label Dodicilune. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evansiana

Personnel: Paul McCandless, Soprano Sax, Oboe (track 2), Bass Clarinet (7); John Taylor, Piano; Pierluigi Balducci, Electric Bass; Michele Rabbia, Drums, Percussion

Evansiana

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