Vince Jones - For All Colours

Styles: Vocal And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1984
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:07
Size: 90,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:24) 1. For All Colours
(3:50) 2. Old For The New
(2:50) 3. Never Let Me Go
(5:51) 4. PartyTime
(2:35) 5. Blue
(2:47) 6. All Or Nothing At All
(2:39) 7. C’Est La Vie
(5:02) 8. Straighten Up And Fly Right
(7:13) 9. Drinking Again
(1:51) 10. Call Of The West

This is the third album of songs from Vince Jones. On this album he paints with all his colours, from the most haunting melancholy blues to the most passionate scarlet. Half of the tracks were written by Vince Jones,further establishing him as a song writing talent.This cd is the most popular of all his recordings.~ https://www.vincejones.com.au/album/for-all-colours/

Musicians: Vince Jones – trumpet, vocals; Doug de Vries – guitar; Peter Jones – piano; Paul Williams – tenor saxophone; Wilber Wilde – tenor saxophone; Peter Whitford – drums; Gary Costello – bass

For All Colours

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Janet Seidel, Tom Baker - Doodlin'

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:32
Size: 128,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:23)  1. Doodlin'
(3:23)  2. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(3:49)  3. Lady Be Good / The President
(3:39)  4. Lonely One
(3:01)  5. The Best Thing For You
(3:05)  6. Baby It's Cold Outside
(3:04)  7. In A Gypsy Tea Room
(3:41)  8. I Was Doing All Right
(4:30)  9. Stairway To The Stars
(4:22) 10. Where Or When
(3:52) 11. Jitterbug Waltz
(4:45) 12. Dedicated To You
(3:01) 13. I've Got Just About Everything I Need
(3:16) 14. You And I
(4:35) 15. Two Sleepy People

Born in Australia's bush country, Janet Seidel emerged as one of that country's leading cabaret and jazz vocalists. She appeared frequently at Australia's top jazz and hotel venues beginning in the early '80s, often working with bassist brother David Seidel. Janet Seidel also performed at jazz festivals in the U.S., working with such jazz notables as Harry Allen, Dan Barrett, Dave McKenna, and Michael Moore. Her first venture into cabaret came in 2000 when she put together and starred in Doris and Me, a tribute to Doris Day's singing career. Often working with saxophone player Tom Baker and with her brother, she has made numerous albums for the LaBrava label. Her double album The Way You Wear Your Hat was named vocal album of the year by Australia's national newspaper and was a finalist for the prestigious ARIA award. Her The Art of Lounge, Vol. 2 was similarly a finalist for that award for the AIRA Jazz Album of the Year. Seidel did not have great range, but she used the tools she possessed with great skill and effectiveness. With her intimate style, great feel for the lyrics of songs she sings, Seidel was one of those vocalists who was as much a story teller as a singer. The way she handled the music came off as a fortuitous blend of Blossom Dearie and Doris Day with an occasional nod to Julie London, although she was somewhat jazzier than the latter two. Like Jeri Southern, Shirley Horn, and Diana Krall, she often doubled at the piano. From the turn of the millennium through the decade of the 2000s, Seidel recorded prolifically, releasing such albums as Love Letters (2000), Doris & Me (2001), Don't Smoke in Bed (2002), Comme Çi, Comme Ça and The Art of Lounge, Vol. 3 (both 2003), Dear Blossom and Hooray for Christmas (both 2004), Moon of Manakoora and Delovely (both 2005), and We Get Requests and Charade: Henry Mancini Songbook (both 2007). In addition, her Live in Taipei DVD was released in 2011. Janet Seidel died from ovarian cancer in Sydney in August 2017; she was 62 years old. The numerous recordings she made evince an exquisite, gentle, and agile voice that honored each tune she sang, from classic standards to pop songs and novelties. ~ Dave Nathan https://www.allmusic.com/artist/janet-seidel-mn0000420852/biography

Personnel:  Janet Seidel and Tom Baker, vocals ; Paul Williams, tenor sax and clarinet ; Ian Date, acoustic guitar ; Glenn Henrich, vibraphone ; David Seidel, double bass ; Billy Ross, drums ; Janet Seidel, piano.

Doodlin'

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Paul Williams - A Little Bit Of Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:44
Size: 95.5 MB
Styles: Soft rock
Year: 1974/2014
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. A Little Bit Of Love
[4:24] 2. Sleep Warm
[4:50] 3. Margarita
[3:09] 4. Sunday
[3:22] 5. The Family Of Man
[1:43] 6. California Roses
[3:19] 7. She Sings For Free
[3:09] 8. Nice To Be Around
[3:41] 9. Then I'll Be Home
[3:22] 10. Loneliness
[6:23] 11. Sad Song

If Here Comes Inspiration was two steps forward, A Little Bit of Love is at least one back. It begins promisingly enough with a touching portrait of an altruistic soul ("A Little Bit of Love"), but plummets like a lead balloon into twee, sentimental excess. "Fireflies/Fun for one but twice as nice for two" croons Williams on the execrable "Sleep Warm," and it's hard not to wonder if he really buys such saccharine twaddle, or whether he's having a joke on his audience. On "Margarita" (written by Tom Jans) whose dreadful pseudo-Spanish arrangement defies belief -- Williams turns in his most self-indulgent, whining vocal performance ever. "Nice to Be Around" and "Loneliness" offer all too brief respite (both actually say something worthwhile), but before long Williams is inflicting cliché after cliché upon the weary listener ("That's a sad song/That used to be our song"), with seemingly indefatigable zeal. Only when you consider that Williams was stoned for over a decade, does any of this rotten, mawkish mess make sense. ~Charles Donovan

A Little Bit Of Love

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Ray Brown Jr. - Friends And Family

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:47
Size: 130.0 MB
Styles: R&B/Jazz/Soul
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:44] 1. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Feat. Jane Monheit)
[2:42] 2. I’m Beginning To See The Light (Feat. Melba Moore & Terry Gibbs)
[3:46] 3. Sunny Side Of The Street (Feat. James Moody)
[4:33] 4. Too Close For Comfort (Feat. Maria Muldaur)
[4:36] 5. I Wish You Love (Feat. Dionne Warwick & David Fathead Newman)
[3:30] 6. Lullaby Of Birdland (Feat. Freda Payne & Terry Gibbs)
[4:23] 7. Up On The Roof (Feat. Sophie B. Hawkins)
[4:27] 8. Ordinary Fool (Feat. Paul Williams)
[2:11] 9. A-Tisket-A-Tasket (Feat. Haylee)
[3:18] 10. Something’s Gotta Give (Feat. Freda Payne)
[4:03] 11. Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy (Feat. Dr. Lonnie Smith)
[3:43] 12. Girls On The Beach (Feat. Dave Somerville)
[3:55] 13. Laughter In The Rain (Feat. Kim Hoyer)
[3:22] 14. I Thought About You (Feat. Sally Kellerman)
[3:27] 15. How High The Moon (Feat. Ella Fitzgerald & Ray Brown Sr)

If you’re expecting any vocal similarity between Ray Brown Jr. and his mother, Ella Fitzgerald, you’ll be disappointed. Brown is, after all, not her natural son, but was adopted by Fitzgerald and Ray Brown in 1949, midway through their six-year marriage. But if his parents’ acute musicality isn’t in his genes, then he must have absorbed it, because Jr. is a first-rate performer with a deep, slightly raspy sound that suggests a blend of Bobby Short and Michael McDonald, plus a soupcon of Billy Eckstine.

The 59-year-old scion started out in the music business in the ’70s, toying with rock and then country before setting into a pop/soul groove. Friends and Family is his fourth album, but the first that inches toward jazz. The “friends” are an eclectic bunch, spanning young (Jane Monheit, Sophie B. Hawkins), old (septuagenarian David Somerville, one-time lead singer of the ’50s group the Diamonds), iconic (James Moody, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Dionne Warwick), obscure (little-known but impressive jazz chanteuse Kim Hoyer) and unexpected (Oscar-nominated M*A*S*H actress Sally Kellerman).

The results are generally excellent—particularly a funky “Memphis” featuring both Smith and Dr. John, a slow and sexy “Too Close for Comfort” with Maria Muldaur and a scorching “I’m Beginning to See the Light” with Melba Moore and Terry Gibbs. Unfortunately, the “family” portion of the program proves less rewarding. Brown teams with daughter Haylee for a rendition of “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” that zooms way past cute toward cloyingly sticky-sweet. Most disappointing is the disc-closing attempt at a family reunion, with Jr. awkwardly wedged into the middle of a muddy, old recording of mom and dad performing “How High the Moon.” ~Christopher Loudon

Friends And Family

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Paul Williams - Evergreens: The Best Of The A&M Years

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:32
Size: 182.1 MB
Styles: Soft rock, AM pop
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:18] 1. We've Only Just Begun
[3:38] 2. Waking Up Alone
[4:28] 3. I Never Had It So Good
[3:09] 4. An Old Fashioned Love Song
[2:57] 5. Let Me Be The One
[3:32] 6. Out In The Country
[5:12] 7. I Won't Last A Day Without You
[3:35] 8. Traveling Boy
[3:41] 9. You And Me Against The World
[3:53] 10. That's What Friends Are For
[3:34] 11. Rainy Days And Mondays
[2:58] 12. If We Could Still Be Friends
[2:37] 13. What Would They Say
[4:09] 14. Dream Away
[4:17] 15. A Little Bit Of Love
[3:22] 16. The Family Of Man
[3:04] 17. Nice To Be Around
[3:21] 18. Loneliness
[3:40] 19. Time And Tide
[4:21] 20. Ordinary Fool
[2:58] 21. Evergreen
[3:37] 22. The Hell Of It

In the '70s, Paul Williams was one of the most successful songwriters in pop music, writing hits for the Carpenters, Three Dog Night, Helen Reddy, and the Monkees, and winning an Academy Award for "Evergreen," the love theme from the Barbra Streisand blockbuster A Star Is Born. Williams also enjoyed a career as an actor in television and movies, and was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and in the midst of it all, he found the time to record a handful of solo albums in which he interpreted his own songs. Evergreens: The Best of the A&M Years is a 22-track collection that brings together the best moments from the five albums he cut during his tenure with A&M Records -- 1971's Just an Old Fashioned Love Song, 1972's Life Goes On, 1974's Here Comes Inspiration and A Little Bit of Love, and 1975's Ordinary Fool. Evergreens features Williams' performances of many of the hits he penned for others, including "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Out in the Country," "You and Me Against the World," "That's What Friends Are For," and "Evergreen," as well as fan favorites such as "Traveling Boy," "Waking Up Alone," and "Nice to Be Around." The album also features "The Hell of It," which Williams wrote and performed for Brian DePalma's cult classic rock & horror film The Phantom of the Paradise. While this sampler leaves out Williams' earliest work (including his recordings with the sunshine pop band the Holy Mackerel), Evergreens is a solid introduction to his best-known and most fruitful period as a recording artist, and the artful production and arrangements on these recordings show off Williams' tunes in a new and impressive light. ~Mark Deming

Evergreens: The Best Of The A&M Years

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Paul Williams - Here Comes Inspiration

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:55
Size: 89.1 MB
Styles: AM pop, Soft rock
Year: 1974/2014
Art: Front

[0:53] 1. Nilsson Sings Newman
[3:42] 2. You And Me Against The World
[3:31] 3. You Know Me
[3:01] 4. Driftwood
[3:54] 5. That's What Friends Are For
[3:34] 6. Rainy Days And Mondays
[3:06] 7. Inspiration
[2:59] 8. If We Could Still Be Friends
[2:38] 9. What Would They Say
[3:38] 10. Born To Fly
[3:32] 11. In The Beginning
[4:20] 12. Dream Away

Here Comes Inspiration is one of Williams' better albums. It revisits all of his strongest artistic points, and includes dreamy, whimsical high points like "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Driftwood," and "You and Me Against the World." His voice is certainly still a weak, bleating non-instrument, but here it's never dishonest or insincere. As usual, he's supported by the finest session musicians money can buy and an orchestra whose subtle arrangements never overpower the songs. Most of the material is written by Williams alone (with occasional co-writes from producer Ken Asher). Listeners may prefer the more professional performances of the Carpenters and Helen Reddy, who've recorded a number of the titles (Reddy recorded no less than four of them), but there's a more raw, affecting quality to these original renditions. ~Charles Donovan

Here Comes Inspiration

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