Radka Toneff - Butterfly

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:42
Size: 118,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:12) 1. It's Been a Long Long Day
(3:58) 2. Pre-Dawn Imagination
(4:16) 3. Antonio's Song
(3:47) 4. Nature Boy
(5:43) 5. Sometime Ago
(4:37) 6. Like That
(2:11) 7. The Butterfly
(2:53) 8. Before Love Went Out of Style
(4:31) 9. Black Coffee
(5:37) 10. My One and Only Love
(6:18) 11. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
(3:33) 12. Don't Weep for the Indy

Born Ellen Radka Toneff on 25.06.1952, died on 21.10.1982.

Radka was a Norwegian/Bulgarian jazz composer and singer. She was born in Oslo, and was the daughter of the Bulgarian folk singer, Toni Toneff.

From 1975 unto 1980 she played in the group "Radka Toneff Quintet" with, among others, Arild Andersen and Jon Eberson.

Radka leaves us the legacy of three albums; "Winter Poem", "It don't come easy", and "Fairytales" (the last one actually released after her death).

Posthumously: "Live in Hamburg" and "Her finest moments", has been released
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Her album "Fairytales" was the first Norwegian album to be digitally recorded, it also reached nr 12 in the contest "Best Norwegian album ever made".
https://www.last.fm/music/Radka+Toneff/+wiki

Personnel: Radka Toneff -vocals; Jon Balke / Steve Dobrogosz-Piano; Jon Eberson - Guitar; Arild Andersen - Doublebass; Jon Christensen / Alex Riel - drums

Butterfly

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Radka Toneff - Live in Hamburg

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:36
Size: 151,6 MB
Art: Front

(8:06) 1. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
(5:20) 2. Never Letting Go
(7:32) 3. Lonely Woman
(6:01) 4. A Certain Peace
(5:00) 5. Antonio's Song
(4:33) 6. Set It Free
(5:28) 7. Just Like a Woman
(5:12) 8. Rest Enough
(9:35) 9. Bulgarian Folksong - Fire
(3:33) 10. Havana Candy
(5:11) 11. We'll Be Together

'Live in Hamburg' by vocalist/composer Radka Toneff (alongside ECM legend Arild Andersen) must be one of the finest Norwegian concert albums ever made - regardless of genre. Now this classic is being released on vinyl for the first time, in a 180g 2LP edition with a gatefold cover.

At the same time a new CD edition with an updated cover is being released. 'Live in Hamburg' was released over ten years after Radka Toneff passed away, and shows a side of her that had never before been documented on a recording. The album won a Spellemannspris, the Norwegian Grammy award, in 1993. The material on the album comes from a concert the Radka Toneff Quartet held at the legendary jazz club Onkel Pös Carnegie Hall in Hamburg on 10 March 1981.

The German radio station NDR broadcast an hour of the concert live, and an edited version of the recording became this album, a modern classic. Arild Andersen and sound technician Jan Erik Kongshaug went through the tapes from NDR and edited the record, which was released in 1993 as the fourth recording released under Radka Toneff's name. The album provides a welcome and unsentimental snapshot of a unique artist's voice that became silent too soon, but that had a profound impact on Norwegian music history.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Live-Hamburg-Radka-Toneff/dp/B01EWZ0WQK

Personnel: Vocals [Vocal] – Radka Toneff; Piano – Steve Dobrogosz; Drums – Alex Riel; Bass – Arild Andersen

Live in Hamburg

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Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz - Fairytales

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:11
Size: 95,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:14) 1. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
(3:25) 2. Come Down In Time
(4:23) 3. Lost In The Stars
(4:22) 4. Mystery Man
(5:53) 5. My Funny Valentine
(5:47) 6. Nature Boy
(4:14) 7. Long Daddy Green
(5:10) 8. Wasted
(2:29) 9. Before Love Went Out Of Style
(2:10) 10. I Read My Sentence

Chances are you have neither heard of this album or Radka Toneff. But the album is recognised as a jazz classic in Scandinavia, is Norway's best-selling jazz album of all time and was voted Norway's Best Album of All Time in a poll of Norwegian musicians in 2011. Toneff graduated from the Oslo Musikkonservatorium in 1975.

Seven years later she was dead from an overdose. A highly original singer, she made an enormous impression on Norwegian (and Scandinavian) jazz during her brief lifetime, and her influence still continues to be felt through singers such as Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and Torun Eriksen. This is her finest work, and when it was originally released it became something of an audiophile classic, since it was recorded on one of the first digital tape machines.

Remastered using MQA technology from the 16-bit/50.35 kHz master-tapes, it appears here as a 16-bit Hybrid SACD (meaning Super Audio CD), the combination of piano and voice captured with astonishing clarity. Many pundits have described these performances as breathtaking and it is hard to disagree; the grain of Toneff's voice combined with a less-is-more delivery beguiles with its intimacy and enjoys a second life in the memory long after the CD has been played.

Ultimately, it is limiting to call this remarkable album ‘a classic of Norwegian jazz’; quite simply it is a contemporary jazz classic.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/radka-toneff-and-steve-dobrogosz-fairytales

Musicians: Steve Dobrogosz (p), Radka Toneff (v)

Fairytales

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