Randy Reinhart & Jesper Thilo Sextet - For Basie

Styles: Trumpet, Trombone And Clarinet Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:40
Size: 180,4 MB
Art: Front

(7:32)  1. Undecided
(9:10)  2. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
(5:40)  3. Blue And Sentimental
(5:23)  4. I'll See You In My Dreams
(8:43)  5. Moten Swing
(8:46)  6. Lady Be Good
(5:50)  7. Medley  Echoes Of Spring All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
(6:11)  8. One O'clock Jump
(6:56)  9. If I Had You
(7:27) 10. I Would Do Most Anything For You
(6:56) 11. Lester Leaps In

In 2004 trumpeter/trombonist Randy Reinhart joined the Danish saxophonist Jesper Thilo's sextet to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the legendary Count Basie's birth. Rather than copying Basie recordings not for note, the musicians recreate a musical way of thinking and feeling epitomized by the Basie band and its smaller spinoffs in the great pre-war period. This sextet plays in the great tradition but bring to it their own inventiveness. The result is simultaneously modern and nostalgic, idiomatic and timeless. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Basie-Randy-Reinhart/dp/B000EQ44UM

Personnel: Randy Reinhart - (trumpet, trombone), Jesper Thilo - (tenor sax, clarinet, vocals), Rossano Sportiello - (piano), Rudolf `Pluto' Kemper - (guitar), Nico Gastreich - (bass), Moritz Gastreich - (drums)               

For Basie

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Randy Reinhart - As Long As I Live

Styles: Cornet And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 67:57
Size: 126,4 MB
Art: Front

( 5:45)  1. At The Jazz Band Ball
( 7:17)  2. As Long As I Live
( 6:33)  3. Too Late Now
( 6:16)  4. Nobody's Sweetheart
( 3:21)  5. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
( 2:50)  6. Weatherbird Rag
( 4:36)  7. Mood Indigo
( 9:53)  8. The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
(10:59)  9. Yellow Dog Blues
( 4:15) 10. More Than You Know
( 6:07) 11. Clarinet Marmalade

A critic's job is to critique, and while that doesn't necessarily mean finding fault, it does mean that you're supposed to be able to hear the good and bad together and comment on both. The problem comes when an album is so consistently appealing that you have a hard time getting distance from its charms. That's exactly the problem with this live album from cornettist and trombonist Randy Reinhart, who coats every tune on this winning program of trad and swing standards with a tone so sweet and burnished that listening to it makes you feel like you're eating ice cream. The fact that his accompanists include clarinetist Kenny Davern, trombonist Dan Barrett, and pianist John Sheridan only adds to the difficulty of gaining critical distance. So suffice it to say that the band's charging rendition of "At the Jazz Band Ball" is a masterpiece of group-improv tension and release, that their ten- and 11-minute-long versions of "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me" and "Yellow Dog Blues" are too short, and that when Reinhart and Barrett switch instruments on "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" the only reason you notice is that their brilliance changes color slightly. And when you listen closely to the opening head on "As Long as I Live," you'll hear harmony work between the cornet, trombone, and clarinet that is liable to make you tear up. Innovative? Not in the slightest. Masterful, brilliant, inspiring? Absolutely. ~ Rick Anderson http://www.allmusic.com/album/as-long-as-i-live-mw0000350778

Personnel: Dan Barrett (cornet, trombone); Frank Tate (double bass); James Chirillo (guitar); Kenny Davern (clarinet); Randy Reinhart (cornet, trombone); John Sheridan (piano); Tony DeNicola (drums).

As Long As I Live

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