Lluís Coloma Trio - 7 Nights At Central

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:47
Size: 157.5 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[ 5:04] 1. Hurricane's Boogie
[ 4:14] 2. African Gospel
[ 3:58] 3. Coloma's Boogie
[ 4:51] 4. Sleeping
[ 3:51] 5. Betsy's Silent Movie
[ 4:26] 6. Campi Qui Boogie
[ 3:51] 7. Bumble Boogie
[ 8:05] 8. Darkness Dance
[ 4:58] 9. Longhair's Tribute
[ 6:35] 10. The Spirit Of The Blues
[13:02] 11. Cromatic Boogie
[ 5:46] 12. Georgia On My Mind (Bis)

Lluis Coloma (p), Manolo Germán (b), Marc Ruiz (d).

"This CD includes twelve tracks recorded during a week of concerts at Café Central in Madrid. Seven nights wrapped up by a unique atmosphere and the warm audience of one of the most magic places where we have played. With Marc and Manolo, I have shared more than eight years playing concerts, living experiences, traveling, rehearsing, laughing... which make this CD full of complicity and feeling. A honest taste of our music." ~Lluis Coloma

7 Nights At Central

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Julio Resende - Fado & Further (Live)

Size: 171,4 MB
Time: 74:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Piano Jazz, Fado, Latin Jazz
Art: Front

01. Uma Outra Mariquinhas ( 9:18)
02. Fado Loucura/Sou Do Fado (10:45)
03. Da Alma (11:46)
04. Gaivota ( 8:35)
05. Lagrima (Feat. Silvia Perez Cruz) ( 6:55)
06. Cucurrucucu Paloma (Feat. Silvia Perez Cruz) ( 8:49)
07. Pare Meu (Feat. Silvia Perez Cruz) ( 9:52)
08. Enfrentar O Medo ( 8:17)

“Fado & Further”, consists of live excerpts from concerts performed by Júlio Resende between 2014 and 2015, while touring in support of his previous work – “Amália por Júlio Resende”, rated 5 “Choc-Disc” stars by prestigious magazine CLASSICA – FRANCE.

Being a two-parted album, the first half brings us a solo performance by the pianist, who presents new takes on the Fado songbook, alongside an original piece and a traditional hispanic song; the second part brings along the charming Sílvia Pérez Cruz – who began her collaboration with Júlio Resende in a sold-out show at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon and is considered by critics and the public “Spain’s best singer right now”.

Júlio Resende embraced the heritage of Carlos Paredes and Amália Rodrigues and from his fingertips sprang a new approach to Fado.

After having sold out venues in Dili and Tokyo, the pianist’s next destination is Paris, where he will perform at the JazzyColors Festival before returning to Portugal to present his new record.The “Fado & Further” concerts are scheduled for November 27th at the Auditório Municipal de Olhão, in Algarve and November 28th at the Grande Auditório do Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon.

Along with Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Júlio Resende will also be joined on stage by the great brazilian singer-songwriter Moreno Veloso, musical heir to one of the greatest brazilian icons – his father Caetano Veloso.

Fado & Further

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Joan Chamorro, Carla Motis - Joan Chamorro Presenta Carla Motis

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:10
Size: 165,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:11)  1. As Long as I Live
(4:42)  2. He Ain´t Got Rhythm
(3:52)  3. Peggy´s Blue Skylight
(5:33)  4. Everything Happens to Me
(5:19)  5. O Grande Amor
(3:34)  6. Dance for Daddy
(5:12)  7. It Had to Be You
(4:25)  8. I'll Wind
(6:10)  9. Afro Blue
(4:49) 10. What´s New?
(4:30) 11. Doodlin´
(4:48) 12. Chelsea Bridge
(5:18) 13. When It´s Sleepy Time Down South
(3:44) 14. Minor League
(4:56) 15. Saudades da Guanabara

Thirteen years of jazz and 12 "Joan Chamorro presents ...", in this case Carla Motis, who joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band in 2008, with 11 years, and who has been the only guitarist who has formed part of the band. As Freddie Green in Count Basie's bigband, Carla Motis, discreetly, during all these years, has given a special sound to the rhythm section. His time, every day that passed, was more solid, her "compings" supported the soloists that were emerging and she remained in the background, but with a great rhythmic and harmonic contribution. My work in the context of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band has been to try, not so much to teach music properly, but also to transmit my passion for it. Making young people who start at an early age see that devoting themselves to music, specifically Jazz, is something wonderful and worth spending part of our time. On the other hand, I understand that all students are different and that their times in the learning processes and giving light to their creativity and what they are learning and assimilating, are also so. Carla Motis is, for me, and I say it with great satisfaction, the realization that work, perseverance, patience and believing in something have their morereward. Carla Motis, discreetly but in a continuous evolution, begins, three or four years ago, to surface with her improvisations, little by little, timidly, with a coherent discourse, beyond her rhythmic function. 

A speech based on bebop, with references such as Charlie Christian, Grant Creen or Wes Montgomery, and all this with a work supervised with great success by his teacher and collaborator in many of my projects, Josep Traver. And growing and enjoying every day of its evolution, comes this CD, in which we can listen to Carla's wonderful phrasing, as well as a beautiful sound and a coherent and increasingly original speech. One of the things I would like to highlight especially is the incredible time and swing that characterizes it. "Carla is coming", and never stop, because I am convinced that Carla has a lot to tell us with her voice, with the voice of her guitar, because both are the same, and merge, how can it be otherwise in it, a wonderful artist ... Translate By Google https://santandreujazzband.bandcamp.com/album/joan-chamorro-presenta-carla-motis

Joan Chamorro Presenta Carla Motis

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Jorge Pardo - Música Tradicional Peruana

Styles: Vocal, Flamenco
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:24
Size: 79,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Tu Perdición
(3:15)  2. La Abeja
(3:03)  3. Y Se Llama Perú
(3:28)  4. Mueve Tu Cucú
(2:59)  5. Olga
(3:46)  6. Cada Domingo a las 12
(2:59)  7. Rebeca
(4:16)  8. Cariño Bonito
(2:48)  9. Comadre Cocoliche
(4:08) 10. Contigo Perú

He was born in Madrid (Spain), December 1, 1956. He starts young playing the guitar but soon he is attracted to the world of wind instruments. His musical references are many artists and different styles. Professionally he starts playing in the city “haunts”. Diego Carrasco, Jean Luc Vallet, Manuel Soler, Peer Wyboris, David Thomas, Ricardo Miralles, Pedro Iturralde, Vlady Bas, among others, are references and  masters of his environment. His first professional recording with Las Grecas is an anecdote, late in Dolores Band, He is grouped around Pedro Ruy Blas and several musicians of the Madrid scene, to record 3 LPs and in one of them appears Paco de Lucia, with whom he will work over time in many recordings and worldwide tours. Also at the same time he met Camarón, and records in La “Leyenda del Tiempo”, since then, more than 20 albums and several trips around the world taking his personal language and vision of the Hispanic musical tradition. He is a usual partner of Chick Corea, and plays in his band Touchstone on a worldwide tour. His collaborators list extends covering the most diverse styles and backgrounds, from “solo flute” to his latest Flamenco Big Band project Huellas XL, flamenco and jazz trios or symphonics projects make this musician, an authentic  all-terrain. There are musicians who are masters at what they do but become torpid with other musics, others manage to mix languages with relative ease, but only a few are genuine alchemists, those who know the nature and properties of the metals they want to merge  and they know to get pure art through the alchemy. Faustino Nuñez. January 15Th 2013. Jorge Pardo received in Paris at Théâtre du Châtelet  the award for Best European Jazz Musician, by the French Jazz Academy. http://jorgepardo.com/biography/

Música Tradicional Peruana

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Jorge Pardo - Djinn

Styles: Jazz, Flamenco
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:39
Size: 167,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:00)  1. Lo Se por el Talega
(4:42)  2. Ricardo y Tio Borrico
(4:33)  3. Kl3y2kop1o
(6:05)  4. El Observador y Mezclaito
(4:07)  5. El Gallo de Pedro
(8:56)  6. Djinn
(6:24)  7. Taranta
(5:32)  8. Estaba Soñando...La Deje Dormir
(1:21)  9. Ni Contigo Ni Con Nadie
(5:29) 10. Bulería de la Perla
(3:58) 11. Atlantico Puro
(7:47) 12. Viva el Borrico
(4:05) 13. Te Veia Yo
(4:34) 14. Entre Dos Aguas

Spanish jazz, flamenco and world music saxophonist and flutist Jorge Pardo has a new album titled Djinn. Djinn combines jazz grooves, electronic beats and flamenco. Pardo uses acid Hammond organ, powerful drums, electric bass and flamenco guitar along with guest DJs from the world of electronic music. Jorge Pardo was a member of pioneering Spanish salsa and Latin jazz band Dolores. He later worked with flamenco legends Paco de Lucia and Camarón. His essential albums include Vientos Flamencos, 10 de Paco, Huellas, and Historias de Radha y Krishna. Jorge Pardo will be touring Spain to promote the new album. The next concerts will take place Friday, October 28 at Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Saturday, October 29 at Sala Malandar in Sevilla. ~ Angel Romero https://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/10/23/jorge-pardo-releases-djinn/

Djinn

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Chano Dominguez, Javier Colina - Chano & Colina

Styles: Piano Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:16
Size: 165,8 MB
Art: Front

( 5:18)  1. Luces de la fragua
( 5:57)  2. You the Night and the Music
(11:20)  3. Habanera de la Habanera
( 8:22)  4. My One and Only Love
( 5:49)  5. Para Chick
( 9:08)  6. We Will Meet Again
( 5:45)  7. You Must Believe In Spring
( 6:47)  8. Canción de Amor
( 8:39)  9. Ziryab
( 5:06) 10. Serpent's Tooth

Chano Domínguez is from Cádiz, Spain, the birthplace (according to legend) of flamenco. His discography is mostly on Spanish labels. He released two records on Blue Note in 2010 and 2012 (Piano Ibérico and Flamenco Sketches), but they are atypical and already rarities. Over the Rainbow came out last year on Sunnyside; now there’s Chano & Colina too. For those new to Domínguez, the two Sunnyside titles are where to start, and they will be revelations. His unique piano language organically fuses two sensibilities: the rhythms and harmonies of flamenco and the improvisatory spirit of jazz. The first Sunnyside album was a solo concert. Chano & Colina, also recorded live in Spain, adds bassist Javier Colina. “Ziryab,” by Paco de Lucía, is unleashed excitement, an ornate spontaneous jazz design overtaken by the climactic flourishes of flamenco. Even more striking are the North American standards. “You and the Night and the Music” has been waiting 80 years for Domínguez to inject all those extra flamenco beats into its straight 4/4. A song about being “filled with flaming desire” has never been set on fire like this. Domínguez’s rhythmic sophistication and intensity do amazing things to ballads. “My One and Only Love” becomes a spring-loaded flamenco waltz, an assertive new concept of tenderness. It’s initially surprising that he chooses two songs associated with Bill Evans, but on them he proves that he’s more than a master of metrical manipulation; he generates energy in the service of lyricism. “We Will Meet Again” has a new lift, which makes it more, not less, poignant. (Its emotion is deepened by one of Colina’s many dramatic solos.) “You Must Believe in Spring” is transformed by the creative force that sets it into throbbing motion. Michel Legrand’s fragile avowal of faith has rarely sounded so sensual. https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/javier-colina-chano-dominguez-chano-colina/

Personnel:  Javier Colina (bass); Chano Dominguez (piano)

Chano & Colina

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Mayte Alguacil - Day by Day

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:42
Size: 111,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:52)  1. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key
(4:16)  2. Little Girl Blue
(3:20)  3. Day by Day
(3:51)  4. East of the Sun
(5:48)  5. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
(5:51)  6. September in the Rain
(4:00)  7. The Thrill Is Gone
(4:05)  8. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
(3:49)  9. Sophisticated Lady
(3:38) 10. I Wish You Love
(6:07) 11. The Nearness of You

Mayte Alguacil began as a flute player at 12, and developed a real taste for singing only in the last few years. She started singing in different projects, until she decided to do her first project as a singer, an album devoted to what she loved the most: the Great American Song Book. And so she did an album of standards. The excellent work of the rhythm section allow things to flow in a relaxed and natural way. The sure, driving drums of Jorge Rossy and the strong bass of Pedro Campos along with the melodic, swinging and great comping and soloingof Michael Kanan are the perfect support to Mayte on the mid and up tempo tunes. On the singer-pianist duets, beauty is the word that best defines what they do in each song. 

Her singing comes out as fresh and pure, straight from the heart, with a close love for the melody and full of the sweetest nuances, structured by her own feeling for simplicity. And to embrace simplicity and make it expressive, lovely and moving is one of the most difficult things for any artist to pull off. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Day-Mayte-Alguacil/dp/B015JMT8G0

Personnel:  Mayte Alguacil (vocals), Michael Kanan (piano), Pedro Campos (bass), Jorge Rossy (drums).

Day by Day

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Lluís Coloma, Carl Sonny Leyland - Telling Our Stories

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:19
Size: 145.0 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz piano, Boogie woogie
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Boogie Boogie Gallop
[4:34] 2. Swipesy Cakewalk
[5:28] 3. Rolling Tumbleweeds
[4:24] 4. Detour Through Melancholia
[4:43] 5. Destroying The Boogie
[5:05] 6. Trembling Blues
[5:41] 7. Avalon
[4:54] 8. After Glowers
[3:03] 9. Good Gravy Rag
[5:37] 10. Hindustan
[3:39] 11. It's A Brand New Boogie
[5:27] 12. Swanee River Boogie
[3:14] 13. Your Cheating Heart
[4:13] 14. Sun's Gonna Shine On Pretty Redwing Someday

Lluís Coloma (p), Carl Sonny Leyland (p & vcl).

Lluís Coloma and Carl Sonny Leyland first met nearly 20 years ago at the Boogie Woogie Festival in LaRoquebrou, France. After that initial meeting, their paths crossed on numerous occasions and a mutual admiration and close friendship developed.

Now, they have the opportunity to present this collection of duet recordings. Considered to be two of the most original and creative pianists in the blues and boogie genre, Carl Sonny & Lluís know the tradition intimately, but are not afraid to introduce new elements which they incorporate in a truly organic and natural way. While these two players and composers each have their own very defined and personal sounds, they join together seamlessly here for a musical conversation filled with creativity, spontaneity, and virtuosity.

Carl Sonny Leyland & Lluís Coloma present in these recordings an innovative mix of tradition and modernity that will transport the listener to unexpected places full of magic and complexity.

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Pere Soto - Gypsy Jazz 2018

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:02
Size: 98.5 MB
Styles: Gypsy jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:56] 1. 1000 Years No Gigs
[3:15] 2. A Second Love
[3:19] 3. Dancing With Mr. Joan Marti
[4:05] 4. Prisoner Of Love
[3:53] 5. Menor-K Blues
[5:44] 6. Rumbatron
[5:35] 7. The Ballad Of The Moons
[4:45] 8. Pomping Into A Black Hole
[4:25] 9. Esperant La Lluna Plena
[2:59] 10. Hele Guify

Born in Badalona (Catalonia, Spain). Guitar player, composer, arranger, music producer. His family was of humble class, and for this reason, he could never afford a quality electric guitar until he was 20 years old, seeing his dad who was accumulating credibility thanks to his concerts, radio programs and the local press decided to buy his first guitar, a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. It was the first left-handed Gibson guitar that came to Spain, they told him at the New-Phono music store in Barcelona. Until that moment He had always been asking for borrowed a guitar to anyone, either by a friend or like once happens by a missionary from the Carmelite Church, where he was playing every Sunday in the church band. That missioner lent him a guitar "Framus" for a long time. Perhaps that is the reason that at present he can also play the guitar with the strings upside down (since he is left-handed) because of the habit of playing with "normal" borrowed guitars for so long.

At age 17 he decided to finish his studies in mercantile expertise after a problem of mental exhaustion because he worked ten hours a day, and another four continued his studies at night and on weekends playing wherever he could. Apart combined all that with his favourite hobby was to play Ping Pong (table tennis) at a club in the city and becoming champion of Badalona later on. That took him to a level of stress that caused an emotional relapse and nervous breakdown of great magnitude. Then he had no choice but to stop working on anything that was not music which caused him a big problem with his father, who was an entrepreneur and one of the best European printing technicians. It should be added that every time he tried to study at the music conservatory in his city, regularly he was forbidden to examine and get the degree, himself because he was left-handed and in those moments that the country was governed by the dictatorship of General Franco that was forbidden. He understood that his training should be self-taught and launched for it.

He is known in the international scene for his esthetical flexibility that covers styles as unalike as gypsy jazz, free jazz, Avantgarde, jazz fusion, Bebop and, in classical music, contemporary and electroacoustic music, mostly XX century styles. Currently, his work as a composer exceeds the amount of 1000 registered compositions at the SGAE, (Sociedad General de Autores de España) among Jazz music and classical music. He is also currently active as a music producer, with his own recording studio and as a consultant-engraver for music publishing companies, schools, etc. He is publishing his works with three publishing Co.; from Catalonia - Clivis publication and La Ma de guido, and from Denmark - Bergmann Edition.

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Elkano Browning Cream - Bor Bor

Size: 112,8 MB
Time: 48:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz, Hammond Organ
Art: Front

01. Bethany (3:47)
02. Ping Pong Jon (7:41)
03. Trains Speeding (8:03)
04. Bor Bor (9:05)
05. Kaiju (7:17)
06. Wah T (6:42)
07. Egan Jam (5:35)

Since releasing their first eponymous album in 2007, Elkano Browning Cream's career has been characterized by a multi-angular approach to music, resulting in records that are rich in nuances, containing thorough melodies with a strong rhythmic component. Coordinated by pianist and organist from San Sebastian, Mikel Azpiroz, the band is completed by the Parisian drum player Franck Mantegari, and the British guitarist who lives in Barcelona, Dave Wilkinson. The three members provide their interesting parallel careers, including collaborations with artists such as: Alpha Blondi, Saint Germain, Brian Jackson, and Jabier Muguruza, among others, and all this background combined with the bands international nature results in jazz with a personality of its own, eclectic and exotic. They edited album “2” in 2010, following the footsteps of their first work, and in 2012 they released “Bohemia”, a small jewel of gypsy sounds, a tribute to street musicians. “UH EH” (2014) is a clear manifestation of the groups maturity and interpretive strength. “Bor Bor” (2018) is the band’s most powerful and jammin’ album up to this day. The band's multiculturality also results in a nomadic character; since their early days in the USA (where they met), the band has performed in several festivals and venues in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania: San Sebastian Jazz Festival, Woodford Folk Festival (Australia), Cotton Club of Shanghai (China), Jazz Festival of Quito (Ecuador), Jazz Festival of Delhi (India), Madrids Veranos de la Villa, Cultura Inquieta de Getafe, etc.

Bor Bor

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Joan Chamorro - Joan Chamorro Presenta Joan Codina

Size: 175,6 MB
Time: 75:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz, Vocals
Art: Front

01. I Had The Craziest Dream (3:46)
02. You Are Too Beautiful (4:56)
03. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (4:28)
04. Just In Time (2:57)
05. If I Had You (2:38)
06. Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (7:46)
07. Claudette's Way (6:10)
08. Airegin (4:51)
09. Vivo Sonhando (4:50)
10. Hip Bones (4:33)
11. Brigas Nunca Mais (4:17)
12. My Old Flame (3:55)
13. Luminescence (4:20)
14. Theme From Picnic (4:18)
15. Codina's Blues (5:47)
16. I've Never Been In Love Before (5:35)

Joan Chamorro keeps woking on his labour of love for music and teaching. After presenting Andrea Motis, Eva Fernández, Magalí Datzira, Rita Payés, Marc Martin, Joan Mar Sauqué and Èlia Bastida, now it’s time for trombonist Joan Codina.

Sant Andreu Jazz Band is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.

Joan Chamorro Presenta Joan Codina

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Carmen Cuesta-Loeb - Toda una vida

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:43
Size: 119,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:46)  1. Voy a Apagar la Luz
(3:50)  2. Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
(4:23)  3. Contigo Aprendí
(4:40)  4. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
(4:02)  5. El Reloj
(4:57)  6. La Puerta
(4:40)  7. El Día Que Me Quieras
(4:52)  8. No Te Confundas
(4:09)  9. Dos Gardenias
(4:16) 10. Como Fue
(3:16) 11. Bésame Mucho
(3:46) 12. Toda una Vida

“Toda Una Vida” is not your typical Boleros album even though it has mostly Bolero standards. Spaniard singer Carmen Cuesta gives a nice jazzy spin to classic Boleros in her CD with the help of jazz guitarist and husband Chuck Loeb. “Most singers at one point in their career will want to do a Boleros album…” Carmen told me in an interview with Latino Music Café. “There are so many good Bolero albums out there, that I wanted to give mine something different. I wanted to combine the American influence of Jazz with the Latin essence of the Bolero” said the singer raised in Madrid.To be able to achieve this beautiful differentiation in “Toda Una Vida”, it helps to work (and be married ) with legendary guitarist Chuck Loeb, who played in Stan Getz´s band. 

“Collaborating with Chuck allowed me to take (the songs) into a slightly different dimension, a new approach” says Carmen in her press release for “Toda Una Vida” (released January 2014). In our conversation, Carmen said that they wanted to change the tempo of the typical Bolero, but still keeping the essence of the message and feeling of each song. This extraordinary mix of beautiful Bolero standards with a slightly different musical approach was achieved thanks to Chuck Loeb’s musical mastery as well as the participation of Madrid-based renown musicians. “Toda Una Vida” was co-produced by popular Spanish music producer Paco Ortega and was recorded in Ortega’s Musicgrama recording studio in Madrid.¨ For her 6th album, Carmen Cuesta selected a combination of songs that include renown Bolero standards, a few less known Boleros, and then added one song of her own authorship. “My first thought was to record less known but beautiful Boleros that people might not be familiar with; but then decided that I also wanted to record some Bolero standards that I really love. To round up the album I thought, ‘why not add one of my own compositions?’, and added “No Te Confundas”. http://www.latinomusiccafe.com/2014/02/16/carmen-cuestas-jazzy-boleros-in-toda-una-vida/

Personnel: Carmen Cuesta: vocals; Chuck Loeb: guitars, additional keyboards; José San Martín: drums, shakers; Antonio “Toño” Miguel: acoustic bass; Moisés P. Sánchez: piano, electric piano; Yuvisney Aguilar: percussion; Antonio Serrano: harmonica (3); Kike Perdomo: flute (2); Oli Rockberger: piano (12).

Toda una vida

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Tete Montoliu, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Face To Face

Styles: Piano Jazz 
Year: 1982
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:31
Size: 93,1 MB
Art: Front

(10:34)  1. There'll Never Be Another You
( 9:20)  2. I Love You
(11:02)  3. I Fall In Love Too Easily
( 9:34)  4. Lover Man / Salt Peanuts

A legendary meeting of two of the greatest European jazz talents. Though they have been playing together since the early 60s, this is their first and (so far) only duo recording.

Personnel:  Tete Montoliu – piano;  Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass

Face To Face

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Big Band Jazz Maresme - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:09
Size: 165.2 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[7:03] 1. Backrow Politics
[5:06] 2. A Beautiful Friendship
[9:10] 3. Tin Tin Deo
[2:19] 4. This Can't Be Love
[3:48] 5. Half The Fun
[4:44] 6. Love For Sale
[8:29] 7. The Blues Machine
[6:02] 8. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[6:02] 9. Pots & Pans
[5:13] 10. Solitude
[4:43] 11. In A Mellow Tone
[5:57] 12. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
[3:27] 13. T'ain't What You Do

Saxo alt: FRANCESCO CAFISO; Piano i direcció: Gerard Nieto; Trompetes:Ivó Oller, Jaume Peña, Albert Cruz, Ignasi Franco: Trombons: Aram Montagut, Tom Johnson, Jordi Montasell i Pere Bono; Saxos: Nil Villà, Marc, Joan Moragas, Jaume Maristany Albert Comaleras: Base rítmica: Lluís Murillas (guitarra) Pep Rius (contrabaix) Xavi Hinojosa (bateria).

Big Band Jazz Maresme, it's been ten years ahead of this project ... how is it possible? with the bureaucratic "sticks on the wheels" and other things that we encounter. Also, of wanderings, little institutional support and programmers are disappointing. There is only one explanation: we are crazy to touch and suffer from anxiety if we spend too many hours without contact with music. At the same time we also believe that we do a pedagogical social function, defending and showing this music that we like so much, jazz.

In these 10 years, the Big Band has evolved, has compacted its sound and currently has the ability to reach the repertoires of the different projects, much faster than at the beginning. Also, individually, we have evolved, as musicians, because we had to be at the level of demand that the orchestra, directed by Gerard Nieto, asked. As the director said at the beginning "we have to be a professional jazz orchestra, capable of achieving any repertoire or project" (he said nothing of: "in a short time and few essays" that we usually do, because as in all the rest of the things of life it always goes away at the last moment: the scores arrive late or it is difficult to coordinate 17 people (worse still: 17 musicians !!) to find the time to try.

Finally, to acknowledge, we have to know previously and as we said before, humbly, we believe we can do this teaching role, presenting intitulating proposals to help you get to know this music a bit more. (Translated from Spanish.)

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El Naan - La Danza De Las Semillas

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:14
Size: 140.2 MB
Styles: World, Country
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[5:57] 1. Mujer Que Corre Con Los Lobos
[5:17] 2. La Llamada De Afroiberia
[7:11] 3. Canto De Siega
[4:07] 4. El Caminante
[3:29] 5. La Quijada
[3:54] 6. La Danza De Los Cedazos
[5:12] 7. Baile De La Culebra
[4:42] 8. ¿dónde Pongo Las Flores
[6:17] 9. Nana Para Luca
[6:55] 10. Los Invisibles De Kolda
[3:44] 11. Bolero De Algodre
[4:25] 12. Agapito Groove

Accordion – Jorge Arribas; Bass Guitar – César Diez; Drums, Percussion, Drum – Adal Pumarabin; Electric Guitar, Coro – Javier Medíavilla; Flute, Coro, Percussion – Héctor Castrillejo; Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – César Tejero; Voice, Bouzouki, Pandeiro – Carlos Herrero; Voice, Coro, Percussion – María Alba.

The story of El Naán, a group of artists who travel around the world to look for rhythms, melodies and stories and when we returned to our town we discovered with surprise that those music had always been there, under the ground that we tread, riding our genes. Buried among the ruins of memory we find black seeds and we discover with astonishment that our tradition contained those beautiful seeds that unite all the peoples and communities that work and care for the earth. They are autochthonous seeds but they were brought from far away, carefully selected and guarded for centuries. They are seeds pregnant with music, rhythms and stories hidden by our ancestors in our own home. These seeds are our culture and heritage inherited from grandparents and great-grandparents. They are our best inheritance.

We have turned those seeds into songs that we now want to share with you. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Phil Woods, Barcelona Jazz Orquestra - Our Man Benny

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:46
Size: 132.2 MB
Styles: Big band, Saxophone jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:33] 1. Blue Five Jive
[5:01] 2. Souvenir
[6:09] 3. Easy Money
[6:36] 4. Movin' Uptown
[2:41] 5. Sunset Glow
[6:24] 6. My Man Benny
[6:01] 7. People Time
[3:35] 8. Rompin' At The Reno
[5:25] 9. Summer Serenade
[5:09] 10. Going' On
[6:07] 11. Just A Mood

Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School. His friend, Joe Lopes, coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time. Although he did not copy Charlie “Bird” Parker, he was known as the New Bird, a label which was also attached to other alto players such as Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley at one time or another in their careers.

In the mid-’50s, Woods began to front his own bands. He got major exposure after Quincy Jones invited him to accompany a 1956 State Department-sponsored world tour with the big band of Dizzy Gillespie. In 1959 Woods traveled Europe with Jones’ band; in 1962 he participated in Benny Goodman’s Russian tour. After moving to France in 1968, Woods led the European Rhythm Machine, a group which tended toward avant-garde jazz. He returned to the United States in 1972 and, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish an electronic group, he formed a quintet which was still performing, with some changes of personnel, in 2004. As his theme, Woods used a piece titled “How’s Your Mama?” Woods earned the top alto sax player award almost 30 times in Downbeat magazine’s annual readers’ poll. His quintet was awarded the top small combo title several times.

The Barcelona Jazz Orquestra –Barcelona’s international big band- directed by Dani Alonso, is made up by some of the best jazz specialists in Catalonia. Considered as one of the best big bands in Europe, they regularly perform in prestigious festivals accompanying big names such as Benny Golson, Frank Wess, Ann Hampton Callaway and Tony Hadley. They have recorded with Phil Woods, Nicholas Payton and Jesse Davis as special guests. BJO regularly performs at the legendary Apolo concert hall with a repertoire of jazz and swing that transforms the room known as Paral·lel Savoy in Barcelona.

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Santi De La Rubia Trio - Broken Line

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:02
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[ 7:43] 1. Broken Line
[ 5:25] 2. Abril
[ 8:17] 3. Mt
[10:14] 4. Lush Life
[ 6:20] 5. Green Soda
[ 5:12] 6. Ashwagandha
[ 6:22] 7. Marta
[ 6:42] 8. Hendo's World
[ 8:42] 9. East Of The Sun

Santi de la Rubia - Saxo Tenor; Marc Cuevas - Contrabaix; Roger Gutiérrez - Bateria.

After numerous performances in different national and international jazz festivals and a long recordings career as sideman, Santi de la Rubia releases his first album as a leader, Broken Line. Alongside Roger Gutiérrez on drums and Marc Cuevas on bass presents a proposal of contemporary jazz with an energetic influence Hard Bop.

Winner of the 1st Barcelona Jazz Competition and the International Jazz Competition of Granada with his first album "Afinke", in which he collaborates with Jordi Berni trio. Selected for the Catalan Jazz Tour of 2008, in which he shared a poster with Perico Sambeat trio in Paris and London, finalist in the International Competition of Getxo 2008 with Josep Tutusaus Sextet and 2nd prize in the "I International Competition of Jazz of Almería" of 2014 with "CJ Quintet". He has collaborated with musicians like Tom Harrell, Jorge Rossy, Joan Monné, Martín Leiton, Ernesto Aurignac, Jaume Llombart, Perico Sambeat, Roger Mas, Jordi Berni, Albert Vila, Giulia Valle, among others.

This album is the result of a collaboration between the label UnderPool and L'Estival de Jazz d'Igualada, which offers an anual production of "La Carta Blanca a ...", proposed to a musician in each edition of L'Estival. It is literally a carte blanche to a consolidated musician, but without an album as a leader,. From the result l'Estival de Jazz to the collaborative work with the record company Underpool, which will edit the album. In this case Broken Line from Santi de la Rubia Trio. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Arturo Serra - Locomotive

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:54
Size: 137.1 MB
Styles: Vibraphone jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[7:58] 1. Dual Force
[4:27] 2. El Gaucho
[6:02] 3. I Waited For You
[4:06] 4. L's Bop
[5:46] 5. Locomotive
[6:38] 6. Wild Flower
[7:09] 7. Litltte Melonae
[4:50] 8. Rounder's Mood
[6:57] 9. So Far, So Near
[5:56] 10. Giant Steps

Arturo Serra (vibes), Enrique Oliver (tenor sax), José Carra (piano), Bori Albero (bass), Ramon Prats (drums) Recorded at FJR Studios, Granada, December 3, 2015.

Born in Valencia. He had his training as a percussionist in the superior conservatory of Valencia, being his training and his first interventions in classical music. His beginnings in the world of jazz began as part of the Big Band of Sedavi (Valencia). He has studied with professors such as Gary Burton, Ed Saindon, Jerry Bergonzi, David Santoro. He has participated in masters class taught by musicians such as Mulgrew Miller, Pat Metheny, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Hal Galper, Steve Nelson Frits Landesbergen, Bruce Barth, Jim Snidero etc. He has worked with musicians of international prestige such as; Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Santoro,, Dick Oatts, Joe Magnarelli, Andrea Michelutti etc As national as roger mas, xavi hinojosa, ramon prats, jay foster, marko lohikari, bori albero, david pastor, juan galiardo, pedro cortejosa, jose carra, ernesto aurignac, enrique oliver, francis pose, carlos pino, paco charlin, miquel casany, albert palau, sambeat parakeet, vicente macian, david pastor, julian sanchez, celia mur etc ...

Winner of the first prize of the Jazz Festival of Getxo in 1993. Since these years he works in different formations as well as leading his own group, both quartet and quintet and sextet. Since 1993 he has participated in numerous national festivals as well as teaching jazz improvisation courses throughout the Spanish territory. He is currently a professor of Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga. (Translated from Spanish.)

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Chano Dominguez - Over The Rainbow

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:31
Size: 156.9 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[6:53] 1. Django
[5:17] 2. Drume Negrita
[5:15] 3. Evidence
[9:37] 4. Gracias A La Vida
[7:11] 5. Hacia Dónde
[5:11] 6. Los Ejes De Mi Carreta
[6:18] 7. Mantreria
[9:03] 8. Marcel
[6:02] 9. Monk's Dream
[7:39] 10. Over The Rainbow

Over the Rainbow is a genius effort from a historic musician who continues his storied narrative here in America. We are honored and grateful he is here. It is a giant leap forward on a musical pilgrimage with no end. His offerings along the way have a unique organic presence that reminds us that we all emanate from a colorful palate of cultures worldwide, but exist as a single canvas of humanity. As we express each color as unique and beautiful, we search for ways to have them blend together, to add and subtract them, to create an interaction of unity going forward. Dominguez continues to draw from the cultures and people that inspire his creative genius, and apply them to a tangible form we can all understand, and aspire to emulate. There is a maturity in his playing on this record, a thoughtfulness that pays homage to the multiplicity of musical currents that rise to the top during solo performance. To a listener unfamiliar with the work of Mr. Dominguez, it serves as a sampler of his stunning virtuosity, and joyous fusion of flamenco and jazz. To those already engaged in his musical voyage, it represents a snapshot along the way to new horizons, behind the moon, beyond the rain. ~Paul Rauch

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Scaramouche - You And The Night And The Music

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:42
Size: 95.5 MB
Styles: Gypsy jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:42] 1. You And The Night And The Music
[3:47] 2. Carinhoso
[3:48] 3. Just One Of Those Things
[5:37] 4. My Funny Valentine
[3:57] 5. Love For Sale
[4:00] 6. My Favourite Things
[3:41] 7. Ceci N'est Pas Un Blues En Mineur
[3:44] 8. You're Not There (Paquito)
[4:33] 9. Jardin À L'arbre Du Vent
[3:47] 10. Everybody Wants To Be A Cat

Inspired by the Django Reinhardt's music, Scaramouche play jazz manouche in a different and personal way, but always with the simplicity and joy of this style, which will not be able to stop moving your legs. Their repertoire travels from the classic cafes of Paris to the funky, rumba and bossa manouche, offering a diverse and broad vision of gypsy swing.

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