Eliane Elias - I Thought About You: A Tribute To Chet Baker

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
Time: 54:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 125,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:56) 1. I Thought About You
(4:42) 2. There Will Never Be Another You
(3:53) 3. This Can't Be Love
(5:04) 4. Embraceable You
(3:52) 5. That Old Feeling
(3:38) 6. Everything Depends On You
(3:54) 7. I've Never Been In Love Before
(4:18) 8. Let's Get Lost
(5:13) 9. You Don't What Love Is
(2:11) 10. Blue Room
(3:30) 11. Just Friends
(3:50) 12. Girl Talk
(2:37) 13. Just In Time
(3:05) 14. I Get Along Without You Very Well

On Eliane Eliass second Concord release, the sultry Brazilian pianist-vocalist-arranger wraps her jazz and bossa nova style around classic tunes associated with iconic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker: "I Thought About You," "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Let's Get Lost," "That Old Feeling," and "I Get Along Without You Very Well."

Elias is supported by top flight Brazilian and American musicians, including her rhythm section of guitarist Steve Cardenas, drummers Rafael Barata and Victor Lewis, percussionist Marivaldo dos Santos and her husband, bassist Marc Johnson. Featuring special guests Randy Brecker on trumpet and Brazilian guitarist Oscar Castro-Neve's, considered a founding figure in bossa nova.By Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Thought-About-Tribute-Chet-Baker/dp/B00BXUG0KU

Personnel: Eliane Elias – piano, vocals; Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn; Steve Cardenas – electric guitar; Oscar Castro-Neves – acoustic guitar; Marc Johnson – double bass; Rafael Barata – drums; Victor Lewis – drums; Marivaldo Dos Santos – percussion

I Thought About You: A Tribute To Chet Baker

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Ted Nash, Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison - Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
Time: 49:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 115,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:36) 1. Jet Song
(4:47) 2. A Boy Like That
(4:04) 3. Maria
(4:00) 4. One Hand, One Heart
(4:00) 5. Tonight
(5:18) 6. America
(3:19) 7. I Have a Love
(6:09) 8. Something's Coming
(4:16) 9. Cool
(5:21) 10. Somewhere
(2:55) 11. Somewhere (Reprise)

When NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter was asked why he so often plays standards when so many musicians insist on writing their own tunes, he was typically succinct. “Artists are not necessarily the best writers, and the proof of that is that the only people who play their material is them. When the new guys write better tunes, then maybe I’ll play them.”

Multireedist Ted Nash, it should be noted emphatically, is a highly accomplished composer and arranger for ensembles both large (the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; his own big band) and small (his quintet and trio). His gorgeous 2016 Presidential Suite deservedly won him two Grammy Awards.

With no pressure to prove himself as a composer, Nash now takes on the daunting challenge of interpreting one of the 20th century’s greatest musical treasures, West Side Story. The songs that Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote for it, steeped in the sounds of New York jazz and Latin music, have been played in jazz interpretations before, but the creativity that Nash and his trio-mates guitarist Steve Cardenas and bassist Ben Allison bring to the task are exceptional. They transform this passionate material into both a tribute to and a meditation on the songs’ surpassing beauty and power.

With just guitar, bass, and Nash alternating between tenor saxophone and clarinet, the trio deftly captures the expressive power of the Bernstein orchestrations with a few bold strokes, then riffs organically off them in constantly surprising ways. Whether it’s the relative complexity of the improvised, three-voice counterpoint with which they open “Tonight,” or the simplicity of Cardenas wrapping gorgeous improvised lines around Nash’s pure statement of the melody on “One Hand, One Heart,” the album is a revelation; three superlative musicians reveling in the Bernstein score’s most emotional moments with tenderness and candor. One has to believe the maestro, who loved the kind of jazz energy and imagination on display here, would have approved.
By Allen Morrison https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/somewhere-else-west-side-story-songs

Personnel: Ted Nash: saxophone; Steve Cardenas: guitar; Ben Allison: bass.

Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs

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