Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr Quartet - Remember Chet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:11
Size: 146.9 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[2:57] 1. There Will Never Be Another You
[5:36] 2. If I Should Loose You
[6:16] 3. Love For Sale
[5:03] 4. You Are A Friend Of Mine
[4:50] 5. Bill's Religion
[5:15] 6. One More Blues For Chet
[9:08] 7. Remember Chet
[6:08] 8. Beautiful Black Eyes
[7:15] 9. You Don't Know What Love Is
[5:37] 10. You Can't Go Home Again
[6:02] 11. My Funny Valentine

Bass – Sava Medan; Drums – Andi Haberl; Piano – Roman Wasserfuhr; Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Julian Wasserfuhr; Vocals, Guitar – Torsten Goods. Recorded and mixed at Realistic Sound Studios, Munich, Germany, on October 31 & November 1, 2005.

"Young German Jazz" enters the next round, and once again it draws attention to the many highly talented and promising young German musicians, that make up a scene that needs to fear no international comparison. The ACT-series "Young German Jazz" not only documents this, it also wishes to support these musicians and help them gain recognition in- and outside the country. The reaction so far has been overwhelming, and rave reviews from abroad prove that young German jazz is perfectly capable of successfully crossing borders. The best example may be the trio [em] grouped around the young shooting star Michael Wollny. The "Süddeutsche Zeitung", among other publications, claims that Wollny is already in the top league of German, maybe even of European Jazz-musicians.

Remember Chet

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Pete York & Young Friends - Basiecally Speaking

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:29
Size: 120.2 MB
Styles: Swing, Contemporary jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:33] 1. Groovin' For Basie
[3:25] 2. Tickle Toe
[5:00] 3. Splanky
[4:09] 4. Jumpin At The Woodside
[4:29] 5. Moten Swing
[3:33] 6. Flip Flop And Fly
[5:28] 7. Lil' Darling
[5:39] 8. Shiney Stockings
[4:00] 9. Cute
[3:19] 10. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
[3:47] 11. Lester Leaps In
[3:50] 12. Broadway
[2:12] 13. Roll 'em Pete

Drums, Vocals – Pete York; Guitar, Vocals – Torsten Goods; Organ [Hammond] – Andi Kissenbeck; Tenor Saxophone – Gabor Bolla; Bass – Wolfgang Schmid.

It all goes back to year 1965. Spencer Davis Group was recording a single for the label Phillips Germany after having released its number one hit “Keep on Running”. Alongside the guitarist and a former German teacher Spencer Davis, Steve Winwood and his older brother Muff also the upcoming drummer Pete York was a member of the band. The producer of the session was Siggi Loch. “We’ve been friends ever since,” Pete York, who turned 70 in August, reminisces. “Maybe it is Siggi’s birthday present that I got the chance to release this album on ACT.”

The present is called „Basiecally Speaking“. As you might guess due to the title, the album is all about Count Basie. York explains: “Basie was almost my first connection with jazz after Louis Armstrong. When I was 15, my mother took me to see his concert. It was unforgettable, particularly due to his energetic drummer Sonny Payne. His big band had such power and dynamics. Basie used the whole language of music and was famous for his musical humour as well as for his economic way of playing the piano. Every note mattered and was swinging. I have tried to include all these things in my music. Most of all, I learnt from Basie what not to play.”

Basiecally Speaking

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Torsten Goods - Thank You Baby!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:09
Size: 117.1 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:24] 1. Work Song
[4:19] 2. Brother Where Are You
[3:28] 3. Midst Of Your Love
[3:47] 4. How Sweet It Is
[4:49] 5. Lord I Need A Woman
[3:42] 6. Kyrie
[4:33] 7. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
[3:11] 8. Hallelujah I Love Her So
[4:06] 9. Angel
[3:30] 10. Sing Hallelujah
[4:43] 11. Afro Blue
[3:25] 12. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
[4:08] 13. Everything Must Change

Torsten Goods / vocals & guitar; Roberto Di Gioia / Fender Rhodes & piano; Tim Lefebvre / Fender Jazz Bass & double bass; Wolfgang Haffner / drums.

Since the release of his last album “Love Comes To Town“, word has it that Torsten Goods “is a master of groove“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “pop jazz hasn't felt this good since George Benson“ (Kulturnews), because he “plays the guitar like George Benson, sings like Frank Sinatra and composes like Joe Sample“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). However this 34- year -old is not one to rest on his laurels. Following an early breakthrough in his mid - twenties, he set himself new goals: a move from Nuremberg to Berlin was followed by performances with great jazz musicians like Till Brönner and further establishing his musical identity, among other things by working with pop stars such as Sarah Connor.Spirituals, blues and roots music form the creative foundation for “Thank You Baby!“

Thank You Baby!

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Torsten Goods - Steppin'

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:02
Size: 126,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:59)  1. Lover
(5:47)  2. Cry Me A River
(5:46)  3. Style Is Coming Back in Style
(6:35)  4. In Summer
(4:12)  5. Steppin'
(7:27)  6. Born to be Blue
(4:40)  7. Nature Boy
(3:51)  8. Bye Bye Blues
(6:51)  9. Nuages
(4:50) 10. Falling In Love With Love

Torsten Goods learned with Mike Stern, John Scofield and Bireli Lagrene, he plays with Tony Lakatos, Johannes Enders, Olaf Polziehn, Martin Gjakonovski and Dejan Terzic: the young guitarist and singer Torsten Goods makes a score with his new CD, which has all chances to become very successful. His quick and easy guitar runs are a tribute to senior stars like George Benson, whose groovy sounds advanced to the cult of Soul Jazz in the sixties and seventies. Torsten Goods accompanies himself - his voice sounds expressive and a little smoky. His patners an this CD are the "Who's Who" of the German jazz scene.

Jazz classics like "Cry Me A River", "Lover" of Rodgers & Hart, "Bye, Bye Blues" and his own composition "Steppin'", which gave the CD its name, remember of a good classic jazz record, but the 23 years old Torsten Goods adds youthful freshness and a very individual ambitious note to it. As scholarship holder Torsten Goods studied at the renowned New School University in New York. There he received much appreciation for his concerts. He also played in China and in the USA, among others with stars like Dr. Lonnie Smith, Seleno Clark and the legend Les Paul. The Just Jazz Guitar Magazine described him as "emerging new force in the jazz scene today". http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7623699&style=music&fulldesc=T

Personnel:  Torsten Goods (voc, g);  Olaf Polziehn (p);  Jan Miserre (p);  Martin Gjakonovski (b);  Marco Ki¼hnl (b);  Dejan Terzic (dr);  Christoph Huber (dr); Tony Lakatos (ts);  Lutz Hafner (ts);  Johannes Enders (ts);  Flo Leuthold (perc).

Steppin'

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Torsten Goods - Irish Heart

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:20
Size: 122,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Sweet North
(5:17)  2. No Religion
(5:27)  3. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
(4:20)  4. Moondance
(4:20)  5. She Moved Through the Fair
(3:54)  6. The End Of The Line
(7:03)  7. Carrickfergus
(4:15)  8. What Makes The Irish Heart Beat
(6:40)  9. Riverdance
(2:51) 10. I'm Gonna Go Out Fishing
(4:27) 11. The Londonerry Air

25 year-old guitar-wunderkind Torsten Goods and his new release Irish Heart call out an enthusiastic yes to these questions. Friends of Irish folk music and infectious reels are in for a surprise, and so are fans of Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt or Harry Connick Jr. There is more repertoire out there than the Great American Songbook and Goods’ choices give his twenty-something-quartet a chance to shine.

“On Irish Heart I do what I am”, says the Nuremburg-based son of a Northern Irish mother and German father. This sounds self-evident, but there is a longer story. Sure, Torsten was raised on Irish music. The parents held regular living room sessions featuring passionate renditions of ballads and folk songs from the mother’s home. But this didn’t do much for her son. He steered clear of the Dubliners and Chieftains in the parental record collection, and went straight for Oscar Peterson and Duke Ellington. At age 16 he had made up his mind: Jazz it was to be, come what may.

Beauty often lies so close to home. In Torsten Goods case right where his “Irish Heart” beats. It was his mother who taught him to listen to its voice. She is regularly moved to tears by his solo instrumental rendition of the old traditional “The Londonderry Air” that he often played as an encore. Irish Heart is his way of answering the call of his heritage. He does it in style: sensitive, swinging and with a lightning touch, yet perceptive to Northern Ireland’s own troubled history. In the album’s opener Goods’ original “Sweet North” (one of three finger snapping Goods-originals on the album) he admits to being alarmed by the situation in his mother’s country. But he loves this country all the same. http://www.metisse-music.com/en/artists/Torsten%20Goods

Irish Heart

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Torsten Goods - 1980

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:03
Size: 121,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:13)  1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
(5:30)  2. Don't Let It Get to You
(4:33)  3. 99
(3:33)  4. So Are You
(3:13)  5. It's Still Rock'n'Roll to Me
(5:07)  6. (I Need You) So Bad
(5:32)  7. 1980
(4:04)  8. Winter's Night
(3:42)  9. I Can Hardly See You
(6:06) 10. Love Dance
(3:01) 11. Too Much Guitar
(4:24) 12. Shout It Out

Goods, son of an Irish mother and a German father, began his musical career at the age of 14 in Erlangen. Among his greatest role models include George Benson, Biréli Lagrène, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins and Freddie Mercury, who musically influenced him mostly.

In 1998, Goods, aged 17 to jazz: he was inspired by guitarist Peter O'Mara. First workshops followed in the summer of 1999 and 2000 with Jim Hall and John Scofield in New York City, USA. In 2000 he became a member of the of Peter Herbolzheimer led National Youth Jazz Orchestra. From 2001 to 2003 he received a scholarship given to him the study of jazz guitar at the New School University, New York City at Vic Juris and Jack Wilkins allowed. During his stay in the USA he played with Reverend Run (Run DMC), Seleno Clarke, a close friend of George Benson, the Goods and Benson made ??known to each other, as well as Les Paul, which eventually the stage name Goods gave him. Jam sessions with Mike Stern, Biréli Lagrèneand Jack Wilkins were among his New York life.

2005 Goods was one of the 10 global semi-finalists in the "Thelonious Monk Jazz Guitar Competition", to which he was the only Europeans to Washington, DC was invited. His debut album Manhattan Walls played a Goods before graduating from high school: Tony Lakatos, Davide Petrocca, Guido May, Dejan Terzic, and Rick Kellersupported him at the 2001 recording of "Manhattan Walls" (Jardis). His second work Steppin was in 2004 for the quarterly leaderboard for Award of the German Record Critics' Award nomination. 2006 produced his first album for Goods ACT: Irish Heart, a tribute to the (Northern Ireland) home his mother about the Evening Standard wrote "Goods (...) has Breakthrough Talent galore. Inspired by George Benson, he sings winningly and plays the guitar superbly. "(Jack Massarik, Evening Standard, January 2, 2007). Goods entered, inter alia 2007 to the Leverkusen Jazz Festival and in 2008 at the Burghausen Jazz Week on. He is also on record by Helen Schneider to hear and Andi Kissenbeck. Translate by google https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_Goods

1980

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Torsten Goods - Love Comes To Town

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:50
Size: 137.0 MB
Styles: Vocal and guitar jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:12] 1. You Wind Me Up
[3:58] 2. When Love Comes To Town
[4:07] 3. Freedom Every Day
[5:22] 4. Put It Where You Want It
[3:47] 5. Unlucky Like Me
[4:03] 6. Right Here Waiting
[4:36] 7. Brutal Truth
[4:17] 8. Weekend At The A-Trane
[5:02] 9. Someone Like You
[4:44] 10. Summer Lovin'
[3:28] 11. Outa Here
[5:31] 12. Night Life
[2:54] 13. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[3:44] 14. Berlin P.M.

'I feel like a propeller on an aeroplane from 1975,' says Berlin-based singer-guitarist Torsten Goods at the end of the opening track, You Wind Me Up. His 2008 CD 1980 took songs from the year of his birth as its theme. This summery, breezy recording seems to go back to the 70s for inspiration, though half the tracks are co-written by Goods himself.

His guitar style has been compared with George Benson, and the three instrumentals have something of Benson's virtuosic joie de vivre: precise phrasing with a cool, laid back feel. Goods' own Weekend at the A-Trane and Berlin P.M., could be from Benson's Breezin' era, with guest Felix Lehrmann's fine funky drumming on the latter. (Wolfgang Haffner drums superbly through the rest of the album in tandem with bassist Christian von Kaphengst) The Crusaders' Put it Where You Want It has a Steely Dan-like Fender Rhodes groove; Goods moves from BB King-like bluesy soloing to some speedy gypsy jazz lines.

Goods sings on most of the tracks. In recent years he's been working with soul singers Narada Michael Walden and Sarah Connor, and some of his songs have a jazz-dipped-in-soul sound, a little like Jamie Cullum. Swedish soul singer Ida Sand guests on her composition Brutal Truth. Here and on several songs Goods scats brilliantly in unison with his guitar solo (again Benson-like), and you always wish it would last just a little longer. Sand also guests on U2's much-covered soul-rock When Love Comes to Town (A fine arrangement that could be straight off a Bobby Bland album). Goods' voice sounds very like James Taylor here- also on his own Unlucky Like Me and You Wind Me Up, with his lazy warm tone, but his guitar style is more Pat Martino.

At times Goods has Michael Bublé’s soft plush tone and superb timing; Goods' Freedom Every Day recalls Bublé's Haven't Met You Yet. He covers Richard Marx' ballad Right Here Waiting with a gentle breathiness over Jan Miserre's excellent modern jazz piano reharmonisation and mellow trumpet solo from Till Brönner. (Miserre’s also co-written several tracks with Goods.) His voice sounds smooth and buttery as he duets with Viktoria Tolstoy on his Motown-ish Summer Lovin’ and the only standard, They Can't Take That Away From Me. Perhaps the jazziest track is a cover of Willie Nelson's Night Life, in slow 12/8, sung with a low-key vulnerability, the way Peter Cincotti does, with rich tenor sax from Marcus Lindgren.

The album's pleasantly retro sound comes in part from the fab Blood Sweat and Tears-like horn arrangements (by Miserre, Lindgren and trombonist Nils Landgren) though they're quite low in the mix. I'd love to hear Goods at a summer festival with a big band blasting out the horn lines. This album should appeal to fans of Jamie Cullum and Michael Bublé, but Torsten Goods has a sassy energy all his own. ~Alison Bentley

Love Comes To Town

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