Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:32
Size: 76.8 MB
Styles: Contemporary Pop/Rock
Year: 1970/1995
Art: Front

[3:24] 1. Sentimental Journey
[2:24] 2. Night And Day
[2:35] 3. Whispering Grass
[2:10] 4. Bye Bye Blackbird
[2:38] 5. I'm A Fool To Care
[3:20] 6. Stardust
[3:17] 7. Blue Turning Grey Over You
[3:04] 8. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
[2:40] 9. Dream
[2:18] 10. You Always Hurt The One You Love
[2:42] 11. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
[2:54] 12. Let The Rest Of The World Go By

Cut as the Beatles were disintegrating and released shortly before the group's final album, Let It Be, Ringo Starr's debut solo album was a collection of pre-rock standards dating from the 1920s to the '50s, sung over orchestral tracks arranged by everyone from fellow Beatle Paul McCartney and Bee Gee Maurice Gibb to jazz veterans Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson. Starr brought a good-natured, nearly humorous tone to his vocals, perhaps because he wasn't trying to compete with the classic pop stylists most identified with these songs, but only to express his nostalgic affection for the material. Coming more than a decade before the fad for standards albums by rock-era pop stars like Linda Ronstadt, the album was taken not as a career move, but as a highly eccentric and expensive novelty of a kind only Beatles could afford to indulge. In retrospect, it remains harmlessly charming, if unexceptional. (Originally released in the U.K. on March 27, 1970, as Parlophone 7101 and in the U.S. on April 24, 1970, as Apple 3365, Sentimental Journey was reissued in the U.S. on August 29, 1995, as Captiol 98615.) ~William Ruhlmann

Sentimental Journey

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Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - Live At The 'It Club'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:40
Size: 132.0 MB
Styles: Bop, Piano jazz
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[7:42] 1. Funky Pullett
[8:45] 2. I'm Still Sad
[7:19] 3. On Green Dolphin Street
[5:24] 4. Baby Man
[8:15] 5. Love For Sale
[7:31] 6. Sittin' Duck
[4:50] 7. Tammy's Breeze
[7:51] 8. John Brown's Body

Recorded in 1970 but not released until 1996, Live At the "It Club" shows the Three Sounds pulling out funky, gritty rhythms out of their basic bluesy hard-bop sound. The group's funky influences are most noticeable in the rhythm section of drummer Carl Burnette and bassist Henry Franklin, who had been playing with Harris for only a short time when this set was recorded. The rhythm section pushes Harris, making the music loose and swinging -- the groove matters more than anything on the album. Occasionally, the energy of the Three Sounds lags, but Live at the "It Club" is an enjoyable piece of grooving soul-jazz. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Live At The 'It Club'

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Dave Stryker - Guitar On Top

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:58
Size: 152,4 MB
Art: Front

(7:15)  1. Victor Strikes
(5:29)  2. Listen To Your Heart
(9:50)  3. Guitar On Top
(6:16)  4. Matthew's Waltz
(5:54)  5. Solid
(5:55)  6. Galapagos
(8:09)  7. A Time For Love
(5:30)  8. Goin' To New Orleans
(8:35)  9. Naked City

Features a quartet with Stryker, Mulgrew Miller on piano, Bob Hurst on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums. 

These are extra-special musicians playing seven Stryker originals in modern mainstream plus two standards. It is good to discover and holds many surprises. ~ Michael G.Nastos http://www.allmusic.com/album/guitar-on-top-mw0000613844

Personnel: Dave Stryker (guitar), Mulgrew Miller (piano), Robert Hurst (bass), Victor Lewis (drums).

Guitar On Top

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Lyambiko - Saffronia

Styles: Vocal, Contemporary Jazz  
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:04
Size: 122,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:55)  1. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
(4:13)  2. Feeling Good
(3:33)  3. I Loves You Porgy
(5:05)  4. Don't Smoke On Bed
(4:31)  5. Here Comes The Sun
(7:08)  6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
(3:18)  7. Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair
(4:48)  8. Four Women
(5:33)  9. I Put A Spell On You
(3:54) 10. Ne Me Quitte Pas
(6:01) 11. Mawe Mawe / I Sing Just  To Know That I'm Alive

On February 21, 2008, Nina Simone became one of the greatest icons of jazz, 75 years old. The sixth edition of the quartet around Lyambiko is, however, at most implicitly based on this jubilee. After five albums, she finally feels ready to publish a tribute to the woman, who inspired her eight years ago to go the way as a jazz singer, as the Thuringian woman with Tanzanian roots proclaims in the finest promo pathos. Now, God already quite different came to the idea, Nina Simone original interpretations to covern or further processing. Alone on the Verve Remixed series, which has since become a classic, Simone is represented six times, and even the sports show used the rhythm section of " Do not Let Me Be Misunderstood " as a jingle some 30 years ago. The appeal of cover versions is usually in the reinterpretation, in the success-crowned attempt to create something completely new from something existing. This is precisely the Crux at "Saffronia". Lyambiko is not to be accused of singing at all, but the record is simply sung over long stretches. Sure, everything is a bit fresher and more youthful, and at " My Baby Just Cares For Me " she tries it at least, takes a lot of pace out. The pianonummer, which is in the original, suddenly stimulates a relaxed rocking. That Liz is replaced in the text line "Liz Taylor is not his style" by Meg Ryan, I am at this point simply times. What is missing from Lyambiko is this fusion, this uncompromising identification with the song, which makes up the fascination of Nina Simones to this day. There are also slightly altered arrangements like the percussions in " Four Women ". The fact that one of the four women described in the play has to serve as a name for the record, at this point then also appears somewhat high. So the question is, why I should put Lyambiko, if I can also listen to the more intense original. Honest answer: I do not know. "Saffronia" is nice and not bad, but I still go back to Nina Simone. ~ David Hilzendegen  http://www.laut.de/Lyambiko/Alben/Saffronia-26714

Personnel:  Vocals – Lyambiko;  Backing Vocals – Lyambiko;  Bass – Robin Draganic;  Drums – Heinrich Köbberling;  Grand Piano – Marque Lowenthal

Saffronia

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John Di Martino's Romantic Jazz Trio - Music Of The Night

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 63:38
Size: 120,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. All That Jazz (from Chicago)
(6:26)  2. I Dreamed A Dream (from Les Miserables)
(5:12)  3. Music Of The Night (from The Phantom of the Opera)
(5:05)  4. Memory (from The Cats)
(5:54)  5. When You're Good To Mama (from Chicago)
(4:49)  6. All I Ask Of You (from The Phantom of the Opera)
(4:48)  7. Mein Herr (from Cabaret)
(5:38)  8. Maybe This Time (from Cabaret)
(4:32)  9. On My Own (from Les Miserables)
(5:51) 10. Beauty And The Beast (from Beauty And The Beast)
(2:58) 11. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (from Cabaret)
(4:05) 12. Send In The Clowns (from Little Night Music)
(3:18) 13. If You Could See Her (from Cabaret)

The Romantic Jazz Trio, consisting of pianist John Di Martino, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Tim Horner, continue the tradition of covering songs from Broadway musicals, though most of their selections for this CD come from musicals written during the 1970s and later. As many longtime Broadway fans will attest, sellout crowds and long runs don't necessarily mean the songs are the equals of efforts by the greats of earlier decades, like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and the like. But the trio manages just fine interpreting songs from Chicago, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, and the modern standard "Send in the Clowns" from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. The problem begins when the focus turns to the lame melodies of Andrew Lloyd Webber; as one veteran jazz musician remarked to an audience, "They begin OK but don't go anywhere." The trio makes a go of it, even bringing some life to the tedious "Memory," but in the end, the weakness of Webber's songs stand out in comparison to the others' works. At least no one requested that the Romantic Jazz Trio record Webber's nauseating, overblown "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/music-of-the-night-mw0001689286

Personnel:  Piano – John Di Martino;  Bass – Boris Kozlov;  Drums – Tim Horner; 

Music Of The Night

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Don Byas - Savoy Jam Party

Styles: Saxophone Jazz

Year: 1946

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 73:48

Size: 169,7 MB

Art: Front

(2:55)  1. Riffin' And Jivin'

(3:39)  2. Free And Easy

(3:14)  3. Worried And Blue

(2:52)  4. Don's Idea

(2:58)  5. Savoy Jam Party

(3:00)  6. 1944 Stomp

(2:59)  7. What Do You Want With My Heart

(3:00)  8. Sweet And Lovely

(2:30)  9. White Rose Kick

(3:02) 10. My Deep Blue Dream

(2:39) 11. Byas'd Opinion

(3:18) 12. Candy

(2:56) 13. How High The Moon

(3:11) 14. Donby

(2:45) 15. Byas A Drink

(3:00) 16. I Don't Know Why

(3:02) 17. Old Folks

(3:01) 18. Cherokee

(2:58) 19. September In The Rain

(2:43) 20. Living My Life

(2:57) 21. To Each His Own

(2:23) 22. They Say It's Wonderful

(2:46) 23. Cynthia's In Love

(2:53) 24. September Song

(2:58) 25. St. Louis Blues

A former two-LP set with 32 tracks becomes a single CD consisting of the first 25 numbers. The packaging was shrunk to the point where the liner notes (which refer to all 32 songs) are nearly microscopic...But at least it is "an exact reproduction." Although this reissue from the Japanese Denon label could have been executed better, the music is excellent. Don Byas, one of the great tenors of the 1940s, is featured with groups ranging from a quartet to a sextet; the sideman include trumpeters Charlie Shavers, Emmett Berry and Benny Harris, altoist Rudy Williams, pianists Clyde Hart, Dave Rivera, Jimmy Jones, Teddy Brannon and Sanford Gold, bassists Slam Stewart and Milt Hinton and drummers J.C. Heard and Max Roach. Byas is in superior form on these late-period swing performances...it will interest those who can't find the original, better-packaged two-LP set (put out by Arista in the 1970s). ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/savoy-jam-party-the-savoy-sessions-mw0000645489

Personnel: Don Byas (tenor saxophone); Rudy Williams (alto saxophone); Charlie Shavers, Emmett Berry, Benny Harris (trumpet); Clyde Hart (piano, celeste); Dave Rivera, Jimmy Jones, Teddy Brannon, Sanford Gold (piano); Slam Stewart, Milt Hinton, John Levy, Frank Skeete, Leonard Gaskin (bass); Max Roach, J.C. Heard, Jack Parker, Fred Radcliffe (drums).

Savoy Jam Party

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Benny Green - Happiness! Live at Kuumbwa

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:12
Size: 115,5 MB
Art: Front

( 0:35)  1. Introduction
( 4:33)  2. The St. Vitus Dance
( 0:16)  3. Announcement
( 6:53)  4. Down Under
( 6:46)  5. Martha's Prize
( 6:37)  6. Sixth Avenue
( 6:12)  7. 50-21
( 4:27)  8. Chant
(10:13)  9. Pittsburgh Brethen
( 3:35) 10. Twisted Blues

Happiness is listening to Benny Green. He brings joie de vivre to the piano keys with his Herculean chops, in-the-pocket soulfulness, and tight arrangements, all of which can be heard in spades on this live date. The scene for this spirited recording was the Kuumbwa Jazz Center a gem of a venue in California that's been a near-annual stop for Green for more than three decades. This particular event, taking place in June of 2016, found him in his favored trio configuration, covering (mostly) lesser known numbers penned by jazz greats. Sounds and styles only vary ever so slightly, as the energy rarely wanes and (hard) bop-based swing largely remains the thing. If you know Green's work already, you'll note right away that he's in his element; and if you've never heard the former wunderkind turned wise veteran, this isn't such a bad place to start.

It's hard to get through a single song here without marveling at some aspect of Benny Green's artistry and/or this trio's chemistry. Take "The St. Vitus Dance" dance, for example. This Horace Silver oldie-but-goodie is putty in this band's hands. A tight head leads straight into solo territory, where the pianist carves out and navigates switchbacks across the 88s and invites drummer Rodney Green into the action before heading back to the familiar. It's a performance that's indicative of the way this trio operates on the whole. Then there's Freddie Hubbard's "Down Under," where a semi-shuffling gait carries things forward until bassist David Wong steps into the spotlight; Cedar Walton's lively "Martha's Prize," which finds piano and bass perfectly in sync and finds the leader delivering some impossibly fast right hand runs; a second nod to Walton in the form of an attractively funky "Sixth Avenue"; a snazzy jaunt through Thad Jones' "50-21" with Rodney Green putting his brushes to good use on the snare; and a hip-as-can be stroll through Duke Pearson's "Chant," a bluesy winner that finds Benny Green digging in with some firm-handed statements.

The longest track on the album "Pittsburgh Brethren," sitting in the penultimate slot also happens to be the sole original on the playlist. It further solidifies Benny Green's hard bop cred not that he needs to do that for anybody at this point and nods toward the jazz history of the Steel City, a land that produced and/or nurtured Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Clark, and numerous other giants of this music. There's not much to say after that, so a short and peppy trip through Wes Montgomery's "Twisted Blues" works just fine as a closer. There's no shortage of cooking trio dates in Benny Green's discography already, but there's always room for more when they sound like this. ~ Dan Bilawsky  https://www.allaboutjazz.com/happiness-benny-green-sunnyside-records-review-by-dan-bilawsky.php

Personnel: Benny Green: piano; David Wong: bass; Rodney Green: drums.

Happiness! Live at Kuumbwa

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Laura Fygi - Eternal Flame: The Best Of

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:32
Size: 130,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:33)  1. Only You In My Heart [Chinese]
(3:29)  2. Autumn Leaves
(3:39)  3. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(3:27)  4. Disse Alguem (Al Of Me) [Portuguese]
(3:27)  5. Quizas, Quizas, Quizas [Spanish]
(3:38)  6. Noche De Ronda [Spanish]
(6:17)  7. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
(3:41)  8. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
(2:28)  9. For Me, Formidable [French]
(4:32) 10. Baby Come To Me
(2:34) 11. Do It Again
(3:09) 12. Et Si Demain [French]
(4:38) 13. The Summer Knows (From Summer Of '42)
(4:18) 14. Still
(3:35) 15. The Moon Speaks For My Heart [Chinese]

Although Dutch singer Laura Fygi initially garnered notice as a member of the disco group Centerfold, after setting out in 1992 as a solo performer she pursued a more jazz-inspired path with her debut effort Introducing Laura Fygi. 

On subsequent efforts including 1993's Bewitched and the following year's The Lady Wants to Know, she collaborated with figures including Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans and Clark Terry, and in 1997 Fygi worked with one of her idols, the great composer Michel Legrand, on Watch What Happens. ~ Jason Ankeny http://www.allmusic.com/artist/laura-fygi-mn0000115333/biography

Eternal Flame: The Best Of

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Louis Armstrong - Louis and the Good Book

Styles: Vocal And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1958
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:34
Size: 144,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:02)  1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:46)  2. Shadrack
(3:41)  3. Go Down, Moses
(2:58)  4. Rock My Soul
(2:33)  5. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
(3:05)  6. On My Way
(3:10)  7. Down by the Riverside
(3:09)  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(3:29)  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother
(2:40) 10. Jonah and the Whale
(2:52) 11. Didn't It Rain
(2:31) 12. This Train
(3:18) 13. Sit Down, You're Rocking the B
(2:59) 14. That's What the Man Said
(2:36) 15. Shadrack
(2:49) 16. Going to Shout All Over God's
(3:12) 17. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:49) 18. Jonah and the Whale
(4:22) 19. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Thro
(4:22) 20. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Gene

An unusual album in the Louis Armstrong canon, this collection of gospel songs, spirituals, homilies, and comic vignettes was the only religious album this determinedly secular musician recorded. Backed by a gospel vocal group led by the celebrated jazz arranger Sy Oliver, Armstrong performs a variety of religious-themed favorites, including "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," and "Didn't it Rain," as well as "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys And Dolls. 

There's an affecting version of the traditional spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and a particular highlight is the inclusion of two comic sermons by the musician's alter ego, Elder Eatmore. http://www.allmusic.com/album/louis-and-the-good-book-mw0000319753

Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Sy Oliver Choir (vocals); Trummy Young (trombone); Hank D'Amico, Edmond Hall, Dave McRae (clarinet); Billy Kyle (piano); Nickie Tragg, Harry Mills (organ); George Barnes (guitar); Joe Benjamin, Mort Herbert (bass); Johnny Blowers, Barrett Deems (drums).

Louis and the Good Book

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Kurt Edelhagen - Edelhagen plays Jimmy Webb

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1970
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:46
Size: 88,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Up Up and Away
(2:31)  2. By The Time I got to Phoenix
(5:40)  3. Didn't We
(2:35)  4. Galveston
(3:21)  5. Where's The Playground Susie
(4:05)  6. Evie
(2:24)  7. Sunshower
(3:42)  8. Mac.Arthur Park
(2:29)  9. Honey Come Back
(3:08) 10. If you must leave my life
(3:08) 11. Wichita Lineman

A well-respected bandleader whose orchestras tended to emphasize swinging dance music but were open to boppish solos, Kurt Edelhagen was a major name in Germany for quite a few years. He studied piano and conducting, and then in 1946 formed his first big band. Edelhagen was a natural bandleader and he headed ensembles for the radio station in Frankfurt, in Nuremberg (1949-1952) and most notably the orchestra of Sudwestfunk (1952-1957) which sometimes looked towards Stan Kenton. In 1957 he joined Westdeustcher Rundfunk in Cologne which in time included such players as trumpeters Dusko Goykovich and Jimmy Deuchar, altoist Derek Humble, and trombonist Jiggs Whigham. He headed that band until it broke up in 1973 and remained semi-active up until near his death. Kurt Edelhagen recorded fairly often in Germany during 1949-1972 although few of his records (other than one put out by Golden Era) have been made available in the U.S. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kurt-edelhagen-mn0001438091/biography

Edelhagen plays Jimmy Webb

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Louie Louie Louie

Styles: Jazz, Swing
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:13
Size: 100,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Dinah
(2:41)  2. Oh,Marie
(4:04)  3. Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby
(3:19)  4. Jack, You Dead
(2:31)  5. Whistle Stop
(2:59)  6. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
(3:44)  7. Basin Street Blues
(3:53)  8. Jump, Jive, an' Wail
(2:48)  9. Knock Me a Kiss
(3:55) 10. Struttin' with Some Barbeque
(2:29) 11. Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
(3:20) 12. Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
(4:31) 13. When the Saints Come Marching Home

Although still largely associated with the '90s neo-swing movement, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have long outrun that moment's MTV zeitgeist and spent the 2010s deepening their jazz roots. The past decade-and-a-half have found them branching out, exploring New Orleans blues, Cajun, and second-line traditions on 2003's Save My Soul, and paying tribute to legendary Harlem bandleader Cab Calloway on 2009's How Big Can You Get? In this spirit of reinvestigating their influences, the band's 11th studio album, 2017's urbane and upbeat Louie Louie Louie, finds them celebrating three of their biggest musical heroes: Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima. and Louis Jordan. Here, the band round up a nicely curated set of tunes popularized by the three "Louies" and inject them with their own zesty brand of jump blues. Some of the song choices are deliciously on the nose with cuts like Jordan's "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," Prima's "Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days," and Jordan's "Jack, You're Dead!," feeling like well-loved road covers the band have played hundreds of times. Others, especially Armstrong's Herculean "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and the suavely refined "Basin Street Blues," with their nuanced harmonies and tricky horn lines, vibrate with a sense of danger and ambition as if the band had dared themselves to make them their own. Thankfully, they do. Elsewhere, we get equally compelling takes on "Dinah," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Knock Me a Kiss," and more. It's also fun to hear the band put their own stamp on one of the biggest anthems of the neo-swing movement, Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail," popularized in 1998 by the Brian Seltzer Orchestra. Still centered on lead singer/guitarist Scotty Morris, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have settled into a warm, crisply delivered style of swing that's studio savvy and precise while also full of in-the-moment improvisation and an overall live-sounding aesthetic. Helping to achieve this aesthetic is longtime pianist Joshua Levy, who supplied all the arrangements on Louie Louie Louie. Also impressive are bandmembers trumpeter Glen "The Kid" Marhevka, alto and tenor saxophonist Karl Hunter, and baritone saxophonist Andy Rowley, who all get plenty of room to solo. The result is an album that strikes a balance between Jazz at Lincoln Center-style adherence to tradition and dynamic, pop-informed bravura showmanship. ~ Matt Collar http://www.allmusic.com/album/louie-louie-louie-mw0003046852

Personnel: Scotty Morris (vocals, guitar, banjo); Andy Rowley (vocals, whistle, baritone saxophone); Dirk Shumaker (vocals, acoustic bass); Karl Hunter (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Glen "The Kid" Marhevka (trumpet); Joshua Levy (piano); Kurt Sodergren (drums); Lee Thornburg, Jim Fox, Paul Kreibich, Ira Nepus.

Louie Louie Louie

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Mildred Anderson - No More In Life

Size: 99,4 MB
Time: 35:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1960
Styles: Jazz/Blues Vocals
Art: Front & Back

01. Everybody's Got Somebody But Me (5:33)
02. I Ain't Mad At You (3:02)
03. Hard Times (4:11)
04. No More In Life (2:42)
05. Roll 'em Pete (3:16)
06. What More Can A Woman Do (2:41)
07. That Ole Devil Called Love (3:44)
08. Mistreater (6:00)
09. I'm Lost (4:35)

A fine singer who came over from the R&B/blues field to record two jazz-oriented albums in 1960, Mildred Anderson is joined on this CD reissue by tenor-saxophonist Al Sears, organist Robert Banks, guitarist Lord Westbrook, bassist Leonard Gaskin and drummer Bobby Donaldson. The repertoire ranges from originals to "I Ain't Mad at You," "Roll 'Em Pete" and "That Ole Devil Called Love." Considering how well she sings on this set, it is strange that Mildred Anderson would have no further opportunities to lead her own albums. ~by Scott Yanow

No More In Life

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Larry Coryell - Clark University, Massachusetts 1976 (Remastered)

Size: 158,4 MB
Time: 68:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Julie Labelle (8:30)
02. Juju (3:31)
03. Rodrigo Reflections (6:38)
04. Eyes Of Love (3:25)
05. Improvisations On The Serabon (5:42)
06. The Restful Mind (3:57)
07. Gratitude (5:00)
08. Bouquet (5:17)
09. Renee's Theme (2:22)
10. Ain't It Is (7:05)
11. St. Gallen (9:48)
12. Spain (7:01)

Larry Coryell (April 2, 1943-February 19, 2017) was an American jazz fusion guitarist.

He was born in Galveston, Texas in 1943. After growing up in Seattle, Washington, in 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he became part of Chico Hamilton's quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton. His music during the late 1960s and early 1970s combined the influences of rock, jazz and eastern music. He formed his own group, The Eleventh House, in 1974. Following the break-up of this band, Coryell played mainly acoustic guitar, but returned to electric guitar later in the 1980s.

Clark University, Massachusetts 1976

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Kellye Gray - Rendering

Size: 118,4+117,2 MB
Time: 50:59+50:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Don't Explain (Live 2015) (5:39)
02. I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues (Live) (4:53)
03. Morning (Live 2015) (4:22)
04. Out Blows Me (Live) (5:08)
05. A Time For Love (Live) (6:16)
06. God You Make Me Wonder (Live) (6:17)
07. How Long Has This Been Going On (Live 2015) (5:21)
08. How Insensitive (Live 2015) (7:16)
09. Good Morning Heartache (Live 2015) (5:45)

CD 2:
01. The Island ( 4:52)
02. All Blues (11:02)
03. Morning ( 3:20)
04. How Long Has This Been Going On ( 5:35)
05. Don't Explain ( 5:07)
06. Since I Fell For You ( 7:12)
07. How Insensitive ( 6:42)
08. Good Morning Heartache ( 6:39)

Jazz vocalist KELLYE GRAY has had a long and rewarding career. A singer with a powerful voice and a nearly four-octave range, she’s toured extensively across the country and around the world, sharing the stage with some of the top names in music. She’s also recorded over seven albums as a leader. Her first recording, Standards in Gray, was released 25 years ago. It received rave reviews and extensive airplay, and it launched a career that remains unabated today.

The album had been out of print for nearly 23 years when the record label that owned the rights gave her ownership of the master. The album had played a seminal role in Gray’s career, and getting ownership of it after so many years made her take stock of her artistic life. That led her to re-record many of the same songs that appeared on that first release. She calls the new album RENDERING, which the dictionary defines as “a depiction or interpretation; work of art or performance that portrays something,” and, indeed, RENDERING is a work of art that portrays Grays’ growth as an artist. She chose to re-release Standards in Gray and package the two CDs together as a kind of snapshot of then and now.

Standards in Gray was recorded over three days at Sugar Hill Studios in Houston, Texas, one of the oldest studios in the country and the purveyor of numerous gold records. It was recorded live to two-track analog tape, in the days before Sibelius and ProTools, giving the album a warm, rich sound, even after transferring it to CD format. For RENDERING, Gray took a very different approach.

Gray, a Texas native who has been living in San Francisco for many years, wanted to go back to her musical family to make this CD. She invited 30 old friends and supporters, including several who participated in her crowdfunding campaign, to join her at Wire Road Studios to record a live performance. She would have liked to bring back all the original musicians, but schedules and other circumstances did not make that possible. She was, however, able to enlist drummer Sebastian Whittaker, who passed away shortly after the concert at a young age, and saxophonist Warren Sneed, a mainstay on the Houston jazz scene, to join her again in the studio. RENDERING also features Pamela York on piano, David Craig on bass, and Andre Hayward on trombone, all Texas-based touring musicians with solid followings.

Rendering CD 1
Rendering CD 2

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Art Pepper - Art Pepper Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Vol. 3: Lee Konitz

Size: 128,7 MB
Time: 55:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. S'wonderful (6:44)
02. Whims Of Chambers (6:53)
03. A Minor Blues In F (7:47)
04. High Jingo (4:21)
05. The Shadow Of Your Smile (5:36)
06. Anniversary Song (6:36)
07. Cherokee (4:40)
08. S'wonderful (Alternate Take) (6:13)
09. Whims Of Chambers (Alternate Take) (6:36)

Originally issued as High Jingo by Lee Konitz And His West Coast Friends in 1982, this material was recorded in February of that year at Sage & Sound Studio in Los Angeles with Konitz on alto sax, Art Pepper also on alto sax (and clarinet!), bassist Bob Magnusson, Michael Lang on piano, and drummer John Dentz. It was only released on LP in Japan.

Vol. 3: Lee Konitz

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Art Pepper - Art Pepper Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Vol. 4: Bill Watrous

Size: 133,3 MB
Time: 57:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. Just Friends (5:23)
02. Begin The Beguine (6:45)
03. When Your Lover Has Gone (6:39)
04. For Art's Sake (4:51)
05. Funny Blues (7:04)
06. Angel Eyes (6:42)
07. P. Town (6:30)
08. Funny Blues (Alternate Take) (7:27)
09. Angel Eyes (Alternate Version) (6:09)

Originally issued as Funk’n Fun by the Bill Watrous Quintet in 1979, this material was recorded in March of that year at Sage & Sound Studio in Los Angeles with Watrous on trombone, Art Pepper on alto sax, bassist Bob Magnusson, Russ Freman on piano, and drummer Carl Burnett. It was only released on LP in Japan.

Vol. 4: Bill Watrous

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Sam Paglia - Lost In Lounge

Size: 100,2 MB
Time: 42:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz, Soul, Funk
Art: Front & Back

01. Sambenji (4:06)
02. Kiss My Ass (4:45)
03. Continental 70 (4:03)
04. Night Club Tropez (3:17)
05. Beloved (4:05)
06. You Lose You Win (3:00)
07. London Bossa (5:22)
08. Mr. Moog (3:07)
09. Linda (3:23)
10. After Pizza (4:01)
11. You Lose You Win (Reprise) (3:35)

Composer, lyricist, organist Hammond, singer, pianist and keyboardist (specializing almost exclusively in vintage keyboards such as Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet and Moog piano), designer and writer. In 1996 he founded the Sam Paglia Trio, and as a tool he chooses the Hammond organ. In 1998 he released the Irma Records B-movie heroes bolognese label, his first record of original pieces as a fictional soundtrack of an imaginary film. It is the first case of an Italian disco dedicated to the film of genres of the police in which coexist with the influences of Italian masters of composition for film such as Umiliani, Piccioni, Trovajoli and Jimmy Smith and Quincy Jones jazz from afroamerican. Along with Irma Records in 2000 comes Nightclubtropez, a disco with influences of bossanova and soul jazz dedicated to dance music of Italian nights between the sixties and seventies with songs sung Continental 70 and Naitropè Clebtrope '. The album gets great reviews and boasts great distribution and sales mostly overseas: Japan, Australia, USA, Russia, England, Germany and Austria. In 2003, Cinedelic recorded the third album Killer cha cha cha, more on the soul jazz and funk side. Here are four covers for Bullitt and Room 26 (Lalo Schifrin, taken from the Bullitt 1968 film), Theme from The Liquidator (always from Schifrin from The Liquidator 1966) and Sanford & son theme by Quincy Jones The 1972 homonymous TV series. The first three discs have the covers designed by Sam himself. The pieces of these appear on dozens of dozens of compilations and its name is linked to the so-called lounge movement in Italy, which is part of the duo of the Montefiori Brothers (Montefiori Cocktail). In April 2000 Sam's trio meets in a unique and unrepeatable evening Piero Umiliani to play together the master's successes brought to the fore by the lounge movement, classics such as Gassman Blues (from the usual unknowns) and "Mah na mah na" (Song made popular by the Muppet show and originally written for Sweden's Hell and Paradise movie). For recording, it intensifies that of live and composing music for jingle advertising, television documentaries and film and shorts of author. In addition to playing all over Italy, the Trio plays in festivals and venues in Austria, Spain, Croatia, Bosnia, England, Switzerland. The following albums are The rare Sam Paglia (Flipper / Hip Cub records) of 2005, Electric Happiness (Deja vu ') of 2009, The Last Organ Party (Flipper / Hip Club records) in 2012. Since 2003 he has started collaborating with the director Milanese Max Croci for which he will perform several short films and documentary music. Since 2005 he has been working as a composer for the Flipper Music publishing company specializing in television and cinema sound. ~Google translation

Lost In Lounge

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Mayte Alguacil - Trav'lin' Light

Size: 133,0 MB
Time: 57:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Everything Happens To Me (5:24)
02. Trav'lin' Light (4:09)
03. Mean To Me (5:11)
04. I'm Old Fashioned (4:39)
05. You Make Me Feel So Young (4:16)
06. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (4:36)
07. For All We Know (3:10)
08. I've Got The World On A String (4:03)
09. Good Morning Heartache (4:52)
10. I Was Doing All Right (4:07)
11. My Old Flame (5:34)
12. Exactly Like You (7:02)

Born in Madrid began his musical studies at the age of twelve years at the Conservatory Rodolfo Halffter de Móstoles, where she took lessons on Elementary and Middle Grade Grade specializing in flute. Parallel studies with a tutor, school Marita Novas St. Petersburg. Later he moved to Barcelona to finish his studies of flute at the Escola de Música de Catalunya (ESMuC) with teacher Julia Gallego. In the same center begins his interest in jazz and gradually becomes a top priority so that, once the race flute completed the entrance exam in the specialty of jazz singing at the center is prepared by obtaining the first place.

During his academic period he has received master classes from David Hoffmann, Dick Oatts, Jerry Bergonzi, Jim Snidero and Chris Cheek. He then traveled to New York and could take private lessons from Chris Cheek and Marion Cowings. He has also attended various seminars jazz as the International Seminar of Jazz and Latin Music in Valencia, where he was taught by Jesús Santandreu, Abe Rábade, Toni Belenguer, Terri Lyne Carrington and others; and he has participated in workshops of musicians like Michael Kanan, Peter Bernstein, Putter Smith and Jimmy Wormworth.

In 2015 she completed her recording debut "Day by Day". A superb collection of classic standards backed by a remarkable rhythm section composed of pianist Michael Kanan, Pedro Campos on bass, and Jorge Rossy on drums.

Trav'lin' Light

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Jeremy Monteiro - With A Little Help From My Friends

Size: 133,8 MB
Time: 57:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Blackbird (6:59)
02. Norwegian Wood (Feat. Melissa Tham) (7:30)
03. The Long And Winding Road (Feat. Nick Zavior) (5:04)
04. And I Love Her (6:56)
05. With A Little Help From My Friends (Feat. Steve Lippia) (4:04)
06. Imagine (9:55)
07. When I'm Sixty-Four (3:59)
08. Fool On The Hill (Feat. Melissa Tham) (5:11)
09. Eleanor Rigby (7:57)

Jeremy Monteiro jazzes up the music of The Beatles, with a little help from his friends. Join Singapore's King of Swing as he puts a jazz spin on familiar favourites such as With a Little Help From My Friends, When I'm 64 and Blackbird in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their iconic album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Monteiro will be joined by guests Eugene Pao, Melissa Tham, Nick Zavior, Hong Chanutr Techatana-nan, Ben Poh, Julian Chan and Jens Bunge.

If you love Jeremy Monteiro, jazz, or if you simply grew up listening to The Beatles, come hear The Beatles' greatest hits like you’ve never heard them before!

With A Little Help From My Friends

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