Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 1 And Disc 2

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
Time: 60:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 140,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:40) 1. Esmeraldas (Live)
(5:28) 2. Açaí (Live)
(4:57) 3. É Com Esse Que Eu Vou (Live)
(4:48) 4. Dindi (Live)
(4:37) 5. Palhaçada (Live)
(4:05) 6. Frevo (Live)
(4:47) 7. Vivo Sonhando (Live)
(4:56) 8. Maria das Mercedes (Live)
(5:54) 9. Deusa do Amor (Live)
(3:51) 10. Você já Foi à Bahia? (Live)
(4:17) 11. Estate (Live)
(3:56) 12. Brazil (Live)
(3:09) 13. Feitiço da Vila (Live)

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Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 2
Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2023
Time: 51:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 119,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:20) 1. Samba da Minha Terra (Live)
(3:32) 2. Onde Anda Você (Live)
(4:42) 3. Morena Boca de Ouro (Live)
(5:32) 4. É Luxo Só (Live)
(3:19) 5. Samba de Verão (Live)
(3:34) 6. Dunas (Live)
(4:16) 7. Vestido de Bolero (Live)
(5:24) 8. Curacao Doloroso (Live)
(3:40) 9. Tico Tico (Live)
(4:15) 10. Corcovado (Live)
(4:23) 11. Chega de Saudade (Live)
(5:20) 12. Bossa Nueva (Live)

It is the result of many years of loving the music of this marvellous country. In the context of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band we have performed and recorded more than 50 songs by authors such as Tom Jobim, Djavan, Pixinguinha, Ary Barroso, Joao Gilberto, Chico Buarque, Roberto Menescal, Dorival Caymmi, Dona Ivone Lara...

Voices such as Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Èlia Bastida, Alba Armengou and Koldo Munné have been inspired by great Brazilian performers and, through them, have managed to have their own voice in interpreting this rich, melodic, harmonic and rhythmic music. Our interpretations always leave room for improvisation, taking advantage of the fact that jazz music is our greatest source of inspiration.

SANT ANDREU ABRAÇA BRAZIL is not only music, it is also a gesture, a way of bridging the gap between both cultures. To give a giant embrace that crosses the ocean.

This is what happened during the Jazzing Festival, where the 25 songs that make up this double CD were recorded live, featuring the voices of Vanessa Moreno and Analu Sampaio, who came from Brazil especially to sing with us, as well as voices from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band such as Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Èlia Bastida, Alba Armengou, Koldo Munné and Edu Ferrer. We can also enjoy the voices of guests such as Carme Canela, Jurandir dã Silva, Enrique González and Maria Zerpa.

The diversity of the voices that make up this CD make it unique. 25 songs to enjoy listening to Music invites us to dream. Let's close our eyes and cross the Atlantic. Let's let ourselves be carried away by the bossa nova, the samba, the baião, the choro, the frevo.
https://discmedi.com/en/disco_new/14937/sant-andreu-abraa-brasil

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil (Live) Disc 1, Disc 2

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Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil Vol. 2 (Live)

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2024
Time: 46:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 108,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:41) 1. Choro das Aguas (Live)
(4:07) 2. Só Tinha de Ser com Você (Live)
(5:08) 3. Senhorinha (Live)
(2:55) 4. Na Carreira (Live)
(4:05) 5. Maçã do Rosto (Live)
(3:37) 6. Valsinha (Live)
(4:36) 7. Azul (Live)
(4:02) 8. Fato Consumado (Live)
(5:17) 9. Dindi (Live)
(4:02) 10. Por Causa de Você (Live)
(5:05) 11. Tudo é Ilusão (Live)

Joan Chamorro (1962) studied saxophone in the Barcelona Conservatory under the mentorship of profesor Adolf Ventas. Parallel to his cassical studies he got a superior grade at the Barcelona’s Taller de Músics. Took part of the Big Band del Taller de músics, the Big Band de Bellaterra, John Dubuclet’s Big Band, the Big Band Jazz Terrassa, and Eladio Reinón-Tete Montoliu’s Supercombo, touring Europe at different venues and festivals, and appearing in the most renowned Spanish jazz festivals (Barcelona, Terrassa, Sant Sebastiàn, Madrid...). Chamorro has been also part of the Orquestra de Radio Televisión Española, where he had the opportunity to back big names in the scene as Manhattan Transfer and Stevie Wonder.

Apart from these early projects, Chamorro has worked as part of the Orquestra del Teatre Lliure, and the well-known theatre group the Comediants, having shows in great venues as New York, Santiago de Xile, Paris, and Venice.

Chamorro has played with such jazz legends like Slide Hampton, Tete Montoliu, Frank Foster, Teddy Edwards, Frank Wess, Bebo Valdés, Randy Brecker, Gary Smulyan, Dick Oatts, Ralf Lalama, Jessie Davis, Dennis Rowland, Carmen Lundy, Mike Mossman, John Mosca, Bart Van Lier, David Allen, Bobby Shew, Judy Niemack, along with important local names like Josep Maria Farràs, Perico Sambeat, Lluis Vidal, David Mengual, David Xirgu and many more.

Multiinstrumentalist (he’s able to play all different kind of reeds and upright bass); nowadays he’s popularly known as the founder and director of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, and specially to lead the internationally acclaimed Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet.
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/12863-joan-chamorro-albums

Sant Andreu Abraça Brasil Vol. 2 (Live)

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Ron Carter Quartet - Live at Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival 2023

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 81:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 186,2 MB
Art: Front

(36:04) 1. 595/ Mr. Bow Tie / Joshua / Little Waltz
(12:23) 2. Saguaro
( 9:37) 3. My Funny Valentine
( 6:05) 4. Seven Steps to Heaven
( 7:15) 5. You are my Sunshine
( 9:52) 6. You and the Night and the Music

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons.

Ron Graduated the Eastman School in 1959 and packed up his belongings and moved to New York City with his wife, Janet. Later that year, Downbeat magazine listed Ron as #15 of 23 in their bass player poll. A great start.

In the early 1960s he performed throughout the United States in concert halls and nightclubs with Jaki Byard and Eric Dolphy. He later toured Europe with Cannonball Adderley. From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the classic and acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute Band and another Grammy in 1998 for Call 'Sheet Blues', an instrumental composition from the film 'Round Midnight. In addition to scoring and arranging music for many films, including some projects for Public Broadcasting System, Carter has composed music for A Gathering of Old Men, starring Lou Gosset Jr., The Passion of Beatrice directed by Bertrand Tavernier, and Blind Faith starring Courtney B. Vance. Carter shares his expertise in the series of books he authored, among which are Building Jazz Bass Lines and The Music of Ron Carter; the latter contains 130 of his published and recorded compositions.

Carter earned a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman School in Rochester and a master's degree in double bass from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He has also received two honorary doctorates, from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, and was the 2002 recipient of the prestigious Hutchinson Award from the Eastman School at the University of Rochester. Carter has lectured, conducted, and performed at clinics and master classes, instructing jazz ensembles and teaching the business of music at numerous universities. He was Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies while it was located in Boston and, after 18 years on the faculty of the Music Department of The City College of New York, he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

Ron remains as active as ever. 2022 is another big year for him. At the 64th Grammy Awards he won Best Jazz Instrumental Album award along with Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba for their album "Skyline". In May, Ron celebrates his 85th birthday and is hosting a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 10th. He then starts a full tour including trio, big band and quartet performances.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/ron-carter/

Personnel: Ron Carter: bass; Renee Rosnes: piano; Jimmy Greene: sax; Payton Crossley: drums

Live at Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival 2023

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Eboni Fondren - Eboni Fondren With Laurent Marode Orchestra

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 29:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 67,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:58) 1. How Deep Is The Ocean
(4:01) 2. Solitude
(2:52) 3. I'm Beginning To See The Light
(4:07) 4. Get Out of Town
(6:14) 5. Ain't Nobody Like My Baby
(3:25) 6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
(4:38) 7. Can't Help Lovin Dat Man

Dynamic vocalist and entertainer Eboni Fondren, brings passion and excitement whenever she takes the stage. Her precise readings of jazz standards, which she seasons with a dash of R&B, fill a room with energy and delight. With a smooth and sultry finish, audiences will be enchanted by her lyrical interpretation and ability to draw an audience in leaving them wanting more.

Graduating from the Everette DeVan School of Groove in 2012, Eboni has become one of the most highly sought after and premiere jazz vocalists in Kansas City. In addition to her own musical projects which include Eboni and the Ivories, and a member of the Lost Wax Band, Eboni collaborates with some of Kansas City's top musicians and can be heard swinging all over the local jazz scene.

She was selected as the 2021 and 2022 Favorite Jazz Vocalist by the KC Jazz Ambassadors, nominated as a Woman to Watch by Her Life Magazine, represents Kansas City Jazz with the VisitKC Bureau and recently had the honor and amazing opportunity to represent the United States at the 2023 G20 Summit in Varanasi, India. https://www.ebonifondrenmusic.com/epk-1

Eboni Fondren With Laurent Marode Orchestra

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The Crusaders - The Vocal Album

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:57
Size: 135.0 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals, Crossover jazz
Year: 1987/2012
Art: Front

[7:31] 1. Street Life
[5:24] 2. This Old World's Too Funky For Me
[5:42] 3. Better Not Look Down
[3:55] 4. Inherit The Wind
[4:10] 5. Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing)
[4:31] 6. Help (I Need Somebody)
[6:24] 7. Soul Shadows
[4:47] 8. The Way It Goes
[5:01] 9. I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today
[4:12] 10. (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up To You
[7:16] 11. Burnin' Up The Carnival

Track 1 taken from 'Street Life' album by The Crusaders; Tracks 2 & 9 taken from 'Standing Tall' album by The Crusaders; Track 3 taken from 'Royal Jam' album by The Crusaders; Track 4 taken from 'Inherit The Wind' album by Wilton Felder; Track 5 taken from 'Midnight Believer' album by B.B. King; Track 6 taken from 'Private Dancer' by Tina Turner; Track 7 taken from 'Rhapsody & Blues' by The Crusaders; Track 8 taken from 'The Good And The Bad Times' by The Crusaders; Track 10 taken from 'Secrets' by Wilton Felder; Track 11 taken from 'Voices In The Rain' by Joe Sample.

Funny, we can't remember this many singers turning up on the Crusaders' albums, but look a little closer at the liner. For this 1987 compilation -- designed, perhaps, to fill the gap between albums by a group that no longer was a full-time act -- MCA reached for records by B.B. King, Tina Turner, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder that various Crusaders played on, as well as the band's output from Street Life through The Good and Bad Times. B.B. takes the prize for his fabulous, humorously funky, live-in-London turn on "Better Not Look Down" -- he plays guitar so sparingly, and every note is right in the pocket -- but Joe Cocker comes close, riding on a classic bumpy Crusaders groove on "This Old World's Too Funky for Me." Of course, Randy Crawford's career-making "Street Life" leads off the set, and Tina Turner (in a lugubrious dissection of the Beatles' "Help"), Bobby Womack, Alltrinna Grayson, Bill Withers, Flora Purim and Josie James also contribute with various degrees of effectiveness. Despite a few weak moments, the album works amazingly well, partly as an alternative highlights collection and partly as a sober reminder to the remaining Crusaders and their fans as to how essential drummer Stix Hooper was to their sound. ~Ruchard S.Ginell

The Vocal Album

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Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd1, Cd2

Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd1

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 46:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 107,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:50) 1. Don't You Worry About a Thing
(9:24) 2. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
(4:39) 3. Congolese Children
(4:29) 4. I'm All Smiles
(4:45) 5. Invitation
(6:31) 6. Once I loved
(3:17) 7. Cute
(5:01) 8. This Is New
(4:37) 9. Come Sunday

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Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd2

Time: 32:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 75,4 MB
Art: Front

(0:15) 1. Power Mode
(5:07) 2. It's a Game
(5:28) 3. Snakes And Ladders
(1:25) 4. Hounds and Jackal
(2:04) 5. King's Table
(1:07) 6. Stag
(2:54) 7. Cross and Circle
(4:51) 8. Space Walk
(3:20) 9. Valse du petit chien
(1:56) 10. Fred Hersch, notes on Solo
(3:58) 11. Jason Moran, notes on Game

Mentored by Fred Hersch and Jason Moran, and produced by Hersch, Solo Game puts pianist Sullivan Fortner in a really good place. That is before the music even starts. Then it does start with a sly and subdued solo on Stevie Wonder's buoyant 1973 top tenner, "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing," while dropping subtle hints to the trip ahead, forged by Fortner's quixotic self.

Fortner, who has steadily grown a discography which includes his own quartet recording Aria (Impulse!, 2015), a seven year stint with Roy Hargrove, and choice sessions with Paul Simon, Cecile McLorin Salvant (who adds her ethereal magic to the "Tubular Bells" like "Snakes and Ladders"), and Melissa Aldana just to name a few. With his perfect pitch and classic stride approach, the pianist has a long and illustrious career ahead of him.

An autumnally seasoned approach to Richard Rodgers' "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" belies Fortner's age. There is a clear sense of yearning yet knowing the years reveal as they will. Hersch's production is pristine, throwing light on Fortner's clearly articulated vision a new and most assured take on things of beauty over convenience, things with eternal presence.

The pianist does what all great artists, innovators, and true creators (not Tik Tok spin offs) do; they challenge themselves and rise well above said challenge. So, Randy Weston's "Congolese Children" sounds fully conceived and of a piece, as does Antonio Carlos Jobim's luscious "Once I Loved." Fortner is so aware of those who have mastered the keys before him that, by the time we get to singularly malleable romps through Neil Hefti's bouncing "Cute" and Kurt Weill's neo-ragtime "This Is New," visions of Art Tatum and Bud Powell are dancing in our heads.

These solo ventures can get over-wrought at times think of young Keith Jarrett's one man Restoration Ruin (Vortex, 1968) but Solo Game for the greater part avoids those youthful pratfalls. Though it does have its wrought moments, such as "It's A Game" the second track on Disc Two it runs a bit too long, predictably. Here the pianist takes on a host of instruments including vibes, celeste, chime tree, Moog, Vocoder, Rain Maker, Hammond B3, and egg shaker.

Fully composed by Fortner, the brooding Shaft-like undertow "Snakes and Ladders" falls victim to, once again, its length. "Hounds and Jackals" on the other hand, is too short. "Space Walk " is. well, the new generation watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. But, given the gravity and the gravitas of Solo Game, this is really nitpicking. These two discs are beyond question worth the time it takes to get pulled into their gracious and sustainable orbit. By Mike Jurkovic Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game album review @ All About Jazz

Personnel: Sullivan Fortner: Piano (Steinway B), Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 Organ, Vibes, Celeste, Chime Tree, Moog, Vocoder, Rain Maker, Hand Percussion, Egg Shaker, Triangle, Vocals, Hand Claps, Shakers, Canopus Bass Drum, Mongolian Gong (2); Kyle Pool: hand claps on (2-2); Cecile McLorin Salvant: vocals on (2-3).

Solo Game Cd 1, Cd 2

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Bill Doggett And His Combo - The Band With The Beat!

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop

Year: 1961

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 31:24

Size: 75,4 MB

Art: Front

(2:15)  1. Swivel

(3:02)  2. Anniversary Song

(2:44)  3. Open the Door,Richard!

(2:50)  4. Mr.Lucky

(2:52)  5. Lets Do The Continental

(2:15)  6. Pony Walk

(2:39)  7. The Waltz You Saved Me

(2:32)  8. Petite Fleur

(2:35)  9. Later Baby Later

(2:06) 10. Po'Boy

(2:37) 11. Lucy

(2:51) 12. Blues For Joe

With his instrumental hit "Honky Tonk" in February 1956, Bill Doggett (born William Ballard Doggett) created one of rock's greatest instrumental tracks. Although it generated scores of offers to perform in rock & roll clubs throughout the United States, Doggett remained tied to the jazz and organ-based R&B that he had performed since the 1930s. Continuing to record for the Cincinnati-based King label until 1960, he went on to record for Warner Brothers, Columbia, ABC-Paramount and Sue. His last session came as a member and producer of an all-star jazz/R&B group, Bluesiana Hurricane in 1995. Born on the north side of Philadelphia, Doggett struggled with poverty as a youngster. Although he initially dreamed of playing the trumpet, his family was unable to afford lessons. Persuaded by his mother (a church pianist), to try keyboards instead, he quickly mastered the instrument. Hailed as a child prodigy by his 13th birthday, he formed his first band, the Five Majors, at the age of 15. Performing with the Jimmy Gorman Band, the pit orchestra at the Nixon Grand Theater, while still in high school, Doggett assumed leadership of the group in 1938. The experience was brief, however, as Doggett sold the orchestra to Lucky Millinder, with whom he continued to work off and on for the next four years.

He made his recording debut on Millinder's tracks, "Little Old Lady From Baltimore" and "All Aboard" in 1939. Although he formed a short-lived orchestra with Benny Goodman's arranger, Jimmy Mundy, in late 1939, Doggett continued to work primarily as a sideman. Playing piano and arranging for the Ink Spots from 1942 until 1944, he went on to arrange tunes for Count Basie's band and tour and/or record with Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton. Replacing Wild Bill Davis in Louis Jordan's band, in 1947, he appeared on the influential tunes, "Saturday Night Fish Fry" and "Blue Light Boogie." He made his debut as an organist during June 1951 recording sessions with Ella Fitzgerald. Debuting his own organ-led combo at New York nightclub, the Baby Grand, in June 1952, Doggett recorded more than a dozen singles before striking gold with "Honky Tonk" four years later. A longtime resident of Long Island, New York, Doggett died on November 13, 1996, three days after suffering a heart attack.By Craig Harris http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-doggett-mn0000763554/biography

The Band With Thw Beat!

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Sabine Kühlich, Laia Genc - In Your Own Sweet Way

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2016
Time: 67:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 155,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:11) 1. When You Wish Upon a Star
(4:18) 2. It´s a Raggy Waltz
(3:31) 3. Three to Get Ready
(5:19) 4. Strange Meadow-Lark
(3:38) 5. Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig
(3:52) 6. Take Five
(6:05) 7. In Your Own Sweet Way
(3:14) 8. Koto Song
(3:03) 9. Sweet Slumber
(5:42) 10. Blue Rondo a La Turk
(5:30) 11. Emily
(2:04) 12. Unsquare Dance
(6:31) 13. Blessed Are the Poor
(5:18) 14. For Mara
(3:46) 15. The Message

Dave Brubeck loved crooked rhythms on the black and white keys, which are not necessarily to everyone's taste. The fact that the vocalist and saxophonist Sabine Kühlich from Aachen and the pianist Laia Genç from Cologne now dare to present a bunch of top-class songs of the maestro to the public on their CD "In Your Own Sweet Way" is due perhaps to the exceedingly charming challenge to let the seemingly complicated sound easy, simple and comprehensible. The keyboard great, who passed away at the end of 2012, represents something like an aesthetic lighthouse for the two women.

As a result, the two musicians were finally able realize their personal dream project. Stefan Hentz wrote in his liner notes that it is like a balancing on a slackline: "Child's play, totally effortless and perfectly natural, at least as it looks in the event of success." The courage to take risks, the tendency to complex puzzles and curiosity for ever new discoveries: "Brubeck had that ability, and he never failed with it. Genç and Kühlich have to be judged by that and make it clear at the same time that Brubeck's music is suitable as a springboard to intensity derived unmistakably from the present. Respect is in demand as well as transgression, feeling and understanding, convention and originality. Balance? What else?"

Sabine Kühlich studied Jazz in Amsterdam and New York, is a passioned composer, and swinging interpret of the Great American Songbook. Brazilian and Cuban music influence her work as much as touring and CD-productions with the Jazz-legend Sheila Jordan born 1928! Since 2006 Sabine is teacher of the Jazz Department at the Conservatory Maastricht, she lives in Germany. The „singer with a tempting voice“ won the Montreux Jazz Voice Competition in 2008, she played concerts in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Her „perfect timing“ (Barry Harris) and „brilliant music with wonderful lyrics“ (Sheila Jordan) can be found in several CD-productions as guest and front-woman.

Laia Genc is living and working in Germany, she is part of the indeed very rich Cologne music scene and plays concerts all around Europe and in the world, wether with her own projects or as a sidewoman.

To a lot of projects she adds a special colour as a sensitive soundpainteress, improviser, composer and arranger in her own particular way of mixing Jazz, free improvisation and lots of musical charme to an unmistakable sound. Her extended piano techniques give Laia the freedom to fully explore the border between composed structures and improvisational freedom.
Laia graduated her studies in jazzpiano at the conservatory in Cologne/Germany with some brave teachers, among them John Taylor. During her studies Laia lived in Paris for one year and studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. This year in France for her became one of the most inspriring and onleading periods of her studies.

Since she has started playing extensively she has been travelling and working musicwise in Luxemburg, Italy, France, Norway, Lithuania, Haiti, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia. In Australia she toured in 2009 with her LiaisonTonique and Adam Simmons as special guest on thesaxophone.https://www.challengerecords.com/products/14557966683247/In%20Your%20Own%20Sweet%20Way?tab=2

In Your Own Sweet Way

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Bill Cantos - Sensibility

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 49:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 115,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:53) 1. Sensibility
(2:57) 2. This Can’t Be Love
(5:48) 3. Bull In A China Shop
(4:19) 4. I’m A Believer
(4:56) 5. Love, To Me
(4:17) 6. Kiss On My List
(5:04) 7. I May Be Wrong
(4:46) 8. Things We Said Today
(3:12) 9. That Sunday That Summer
(3:29) 10. No Halfway
(2:56) 11. Fly Me To The Moon
(3:15) 12. I’ve Always Been Here

Renowned pianist, vocalist and songwriter Bill Cantos is thrilled to announce the release of his highly anticipated album, "Sensibility," set to launch on July 21, 2023. With a captivating blend of original compositions and imaginative covers, Cantos takes listeners on a dynamic musical adventure that showcases his unique style and extraordinary talent.

"Sensibility" is a heartfelt reflection of Cantos' musical identity, encompassing both his current artistic expression and his rich musical heritage. The album features a delightful mix of originals inspired by recent years, along with captivating renditions of diverse songs that are both cool and unexpected. Cantos has always been drawn to artists who skillfully incorporate different influences into their music while imprinting it with their distinct voice, and he achieves precisely that on this remarkable record.

Co-produced and co-arranged with musical partner Mari Falcone, "Sensibility" represents Cantos' musical evolution. The album's arrangements were honed during his dynamic live performances; in LA, Bill is a regular performer at Vibrato, the world-renowned club owned by Alpert. Bill's compositions have been covered by such artists as Ramsey Lewis, Lea Salonga, and Patti Austin. With a rich background touring and recording with luminaries like Herb Alpert & Lani Hall, Burt Bacharach and Phil Collins, Cantos has established himself as a respected figure in the music industry. His deep love for Brazilian music is evident in his collaborations with notable Brazilian artists, and his contributions to film soundtracks have garnered widespread acclaim.

Come along on this musical journey as Bill Cantos invites listeners to experience a combination of classic jazz, pop, and Brazilian influences that transcend genres but all come together to paint a portrait of Bill’s unmistakeable....”Sensibility".
https://www.thepunkhead.com/music/bill-cantos-releases-sensibility

Sensibility

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The Crusaders - Gold (2-Disc Set)

For listeners willing to overlook the fact that this Crusaders retrospective begins the story in 1970 nine years after the combo began recording excellent hard bop and soul-jazz  the two-disc set Gold is just as good and nearly as thorough as the 1996 four-disc box Way Back Home. (Since the running time is only 17 seconds shy of 160 minutes, it's truly jam-packed.) Focusing on the '70s allows the set to dwell considerably on each record the group released during the decade that produced its most popular (although not most rewarding) music. After grabbing a pair of tracks from the Crusaders' two Chisa LPs of 1970-1971, the set moves on to the Blue Thumb years with multiple selections from every main album of the '70s 1, The 2nd Crusade, Scratch, Chain Reaction, Free as the Wind. The material is primarily fusion and jazz-funk, moving into crossover jazz by the second disc, and while the group never quite matched great themes with great grooves, this is the easiest way to get to the heart of their discography. (Rare groove fanatics may agree or disagree with the inclusion of the shortened 12" version of "Street Life," although it still clocks in north of five minutes.) ~John Bush

Album: Gold (Disc 1)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 79:14

Size: 181.4 MB

Styles: Jazz-funk, Crossover jazz

Year: 2007

[1:43] 1. Freedom Sound

[4:50] 2. Young Rabbits

[3:58] 3. Way Back Home

[5:25] 4. Put It Where You Want It

[3:43] 5. So Far Away

[6:03] 6. Tough Talk

[3:03] 7. Don't Let It Get You Down

[6:02] 8. Scratch

[7:30] 9. Hard Times

[5:47] 10. Funk Funk

[9:29] 11. Lilies Of The Nile

[2:42] 12. Double Bubble

[7:27] 13. Ballad For Joe (Louis)

[2:27] 14. I Felt The Love

[3:26] 15. Creole

[5:33] 16. Chain Reaction

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Album: Gold (Disc 2)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 79:04

Size: 181.0 MB

Styles: Jazz-funk, Crossover jazz

Year: 2007

Art: Front

[6:12] 1. Spiral

[5:35] 2. Keep That Same Old Feeling

[6:14] 3. Free As The Wind

[4:42] 4. Night Crawler

[8:53] 5. Sweet 'n' Sour

[5:36] 6. It Happens Everyday

[4:14] 7. Feel It

[4:52] 8. Snowflake

[4:40] 9. Fairy Tales

[5:27] 10. Street Life

[6:21] 11. Soul Shadows

[6:37] 12. Last Call

[5:00] 13. I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today

[4:33] 14. Hold On

Gold (Disc 1)(Disc 2)

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Fay Claassen & David Linx & Wdr Big Band - And Still We Sing

Styles: Vocal, Big Band
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:01
Size: 129,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:32) 1. Sum It up (Disturbing the Peace)
(5:17) 2. Along Goes Betty
(5:48) 3. Waterfalls
(5:19) 4. Good Times
(5:55) 5. Tackle and Dabble
(6:30) 6. In a Sentimental Mood
(5:04) 7. Feel the Beat
(6:35) 8. J’me Prépare
(6:12) 9. I Will Build Myself a Nation (Biding My Time)
(3:43) 10. Rebirth

The Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen and her Belgian colleague David Linx sing some passages in unison, in others their voices cross or shine on their own. A congenial duo that harmonizes almost perfectly with each other, without a doubt, two all-round complementary timbres that already made for exclamation marks on the album “One Heart, Three Voices” with Diederik Wissels in 2005. But Claassen and Linx only experience the fine finishing touches through the dynamism of the WDR Big Band, which Magnus Lindgren navigates through ten songs. You never tire of singing the Song of Songs to this brilliantly nuanced body of sound, which is once again able to fully serve the two protagonists,without directing the spotlight on his famous soloists such as trombonist Andy Hunter or tenor saxophonist Paul Heller (Claassen's husband) at the right moments. Exciting: In the opener “Sum It Up (Disturbing The Peace)” the vocalists build a stable bridge from scat to rap in the form of spoken recitations. I would love to have more of it! Translate By Google https://www.jazzthing.de/review/fay-claassen-david-linx-and-still-we-sing/

And Still We Sing

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Chuck Sagle & Neal Hefti Orchestras - Splendor In The Brass + Jazz Pops

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 65:27

Size: 149.8 MB

Styles: Contemporary jazz

Year: 2013

Art: Front

[3:57] 1. When Sunny Gets Blue

[3:22] 2. A Taste Of Honey

[2:49] 3. Bernie's Tune

[3:16] 4. Man With A Horn

[4:05] 5. Playboy's Theme

[2:54] 6. On Green Dolphin Street

[2:50] 7. Love For Sale

[1:55] 8. A Night In Tunisia

[2:51] 9. Easy Living

[2:03] 10. The Moon Was Yellow

[2:54] 11. Brassanctified

[2:56] 12. Coral Reef

[2:12] 13. Take Five

[2:50] 14. Exodus

[3:24] 15. Like Young

[4:56] 16. One & Two O'clock Jump

[3:14] 17. Cute

[4:34] 18. Moanin'

[3:10] 19. Petite Fleur

[5:07] 20. Li'l Darlin'

Tracks #1-11, from the Reprise album "Splendor in the Brass" (RS 6047). Tracks #12-20, from the Reprise album "Jazz Pops" (RS 6039). Both sessions recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, in 1962.

Chuck Sagle was a widely experienced arranger and conductor when, in 1962, he joined the a&r department at Reprise Records in Los Angeles. Among the first projects he produced for the label was his own album “Splendor in the Brass.” His tasteful arrangements skillfully juxtaposed various small instrumental combinations with each other and with the full orchestra, with deftly voiced French horns and saxophones revealing his fertile imagination and versatility. Garnishing these well-conceived performances are solos by such luminaries as Lou Levy, Shorty Sherock, Cappy Lewis, Buddy Collette, Bill Perkins and Emil Richards.

The second album on this set, “Jazz Pops,” also a Reprise release, is by another big band, this time under the direction of arranger, composer, trumpeter and bandleader Neal Hefti. While his arrangements here are of a different order to his early work for Woody Herman and Count Basie, they still bear the mark of his considerable talent. His writing is economical and unpretentious. The soloists, moreover, include Joe Maini, Jack Sheldon, Ted Nash, Larry Bunker and Conte Candoli.

In all, two highly satisfying big band albums of similar approach and spectacular sound, solidly heavily conceived and arranged—and brilliantly performed.

CHUCK SAGLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Collective personnel includes: Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, John Best, Ray Triscari, Bud Brisbois (tp); Cappy Lewis (tp, flh); Dave Wells (b-tp); Milt Bernhart, Tommy Pederson, William Schaefer, Lew McCreary, Lloyd Ulyate, Lew McCreary, Tommy Shepard, Dave Wells (tb); Ed Kusby, George Roberts (b-tb); Sinclair Lott, James Decker, George Hyde, Gale Robinson, Vince DeRosa, John Cave, Alan Robinson (frh); Ted Nash, Harry Klee, Bill Calkins (as, fl); Jules Jacob (as, cl); Buddy Collette (ts, fl); Wilbur Schwartz, Gene Cipriano, Bill Perkins (ts); Chuck Gentry, Dick Nash (bs); Sam Rice, Red Callender (tuba); Louis Singer, Emil Richards (vib); Ray Sherman, Lou Levy (p); Al Hendrickson, Bob Gibbons (g); Joe Mondragon (b); Alvin Stoller, Milt Holland, Earl Palmer (d); Norman Jeffries, Larry Bunker (bongos); plus string section.

NEAL HEFTI AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Collective personnel includes: Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Gerald Wilson, Don Fagerquist, Jack Sheldon, Pete Candoli (tp); Dick Nash, Tommy Pederson, Lew McCreary, Tommy Shepard, Dick Noel (tb); George Roberts, Kenny Shroyer (b-tb); Vince DeRosa, Bill Hinshaw, Dick Perissi, Gale Robinson, Alan Robinson (frh); Joe Maini, Charlie Kennedy (as); Med Flory, Lou Ciotti (ts); Bill Hood (bar); Harry Klee, Plas Johnson, Bill Calkins, Justin Gordon, Buddy Collette, Ted Nash, Willie Schwartz (fl); Emil Richards (vib); Larry Bunker (vib, bongos); Bob Gibbons (g); Al McKibbon (b); Shelly Manne, Earl Palmer (d); Milt Holland (conga); Francisco Aquabella (bongos).

Splendor In The Brass + Jazz Pops

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Joel Lyssarides/Georgios Prokopiou - Arcs & Rivers

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2024
Time: 40:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 94,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:34) 1. Arcs
(4:51) 2. Anamnesis
(3:07) 3. A Night in Piraeus
(5:25) 4. Echoes
(4:27) 5. Rivers
(2:15) 6. Lyssarides Lament
(6:08) 7. Kamilieriko Road
(4:30) 8. Orange Moon
(3:25) 9. From East to West
(2:55) 10. Zafeirious Solo

It is highly (exceedingly) likely that an album review involving a piano and a bouzouki has never been featured in any high end audio journal. Most will have never heard of this instrument and will utter “It’s all Greek to me”, and they will of course be correct.

Arcs & Rivers is just such an album, but fear not, with the exception of one track that celebrates the ‘Greekness’ associated with the instrument, the album will not evoke memories of long hot days on a magical Aegean isle.

This album is the result of musical curiosity, Joel Lyssarides (piano) went and heard Georgios Prokopiou (bouzouki) playing live in Stockholm, spoke to him afterwards, and they arranged to meet for a session and have forged a musical partnership. Both musicians come are of Greek origin but are residents of Stockholm.

The musical journeys taken by Lyssarides and Prokopiou could not have been more different to one another, while Lyssarides has made his name from accompanying mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie von Otter as well as being a contributor to the excellent Esbjörn Svensson tribute e.s.t. 30, commemorative album, Prokopiou had a less salubrious start and honed his skills playing his bouzouki at seedy clubs in Athens from the age of 10.

The result of this meeting of stark different musical backgrounds is a charming short album that in deference to the promos is far from being anything close to jazz, instead it offers melodious sounds that combine essences of ancient European music with hints of ‘nearly country music’ (the banjo is a distant relative of the bouzouki after all) with some Greek accents. There are melodys, pace and panache and a very synergetic musical relationship, there is no leader in this band of two.

The bouzouki sound signature is made of using three or four groups of two strings and is mostly at the mid high to high range of the sound scale. When accompanied by a piano that is able to offer syncopating background backup with lower registers, the bouzouki is projected and stands in front of the speakers, listening to the album is akin to a live session in a small space. Arcs & Rivers is a charming album, timed for the arrival of shorter days and a likely to aid lowering the blood pressure during a commute on busy highways and byways.
https://the-ear.net/music/arcs-rivers/

Arcs & Rivers

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The Harry Allen Duo & Trio - I'll Never Be the Same

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1995
Time: 70:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 161,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:20) 1. All Through the Night
(6:09) 2. I Won't Dance
(2:52) 3. I'll Close My Eyes
(5:19) 4. I'm Gonna Sit Down and Write Myself a Letter
(5:33) 5. Avalon
(5:15) 6. Estate
(5:40) 7. Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
(5:42) 8. I'll Never Be the Same
(4:37) 9. It's Alright with Me
(3:00) 10. Shining Sea
(4:51) 11. Waltz for Debbie
(5:03) 12. Roses of Picardy
(6:41) 13. Fascinating Rhythm
(4:05) 14. If I Love Again

Gene Lees writes, "Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen."

BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine‚s reader‚s poll.

Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others.

Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.

Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/harry-allen/

I'll Never Be the Same

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Rolf Ericson - Stockholm sweetnin'

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:43
Size: 139,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:41)  1. Bird song
(4:15)  2. Squeeze me
(4:57)  3. Evelyn
(5:41)  4. Broadway
(5:41)  5. Little man, you've had a busy day
(4:42)  6. Stockholm sweetnin'
(4:35)  7. Nancy with the laughing face
(4:43)  8. Mel's bells
(5:25)  9. In a sentimental mood
(4:49) 10. Without a song
(4:14) 11. What am I here for
(4:54) 12. Thou swell

Trumpeter Rolf Ericson was 62 when he made this recording (only his second as a leader in 13 years and third in 28 years), but he was still in his prime. Teamed up with drummer Mel Lewis and three fellow Swedes (tenor saxophonist Nils Sandstrom, pianist Goran Lindberg, and bassist Sture Nordin), Ericson's cool bop style is well featured on five standards, Nordin's "Mel's Bells" (based on "If I Were a Bell"), Thad Jones' catchy "Bird Song," and Ericson's jazz waltz "Evelyn." A pretty definitive sampling of Ericson in his later years with plenty of fine straight-ahead swinging. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/stockholm-sweetnin-mw0000233638

Personnel: Rolf Ericson (trumpet, flugelhorn); Nils Sandstrom (tenor saxophone, piano); Claes Crona, Göran Lindberg (piano); Sture Nordin, Mel Lewis (drums).

Stockholm sweetnin'

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Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca (Remastered)

Styles: Bebop
Year: 2024
Time: 82:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 190,2 MB
Art: Front

(10:44) 1. Night in Tunisia
( 4:39) 2. Yo No Quiero
( 4:55) 3. Whisper Not
( 3:38) 4. Tangorine
( 4:58) 5. Hallelujah
( 3:45) 6. Wonder Why
( 3:17) 7. Annie's Dance
( 2:52) 8. Lovely One In The Window
( 5:10) 9. Doodlin
( 3:47) 10. Flamingo
( 3:12) 11. Yesterdays
( 5:10) 12. Tour De Force
( 2:39) 13. My Reverie
( 3:54) 14. I Remember Clifford
( 2:10) 15. Left Hand Corner
( 4:09) 16. Tin Tin Deo
( 3:35) 17. Jordu
( 9:48) 18. Manteca

Introducing the Wally Heider 3 Microphone Technique the quintessential solution for capturing pristine audio quality in any setting. Striking a perfect balance between clarity, warmth, and depth, Hieder’s labor of love revolutionized the art of audio engineering in his time and captured every nuance of every great performance from the grandest dance hall to the darkest corner of the jazz world with absolute fidelity.

No venue too big or too small, Hieder painstakingly amassed a collection of silky-smooth recordings of huge historical significance that were decades ahead of the audio capture of the time, many of which provide some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements by these legendary artists. Now forming the basis of the Hindsight Records catalogue these ‘Wally Hieder Library of Congress’ recordings are newly remastered and proudly presented here for your listening pleasure.

Next up: One of the most prolific and virtuosic Jazz musicians of the era Dizzy Gillespie, takes you through a collection of his biggest hits and well-loved tunes on the double album ‘Manteca’, with tracks including ‘Night in Tunisia’, ‘Lovely One in the Window’ and ‘Wonder Why’."
https://dizziegillespie.bandcamp.com/album/dizzie-gillespie-manteca-the-wally-heider-recordings

Manteca

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Nicki Parrott - Feelin' Groovy

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 52:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 121,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:58) 1. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
(5:44) 2. He Called Me Baby
(4:21) 3. Everybody's Talkin'
(4:16) 4. These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
(5:46) 5. Mas Que Nada
(3:26) 6. Catch The Wind
(4:02) 7. Pure Imagination
(4:25) 8. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
(3:50) 9. If I Fell
(3:44) 10. Up On The Roof
(4:43) 11. Both Sides, Now
(4:30) 12. What The World Needs Now Is Love

Australian-born Nicki Parrott emigrated to the USA in 1994 and after studying with Rufus Reid and Ray Brown she soon acquired a reputation in New York circles as a stellar, big-toned bass player. She has become even better known as a high-quality vocalist with an intimate delivery, perfect intonation and exquisite taste in material. She reminds me a little of Blossom Dearie and her Dear Blossom album is well worth tracking down.

She has revisited the older songbook repertoire on her 27 recordings so far and Black Coffee, which won the Golden Disc Award in 2010, is one I often return to. It has numbers you don’t hear every day, such as Don’t Smoke In Bed, Go Slow and Just One More Chance. In recent years she has found inspiration performing songs of a slightly newer vintage on her Carpenters Songbook, the Burt Bacharach Songbook and Great 70s albums.

This release with an all Australian personnel is a follow-up to If You Could Read My Mind and she opens with Paul Simon’s laid-back hymn to the 59th Street Bridge aka Feelin’ Groovy. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton sat alongside that bridge in one of the standout scenes from Allen’s 1979 masterpiece Manhattan.

Mas Que Nada finds Nicki singing in what sounds like authentic Portuguese. It was Sérgio Mendes’ first hit just after Herb Alpert’s wife Lani Hall had joined Brazil ’66. Todd Hardy (trumpet and flugelhorn), Shane Hannan (trombone) and Martha Baartz (tenor) help create a raunchy, foot-tapping groove on He Called Me Baby and These Boots Were Made For Walkin’. As an aside, West Coast bassist Chuck Berghofer played the bass on Boots, Nancy Sinatra’s big 1965 hit, including inventing its distinctive descending chromatic riff.

Ballads such as Everybody’s Talkin’ and the lovely Pure Imagination provide a welcome change of pace. Nicki’s sensitive reading of the latter is a delight. By Gordon Jack
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/08/21/nicki-parrott-feelin-groovy/

Feelin' Groovy

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Syd Lawrence Orchestra - Strictly Big Band

Styles: Big Band
Year: 2008
Time: 59:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 137,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:04) 1. Lover
(3:37) 2. Basin St Blues March
(3:33) 3. Autumn In New York
(4:12) 4. Before The Parade Passes By
(2:54) 5. My Hero
(3:11) 6. Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
(3:31) 7. Maybe September
(3:00) 8. Cherokee
(3:35) 9. Girl Talk
(4:23) 10. Lullaby Of Broadway
(3:57) 11. Just In Time
(3:03) 12. Under A Blanket Of Blue
(2:50) 13. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
(2:36) 14. Hallelujah
(2:36) 15. I Dream Of Jeannie
(2:23) 16. One
(6:34) 17. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue

Do you like dates I know I do. One of my favourite dates was 22 September 1958, when Stan Kenton recorded all twelve titles for his terrific Stage Door Swings album. How did they manage to do that And now, another favourite date is 4 March 2008, when Chris Dean's Syd Lawrence Orchestra recorded all seventeen titles for this album. How did they manage to do that Well, for starters, you have to have a band which is on a roll', a band which is disciplined, confident, tackling some fresh material, stuffed with talent and keen to strut its stuff.

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra is on such a roll....The Orchestra's latest album Stricly Big Band features 17 tuneful and swinging numbers unique to the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Nobody else plays 'em! There are Syd's original charts the perfect tempo and loose swing of Basin Street Blues March, Girl Talk written and played as if it came straight off Count Basie's Atomic Mr. Basie album (which it didn't, of course), the high-kicking writing for the whole band on One from A Chorus Line, the adapted transcriptions of Glenn Miller's I Dream Of Jeannie which he never recorded commercially, of Ralph Flanagan's Miller-styled My Hero, and of Frank Comstock's dynamic arrangement of Slaughter On Tenth Avenue for Les Brown.

Then there's Roland Shaw's take on Cherokee (Ray Noble wrote it, Charlie Barnet had a hit with it, but Roland updates it and throws in a touch of Miller-ish voicings for the saxes), an up-tempo Lover and a swinging Hallelujah where the chart has Syd's pencilled scribbles all over it but to my ears the overall voicings suggest Roland's hand. NDO arranger Alan Roper is represented by Autumn In New York and Lullaby Of Broadway an intricate and fascinating arrangement he wrote originally for Geraldo. Then there are a couple of little gems. First, the late Ronnie Hazlehurst is represented by Bill B.By Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Big-Band-Lawrence-Orchestra/dp/B001J662W4

Jon De Lucia Octet - Live at The Drawing Room

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2018
Time: 68:30
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 63,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:03) 1. Somp'm Outa' Nothin'
(7:44) 2. Smog Eyes
(6:07) 3. The Song is You
(5:50) 4. Venus de Milo
(6:04) 5. I Resemble You
(6:48) 6. Jazz of Two Cities
(5:58) 7. Darn That Dream
(4:57) 8. Preservation
(5:38) 9. Palo Alto
(8:35) 10. Sextet
(5:41) 11. BONUS: The Sheepherder

Saxophonist Jon De Lucia met the great tenorist Ted Brown in 2014, and got to play with him soon after. He was and is struckby the pure lyricism and honesty in his improvising. One of the original students of forward thinking pianist Lennie Tristano in the 1940s, Brown, along with Lee Konitz, is among the last of this great school of players. Later, when De Lucia discovered some of Jimmy Giuffre’s original scores from the Lee Konitz meets Jimmy Giuffre session of 1959, which Brown and Konitz both participated in, he knew he wanted to put a band togetherto play this music with Ted.

Thus the Jon De Lucia Octet was formed. A Five Saxophone and Rhythm lineup with unique arrangements by the great clarinetist/saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre. The original charts featured Lee Konitz on every track, and the first step in 2016 was to put a session together reuniting Brown and Konitz on these tunes. An open rehearsal was held at the City College of New York, Lee took the lead and played beautifully while Ted took over the late Warne Marsh’s part. This then led to the concert you have here before you.

De Lucia steps into Lee’s shoes, while the features have been reworked to focus on Brown, including new arrangements of his tunes by De Lucia and daughter Anita Brown. The rest of the band includes a formidable set of young saxophonists, including John Ludlow, who incidentally was a protege of the late Hal McCusick, who also played on the original recording session of Lee Konitz meets Jimmy Giuffre, and plays the alto saxophone, now inherited, used in the session. Jay Rattman and Marc Schwartz round out the tenors, and Andrew Hadro, who can be heard to great effect on Venus De Milo, plays the baritone.
In the rhythm section, Ray Gallon, one of NYC’s most swinging veterans on the piano, Aidan O’Donnell on the bass and the other legend in the room, the great Steve Little on the drums. Little was in Duke Ellington’s band in 1968, recording on the now classic Strayhorn tribute …and His Mother Called Him. Bill, before going on to record all of the original Sesame Street music and much more as a studio musician.
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Live at The Drawing Room

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Lucy Woodward - Stories From The Dust

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 35:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 81,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:31) 1. Fray
(3:34) 2. City Girls
(4:34) 3. Love Never Leaves
(4:40) 4. Clenched Fists
(2:53) 5. Rocketeer
(5:18) 6. Lady in Waiting
(4:05) 7. The Letter
(2:56) 8. Old To You (Live from Sonic Ranch)
(2:43) 9. Put Down The Bottle

Lucy Woodward releases her 7th studio album, Stories From The Dust (April 5, 2024). It is perhaps her most personal album yet, as crafted with GRAMMY Award-winning co-producer and co-writer of most of the songs on the album David Garza (Fiona Apple, Gaby Moreno).

The tracks and melodies pull you toward Lucy’s poignant insights of matters of the heart in the world’s fragile present. David and Lucy spent several weeks in downtown LA writing these stories about women, the ones she grew up with the fiercely independent and unconventional women who raised herand those she merely observed from afar, whether in the sandbox or on the subway. Lucy soon found herself writing songs like she’d never written before, or had never even thought about writing before. Lucy says, “a different kind of songwriter in me snuck up on me and hit me hard.”

Recorded at Sonic Ranch on the border of Mexico and Texas, Dust features longtime friend and bass extraordinaire Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie, Rudder, Tedeschi Trucks) and keyboardist Larry Goldings (James Taylor, Maceo Parker, John Mayer) who wrote with Lucy for the album. Bill Withers and Nina Simone a few artists she already loved were her touchstones, and she added inspiration from the deep rivers of Americana, blues, flamenco singing and the sounds of the female voices from Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66.

Stories From The Dust is rootsy and melodic, continuing a decades-long streak of craft oriented, critically acclaimed full length albums from the New York native.
https://lucywoodward.bandcamp.com/album/stories-from-the-dust

Stories From The Dust

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