Monica Lewis - Fools Rush In

Size: 97,6 MB
Time: 32:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 195?/2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. But Beautiful (2:41)
02. What'll I Do (3:13)
03. Do It Again (2:25)
04. You'd Better Go Now (2:13)
05. But Not For Me (3:00)
06. Isn't This A Lovely Day (2:25)
07. You Make Me Feel So Young (2:14)
08. Fools Rush In (2:13)
09. Am I Blue (2:23)
10. I'd Do Anything For You (2:44)
11. People Will Say We're In Love (3:50)
12. You Don't Know What Love Is (3:20)

Fools Rush In pairs Monica Lewis with arranger/pianist Jack Kelly for what would prove her most intimate and nuanced LP. Kelly's soft, moody approach perfectly complements the feminine complexity of Lewis' vocals -- while never the most gifted or accomplished singer, there's no denying the kittenish appeal she brings to familiar material like "But Not for Me" and "Am I Blue." Moreover, the songs and sequencing create a unified whole all too rare among albums from the era in question. More than just a slapdash collection of performances, Fools Rush In is a stunning evocation of mood and texture from a singer all too often overlooked in favor of less compelling contemporaries.

I Fools Rush In

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Diana Franco - I Believe In You

Size: 120,7 MB
Time: 51:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Brazilian Rhythms
Art: Front

01. Gabriela (3:30)
02. What Is This Thing Called Love (2:47)
03. Nature Boy (3:55)
04. Dindi (5:07)
05. I Believe In You (6:31)
06. I Loves You Porgy (4:09)
07. Stella By Starlight (2:58)
08. Esta Tarde Vi Llover (3:56)
09. Speak Low (3:59)
10. Estate (7:02)
11. On Green Dolphin Street (2:59)
12. Insensatez (4:57)

Raised since childhood in a mixture of U.S., Spanish (Caribbean coast of Colombia), Italian and Brazilian cultures, then switched from lyric soprano to jazz, here is my collection of American Standards, Jobim's Bossa Novas, a Bolero and an Italian standard.

I Believe In You

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Vera Marijt - Inside Out

Size: 105,2 MB
Time: 45:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Piano Jazz, Bebop
Art: Front

01. Beautiful Love (4:51)
02. Remember (5:39)
03. Mister And Mississauga (6:05)
04. Homage Danny Boy (7:01)
05. Cheeriokee (6:00)
06. You Look Familiar (5:23)
07. La Tempete De Neige (4:37)
08. Toys (5:44)

Vera Marijt released her debut album 'Insight Out' in July, 2015. It consists of original music as well as her arrangements of Jazz standards, and reflects the story of her experiences the past year in Montréal.

Vera's style can best be described as traditional bebop/swing, mixed with modern influences.

Personnel:
Vera Marijt - piano
Mathieu McConnell-Enright - bass
Louis-Vincent Hamel - drums
Benjamin Deschamps - alto sax (track 5 and 7)
Steven Willem Zwanink - bass (track 8)
Robbert Jan van Straalen - drums (track 8)

Bio:
Vera's appreciation for Jazz developed at a young age, while she was listening to Diana Krall and got introduced to the music of jazz icons such as Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

After reading a book about the life of pianist Bud Powell and listening to his music, she got fascinated by the Bebop style and was hooked and determined to conquer the technique and language of this complex genre.

Upon finishing high school in 2007 Vera attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA for the summer which became her entrance into the world of jazz. In the Hague she studied with the accomplished jazz pianist Juraj Stanik and participated in masterclasses by Barry Harris, Branford Marsalis, Mike Manieri, Alan Broadbent, Hein van de Geyn, Rob van Bavel and others.

Upon invitation to attend the annual International Association for Schools of Jazz (IASJ) at Graz, Austria in 2012, she played with international musicians from all over the world and was mentored by Dave Liebman and Hervé Sellin.

Vera Marijt performs arrangements of Jazz standards and originals at several occasions with her own trio. She won prices at competitions such as the Leidse Jazz Award and the Zoetermeer Jazz Concour in the Netherlands.

Besides her own project, Vera played in the West Coast Big Band, in which she had the privilege to play with some of the best musicians in the Dutch Jazz scene such as Ferdinand Povel, Martijn van Iterson, Bert Boeren, Frits Landesbergen and Joke Bruijs. For years she was a core member of Alice in Dixieland, a women's jazz band with whom she toured through Germany twice.

While in the Hague, Vera began collaborating with fellow band members Camilla van der Kooij on violin and guitar, and Oukje den Hollander on vocals in their trio called 'Mannekijn'. This trio's repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of existing music by composers such as Jacques Brel, translated in Dutch. With this group she has toured through the Netherlands in 2013/2014 and just released a videoclip, available on Youtube.

Vera and Oukje den Hollander have a long history of collaboration. Last April they performed three nights in the famous Compagnie theatre in Amsterdam with the show 'Aria van een Angsthaas'.

In 2014, Vera moved to Montréal, Canada, to study with André White, Francois Bourassa and Rémi Bolduc at McGill Schulich of Music. Since then, she had the privilige to play with some of Montréal's finest musicians such as Fraser Hollins, Alec Walkington, Norman Marshall Villeneuve, Joe Sullivan and Jim Doxas. She did a small tour in Toronto with saxophonist Rémi Bolduc and played with the renowned McGill Jazz Orchestra featuring the great Danilo Perez.

In July 2015, Vera released her debut album Insight Out, featuring original music as well as arrengements of jazz standards. She launched her CD on July 15th, playing the opening concert of the Festival Internacional Jazz de Verano in Querétaro, Mexico.

Inside Out

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Teddy Randazzo - The Way Of The Clown

Size: 143,5+128,2 MB
Time: 60:45+54:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Pop, Jazz Vocals, Swing
Art: Front

CD 1: I'm Confessin'
01. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (3:01)
02. What Is This Thing Called Love (2:06)
03. Among My Souvenirs (2:52)
04. River Stay Away From My Door (2:04)
05. But Beautiful (2:41)
06. Pagan Love Song (1:55)
07. Old Man River (1:56)
08. You Go To My Head (2:59)
09. Black And Blue (1:46)
10. My Foolish Heart (3:16)
11. You're Driving Mr Crazy (2:12)
12. For All We Know (3:02)
13. Lady Of Spain (2:42)
14. A Foggy Day (2:42)
15. Canadian Sunset (2:54)
16. It Happened In Monterey (2:18)
17. Blue Hawaiian Moon (2:20)
18. Under Paris Skies (2:25)
19. Brazil (2:41)
20. Autumn In New York (3:47)
21. On A Slow Boat To China (2:11)
22. Arriverderci, Roma (2:36)
23. Journey To Love (2:06)
24. To The Ends Of The Earth (2:00)

CD 2: Teddy Randazzo Twists
01. Bo Diddley (3:13)
02. U.S. Mail (2:15)
03. Shout (5:37)
04. Late Date Baby (2:09)
05. The Peppermint Twist (2:42)
06. Too Young To Fall In Love (1:56)
07. Twistin' To The Locomotion (2:34)
08. Foot Stompin' (2:58)
09. What'd I Say (4:44)
10. Cotton Fields (1:58)
11. Ooh-Poo-Pah-Doo (3:00)
12. Let The Sunshine In (3:13)
13. The Way Of The Clown (2:39)
14. But You Broke My Heart (2:15)
15. It's Magic (2:26)
16. Cherie (2:14)
17. Broken Bell (3:19)
18. Mother Goose Twist (2:31)
19. Triste Pagglacio (The Way Of The Clown - Italian Version) (2:36)

Teddy Randazzo is perhaps best remembered today for being a songwriter and producer during the mid to late 1960s. However he was initially immersed in the girl swooning teen idol sub-genre along with the likes of Fabian, Dion et al.

Herein are three original albums, I'm Confessin', Journey To Love and Teddy Randazzo Twists. This is prime late 50s pop. His first two albums were geared to the standards markets and the third was (as the title suggests) devoted to songs that you could twist to.

The bonus material includes his biggest solo hit, 'The Way of the Clown' along with a rare Italian language version of the hit.

The Way Of The Clown CD 1
The Way Of The Clown CD 2

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Dave McDonnell Group - The Time Inside A Year

Size: 134,1 MB
Time: 57:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Avant Garde, Free Jazz
Art: Front

01. Bullitt (5:47)
02. Vox Orion (6:39)
03. The Contract With Bees (7:14)
04. Aepse Mvt 1 (4:20)
05. Bakers Man (5:32)
06. Cyclo (6:45)
07. Discovery Of The Ancient Geologist (2:09)
08. Aepse Mvt 2 (2:27)
09. Brandywine (7:15)
10. Nodes Of The Moon (5:06)
11. Aepse Mvt 3 (4:20)

One of Dave McDonnell's biggest takeaways from putting time in with dozens of outfits is a desire for his own music to be immediate and reactive, mindful of pulse and the body's innate rhythm but also cerebral. A groove-oriented framework functions as rhythmic scaffolding for his complex harmonic motifs: witness the stacked polyrhythms on the hard-driving 'Bullitt' and lithe 'Vox Orion,' or the lively Latin feel of 'Nodes of the Moon. ' 'Brandywine' is hook-laden and swings hard, similar to the bookends of 'Bakers Man,' the bulk of which is dominated by explosive free-improv fireworks.

The Time Inside A Year

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Von Freeman - Never Let Me Go

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:44
Size: 141,7 MB
Art: Front

( 9:26)  1. I'll Remember April
( 5:33)  2. Never Let Me Go
( 9:48)  3. Alone Together
( 7:32)  4. In My Solitude
( 7:17)  5. I'll Follow You
(12:19)  6. It Could Happen To You
( 9:45)  7. The End Of A Love Affair

Not nearly as famous as his son Chico Freeman (also a tenor saxophonist), Von Freeman was nevertheless an equally if not more so accomplished jazz musician. While not a free jazz player per se, Von exhibited traits commonly associated with the avant-garde: a roughly hewn, vocalic tone; a flexible, somewhat imprecise approach to rhythm, and a fanciful harmonic concept. The son of a ragtime-loving policeman and guitar-playing housewife, Freeman himself began playing music around the age of two, beginning on the family piano. He was surrounded by music from a young age; his maternal grandfather and uncle were guitarists, and his brothers George and Bruz also became jazz musicians (on guitar and drums, respectively). At the age of seven, Freeman made a primitive saxophone by removing the horn from his parents' Victrola and boring holes in it. Shortly thereafter he began playing clarinet, then C-melody saxophone. Louis Armstrong was an early influence.

Freeman attended Chicago's DuSable High School, where his band director was the famed educator Captain Walter Dyett. He also learned harmony from the school's chorus director, Mrs. Bryant Jones. Freeman worked for about a year with Horace Henderson's Orchestra (1940-1941). He played in a Navy band while in the military (1941-1945). Following that, he played in the house band at Chicago's Pershing Ballroom (1946-1950), and for a time with Sun Ra (1948-1949). While at the Pershing, he played with many of the top jazz musicians who passed through town, including Charlie Parker. Freeman developed an underground reputation among Chicago-area musicians, and purportedly influenced members of the city's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Freeman seldom left Chicago and recorded infrequently, therefore never achieving a great measure of fame.

Freeman recorded with Milt Trenier for Cadet in the mid-'60s; Rahsaan Roland Kirk produced a Freeman session for Atlantic in 1972. In the late '70s (as his son Chico became well-known) Von was discovered by a somewhat wider audience. In 1982, Chico and Von shared a Columbia LP with pianist Ellis Marsalis and his sons Wynton and Branford (Fathers & Sons). 

In the '90s Freeman recorded for the Steeplechase and Southport labels. Freeman was one of the great individualists of the tenor saxophone, and remained creatively vital through the end of the millennium. Freeman died of heart failure in 2012. ~ Chris Kelsey  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/von-freeman-mn0000182113/biography

Personnel:  Von Freeman(ts), Jodie Christian(p), Eddie de Haas(b), Wilbur Campbell(dr)

Never Let Me Go

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Etta Jones - The Melody Lingers On

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:40
Size: 109,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:58)  1. Somewhere In My Lifetime
(4:21)  2. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
(4:37)  3. For Sentimental Reasons
(5:11)  4. What A Wonderful World
(4:46)  5. What A Difference A Day Makes
(4:19)  6. I Cover The Waterfront
(5:47)  7. Mr. Bojangles
(4:50)  8. I Apologize
(3:07)  9. I'm Having A Good Time
(4:42) 10. Misty

On The Melody Lingers On, Etta Jones pays tribute to ten departed members of show business, with one song apiece saluting Phyllis Hyman, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr, Billy Eckstine, Alberta Hunter and Sarah Vaughan. The singer does not attempt to emulate any of these greats, and instead sings in her own soulful bluesy style. As usual, Houston Person's tenor is a strong asset while the backup group also features spots for violinist Tom Aalf and pianist Dick Morgan. Fine music. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-melody-lingers-on-mw0000022715

Personnel: Etta Jones (vocals); Tom Aaff (violin); Houston Person (tenor saxophone); Dick Morgan (piano); Frankie Jones (drums).

The Melody Lingers On

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Wolfgang Haffner - Music

Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Crossover

Year: 1999

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 59:29

Size: 136,4 MB

Art: Front

(4:08)  1. Coconut Kiss

(5:15)  2. Into The Light

(5:30)  3. Simple Life

(5:19)  4. Dreamland

(5:07)  5. Warm Breeze

(3:13)  6. Miami Beach

(6:07)  7. Far From Home

(4:43)  8. Spring-Roll

(5:37)  9. Cool Blue

(4:21) 10. Right On

(5:15) 11. Night Move

(4:49) 12. The Day After

Wolfgang Haffner was born in Wunsiedel/Germany in 1965. He started playing drums and piano at the age of six. He began his career as a professional musician in the German French Jazz Ensemble, conducted by German Jazz legend Albert Mangelsdorff. The Band played Festivals including the Paris Jazzfestival and the Jazzfest Berlin. Haffner later became the drummer in Klaus Doldingers “Passport”, with whom he played for 11 years, touring Europe and Southafrica. From 1994 to 1995 he was the drummer in the Band of one of the greatest female singers of all times, Chaka Khan. 1994 he joined the US Fusion Superband METRO with Chuck Loeb, Mitch Forman and Anthony Jackson. In 1997 Haffner and his long-time colleague Roberto Di Gioia started their succesful Group “Zappelbude”.

Haffner worked with many great Jazz Artists including Pat Metheny, Michael & Randy Brecker, Larry Carlton, Bill Evans, Earl Klugh,Woody Shaw, Roy Hargrove, Johnny Griffin, CassandraWilson, Joe Pass, Bob James, Joe Lovano, Clark Terry, Pat Martino, Eddie Daniels, Mc Coy Tyner, Art Farmer, Pee Wee Ellis, Esbjoern Svensson, Joe Sample, Fred Wesley, Roy Ayers, Hiram Bullock, Will Lee, Robben Ford… ), also with artists and Bands like Jan Garbarek, Michael Franks, “Die Fantastischen Vier”, No Angels, Stefan Raab Helge Schneider, Xavier Naidoo, Sasha, Wolfgang Niedecken, Konstantin Wecker, DePhazz, Lalo Schifrin, NDR Big Band Hamburg and the WDR Big Band Cologne.

Haffner has played Festivals around the world, such as Montreux, Paris, Chicago, North Sea Jazzfestival, Los Angeles, Berlin, Vienna, San Diego, Geneva, Amsterdam, Nice, Stockholm, Madrid, Oslo, Zurich, London. He toured more than 50 countries (Argentinia, Brasil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Uruquay, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia Columbia, Portugal Southafrica, USA, India, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Jordan, Poland, Hungary, Thailand, England, Spain, Japan, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Russia, China…)

In 2002 Haffner formed the Wolfgang Haffner Band which toured Europe. When not performing with his own Band he plays with the Nils Landgren Funk Unit of sweden. Haffner has played on about 350 Recordings, including 11 albums under his own name. In spring 2004 he produced the new album of the iclandic supergroup “Mezzoforte”. http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Haffner/+wiki

Music

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Vincent Ingala - Coast to Coast

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 91,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:26)  1. Coast to Coast
(3:52)  2. Nasty
(4:38)  3. Making the Journey
(3:51)  4. Baby I'm Hooked (Right Into Your Love)
(3:50)  5. When I'm With You
(3:47)  6. Love On Hold
(3:58)  7. You Fooled Me
(3:55)  8. In Deep
(3:57)  9. Gimme Some
(3:36) 10. T.L.C. (Tender Lovin' Care)

Connecticut-born saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Vincent Ingala makes warm, soulful, smooth jazz and R&B. A musical prodigy, Ingala started out on drums at age four and was teaching himself Elvis Presley songs on the guitar by the third grade. However, it was the tenor saxophone, an instrument Ingala gravitated toward while also studying piano in the fifth grade, that became his passion.

Growing up in a large Italian family in Prospect, Connecticut, Ingala was exposed to his family's love of soul, jazz, and R&B. Inspired to play, Ingala began performing locally and eventually drew the attention of professional players, including smooth jazz star Dave Koz, who invited the then-16-year-old Ingala to join him on-stage. A year later, he recorded his first album, 2010's North End Soul. Ingala toured extensively behind the album and quickly built a loyal fan base. 

Two years later, he returned with his sophomore release, Can't Stop Now, which became two Billboard Top Five singles, and in 2015, Ingala returned with his third studio effort, Coast to Coast, inspired by his move to California. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/vincent-ingala/id379521698#fullText

Coast to Coast

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Rickie Lee Jones - The Other Side Of Desire

Styles: Pop/Rock
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:15
Size: 106,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:57)  1. Jimmy Choo
(4:35)  2. Valtz de Mon Pere
(3:28)  3. J'ai Connais Pas
(3:25)  4. Blinded By The Hunt
(5:29)  5. Infinity
(4:06)  6. I Wasn't Here
(4:48)  7. Christmas In New Orleans
(5:22)  8. Haunted
(6:29)  9. Feet On The Ground
(1:26) 10. Juliette
(3:04) 11. Finale (A Spider in the Circus of the Falling Star)

'Rickie Lee Jones has been pushing down musical boundaries for over four decades with her hauntingly beautiful voice and fearless experimentation' ~ NPR

'a blend of bravado and vulnerability [that] wavers on indefinable borders' ~ Rolling Stone

Two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene with her groundbreaking self-titled debut and has fearlessly experimented with her sound and persona over 15 critically acclaimed albums. Her latest, The Other Side of Desire was written, recorded and rooted in the city of New Orleans, where Jones lives on the opposite side of the street made famous by Tennessee Williams. Produced by John Porter (of Roxy Music) and Mark Howard, this is the first new music Jones has written in over a decade. 'This work is inspired by many years of sitting with all the events of my life until I had something to paint with,' says Rickie. 'I came to New Orleans to write and to live a different way than what I have known on the west coast...

Here is another record then, made of my imagination, and whatever else that has no words, using the clay of this place and the shapes of my eyes to form some kind of picture of my life, or my heart, that I alone can understand, and hopefully that others can enjoy.' ~ Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Desire-Rickie-Jones/dp/B00WIB1ZX0

The Other Side Of Desire

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Dick Hyman - Plays Duke Ellington

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:24
Size: 149,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:26)  1. Jubilee Stomp
(4:13)  2. Drop Me Off At Harlem
(3:11)  3. The Clothed Woman
(6:53)  4. Sophisticated Lady
(3:19)  5. Doin' The Voom Voom
(3:26)  6. On A Turquoise Cloud
(3:56)  7. All Too Soon
(5:49)  8. Tonk
(4:24)  9. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
(4:48) 10. Echoes Of Harlem
(5:51) 11. Prelude To A Kiss
(4:05) 12. The Gal From Joe's
(5:40) 13. Day Dream
(3:14) 14. Come Sunday

Performed (as was Dick Hyman's previous Fats Waller project) on a Bosendorfer Reproducing Piano and actually recorded from the piano at a later date (one really cannot tell the difference), this outing finds the great Hyman interpreting 14 of Duke Ellington's compositions. Most intriguing are Ellington's nearly atonal "The Clothed Woman" and "Tonk" in which Hyman somehow duplicates an Ellington-Billy Strayhorn piano duet! Other highlights include the joyous "Drop Me Off In Harlem," "Doin' the Voom Voom," "Echoes of Harlem" and "The Gal from Joe's." The recording is as rewarding as one would expect. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/dick-hyman-plays-duke-ellington-mw0000618650

Personnel: Dick Hyman (piano).

Plays Duke Ellington

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Sidsel Storm - Sidsel Storm

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:29
Size: 131,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:24)  1. Let's Move On
(4:52)  2. Where the River Bends
(5:57)  3. Washing Away
(4:37)  4. Angel Eyes
(4:55)  5. Fall in NYC
(6:01)  6. Butterflies and Lovers
(5:11)  7. Just a Step
(4:21)  8. Solen Er Så Rød, Mor
(5:04)  9. Blame It On My Youth
(3:44) 10. My Favourite Things
(5:17) 11. Glimt

New Danish jazz diva is born !!! Here we have a CD debut with a singer who definitely will attract attention! In the series of fabulous young Danish jazz singer who Sinne Eeg and Malene Mortensen ends Sidsel Storm to the group can and will himself! CD offers that-for a whole seven original compositions, including 4 from Sidsel own, which helps to neatly to further develop the genre so as to not only dwelt in the previous millennium American songbook.

The musicians on the record constitutes nothing less than an impressive team of up and coming Scandinavian talents consisting of Jacob Karlzon (piano), Jesper Thorn (bass / cello), Gunnar Halle (trumpet) Alexander Kraglund (violin) and otherwise drum icon Morten Lund - as usual guarantor for a highly velsvingende plate!Translate by google  http://en.imusic.dk/cd/5706725100722/sidsel-storm-2012-sidsel-storm-compact-disc_ga=1.30674492.2047816991.1438468675

Sidsel Storm

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John Stein Quartet - Bing Bang Boom!

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:04
Size: 124,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:39)  1. Sugar
(4:24)  2. Menina
(5:01)  3. Unraveled Plans
(5:03)  4. Bing Bang Boom!
(7:42) 5. Duke Ellington's Sound of Love/Chelsea Bridge
(4:39)  6. Belo Horizonte
(6:44)  7. Love Me Tonight: Lover
(5:19)  8. Delilah
(5:26)  9. Waiting for Woody
(4:02) 10. You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To

A signal achievement at any time in jazz history, ensemble longevity is particularly rare at present; yet the John Stein Quartet, a multi--generational and intercontinental enterprise from the outset survives. And as the present and three previous Whaling City discs have documented, it thrives. Stein provides a lot to work with, including five strong originals . . . well chosen standards . . . and a lyrical solo concept. Best of all, Stein's vision of music as "a conversation among friends, not an excuse for impressing people with chops," sets a tone that is upheld and magnified by his partners. (Bob Blumenthal, from the liner notes) http://www.johnstein.com/Albums/BingBangBoom/

Personnel:  John Stein, guitar;  Jake Sherman, piano and Hammond organ;  John Lockwood, acoustic bass;  Zé Eduardo Nazario, drums.

Bing Bang Boom!

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Norm Drubner - It Could Happen To You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:03
Size: 83,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:03)  1. Just Friends
(2:41)  2. It Happened Once Before
(2:25)  3. I've Never Been in Love Before
(2:47)  4. I'm Through With Love
(2:38)  5. My Heart Stood Still
(3:52)  6. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
(3:40)  7. It Could Happen to You
(3:02)  8. Here's That Rainy Day
(3:20)  9. I Have Dreamed
(4:27) 10. You Go to My Head
(2:08) 11. I'll Take Romance
(2:55) 12. I See Your Face Before Me

Norm Drubner was born in Connecticut and has practiced law along with operating real estate related businesses there for many years. Recently, he has turned his attention to his lifelong passion for music  especially the standards from The Great American Songbook. The results have been a series of vocal CDs performed with a smooth, light jazz touch with an emphasis on songs with great lyrics that make the melodies special. Norm is a lawyer-turned-singer who now inspires all of us would-be singers to follow our dreams while there is still time. Enjoy Norm’s interview (at right) with radio show host Don Wolff who loves jazz. http://www.normdrubner.com/

It Could Happen To You

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Ben Besiakov Trio - You Stepped Out Of A Dream

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:53
Size: 165,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:48)  1. Four
(8:31)  2. What's New
(8:39)  3. Sippin' At Bells
(5:48)  4. Tune Up
(6:31)  5. I Hear a Rhapsody
(9:07)  6. Cheese Cake
(7:11)  7. You Stepped Out of a Dream
(5:54)  8. Bud's Bubble
(7:12)  9. Stella By Starlight
(6:07) 10. What Is This Thing Called Love

Ben Besiakov (born 27 October 1956 in the Bellahøj ) is a Danish pianist and keyboardist. Ben Besiakov is a self-taught musician. Besiakov got music lessons at Bernadotteskolen of the musician and educator Adrian Bentzon. Begins as 10-year playing trumpet , flute and then piano . Besiakov contact with the American saxophonist Ben Webster in Copenhagen and Besiakov get an insight into the jazz universe. Besiakov has his first professional job as a pianist in Jazzhus Montmartre in 1971st. Besiakov has played in many contexts including in the Danish groups Buki Yamaz , Crème Fraiche , also with some international musicians. Translate by Google  http://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Besiakov&prev=search

Personnel:  Ben Besiakov(p);  Keith Copeland(ds);  Ron Mcclure(b)

You Stepped Out Of A Dream

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Simone - Essential Best

Size: 165,3 MB
Time: 71:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front & Back

01. Moonlight Serenade (6:03)
02. Stompin' At The Savoy (3:26)
03. This Can't Be Love (3:28)
04. The Way You Look Tonight (4:21)
05. Emily (3:51)
06. We Kiss In A Shadow (4:04)
07. Taking A Chance On Love (2:58)
08. If (3:52)
09. Imagine (7:04)
10. Everything Must Change (7:18)
11. Let's Fall In Love (5:17)
12. Moon Glow (5:24)
13. The Waters Of March (4:08)
14. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (4:32)
15. I'm Confessin' (5:25)

Japanese compilation includes 9 unreleased tracks recorded for previous albums, "Romance", "Taking A Chance On Love", and "Let's Fall In Love".

It was Simone’s idea to take the great songs of different generations and put all together in what could be considered a level playing field. «I love to sing the great jazz standards,» the 20-something Austrian native tells me, «but, great as they are, I don’t want to sing them exclusively.» Thus she mixes it up–going seamlessly from the music of Prince and Motown to that of the Gershwins and Rodgers & Hart. She varies between the old and new, which is entirely logical considering that virtually all of them are considerably older than she is. She also includes music from both Broadway and Nashville–also a logical choice considering that New York and Tennessee are roughly equidistant from Vienna.

Simone takes an evocative country-folk song associated with Alison Kraus, and, with her stunning voice and the combined musicality of herself and co-producer/pianist John di Martino, makes it into something even more special. «I was driving from one show to another in the States, when I heard it on the car radio.» she reports, «I couldn’t get all the details, but I eventually figured out what the song was. Before I could find the sheet music, I wrote out the chords myself.» It’s a beautifully sung and even haunting performance–in more ways than one.

The new CD also includes three excellent original songs, my favorite of which is «Didn’t You Say.» «It’s about these men that promise you all kinds of things, and then in the end, they don’t deliver anything.» She tells me it’s inspired by real relationships, and I tell her she’s too young to be so cynical. However, the Count Basie-style beat provided by the combination of di Martino and ace rhythm guitarist helps negate any possible ill will, and «Didn’t You Say» turns out to be a real romper after all.

Meet a fresh, young singer from Austria, whose US debut in the year 2000 was hailed as "captivating“. Jazz legend Ira Sullivan calls her “a great young talent” with a big future in Jazz.

Simone, now 25 years old, grew up in a family of musicians and started to sing, in her father's band when she was 12. At the same time she studied piano, though singing remained her first love. Early on, she entered and won various talent contests and even made appearances on television in her native land, Austria. As a young performer, she twice toured the Netherlands with the “Euro Big Band” and later appeared in several International Jazz Festivals.

Influenced by some of the great American vocalists, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jon Hendricks, Simone has developed into a true Jazzsinger, a singer who uses a wide variety of rhythms and excels in her very individual style of scatting. Laurie Antonioli says that “Simone is an excellent musician, with soulful and hip improvising. She digs in and isn't afraid to take risks with the music”.

Simone received her Masters Degree from the University for Music and dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria where she had the opportunity to work with such Jazz luminaries as Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Michele Hendricks, Jay Clayton and the New York Voices.

Essential Best

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis

Size: 92,3 MB
Time: 35:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1979
Styles: Rockabilly Blues/Country
Art: Front & Back

01. Don't Let Go (3:09)
02. Rita May (2:45)
03. Every Day I Have To Cry (3:54)
04. I Like It Like That (2:35)
05. Number One Lovin' Man (3:53)
06. Rockin' My Life Away (3:29)
07. Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:58)
08. (You've Got) Personality (3:26)
09. I Wish I Was Eighteen Again (3:45)
10. Rocking Little Angel (2:02)

After 15 years with Mercury, Lewis made the switch to Elektra in 1978, and the move seemed to rejuvenate him. He had grown tired with the formulaic overproduction that his recent albums on Mercury had been layered with and began recording new material with producer Bones Howe in January 1979 in Los Angeles. Howe, who had worked on Elvis Presley's celebrated 1968 comeback special and had produced albums by Tom Waits and Juice Newton, assembled a more stripped-down band (including Elvis's former guitarist James Burton) that resembled what Lewis used on the road. The resulting album was the best Lewis had made in years. The single "Rockin' My Life Away," would only make it to number 18 on the country charts but would become a live favorite and another in a growing list of songs that were written specifically to celebrate Jerry Lee's uncompromising rock and roll attitude. Another impressive track was "Who Will The Next Fool Be," a gin-soaked Charlie Rich tune that Lewis confidently makes his own ("Pick it, James," he oozes to Burton on the instrumental break, before rasping, "Play your fiddle, Mr. Lovelace," to long-time band member Ken Lovelace). Sonny Throckmorton, who had written Lewis's last big hit "Middle Age Crazy," mines similar territory on "I Wish I was Eighteen Again," and Lewis also gives spirited performances on Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have To Cry" and "Rita Mae," marking the first time he'd ever recorded a song written by Bob Dylan.

This was a tumultuous time for Lewis, whose father Elmo was ailing and would die later that year. Lewis himself had been hospitalized several times for stomach ailments brought about by his pills and carousing, and in the spring of 1979 he was countersued for divorce by his wife Jaren Pate, who accused him of years of cruelty and drunkenness. The IRS was also after him for unpaid taxes.

Jerry Lee Lewis was acclaimed critically but was not a commercial success, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard country albums chart and limping to number 186 on the Top 200. Writing in the liner notes to the 2006 career retrospective A Half Century of Hits, country music historian Colin Escott calls the album "an astonishing return to form," likening Lewis's performance on "Who Will The Next Fool Be" to "a poisoned dart hurled at every woman who had done him wrong." In his authorized biography Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, Rick Bragg also praises the album: "While his voice was showing its scars and the words were frequently obscure, Jerry Lee delivered them with commitment, and the beat was pure Louisiana boogie-woogie."

Jerry Lee Lewis

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Gabriel Staznik - One By One

Size: 103,9 MB
Time: 44:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
Art: Front

01. Have You Met Miss Jones (3:41)
02. Cherokee (1:38)
03. Bluesette (3:44)
04. Wave (5:56)
05. Nutville (4:21)
06. Body And Soul (5:02)
07. One By One (4:44)
08. Joy Spring (4:48)
09. Manteca (4:31)
10. Some Skunk Funk (6:26)

Gabriel Staznik is a freelance performer, educator, and arranger residing in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. He performs regularly at the prestigious American Music Theatre (Lancaster, PA) and is currently performing on stage in American Music Theatre's newest Original Production. Gabriel is on the music faculty at Lancaster Bible College, Music Director and the Arranger for Windish Music and Productions, and Director of the Total Percussion Seminar music camps.

Gabriel has performed and recorded with Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning artists. He recently toured with the legendary Chubby Checker (The Twist!) and has performed on-stage with artists including Kristen Chenoweth (Broadway/Film), and James Wolpert and Cole Vosbury (from NBC's The Voice). Gabe has been the house drummer/percussionist at American Music Theatre since 2009 and has performed with the PRiMA Theatre Co., Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, Allenberry Playhouse, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, Allan Albert Productions' Internationally Award-Winning (IAAPA) production of Trash Time, and for SRO Associate's production of Lightning Strike. Locally you can find Gabe performing regularly with Steely Jam and Andy Mowatt, the Alley Kat House Band, and with other area orchestras, jazz ensembles, and theater companies.

As an arranger/composer you can hear his works being performed by Junk Rock at Canobie Lake Park (Salem, NH), by the IAAPA Award-Winning Cocoa Rhythm Factory at Hershey Park (Hershey, PA), and by scholastic percussion ensembles across the county. His works have been published by HoneyRock Publishing and STRAJK Publications.

Gabriel has recently released his holiday CD, The Nutcracker Suite: A Percussion Performance and has recorded for NFL Films, Def Jam Records’ Platinum and Grammy artist LL Cool J, Sports Music Emmy Awarded Hedden Music, and for American Music Theatre's Cast Album Recordings.

Gabriel holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education with a focus in percussion from West Chester University. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society, National Association of Rudimental Drummers, and endorses Vic Firth Sticks & Mallets, Remo Drumheads, and Beato Bags.

One By One

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Lynda Reed - Our Tree

Size: 155,8 MB
Time: 67:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Loving You (7:25)
02. Fiesta Lynda (4:56)
03. Remembering (3:42)
04. Our Tree (5:56)
05. Stormy Monday (3:41)
06. Life With You (4:16)
07. Zoe's Lullaby (3:36)
08. You're Everything (3:53)
09. Vignette In The Studio (0:26)
10. Blackbird (5:27)
11. Another Star (6:31)
12. Masterpiece (4:07)
13. Being Loved (3:25)
14. Vignette - DJ Theory (0:20)
15. In Walked Bud (4:41)
16. Way Low (4:32)

"Our Tree" is a collection of original songs as well as music from some of the world's most popular and talented composers. Appearing on the album are some incredible musicians including Abraham Laboriel Sr. and Abe Laboriel Jr., Frank Zottoli, Roberto Montero, Enzo Todesco, Justo Almario, Rique Pantoja, Leo Costa, Munyungo Jackson, Dave Compton, Edgar Sandavol, Joe Fabio, and DJ Theory.The original songs on "Our Tree" were co-written by the band members and Lynda Reed who wrote the lyrics for these beautiful and vibrant compositions. The foundation and motivation behind this album is the long term firendships and personal connections among the artists, each having their own successful career but then coming together to create this collection of songs and loving memories. These sentiments are radiantly reflected in the music. We truly hope you enjoy this offering and that it gives you some pleasure and joy. Thank you for listening! Lynda

Our Tree

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Bill Keis - Smile

Size: 137,6 MB
Time: 59:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Piano Jazz
Art: Front

01. Smile (5:22)
02. Snow! (3:49)
03. Girl From Ipanema (4:54)
04. Billy's Blues (4:59)
05. Where Do We Go From Here (3:26)
06. Rita's Smile (5:40)
07. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (4:58)
08. The Right Time (5:09)
09. One Of Us (4:56)
10. Once Again (4:42)
11. Bulgarian Sunset (5:00)
12. Blue Skies (6:05)

A jazz solo piano performance that features both originals and familiar standards.

Smile

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