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Sunday, July 9, 2017

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

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

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

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

Monday, July 3, 2017

Hey Folks! Summer's here and the time is right for... ...another break! Truth is we need to attend to some pressing family matters and we wont be back for a week. Please hold your requests for albums and re-ups til we're back. Thanks!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Eddie Harris - People Get Funny...

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:44
Size: 95,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:37) 1. People Get Funny When They Get A Little Money
(8:04) 2. La Carnival
(5:18) 3. Ski Ball
(6:04) 4. Three Quarter Miles
(4:28) 5. Silver Plated
(5:25) 6. Hal Strange
(3:51) 7. The Time Of My Life
(2:55) 8. Step Down To The Top

Most of Eddie Harris' recordings on the Dutch Timeless label in the mid-'80s saw some action in the States but not this one, which was only released in Europe. A shame, for this was mostly one of Harris' few recorded excursions into funk during this period and it's a good one, stripped down, to the point, and featuring remarkably better material than most of his later Atlantic funk recordings. The full name of the vocal title track is "People Get Funny When They Get a Little Money" and it's another of Harris' wry, slightly bitter takes on the foibles of the material world, complete with some vintage acrobatic funk sax. "Three Quarter Miles" is one of Harris' most ingratiating loosey-goosey, triple-meter blues, and "Silver Plated" is a fine tune based roughly on a variation of the "Listen Here" vamp. With the help of overdubbing, Harris lays some electric and tenor saxophone, choral vocals, and humorous funk scatting over his own clarinet comping on the snazzy samba "Carnaval"; sometimes it's a bit stiff, but there is ebullience to spare. When drummer Carl Burnett is laying down a straight-ahead bop groove on "Hal Strange," Harris is locked into his distinctive funk manner, but when he takes off on Burnett's "The Time of My Life," he plays bop style with stunning harmonized electric sax runs Supersax on DC current. Pianist William S. Henderson III also contributes a Headhunters-esque piece called "Ski Ball." Harris' fans ought to grab this if it ever turns up in the vinyl bins. ~ Richard S.Ginell http://www.allmusic.com/album/people-get-funny-mw0000541077

Personnel: Eddie Harris (vocals, saxophone, tenor saxophone, electric saxophone, electric piano, Clavinet); Larry Gales (acoustic bass, electric bass); Carl Burnette (drums).

People Get Funny...

Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd & Cecil Taylor - At Newport

Styles: Trumpet, Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:49
Size: 113,7 MB
Art: Front

( 7:13) 1. Johnny Come Lately
( 7:40) 2. Nona's Blues
(10:26) 3. Tune 2
( 8:32) 4. Splittin'
( 7:21) 5. Batland
( 7:34) 6. Love For Sale

At first combining a set by Cecil Taylor with another by the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory seems like an odd pairing, but it ends up working rather well. These live recordings, which come from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, have stood the test of time rather well. Taylor's style of piano playing is not that far removed from Thelonious Monk in his interpretation of Billy Strayhorn's "Johnny Come Lately," though his dissonant, angular approach is a bit busier; Steve Lacy's nasal-toned soprano sax and solid rhythmic support from bassist Buell Neidlinger and drummer Denis Charles fuel Taylor's fiery playing. Both Taylor's "Nona's Blues" and "Tune 2" are fairly accessible in comparison to his works in the decade which followed. The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory with pianist Hank Jones, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Osie Johnson is firmly rooted in hard bop. Oddly enough, none of the three pieces were written by either Gryce or Byrd, though they were both already budding composers at this point in their respective careers. But their brief program -- which includes Ray Bryant's "Splittin' (Ray's Way)," the blues "Batland," and a rousing rendition of "Love for Sale" is a good representation of this unfortunately short-lived and under-recorded group. Reissued as a part of Verve's limited-edition series in the summer of 2002, this valuable CD will be available until the summer of 2005. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-newport-mw0000222261

Personnel: Donald Byrd (trumpet); Gigi Gryce (alto saxophone); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Hank Jones , Cecil Taylor (piano); Osie Johnson (drums).

At Newport

Kurt Edelhagen - Moonlight Serenade

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1950
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:05
Size: 187,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:00) 1. Begin The Beguine
(2:58) 2. Some Of These Days
(3:15) 3. Happy Days Are Here Again
(3:03) 4. No Can Do
(2:52) 5. In A Little Spanish Town
(2:53) 6. Sam's Song
(2:55) 7. Wilhelmina
(3:07) 8. Boogie At All
(3:07) 9. Paul's Boogie
(2:52) 10. Presto Aus Der "Fantasie In Be-Bop"
(3:08) 11. Moonlight Serenade
(2:58) 12. Dinah
(3:05) 13. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(3:09) 14. Korridor-Swing
(3:11) 15. Eisbär-Song
(4:12) 16. Blues Aus "Ein Amerikaner In Paris"
(3:26) 17. Hawaiian War Chant
(2:50) 18. Non-Stop-Riff
(3:44) 19. Stumbling
(3:06) 20. Taking A Chance On Love
(3:15) 21. Lilli-Boogie
(3:21) 22. Fine And Dandy
(2:29) 23. Guatemala
(2:56) 24. Hau Den Lucas

Moonlight Serenade

The Bangles - Sweetheart Of The Sun

Styles: Vocal, Contemporary Pop/Rock
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:29
Size: 99,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:31) 1. Anna Lee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)
(4:07) 2. Under A Cloud
(3:51) 3. Ball 'N' Chain
(3:40) 4. I'll Never Be Through With You
(3:46) 5. Mesmerized
(4:04) 6. Circles In The Sky
(2:11) 7. Sweet And Tender Romance
(3:23) 8. Lay Yourself Down
(3:39) 9. One Of Two
(3:22) 10. What A Life
(3:50) 11. Through Your Eyes
(3:00) 12. Open My Eyes

When the Bangles re-formed in the early 2000s and released Doll Revolution in 2003, the band seemed split between trying to recapture the jangle pop sound they had when they began and trying to stay current with the times (in terms of production). On the second album to come from their return, 2011’s Sweetheart of the Sun, there are no attempts to stay current. Instead, by hiring Matthew Sweet to co-produce, the band makes it clear that they are ready to embrace their power pop past. The record brims with jangling guitars, tough lead guitar work from Vicki Peterson, rich vocal harmonies, and a layered, live sound that sounds really, really good (and almost exactly what you’d hope the band who recorded All Over the Place in 1984 would sound like 25-plus-years later). The songs that Susanna Hoffs and the Peterson sisters (Debbi and Vicki) wrote for the record are good, too. Solid and gently hooky tunes about kids, relationships, and the realities of middle age life; they too sound like the best you could hope for all these years later. The mix of convincing rockers ("Ball N Chain," "What a Life"), rollickingly tender janglers ("Anna Lee (Sweetheart of the Sun)"), and a handful of introspective ballads is just about right, too, and shows the band is adept at conveying a wide range of moods and styles. And their choice of covers is predictably savvy. They rock out nicely on "Sweet and Tender Romance," an obscure British girl group song originally done by the McKinleys in 1964, and exhibit some amazing harmony singing on the Nazz's "Open My Eyes." The combo of songs, performance, and sound means that anyone who was saddened by the glitz pop turn the band took post-All Over the Place could look at Sweetheart as the true follow-up to their debut. The only thing that gives you a clue to all the time passed is the rough edges around the lead vocals. It’s kind of odd, really. They all sound miraculously ageless when singing in harmony but when singing alone they tend to push their voices past their natural limits and end up hitting some duff, craggy notes. Especially Hoffs, who takes the bulk of the leads. It’s too bad Sweet didn’t clamp down and reign in this small but noticeable problem, as it makes for some jagged moments. Still, Sweetheart of the Sun is a remarkably good record that comes long after anyone may have expected the Bangles to do anything much at all. Credit Sweet's production, but also the trio’s dedication and renewed skills and energy. Hopefully it won’t take another quarter-decade to follow this one up. ~ Tim Sendra http://www.allmusic.com/album/sweetheart-of-the-sun-mw0002187953

Personnel: Debbi Peterson – Drums and percussion; vocals; Vicki Peterson – Electric guitar; vocals; Susanna Hoffs – Electric guitar; vocals

Sweetheart Of The Sun

Stefanie Schlesinger - Reality

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:49
Size: 156,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:44) 1. Parole, Parole
(6:15) 2. The Summer Knows
(5:30) 3. Reality
(6:33) 4. Hotel Shanghai
(5:10) 5. Com Amor, Com O Mar
(5:47) 6. Ganz leise
(4:08) 7. With You
(5:33) 8. Hurra, wir leben noch
(6:55) 9. Windmills of Your Mind
(5:07) 10. Fool on the Hill
(6:17) 11. Munich Butterfly
(5:44) 12. The Winner Takes It All

Stefanie Schlesinger (born 12 February 1977 in Bamberg ) is a German jazz singer and songwriter. Schlesinger first received recorder lessons , then, from the age of 9, piano lessons. At the age of 12, first singing lessons followed. She completed her high school diploma at the ETA Hoffmann-Gymnasium Bamberg with major singing; Then a classical vocal study at the Leopold-Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg followed. She then appeared in musical and opera productions and gave premieres of contemporary works before turning to the jazz song. She directed her own combo and worked with musicians like Pete York , Daniel Messina , Klaus Doldinger , Herb Geller and Christian Bruhn . Since 2005, Schlesinger has been increasingly active in the composition and also composed poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Schiller , but also wrote music for children. In addition, arrangements were made for own projects. Together with her husband, Wolfgang Lackerschmid , she wrote the music for the musicletts "Ma très chère cousine!" And "Now he is dead, the dog", which she performed as an actress in Augsburg 2010 and 2011 with good reviews. In 2003, she was the first singer to receive the Bavarian Kunstförderpreis in the Jazz category. https://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanie_Schlesinger&prev=search

Reality

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Charles Brown - Just A Lucky So And So

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:12
Size: 114.9 MB
Styles: Urban blues
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[5:28] 1. I Won't Cry Anymore
[3:44] 2. Just A Lucky So And So
[5:02] 3. Black Night
[4:03] 4. One Never Knows
[5:20] 5. Driftin' Blues
[5:57] 6. Gloomy Sunday
[5:25] 7. I Stepped In Quicksand
[4:42] 8. The Danger Isn't Over
[5:06] 9. A Song For Christmas
[5:20] 10. So Long

Charles Brown's casual yet stunning phrasing, inventive voicings, and piano accompaniment are wonderfully presented on this ten-song set. Ron Levy's production and the arrangements of Wardell Quezergue and Brown are tasteful, breezy, and geared for his carefully constructed, teasing solos and rich, creamy leads. Such numbers as Brown's classic "Drifting Blues," as well as "Gloomy Sunday" and "I Won't Cry Anymore," convey despair and hurt, yet retain a certain appeal and charm. Brown keeps making fine records, sounding as convincing in the 1990s as he did at the start of his career. ~Ron Wynn

Just A Lucky So And So

Betty Carter - Inside Betty Carter

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 45:26

Size: 104.0 MB

Styles: Bop, Soul jazz vocals

Year: 1972/1993

Art: Front

[3:11] 1. This Is Always

[1:55] 2. Look No Further

[5:07] 3. Beware My Heart

[1:35] 4. My Favourite Things

[3:45] 5. Some Other Time

[3:13] 6. Open The Door

[5:17] 7. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

[1:57] 8. Something Big

[2:57] 9. New England

[2:02] 10. The Moon Is Low

[2:56] 11. Once In Your Life

[1:51] 12. It's A Big Wide Wonderful World

[3:48] 13. There Is No Greater Love

[4:03] 14. You're A Sweetheart

[1:42] 15. Isn't It Romantic

These recordings can be considered the final ones of Betty Carter's early period for, by the time she next appeared on record (in 1969), the singer was much more adventurous in her improvisations. This CD reissues eight selections from Carter's rather brief 1964 Roulette LP (under 26 minutes), plus it adds seven previously unissued numbers from 1965. On the former date Carter (who is quite memorable on "This Is Always," "Some Other Time," and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most") is accompanied by pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Roy McCurdy, while the "new" session ("There Is No Greater Love" and "You're a Sweetheart" are the standouts) features guitarist Kenny Burrell plus an unknown rhythm section in the backup band. Highly recommended to Betty Carter fans and to those listeners who find her later work somewhat forbidding. ~Scott Yanow

Inside Betty Carter