Wynton Marsalis - Tune In Tomorrow OST

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 62:04

Size: 142.1 MB

Styles: Soundtrack

Year: 1990

Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Big Trouble In The Easy (Pedro Pops Up)

[0:40] 2. Kings Of The Garden District

[6:24] 3. Crescent City Crawl (On The St. Charles Streetcar Line)

[5:34] 4. Alligator Tail Drag (Mr. Alligator-Why You So Mean )

[2:20] 5. May Be Fact Or Fiction

[3:33] 6. Social Soft Shoe (Partying At Olga's)

[2:36] 7. Mama Leona (You Know You Not Spanish!)

[5:20] 8. I Can't Get Started

[2:55] 9. The Grand Marshall (Martin's Big Break)

[4:25] 10. The Ways Of Love (Julia & Martin)

[3:40] 11. On The Eve Of Entry

[1:09] 12. Don't Run From Fun (Julia's Decision)

[5:06] 13. Sunsettin' On The Bayou (Toonin' Tonight)

[0:30] 14. Albanians (Why Us )

[4:10] 15. The Ways Of Love

[9:24] 16. Double Rondo On The River (Pedro's Getaway)

This soundtrack recording is very significant in the career of Wynton Marsalis. For the first time the trumpeter displayed a sound of his own; the Miles Davis influence was finally gone. In addition Marsalis not only debuted with his septet (which consisted of trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, altoist Wes Anderson, Todd Williams on tenor, soprano and clarinet, pianist Marcus Roberts, bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Herlin Riley) but, in writing this score, Marsalis showed how talented an arranger he was; very much in the Duke Ellington tradition but without resorting to copying. The 16 selections are sometimes a bit fragmented (a few use extra personnel including clarinetist Michael White on six tracks and vocals by Shirley Horn and Johnny Adams) but they hold up very well apart from the movie and have plenty of spirit and humor. ~Scott Yanow

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Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - The Visitor

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:14
Size: 117.3 MB
Styles: Rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[ 5:47] 1. Already Great
[ 2:36] 2. Fly By Night Deal
[ 4:50] 3. Almost Always
[ 5:13] 4. Stand Tall
[ 5:54] 5. Change Of Heart
[ 8:21] 6. Carnival
[ 2:33] 7. Diggin' A Hole
[ 3:24] 8. Children Of Destiny
[ 1:59] 9. When Bad Got Good
[10:32] 10. Forever

Neil Young's latest LP with heartland-rock band Promise of the Real opens with "Already Great," where the guitars cut like rusty plows and anti-Trump invective becomes bitter tribute: "You're the promise land/The helping hand/No wall. No hate. No fascist U.S.A." That sense of cranky rage and ageless idealism are all over The Visitor. On the somber folk shuffle "Almost Always," he complains about "livin' with a game show host," while the forcefully hard-grooving "Fly By Night Deal" is sung (partly) in the voice of a pipeline foreman bringing wreckage to the wilderness. Young detours into blues on "Diggin' a Whole" and absurdist eccentricity on the eight-minute "Carnival," spinning a surreal circus allegory over a south-of-the-border saunter. Even weirder is "Children of Destiny," a ragefully didactic sing-along recorded with a 56-piece orchestra that sounds like a grunge anthem lost in the soundtrack to a Disney musical. But the album ends on well-worn ground with the folk prayer "Forever," the kind of song he's been writing for decades, stretching into 10 minutes of frayed hope for his fellow man. "Earth is like a church without a preacher/The people have to pray for themselves," he sings, true to a messy vision of democracy that remains as endearing as ever.

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Wild Bill Davison - Beautifully Wild

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:11
Size: 101.1 MB
Styles: Cornet jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Cherry
[4:03] 2. Our Love Is Here To Stay
[3:15] 3. Am I Blue
[3:03] 4. It's The Talk Of The Town
[4:37] 5. Mean To Me
[2:39] 6. What's The Use
[5:07] 7. She's Funny That Way
[4:05] 8. I've Got The World On A String
[4:37] 9. Everything Happens To Me
[3:15] 10. On The Alamo
[5:12] 11. She's Funny That Way (Previously Unissued)

Bass – Jerry Rousseau; Cornet – Wild Bill Davison; Drums – "Spider" Ridgeway; Piano – Don Reitan.

Cornetist Wild Bill Davison was mostly heard in Dixieland bands throughout his long career but occasionally he would record in more intimate settings for a change of pace. On this Audiophile release, Davison is backed by a four-piece rhythm section that includes vibraphonist Kenny Mason and pianist Don Reitan. The ten standards lean toward ballads and the swing era, and the interpretations are more mainstream than Dixie. One of the most expressive of all brass players (Davison's growls and shakes allowed him to express both sarcasm and sentimentality, sometimes at the same time), Wild Bill is in fine form on melodic versions of such songs as "She's Funny That Way," "Mean to Me," "What's the Use" and "Everything Happens to Me." ~Scott Yanow

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Gary Smith - Off To Wonderland

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:22
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:15] 1. Cheshire Smiles
[3:37] 2. The Queen Of Broken Hearts
[7:24] 3. Time Was
[5:47] 4. Off To Wonderland
[4:28] 5. Alice Blue Gown
[7:46] 6. Aurora Borealis
[5:29] 7. Bluesette
[7:33] 8. Harvey

Gary Smith is an avant-garde guitarist, improviser and composer from the United Kingdom. He is known for developing dense extended techniques on electric guitar. Gary Smith has released close to twenty albums in solo.

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Betty Carter - Give The Love Around

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:28
Size: 177.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. Heart And Soul
[2:32] 2. The Good Life
[3:20] 3. Takes Two To Tango
[3:07] 4. Who, What, Why, Where, When
[4:14] 5. Gone With The Wind
[2:41] 6. The Way You Look Tonight
[2:34] 7. Nothing More To Look Forward To
[4:42] 8. Alone Together
[2:58] 9. When I Fall In Love
[2:42] 10. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
[3:15] 11. Round Midnight
[2:30] 12. I Wonder
[4:26] 13. Make It Last
[2:19] 14. Side By Side
[3:34] 15. Something Wonderful
[2:21] 16. Remember
[4:07] 17. Baby, It's Cold Outside
[2:41] 18. Three Stars Will Shine Tonight
[2:04] 19. Two Cigarettes In The Dark
[3:21] 20. Stormy Weather
[2:29] 21. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[3:56] 22. But Beautiful
[1:55] 23. Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul
[2:22] 24. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
[3:50] 25. Call Me Darling

Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."

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Pepe Jaramillo - Latin World, Piano & Coffee

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:34
Size: 150.1 MB
Styles: Latin piano jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. La Chanson D'orphée (Manha De Carnaval)
[2:51] 2. La Vie En Rose
[3:58] 3. Desafinado
[2:14] 4. Les Enfants Du Pirée (From Never On Sunday)
[2:48] 5. La Paloma
[2:33] 6. Tangerine
[2:38] 7. Para Vigo Me Voy
[1:54] 8. The Coffee Song
[2:47] 9. Till
[2:58] 10. Sand In My Shoes
[2:52] 11. Romántica
[2:07] 12. María Elena
[2:30] 13. Tú Que Pasas Sin Mirarme
[2:20] 14. I Wish You Love
[2:28] 15. In A Litlle Spanish Town
[2:31] 16. Acércate Más
[2:48] 17. Nightingale
[2:40] 18. In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon)
[3:13] 19. Delicado
[1:47] 20. Rico Vacilón
[2:52] 21. Sirenas Bajo El Mar
[2:35] 22. Love Of My Live
[2:15] 23. Día Si, Día No
[2:35] 24. La Comparsa (Batucada)
[2:28] 25. Serenata

Pepe Jaramillo (born José Jaramillo García; October 27, 1921, Lerdo - April 30, 2001, Andalucia) was a notable Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, and recording artist. He was most active in London as an EMI recording artist in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Lerdo, Durango, he began his professional music career playing in night clubs in México City. Relocating to London in the late 1950s, his many recordings and world-wide concert appearances brought him international fame. He died in his sleep of anemia at his villa in Spain. (On the internet, his activity has often been confused with the Ecuadorean singer of the same name.)

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Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims - Tenor Conclave

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:51
Size: 100.4 MB
Styles: Bop, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1956/1990
Art: Front

[11:02] 1. Tenor Conclave
[ 9:26] 2. Just You, Just Me
[ 8:17] 3. Bob's Boys
[15:04] 4. How Deep Is The Ocean

These four sides should not be hard to locate, as the primary participants in this November 30, 1956, session have all issued them within their individual catalogs. However Tenor Conclave was first released as credited to the "leaderless" Prestige All-Stars -- consisting of tenor saxophonists John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims. Providing support are pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Taylor. The Mobley-penned title track commences the effort with the quartet of tenors showing off their stuff in high-flying style. It takes a couple of passes and somewhat of a trained ear to be able to link the players with their contributions, but as is often the case, the whole tends to be greater than the sum of the parts. After a brief introduction with all four rapidly reeling off short riffs, Mobley charges ahead into truly inspired territory. The midtempo take of "Just You, Just Me" keeps things lively with a light swinging pace that is custom-made for bringing the combo's jocular side to the surface, particularly toward the end as they "trade fours," with each tenor blowing four bars before passing the melody on. The other Mobley composition is "Bob's Boys," and by all accounts it is the most compelling piece on the outing. The blues-based tune rollicks as Coltrane, Mobley, Cohn, and Sims find themselves configured in a seeming myriad of sonic face-offs. Wrapping up Tenor Conclave is an ultra-cool and sophisticated "How Deep Is the Ocean?" Cohn commences the long and luscious reading with a subtle strength, suggesting the powerful undercurrent flowing throughout the number. Also, listeners are treated to what is possibly Garland's finest interaction, leading right into Sims, Chambers, and finally a sublime Coltrane caboose. ~Lindsay Planer

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Misia - New Morning

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:29
Size: 144,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:59)  1. Hope & Dreams
(5:00)  2. Boku wa Pegasus Kimi wa Polaris
(4:01)  3. Aoi Tsukikage
(3:51)  4. Ai wo Shiru Sekai
(4:22)  5. Miss you always
(4:27)  6. Mahou wo Kaketa no wa Kimi
(4:54)  7. Daisy
(4:32)  8. Jewelry
(4:30)  9. Especially for me
(4:32) 10. Shiawase wo Forever
(3:25) 11. One day, One life
(6:02) 12. Kimi no Taiyou ni Narou
(3:56) 13. My pride of love
(3:53) 14. Re-Brain

Though Misia's music has elements of blues and soul, she's considered the first Japanese R&B superstar, paving the way for other R&B-based J-pop "divas," such as Hikaru Utada and Yuki Koyanagi, with her five-octave voice that is said to be able to produce sounds too high for the human ear to hear. That she achieved this breakthrough without appearing in TV music shows makes it even more impressive, as this is a very rare thing in Japanese showbiz.

Misia (real name Misaki Ito) was born and raised in a music-loving family in Fukuoka, a city more known for its rock scene, but she developed an interest in R&B and related music in high school, thanks to her African-American vocal teachers. She entered the Seinan Gakuin University in 1997, but the same year she passed an audition of 3,000-plus aspiring performers for the BMG label and dropped her formal education to begin a career in music. Around this time she formed her alias, which is said to be a combination of either Misaki and Asia, or Messiah and Asia. Misia's career took off right from the start: her debut single, "Tsutsumikomu You Ni..." (1998), charted for 27 weeks and sold 400,000 units; her next single, "Hi No Ataru Basho," cracked the Top Ten; and her debut album, Mother Father Brother Sister (1998), spent four weeks on top of the charts and sold over two and a half million copies. That year, Misia won twice at the Japan Gold Disc Awards. Her next full-length, Love Is the Message (2000), shifted another two million units, and its follow-up, Marvelous (2001), sold over one and a half million, although it was her last million-selling album. Still, Kiss in the Sky (2002), which featured Tak Matsumoto from B'z, went platinum, and in 2001 she was even able to record the single "I Miss You (Toki O Koete)" with Masato Nakamura from her favorite band, Dreams Come True. In 2002, she transferred from BMG to the Avex sublabel Rhythmedia Tribe, on which she stayed until 2007, recording four albums and a bevy of singles, some of which were used as theme songs in games, movies, and TV dramas; in 2004, she also became the first female solo artist to pull off the high-profile "five domes" tour in Japan. Misia's first full-length after her return to BMG was Eighth World (2008), which became her second album not to go platinum, but still sold 131,000 copies. She also debuted overseas in 2007, playing in Taiwan, and performed a tour in support of Eighth World in Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Her ninth album, Just Ballade, was released in December 2009. She continued to record prolifically into the 2010s. ~ Alexey Eremenko https://itunes.apple.com/ph/album/new-morning/840736585

New Morning

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Steve Tibbetts - Natural Causes

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:08
Size: 101,9 MB
Art: Front

(1:34)  1. Sitavana
(6:27)  2. Padre-Yaga
(5:51)  3. Attahasa
(4:27)  4. Chandogra
(3:10)  5. Sangchen Rolpa
(6:11)  6. Lakshmivana
(2:15)  7. Manikarnika
(0:52)  8. Ishvaravana
(5:05)  9. Gulezian
(1:23) 10. Kili-ki Drok
(1:33) 11. Kuladzokpa
(2:58) 12. Lament
(2:16) 13. Threnody

Alongside Stephan Micus, Steve Tibbetts occupies a somewhat rare position in ECM's roster of longstanding musical collaborators. Like the German composer/multi-instrumentalist, this "Zen Guitarist" defies ECM's general rule of two days to record, one day to mix (with minimal editing and overdubbing); instead, Tibbetts has, with rare exception, recorded his music from a home base in St. Paul, Minneapolis again like Micus, sometimes taking years between recordings and with minimal label intervention. Unlike Micus, however, who produces his albums in isolation, Tibbetts regularly collaborates with others, most notably percussionist Marc Anderson a constant companion since the guitarist's ECM debut, Northern Song (1982). Despite Tibbetts' recruitment of others engendering a certain spontaneity absent in Micus' carefully constructed work, his similarly multi-tracked music does rely on texturally expansive but sonically detailed soundscapes. Like 1994's career milestone, The Fall of Us All (1994), A Man About a Horse (2002) was a deceptively ambitious collection of largely calming but still unequivocally deep performances, calling upon a larger cast of characters. Natural Causes's return to the relative simplicity of a duo with Anderson last heard on Northern Song (1982) still stands out amongst Tibbetts' ECM discography for its all-acoustic nature. Simpler in premise, perhaps, but comparisons with Northern Song only demonstrate just how far Tibbetts has come. His predilection, here, for 12-string acoustic guitar might draw superficial comparison to label mate Ralph Towner, but Tibbetts eschews the Oregon cofounder's detailed, change-heavy compositional constructs; relying, instead, on miniature orchestration built from relatively diminutive instrumentation. Tibbetts layers over 20 guitar tracks on "Gulezian" co-written with guitarist Michael Gulezian and the only piece not written solely by Tibbetts without ever feeling overcrowded. Its overt folksiness reflects the perennially undervalued Gulezian's biggest touchstone acoustic guitar icons like Leo Kottke and John Fahey but with Tibbetts at the helm it retains, unsurprisingly, an episodic sense of evolution, as miniature moments of serenity and near-silence contrast with rhythmic passages driven only occasionally by Anderson's economy of sound and pulse. Tibbetts' piano and kalimba underpin tracks like the hypnotically propulsive "Chandogra," while Anderson's steel drum engenders additional timbral diversity on "Lakshmivana." Still, it's Tibbetts' resonant 12-string imbued in phrasing and serpentine linearity by the guitarist's longstanding Far East interests in general, and the work, here, of Sultan Khan in particular that's Natural Causes' defining voice. All-acoustic it may be, but Tibbetts' still employs some studio wizardry to create lush sonic backdrops, as he does at the end of "Lakshmivanam." Billed as a duo recording, Natural Causes' multifaceted nature, continually revealing layers and trance-inducing sonorities make clear that there's a silent third partner: the studio itself. Natural Causes couldn't have been created outside the confines of the recording studio but in its organic holism and absolutely timeless nature feels as though it were made in some remote outdoor locale. Natural Causes' vivid imagery makes it, in fact, the ideal companion to Norwegian pianist Acker Bilk's similarly cinematic but utterly different Remembrance, also released in North American by ECM, on the same day. ~ John Kelman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/natural-causes-steve-tibbetts-ecm-records-review-by-john-kelman.php

Personnel: Steve Tibbetts: guitars, piano, kalimba, bouzouki; Marc Anderson: percussion, steel drum; gongs.

Natural Causes

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Barre Phillips - For All It Is

Styles: Contemporary Jazz
Year: 1971
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:58
Size: 148,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:45)  1. Just 8
(3:41)  2. Whoop
(7:02)  3. Few Too
(4:30)  4. La Palette
(6:05)  5. Y En A
(7:06)  6. Dribble
(4:46)  7. Y. M.

This unusual meeting of minds pits bassists Barre Phillips (who also penned the proceedings), Palle Danielsson, Barry Guy, and J. F. Jenny-Clarke with percussionist Stu Martin in a tactile playoff with mixed results. It’s remarkable to think that four behemoths could sound so open, and so one shouldn’t be surprised to encounter a few tangles in “just 8.” For the most part, however, this introductory track maintains the clarity of separation that characterizes the album’s latter remainder. Either way, it’s a jaunty ride into an unprecedented sound-world. Martin anchors “whoop” with his engaging loops amid a menagerie of pizzicato signifiers. Along with “few too” it evokes a jack-in-the-box weeping for want of exposure. From that unrequited lament comes a bright promise, skewed by a hope that the world turns not even for itself. It’s a melancholic hope, to be sure, but hope nonetheless. Martin’s absence here makes the track an early standout: just the rocking of bows pressed into myriad shapes by insistent fingertips. “la palette” and “y en a” form another pair, taking a decidedly architectural approach to this most warped string quartet. Together, they form a cycle of destruction, pain, and healing.The album only really comes together in the final two tracks. Where “dribble” proves an apt title for its dotted ritual, “y. m.” dances like an anonymous car alarm stripped of its batteries and given new acoustic life. The latter is a particularly complex, anchored piece that spits out some utterly brilliant turns of phrase. For All It Is, for all it is, is above all an exercise in linguistics. Its cognates are familiar, even if the grammars are not. Although I’d likely recommend this one least out of Phillips’s otherwise astonishing ECM outings, for the completist it will be an intriguing blip on the radar of all four bassists’ careers. https://ecmreviews.com/2013/08/01/for-all-it-is/

Personnel: Bass, Composed By, Producer – Barre Phillips;   Bass – Barry Guy, J.F. Jenny-Clarke, Palle Danielsson;  Percussion – Stu Martin

For All It Is

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Ken Dodd - All The Songs I Love Disc 1, Disc 2 And Disc 3

Album: All The Songs I Love   Disc 1

Styles:  Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:55
Size: 178,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:00)  1. Happiness
(2:41)  2. For Someone Special
(2:47)  3. If
(2:46)  4. Every Second Every Minute
(2:44)  5. When There Was You
(3:26)  6. As Time Goes By
(4:06)  7. I Wish You Love
(2:15)  8. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
(3:23)  9. Somewhere My Love
(2:51) 10. Among My Souveniers
(3:18) 11. When Love Comes Round Again
(2:55) 12. Those Golden Days
(2:40) 13. The Stars Will Remember
(2:40) 14. Just Out Of Reach
(3:07) 15. And I Love Her
(2:40) 16. If You Love Me (I Won't Care)
(3:17) 17. How Wonderful To Know
(2:57) 18. More Than Love
(2:43) 19. I'd Do Anything
(2:44) 20. It's A Funny Old World
(2:23) 21. Let Me Cry On Your Shoulder
(3:03) 22. Think Of Me (Wherever You Are)
(2:49) 23. Tears Won't Wash Away These Heartaches
(2:16) 24. You Wanted Something To Play With
(2:05) 25. Road To Happiness
(2:18) 26. It's Love
(2:50) 27. Tears

All The Songs I Love   Disc 1

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Album: All The Songs I Love  Disc 2

Time: 76:59

Size: 180,7 MB

(2:54)  1. Promises

(2:57)  2. Still

(2:36)  3. I Can't Begin To Tell You

(2:55)  4. The Sum Of One

(2:48)  5. True

(2:56)  6. Eight By Ten

(3:23)  7. Azzurro

(2:46)  8. Sweet Memories

(2:50)  9. I'll Find A Way

(2:56) 10. If I Should Lose

(3:16) 11. Once In A While

(3:13) 12. Four Strong Wind

(2:30) 13. In The Morning

(2:56) 14. What A Wonderful World

(2:14) 15. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

(2:35) 16. Romantica

(2:52) 17. True Love

(2:41) 18. Love Me With All Your Heart

(2:43) 19. The Old Fashioned Way

(3:01) 20. For All We Know

(2:44) 21. My Thanks To You

(2:57) 22. More Than Ever

(2:35) 23. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

(3:05) 24. My Little Corner Of The World

(2:43) 25. She

(3:02) 26. May You Always

(2:39) 27. Younger Than Springtime

All The Songs I Love  Disc 2

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Album: All The Songs I Love  Disc 3

Time: 77:47

Size: 182,4 MB

(2:36)  1. The River

(3:47)  2. Love Is Like A Violin

(3:14)  3. The Story Of A Starry Night

(2:40)  4. Say

(2:43)  5. With All My Heart

(3:05)  6. Becuase I Love You

(2:45)  7. Every Little Tear

(2:36)  8. Back In Your Own Backyard

(2:36)  9. My Life

(3:48) 10. Try To Remember

(2:57) 11. I Can't Hold Back The Tears

(3:06) 12. Another Time Another Place

(3:15) 13. One Upon A Time

(2:36) 14. If I Give My Heart To You

(2:49) 15. Morning Please Don't Come

(3:18) 16. (They Long To Be) Close To You

(2:57) 17. A Pink And Pleasant Land

(1:56) 18. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

(2:46) 19. My Heart Tells Me

(2:26) 20. Only You (And You Alone)

(3:07) 21. A House With No Windows

(3:01) 22. Can I Forget You?

(4:04) 23. It Is No Secret

(3:08) 24. So Deep Is The Night

(3:16) 25. The Key

(3:03) 26. Brokenhearted

Respectfully known as "Britain's undisputed king of comedy," Ken Dodd (born Kenneth Arthur Dodd) was one of the most successful artists in the history of the British theater. He set the record for the longest run at the Palladium in London, in 1958 performing two shows a night and three on Saturday for an unprecedented 42 weeks. Dodd was equally successful as a romantic balladeer, recording such hits as "Love Is Like a Violin," a Top Ten hit in 1960, and "Tears," which spent five weeks in the top chart position and became the top-selling British single of 1965. He continued to find success with his translations of Italian ballads "The River," "Broken-Hearted," and "When Love Comes Around," and a tune, "Promises," based on Beethoven's "Pathetique" sonata. A popular television artist in the 1960s and '70s, Dodd starred in such British TV shows as The Ken Dodd Show, Doddy's Mixed Box, and Ken Dodd's Showbiz. Liverpool-born Dodd grew up in Knotty Ash, a small district of the British city. While still in his teens, he began performing comic versions of such well-known songs as "Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty, the Operatic Tenor and Sausage Knotter." Launching his professional career in 1954, he appeared in Blackpool during the summers of 1955 and 1956. By 1958, he was featured act at the Central Pier in Blackpool. In an attempt to reach the youngest members of his audiences, Dodd created the Diddymen, a fictionalized group that included Dicky Mint, Mick the Marmalizer, Hamish McDiddy, and Neil Ponsonby-Smallpiece. Although puppets were used for TV appearances, children or midgets portrayed the Diddymen during their annual Christmastime concerts. ~ Craig Harris https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/all-the-songs-i-love/id695450821

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All The Songs I Love  Disc 3

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Max Roach - Drums Unlimited

Styles: Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop 
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:40
Size: 138,5 MB
Art: Front

( 3:36)  1. The Drum Also Waltzes
(12:47)  2. Nommo
( 4:23)  3. Drums Unlimited
( 5:24)  4. St.Louis Blues
( 3:05)  5. For Big Sid
(12:25)  6. In The Red (A Xmas Carol)

Other than a trio set with the legendary pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, this set was Max Roach's only recording as a leader during 1963-67. Three of the six numbers ("Nommo," "St. Louis Blues" and "In the Red") find Roach heading a group that includes trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, altoist James Spaulding, pianist Ronnie Mathews, bassist Jymie Merritt and, on "St. Louis Blues," Roland Alexander on soprano. Their music is essentially advanced hard-bop with a generous amount of space taken up by Roach's drum solos. 

The other three selections ("The Drum Also Waltzes," "Drums Unlimited" and "For Big Sid") are unaccompanied features for Max Roach and because of the melodic and logically-planned nature of his improvisations, they continually hold on to one's attention. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/drums-unlimited-mw0000312587

Personnel: Max Roach (drums); Roland Alexander (soprano saxophone); James Spaulding (alto saxophone); Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Ronnie Mathews (piano).        

Drums Unlimited

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Caro Josée - Summer's Ease

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:42
Size: 107,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:49)  1. Cocomo
(2:26)  2. In Distress
(2:41)  3. All Forgotten Dreams
(4:33)  4. Mr. Django
(2:43)  5. If There's a Heaven
(5:37)  6. Isfahan
(4:52)  7. Like a Cha Cha
(3:10)  8. Louboutins
(2:18)  9. On the Sunny Side
(4:40) 10. Girl from Vietnam
(5:15) 11. Rain Down
(3:31) 12. Marguerite

Summer’s Ease stands for an attitude toward life because the stories I tell are mainly set in warmer regions. Whether Ibiza, Laguna Beach, Liguria or the Cote d’Azur, all of them are part of my life. These are the spots where I replenish energy, and with Summer’s Ease I take all the listeners along on my musical journey. http://www.carojosee.com/

Summer's Ease

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Steve Tibbetts - Exploded View

Styles: Guitar Jazz, Fusion
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:06
Size: 88,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:37)  1. Name Everything
(3:36)  2. Another Year
(5:17)  3. A Clear Day And No Memories
(4:31)  4. Your Cat
(1:59)  5. Forget
(4:56)  6. Drawing Down The Moon
(2:28)  7. The X Festival
(4:03)  8. Metal Summer
(5:35)  9. Assembly Field

Opening with a bang that builds to a thunderstorm, Exploded View is the definitive Steve Tibbets album. His electric guitar howls defiantly without a lot of power chords or convention, and his musicianship is top-notch, perhaps an Adrian Belew without the pop, plus a nod toward world music in production value. Tibbets scrapes and tears through the sky ("Name Everything," "Your Cat") with jaw-dropping intensity, but it would all be too much if there weren't such rich texture and softness folded into the disc as well. "Drawing Down the Moon" is a comparatively restrained piece with acoustic guitars, shakers, kalimba, congas, and a mixed bag of other percussives. A sort of unsettling warmth pulses throughout the track to pull the listener in and carry them along for a midnight desert drive. Another thing that sets this piece apart is its consistency in dynamics. On other tracks, the musicians run up and down the spectrum, but this one seems to be much more linear. Depending on your tastes, this could either be the best track on the album, or it may be the tame contradiction to the earthquake of music happening all around it. Either way, it's a welcome breather. The album is also a great showcase for Marc Anderson, a fantastic percussionist who shines here. He really understands the musical dialogue going on between himself and Tibbets' guitar. It's rare for one of them to lead or accompany the other  the symbiosis is such that you couldn't pry them apart with a crowbar, and any sheet music would still show their separate parts blurred together. The final minute of "A Clear Day and No Memories" is the only time Anderson leaves the room (probably to mop the sweat from his brow), and the tenderness of the acoustic guitar blooms like a single flower in a minefield. Songs like "The X Festival" give Anderson the almost impossible task of keeping up with himself, switching tempos, dynamics, and instruments repeatedly in a mere two-and-a-half minutes. The sweet harmonics of the tabla and the pounding waves of the bigger drums swell with urgency until the whole thing breaks apart with curious and unsettling abandon. Somewhere on the perimeter, Bob Hughes lays down the bass, but his contributions may be felt more than heard as he participates in the mix rather than adding anything new to it. Several moments have the feel of a tribal circle, accentuated by Claudia Schmidt, Bruce Henry, and Jan Reimer talented vocalists providing wordless chants and passionate upswells. Schmidt is an especially good match in aesthetics; she shows up again in 1994's The Fall of Us All, which really came the closest to recapturing the spirit of this album. Look for it. ~ Glenn Swan https://www.allmusic.com/album/exploded-view-mw0000188744

Personnel: Steve Tibbetts (guitar, kalimba, tapes); Claudia Schmidt, Bruce Henry, Jan Reimer (vocals); Bob Hughes (bass); Marc Anderson (congas, steel drum, percussion, berimbau); Marcus Wise (tabla).               

Exploded View

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Don Sebesky - Moving Lines

Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Big Band 
Year: 1984
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:47
Size: 96,5 MB
Art: Front

( 4:27)  1. Claire's Song
( 6:22)  2. Cherokee
( 5:16)  3. Moondreams
( 5:11)  4. I Go To Rio/Mardi Gras
(13:40)  5. Malaguena
( 6:50)  6. Skyliner

As a composer, arranger and conductor, he has worked with such orchestras as the London Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Pops, The New York Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic of London, and the Toronto Symphony.  His Broadway theater credits include Porgy and Bess (London production by Trevor Nunn), Sinatra At The Palladium, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate (2000 Tony Award), Bells Are Ringing, Flower Drum Song, Parade, The Life, Cyrano, The Goodbye Girl, Will Rogers Follies,  and Sinatra At Radio City. Among his film credits are The Rosary Murders (starring Donald Sutherland), Hollow Image (starring Morgan Freeman), The Last of the Belles (starring Susan Sarandon), Let's Get Lost (starring Chet Baker “ Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival), The People Next Door (starring Eli Wallach and Julie Harris), Time Piece (Jim Henson Productions “ Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject).  For television, Sebesky's work has included Allegra's Window on Nickelodeon (Emmy nomination), The Edge of Night on ABC (Emmy nomination), and Guiding Light on CBS (Emmy nomination).  As a recording artist, Sebesky's work includes nine recordings under his own name, all of which were GRAMMY nominated.  Included are Giant Box, Rape of El Morro, Full Cycle, Moving Lines, Symphonic Sondheim, I Remember Bill (1999 GRAMMY Award), and Joyful Noise (winner of two GRAMMY Awards in 2000). Sebesky has also created the music for many well known commercials.  Among the companies he has represented are:  Corning (Clio Award), Hanes, Hallmark, Dodge Trucks, General Electric (Clio Award), Hershey's, Cheerios, Calvin Klein (Clio Award), Nike, Oil of Olay, Pepsi and Kodak.  Sebesky is the author of the best selling orchestration text book, The Contemporary Arranger. http://www.donsebeskymusic.com/about.htm

Personnel:  Electric Piano, Conductor, Arranged By, Producer – Don Sebesky;  Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Jay Leonhart;  Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Alex Foster;  Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Clarinet – Roger Rosenberg;  Bass Trombone, Horn [Baritone], Tuba – Alan Raph;  Drums, Percussion – Jimmy Madison;  Electric Guitar [12 String], Acoustic Guitar [12 String] – Ken Sebesky;  Leader, Piano [Acoustic];  Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo Flute, Flute [Alto & Bass] – Eddie Daniels;  Trombone, Horn [Baritone] – Jimmy Pugh;  Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Barry Ries, Brian O'Flaherty

Moving Lines

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Jimmy Barnes - Soul Deeper Disc 1 And Disc 2

Album: Soul Deeper Disc 1

Styles: Vocal, Rock
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:30
Size: 84,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:35)  1. Land of 1000 Dances
(3:21)  2. Chain of Fools
(3:36)  3. What Becomes of The Broken Hearted
(3:51)  4. To Love Somebody
(3:06)  5. 634-5789
(2:56)  6. Ain't Too Proud to Beg
(2:42)  7. I Put a Spell on You
(2:33)  8. Money
(2:48)  9. Hold on I'm Comin'
(2:57) 10. Dancing in The Street
(3:24) 11. All The Young Dudes
(2:35) 12. Respect

Album: Soul Deeper Disc 2

Time: 16:24
Size: 37,7 MB

(2:10)  1. Rip it Up
(2:46)  2. I'll go Crazy
(3:18)  3. Who's Making Love
(5:24)  4. Is This Love
(2:44)  5. Hound Dog.

Soul Deeper... Songs From the Deep South is an album by Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes. Following the success of his 1991 album Soul Deep, Barnes returned with another album of soul covers. A special 2CD edition was released, featuring five bonus tracks. It was certified Platinum by ARIA in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Deeper..._Songs_from_the_Deep_South

Soul Deeper Disc 1 And Disc 2

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Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson - Stan Getz & J.J. Johnson At The Opera House

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:02
Size: 167.2 MB
Styles: West Coast jazz
Year: 1960/1987
Art: Front

[9:45] 1. Billie's Bounce (Stereo Vers.)
[8:08] 2. My Funny Valentine
[7:59] 3. Crazy Rhythm (Stereo Vers.)
[9:01] 4. Blues In The Closet (Stereo Vers.)
[7:57] 5. Billie's Bounce (Mono Vers.)
[8:28] 6. My Funny Valentine (Mono Vers.)
[7:47] 7. Crazy Rhythm (Mono Vers.)
[3:43] 8. Yesterdays (Mono Vers.)
[3:52] 9. It Never Entered My Mind (Mono Vers.)
[6:17] 10. Blues In The Closet (Mono Version)

Whatever Norman Granz was using as a thinking man's energy drink in 1957 when he formulated this Jazz at the Philharmonic all-star band should be bottled and sold to the world. This stroke of genius was manifested in pairing Stan Getz with J.J. Johnson, backing them up with pianist Oscar Peterson's legendary trio including bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis, and adding MJQ drummer Connie Kay to this truly classic jazz sextet. Two JATP concerts done in Chicago (in stereo) and Los Angeles (in mono) comprise this expanded edition CD, with some stretched-out jams, repeat tunes, and extra material. Originally tabbed as an unusual teaming of tenor sax and trombone, the two principals sound well-suited, very compatible in their dynamic levels, and especially congruous when they play together, while Peterson is absolutely supportive so that these two giants of jazz can cut loose. The shorter concert in Chi-Town has the band absolutely on fire from the get-go, burning up the definitive bop flag-waver "Billie's Bounce" over ten minutes of hard-swinging perfection. Neither Getz nor Johnson had ever played the Charlie Parker evergreen before, nor had either of them done "My Funny Valentine," offered here with Getz's lead line as the trombonist follows gently in his footsteps via a midtempo pace. The swing-era standard "Crazy Rhythm" is cranked up very fast, and features a clever harmony from Johnson, while "Blues in the Closet" closes the show with the simplest bop idea turned into a brilliant, long-winded discourse from all the participants. For the L.A. show, the program also starts with "Billie's Bounce," done differently on the harmonic end just for kicks, while "My Funny Valentine" uses a completely different introduction from the horns. Peterson charges up "Crazy Rhythm" as the sax and 'bone play more in sync, while "Blues in the Closet" again closes the set, but is much shorter, faster, and a bit sloppy at the outset. The add-ons include a short (under four-minute) and easygoing feature for Johnson on "Yesterdays" and another brief rendering of the ballad "It Never Entered My Mind," exclusively for the soulful Getz and a more pronounced Ellis. The extraordinary playing by these expert jazzmen elevates this album to legendary status. It is some of their best work (from a pivotal year in modern jazz recording), and a shining example of how professionally Granz could mix and match musicians to form optimal results. ~Michael G. Nastos

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Werner Acker - Roots

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:38
Size: 106.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[4:41] 1. One More
[3:42] 2. Lipa
[3:15] 3. Roots
[3:46] 4. Another Five
[4:48] 5. Easy Going
[4:20] 6. In A Sentimental Mood
[3:43] 7. Johnson Road
[3:59] 8. Output
[3:48] 9. Eternal E
[4:17] 10. You Don´t Know What Love Is
[2:32] 11. Fifteen Seconds
[3:42] 12. Done

Werner Acker - Guitars; Andreas Francke - Alto Sax; Uli Gutscher - Trombone; Matthias Dörsam - Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax; Rainer Scheithauer - Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes, Wurlizer, Grand Piano; Hansi Schuller - Double Bass, E-Bass; Herbert Wachter - Drums .

Often a good glass of wine and a motivating advice from a close friend is enough to make something special. Exactly this glass of wine and the convincing kick from drummer Herbert Wachter made Werner Acker devote himself to his debut album Roots. An album that reflects the musical roots of the artist as well as Acker's talent and groove on the guitar.

Werner Acker has been active as a studio and live musician for 45 years and in recent decades has been able to present himself as a versatile sideman in countless musical projects. But now he is the one who is in the center and debuts at the age of 60 years with his first album Roots. This fact alone proves that the guitarist has never lost the fun and the joy of music. Also, his sophisticated, innovative and expressive way of playing the guitar is one of the album's special features.

The own compositions and arrangements convince by the sound, groove and joy of improvisation. The artist and his band thus manage to bridge the gap between Rhythm & Blues, Soul and Jazz without losing the album's unified groove and sound concept. Werner Acker himself describes the musical context of Roots as: a mixture of clear earthy beats and grooves and a sound that is characterized by bluesy, jazzy and funky guitars, accompanied by Hammond B3, Wurlitzer and Rhodespiano, grand pianos, bass, respectively. Double bass, drum set and a robust brass section consisting of alto sax, trombone and tenor, or baritone saxophone.

The relationship to his instrument is essential for Werner Acker. The recordings were recorded on different, sometimes very old guitars, the musician enthuses. In addition to instrument, sound and groove, the interplay with longtime musical companions and now good friends is the foundation for the album. Even though it took a bit longer until the first album, this does not mean that the second one has to wait a long time, enough compositions are just waiting to be released. The musical euphoria and the groove will certainly not be lost to Werner Acker in the next few years. (Translated from German.)

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Joey Dee & His Starliters - Doin' The Twist (Recorded Live At The Peppermint Lounge)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:22
Size: 90.1 MB
Styles: Pop/Rock/Rock N Roll
Year: 1961/2000
Art: Front

[1:59] 1. Peppermint Twist Pt. 1
[3:38] 2. Ram-Bunk-Shush
[4:10] 3. Ya Ya
[2:58] 4. Sticks And Stones
[6:26] 5. Shout
[1:52] 6. Peppermint Twist Pt. 2
[3:52] 7. Hold It
[3:55] 8. Fanny Mae
[4:47] 9. Honk Tonk
[5:41] 10. Mashed Potatoes

In 1960, the Starliters were noticed by agent Don Davis while performing at a Lodi, New Jersey, nightclub called Oliveri's. The group was booked at an intimate venue on 45th Street in New York City called the Peppermint Lounge for what was supposed to be a one-time weekend gig. During their initial appearance at the nightclub, actress Merle Oberon and Prince Serge Oblinski were dancing much of the night there, which was reported the next morning by columnists Earl Wilson and Cholly Knickerbocker. The next night, it took barricades and mounted police to keep the crowds in line, which had backed to Broadway, and for several months thereafter, the craze continued at the Lounge. Celebrity visitors continued to make an appearance, such as Judy Garland, John Wayne, Jackie Kennedy, Nat "King" Cole, Shirley MacLaine, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Liberace. Dee and company were such a sensation that they became the house band for the Peppermint Lounge for over a year. Dee wrote "Peppermint Twist," along with producer Henry Glover, as a tribute to the lounge and the song scored #1 on the U.S. charts in early 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

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Till Brönner - That Summer

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:18
Size: 131.2 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz, Vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[ 3:24] 1. Your Way To Say Goodbye
[ 4:11] 2. Bein' Green
[ 4:43] 3. High Falls
[ 5:33] 4. When Your Lover Has Gone
[ 3:33] 5. Estrada Branca
[ 4:59] 6. Antonio's Song
[ 5:09] 7. Ready Or Not
[ 5:13] 8. After Hours
[ 3:52] 9. So Right, So Wrong
[ 3:53] 10. Wishing Well
[12:44] 11. Medley: Rising Star/Dr. Bill

German trumpeter Till Brönner's 2004 album That Summer features the pop-jazz artists smooth, laid-back horn style. Included are such originals as "Your Way to Say Goodbye," and "Ready or Not" as well as Brönner's take on the standards "Bein' Green" and "When Your Lover Has Gone." ~Matt Collar

That Summer   

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