Jo Stafford - Autumn In New York And Other Classics

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:37
Size: 153,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:42)  1. Autumn In New York
(2:47)  2. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(2:57)  3. If I Loved You
(2:58)  4. Almost Like Being In Love
(2:27)  5. Make Believe
(2:39)  6. Through The Years
(3:10)  7. Sometimes I'm Happy
(2:48)  8. In The Still Of The Night
(3:12)  9. Some Enchanted Evening
(2:25) 10. The Best Things In Life Are Free
(2:42) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(2:46) 12. Haunted Heart
(2:54) 13. Alice Blue Gown
(2:33) 14. Tell Me Why
(2:40) 15. Let The Rest Of The World Go By
(2:44) 16. Gee, It's Good To Hold You
(2:35) 17. The Wish That I Wish Tonight
(2:51) 18. As Long As I Know You're Somewhere
(3:03) 19. Rockin' Chair
(3:02) 20. Georgia On My Mind
(2:49) 21. Dream - Edit
(3:13) 22. Jamboree Jones
(3:29) 23. Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) - 1949 Version

An early LP for Jo Stafford (and the LP format itself), 1950's Autumn in New York assembled a dozen standards set at ballad tempo and arranged with crying strings by Stafford's primary arranger (and husband), Paul Weston. Most of them were show tunes, some dating back to the '20s, and all seemed tailor-made for Stafford's sweet, pure tone and way with a lovelorn lyric. The title song and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" earned pride of place, but there simply wasn't a deficient tune in the bunch "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Just One of Those Things" and Stafford treated them all with the reverence and devotion they deserve. The LP was released in several formats, including a collection of 78-rpm EPs, while a 2009 reissue by DRG boasted 11 bonus tracks, including a few previously unreleased songs as well as a pair of big hits: "Jamboree Jones" (featuring Johnny Mercer) and "Tim-Tayshun (Temptation)" (Stafford's cornpone sendup of the Bing Crosby standard). ~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/album/autumn-in-new-york-mw0000814176

Autumn In New York And Other Classics

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Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:48
Size: 97,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Chuck E's in Love
(2:31)  2. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
(3:18)  3. Night Train
(4:03)  4. Young Blood
(3:19)  5. Easy Money
(4:05)  6. The Last Chance Texaco
(4:06)  7. Danny's All-Star Joint
(3:48)  8. Coolsville
(5:59)  9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
(4:52) 10. Company
(2:13) 11. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Midnight)

With her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force, and her lyrical focus on Los Angeles street life, Rickie Lee Jones comes on like the love child of Laura Nyro and Tom Waits on her self-titled debut album. Given the population of colorful characters who may or may not be real people that populate her songs Chuck E., Bragger, Kid Sinister, and others she also might have had Bruce Springsteen in her bloodline (that is, the Springsteen of his first two albums), and her jazzbo sensibility suggests Mose Allison as a grandfather. Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, who know all about assisting quirky singer/songwriters with their visions, have brought in a studio full of master session musicians, many of them with jazz credentials, and apparently instructed them to follow Jones' stop-and-start, loud-and-soft vocalizing, then overdubbed string parts here and there. The music thus has a sprung rhythmic feel that follows the contours of Jones' impressionistic stories about scuffling people on the streets and in the bars. There is an undertow of melancholy that becomes more overt toward the end, as the narrator's friends and lovers clear out, leaving her "Standing on the corner/All alone," as she sings in the final song, "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)." It's a long way, if only 40 minutes or so, from the frolicsome opener, "Chuck E.'s in Love," which had concluded that he was smitten by "the little girl who's singin' this song." But then, the romance of the street is easily replaced by its loneliness. Rickie Lee Jones is an astounding debut album that simultaneously sounds like a synthesis of many familiar styles and like nothing that anybody's ever done before, and it heralds the beginning of a potentially important career. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/rickie-lee-jones-mw0000190561

Rickie Lee Jones

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Cybill Shepherd - Talk Memphis To Me

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:21
Size: 92,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:25)  1. Roll Big Muddy
(3:03)  2. Beal Street Blues
(2:20)  3. Tennessee Waltz
(4:47)  4. Walkin' The Dog - Who's Makin' Love
(4:13)  5. Power Of Love
(3:01)  6. Muddy Water
(3:51)  7. If I Could
(2:55)  8. Mama's Cookin'
(4:35)  9. Find Another Fool
(3:47) 10. Talk Memphis To Me
(3:19) 11. You Never Know

Cybill Shepherd is a one-of-a-kind steel magnolia, a Southern beauty queen who looks soft as a flower petal but who in reality is anything but soft on the inside. Her patrician looks and bombshell figure generated modeling and acting careers while her saucy attitude and flair for comedy won fans for her as well. Most interesting of all, behind the beautiful façade is a woman with brains and talent. She always spoke her mind, as evidenced by a tell-all memoir in 2000 in which she didn't hesitate to spill the beans and name which male co-star failed to finish a horizontal tango, which one tangoed too fast, and who was best equipped for the encounter. In addition to modeling, acting, writing, and producing, Shepherd also sings. She has released seven albums and has performed live in cabarets and other nightspots in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and London. Like many vocalists, Shepherd began with a stint in the church choir as a child. She started taking voice lessons when she was 16 years old. Her repertoire is a mixture of standards, blues, rock, and ballads. Peabo Bryson appears on her Somewhere Down the Road album. Stan Getz joins her on Mad About the Boy, and Phineas Newborn Jr. appears on Vanilla. Another album, Songs From the Cybill Show in 1999, is a tie-in to her similarly named television comedy series which launched in 1995.

A Tennessee native, Shepherd twice took the title of Miss Teenage Memphis, first in 1966 and again two years later. She was named Model of the Year by Stewart Models in 1968. Her photo has graced the covers of such magazines as Vogue, Life, People, and Glamour. One of those covers sparked Peter Bogdanovich's interest in Shepherd, leading to a long-term relationship and a starring role in his 1971 film, The Last Picture Show. The Heartbreak Kid followed the next year. Other films include Texasville, Married to It, Daisy Miller, and Taxi Driver. Her awards include four Golden Globes and an equal number of People's Choice Awards. 

The Hollywood Radio and Television Society dubbed Shepherd and Bruce Willis, her co-star in the Moonlighting television series during the late '80s, Woman and Man of the Year in Broadcasting. Shepherd was married twice. Her 1978 marriage to David Ford ended in divorce in 1982. In 1987 she wed Bruce Oppenheim, but that union, too, ended in divorce in 1990. She has three children. ~ Linda Seiva https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cybill-shepherd-mn0000149345/biography

Talk Memphis To Me

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Sue Ramsay & Mike Stanutz - Reunion

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:27
Size: 89,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:22)  1. Spend A Little Time With Me
(4:18)  2. A Light
(3:31)  3. Bossa Vagabundo
(3:05)  4. Cat
(2:43)  5. VooDoo
(2:32)  6. Reunion
(2:52)  7. Big Green Eyes
(3:02)  8. Cold House Blues
(4:19)  9. Come To Me
(1:33) 10. A Song We'll Always Know
(3:30) 11. You Say
(2:04) 12. Pumpkin
(2:30) 13. Winds Of Change

Reunion, probably the most rewarding and of course tantalizing for me is the original material.  I have Mike Stanutz to thank for that. "Reunion" is our first cd....and is full of joy and hope.   Writing lyrics....listening to a piece of music and creating is so surreal and  intoxicating.  Having a hand in creating what I sing is a privilege.  Once you've had a drop......well I'm not sure how to stop. http://www.suzanne-ramsay.com/music.html

Featured Tracks: A Light - David Matheson keys, Phil Desera guitar, Clark Johnston bass, Mike Stanutz drums, Sue Ramsay vocals  /    Cat - Clark Johnston bass, Sue Ramsay vocals /   A Song We'll Always Know By Heart -  Phil Desera guitar, Sue Ramsay vocals

Reunion

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Artemis - Artemis

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:54
Size: 119,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:24)  1. Goddess Of The Hunt
(7:20)  2. Frida
(6:12)  3. The Fool On The Hill
(5:01)  4. Big Top
(3:27)  5. If It's Magic
(5:27)  6. Nocturno
(6:25)  7. Step Forward
(5:29)  8. Cry, Buttercup, Cry
(5:05)  9. The Sidewinder

It's truly exhilarating yet sadly mundane and reductive that a recording as vital and victorious as Artemis will be universally hailed as a first from an all- female supergroup. That it cuts across all generational, cultural, international, and ethnic planes. That Blue Note Records has expanded its ever legendary ranks to include, well, you know, a female supergroup. It's like the more we think we've gotten past these worn, tired types of qualifiers we realize all the more we really haven't.

Until that day we no longer feel the need to identify such things, we turn, as every society does, to our artists to lead, and lead Artemis does. How could it not when pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes joins equally fierce forces with tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, clarinetist Anat Cohen, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, drummer Allison Miller, bassist Noriko Ueda, and featured vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant for a tough, tight and tenacious nine song set that catches fire immediately with Miller's "Goddess of the Hunt." A wily composition that brings each member to the fore without breaking the ensemble's inherent integrity. On "Goddess of the Hunt" propelled by Rosnes' and Ueda's insistence and Miller's persistence Aldana and Jensen run the gamut as Cohen binds it all together. It's a kick-off not to be to missed.

Aldana's precocious "Frida," one of the tunes the saxophonist didn't include on her emotionally weighted study suite of the painter Frida Kahlo, Visions (Motema, 2019) weaves more space for the five to establish both an intrinsic group synergy and individual personality. Never opting out for ego's sake, Jensen's intricate rendering of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "The Fool On the Hill" allows for each voice to freely interpret one of rock's greatest ruminations with a real time urgency for the real time absurdity we live through daily. All five minutes of Rosnes' finger snapping, toe tapping "Big Top" is sheer joy to listen to and a virtuoso testament by the septet to the Greek goddess that inspires them. Salvant makes a stunning entrance with Stevie Wonder's elegant 1977 ballad "If It's Magic." Cohen, whose high flights of fancy and in depth explorations of shadow and light throughout the album almost steals the whole show, brings the contemplative "Nocturno" for each player to color. In stark contrast of mood and style, Ueda's punchy swing-fest "Step Forward" lets us marvel at Cohen's acrobatics, Jensen's lyrical agility, and Rosnes' whimsical sense of light. It's a remarkably fluid piece. Which is a fine way to describe the whole of this debut by a crew of veterans. Inspired by the times around them, Artemis returns the inspiration tenfold.~ Mark Jurkovic https://www.allaboutjazz.com/artemis-artemis-blue-note

Personnel:  Renee Rosnes: piano; Allison Miller: drums; Melissa Aldana: saxophone, tenor; Noriko Ueda: bass; Ingrid Jensen: trumpet; Cecile McLorin Salvant: voice / vocals; Anat Cohen: clarinet, bass.

Artemis

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Ciyo - So Inviting

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:54
Size: 158,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:56)  1. So Inviting
(4:00)  2. Hello Happiness
(6:28)  3. We've Got Love to Share
(5:24)  4. Breezin'
(4:45)  5. Love Won't Leave Us Alone
(4:18)  6. Feel the Vibe
(4:15)  7. Kingston Nights
(5:12)  8. Jazzy Mood for Love
(3:52)  9. Come out to Play
(3:45) 10. The Feelings Right
(4:02) 11. Back to Nature
(3:22) 12. San Francisco
(3:17) 13. Let's Fall in Love
(5:30) 14. ….And There She Was
(5:41) 15. Treacle

Biography ‘Born in Jamaica, Ciyo arrived in England at the age of six months old. Though a high academic achiever qualifying as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives and specialising in the area of housing law, music has always been a dedicated and professionally nurtured constant in Ciyo’s journey through life.

From early beginnings having first been taught to play the guitar at the age of nine by his father, Ciyo has participated musically in theatrical, studio recordings and live performances alongside a parade of internationally acclaimed artists. These have included Caron Wheeler, Ann Nesby, Ruby Turner, Annie Lennox, Suggs, YolanDa Brown, Jason Rebello, soca queen Alison Hinds, Jean Carne, Jazz Warriors, Tomorrow’s Warriors, Talvin Singh, LCGC, East London Gospel Choir, Chevelle Franklin, Andy Hamilton, Eastwood and Saint, Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Urban Soul Orchestra, Alex Wilson, Sonny Okusons, internationally acclaimed jazz guitarists Jim Mullen and Dave Cliff, Pee Wee Ellis, Sly and Robbie, Freddie McGregor, Adele, Steel Pulse (where he shared lead guitar duties with Jimmy ‘Senyah’ Haynes on the 1991 album, Victims) and Carleen Anderson. Ciyo has also been appointed as Musical Director for a range or coveted artists to include the likes of Ronnie Laws, Billy Paul, Ann Nesby, Horace Andy, Sylvia Tella and Johnny Clarke.

An in-demand musicians’ musician, Ciyo’s ongoing collaborative works cover a range of genres. His talent has enhanced iconic popular music alongside artists such as Roachford, Linda Lewis, Raghav, Shara Nelson, through progressive Jazz with Soweto Kinch, to the ‘new psychedelia’ Brit-pop/folk influenced music of Bishi. Ciyo’s jazzy guitar contributions are also present in the genres of reggae and lover’s rock and can be found in his live and recorded work with many artists including JC Lodge, Sugar Minott, Bob Andy, Earl ‘Chinna Smith’, Barry Biggs, Dennis Bovell, Pam Hall, Jimmy Lindsay, Earl 16, Lukie D, Paulette Tajah, Susan Cadogan, Lorna Bennett, Kofi, Winston Reedy, Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson.

Ciyo has toured with Courtney Pine, Byron Wallen, Ronnie Laws, Billy Paul, Jean Toussaint, Maxi Priest, Beres Hammond, Horace Andy, Cleveland Watkiss, Steel Pulse and a host of others. He counts quality time spent with George Benson as amongst his most inspiring experiences to date. Ciyo has five album releases to date with two compilations and a new studio album consisting of acoustic guitar-led soulful jazz due for release in October 2012. Current projects also include a focus on his World Music Acoustic Trio featuring Colin McNeish (double bass) and Lenny Edwards (percussion). This project delivers an eclectic mix of musical themes from around the world featuring dynamic arrangements and interpretation underpinned by instinctive and sublime musicianship from a stellar trio of outstanding musicians. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/ciyo

So Inviting

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Jim Hall - Jim Hall Plays Standards

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 143:27
Size: 331,8 MB
Art: Front

( 6:17)  1. 42nd Street
( 5:45)  2. 9:20 Special
( 5:03)  3. Body and Soul
( 5:46)  4. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
( 4:14)  5. Easy Living
( 5:44)  6. Groovin' High
( 2:45)  7. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
( 3:32)  8. I Can't Get Started
( 8:40)  9. I Get a Kick Out of You
( 3:31) 10. I Remember Clifford
( 7:28) 11. I Remember You
( 4:52) 12. I Should Care
( 4:29) 13. I'll Be Around
( 4:33) 14. I've Got You Under My Skin
( 8:01) 15. Jumpin' at the Woodside
( 2:41) 16. Laura
(10:11) 17. Moten Swing
( 3:52) 18. My Funny Valentine
( 3:07) 19. Skylark
( 3:59) 20. Stella by Starlight
( 4:41) 21. Stompin' at the Savoy
( 2:58) 22. Swinging on a Star
( 5:49) 23. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
( 2:51) 24. This Is Always
( 5:38) 25. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West
( 6:31) 26. What's New?
( 5:12) 27. Where Are You?
( 5:05) 28. You Go to My Head

A harmonically advanced cool-toned and subtle guitarist, Jim Hall was an inspiration to many guitarists, including some (such as Bill Frisell) who sound nothing like him. Hall attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and studied classical guitar in Los Angeles with Vicente Gómez. He was an original member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet (1955-1956), and during 1956-1959 was with the Jimmy Giuffre Three. After touring with Ella Fitzgerald (1960-1961) and sometimes forming duos with Lee Konitz, Hall was with Sonny Rollins' dynamic quartet in 1961-1962, recording The Bridge. He co-led a quartet with Art Farmer (1962-1964), recorded on an occasional basis with Paul Desmond during 1959-1965 (all of their quartet performances are collected on a Mosaic box set), and then became a New York studio musician. He was mostly a leader during the following years and, in addition to his own projects for World Pacific/Pacific Jazz, MPS, Milestone, CTI, Horizon, Artist House, Concord, MusicMasters, and Telarc, Jim Hall recorded two classic duet albums with Bill Evans. A self-titled collaboration with Pat Metheny followed in 1999. A flurry of studio albums, reissues, and compilations followed throughout the next few years, with the exceptional Jim Hall & Basses standing out for its bass/guitar duet format. Jim Hall died at his apartment in Manhattan on December 10, 2013; he was 83 years old. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-hall-mn0000286483/biography

Jim Hall Plays Standards

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James Moody - Last Train From Overbrook

Styles: Saxophone e Flute Jazz
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:16
Size: 65,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:05)  1. Last Train From Overbrook
(2:34)  2. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
(2:25)  3. Why Don't You
(3:31)  4. I'm Free aka What's New?
(1:43)  5. Tico Tico
(2:25)  6. There She Goes
(2:07)  7. All The Things You Are
(3:09)  8. Brother Yusef
(3:44)  9. Yvonne
(3:28) 10. The Moody One

A wonderful album from Moody  one of his "comeback" albums for Chess/Argo, recorded after his release from the Overbrook institution, hence the title. By this point, Moody was writing and playing with much more of an edge than during his bebop days and the record certainly shows that  not only on the title track "Last Train From Overbrook", a jumpy little number that became one of the big new tunes in Moody's book, but on the whole album, which features some well-conceived large charts written by Johnny Pate. Pate and Moody wrote the bulk of the songs, too and titles include "Yvonne", "Brother Yusef", "The Moody One", "There She Goes", "Tico Tico", and "Why Don't You". The album also features a great double-exposed cover photo, and some of the most chilling liner notes you'll ever read about a jazzman's struggles with addiction.  © 1996-2020, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/41999/James-Moody:Last-Train-From-Overbrook

Personnel: James Moody - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute; Flip Ricard, Earl Turner, Sonny Cohn - trumpet; Ethel Merker - french horn on Last Train from Overbrook ; John Avant - trombone; Bill Atkins, Lenny Druss - alto saxophone; Vito Price, Sandy Mosse, Eddie Johnson - tenor saxophone; Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone; Junior Mance - piano; Floyd Morris - piano; Johnny Pate - bass; John Gray - guitar; Red Holt - drums

Last Train From Overbrook

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Jon Hendricks - Before Us

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 80:06
Size: 185,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:56)  1. Out of the Past
(4:18)  2. Another Get Together
(2:51)  3. With Malice Towards None
(5:03)  4. The Shouter
(2:54)  5. Pretty Strange
(4:12)  6. If I Had My Share
(2:30)  7. Please Send Me Someone to Love
(3:33)  8. Saturday Night Fish Fry
(2:10)  9. That's Enough
(2:51) 10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
(3:42) 11. A Good Git-Together
(4:24) 12. Contemporary Blues
(1:02) 13. Everything Started in the House of the Lord
(2:35) 14. Caravan
(2:35) 15. What Would You Do
(5:41) 16. Fast Livin' Blues
(2:23) 17. I'll Die Happy
(3:32) 18. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I've Got
(2:22) 19. Social Call
(3:06) 20. Good Old Lady
(4:18) 21. Do You Call That a Buddy
(2:26) 22. Everything Started in the House of the Lord II
(3:31) 23. In a Mellow Tone
(3:02) 24. I'll Never Get Enough of You

Jon Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist with the vocal ensemble Lambert, Hendricks & Ross who helped create an inventive jazz vocal technique called “vocalese,” has died. Hendricks died Wednesday in New York City, his daughter, Aria Hendricks, said. He was 96. When Hendricks arrived on the jazz scene in the ’50s, his mastery of “vocalese”an expansion of scat singing had a powerful influence on the musical tenor of post-World War II bebop. The technique combined existing  usually recorded  instrumental jazz solos and newly written lyrics and often replaced instruments with vocalists. In Hendricks’ hands, the result was seen by his fans as rhythmic poetry. Although vocalese was a relatively new jazz art form, Hendricks quickly defined most of its significant elements in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross’ first recording, “Sing A Song of Basie,” based on such Count Basie classics like “It’s Sand, Man,” “Two For the Blues” and “Little Pony.” Not only did Hendricks create full band passages for the three singers to overdub, he also turned the solos of instrumentalists into vocal passages.

The album earned Lambert, Hendricks & Ross a Grammy nomination. Decades later it was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame award, given to musical recordings considered to have a lasting historical significance. Singer and pianist Carmen McRae called Hendricks “the greatest lyricist in the world” and Al Jarreau said he was “pound for pound the best jazz singer on the planet.” Joni Mitchell, who rarely recorded songs other than her own, featured Hendricks’ songs on both “Court and Spark” and “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” Mitchell said she fell in love with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross’ “The Hottest New Sound in Jazz” as a teenager. “In a way I’ve always considered that album to be my Beatles, because I learned every song off it,” she said. “I don’t think there’s another album that I know every song on, including my own!” Time magazine labeled Hendricks “the James Joyce of jazz” and Times jazz critic Leonard Feather called Hendricks “the poet laureate of jazz.” As Hendricks’ visibility grew, Duke Ellington chose him as the featured soloist in the premiere performance of Ellington’s first Sacred Music Concert, and his music guided groups like The Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices and Take 6.

Born Sept. 16, 1921, in Newark, Ohio, Hendricks and his 14 siblings bounced around before his parents finally settled in Toledo, Ohio.His musical talents were apparent at an early age, and Hendricks was singing on local radio shows by the time he was 7. As a teenager, he expressed ambitions to become a drummer. But opportunities to sing in the company of such major jazz artists as Fats Waller, Art Tatum and Ted Lewis convinced him that his instrument of choice should be his voice. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, Hendricks returned to Ohio to study law and literature at the University of Toledo. His college funding fell through, however, and he fell back on his musical skills, playing drums and singing with local groups. When Charlie Parker heard him scat singing in a local club, the great bebop saxophonist praised Hendricks’ singing, and advised him to devote himself to music. Parker also urged Hendricks to move to New York, offering to help him make his first contacts in the New York City jazz community.

The introductions began to pay off in 1952 when Louis Jordan recorded Hendricks’ “I Want You to Be My Baby.” A year later, Hendricks recorded “Four Brothers” and “Cloudburst” with the Dave Lambert Singers, setting the stage for the foundation of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Hendricks formed the group in 1957, and the trio performed together until 1962, when Annie Ross left for a solo career and was replaced by singer Yolande Bavan. Hendricks and his family lived and performed in Europe between 1968 and 1973. When he returned to the U.S., Hendricks moved to San Francisco, where he wrote about jazz for the Chronicle newspaper and formed a group called the Hendricks Family with his wife, Judith, and children, Michelle and Eric. 

In 1985, Hendricks worked with the Manhattan Transfer on the recording of their album “Vocalese,” which won seven Grammy awards. Hendricks began to teach at the University of Toledo in 2000 and was eventually appointed distinguished professor of jazz studies and granted an honorary doctorate in performing arts. He is survived by a son, Jon; two daughters, Michele and Aria; and three grandchildren. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jon-hendricks-snap-story.html

Before Us

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Massimo Faraò Trio - Luiza

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:26
Size: 123,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:08)  1. So In Love
(6:43)  2. Beautiful Love
(6:04)  3. Dear Old Stockholm
(5:06)  4. Luiza
(5:41)  5. Fly Me To The Moon
(7:06)  6. Someone To Watch Over me
(6:59)  7. E La Chiamano Estate
(4:47)  8. Blue Bossa
(4:47)  9. Stardust

Ferdinando Faraò belongs to one of the few Italian jazz dynasties. The son of an amateur drummer, he is the brother of piano player Antonio Faraò and the cousin of piano player Massimo Faraò. Inspired by his father's wide collection of jazz records and captivated by a concert of Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald that he had seen in Milan at the age of 10, he started to study the drums with the support of his family. By the age of 20 he had become the in-house drummer at Capolinea, Milan's most important jazz venue. In the '80s he played in the Claudio Fasoli Quartet and accompanied many North American musicians that toured Italy, such as Lee Konitz, Mal Waldron, Sal Nistico and Bob Mover. In the '90s he joined the quintet of Italian singer Tiziana Ghiglioni and has been increasingly involved in special audio-visual projects. His recording career as a solo artist started relatively late, in 1997, with the album Listening Self, featuring Pietro Tonolo on saxophone, Piero Leveratto on double-bass and Franco D'Andrea on piano. Faraò is a subtle drummer that leads from the back rather than putting himself under the spotlight. Also at ease on percussion and xylophone, he can provide a versatile and wide aural palette. 

A witty composer, he privileges midtempo compositions in which he often experiments with odd time signatures, sudden rhythmic shifts and sampling. Though constantly active as a sideman and teacher, Faraò didn't record as a leader again until 2004's large ensemble offering Eschersuite, the first album in a trilogy that was followed by Darwinsuite (2009) and Pollocksuite (2010). In 2015 he led the Artchipel Orchestra on the date Play Soft Machine and enlisted them again along with drummer Chris Cutler for To Lindsay: Omaggio A Lindsay Cooper. ~ Luigi Santosuosso https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ferdinando-fara%C3%B2-mn0001342062/biography

Personnel: Massimo Farao; piano; Aldo Zunino bass; Marco Tolotti drums

Luiza

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Dave Turner, Nelson Symonds - The Pulse Brothers

Styles: Saxophone And Guitar Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:05
Size: 151,9 MB
Art: Front

(11:19)  1. Star Eyes
(13:20)  2. Like Someone in Love
(12:02)  3. Black Orpheus
( 9:26)  4. It Could Happen to You
( 7:36)  5. You Stepped out of a Dream
(12:19)  6. Au Privave

A native of Montreal, alto/baritone saxophonist & composer Dave Turner has been a mainstay of the city’s jazz scene since the mid 1970’s. During this time, he has performed extensively with his own groups around the Montreal area, and has been a featured performer at every major Jazz festival in Canada. He has also performed at many prominent clubs on the international jazz scene Top of the Senator (Toronto), Sweet Basil (New York), Le lion s’envole (Liege) and l’Archiduc  (Brussels), Dizzy’s (Rotterdam), Café Alto (Amsterdam).

Dave Turner has been a featured soloist and lead alto saxophonist with the Vic Vogel Big Band since 1979. He has also collaborated with the Orchestre Metropolitain (conducted by Agnes Grossman), the National Arts Center Orchestra (conducted by David Amram) and, in 1999, he performed and recorded with the European Broadcast Union Orchestra in a series of concerts celebrating the centennial of the birth of Duke Ellington. In 1996, Dave Turner was honoured as “Alto Saxophonist of the Year” by Jazz Report magazine. A prolific recording artist, he has released a total of ten albums under his own name, each one receiving wide critical acclaim across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. “Café Alto”, recorded in 1987, was nominated for a Juno. In 1995, he was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award from Concordia University for his work in the Jazz Studies program, of which he has been an involved faculty member since 1982. https://www.daveturner.ca/wp/?p=174

Personnel: Dave Turner – alto sax; Nelson Symonds – guitar; Dave Gelfand – bass; Claude Lavergne – drums

The Pulse Brothers

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Teddy Wilson - Solo Piano (Keystone Transcriptions)

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:05
Size: 152,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:00)  1. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
(2:25)  2. Sunday
(2:50)  3. More Than You Know
(1:42)  4. Summer's End
(2:12)  5. Goin' Home Blues
(1:05)  6. Minute Steak
(2:51)  7. Sugar
(2:31)  8. At Sundown
(2:28)  9. Tuesday Jump
(2:28) 10. The Moon Is Low
(2:39) 11. Afternoon Blues
(2:27) 12. The Little Things That Mean so Much
(2:41) 13. You're My Favorite Memory
(2:20) 14. Rhythmatics
(2:32) 15. Almost Blues
(2:18) 16. Tempo Positioned
(2:33) 17. Out of Nowhere
(2:27) 18. Night and Day
(2:37) 19. Oh, Lady Be Good
(2:52) 20. Jumpin' Off
(2:53) 21. You'll Be Sorry
(2:33) 22. Chinatown, My Chinatown
(2:57) 23. Twilight Blue
(2:32) 24. Love Is the Sweetest Thing
(2:38) 25. Rose Room
(2:23) 26. Why Shouldn't I

One of the great swing era pianists Teddy Wilson arrived at a mature style early in his career. The first Wilson record I know of (with Benny Carter's wonderful, short-lived 1933 big band) introduces him as an advanced, gifted band pianist and soloist. Wilson's later records (He had a fifty-year career.) as a trio or solo pianist stand as elegant, logical, and swinging miniatures, but they generally lack the freshness of his 1930's playing. The tension from his left hand counterlines smoothed out for one thing.

The Keystone Transcriptions present Wilson in near-ideal cicumstances. Originally recorded for radio play (instead of for commercial release), these piano solos were apparently lost or forgotten until recently. He contemporaneously recorded a few of these tunes with Billie Holiday or Benny Goodman, but these solo versions deserve to be heard on their own merits they are not remakes. There are several tunes he rarely if ever played again. Some are Wilson "heads" on standards for example "Tempo Positioned" is "Cherry" with a "'Swonderful" bridge. Vocalist Johnny Mercer later recorded "You'll Be Sorry" as "Shoo Be Doin'". Wilson rarely played the blues as he got older, but there are three choice examples here. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-keystone-transcriptions-teddy-wilson-storyville-records-review-by-craig-jolley.php

Personnel: Teddy Wilson - piano.

Solo Piano (Keystone Transcriptions)

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David Gilmore - Transitions

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:08
Size: 129,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:28)  1. End of Daze
(5:31)  2. Beyond All Limits
(7:06)  3. Blues Mind Matter
(5:57)  4. Bluesette
(5:05)  5. Both
(6:32)  6. Spontanuity
(5:37)  7. Kid Logic
(9:13)  8. Farralone
(4:36)  9. Nem Un Talvez

Veteran guitarist David Gilmore has assembled a marvelous band for this album: tenor saxophonist Mark Shim, pianist Victor Gould, bassist Carlo DeRosa and drummer E.J. Strickland. He’s also chosen to de-emphasize his own compositions and focus on the work of artists who have (to borrow from the title) transitioned to the next world, three of them Bobby Hutcherson, Victor Bailey and Jean “Toots” Thielemans quite recently.

Hutcherson gets two nods, with intricate versions of “Farralone,” featuring Bill Ware on vibes, and “Blues Mind Matter,” which draws particularly well-conceived solos from Gould, Shim and Gilmore. For a funky, percussion-led and piano-less take on Bailey’s “Kid Logic,” Gilmore plays electric and acoustic guitar, impressively choosing the latter to navigate the hand-cramping central riff in unison with DeRosa. Thielemans’ “Bluesette” is converted to 4/4 time and given a set of reharmonized changes that seem to repeatedly circle in on themselves. Guest harmonica player Grégoire Maret’s wistful playing keeps the tune at least partly connected to its roots.

A few living composers are represented on Transitions too. Annette Peacock’s “Both” is the vehicle for some suitably spooky group improv. Hermeto Pascoal’s “Nem um Talvez” receives a tender reading on nylon-string acoustic. And there are two Gilmore originals, “End of Daze” and “Spontanuity,” both of which brilliantly combine the abstract and the visceral. Producer Gerry Teekens deserves extra audio-geek kudos for panning DeRosa’s bass toward the left side of the stereo spectrum and Strickland’s drum kit toward the right rather than, as is far more common, orienting both in the center. It’s a move that arguably gives listeners a better sense of what the rhythm section’s doing, and ought to be considered more often.~ Mac Randall https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/david-gilmore-transitions/

Personnel: Electric Guitar – David Gilmore; Bass – Carlo DeRosa; Drums – E.J. Strickland; Harmonica – Gregoire Maret (tracks: 4); Piano – Victor Gould; Tenor Saxophone – Mark Shim; Vibraphone – Bill Ware (tracks: 8)

Transitions

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Gary Peacock, Marc Copland - Insight

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:06
Size: 133,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:21)  1. All Blues
(2:22)  2. The Wanderer
(6:23)  3. Blue in Green
(2:42)  4. Rush Hour
(6:44)  5. River's Run
(2:21)  6. Matterhorn
(4:17)  7. The Pond
(6:47)  8. Goes out Comes In
(2:25)  9. Late Night
(7:24) 10. Cavatina
(4:53) 11. In Your Own Sweet Way
(3:43) 12. Benediction
(3:36) 13. Sweet and Lovely

Gary Peacock and pianist Marc Copland have been working together for nearly 20 years, though most often in a trio setting. Peacock was Copland's bassist of choice on two of his New York Trio Recordings trilogy sets  Modhina (2006) and Voices (2007), both on the German Pirouet label. But for a pianist who mines dark, impressionistic yet subtly romantic places, the most intimate of settings is the duo, and this pair's first (and, until now, only) duet recording, What It Says (Sketch, 2004), was a remarkable demonstration of profound interaction and sublime beauty. The two reunite for Insight, with Peacock's name first on the marquee, though it's likely nothing more than the egalitarian nature of this duo that his name is first, since Copland's was the lead on What It Says. It's another set of deeply connected music a mix of Copland and Peacock originals, free improvisations and well-known but instinctively personal covers. It may or may not be a coincidence that two tunes from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959) are played, opening with a version of "All Blues" that's bright in tempo but tenebrously indigo in ambience. He possesses unmistakable roots in Bill Evans, the primary pianist on Davis' iconic recording, but Copland's voicings are more abstract and even more impressionistic, running both in tandem and in contrast with Peacock's relentlessly frenetic bass line. "Blue in Green" is even more subdued, though Peacock takes a solo that's one of his best on the album, an endless wellspring of thematic invention.

Peacock's highest profile gig is with Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio, but while it's an unequivocally creative place to be, he feels more open-ended here, especially during the five spontaneous compositions he creates with Copland. The act of not playing is as active a participating action as playing, and on "The Wanderer," he doesn't even enter until the song's final 25 seconds, but it grounds Copland's repetitive, gradually solidifying pattern, despite doing nothing more than following the pianist's right hand. He's more actively engaged on "Rush Hour," a kinetic free improv about two voices merging as one. Copland revisits his own brooding blues, "River's Run," heard solo on his remarkable Time Within Time (Hatology, 2005) and on Voices; here, Peacock provides a more definitive pulse while interacting contrapuntally with Copland. Peacock solos initially, between Copland's rippling, cued figures on "The Pond" with Copland taking over to introduce delicately elegant cascading lines without ever losing sight of the song's core.

The duo is at its most direct during the intro to Stanley Myers' melancholic "Cavatina," the theme song to Michael Cimono's classic The Deer Hunter (1978), but ultimately dissolves into freer time, again still respecting the song's essence. It's their innate ability to head into uncharted territory while remaining reverential to their source that makes Peacock and Copland such a compelling duo. A clear window into the improvisational mindset, Insight is another high water mark for both of these fine, interpretive, and consistently inventive musicians.~ John Kelman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/insight-gary-peacock-pirouet-records-review-by-john-kelman.php

Personnel: Gary Peacock: bass; Marc Copland: piano.

Gary Peacock (R.I.P)
Born: 12-05-1935
Died: 05-09-2020

Insight

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Peggy Lyn Haden - Beloved Partner

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:07
Size: 129,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:08)  1. Autumn Leaves
(2:34)  2. Beloved Partner
(2:06)  3. Days of Wine & Roses
(3:45)  4. Fall Is Here
(2:09)  5. Fly Me to the Moon
(6:18)  6. God Bless the Child
(3:27)  7. I Never Knew
(4:28)  8. Just in Time
(4:34)  9. My Funny Valentine
(3:22) 10. Norwegian Wood
(4:42) 11. Rio de Janeiro Blue
(4:13) 12. Route 66
(2:47) 13. A Small Cafe Mam'selle
(3:51) 14. In the We Small Hours
(2:35) 15. You Are So Beautiful

Peggy Lyn Haden, on vocals (and piano where listed), studied vocal performance and music at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, and piano at the University of South Carolina, under the late Dr. John Emcee. She performed with numerous jazz and dance groups in the Southeast, including Touch of Class in Greenville, SC, and Peggy Lyn & Co. in Atlanta, GA.

Peggy performed at the North Carolina Jazz Conference at Queens College in Charlotte, NC. She was a featured jazz singer at Freedom Weekend Aloft, Greenville Main Street Jazz, university concerts under the direction of Tim Haden, and performed on North Carolina ETV. She was the vocalist for Touch of Class, and vocalist and pianist for the Silk & Spice trio in Greenville, SC. Peggy was the resident solo vocalist and pianist at the Commerce Club in Greenville, SC, for 23 years. She is an accomplished studio performer and previously released the album “I’m Glad There Is You,” recorded at Sandcastle Studios in Greenville, SC. “Beloved Partner” was recorded live by Don Dixon in a three-day session with 16 musicians performing in selected duos, trios, quartets, and quintets. The album also features Hugh Hamilton and Gene Linville on vocals with accompaniment by Peggy Lyn Haden on piano. https://peggylynhaden.com/

Beloved Partner

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Cybill Shepherd - Somewhere Down The Road

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:39
Size: 90,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:43)  1. Somewhere Down The Road (duet with Peabo Bryson)
(3:16)  2. Shot Full Of Love
(3:26)  3. One More Night
(3:55)  4. Same Old Blues
(4:05)  5. Push For You
(3:35)  6. Til You
(3:49)  7. I Cross My Heart
(4:49)  8. Too Soon
(4:00)  9. Bend
(3:57) 10. Whatever We Imagine

Recorded over 5 years and released in 1990, "Somewhere Down The Road" was produced by Memphis music legend Sid Selvidge. The album blends a satisfying mix of ballads and upbeat pop, featuring the title cut with Peabo Bryson. 

While Cybill Shepherd is best known as a model and actress, she is also and accomplished singer. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Cybill started singing with her church choir at age eight, and began studying voice at sixteen. She has performed sold out concerts blending rock, blues, ballads and standards. Cybill has recorded seven albums, including "Mad About The Boy" AKA "Cybill Getz Better" with Stan Getz and "Vanilla" with Phineas Newborn Jr., and "Somewhere Down The Road," featuring the title cut with Peabo Bryson. Cybill's recent CD "Talk Memphis To Me", a musical homecoming inspired by the sounds of Memphis, is Cybill's proudest musical endeavor. Her latest effort, "Cybill:Songs From The Cybill Show" is a collection of songs and comedy soundbites from her hit CBS sitcom "Cybill". Currently Cybill performs her cabaret act to audiences across the country. Check out www.cybill.com for engagement dates. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Down-Road-Cybill-Shepherd/dp/B000008KND

Somewhere Down The Road

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Warren Vaché - Remembers Benny Carter

Styles: Cornet Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:47
Size: 147,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:35)  1. A Walking Thing
(2:34)  2. When Lights Are Low
(4:42)  3. Doozy
(3:54)  4. Key Largo
(5:34)  5. Evening Star
(6:52)  6. Boulevard Bounce
(5:38)  7. Summer Serenade
(4:08)  8. Only Trust Your Heart
(6:01)  9. Souvenir
(3:50) 10. Rock Me to Sleep
(4:44) 11. I'm Sorry
(4:45) 12. All That Jazz
(4:24) 13. The Romp

There's lots of life to this recording. Veteran trumpeter Warren Vache knows a thing or two about an old friend, mentor Benny Carter. With The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter we take a step back in time even as we venture forth into the present. A present that finds cornetist Vache's style and personage slightly at odds with that goofy-looking guy with the lid shaking hands with Carter for the cover of this release. It's a remarkable transformation for someone who, during Carter's life, was enthralled by the man's spirit as well as his humanity and substantial musical contributions.

Then and now. That's what these kinds of recordings are all about, aren't they? The trick is to pull it off convincingly, which means you gotta inhabit that spirit and wonder with your whole heart and still have the means to convey it. In Vache's case, that's just what happens with this recording of 13 tunes associated with the multi-instrumental maven, whose career spanned a mind-boggling number of years and eras. To perhaps repeat, then and now is furthered along by the visual presentation of this CD. You get the younger, livelier Vache shaking hands with the master along with more recent photos which show a man weathered by the times since Carter's death in 2003 at age 95. Gone is that goofy smile of innocence, replaced by a more taciturn and wry grimace. Vache's seasoning no doubt has included some trials and disappointments in the intervening years. And that's just what seems to be so much a part of this recording: the sound of a man in love with his music and, in this case, the music of another, a more mature voice.

So, take all that in, and then listen to this music and discover a kind of transcendence that speaks to the music's ability to be ageless, Vache's formal treatments of these songs are true to the spirit of Carter's own muse and whatever Vache picked up by being associated with him. There is a joyous quality to everything here, except when "lights are low," but then it somehow remains surreptitiously buoyant. Take any tune and find a group cohesion fostered by the leader of this makeshift group and you'll hear something that's rare in today's marketplace of jazz recordings: an authentic embrace of ... then and now. With regular cohort Tardo Hammer at the keys, along with old friends and colleagues tenorist Houston Person, Nicki Parrott on bass and vocals and Leroy Williams on drums on selective cuts, the moods tend to be mellow when they aren't a tad bouncy. The transition between "Boulevard Bounce" and "Summer Serenade," for example, is the transition between that bounce featuring Vache playing a real cozy mute with tasteful brushwork from Williams to yet another example of Hammer's modest eloquence as he brings the serenade forward, Parrott's basslines and solo work simpatico all the way. "Summer Serenade" is that kind of rendition that certainly suggests what the song implies, a lazy river coursing through a nearby meadow, everything in its rightful place as the late-afternoon sun finds its way through the willows and the breezes are soft and reassuring. It's a trio piece, sans Vache, that serves as the midpoint to this collection, having followed what might be considered the overall mood of the album with "Boulevard Bounce," namely, a lighthearted party.

And so, with Remembers Benny Carter (featuring incisive, Carter-centered liner notes from Carter biographer Ed Berger) there's the seemingly inevitable gesture that comes with age and the talent to deliver it: a bittersweet melancholy and a certain longing for what was, maybe best heard when Parrott's voice enters here and there, her feminine energy a vital ingredient here as she expands on her bassist role via a samba version of "Only Trust Your Heart" and the more rightfully easygoing "When Lights Are Low" (featuring some delicate muted-horn work from the leader). Her voice is intimate, relaxed, lilting, as she inhabits the words to these songs in ways that make her an ideal foil to Vache's sometimes more caustic yet generous spirit. A generous spirit that leaves others to carry the tune, so to speak, from time to time without him.

With the quiet eloquence of "Souvenir" Vache returns with a full-bodied open horn, cradling the song's melody in this gently delivered ballad, a certain highlight that could be adapted to any time of day, but especially when those lights are low. Tardo's piano is once again a voice that provides that rare mesmerizing balance to Vache's clear, recital-like tones. You can practically feel the love for Mr. Carter. "Rock Me To Sleep" kicks it up a notch, echoing not only Carter the trumpeter but an even earlier master of that instrument, Louis Armstrong, the song's medium-tempo swing a lure for anyone who loves to hit the dance floor anytime of day. And with "All That Jazz," Vache joining Parrott in the vocal department, we hear not only more up-tempo swinging but some real harmonizing between these two singers that makes you wish they'd done another. Ending with the up-tempo swinging blues "The Romp" may have you forgetting everything that came before, this quintet seemingly refusing to go out quietly, but instead opting for just a wee bit more fun. Vache's horn and leadership on this date should be a welcome treat for any music lover, regardless of age or taste. His ultimate compliment to Carter could be Vache's overt presence implied as well as stated and his subdued, age-appropriate enthusiasm for this music, and his hitting every note just right even as he also allows everyone in on the party, for everyone to come celebrate the wonder that Benny Carter will always represent. ~ John Ephland https://www.allaboutjazz.com/warren-vache-quintet-remembers-benny-carter-by-john-ephland.php

Personnel: Warren Vache, cornet; Houston Person, tenor saxophone; Nicki Parrott, bass, vocals; Tardo Hammer, piano; Leroy Williams, drums.

Remembers Benny Carter

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Booker Ervin - Heavy!!!

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:20
Size: 106,3 MB
Art: Front

( 8:16)  1. Bachafillen
( 8:43)  2. You Don't Know What Love Is
( 5:00)  3. Aluminum Baby
( 7:54)  4. Not Quite That
(12:28)  5. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
( 3:57)  6. Ode to Charlie Parker

This 1998 CD reissue differs from the original LP in that the immediately distinctive tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin is featured on a previously unreleased four-minute dirge, "Ode to Charlie Parker." The set matches Ervin with a remarkable rhythm section (pianist Jaki Byard, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Alan Dawson), plus trumpeter Jimmy Owens and trombonist Garnett Brown (who sometimes takes co-honors). The music is quite moody, soulful, and explorative yet not forbidding. Although the originals are fine (particularly Brown's "Bächafillen"), the main highlights are an inventive reworking of "Bei Mir Bist du Schön" and Ervin's quartet feature on an emotional rendition of "You Don't Know What Love Is."~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy%21-mw0000599980

Personnel: Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone; Jimmy Owens - trumpet (3,4,5,6), flugelhorn (1); Garnett Brown - trombone (1,3,4,5,6); Jaki Byard - piano; Richard Davis - bass; Alan Dawson - drums

Heavy!!!

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David Gilmore - From Here to Here

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:02
Size: 152,0 MB
Art: Front

( 6:36)  1. Focus Pocus
( 5:24)  2. Cyclic Episode
( 5:04)  3. Metaverse
( 7:20)  4. Child of Time
( 7:50)  5. When and Then
( 4:26)  6. Innerlude
( 4:48)  7. Interplay
( 7:20)  8. The Long Game
(10:07)  9. Free Radicals
( 7:01) 10. Libation

On his second Criss Cross record, From Here To Here, guitar master David Gilmore picks up where he left off on his well-received 2017 label debut, Transitions (Criss 1393). Here, joined by a quartet of New York all-stars comprising pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Brad Jones, and drummer E.J. Strickland, Gilmore navigates 8 recently-penned originals as well as Sam Rivers' Cyclic Episodes and the Bill Evans-Jim Hall classic Interplay. Throughout the proceedings, Gilmore unfailingly displays virtuosic technical and conceptual chops, exhaustive harmonic knowledge, melodic gifts, luminous sound, and sense of focus and proportion. These qualities made him an indispensable sideman several decades ago during long-term engagements with Steve Coleman and Wayne Shorter -- they've only developed and evolved over time.~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Here-DAVID-GILMORE/dp/B07W47GFQL

Personnel: Guitar – David Gilmore;  Bass – Brad Jones; Drums – E.J. Strickland; Piano – Luis Perdomo

From Here to Here

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Andy Biskin - Trio Tragico

Styles: Clarinet Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:00
Size: 146,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:33)  1. Boomerang
(6:13)  2. I Should Talk
(5:05)  3. Hey Day
(5:28)  4. Walking Distance
(4:15)  5. I Think Not
(5:18)  6. You That Knew Him
(4:32)  7. Paging Mr. Yes
(2:59)  8. Night Shade
(4:52)  9. Over the Years
(6:10) 10. Top Left Corner
(4:04) 11. Still Busy (the Honk Honk Song)
(5:38) 12. You Who
(2:48) 13. Plaything

Released in tandem with Early American (an exploration of the music of Stephen Foster), Trio Tragico showcases clarinetist Andy Biskin working within the confines of an unconventional chamber-jazz trio. With characteristic wit, the composer delivers an album that is not nearly as melodramatic as the title implies. Biskin enjoys a sublime foil in the rich and classically pure trumpet of Dave Ballou. Ubiquitous Downtown bassist Drew Gress is the fulcrum on which the two horn players pivot. With no drummer present, his lines support not only the pulse, but the principal melody and implied harmonies as well. A mercurial writer and economical improviser, Biskin's sense of humor seeps into his music in subtle ways. While the trio occasionally flirts with melancholy, it never sounds morose. Embracing postmodern irony, but without the cool detached attitude, Biskin and company plot a lyrically poignant course that's unfettered by stylistic conventions.

"Boomerang" opens the album with a solemn refrain, recalling an Old World dirge by blending mournful clarinet, somber trumpet and plangent bowed bass. Suddenly, the tune comes alive; the bass bounds into a brisk walking pattern, launching a jubilant clarinet flight, followed by an equally ebullient trumpet solo. The horns weave a sonorous web, accompanying each other throughout, and Gress takes a brief statement before the collective finish. The baroque-inspired composition "Over The Years" follows a similarly whimsical strategy. Biskin maintains straight-laced classicism, intermittently inserting searing Yiddish doina laments, then just as abruptly returning to the formal structure. The trio generates more than just pleasant melodies; compare the rich harmonies of "Hey Day" to the folksy, see-saw jauntiness of "Walking Distance," with its fractured lullaby ambience. The infectious "Paging Mr. Yes," while outwardly reminiscent of an early two-step, employs shades of an impulsive, Ivesian nature. Biskin's pieces are enigmatic but always accessible, from the gorgeous balladry and Middle Eastern flourishes of "I Should Talk" to sprightly bop pieces such as "I Think Not" and "Plaything." The trio blends subtle improvisation and nuanced group interaction so seamlessly into Biskin's compositions that the dividing line between the two vanishes. With creative arrangements and stellar interplay, Trio Tragico invokes a broad sonic palette, bringing these enchanting pieces to life. Whether exploring tangos, marches, Dixieland, bebop or any number of early American song forms, Biskin's trio handles it all with respect and good humor.~ Troy Collins https://www.allaboutjazz.com/trio-tragico-andy-biskin-strudelmedia-review-by-troy-collins.php

Personnel: Andy Biskin: clarinet, bass clarinet; Dave Ballou: trumpet; Drew Gress: bass.

Trio Tragico

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