Anita O'Day - Hot & Cool Heat - Anita O'Day Sings Buddy Bregman & Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements

Styles: Big Band, Swing, Jazz Vocal
Year: 2011
Time: 60:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 141,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:26) 1. You're The Top
(3:15) 2. Honeysuckle Rose
(2:30) 3. No Moon At All
(2:51) 4. I'll See You In My Dreams
(4:24) 5. I Never Had A Chance
(3:20) 6. Stompin' At The Savoy
(4:14) 7. Sweet Georgia Brown
(3:27) 8. I Won't Dance
(2:22) 9. Let's Begin
(2:16) 10. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(2:33) 11. You're A Clown
(3:13) 12. Easy Come Easy Go
(3:03) 13. A Lover Is Blue
(3:09) 14. Mack The Knife
(2:26) 15. Gone With The Wind
(2:08) 16. Hershey Bar
(2:54) 17. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
(2:03) 18. Orphan Annie
(2:12) 19. The Way You Look Tonight
(3:14) 20. It Had To Be You
(2:22) 21. Hooray For Hollywood

Hot and Cool Heat

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Anita O'Day shows in this set why her over-all feeling and delivery mark her as one of the few women in the field who could ever accurately be called a jazz singer. She was a more imaginative singer than her imitators, not merely because she was original, but also because she was much more inventive. Two talented and utterly dissimilar arrangers contributed the imaginatively varied scores for these sessions, the first two by Buddy Bregman, the last three by Jimmy Giuffre.

Reveling in the settings the difference between hot and cool Anita O'Day has a great time, not only on the swinging tunes, to which she contributes some trademark, zestful, inventive scatting, but also in singing ballads with a sure touch. Backing her, Bregman and Giuffre used some of the finest Hollywood jazzmen, with Stan Getz particularly warm and lyrical on I Never Had a Chance.

These are probably the best jazz sides recorded by Anita O'Day in the Fifties, and if you enjoy vocal records in the slightest bit, do yourself a favor and get this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Anita-Sings-Bregman-Giuffre-Arrangements/dp/B003JZEVIK

Personnel:

Anita O'Day (vcl), Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Tom Reeves (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino, Lloyd Ulyate, Joe Howard, Si Zentner (tb), Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Alan Harding, Les Robinson (as), Stan Getz, Richie Kamuca (ts), Jimmy Giuffre (bs), Paul Smith, André Previn (p), Barney Kessel, Jim Hall (g), Joe Mondragon, George Morrow (b), Alvin Stoller, Mel Lewis (d) 

Tracks #1-4, from the album "Anita" (Verve MGV-2000)

Tracks #5-9, from the album "Pick Yourself Up" (Verve MGV-2043)

Tracks #10-21, from the album "Cool Heat" (Verve MGV-8312)

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Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

 Sketches of Spain 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition CD 1

Styles: Modal
Year: 2009
Time: 44:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 102,7 MB
Art: Front

(16:20) 1. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio)
( 3:48) 2. Will o' the Wisp
( 3:54) 3. The Pan Piper
( 4:58) 4. Saeta
(12:15) 5. Solea
( 3:22) 6. Song of Our Country

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Sketches of Spain 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition CD 2

Styles: Modal
Year: 2009
Time: 69:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 160,7 MB
Art: Front

( 3:46) 1. The Maids of Cadiz
( 7:21) 2. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rehearsal Take)
(12:05) 3. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Alternate Take, Part One)
( 3:33) 4. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Alternate Take, Part Two)
( 1:02) 5. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Alternate Ending)
( 3:11) 6. The Pan Piper (Take 1)
( 2:59) 7. Song of Our Country (Take 9)
( 3:10) 8. Song of Our Country (Take 14)
( 6:02) 9. Saeta (Full Version Master)
(17:06) 10. Concierto De Aranjuez (Adagio) (Live)
( 9:33) 11. Teo

Sketches of Spain 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition CD 1 & 2

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SKETCHES OF SPAIN by Miles Davis: Each of Miles' four orchestral album collabo­ra­tions with arranger-composer Gil Evans - Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy And Bess (1958), Sketches Of Spain (1959), and Quiet Nights (1962) - was a masterwork in its own right. Sketches was Miles' first post-Kind Of Blue project, and retains that LP's modal feel on the 16-minute version of Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez,' the inspira­tion for Davis and Evans. Liner notes for the 2009 edition of SKETCHES are written by composer academician Gunther Schuller, whose hundreds of accomplishments in jazz include playing French horn for Miles on the 1949-50 Birth Of The Cool sessions. SKETCHES was recorded in 1959 and released in 1960.

This historic edition presents the original album augmented by alternate and extra tracks, illustrating how this synergy developed. "The Maids of Cádiz" (from the 1957 album Miles Ahead) is the first example of Gil Evans adapting a composition of Spanish origin for an orchestral collaboration with Miles. The live performance of "Concierto de Aranjuez," the only such ever given, took place in Carnegie Hall in 1961, offering a rare, heightened performance of this centerpiece. "Teo," (from the 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come) a small group piece dedicated to Producer Teo Macero, is simpatico with "Solea"--the other jewel from the original album, with its orchestral palette that is, in a word, sublime.

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René Urtreger & Agnès Desarthe - Premier rendez-vous

Styles: Jazz Vocal
Year: 2017
Time: 55:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 129,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:52) 1. The Man I love
(6:05) 2. Le premier rendez-vous
(3:36) 3. Thème pour un ami
(2:28) 4. La géante
(6:16) 5. Lady Amanda
(5:24) 6. Everything Happens to Me
(2:32) 7. La douche en plein air
(4:43) 8. Just One of Those Things
(6:08) 9. Body and Soul
(3:56) 10. Valsajane
(2:51) 11. Le foin
(3:55) 12. You Go to My Head
(1:05) 13. Bouncing with Bud

Premier rendez-vous

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René Urtreger invites Agnès Desarthe in front of the microphone. Jazz musicians join them. The result is an album full of freshness, “Premier Rendez-Vous”. To be savored with relish. In 2016 Agnès Desarthe collected and reproduced in words the words of René Urtreger throughout the pages of the book Mise en page 1 “Le Roi René”. In 2017, a good exchange, the notes of René Urtreger accompany the voice of Agnès Desarthe on “Premier-Rendez-Vous” which transports the writer into the world of professional singing.

For the occasion, René Urtreger invites several very talented musicians to join them. This is how alto saxophonist Géraldine Laurent, double bassist Pierre Boussaguet, drummer Simon Goubert and violinist Alexis Lograda appear on the album.

Recorded in May and June 2017 by Vincent Mahey at Studio Sextan-La Fonderie de Malakoff, the album “Premier Rendez-Vous” (Naïve-Believe/Musicast) is announced for October 27, 2017.

Between René Urtreger and Agnès Desarthe the story is written in several chapters. First their first meeting followed by regular interviews which allowed the writer to gather the pianist’s confidences. From these elements she wrote a superb biography entitled “Le Roi René”.

During the numerous meetings which preceded the writing of the book, the pianist discovered Agnès Desarthe's interest in the music she learned and practiced in her youth. From there, events continue. During a literary festival (in Nevers) and presentations of the work (in Paris to the Duke of Lombards) the two accomplices have the opportunity to come together in music around the piano and microphone.

There is only one step to take to go from the stage to the studio for the recording of an album and today it is done. René Urtreger invites Agnès Desarthe to join him for a studio recording. “Premier Rendez-vous” is therefore the last chapter (…to date) of the collaboration between René Urtreger and Agnès Desarthe.

On “Premier Rendez-Vous” Agnès Desarthe says three texts. Perfect diction of texts of his own which move or make you smile. La Géante accompanied by the violin, Le Foin in duet with the drums and La Douche En Plein Air with the piano. Having moved from the world of letters to the world of notes, Agnès Desarthe reconnects with the vocabulary and syntax of music even if her participation as a jazz singer is modest.

She sings in English, The Man I Love accompanied by the piano-saxophone-drums trio and Body and Soul and You Go To My Head in duet with the piano. In French, she covers with all the musicians Premier-Rendez-Vous, the title immortalized by the late Danielle Darieux. With intelligence, she does not allow herself to be trapped in the role of the jazz singer “who thinks she is…”.

Agnès Desarthe simply takes the risk of being herself. Careful and sensitive interpretation. Fair and well placed, the voice is more spoken than sung. She delicately positions herself on the time with which she plays to better outwit it.

The pianist performs on the thirteen tracks of the album. His return to the record news has everything to delight those who recently listened to René Urtreger in concert in the provinces or in the capital. We find him solo on two magnificent ballads, Valsajane and Everything Happens To Me, which he also enjoys playing in concert. He also honors bop with Bouncing with Bud and a disheveled version of Just One Of Those Things by Cole Porter where Géraldine Laurent gives it her all.

René Urtreger has lost none of his splendor and although he has completely mastered the art of simplicity, the fact remains that he still takes great pleasure in phrasing bop and does not let himself be fooled.

From the meeting between the jazz pianist René Urtreger and the woman of letters Agnès Desarthe, two magnificent artistic objects were born. In 2016, the book “Le Roi René” published by Éditions Jacob. In October 2017 the album “Premier Rendez-Vous” (Naïve-Believe/Musicast). Time will tell whether other chapters should be added to their story.

https://www.latins-de-jazz.com/premier-rendez-vous-rene-urtreger-agnes-desarthe/

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Carmell Jones Quartet - Previously Unreleased Los Angeles Session

Styles: Cool Jazz, Hard Bop
Year: 2015
Time: 65:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 151,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:27) 1. Willow Weep For Me
(6:01) 2. If I Love Again
(6:26) 3. Ruby
(5:14) 4. For Every Man There's A Woman
(4:44) 5. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
(9:06) 6. Airegin
(9:29) 7. Willow Weep For Me (Alternate Take)
(7:07) 8. If I Love Again (Alternate Take)
(5:52) 9. Ruby (Alternate Take)
(4:15) 10. For Every Man There's A Woman (Alternate Take)

In August 1960, 24-year old trumpet player Carmell Jones left his Kansas City home-town and hopped a bus to Los Angeles, intent on hitting the West Coast jazz scene. There, his impact was immediate and would prove to be memorable. He was quickly part of a quartet with pianist Forrest Westbrook, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Bill Schwemmer.

They rehearsed at Westbrooks apartment at 2021 Sta. Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, where this unreleased material was recorded at the end of that month. It was an amazing session, in which Carmell, oozing confidence and assertiveness, demonstrated a fresh, virile and imaginative style, with a warm ballad tone and an authoritatively implacable swing at up tempo. The highly responsive rhythm section locked right on him all the way, and also revealed Forrest Westbrook as a highly talented and sensitive pianist, with an advanced concept of improvisation, and a built-in propensity for swinging hard. Along with the pungently powerful Peacock and the driving Schwemmer, they provided an ideally vigorous support for Carmell Jones, who, unbelievably soon, would come to be regarded as among the finest trumpeters on the West Coast. These never before released recordings, his first on the Coast, show why.

(https://www.amazon.com/Carmell-Quartet-Previously-Unreleased-Angeles/dp/B00XUONS98)

Personnel: Carmell Jones (tp), Forrest Westbrook (p), Gary Peacock (b), Bill Schwemmer (d)

Carmell Jones Quartet. Previously Unreleased Los Angeles Session

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Big Miller - Did You Ever Hear The Blues? + Revelations And The Blues (2 LP on 1 CD)

Styles: Rhythm & Blues
Year: 2012
Time: 71:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 166,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:03) 1. Five O'Clock Blues
(3:48) 2. Lament
(2:49) 3. Did You Ever Hear the Blues?
(2:47) 4. Tired As I Can Be
(4:19) 5. Good Old Guy
(2:55) 6. Mr. Blues Child
(5:05) 7. Red Sun Blues
(2:25) 8. Mojo Blues
(3:09) 9. Cool Saturday Night
(3:05) 10. Got to Live
(3:41) 11. Wee Small Hours
(4:51) 12. About My Baby
(3:18) 13. I Know
(2:23) 14. Lament to Love
(2:42) 15. The Monterey Story
(4:20) 16. I Never Had a Woman
(3:43) 17. Wanna See My Baby
(2:52) 18. When You're not Around
(3:13) 19. It's a Hard Life
(3:40) 20. Sweet Slumber
(3:59) 21. If You Don't Love Me

Did You Ever Hear the Blues? / Revelations and the Blues

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Clarence H. Miller, known to his friends as Big, was one of the most impressive new blues singers on the late Fifties scene. With a childhood background of church singing and piano and trombone studies, he became a professional musician in 1946 after Army service, when he led a band touring with a repertoire largely based on Louis Jordan jump numbers, before switching to bass and joining Jay McShanns earthy, Kansas City based outfit. Influenced by Walter Brown and Joe Turner, he started singing blues with the band and moved to Chicago and Cincinatti, forming a group with trombonist Al Grey which went to Texas. A year touring the small Texas towns honed his gift for blues singing and a move to New York led to his big breakthrough.

He made a debut LP, Did you ever hear the blues?, for United Artists, went with Nat Pierces band into Birdland and then, through singer Jon Hendricks, was invited to the 1960 Monterey Jazz Festival. That led to Hollywood. Stints at Shelly Mannes celebrated club and an album, Revelation and the Blues, with Ben Webster confirmed his status as a front-rank blues singer with a unique style which was influenced by bop.

Tracks #1-11 from the 12" LP "Did You Ever Hear The Blues" (United Artists UAS 6047)

Tracks #12-21 from the 12" LP

"Revelations And The Blues" (Columbia CS 8411)

Personnel on "Did You Ever Hear The Blues": "Big" Miller (vcl), with orchestra arranged and

conducted by Budd Johnson. Associate arranger: Jimmy Jones

Tracks #1,5,7 & 9: Pat Brooks (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Phil Woods (as), Zoot Sims (ts), Al Cohn (bs), Jimmy Jones (p), Chuck Wayne, Turk Van Lake (g), Chet Amsterdam (b) and Elvin Jones (d).

Tracks #2-4,8 & 10: Pat Brooks (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Phil Woods (as), Zoot Sims (ts), Sol Schlinger (bs), Jimmy Jones (p), Everett Barksdale, Kenny Burrell (g), Chet Amsterdam (b) and Jo Jones (d).

Tracks #6 & 11: Pat Brooks (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Phil Woods (as), Zoot Sims (ts), Jimmy Jones (p), Billy Bauer, Barry Galbraith (g), Chet Amsterdam (b) and Gus Johnson (d).

Recorded in New York City, May, 1959.

Personnel on "Revelations And The Blues"

"Big" Miller (vcl), accompanied by

Tracks #16,19,20 & 21: Ben Webster (ts), Gildo Mahones (p), Bobby Gibbons (g), Ike Isaacs (b) and Jimmy Wormworth (d).

Tracks #12-15,17 & 18: Plas Johnson (ts), Ernie Freeman (p), Jim Hall (g), Red Mitchell (b) and Frank Butler (d).

Recorded in Los Angeles, on October 18 (#16,19,20 & 21), and November 8 (#12-15,17 & 18), 1960.

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Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - The Hottest New Group In Jazz Disc 1 And Disc 2

Album: The Hottest New Group In Jazz Disc 1

Styles: Vocal 

Year: 1996

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 60:22

Size: 140,8 MB

Art: Front

(3:18)  1. Charleston Alley

(2:33)  2. Moanin'

(2:17)  3. Twisted

(3:15)  4. Bijou

(2:15)  5. Cloudburst

(2:26)  6. Centerpiece

(2:57)  7. Gimme That Wine

(3:48)  8. Sermonette

(1:43)  9. Summertime

(4:10) 10. Everybody's Boppin'

(2:55) 11. Cottontail

(3:27) 12. All Too Soon

(1:18) 13. Happy Anatomy

(3:09) 14. Rocks In My Bed

(2:53) 15. Main Stem

(3:29) 16. I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I've Got

(2:48) 17. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

(2:32) 18. Midnight Indigo

(2:59) 19. What Am I Here For?

(3:28) 20. In A Mellow Tone - Vocal Version

(2:33) 21. Caravan

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Album: The Hottest New Group In Jazz Disc 2

Time: 61:18

Size: 142,6 MB

(5:26)  1. Come On Home

(3:05)  2. The New A B C

(2:32)  3. Farmer's Market

(3:07)  4. Cookin' At The Continental

(2:48)  5. With Malice Toward None

(3:44)  6. Hi-Fly

(4:26)  7. Home Cookin'

(2:18)  8. Halloween Spooks

(4:48)  9. Popity Pop

(3:50) 10. Blue

(3:17) 11. Mr. P. C.

(2:14) 12. Walkin'

(4:06) 13. This Here (Dis Hyunh)

(5:19) 14. Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home

(2:22) 15. Twist City

(2:22) 16. Just A little Bit of Twist

(2:43) 17. A Night In Tunisia

(2:43) 18. A Night In Tunisia - Alternate Version

The immortal vocal jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross recorded five albums during its career: one apiece for Impulse! and World Pacific and three for Columbia. This two-CD set has all of the music from LH&R's Columbia dates (The Hottest Group in Jazz, Sing Ellington, and High Flying), plus four previously unissued and three very obscure selections. Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross were all very talented jazz singers as individuals, and were masters of vocalese. Virtually every one of their performances was special and, in the long run, influential. With assistance from the Gildo Mahones Trio, trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison (on the earliest album), and altoist Pony Poindexter (during the seven bonus tracks), the vocal group is heard in memorable form throughout the two-fer. Among the many highlights are "Twisted," "Cloudburst," Hendricks' hilarious "Gimme That Wine," "Everybody's Boppin'," "Cotton Tail," "All Too Soon," "Main Stem," "Farmer's Market," "Cookin' at the Continental," "Halloween Spooks," and "Popity Pop." Essential music for all serious jazz collections. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-hottest-new-group-in-jazz-compilation-mw0000079757

The Hottest New Group In Jazz Disc 1, Disc 2

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Booker Ervin - Booker And Brass

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:58
Size: 115,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. East Dallas Special
(4:29)  2. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
(4:31)  3. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
(5:06)  4. L.A. After Dark - Master Take-6
(3:22)  5. Kansas City
(4:39)  6. Baltimore Oriole
(4:21)  7. Harlem Nocturne
(4:16)  8. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
(4:13)  9. St. Louis Blues
(5:12) 10. L.A. After Dark - Alt. Take-3
(5:04) 11. L.A. After Dark - Alt. Take-7

To hear Booker Ervin as the leading solo voice on a recording with a larger ensemble is a treat, not only for his fans, but for those interested in modern big-band sounds grown from the bop era that are flavored with urban blues. A trio of different sessions done at Webster Hall in New York City features groups ranging from ten to eleven pieces, with personnel switched up, and no supplemental saxophonists. Freddie Hubbard is the only other soloist besides Ervin, the trombone section features top-rate players Bennie Green, Britt Woodman, and Garnett Brown, and the rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Reggie Johnson, and drummer Lenny McBrowne is as solid as can be. The session is based entirely on themes dedicated to major cities in the U.S. ~ Michael G.Nastos https://www.allmusic.com/album/booker-n-brass-mw0000041557

Personnel: Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone; Martin Banks (tracks 1-3, 5, 7 & 8), Johnny Coles (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Ray Copeland, Freddie Hubbard (tracks 3, 4 & 6-11), Charles Tolliver (tracks 4, 6 & 9-11), Richard Williams - trumpet; Garnett Brown (tracks 3, 4 & 6-11), Bennie Green, Britt Woodman (tracks 1, 2 & 5) - trombone; Benny Powell (tracks 1-3, 5, 7 & 8) - bass trombone; Kenny Barron - piano; Reggie Johnson - bass; Lenny McBrowne - drums; Teddy Edwards - arranger, conductor

Booker And Brass

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The Dave Glasser/Clark Terry/Barry Harris Project - Uh! Oh!

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1999
Time: 66:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 152,9 MB
Art: Front

(7:12) 1. Uh! Oh!
(4:45) 2. Bye-Yard
(6:15) 3. A Touch Of Kin
(6:06) 4. Intimacy Of The Blues
(5:07) 5. Blue Rose
(4:23) 6. Charise
(3:54) 7. 52nd Street Theme
(5:15) 8. Fuh
(4:36) 9. The Nearness Of You
(5:29) 10. Et
(5:11) 11. Tranquillity
(5:15) 12. Powell's Prance
(3:03) 13. Jumpin' At The Woodside

Uh! Oh! joins Wycliffe Gordon's Slidin' Home (N-H 2001) and Byron Stripling's StriplingNow! as the third in the Nagel-Heyer 2000 series of contemporary mainstream jazz. Known principally for documenting the traditional mainstream of Louis Armstrong, the Hamburg-based Nagel-Heyer spreads its considerable wings with this series. Uh! Oh! is the most fully realized contemporary offering to date from the label, showcasing the considerable composition talents of altoist Dave Glasser. Adding old timers Clark Terry and Barry Harris elevate these sides into a superstar stratosphere.

The results are purely empathic, the principals all interacting at the same high level that provides the listener a truly pleasurable experience, particularly on the ballads. But don't think the slow stuff will slow you down, Glass and company can play Bebop ("52nd Street Theme) and can otherwise swing (title track, "the Nearness of You"). Roy Hargrove is beautiful on the Glasser-penned ballad "Charise" (obviously gearing up for his own Verve ballad offering). All in all, a most interesting recording with plenty of swing and romance. By C. Michael Bailey
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/uh-oh-david-glasser-review-by-c-michael-bailey

Personnel: Dave Glasser: Alto Saxophone; Clark Terry Trumpet, Flugelhorn; Harry Harris: Piano; Benny Powell: Trombone; Frank Wes: Tenor Saxophone; Peter Washington: Bass; Curtis Boyd: Drums; Roy Hargrove: Trumpet, Flugelhorn.

Uh!Oh!

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OH HAPPY DAY!

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Caterina Valente & Chet Baker - I'll Remember April + Bonus Track

Styles: Lounge, Vocal
Year: 2014
Time: 77:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 179,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:53) 1. I'll Remember April
(3:19) 2. I Get a Kick out of You
(2:14) 3. Baker '56
(3:10) 4. Good Morning Blues
(3:29) 5. Marilyn
(3:10) 6. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
(3:08) 7. Isn't It Romantic?
(2:31) 8. All of Me
(3:07) 9. Lullaby in Rhythm
(2:48) 10. Them There Eyes
(2:39) 11. I Should Care
(3:14) 12. Stairway to the Stars
(2:26) 13. Secret Love
(3:39) 14. Autumn in New York
(3:12) 15. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(3:21) 16. It Never Entered My Mind
(3:44) 17. C'est Si Bon
(4:05) 18. Everything Happens to Me
(2:47) 19. Stormy Weather
(3:55) 20. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(2:22) 21. Pennies from Heaven
(2:30) 22. They Can't Take That Away from Me
(3:06) 23. Bockhanal
(2:26) 24. You Better Go Now
(4:16) 25. Arrivederci

I'll Remember April

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Combined here is the remarkable voice and singing style of Caterina Valente and the lyrical and intimate trumpet of Chet Baker, in a collection of swinging and romantic performances recorded in Germany during the 50s.

Caterina Valente was a singer who belonged among musicians, and she was enough of a musician herself to understand the nuances of harmonic changes that played a large role in jazz. She played guitar, worked with jazz combos, and liked to indulge occasionally in a spot of vocalese, three aspects of her talent that made her the most popular girl singer in Europe.

Chet Baker was the new American trumpet sensation when he visited Germany for the first time in September 1955 with his quartet. A month later, Valente joined his quartet for a concert in Stuttgart, and their musical feeling generated quite a stir among German jazz fans. They even were offered to make a film together, which unfortunately never happened. The only documented meeting of both artists was resumed on a recording session in March 1956, when they joined-in for two lovely and rewarding duet songsIll Remember April and Every Time We Say Goodbyethat came out on a single on the German Brunswick label, both included in this set.

The other exciting performances here display Caterina Valente in her widest, most colorful range. Her performances, and most of those featuring Chet Baker, are further distinguished by the masterful accompaniment of Kurt Edelhagen and his orchestra and, in the case of Chet Baker, also by the studio orchestra of Rolf-Hans Müller.

The music, both emotionally and melodically interesting, is well served by all concerned.

Tracks #1 & 15: Caterina Valente, vocals & guitar & Chet Baker, trumpet. Recorded in Baden-Baden, March 26, 1956

Tracks #2,4,6,8,10,12,13,17,19,21,22: Caterina Valente, vocals, with Kurt Edelhagens Orchestra. Recorded in Köln and Baden-Baden, 1954-1958

Tracks #3,9,16,18: Chet Baker, trumpet, with Kurt Edelhagens Orchestra. Recorded in Baden-Baden, 1956

Tracks #5,7,11,14,20: Chet Baker with orchestra conducted by Rolf-Hans Müller. Recorded in Baden-Baden, 1959

Track #23: Chet Baker Quartet, with Kurt Edelhagens Orchestra. Recorded at Jazztime Mainz, Kurfürstliches Schloss, September 20, 1955

Track #24: Caterina Valente, vocals, accompanied by Francis Coppieters, piano. Recorded in Köln, May, 1958

Track #25: Chet Baker with orchestra conducted by Piero Umiliani (From the Italian movie Urlatori alla sbarra1960)

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Bud Shank & Rein de Graaf - Alone Together

Styles: West Coast Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2000
Time: 68:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 157,7 MB
Art: Front

(10:20) 1. Alone Together
(13:23) 2. I Can't Get Started
(12:21) 3. On the Trail
(11:39) 4. My Funny Valentine
(10:24) 5. What's New
(10:31) 6. Stella By Starlight

Alone Together

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The six tracks on this record give a quiet, masterful demonstration of how to sing without a rhythm section. Almost of the tunes are ballads,originally. But Rein and Bud decided to change the tempos. This music was recorded before a small, select audience in a living room-like studio with no room for more musicians. When Rein told Bud that the bassist and the drummer had a day off, he was a bit sceptical at first. A duo would that work? But weeks later, while listening to the tapes, he reacted enthusiastically. This is a great stuff, man!-Jeroen de Walk (from the liner-notes)

Personnel:

Bud Shank (as), Rein de Graaf (p)

Recorded at Pinehill Studio, Leersum, Holand, December 12, 2000. 

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