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Luciana Souza - Tide |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Luciana Souza Album: Tide Label: Verve Year: 2009 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 256 kbps Size: 79.8 MB Since her marriage to bassist/producer Larry Klein, Luciana Souza has shifted her musical focus from jazz singer to singer/songwriter. While she has composed superb song cycles on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Pablo Neruda, those songs always seemed linked to jazz, samba or both. On her CD, Tide, some of her original songs are not in the jazz realm. However, Souza has not actually abandoned any styles and the CD shows that she has melded some styles together and maintained some of them in their original form. There are three songs in Portuguese, fueled by a taut rhythm section headed by Romero Lubambo, two pop-ish songs with Rebecca Pidgeon on backing vocals, and two original songs with lyrics adapted from poems by e.e. cummings. The second of the cummings songs, ”Tide”, is a brilliant combination of Souza’s singer/songwriter, jazz and poetry modes. The poem is a free adaptation to be sure, with none of cummings’ lines kept intact, yet the poem’s theme of romantic jealousy and reconciliation remains. Souza and Klein compare the ebb and flow of relationships to the ocean’s tide, and the band creates a shifting, constantly changing mood behind the swaying melody line. Vinnie Colaiuta is especially creative throughout with tom-tom rolls and cymbals portraying the ocean water as it hits the rocks. Souza’s delivery is intense as always, and while her improvised interludes with Larry Koonse are obviously based on jazz scat singing, Souza uses sustained tones and open vowel sounds to make them into something very different. ~ Thomas Cunniffe, Jazz.com |
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Renee Olstead - Skylark |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Renee Olstead Album: Skylark Year: 2009 Label: Reprise Records Format, bitrate: MP3, 192 kbps Size: 66 mb Nine days after her seventeenth birthday, singing sensation Renee Olstead and her stunning bluesy jazz voice take flight with her second major-label album, Skylark. Backed by esteemed producer/arranger David Foster (Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Celine Dion) on strings, piano, horns and often keyboards, Olstead stamps her mark on standards and modern classics and premieres four originals she co-wrote, including one with Foster. Following her 2004 #1 Jazz self-titled album, Olstead soars on Skylark. Amazon.com |
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Rendezvous for Intimate Dining |
Music » Jazz » Fusion » Smooth & Lounge |
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 Artists: VA Album: Rendezvous for Intimate Dining Label: Avalon Style: New Age Year: 2005 Format, bitrate: 320 kb/s Size: 152 mb Indulge in a little romance with intimate jazz renditions of favorite love songs. I found this album in a shop in the airport and liked the sound of the woman’s silky voice. The jacket lists her as Anne Lise, but Amazon’s online description doesn’t list any artists’ names. I’d like to know more about her, but can’t be sure the names that pop up during search are the same person. I can surely recommend this album for easy relaxing listening, and hope I can find another to add to my collection. Amazon.com |
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Junior Cook - Junior's Cookin' |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Hard-bop |
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 Artist: Junior Cook Album: Junior's Cookin' Label: OJC/Jazzland Year: 1961 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 kb/s Time: 38:46 Size: 47.67 Mb This first solo release from tenor sax player Junior Cook came at the midpoint of his six-year tenure with the Horace Silver Band. It's a relaxed affair, paced a couple of notches below the intensity of a typical Silver date. Still, with Cook's front-line partner in the Silver group — trumpeter Blue Mitchell — on board, along with Silver's rhythm section, the 1961 session has a definite affinity with the hard bop style of the more famous parent group. There are also links to the cool tones of Miles Davis' early-'50s Blue Note releases and to the transitional work of the mid-'50s Max Roach-Clifford Brown Band. If the overall approach is subdued, this generally works to the music's benefit by bringing out the finer points of Cook's and Mitchell's' playing. Both players emphasize tone, phrasing, and an ability to sail their choruses elegantly along the current of the rhythm section. The writing here is not particularly distinctive, but what it lacks in originality, the players make up for with their audible pleasure in working through the familiar changes. The result, while not essential listening, is a satisfying and honest set that provides an appealing portrait of both Cook and Mitchell, two central, although not seminal, figures in the development of hard bop. ~ Jim Todd, AMG |
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Dexter Gordon- The Panther! |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Post-bop |
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 Artist: Dexter Gordon Album: The Panther! Label: Prestige/OJC Year: 1970 Format, bitrate: mp3, 192 kb/s Time: 44:00 Size: 37.97Mb Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) entered the 1970s — as well as his career's quarter-century mark — on a definite upstroke with the sly, sexy — and above else — stylish platter The Panther! (1970). Gordon commands a quartet whose membership boasts luminaries Tommy Flanagan (piano), Larry Ridley (bass), and Alan Dawson (drums). Remarkably — or perhaps simply a testament to Gordon and company's prowess — the album's half-dozen sides all hail from a single early July 1970 get-together. The material is divided between outstanding interpretations of the Great American Songbook classic "Body and Soul," the Mel Tormé co-penned seasonal standard "The Christmas Song" aka "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," Clifford Brown's "Blues Walk," and a trio of Gordon originals. The project gets underway on the exceptional title track "The Panther." The loose and syncopated midtempo groove provides a decorous yet jaunty backdrop for the tenor to mold his soulful trademark leads.Flanagan counters with his own spirited rounds behind Ridley and Dawson's mesmerizing rhythm. Comparably sublime — and the unquestionable highlight of the entire outing — is the cordially emotive "Body and Soul." Gordon oozes a sensuality that is aimed straight for the heart as he manipulates the melody into a singular inspiration. As before, Flanagan's light mellifluous touch is sublime in this context. "Valse Robin" is a playful waltz that is dedicated to Gordon's daughter under a warm, almost assuaging timbre. By contrast, Gordon's "Mrs. Miniver" is extroverted, bearing a refined swinging beat with both the tenor and the pianist rising to the occasion. Not to be missed is the cozy intimacy of "The Christmas Song" as his horn unfurls an affection that has rarely been equaled. The Panther! concludes with a frisky reading of "Blues Walk" that — in deference to the name — trots along at a brisk pace. The bandleader takes full advantage as he lets loose with a flurry of activity propelled by his hearty and vigorous command of the combo. Nowhere can that be experienced more aptly than when Gordon, Ridley, and Dawson go full steam and head-to-head as Flanagan briefly relinquishes the reigns. Those who are interested in hearing alternates of "The Panther," "Valse Robin," "Mrs. Miniver," and "Blues Walk" from the same mammoth session are encouraged to check out Gordon's 11-CD Complete Prestige Recordings (2004) box set ~Lindsay Planer, AMG |
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Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya - Concerto for Classical Guitar & Jazz Piano |
Music » Jazz |
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 Artist: Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya Album: Concerto for Classical Guitar & Jazz Piano Label: Milan Year: 1993 [Recorded: 1975] Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps Time: 37:51 Size: 91 Mb Äëÿ òåõ, êòî "ïîíþõàë" ïîñëåäíèé áóêåò ôèàëîê îò crazy_captain, è ïîêàçàëîñü ìàëî… With the success of his Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, Claude Bolling had stumbled upon a cottage industry: round up a willing classical soloist regardless of instrument, let him be himself, insert a piano part that plays ambassador between the classical and jazz camps, and voila! A neat little crossover record. Concerto for Classical Guitar & Jazz Piano is one of the best manifestations of Bolling's personal solution to the perennial Third Stream puzzle, incorporating Spanish ideas into the guitar part, moving his piano in and out of the jazz rhythms with an easy Continental elegance, coming up with attractive pastiche tunes in the baroque and classical idioms. The 5/4 theme and guitar/piano juxtapositions of "Hispanic Dance" remind one of Dave Brubeck's famous experiments in odd meters, and "Serenade" makes delicious use of a bossa nova groove. The Greek/Italian classical guitarist Alexander Lagoya is the sharp-edged soloist; Bolling is equally at home in both stylistic camps (though the piano is sometimes a wee bit out of tune), and Michel Gaudry (bass) and Marcel Sabiani (drums) make up the rhythm section. Note: the first version of this performance, released on RCA in 1976, contains the six-movement edition of the Concerto; Bolling later added a seventh movement that was tacked onto this recording when CBS reissued it in 1982. Also, the "Finale" features a different rhythm section (Marc Michel, bass; Andre Arpino, drums). ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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Roy Buchanan - My Babe |
Music » Blues » Modern electric blues |
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 Artist: Roy Buchanan Album: My Babe Label: Akarma Italy Year: 1981 Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps Time; 38:00 Size: 89 MB Ñ óäîâîëüñòâèåì îáíàðóæèë îòñóòñòâèå ýòîãî àëüáîìà,
÷åì è âîñïîëüçîâàëñÿ, äëÿ êîëëåêöèè. Buchanan was a terrific guitarist, but My Babe is not the place to hear him in his glory. Too often, the album is dragged down by slick production and Paul Jacobs' overbearing vocals. Buchanan's playing is fairly good, but he sounds a little uninspired, which is understandable, considering his surroundings. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Play the Blues |
Music » Blues |
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 Artist: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Album: Play the Blues Label: Rhino Records Year: 1972 Format, bitrate: mp3, 256 kb/s Time: 36:33 Size: 97,5 Mb (full covers) Considering the troubled background of this album (Eric Clapton, Ahmet Ertegun, and Tom Dowd only ended up with eight tracks at a series of 1970 sessions in Miami; two years later, the J. Geils Band was brought in to cut two additional songs to round out the long-delayed LP for 1972 release), the results were pretty impressive. Buddy Guy contributes dazzling lead axe to their revival of "T-Bone Shuffle"; Junior Wells provides a sparkling remake of Sonny Boy's "My Baby She Left Me," and Guy is entirely credible in a grinding Otis Redding mode on the Southern soul stomper "A Man of Many Words." Bill Dahl, AMG |
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1962: Mose Allison - I Don't Worry About a Thing |
Cool, Allison Mose |
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 Artist: Mose Allison Album: I Don't Worry About a Thing Year: 1962 Release: 1993 Label: Atlantic Format: FLAC (cue+log) Size: 197 & 79 MB (full scans) REPOST with new links from Mr. hungaropitecus Mose Allison was already 34 and had recorded nine records as a leader before cutting his debut for Atlantic (which has been reissued on CD by Rhino) but this was his breakthrough date. One of jazz's greatest lyricists, at the time, Allison was making the transition from being a pianist who occasionally sang to becoming a vocalist who also played his own unusual brand of piano. In addition to the original versions of "Your Mind Is on Vacation," "I Don't Worry About a Thing (Because I Know Nothing Will Turn out Right)" and "It Didn't Turn out That Way," he sings bluish versions of two standards ("Meet Me at No Special Place" and "The Song Is Ended") and plays five instrumentals with his trio. There are only 33 1/2 minutes of music on this straight reissue of the orignal LP, but the set is one of Mose Allison's most significant recordings. |
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