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1962: The Bernie Lowe Orchestra - If The Big Band Were Here Today-Vol 2 |
Music » Blues » Rhythm-n-Blues |
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 Artist: The Bernie Lowe Orchestra Album: If The Big Band Were Here Today-Vol 2 Label: Cameo SC 4007 LP Year:1962 Genre: Pop-music, rock 'n' roll Format, bitrate: MP3 256 Time: 34:00 Size: 64.5 MB Born Bernard Lowenthal, 22 November 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died 1 September 1993, Wyncote, Pennsylvania Label owner / producer / arranger / songwriter / pianist / bandleader. Bernie Lowe was a Julliard-trained pianist playing, arranging and conducting the orchestra on "The Paul Whiteman TV Teen Club" in the early fifties when he met Dick Clark, the announcer for the show's live Tootsie Roll commercials. The two became friends and, later, business associates. >>> |
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Eugen Cicero - Swinging Piano Classics, 2000 |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Third Stream |
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 Artist: Eugen Cicero Album: Swinging Piano Classics Release 2000 Label: Venus Genre: Third Stream Format, bitrate: mp3 256 kbps Time: 71:56 Size: 131 MB Repost with new link from Elisa!
Âûäàþùèéñÿ ïèàíèñò Îéãåí Öèöåðî (Eugen Cicero) çíàìåíèò ñâîèìè äæàçîâûìè îáðàáîòêàìè èçâåñòíûõ ìóçûêàëüíûõ òåì êëàññè÷åñêîé ìóçûêè. Ïðè æèçíè, äàæå íà ïèêå ñâîåé ñëàâû (1960-å ãã.), îí òàê è îñòàëñÿ íåïîíÿòûì ìíîãèìè ñâîèìè ñîîòå÷åñòâåííèêàìè. Òîãäà ñîåäèíÿòü äæàç è êëàññèêó ñ÷èòàëîñü ÷åðåñ÷óð ñìåëî. Ñåãîäíÿ ó Öèöåðî è åãî ìóçûêè âòîðîå ðîæäåíèå. È êàæäîå èç åãî ïðîèçâåäåíèé - îòäåëüíûé øåäåâð, âíå çàâèñèìîñòè îò ñòåïåíè ïîïóëÿðíîñòè îðèãèíàëà, êîòîðûé áûë îáðàáîòàí ýòèì ïèàíèñòîì.
Romanian pianist who blends classical, mainstream pieces. He's recorded with combos and orchestral backing.
Áëåñòÿùàÿ ìóçûêà ãåíèàëüíîãî ðóìûíñêîãî ïèàíèñòà (26.6.1940 - 1998). |
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1957: Louis Armstrong - Louis and The Angels |
Music » Jazz » Traditional Jazz |
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 Artist: Louis Armstrong Album: Louis and The Angels Label: Verve/Decca Year: 1957, release:2001 Format: MP3 320kbps Time: 39:30 Size: 90.3 MB This obscure set by Louis Armstrong has its strange appeal. The great trumpeter/vocalist performs a dozen songs, all of which have "heaven" or "angel" in their title or lyrics, while backed by the Sy Oliver Orchestra plus a heavenly female choir. Satch gets off a few good trumpet solos and is quite cheerful throughout, even joking during "The Prisoner's Song" when the word "angel" finally shows up. Among the highlights are "When Did You Leave Heaven," "I Married An Angel" and "I'll String Along With You." Although more commercial than Armstrong's usual recordings of the era, this set is more memorable than one would expect and is worth searching for. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG |
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1963: Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped by to Say Hello |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Johnny Hartman Album: I Just Dropped by to Say Hello Label: Verve Year: Oct 9, 1963,Oct 17, 1963 Release: 2007 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s Time: 32:20 Size: 68MB AMG Rating:   The second Impulse! session for ballad singer Johnny Hartman followed his classic collaboration with John Coltrane. Hartman is heard in peak form throughout these 11 pieces, which include "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "Sleepin' Bee," "Stairway to the Stars," and even "Charade." Tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet is on five of the songs, guitarists Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall help out on a few tunes, and Hartman is consistently accompanied by pianist Hank Jones, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Elvin Jones. This is one of his finest recordings. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1977: Jack Wilson - Innovations |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Cool |
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 Artist: Jack Wilson Album: Innovations Label: Discovery Records Year: 1977 Genre: West Coast Jazz Format: mp3@256 kbit/s (LP-rip) Time: 44:27 Size: 82 MB REPOST with new link Jack Wilson is one of our favorite piano players of all time -- and he's got a warm wonderful style that's at once lyrical, soulful, and very nicely swinging! Here, he plays acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes in this sweet LP of tracks done with a trio, plus some added percussion on most cuts. The record's got lots of nice originals, including the excellent "Waltz for Ahmad", which opens with a great groove, and has a nice flowing jazzy feel throughout. Also with "Dos Intrepatatos", "Baby Blue", "Kunta Kinte", and a version of Ornette's "Tears Inside". ~ Dusty Groove America |
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1963: Bukka White - The Sonet Blues Story |
Music » Blues |
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 Artist: Bukka White Album: The Sonet Blues Story Label: Universal Genre: Blues Year: 2005 (Recorded: 1963) Quality: 320 kb/s Size: 101 mb Booker White (his name was misspelled on the label for Shake 'Em on Down when it was issued on Vocalion in 1937, and it stuck) turned his vigorous guitar style, heavy voice, and considerable songwriting abilities into 20 classic blues tracks between 1930 and 1940. Then, following a last session for Vocalion in 1940 when he recorded the striking and passionate group of songs on which his reputation rests (including the ultimately revelatory "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues"), White effectively dropped off the public radar. Until 1963, that is, when graduate students and blues fans John Fahey and Ed Denson sent a letter addressed to "Bukka White, Old Blues Singer, c/o General Delivery, Aberdeen, MS," in an effort to locate the man who had recorded a 78 rpm called "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues" some 20 years earlier. Amazingly, the letter actually reached White, who was still alive, although he had since moved from Mississippi to Memphis. The two budding blues scholars rushed to Memphis to meet him, recording the songs found on this collection one afternoon in the singer's room. These historic recordings. released as The Sonet Blues Story, reveal that White's robust guitar playing and his gruff, thundering voice had lost none of their vitality in the intervening years, and the bluesman delivers impassioned versions of some of his key tunes, including "Shake 'Em on Down," and the song that led to his rediscovery, "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues." |
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1964: Ella Fitzgerald - Hello, Dolly! |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist - Ella Fitzgerald Album - Hello, Dolly! Label - Verve Year - 1964, release - 2005 Quality - MP3@320kbps Size - 83,7 mb Total time - 38:57 AMG rating  REPOST with a new link Though she recorded often during the early '60s, Ella Fitzgerald had mostly been seen in jazz settings, whether small group (Bill Doggett) or big band (Count Basie). Hello, Dolly!, recorded early in 1964, offered her a chance to record with an orchestra in the background and a list of popular crossover songs on the sheets. The first three were all big hits during early 1964, the opening title track a surprise chart-topper for her dear friend Louis Armstrong, the second, "People," a Broadway crossover hit for Barbra Streisand, and the third being the only title published by BMI on the entire LP, "Can't Buy Me Love" by the Beatles (coincidentally, the song that Armstrong knocked from the top). Just the beginning of Fitzgerald's flirtation with the new rock generation of the '60s, her Beatles cover is undeniably wonderful, an irresistible hard swinger with much room for improvisation, and none of the hesitation most jazz singers would display in the future when attempting to confront the coup de tete of cool performed by the British Invasion. Elsewhere the record is invigorated by Fitzgerald's feel for material and a series of underrated charts by Frank DeVol, such as the spare strings on Ella's mournful "My Man," the quiet Latin intrigue of "The Thrill Is Gone," and the lush strings of "Lullaby of the Leaves." ~ John Bush, All Music Guide |
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Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Van Den Brink - Daedalus' Wings |
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 Artist: Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Van Den Brink Album: Daedalus' Wings Label: Challenge Records Release: 2000 Genre: piano jazz Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s Time: 47:26 Size: 109 Mb A piano duet recording, these two Europeans adopt a jazz stance in the romantic tradition with witty improvisations, occasional injections of raw passion, and a palpable empathy considering they had never played together before. It's a direct approach that is hardly simple or basic but should appeal to listeners of modern piano à la Bill Evans, ECM fans, and creative improvised music mavens. Each pianist does their solo take of "I Can't Get Started"; Van Den Brink uses widely spaced melody notes in a barely recognizable interpretation, while Pieranunzi is more pensive and clearly states the line and improvises more off of it. They do standards as the rambling, off-the-cuff intro, head, and bridge of "You & the Night & the Music," and a Duke Ellington medley comprising a sunrise serenade, a substantially improvised "In a Sentimental Mood," the two-beat driven "Caravan," the lightly stridden "Prelude to a Kiss," and the tango fired energy of the excited "It Don't Mean a Thing." Van Den Brink wrote the beautifully serene, dramatically romantic waltz "Woods." Pieranunzi wrote another two, a more upbeat waltz "O Toi Desir (pour Stefi)," with one pianist following the other via animation, a flying bridge, and some groove, while the multi-elemental "Si Peu de Temps" sports minimalist yet kinetic phrases, a swing section, meditation, marching, and frantic improv, a demonstration of real high drama. The pianists co-penned several songs, including the "Daedalus Suite," with the "Ouverture" fleshing out each other's notions; "Mosso" using ascending and descending crisscrossing and playful counterpoint; "Adagissimo" is like "Daedalus" rising in a pitch black, ominous mood; and "Short Tune," which displays brilliant orgasmic bursts and a resolution. The remaining four cuts are brief joint improvs, three are about a minute in length. "Two for Two" uses playful and bluesy tradings, "Hymn" is simply solemn, the three minute "Guitar Blues" has a probing stance and charcoal shadings, while "Pour Claude" is merely a slip of an improv that comes and goes in the mist. Wonder what Keith Jarrett, Kurt Ellenberger, or perhaps Chick Corea might think of this? Fans of those brilliant pianists should also gravitate toward this special recording. - Michael G. Nastos at AMG |
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Oscar Peterson - Collection |
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 Artist: Oscar Peterson Album: Collection (2 LP compilation) Label: Verve/Polygram Records Release: 1972 Genre: mainstream jazz Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s Time: 1:18:53 Size: 181 Mb  EVERY DAY IS AN OSCAR PETERSON DAY ! A wonderful "collection" of songs taken from doctor Oscar Emmanuel Peterson's repertoire, mostly from the fifties recordings. Released only on vinyl in 1972 and on audio K7 in 1990 this double LP is a fine introduction for the casual listener. |
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