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1984: Michel Sardaby with Monty Alexander - Caribbean Duet |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Hard-bop |
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 Artists: Michel Sardaby, Monty Alexander Album: Caribbean Duet Label: Harmonic Year: 1984 Format, bitrate: FLAC Size: 172 MB
Michel Sardaby was born in 1935 in Martinique. He learned to play the piano when he was 5 years old; in the brasserie of his father in Fort-de-France, where music was constantly played. At 10 years age, Michel is a noted prodigy, playing with the passion of with experienced musicians. He goes to Paris where he continues his studies of art at the Boulle School until obtaining his diploma in 1956, at which point he decides to devote himself exclusively to his career of being a professional jazz pianist. |
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1973-1974: Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, Jake Hanna - Arrival: Jazz/Concord/Seven, Come Eleven |
Music » Jazz » Mainstream |
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 Artists: Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Joe Pass, Jake Hanna Album: Arrival: Jazz/Concord/Seven, Come Eleven 2LP/1CD Label: Concord Jazz Years: 1973-1974, release: 2003 Quality: MP3 320 Kbps Size: 194 Mb Total Time: 75:75 AMG Rating  For lovers of guitar jazz, inspired pairings like Joe Pass and Herb Ellis make for special outings. While both players prospered in a number of settings, they brought out a new quality in each other when paired together, bumping up the energy a notch or two. Arrival is special because it reissues the duo's first two albums with Concord: Jazz/Concord in 1973 and the live Seven, Come Eleven in 1974 (also Concord's first two albums). The quartet is completed by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jake Hanna, two fine players who keep the program bopping along. Both discs, filled with reliable standards, are excellent in different ways. Arrival kicks off with "Look for the Silver Lining," which bounces along like the perfect daydream for nearly five minutes. The stereo separation of the two guitars sounds great on the hi-fi, and renditions of "Stuffy" and "Georgia" are fantastic. Seven, Come Eleven begins with "In a Mellow Tone" but really blasts off with the title track, a Charlie Christian/Benny Goodman tune played faster than one can imagine anyone's fingers moving. This set, unlike Jazz/Concord, feeds from the energy of the audience. While the roots of both of these recordings date back to swing, the music never sounds like a nostalgia trip. Instead, these discs have captured Pass and Ellis in the moment, delivering crisp solos and dense accompaniment. Arrival offers two great CDs and a chance to check out, or revisit, two great guitarists. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide |
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2004: Craig Taborn - Junk Magic |
Modern Jazz, Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Craig Taborn Album: Junk Magic Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings Year: 2004 Format, bitrate: mp3, 256 Size: 72 mb AMG Rating:   "Craig Taborn - The Future of Jazz" - CMJ After his tenure with James Carter, many in the stuffed-shirt, ultraconservative world of "mainstream" (not commercial, just boring) neo-and-post-bop societal misanthropes known as jazz purists, had hoped pianist/composer Craig Taborn would become the next rung on the ladder to the past with his virtuosity and taste. Curses, foiled again. On Junk Magic, his second date for Thirsty Ear's glorious Blue Series, Taborn, armed with his piano, laptop, and techno and breakbeat pedigrees, makes jazz just another part of marginal pop culture as it endures, changes, and mutates. For Taborn, jazz is not some elitist, detached, academic, primarily white celebration of all things dead and gone (the endlessly windy theorizing about which would never have been recognized by its legendary and heroic participants). For Taborn, history is in the making, not in the gnashing of teeth over its passing. Recruiting tenor saxophonist Aaron Stewart, drummer David King, and violist and mictrotonal improviser Mat Maneri, Taborn shapes an entirely new aesthetic; in so doing, he fulfills Blue Series curator Matthew Shipp's mission statement "to make it all new." On the title track, which opens the disk, there are the skittering beats as they layer themselves over off-kilter drum machine pyrotechnics and a looped piano phrase. Also there is the angular, haunted beauty of "Mystero." Here, Maneri's otherworldly phrasing introduces first Stewart's melody, punctuated by a loop of King's trap kit textured by lilting synth chords, before a shimmering piano melody skirts through backdoor, and the saxophonist solos before creating a repetitive phrase with viola and keys. "Shining Through," is an exercise in dimensional ambience and near-serial classicism, while "Prismatica" offers trace elements of funk, free jazz, and in-the-pocket groove via Stewart's punched up legato phrasing. "Bodies at Rest and in Motion," which is steeped in the blues and late-night, knotty, melodic atmospherics of Thelonious Monk's "'Round About Midnight," is easily the most moving and beautiful track on the set. "Stalagmite" is an over the top exercise in abstract electronic jazz that "swings" with teetering, clattering, industrial strength by the ensemble, though not, admittedly one that would be recognized within conventional (again, yawn) perception. The final track on the disc is a moody piece of subterranean tonal studies led by Maneri's viola playing around a melodic idea without engaging it, and Taborn maneuvering his macrotonal, multivalent keyboards through and around it. It is a whispering intro that opens out onto a truly visionary landscape that the ensemble takes to an entirely different place before slithering out into the ether. Junk Magic is a stunner from start to finish, and one that challenges the notions and linguistic senses as to what jazz "is," as well as what it is not. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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1930-1931: Red Nichols 1930-1931 Chronological Classics |
Dixieland, Classic Jazz |
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 Artist: Red Nichols Album: Red Nichols 1930-1931 Label: Classics Years: 1930-1931, release: 2008 Format, bitrate: Flac Time: 74:00 Size: 189 Mb Volume six in the complete recordings of trumpeter Red Nichols as reissued by the Classics Chronological Series consists of 25 Victor and Brunswick recordings dating from September 1930 through January 1931, and is especially recommended to those who enjoy Depression-era jazz and pop vocals, with the pop outweighing the jazz by a considerable margin. "On Revival Day," a topical novelty originally released in two parts on flipsides of a 78 rpm record, trombonist Jack Teagarden is backed by a vocal group billed as the Foursome. Forthwith, Nichols' ensemble is garnished at times with a couple of violins and is almost invariably dusted with sugary vocals by Scrappy Lambert, Dick Robertson, Eddie Thomas, Paul Small, and songwriter Harold Arlen. If you're curious to hear what the composer of "Blues in the Night" sounded like as a crooner, that's him singing "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" as well as his own compositions "Linda," "You Said It," and "Sweet and Hot." The jazziest vocals, even funkier than Teagarden's, are by trumpeter Wingy Manone, who puts his personal stamp on "Rockin' Chair," "Bugaboo," and "Corrine Corrina." Betwixt and between the vocals there exist smoothly coordinated ensemble passages and a number of fine solos, for almost every group that Nichols ever led was peppered with skilled jazz musicians. In addition to those already mentioned, Nichols is heard alongside clarinetist Benny Goodman, trombonist Glenn Miller, saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey and Eddie Miller, pianist Joe Sullivan, and drummer Gene Krupa. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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2009: Azar Lawrence - Mystic Journey |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Azar Lawrence Album: Mystic Journey Label: Further More Recordings Year: 2009; release: 2010 Format, bitrate: mp3, 256kb/s Time: 62:58 Size: 113 MB Brilliantly burning work from Azar Lawrence -- wonderfully mature, yet filled with all the soulful fire of his best albums of the 70s! Lawrence plays both tenor and soprano sax -- blowing with this searching, stretched-out post-Coltrane vibe -- but as with all his best work, there's a strong sense of rhythm that really holds things together -- a living pulse that grabs us right away, and really draws us in beautifully -- reminding us why we've always treasured Azar's records so much! Other players are great too -- and include Eddie Henderson on trumpet and flugelhorn, Gerald Hayes on alto, Benito Gonzalez on piano, Essiet Essiet on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums -- really helping the group find their groove. Titles include "Quest", "Walk Spirit Talk Spirit", "Mystic Journey", "Journey's End", "Starting Point", "Adrees", and "Say It Over Again". © 1996-2010, Dusty Groove America, Inc. |
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